Happy Easter 2025 From LowEndBox!
Happy Easter from LowEndBox!
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Five Times When Updating Your OS Would Have Saved You From Being Hacked
Every checklist you've ever seen for securing your VPS includes "update your system regularly". But is that one of those "best practices" that is more theoretical than a real-world necessity? To be honest, it's easy to not get around to running "apt update && apt upgrade". In my experience, at least with Debian, updates rarely break things but it's always a small risk. Nevertheless, it requires remembering to do it, spending the commands run, maybe rebooting, etc. Unfortunately, history has shown time and time again that skipping OS updates can leave even the best admins wide open to disaster.
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How Big Can Tiny microSD Cards Get? Limits, Physics, and the Road Ahead
Last week I was preparing for a long plane ride. I grabbed my preferred travel video player - an Amazon Kindle Fire, which has a handy microSD port - and dug out a fingernail-sized piece of storage media to insert. It occurred to me that this tiny centimeter-sized slab of plastic and silicon holds more data (1TB) than the entirety of the first datacenter I worked in back in the early 90s. What does the future portend for this popular format?
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Beancount: Lightweight FOSS Double-Entry Accounting...from the Command Line!
Beancount is a neat FOSS project with a simple concept: full double-entry accounting from the command line. It's a very simple idea, well-implemented, with some neat add-on tools.
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Ten Countries That Turned Their TLDs Into Gold (And Which Are Cheapest For You)
When the internet was first taking shape, the idea of country-code Top-Level Domains (ccTLDs) was simple: give every nation its own digital space. What no one expected was that some countries would find themselves sitting on virtual gold mines — not from their native users, but from clever marketers and businesses around the world who saw these two-letter domains as branding shortcuts.
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The Man Who Was Paid €113,000 For His Code Which Compressed Entire Movies in 8KB of Disk...And Then He Died
Imagine if you could encode any HD movie down to 8KB. That's what Romke Jan Bernhard Sloot promised the world back in 1999, and he pocketed a nice check from investors to make it work. Alas, he died shortly thereafter. Was he on to something?
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How to Poison AI Scrapers With Colorless, Odorless Iocaine: The Current Arms Race Between Billionaires and Hosters
AI scrapers are "relentless and brutal". Just ask Wikipedia. There's an arms race between these well-funded pillagers and content providers, and some people are deploying poisoners to slow bots down and fill their models with garbage.
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Five Different Ways to Read Any News Article for FREE
In these days of subscription fatigue, shelling out another $5 or $10 a month for yet another monthly fee can be...well, fatiguing. Is there a magic ticket that lets you read around any paywall? Surprisingly, the answer is "most of the time".
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The Cubanization of Servers: How Tariffs Might Freeze the Hosting Industry in Time
On the island nation of Cuba, cars from the 1940s and 1950s dominate the landscape. This isn't due to passionate classic car enthusiasm. We might see similar adaptations to scarcity coming to a LowEnd hosting provider near you.
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"I Recall Him Spefically Mentioning James Bond": The Juicy Deel/Rippling Espionage Affidavit Is Out
In our last spy story episode, a spy from HR SaaS firm Deel had been outed where he worked at Rippling, using some clever forensics. Now the spy has turned state's evidence, and his affidavit makes for spicy reading. Needless to say, Deel has hung him out to dry.
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The Top Free Website Builders: Expert Tested and Reviewed
We’ve reviewed the top free website builders, comparing their strengths, limitations, and ideal use cases. Whether you're looking for simplicity, creative control, or long-term scalability, this guide will help you find the platform that fits.
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RackNerd Named No. 94 on 2025 Inc. 5000 Regionals Pacific List! And That 1GB Dollar-a-Month VPS Offer is Still Good!
RackNerd continues its amazing growth trajectory. It is now number 94 on the Inc. 5000 Regionals Pacific List! Learn a bit more about this provider...and some of the cool deals that are still available, including a 1GB VPS for under $1/month on an annual plan.
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Want to Know the REAL Low-Down on LowEnd Hosts? Some Examples
Before you buy, come talk with the community that can't be fooled! Our community is the best way to get the low-down on Low-End providers.
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When Software Engineering is Sacrificed for Financial Engineering: Is VMware Still Viable for Small Hosts?
Broadcom has made it clear that they're only interested in selling VMware to big companies. If you're a small or medium business - much less a LowEnd hoster - you are not welcome.
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7 Smart Ways to Cut Costs on Your Self-Hosted Infrastructure
Running your own infrastructure can be empowering. Whether you're managing a SaaS side project, self-hosting your favorite tools like Nextcloud or Uptime Kuma, running a game server, or just learning...
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I've Got a Big Crush on the Little PicoCalc From clockworkPi! Lots Cheaper Than a Boring Calculator and Tons More Power!
The PicoCalc is so cute! Packaging a Raspberry Pi Pico in a calculator-like enclosure, it's packed with power in an easy-to-carry format.
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What Can You Use a GPU-Enabled VPS For (And Why Rent One on LowEndBox)?
In today’s tech landscape, the average VPS just doesn’t cut it for everyone. Whether you're a machine learning enthusiast, video editor, indie game developer, or just someone with a demanding workload, you've probably hit a wall with standard CPU-based servers. That’s where GPU-enabled VPS instances come in.
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Go Green in 2025: 5 Things You Can Do To Reduce Your Hosting Carbon Footprint
The internet feels virtual, but its infrastructure—data centers, networking gear, and servers—runs on electricity, much of which still comes from fossil fuels. For LowEndBox readers, who often self-host or use budget-friendly VPS providers, it’s worth asking: what can you do to reduce your carbon footprint?
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"The Biggest Supply Chain Hack of 2025": Oracle Cloud Leaks 140K Tenants' Details
Oracle's Free Tier is very popular in our community. Sadly, today news was announced that 6m records from 140,000 tenants was leaked. Here's how to check if you're affected.
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All Good Things Must End: MyW is Finally Done. Kudos to @jar for Keeping it Alive - and Check Out These MxRoute Cheap Email Hosting Deals!
MyW has been on a community lifeline for the last 6 months, but looks like the party is finally coming to an end. Kudos to @jar for helping keep it alive. And BTW, he has really amazing deals on mail hosting!
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Will the Linux Kernel Be the Last GNU Public License Project Standing?
The GNU Public License was once extremely popular in the FOSS world. But over recent years, its popularity has rapidly faded and the nails in its coffin are really starting to stack up. Most recently, Ubuntu has announced they're swapping out coreutils for an Apache-licensed alternative.
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New Spy Thriller! Two HR Companies Square Off in Shocking Corporate Espionage Battle
We've got your lunchtime read! Enter a world of corporate espionage, spies flushing secrets down toilets while government agents pound on the door, and meticulously crafted charts outlining a shocking tale of skullduggery perpetrated by a competitor's most senior leadership. Enjoy Rippling v. Deel!
Read MoreThis Week on ESPN 8 (The Ocho): World Server Throwing Championship 2025!
The world's premier sporting event takes place this week: the World Server Throwing Championship, hosted at CloudFest 2025 in Germany. How far can you hurl a rackmount?
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Will Dropbox Survive to 2030, or Is the End in Sight?
Dropbox offers a great product that "just works" and I've been a very happy customer since 2008. But how much longer can they survive? The numbers are a bit frightening.
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The Buzz: Latest News, Gossip, and Drama from LowEndTalk
$22,000 in missing crypto, provider deadpools, suspicious CPU steals...you need to be reading LowEndTalk!
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The Mailbird Scam: When a "Lifetime" License is Not Lifetime
Mailbird promised that lifetime licenses were for the life of the user. Turns out they were only for the a small window of time when that version was current, and now they're invalid for go-forward versions.
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Google Summer of Code 2025 is Almost Here! Check Out What BorgBase Needs and How You Can Earn a Nice Stipend
Google's Summer of Code 2025 is opening up for applications in a couple weeks. You can early up to $6,600 in stipends and contribute to open source projects. One you might want to consider if BorgBase, a community favorite.
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Remember When Mozilla Promised Not To Sell Your Data? Times Have Changed. Check Out the Terms of Use Changes
Mozilla has changed the language of its Terms of Use and Privacy FAQ, stripping away its pledge to never sell your data. The user community has its pitchforks out.
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