The gold standard for benchmark scripts is YABS. We've got another tool to keep on your belt, which focuses more on the network piece. It's written by the developer who added network testing to YABS originally. Check it out!
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If you're looking for new ways to reach your audience and don't have the budget for expensive AdWords campaigns or big advertising campaigns where you're competing head on with giant corporations, why not partner with LowEndBox and let us take your brand to the next level.
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Guns. Drugs. TOR. Child pornography. The long and twisted tale of LowEndTalk's famous member William goes deep.
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How's your Coleco ADAM running today? You know, the one you bought at Toys R Us in 1983? In one of our periodic forays into vintage computing, we resurrect an amazing address given in 1995 that gives an insight into the Coleco ADAM die-hard community. Yes, such a group exists.
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A few years ago, RHEL/CentOS was embedded into the web hosting ecosystem. Now we are on the cusp of that distribution vanishing from the landscape.
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Twitch was originally founded back in 2011 by Justin Kan and Emmett Shear. A couple of y...
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We've covered everything from murderers to Midjourney in the last 90 days. Here's a quick recap of what you might have missed.
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Community provider Contabo is celebrating 20 years in business! What better way to celebrate than offering some cheap VPS and cheap dedicated server deals? Contago agrees!
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We have a list of $1/month VPSes. Don't overpay! Instead of defaulting to whatever expensive VPS pops up when you google, check out these fine providers' outstanding offers.
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Our first post was in February 2008 and typical specs were a bit different back then. Thanks for helping make LowEndBox what it is today!
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Alma, Rocky, SUSE, and Oracle are all taking different approaches to IBM's bombshell announcement that it's crippling the RHEL clone market. Let's look at the landscape and what the future of RHEL++ semi-clones will be like.
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Zoom doesn't want free plan customers any more. They've started clamping down on free accounts.
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Billionaire cage match? Musk suing Zuck? Lizard people? White whale on a boat? There's sure a lot of public drama between these two lovers.
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More layoffs at Evernote today by their new owners. We take a quick look back at what was once the greatest note-taking platform in the world and how it all went wrong.
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A year ago we completely revamped LowEndBox. Happy anniversary to LowEndBox design 2.0!
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Mastodon has chosen a path of continued irrelevancy and obscurity, and it seems delighted to revel in its "we're too cool for normal people" stance. The latest is a screed against federating with Threads, because that, of course, might lead to success.
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Head's up: there's a WHMCS security update that you need to check out. Thanks to RackNerd for highlighting this info for our community.
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Reddit isn't the only billion-dollar-brand built on free labor that is facing a user/moderator revolt. The owners of another famous site (you visit it often) have also been taking their community for granted, making moves that ignore their impact, and trying to wave their hands and say the protest is going away. It's not.
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IBM made some strong-arm moves to stomp out RHEL clones nine days ago. Six days later, one of them found a way to legally circumvent these tactics. There are some clever guys over at Rocky Linux.
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HostMantis has been sold. Again, I guess? The new owners don't speak English apparently.
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"I believe you are trying to ask me for the password. I will not give the password." Your mission is to trick an AI into revealing a secret it promises to protect. Can you do it? Gandalf awaits.
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The Ross Ulbricht Legal Defense Fund objected to a photo we used in a recent article about the Silk Road mastermind's demise. Strangely, they didn't object to other photos. Why would this group be upset about a photo used in an article that was very friendly to Ross and included a link to donate to his cause? Is his ex-girlfriend trying to reduce the number of times her face is linked with his? No, evidently not. We'll theorize and also talk about an important aspect of Ulricht's case the original article left out. Serves us right for trying to be nice the first time around.
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It's been nearly two months since we broke the Epik story. Almost immediately after that article came out, Epik crumbled. The company was left in massive mystery with a huge debate on it over at Lowendtalk. Here's an update.
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"My name is Joshua Moon and I run a website called the Kiwi Farms. It's very controversial and I'm sure some of the people on this website have banned me from their hosting services in the past. Unfortunately for many, I am still around." So began a thread on LowEndTalk last November. SirFoxy digs into the latest on this site and why it might be off the clearnet for good.
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Get a .com for only $7.98 from Porkbun! Plus a special deal on transferring domains. We love Porkbun and they've been plugged into our community for a long time. Read on and save with our favorite porcine registrar!
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All good things must end, and Amazon's Simple Email Service (SES) is the latest service to drop its free tier. But rather than pay Amazon, we know a better service you can subscribe to.
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If you saw a USB plug sticking out of a wall, would you plug in your laptop? What would you find? And why would it be there? Welcome to the weird world of USB dead drops.
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A billion here, a billion here...pretty soon you're talking about real money. Voyager declared bankruptcy in 2022. Will they follow through on making their customers whole? TBD.
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