What Does “Offshore Hosting” Even Mean, Anyway?
"Offshore hosting". "Bulletproof hosting". "DMCA-Ignored". What do these terms mean? Is there any host that really operates with total impunity on the net? SirFoxy breaks it down for us.
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Free Speech Hurricane: HE Cuts off Kiwi Farms, IncogNET Points to the Law, and Battle is Joined
Community provider IncogNET is going to bad for free speech after Hurricane Electric dropped KiwiFarms' prefix in the middle of the night. As the saying goes, free speech laws only matter when they're applied to unpopular speech. Were HE's action illegal under Washington state law? How do they compare to other provider's response to KF?
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EthernetServers Urgently Moves Servers Amid DediPath Downtime, and the CTO’s Suspected Departure
Recently over in the LowEndTalk-sphere, fears have been growing over a DediPath deadpool... There's been a thread with over 4,000 views up for days about a curious case of DediPath downtime, with no r...
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Follow the Relaunch of DynaBlogger!
Fight the Wordpress monoculture! LowEndTalk veteran member vitobotta is working on a relaunch of his platform, DynaBlogger. Let's take a look at this cool project.
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Amazon Starts Charging for IPv4 Addresses and Why It's a Good Thing for You
Amazon has announced that it will not start charging for IPv4 addresses (but not for the free tier). Is this a bad thing? Not really.
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Community News: RackNerd is Now an Inc.com Verified Company
RackNerd has got some press from Inc. Magazine! If you're a Alphabet or Tesla, you get covered in Fortune. If you're the next Alphabet or Tesla, you're in Inc., and it's a pretty big deal to attract their attention. Let's dig in.
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GreenValueHost: The Lowend VPS Host That Ended With the Founder Being Sentenced to Prison
GreenValueHost is far from new to here, and the LowEndTalk budget VPS community. They came onto the scene way back in 2013 -- you can even still see their offers around here if you dig for it. Threads...
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Surveying the Global Internet Landscape: Dataplane.org
Meet the group that watches the Internet and provides fascinating insights into the global internetwork - as well as the raw data so you can make your own insights. Dataplane is doing very cool work and is a fun site to learn from.
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Check Out This Network Benchmark Script!
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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Providers: Tons of Free Advertising Just for Asking!
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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Man Found Guilty of Child Porn, Because He Ran a Tor Exit Node (The Story of William Weber)
Guns. Drugs. TOR. Child pornography. The long and twisted tale of LowEndTalk's famous member William goes deep.
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The Future of the Coleco ADAM
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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Seismic Industry Shift: Is RHEL About to Vanish From the Web Hosting Landscape?
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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A New Mysterious Streaming Platform, Kick, Is Poised To Overtake Amazon-Backed Twitch
Twitch was originally founded back in 2011 by Justin Kan and Emmett Shear. A couple of y...
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Did You Miss Any of These Posts Which are Burning Up Our Analytics?
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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Contabo is Celebrating 20 Years with Special Deals on Cheap VPS and Cheap Dedicated Servers Around the World!
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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Can You Get a VPS for $1/Month? Oh Yeah. Do We Have a List? You Bet!
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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This is Our 5000th Post!
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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CLONE WARS: How Every Major RHEL Clone is Reacting to IBM, From Counter-Exploiting Legal Loopholes to RHEL++ Semi-Clones
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 Silently Clamps Down on Free Plans: No More Back-to-Back Meetings, 10 Minute Wait Before Restarting on Free Plans
Zoom doesn't want free plan customers any more. They've started clamping down on free accounts.
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Zuck vs. Musk Beef Continues: Twitter Threatens Lawsuit (WTF Is Instagram's Threads app?)
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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Evernote Throws in the Towel and Heads to the Elephant Graveyard
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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LowEndBox 2.0 - One Year Anniversary!
A year ago we completely revamped LowEndBox. Happy anniversary to LowEndBox design 2.0!
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Read the Foam-Mouthed Rant by Mastodon Admins Demanding Continued Irrelevancy and Blocking Meta's Threads in the Fediverse
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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PSA: WHMCS Security Update You Probably Didn't Know About (Revenue Impacting) – Thanks, Dustin from RackNerd!
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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Going Down in Flames Like Reddit: The Other Moderator Protest at a Billion-Dollar Internet Community You Visit Every Day
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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Rocky Linux is Back in the RHEL Clone Business Due to a Clever Legal Hack
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 Bought By Some French Company Nobody's Ever Heard Of
HostMantis has been sold. Again, I guess? The new owners don't speak English apparently.
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