DirectAdmin Is Raising Prices, Is It Still Worth It Over cPanel?
Our community's favorite web hosting panel has long been DirectAdmin. Now the price is increasing and some are wondering if the value equation still works. What do you think?
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How to Precisely Calculate What Twitter is Actually Worth Now. Hint: It'll Surprise You
Twitter is a private company now so we really don't know what it's worth because Elon Musk does not have to disclose any financial figures. Right? Not so fast. One of his investors is obliged by law to report what its financial analysts say Twitter is worth and their math shows it's been a financial apocalypse.
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How This Man Is Revolutionizing the Email Industry by Solving Problems His Own Way (With a Hint of AI)
Nothing is as fundamental to the internet as email. From the days of dial-up (you've got mail!) to now, email remains at the center of communication. The business world, for example, would cease to ex...
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How Ross Ulbricht, the Pioneer of Darknet Markets, Ended Up With a Life Sentence (Silk Road’s Seizure)
What happens when you introduce decentralized internet like Tor and decentralized cryptocurrency to a society right around the same time? It opens up the gates to what I could only call a wild west le...
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Beware: The Scammy Affiliate Marketing Practices in the Hosting Industry
Imagine practically anytime you've ever desired a product but were unsure the best brand to buy from. What's the first thing you probably did? Open up Google and type in exactly what you're looking fo...
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Windows XP Activation Algorithm Cracked After 21 Years
Windows XP was Microsoft's first OS that required software activation. For most users, it was a nonevent because their OS came preloaded when they bought their new desktop or laptop. But hobbyists wh...
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Ten Things to Do With Your Own Smartphone Besides Throwing it Away
We all have them: phones that are past their prime. You transfer your apps, photos, and media to your new device and then you're left with old kit building a dust collection. What do you do with an old smartphone?
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Open Source. But Not Open Contributions.
Many open source projects are not open contribution. You can get the source code, but they're not interested in your pull request. Why?
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Three Reasons Why ChatGPT Won't Take Developer Jobs
Are you worried that generative AI (ChatGPT, etc.) is going to take away developer jobs? Or maybe replace them entirely? Is starting a developer career in 2023 like starting as a buggy whip apprentice in 1890? Here's three arguments against the worry, and a chance for you to agree or disagree.
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Limewave: Cheap VPS, Unmetered Bandwidth, and a 5ms Vancouver Ping
Get a 2GB RAM VPS running on Ryzen with unmetered bandwidth for $5.95/month in Seattle! Some nice ping stats and some nice FREE credits in this deal.
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Crypto Firms: Few Boards, Even Fewer Audits
The new age of financial transparency has dawned! Or has it? Boardrooms filled with insiders and lack of external auditors make the largest crypto companies on the planet a bit opaque.
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Montana Bans TikTok
Starting next year, TikTok is officially banned in the state of Montana. Really? Yes, really. But will the ban last?
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Metaverse Desperation: No Money Down Deals!
Desperate times call for desperate measures, and Facebook's latest "No Money Down! 0% APR!" advertising pitches for its Metaverse headsets stink of desperation.
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Free Spectrum Allocations Poster!
You can get a FREE printed poster of worldwide spectrum allocations if you live in the US, or download the same as a PDF worldwide. Courtesy of Rohde and Schwarz. I've never heard of them either.
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Are You Ready to Take Your Hosting Company to the Next Level?
Warren.io offers a platform that lets small hosting companies compete against public clouds by giving them many of the same features. Let's dig into this innovative Estonian software company!
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Bing: The New Firefox and Safari Soon?
Microsoft Bing might be coming to your browser soon, as they're pursuing deals to become the default browser on both Firefox and Safari. Both could be huge for the Internet's second-run search engine.
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YouTube Music: Why It Sucks and Why I Still Use It
Minimum viable product. That's a software development term for software that ticks all the required boxes but is unexceptional in every way. That's what YouTube Music is.
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Should You Start a Hosting Company in 2023? No. Unless...
Should you start a hosting company in 2023? Shared, VPS, dedicated? No. Though if you can answer one question, you might have a very good shot.
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Vultr Expands to Israel!
Vultr expands...AGAIN! They're practically going viral at this point. Last fall it was India and now they've landed in Tel Aviv, Israel.
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Thinking about Buying a Lifetime Deal? Read This First
Providers sometimes share lifetime deals. There's a natural tendency to wonder if they really are going to be providing service for 50-100 years, regardless of how much the initial price is. So really, what's the deal here?
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Did Zuckerberg Single-Handedly Kill the Metaverse and Facebook?
Meta is supposed to be the next evolutjon of the company that started as Facebook and the Metaverse was supposed to be the next grand evolution of the Internet. Maybe they will be one day. But it's a sea of mediocrity at the moment.
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.com Domains for $2.98 First Year! Check This Out!
Thanks to LowEndTalk's @AXYZE (also known as Piotr, the guy with a lot of disk) for spotting this great deal: spaceship.com is offering .com domains for $2.98! One per customer Renews at $8.98 per y...
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They Laughed at Me When I Said I Wanted to Start My Own Host, but When I Started to Build My Own Data Center…
No, seriously, we've got a guy on LowEndTalk who is building his own datacenter. Now some people put a tower in their closet and refer it to as their Tier VII Ultra Enterprise DC, but this guy is serious. All of this evolves, in a sense, from the Grandfather of Involucation himself. This is a fun read.
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Maybe “the Cloud” Isn’t so Cutting-Edge after all...
For as long as it's existed, people have questioned if cloud computing isn't a fancy name for something...well, less fancy. Also, a very cool map of submarine cables.
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INAP Files for Bankruptcy. Again.
Stop me if you've heard this one before: INAP is filing for bankruptcy. Yes, you HAVE heard this one before, and only three years ago. INAP had another oopsie.
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The Downfall of the Man Famous for Keeping Alt-Right Websites Up, and Perhaps the Company Behind it...
Rob Monster. Epik. 15 million people's info leaked. Masterbuck. People losing their domains. Strap in!
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IBM Axing 7,800 Jobs and Replacing Them with AI
This whole panic over AI replacing jobs is overblown, right? Stuff like ChatGPT and Midjourney are cool but are just fancy parlor tricks, so need to worry, right? Well....
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New RackNerd Feature: Change Your IP Directly From Their Panel! (Plus VPS Offers from $10.78/YEAR!)
What's more awesome than a top provider who brings us deals starting at only $10.78/YEAR for a KVM VPS? One who also continues to invest in their platform and improve their service. Check out the latest new feature from RackNerd!
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