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BRB: IncogNET is Not Currently Accepting New Orders. Here is Why.

Why would a provider temporarily stop accepting new orders? Aren't businesses supposed to chase customers? The answer speaks volumes about IncogNET's commitment to its customers and principled transparency.

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BRB: IncogNET is Not Currently Accepting New Orders. Here is Why.

Meet the New Company That Owns Nearly All Webhosts (EIG Is Dead)

EIG is dead, all hail...Newfold Digital? Same old schtick or bold new vision for the future? Vacuuming up web hosts and stripping them private equity-style or leveraging synergistic growth strategies for maximum customer engagement?

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Meet the New Company That Owns Nearly All Webhosts (EIG Is Dead)

Reddit Is About To Go Public, So They're Pushing Their Users Away (And Killing Third-Party Apps)

Reddit is preparing to go public. Again. This time they're hoping to raise only 44% of what they were looking for the previous time. To make sure the IPO is successful, they're making moves to...drive their users away?! The new API fees seem to guarantee a shrinking user base just when Reddit is going under the magnifying glass.

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Reddit Is About To Go Public, So They're Pushing Their Users Away (And Killing Third-Party Apps)

The Deprecated Bloodstained Code in the Linux Kernel

Many wonderful people have contributed to the Linux kernel. But one particular codebase has a dark past, and is scheduled to be removed in 2025.

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The Deprecated Bloodstained Code in the Linux Kernel

Spin Rewriter Review: Doesn't Work, and Now Obsolete

I have an idea: let's setup a way to automatically rewrite articles and post them on a Wordpress blog, and then we'll make millions off the ads! All we'll need to do is pick out some keywords and technology will do the rest. People are already doing this with ChatGPT and other AI tools. If you've heard a pitch for Spin Rewriter, you've heard a pitch for technology that never worked and is obsolete even if it did work.

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Spin Rewriter Review: Doesn't Work, and Now Obsolete

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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DirectAdmin Is Raising Prices, Is It Still Worth It Over cPanel?

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 to Precisely Calculate What Twitter is Actually Worth Now.  Hint: It'll Surprise You

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 This Man Is Revolutionizing the Email Industry by Solving Problems His Own Way (With a Hint of AI)

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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How Ross Ulbricht, the Pioneer of Darknet Markets, Ended Up With a Life Sentence (Silk Road’s Seizure)

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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Beware: The Scammy Affiliate Marketing Practices in the Hosting Industry

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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Windows XP Activation Algorithm Cracked After 21 Years

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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Ten Things to Do With Your Own Smartphone Besides Throwing it Away

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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Open Source.  But Not Open Contributions.

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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Three Reasons Why ChatGPT Won't Take Developer Jobs

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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Limewave: Cheap VPS, Unmetered Bandwidth, and a 5ms Vancouver Ping

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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Crypto Firms: Few Boards, Even Fewer Audits

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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Montana Bans TikTok

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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Metaverse Desperation: No Money Down Deals!

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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Free Spectrum Allocations Poster!

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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Are You Ready to Take Your Hosting Company to the Next Level?

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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Bing: The New Firefox and Safari Soon?

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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YouTube Music: Why It Sucks and Why I Still Use It

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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Should You Start a Hosting Company in 2023?  No.  Unless...

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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Vultr Expands to Israel!

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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Thinking about Buying a Lifetime Deal? Read This First

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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Did Zuckerberg Single-Handedly Kill the Metaverse and Facebook?

.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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.com Domains for $2.98 First Year!  Check This Out!

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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They Laughed at Me When I Said I Wanted to Start My Own Host, but When I Started to Build My Own Data Center…
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