How Not to Run a Forum in 2026: Two Prime Examples
Over the last week, I've interacted with a couple traditional forums, and they were case lessons in how not to run a forum in 2026.
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Prima Facsimile Evidence and Commencification of Legal Proceedings
Not infrequently, we get legal gibberish on our ticketing platform from providers who are upset that someone said something negative about them, either here or on LowEndTalk. It's always entertaining. I've written a form letter that all of your LowEndLawyers can use if you ever need to contact us.
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BitWarden Sells Out
A long-standing playbook for private equity investments is to buy an established brand with a lot of public trust, load up on debt, strip-mine assets, eviscerate the company's R&D and quality control, and then pump out junk until the public catches on. At that point, the resulting corporate husk is pawned off to a troubled asset firm and PE moves on to the next victim. Recent news suggests this playbook may be in the early stages of being implemented at BitWarden.
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InterServer.net: Get a 2GB VPS for $3/Month in New Jersey – Only $1.50 First Month!
A reader dropped us a tip that InterServer has a special summer deal running, now through August. Get 50% off anything on InterServer's web site for the first month, off already low prices. For example, get a 2GB VPS for $3/month in New Jersey with 40GB of disk and 2TB of bandwidth. And then take 50% off for the first month!
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Saturday Deep Lore: Announcing the LowEndTalk Forum!
Let's drop some deep LowEndTalk lore here on Saturday!
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Richard Stallman (rms) is Wrong When He Claims Every Cellphone has a Back Door
Richard Stallman of the GNU project is famous for his absolutist stand on software freedom. But he also takes a maximalist stance on privacy, resisting any attempt to gather his personal information, including his refusal to own a cellphone. He's very hypocritical on this point, but he's also strayed into wild-eyed conspiracy theories on his reasons for this position.
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Scaling a VPS Hosting Business Without Expanding Your Ops Team in 2026
Today's article was written by industry titan WebPros. They're the force behind cPanel, Plesk, WHMCS, SolusVM and other solutions that power the hosting industry. In this article, they're sharing both roadblocks to scaling and solutions to overcoming those obstacles. Learn how hosting providers scale VPS operations without increasing headcount using automation, structured workflows, and efficient infrastructure control.
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Is The Register About to Go Bust?
I came across an interesting post on a rather poorly-formatted blog known as TechRights.org about the precarious nature of The Register's finances. They look precarious.
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Why the “Remember When Google Removed Don’t Be Evil?” Narrative is Wrong
Over the years, Google has slid into Big Tech Evil, and so to reflect their new sociopathic identity, they removed their Don't Be Evil motto. So now Google says it's OK for them to Do Evil. Right? Wrong.
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While The King Lives: An Old C Programming Prank in GNU Hello From 1993
Sometimes I wake up at at 1am thinking about problems in my life. Sometimes I think about things I have to do the coming day. And then there are days when some almost-forgotten bit of code is just about to expire from my mental cache and decides it wants to take a stab at creating a new reference to itself in neural network.
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On a Roll! HostPapa Continues Its Acquisition Spree by Adding Hostwinds to Its Portfolio
Just a a couple weeks ago, we covered HostPapa's acquisition of Tailor Made Services. Now they've grown again, acquiring Hostwinds, a Seattle-based company that's been operating for 16 years. Hostwinds offers shared, VPS, and other services.
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Achtung! Critical cPanel Vulnerability: Take Action Now!
The world's most popular (and expensive) web hosting panel is apparently vulnerable to anyone who decides to connect to your port 2087.
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The Problems with Affiliate Programs
Affiliate programs are a form of marketing where providers pay commissions to users who drive new subscribers to their site. In theory, it's a win-win for everyone. In practice, practice is not the same as theory.
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Vim Fracturing Along LLM Lines – Is This the Dawn of a New Age of LLM vs. Non-LLM Codebases?
Vim has long been the standard edition of the venerable vi editor, which turns 50 this year. Both Vim and its successor, NeoVim, explicitly allow LLM contributions. There are those, however, who don't like that.
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Important Changes Ahead: Let’s Encrypt to Update Root Certificates and Discontinue Client Auth
On May 13, 2026, Let’s Encrypt will migrate to its Generation Y certificate hierarchy, marking a significant change in its operations. This transition involves switching the default ACME profile to issues from new root certificates, impacting the classic profile that most hosting operators and their customers typically use. Additionally, on this date, a new opt-in 45-day certificate option will be introduced, and client authentication certificates will be completely removed by July 8, 2026. Hosting providers must ensure that their renewal automation can handle this transition effectively.
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HostPapa Completes Acquisition of Tailor Made Servers
HostPapa, a leading global web hosting and cloud service provider, today announced that it has completed the acquisition of Tailor Made Servers (“TMS”), a Dallas, Texas-based dedicated server hosting provider that has been serving businesses and resellers since 2003.
Read MoreRPiServers Lives Again! Get Your Own Dedicated Raspberry Pi Server in Houston, Texas
Last year, DataIdeas closed shop, and with them the original iteration of RPIServers. This week, Josh announced that RPIServers is reborn!
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Vibe-Drafting IETF Proposals is Now a Thing (The IPv8 Proposal)
I'm sure a lot of people are sitting around on any given day thinking "You know what the world needs? A brand new IP protocol.” Because the every-so-slowly adoption of IPv6 is just not exciting enough. Fear not: a brand-new Draft titled “Internet Protocol Version 8 (IPv8)” just landed.
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Backblaze’s “Betrayal”: Silently Refusing to Backup Your Most Valuable Data
There's a rather screechy post making the rounds about a change in BackBlaze's backup policies. The author uses words like "betrayal", "furious", "alarmed", and other such superlatives. Whether this is really the worst thing since World War II, I will leave for you to decide. But it is disappointing, for sure.
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I Should Have Read Further: Small Models Find the Same Bugs as the Vaunted Claude Mythos
Yesterday, we talked about how Calude's Mythos model is over-hyped. I should have googled a little further because there's a great piece of evidence out there.
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Too Dangerous to Release? Why Claude Mythos’s Alleged Capabilities are Nonsense
Is Claude's new AI model, Mythos, really so incredibly godlike that it's a threat to the Internet? I wish this one was on Polymarket.
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RackNerd Ranks #90 on 2026 Inc. Regionals Pacific List! 3 Years in a Row – Check Out Their Latest VPS Deals
Our community has been following RackNerd’s growth for quite some time now. Since first appearing on LowEndBox back in 2020, they’ve continued to build a strong reputation among our readers, and they’ve consistently shown up with both solid deals and impressive milestones. And speaking of milestones, RackNerd has officially been ranked #90 on the 2026 Inc. Regionals: Pacific list!
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The Post-Quantum Era Begins in 2029
Post-quantum computing has always been 10 years in the future. It's not any longer.
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The Invisible Cost of a Clean Internet: Burning Out Poor People’s Souls to Moderate Online Content
Imagine if your job was to look at the most vile, repugnant images on the Internet for 12 hours a day...
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LowEndLOLs: Things That Make You Go Hmmm…
So about those company names and CEO last names...
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Want to Guess How Many Spam Comments We’ve Blocked Since 2016?
LowEndBox has been live since February 1, 2008. In those 16 years, we've had 6,264 posts published (including this one) with a total of 129,351 approved comments. And how many spam comments?
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Getting Calendar Spam? Me, Too. Here’s How I Fixed It.
Starting a month or so ago, I started getting meetings popping up on my calendar, like the one shown to the left. Out of nowhere, I'd get a reminder telling me that I had a meeting that was about to start. It was very annoying, but thinking through how they were sending this junk made the solution obvious.
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Not April Fools: Microsoft Says Copilot is for “Entertainment Purposes Only”
Don't believe me? Just look at the Microsoft Copilot terms of use.
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