I've been wanting to give PikaPods a spin ever since we interviewed their founder. The one-sentence summary of PikaPods is: packaged apps on individual containers and you pay by the app. I wanted to give Monica a spin. It's a "personal CRM" where you can track relationships. You can sign up for the project's hosting but it's $9/month. It's not difficult to setup and host yourself, but wants PHP 8 and I'm lazy. And I...
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Both Visa and MasterCard cut off payment processing for TrafficJunky, the advertising arm of MindGeek, the proprietor of pornography site PornHub. There is a pending lawsuit which claims that Visa "k...
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We had an interesting story play out on LowEndTalk recently about OVH and their game server offering. OVH has really had a powerful offering in this space. Because of their size and efficiency and ma...
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According to a recent Kaspersky report, DDoS attacks have gotten much worse over the last 12 months. According to the report: The average duration of a DDoS attack in Q2 was about 3000 minutes (roughl...
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A few weeks ago we asked our visitors to vote on which social media platform we should add to LowEndBox. Since we published the Poll in July, LowEndBox has added both TikTok and Instagram to our socia...
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News this week broke that both Apple and Meta are both taking out huge loans. Apple is borrowing $5.5 billion, and Meta is borrowing $10 billion. Both are for "general corporate purposes, share repur...
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Interesting discussion on LowEndTalk over the last week about Virmach, a provider that has been sharing offers with our community for quite a while. Several users are reporting issues. Their Looking...
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We put a video on TikTok with a giveaway bonus code. Naturally, as LowEndBox management surveys their enterprise from their lofty corporate jets, they want to put that code only on TikTok so later th...
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Backblaze is a cloud storage/backup company that has done some interesting things with its storage. They innovated the Backblaze Storage Pod: "Offering both an unlimited online backup service and the...
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We all love our favorite editor or IDE! Over the years, I've learned that folks especially love the ed editor, vim, emacs, and too many others to list. Apologies if I didn't mention your favorite edit...
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It's been a few months since we've done a giveaway and now community provider RackNerd has stepped up to the bat with an awesome giveaway! How awesome? Check these prizes! Enter for a chance to win...
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Confession time: we want to grow our social media presence. Besides the economic reasons, it's also part of our core mission to educate people who are paying way too much for hosting services. Someo...
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I kinda like going thrifting If I get it for the low we're business yeah Whoa, my God, what's the price on that, whoa! You can tell me that these things don't matter But I know that You like high pric...
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Well known Low End regular GTHost recently asked Low End Box for a review, and we are happy to oblige. As reported below, we successfully installed multiple servers in multiple locations with great re...
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Amazon's Ohio datacenter experienced a significant outage today. Amazon reported that "some instances within a single Availability Zone (USE2-AZ1) in the US-EAST-2 Region have experienced a loss of p...
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NEC revealed that they have taken a contract to build a new trans-Pacific fiber-optic cable called JUNO. The new cable (which will be 10,000km or about 7,000 miles long) is expected to be completed in...
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Everyone is making too much money using third party cookies so they're not going away "yet". You may recall that back in January of 2020, Google announced that they were going to remove third party co...
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When a new host comes along, one of the standard checks I make is to ensure that they are not using a cracked version of WHMCS. Since time immemorial, the LowEndTalk selling rules have stated that "U...
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I'm an Apple fanboy. Actually, I'm a Unix fanboy and I find macOS to be the best desktop expression of that OS. I wouldn't want to run macOS on my servers - I use Linux or *BSD for that - but for de...
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You might think that buying an interest in a global network of data centers would cost you tens or hundreds of millions of dollars. But you can get in cheaper. Way cheaper. How cheap? Less than $1...
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Are you a Starlink user? Starlink is the satellite Internet service started by Elon Musk. Unlink earlier technology providers like Dish Network, Starlink's birds fly a lot lower and this improves lat...
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If your organization's data is being held for ransom by hackers, should you pay up? The universal consensus is that you shouldn't because it encourages criminals. But an earlier question needs to be...
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Wordfence reports that hackers are widely attempting to exploit a vulnerability that they reported over three months ago. According to The Register: Wordfence disclosed the flaw almost three months a...
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In today's Google Cloud Blog Post, Product Managers Subra Chandramouli and Jamie Kinney announced plans for expanding the use of Arm® architecture CPUs at Google Cloud. Following last year's introduct...
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LowEndTalk member @Chuck alerted the community to a terrific deal: you can get a full access lifetime membership for Shodan.io for only $5 - that's 90% off the list price! However the deal expires at...
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I was working in a job running the campus email system some years ago when I got a call from the chairman of the statistics department. "We're having a problem sending email out of the department." "W...
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One of the things I love the most about my job as Content Creator here at Low End Box is doing some of our Interviews! It's really fun for me to meet our friendly members and providers. I like getting...
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The community's favorite web hosting control panel is raising prices. The popularity of retail Pro Pack licensing has surged over the past few years while volume growth of legacy licensing (licenses w...
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