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Should You Invest in Pure-Play Hosting Companies like DOCN or RTX? Analysis Says...

When looking for pure play hosting companies to analyze, there aren't many with public financials.  The largest public webs are all components of larger companies.  AWS is part of Amazon, Azure is part of Microsoft, and Google Cloud is part of the Google empire.  Even if you break out the hosting part (to the extent details are reported), these giant clouds are pees but there aren't really competitors. Next tier down you'...

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Should You Invest in Pure-Play Hosting Companies like DOCN or RTX?  Analysis Says...

Whore Presents? Molestation Nursery? Friday Fun: Be Careful When Picking Domain Names!

Choosing a domain name should be pretty easy.  For most companies you simply add a ".com" to your company name and you're good to go.  That is, unless mashing the letters in your name together makes a...

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Whore Presents?  Molestation Nursery?  Friday Fun: Be Careful When Picking Domain Names!

CoinPayments Pulls Out of the US, Creating Chaos for Users

"In light of a constantly changing market in the United States of America, CoinPayments Inc. and UAB Star Ventures are at this time discontinuing services to and access to our platform by U.S. users."...

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CoinPayments Pulls Out of the US, Creating Chaos for Users

BackBlaze (BLZE) to be Acquired. You Heard it Here First.

When Backblaze (NASDAQ:BLZE) went public last November, I thought it might be an interesting play, but I didn't like the valuation or the earnings. And I still don't. And this concerns me because I'm...

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BackBlaze (BLZE) to be Acquired.  You Heard it Here First.

Declare Your Independence from High-Cost Hosts with Our Weekend Deals Thread!

Happy Fourth of July! As we celebrate America's independence, I'd like to draw your attention to a fabulous deals thread on LowEndTalk.  It's petty casual and doesn't have the scope or depth of our bi...

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Declare Your Independence from High-Cost Hosts with Our Weekend Deals Thread!

Bye-Bye PayPal Friends And Family Payments To Business Accounts!

Today, June 30, PayPal sent me three emails. The first wants me to check the May activity for my company's business account. The second wants me to "take my business online with a PayPal partner." And...

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Bye-Bye PayPal Friends And Family Payments To Business Accounts!

Introduction to Hacker News ("HN")

Besides Low End Box and Low End Talk, one of the great joys of my days has been reading Hacker News. Anybody interested in computers and the internet will find Hacker News, always referred to as "HN,"...

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Introduction to Hacker News (

TikTok Won't Stop Sending US Data to China, So Gov't to Force App Ban

Goodbye, TikTok. According to news reports, both Apple and Google have received letters from the FCC requesting they remove the TikTok app from their app stores.  Neither Apple nor Google has commente...

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TikTok Won't Stop Sending US Data to China, So Gov't to Force App Ban

HostMantis Throws in the Towel

Hosting provider HostMantis has announced that it is moving all hosts to DynamicHosting.ca. "As of July 1st, 2022, to continue our evolution we are partnering with Dynamic Hosting. Going forward, Dyna...

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HostMantis Throws in the Towel

The LowEndBox Review Project: We've Been Called Out

I'd like to quote a post from @Mumbly, a LowEndTalk reader: "Every time I opened LEB decade ago I found introductions of some new low end VPS providers....When LEA started this community he didn't rel...

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The LowEndBox Review Project: We've Been Called Out

Looking for IPv4 IPs? We've Got IPv4 IPs.

If you haven't heard, there's a problem with IPv4 exhaustion. If you're looking to rent or lease IPs, we have the thread for you. There are many choices in the marketplace, and LowEndTalk does not hav...

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Looking for IPv4 IPs?  We've Got IPv4 IPs.

Is the Golden Age of LowEnd VPSes Coming to a Screeching Halt?

OVH announced on June 14 that it will begin charging for IPv4 addresses. That loud screaming sound you heard was thousands of low-end hosts watching their profit margins vaporize. "Given the scarcity...

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Is the Golden Age of LowEnd VPSes Coming to a Screeching Halt?

What's the Fastest Wordpress Stack? Find Out on LowEndTalk!

Stop me if you've heard this on before. You started a web site and were thrilled when you started to get substantial traffic.  At first, your cPanel hosting could keep up but eventually either you or...

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What's the Fastest Wordpress Stack?  Find Out on LowEndTalk!

OVH Fire Class Action Lawsuit at 140 Clients, €10m Claim

Thanks to a LowEndBox tipster for submitting this news! You may recall the horrific datacenter fire that OVH suffered about 15 months ago.  A Paris law firm has filed a lawsuit seeking damages from OV...

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OVH Fire Class Action Lawsuit at 140 Clients, €10m Claim

How To Use YABS To Check Your New VPS Or Dedicated Server

Enjoy this YABS workout from Tom!  Sorry, couldn't resist the pun.  I should have.  --raindog308 Benching With Yabs Hello again from sunny Sonora! Recently I wrote about How To Begin On Your New VPS O...

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How To Use YABS To Check Your New VPS Or Dedicated Server

How To Begin On Your New VPS Or Dedicated Server

Introduction Hello from sunny Sonora! This morning I was delighted to receive an email from Hetzner telling me that my new AX41-NVMe server was provisioned with Debian and ready to go! This post discu...

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How To Begin On Your New VPS Or Dedicated Server

Buyer's Remorse? Sell Your Unwanted VPS or Dedicated Server!

We've all been there. You see a deal, it's too good to pass up, and then two weeks later you realize it's idling and will go on idling until you cancel. If it's an hourly VM, bang, it's gone.  But wha...

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Buyer's Remorse?  Sell Your Unwanted VPS or Dedicated Server!

Get Notified About Cheap VPS Deals: Sign Up for Our Mailing List

Get LowEndBox delivered directly to your inbox every time we share an offer or post! Our list will send you an alert for every post.  Sometimes offers have limited stock, particularly when they're exc...

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Get Notified About Cheap VPS Deals: Sign Up for Our Mailing List

A Beginner's Quick Glance At Two Of Udemy's Free Courses!

Udemy recently has been featured both here on Low End Box and on Low End Talk. Also, on September 20, 2021, Low End Box previously featured Low End Talk's Udemy thread. Low End Talk's Udemy thread has...

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A Beginner's Quick Glance At Two Of Udemy's Free Courses!

Virtual Gear Dump: raindog308's Empire of Cheap VPS and Cheap Shared Hosting

On some gear-oriented YouTube channels, people will do pocket dumps or bag dumps where they'll show you everything that they carry on a daily basis.  These are things like phones, chargers, multitools...

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Virtual Gear Dump: raindog308's Empire of Cheap VPS and Cheap Shared Hosting

Fix Gmail Deliverability Problems Inexpensively With Migadu!

Remember when you could just fire off an email and be sure it'd arrive?  Me, neither, it's been so long.  Email deliverability is a real hassle here in the 21st century...thanks for this look at one s...

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Fix Gmail Deliverability Problems Inexpensively With Migadu!

Free Udemy Courses! Our Community Resource Just Keeps Going

A while back, we alerted you to a thread on LowEndTalk where community member - and now moderator! - @Arkas shared free courses from Udemy. That thread was started in September and the community is st...

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Free Udemy Courses!  Our Community Resource Just Keeps Going

Paying by the Hour: Do You Use Hourly Instances?

Low-end providers have steadily adapted features that were once the exclusive province of big companies.  For example: Reverse DNS configuration by the user Anycast configuration Block storage But one...

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Paying by the Hour: Do You Use Hourly Instances?

Why Don't You Like Us? Or Follow Us, For That Matter...

We live in a push world, and if you prefer to get deals, posts, and news delivered to you in an app, we can help with that. We're on major social media platforms and we're growing our content there. ...

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Why Don't You Like Us?  Or Follow Us, For That Matter...

500 Million New IPv4 Addresses Coming! Well, Maybe. Or Maybe Not.

The idea of changing up the IPv4 protocols to free up reserved ranges is not new.  Heck, I posted about it on LowEndTalk at least ten years ago and it wasn't new then. The idea is simple: when IPv4 wa...

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500 Million New IPv4 Addresses Coming!  Well, Maybe.  Or Maybe Not.

Got a Tip? Share it With Us!

Have you read something interesting? Have you heard something suspicious? Did you come across a cool deal for hosting, computers, online services, educational materials, stickers, shirts, sheets, or s...

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Got a Tip?  Share it With Us!

Lotus 1-2-3 Resurrected! -- Runs Natively On Linux After Hack By Tavis Ormandy!

  Lotus 1-2-3 And The 1990s Tavis Ormandy is a world class white hat hacker who works at Google Project Zero. Hacker News ("HN") is a news aggregator and comment board run by the well known start...

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Lotus 1-2-3 Resurrected! -- Runs Natively On Linux After Hack By Tavis Ormandy!

Community News: RackNerd is Officially a Certified cPanel Partner

To continue LowEndBox’s new “interesting news” series, we recently received a new submission from Dustin B. Cisneros over at RackNerd to let us know that they’ve officially become a Certified cPanel P...

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Community News: RackNerd is Officially a Certified cPanel Partner
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