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What is Black Friday?

Black Friday is our community's biggest sales days of the year.  Providers bring their best offers and some crazy wonderful deals are possible during this period. The term "Black Friday" comes from US retail terminology, where many retailers run "in the red" (at a loss) during the year, only going "in the black" (profitable for the year) once the Christmas season kicks off, which traditionally was the day after Thanksgivi...

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What is Black Friday?

🇩🇪🇫🇮 The Hetzner Has Landed! 🇺🇸

Hetzner announced Wednesday that they are adding a new location: Ashburn, Virginia, USA! This is the company's first foray into North America and it joins their existing German and Finnish locations. ...

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🇩🇪🇫🇮 The Hetzner Has Landed! 🇺🇸

What Are You Looking for on Black Friday?

Black Friday 2021 is only 3 weeks away.  What are you in the mood for? Deeply discounted dedis? Silly low prices for storage? Dirt check VPSes wherever, regardless of spec? Super cheap shared hosting?...

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What Are You Looking for on Black Friday?

Is There Still Money to Be Made in Web Hosting? Yes.

People frequently debate whether the hosting market is saturated, oversaturated, polyunsaturated, or some other form of full.  I think everyone agrees that it's not like the 1990s where if you could s...

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Is There Still Money to Be Made in Web Hosting?  Yes.

FCC Revokes China Telecom's License to Operate in U.S.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted today to kick China Telecom out of the US, revoking their license to operate.  China Telecom has 60 days to cease operations. According to the press r...

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FCC Revokes China Telecom's License to Operate in U.S.

Free Books from Green Tea Press on Python, Java, C++, and Much More

Allen Downey is a professor of Computer Science at the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering in Massachusetts.  He's written numerous books and I was delighted to discover that many if not all are a...

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Free Books from Green Tea Press on Python, Java, C++, and Much More

Have You Heard About Black Friday?

We're little more than a month away from Black Friday 2021 here on LowEndBox and LowEndTalk, which is the biggest annual global event on the planet! In years past, we've featured incredible deals, suc...

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Have You Heard About Black Friday?

AlmaLinux Announces ELevate Project: Migrate/Upgrade Between Any RHEL-based Distro!

AlmaLinux announced today the ELevate Project, which is their initiative to allow users to upgrade or migrate between any RHEL- based distro.  Using this technology, currently you can easily move betw...

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AlmaLinux Announces ELevate Project: Migrate/Upgrade Between Any RHEL-based Distro!

1 in 10 Chance of an "Internet Apocalypse" Before 2031

Scientists at the University of California at Irvine predict that if a rare solar superstorm comes to pass, it could cause a months-long outage for key parts of the Internet. Particularly vulnerable a...

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1 in 10 Chance of an

OpenBSD 7.0 Released

The OpenBSD project announced the release of OpenBSD 7.0 today. This is the 51st release of the operating system. Major new features in this release include: Support for a new riscv64 platform, which...

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OpenBSD 7.0 Released

Igor Seletskiy Steps Down from AlmaLinux Foundation Board

CloudLinux CEO Igor Seletskiy announced Tuesday that he was stepping down from the AlmaLinux OS Foundation Board.  While he cited multiple reasons, he highlighted the main cause as his desire to empha...

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Igor Seletskiy Steps Down from AlmaLinux Foundation Board

Does Your Provider Offer Snapshots?

For a long time, VPS snapshots were only available in high-end hosting companies, but over the last few years they've become increasingly common in the marketplace.  This neat feature can be a real ti...

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Does Your Provider Offer Snapshots?

A New Dimension of Connectivity Begins with PubConcierge’s Cutting Edge Network Infrastructure

LowEndBox would like to welcome PubConcierge, a company that provides exclusive technical concierge services.  They are a global company that handles IP configuration and infrastructure setup for thei...

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A New Dimension of Connectivity Begins with PubConcierge’s Cutting Edge Network Infrastructure

The Syniverse Hack: Why Using SMS for 2FA is a Bad Idea

Security gurus have suggested for years that relying on SMS for two-factor authentication is a bad idea.   Reasons include Your phone may be stolen Many people allow SMS messages to be displayed on lo...

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The Syniverse Hack: Why Using SMS for 2FA is a Bad Idea

DirectAdmin Feedback: Talk to DirectAdmin!

DirectAdmin has been taking over the world lately (or at least gaining market share), especially as industry leader cPanel continues to jack up prices. If you're a hosting provider who'd like to give...

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DirectAdmin Feedback: Talk to DirectAdmin!

Vultr Has Started Charging for Snapshots

Since October 1, cheap VPS provider Vultr has begun charging for snapshots. This was announced in a blog post on September 20.  They explained the reason for this change is due to abuse of the previou...

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Vultr Has Started Charging for Snapshots

October 2021 Giveaway Video #1 Now on LEBTV!

This month, Community provider RackNerd is hosting a fantastic giveaway for LowEndBox/LowEndTalk readers! Read more and enter here. There's 15 different ways to earn entries, including entering codes...

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October 2021 Giveaway Video #1 Now on LEBTV!

RackNerd's October 2021 Giveaway for the LowEnd Community!

Community provider RackNerd is hosting a fantastic giveaway for LowEndBox/LowEndTalk readers this month! Up for grabs: Three (3) Anker SoundCore Bluetooth Portable Speakers! Five (5) Anker 10,000 mAh...

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RackNerd's October 2021 Giveaway for the LowEnd Community!

cPanel Jacks Up Prices 10% Across the Board

Industry villain cPanel announced today that they are jacking up prices, effective January 1, 2022.  In an announcement sent to their customers, they said: "Here at cPanel, we are passionate about pro...

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cPanel Jacks Up Prices 10% Across the Board

CloudLinux Announces Support for CentOS 8 Through 2025

When IBM announced that they were changing CentOS and introducing "CentOS Stream," one minor detail was a sharply curtailed lifespan for CentOS 8, the final "Classic" version.  IBM has announced that...

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CloudLinux Announces Support for CentOS 8 Through 2025

Udemy Has Free Courses on Python, Linux, SQL, Machine Learning, and More!

Training powerhouse Udemy frequently releases free courses for limited time periods. Obviously, their hope is that you'll try out their instruction, like what you see, and then purchase additional cou...

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Udemy Has Free Courses on Python, Linux, SQL, Machine Learning, and More!

China Bans BitCoin and Other Cryptocurrencies

BitCoin is trading down as much as 8 percent as news breaks that China has banned BitCoin. According to reports, China's central bank has declared all financial transactions involving BitCoin illegal,...

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China Bans BitCoin and Other Cryptocurrencies

AMD's Server Market Share Hits New High at 16%

According to market research group Omdia, AMD has surged to a historically high server market share of 16%. "In the server CPU market, AMD scored its best-ever quarter from a market share and sales pe...

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AMD's Server Market Share Hits New High at 16%

The Most Ridiculous VPS Company of All Time

Would you like a free 1.5GB RAM VPS with 20GB of disk, an ipv4, and unmetered bandwidth in Germany?  Well, in 2013 all you needed to do was dial a number and listen to ads.  A lot of ads. Back then, a...

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The Most Ridiculous VPS Company of All Time

Hosterlabs Exits VPS Business

Hosterlabs, who has been featured LowEndBox multiple times, has announced they are exiting the VPS market. LowEndTalk member @brueggus shared a ticket response in which Hosterlabs stated: "We will not...

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Hosterlabs Exits VPS Business

Microsoft Says Passwords are Passé

Are passwords a dying breed? In a blog post published September 15, Microsoft Vice President of Security, Compliance, and Identity Vasu Jakkal entitled "The passwordless future is here for your Micros...

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Microsoft Says Passwords are Passé

Community News - A RackNerd Review, Sharing Their Recent Accomplishments

Continuing on LowEndBox’s community news features, the following piece is something that RackNerd recently sent over to us. Seeing that there are quite a bit of RackNerd customers from the LowEndBox...

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Community News - A RackNerd Review, Sharing Their Recent Accomplishments

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Have you signed up for LowEndBox's best giveaway yet? If not, there is still time. In case you've not heard yet, community provider RackNerd is hosting a fantastic giveaway for LowEndBox/LowEndTalk re...

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