CloudFlare (NASDAQ: NET) is under social assault from people upset about KiwiFarms' usage of the platform. For those who have lives, here's the brief on KiwiFarms from Wikipedia: Kiwi Farms...is an American Internet forum dedicated to the discussion of online figures and communities it deems "lolcows" (people who can be "milked for laughs"). The targets of threads are often subject to doxing and other forms of organized g...
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We'd like to welcome Warren.io, a company offering an interesting product in the cloud platform space. In a nutshell (see the one pager), they offer a way for smaller players to compete with big publi...
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Hello from New York City and Mexico! Here is another fun guest article contributed by Eddie Barksdale from Porkbun. Low End Box and @Not_Oles appreciate this personalized look inside the home offices...
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If you go back seven or eight years and asked me to recommend a LEB provider, I would have asked you some basics and then might very well have recommended RamNode. Back in the day, RamNode had a nice...
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One of the headaches in cloud environments is licensing for proprietary software, and no one is more of a headache on this point than Microsoft. If you want to offer Windows as a provider, you need to...
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Check out this sentence: "For the author, this business model enables them to scale their earnings from their software with less risk." I slightly modified the original, but we're not talking about a...
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I was running some errands this morning and passed an Orthodox church. Out front was a colorful tri-color banner declaring that next weekend is the Romanian Folk & Food Festival here in Portland....
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Readers, do you use Trustpilot? Providers, do you live and die by it? For those unfamiliar, Trustpilot is a sort of "Yelp of everything". They offer an aggregation of reviews on nearly everything, add...
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Martin Shkreli has been released from prison. You may remember him as "pharma bro", who made a killing by exploiting an interesting aspect of the pharmaceutical market. He realized that there are sev...
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Sometimes you see stuff in the media and wonder if it's really news. Some celebrity broke up with some other celebrity. Some tech company released version X.Y which is .0001% better. LastPass was h...
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Afghanistan launched a crackdown on crypto exchanges, closing at least sixteen such exchanges in the last week. According to Sayed Shan Sa'adat, an Afghanistani security official: "[Afghanistan's cent...
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Okay, that last one is not really possible. Fortunately for the human race, a social network based on our sense of smell has not been developed (though humans have tried to invent smell-transmission...
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DigitalOcean revealed today that they're tired of Cloudways fronting their panel, so they're going to buy them for $350 million. Cloudways has a fantastic business model: they buy a VM for $6, put the...
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Presenting at the Black Hat USA conference this week, Trend Micro had an interesting comment: Over the last few years, we’ve noticed a disturbing trend – a decrease in patch quality and a reduction in...
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There's a small scrappy start-up company that's emerging in the web space. They've been posting a different themed picture on their main service page every day, celebrating holidays, unofficial rememb...
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MailChimp revealed they've had a security breach: "In response to a recent attack targeting Mailchimp’s crypto-related users, we’ve taken proactive measures to temporarily suspend account access for a...
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Just want a free VPS? Yes, there are actually legitimate ways to get a free VPS. Interested in a bit of LowEndLore s we look back at a famous community landmark that has left the scene? Read on! At...
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Read 'em and weep, folks. That smooth 7% curve is what Verisign has planned for .com owners. As DomainNameAPI.com notes: Verisign, the registrar of the .COM domain extension, on 1 September 2021 inc...
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Earlier this summer, Microsoft released new emojis for their platforms. If you're a corporate slave staring at Teams all day, there is a palette of these smiling faces to inject some humanity into yo...
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I was explaining UUIDs to a junior colleague today, who was hung up on the idea of probabilities, and it lead to an interesting viewpoint. A UUID is a Universal Unique IDentifier. They're used all ov...
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Twilio has suffered a data breach and the attackers "used the stolen credentials to gain access to some of our internal systems". Twilio is a messaging platform with a nice API. I used it last year t...
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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...
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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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