Newfold Digital, a leading web technology provider that no one has ever heard of but owns a variety of well-known brands including HostGator, Network Solutions, and Bluehost, has acquired Yoast. Readers may be surprised to learn that Yoast - which most of us know as an SEO plugin for WordPress - is actually a company. I thought it was just something a college student had put together to make a few extra bucks. Yoast wor...
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Debian 11, code-named Bullseye, was released today. If it's not already available on your favorite VM provider's panel, I suggest you own a thread on LowEndTalk and complain bitterly. Major new featu...
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Apple announced today that will begin scanning every photo, iMessage, and search you perform on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac in order to verify that Apple approves of the content you are viewing. Under...
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Unlike most hosting companies, DigitalOcean (NYSE: DOCN) is a publicly-traded company and hence must file quarterly audited financial reports. While there are other big hosting companies that must fil...
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Sorry to harsh your summer buzz, but that Verisign announcement from back in February that you briefly grumbled about and then forgot because it was in the future is now relevant. As of September 1, y...
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Long-time community member @randvegeta has been sharing the story of his Lithium-powered datacenter UPS setup on LowEndTalk. He is the proprietor of MLNL.host, a cheap VPS provider we featured yester...
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Every month, LowEndBox puts a question in front of hosting industry leaders and LEB community providers, who are invited to comment and offer their perspective. Our goal is to stimulate discussion ar...
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SmallWeb announced Friday that they are being acquired by NexusBytes, effective August 1, 2021. Full details are available in an email sent to customers, which has also been posted on LowEndTalk. Mich...
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PayPal announced earlier this month that they are jacking up their fees...er, we meant to say, "making changes to published rates to better align pricing with the value their products and services pro...
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Rocky Linux offered their first official release (8.4) on June 21st and now providers are adding it as an option to their hosting platforms. If you're not familiar, Rocky Linux is CentOS Reborn. You...
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In a blog post this week, Cloudflare complained that Amazon AWS's egress fees are too high. According to CF's calculations, customers are paying: 80 times Amazon's costs in the US, Canada, and Europe...
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A user on LowEndTalk reported that shared hosting provider SmallWeb has emailed customers to report that their London shared hosting has suffered a "catastrophic data loss". "Dear friend, At 6:03PM UK...
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In a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Rackspace announced Friday that they are laying off 10% of their workforce. "On July 21, 2021, the Company [Rackspace] committed to an inter...
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Akamai, a leading global content delivery network, was responsible for an outage today which impacted large portions of the Internet, including popular websites FedEx, UPS, Home Depot, and many others...
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AFRINIC (the Regional Internet Authority for Africa which controls allocations of IP addresses on that continent) appears to be cracking down on people who obtain African IPs and use them elewhere. Co...
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Loss ratios in the cyber insurance world have skyrocketed in recent years - surging 400% year over year. They have hit 70% of paid premiums, which some industry commentators are saying is unsustainab...
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Popular cryptocoin Chia has been wreaking havoc in the hard drive market of late, chewing up all available supplies in some markets as miners - er, farmers - look for capacity to work the crypto algor...
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Hey, you just browsed my site And this is a crazy Here's a cookie you didn't ask for So make me some money maybe! -- Cookie Monster, Share It Maybe (sort of) In the LowEnd hosting world, many provider...
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I'd like to go back to the founding of LowEndBox to ask the question: whatever happened to LEAdmin? It's February 1st 2008, and lowendbox.com is registered. The companion domain, lowendtalk.com, won't...
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On LowEndTalk, there has been a great deal of discussion about the fate of HostSolutions: First Thread Second Thread In a nutshell, HostSolutions suffered some sort of massive disk array failure which...
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Looking for the best, and cheapest, Dedicated Server Hosting? LowEndBox publishes plenty of great deals on inexpensive dedicated servers at prices you can only find here at LowEndBox. While virtual p...
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Community provider Hostodo is giving away some free VPSes! To enter, see this LowEndTalk thread, where you can win either a 512MB or 1024MB VPS in either Miami or Las Vegas. These systems come with s...
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Is there something interesting going on with your company, organization, or project? Something that perhaps you've announced on your blog or web site but would like to see trumpeted to a larger audien...
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Hosterlabs announced today that on June 21st they "experienced an intrusion" in which unidentified attackers "placed malware on our servers, and by doing so gained access to our customers' data". The...
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We feature many great offers here on LowEndBox, but you'll also find some unique provider postings on our sister site, LowEndTalk. If you're in the market for great, cheap hosting, be sure to check b...
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Looking for cheap Web Hosting, Shared Hosting and Reseller Hosting? LowEndBox might be best known for great discounts on VPS hosting but we also feature plenty of the best deals on web hosting, shared...
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It's only been five weeks since we released LowEndBoxTV to the world, and we've already published over two dozen great videos. If you haven't watched one o...
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Comment Free For All: Hacking in the Movies
I once watched an episode of Law & Order with a friend who is an attorney. From the moment the action switched from the police to the prosecutors, he was tied up in knots, shouting at the screen a...
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