LowEndBox

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Aug 25, 2022

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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...

Afghanistan Shutters Domestic Crypto Exchanges

Follow us! Like us! Watch us! Gaze at us! Smell us!

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Aug 24, 2022

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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...

Follow us! Like us! Watch us! Gaze at us! Smell us!

DigitalOcean to Acquire Cloudways for $350 Million

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Aug 23, 2022

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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...

DigitalOcean to Acquire Cloudways for $350 Million

More Vulnerabilities, Poorer Patches: TrendMicro Is Bummed

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Aug 18, 2022

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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...

Add Some Fun to Your Day With Our Daily Pics!

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Aug 17, 2022

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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...

Add Some Fun to Your Day With Our Daily Pics!

MailChimp Security Breach. Yes, Again.

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Aug 15, 2022

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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...

Flashback: FreeVPs.us, the Free VPS Forum

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Aug 14, 2022

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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...

Flashback: FreeVPs.us, the Free VPS Forum

Verisign Adds 7% to .com Prices…Forever

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Aug 11, 2022

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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...

“Creepy” Isn’t What You Want in an Emoji, Microsoft

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Aug 10, 2022

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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...

“Creepy” Isn’t What You Want in an Emoji, Microsoft

Would You Play Russian Roulette with a UUID?

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Aug 09, 2022

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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...

Would You Play Russian Roulette with a UUID?

Those Spam Texts Are Coming From Twilio: They’ve Been Hacked

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Aug 08, 2022

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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...

WARNING: PikaPods are Addictive!

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Aug 07, 2022

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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...

Visa/MC Cuts off PornHub Due to Child Pornography

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Aug 07, 2022

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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...

Visa/MC Cuts off PornHub Due to Child Pornography

OVH Chops Network Promise in Half, So Customer Returns 30 Servers

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Aug 06, 2022

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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...

OVH Chops Network Promise in Half, So Customer Returns 30 Servers

DDoS Attacks are 100 Times Worse Compared to Last Year

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Aug 05, 2022

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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...

DDoS Attacks are 100 Times Worse Compared to Last Year

LowEndBox is on Instagram and TikTok!

Jon Biloh

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Aug 05, 2022

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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...

Can You Lend Apple and Meta Some Cash? They’re Asking

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Aug 04, 2022

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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...

Can You Lend Apple and Meta Some Cash? They’re Asking

VirMach Teeters at the Edge

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Aug 04, 2022

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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...

Don’t Tell Jon I Shared This Code With You

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Aug 03, 2022

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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...

Don’t Tell Jon I Shared This Code With You

The Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2022 Q2 Are Here!

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Aug 02, 2022

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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...

The Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2022 Q2 Are Here!

Vim rewritten in Javascript! Linux Inside A Web Browser!

Not_Oles

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Aug 01, 2022

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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...

Vim rewritten in Javascript! Linux Inside A Web Browser!

Win Amazing Prizes in RackNerd’s Massive Summer Giveaway!

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Aug 01, 2022

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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...

Let’s Cross-Synergize Our Social Media Presences!

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Jul 31, 2022

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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...

Let’s Cross-Synergize Our Social Media Presences!

“My God! What’s the Price on That?” We Land on TikTok

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Jul 30, 2022

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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...

“My God! What’s the Price on That?” We Land on TikTok

Review of GTHost servers — 15 minute setup at 17 locations!

Not_Oles

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Jul 29, 2022

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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...

Review of GTHost servers — 15 minute setup at 17 locations!

Amazon Broke the Internet Today. Good Sales Tactic?

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Jul 28, 2022

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