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Clientexec 6.5 Beta 1 Released Now! Pterodactyl, VirtFusion, CyberPanel Integration and more!

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If you’re a hosting provider around these parts, chances are you’ve heard of Clientexec by now. If you haven’t, Clientexec is a web hosting billing & support system, and is considered one of the top alternatives to WHMCS. Beyond just being a WHMCS alternative, it is also a Blesta alternative. What we like about Clientexec is that it has been in active development since 2003 – that’s the same year that WHMCS was founde...

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Last Chance to Win an iPad or 3D Printer!

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Mar 31, 2022
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Today's the last day to enter our amazing giveaway!  Community provider RackNerd, recently voted Best Provider and Most Professional Provider, is giving away: A 2021 Apple 10.2-inch iPad (Wi-Fi, 64GB,...

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Why I Kicked NameSilo to the Curb

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Mar 29, 2022
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I have a set of domains that I renew every year and this year I decided not to renew them at NameSilo. As a registrar, I've never had an issue with NameSilo.  However, their service has some things th...

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You Need to Update Chrome ASAP

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Mar 26, 2022
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Word is out of a new vulnerability in Chrome, and it sounds serious.  If your browser has an update, you should definitely restart to apply to reach version 99.0.4844.84.  New updates are out for Wind...

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From Russia, With Skills: The Post-Invasion Russian Brain Drain

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Mar 25, 2022
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In the past 30 days, over 70,000 IT professionals have fled Russia.  The Russian Association of Electronic Communications (RAEC) expects them to be joined by an additional 100,00 by end of April. Acco...

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Okta Hacked, Stock in Flames

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Mar 23, 2022
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Okta (NASDAQ:OKTA), which provides digital identity authentication services to big companies, confirmed Tuesday that it had suffered a security breach.  Their stock plunged nearly 9% as reports piled...

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Is the End of Third Party Cookies Finally Near?

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Mar 23, 2022
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Sometime in "late 2023", Google will finally phase out third party cookie for Chrome. Finally.  Firefox has been blocking them since 2019, and Safari does as well.  No one uses Edge, which leaves Chro...

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IBM to Scale Q System One to 1,000,000+ Qubits

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IBM is planning to scale their Q System One quantum computing platform rather dramatically, according to their published roadmap. The QSO (surely there is a product number for this like 9184 - everyth...

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Bunny.net Introduces BunnyDNS!

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Mar 17, 2022
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The community's favorite CDN provider, Bunny.net, has introduced BunnyDNS. So for 99% of us, it's another option for DNS hosting, and because it's Bunny and they have a premium CDN network through the...

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Flashback in the Mail: a Gift From 1976

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Mar 16, 2022
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Recently I purchased a copy of the hoary old tome you see pictured to the right on Amazon: "A Guide to FORTRAN IV Programming" by Daniel D. McCraken, 2nd edition, 1967. For those who have never heard...

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Invitation To Join Me For MIT’s Free Online Operating System Course!

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Mar 13, 2022
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Did you ever have something you wanted to do for a long time but never actually started? Maybe something that seemed too big or too difficult? For a long time I've wanted to take MIT's Operating Syste...

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Are you following LowEndBox on Twitter yet?

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Mar 11, 2022
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You might have noticed that LowEndBox has been publishing some really awesome content recently -- news, interviews and hosting deals. We've also welcomed another content contributor to our ranks recen...

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Russian Demand for VPN Services Surges 1500%

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According to news reports, demand for VPN services by Russians is surging.  Between February 24 and March 8, the top VPN apps in various mobile app stores saw nearly 6 million downloads, an increase o...

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US Government Plans to Admire the Problem of Regulating Cryptocurrency

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Mar 09, 2022
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The U.S. federal government is poised to plan to ask for money form a group to admire the problem of regulating cryptocurrency. That's essentially what the news is about this morning.  Major news agen...

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Asking the Oracle, “Is ‘Always Free’ the future of the Low End?”

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Mar 08, 2022
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Last year, on May 26, 2021 @alvin posted on Low End Talk about Oracle releasing 200 GB of storage for Oracle Free Tier VMs. Beginning last year, according to the screenshot @alvin posted, the Oracle F...

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Upgrade Your DirectAdmin or Your License Might Stop Working

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Mar 07, 2022
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LowEndTalk Administrator emeritus @jar drew the community's attention to a change that could affect you if you run DirectAdmin. DA has moved to a key-based licensing infrastructure, and they shut off...

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The Nuclear Network Option: Isolating Russia

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Mar 02, 2022
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According to Rolling Stone (paywall'd now), Ukraine has asked ICANN to disconnect Russia from the Internet.  This is not something ICANN is capable of doing. The reporting by RS was not entirely clear...

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Google GSuite Legacy Free Edition Class Action Lawsuit is Going All the Way…

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Feb 28, 2022
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...down the toilet. A legal firm named Chimicles, Schwartz, Kriner and Donaldson is taking a break from chasing ambulances to conduct a "class action investigation" to decide if it will commence a cla...

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Why I Will Always Love Interserver: Cheap Shared Hosting, Fantastic Customer Service!

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Feb 27, 2022
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I was so excited a few days ago to see a great offer from Interserver posted over at Low End Talk! Haha, in my excitement, I read too fast! I skipped important words in the offer! Those important word...

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Yandex, Crypto, and…Fiverr?!? All Reacting to Russian Invasion of Ukraine

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Feb 24, 2022
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Yandex (NASDAQ:YNDX) swooned on news that Russia has invaded Ukraine and is down 54% as of the time of this writing.  The stock closed at $20.32, though it was as low as $14 during the day.  On Novemb...

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Cheap Domains from Porkbun: .COM Only $4.75 Through Feb 28!

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Feb 23, 2022
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One of our community's favorite registrars, Porkbun, is having a sale on domains: Get a .COM for only $4.75! Or a .NET for only $5.50! These prices are only good through February 28, 2022, so act now!...

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Github Entertains During Its Outage

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Feb 22, 2022
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By the time you read this, the issue my be fixed, but today when I went to install Joplin, I was greeted by this amusing picture. Apparently, Joplin is hosted on GitHub and they're having an issue tod...

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B2 or C2? That is the Question. That is the Quest.

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Feb 20, 2022
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For some time, I've been using BackBlaze B2 as my primary (though not exclusive) cloud backup solution.  I would love to use TarSnap for everything, but it's too expensive, though I do keep my top-tie...

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Do you use a Hosted macOS / Mac Provider?

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Feb 18, 2022
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Your esteemed Dread Lord of LowEnd Content, raindog308, is an admitted Apple fanboi.  In the cloud, at the edge, for file servers, for many things, I am all about Linux and OpenBSD.  But for human-fac...

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Are You Recyling Old Hardware for Your DIY? The Environment Isn’t Thanking You

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Feb 17, 2022
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Do you have a home file server?  Maybe because you want to serve media files to your TV/Roku/etc., share info among family members, backup your devices, etc.  If so, what do you use? LowEnders are usu...

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Linode Acquired by Akamai. Predictions: Layoffs, and Vultr is the Next Billion Dollar Unicorn to be Acquired

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Feb 15, 2022
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Cheap VPS provider Linode is being acquired by CDN giant Akamai. According to the press release, Christopher S. Aker (Linode CEO) said: "Akamai has no intention of changing what has made us successful...

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Introducing @Not_Oles as the Newest Content Creator Here at Low End Box!

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Besides sharing great deals on cheap VPS, cheap shared, and cheap dedi servers, LowEndBox's mission also includes equipping our readers with technical education, industry infotainment, and quality res...

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Will Germans Put You in Prison if You Don’t Self-Host Your Own Fonts? Probably Not.

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Feb 12, 2022
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The growing tide of marijuana legalization seems to have an effect in the Munich legal system, as a group of jurists there who were clearly high out of their minds when they handed down a death senten...

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