When a provider needs IPs, they typically request them from their Regional Internet Registry (e.g., ARIN) or purchase them from an IP broker. The blocks are then assigned to the provider's AS (Autonomous System). These blocks can be viewed by various tool, such as on Hurricane Electric's site. For example, LowEnd provider SecureDragon.net is AS54561. If you look them up on HE's site, you'll see they have four blocks ass...
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T-Mobile announced on Wednesday that a "a bad actor had compromised T-Mobile systems": "Some of the data accessed did include customers’ first and last names, date of birth, SSN, and driver’s license/...
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Spamhaus's 2021 Q2 Botnet Threat Update has been released and it's interesting reading. Overall, there has been a reduction in observed command and control (C&C) systems. However, at regional and...
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We don't see a lot of offers for Sweden. I'm not entirely sure why. It's obviously a very well-developed country with robust infrastructure, and historically some of the more famous/infamous free sp...
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Security research firm Fortbridge has released a report claiming to have discovered "multiple vulnerabilities in cPanel/WHM". The report states: "Our team has found multiple vulnerabilities in cPanel/...
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According to recent data, Microsoft Azure is the world's largest public cloud with $17.7 billion in quarterly revenue. Amazon AWS trails not far behind at $13.3 billion. The top five (which also inc...
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RackNerd, a well known provider within the LowEndBox & LowEndTalk community which was recently voted #1 top provider by the community members, was recently featured on an interview with HostAdvice...
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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. Read...
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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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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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