Stuart Elvish from STU Telecom reached out to us to tell us a little about a new IP reputation service they're rolling out. They submitted a nice writeup and invitation to LEB members to try out the service. If you're interested in checking the reputation of IPs to see if any nefarious activities are originating there, read on for more about this interesting new service. Many service providers, particularly VoIP provide...
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Thanks to LowEndTalk administrator emeritus @jar for alerting the community to a range of exim vulnerabilities published by Qualys. There is a family of both local and remote vulnerabilities. tl;dr:...
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Noted community provider RackNerd contacted us to offer our readers a fabulous set of Star Wars-themed prizes to celebrate Star Wars Day! May the Fourth be with you! The LowEndBox community continues...
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CentOS, RIP...long live CentOS Stream?!? What hath IBM wrought? In this video, we break down the CentOS drama. As you can tell from the thumbnail...it isn't pretty! You could answer the question in o...
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LowEndTalk member @thedp shared news that registrar netim is offering a special price on .eu domains. From May 3rd through May 12th, you can register a .eu domain for only €12 for 10 years! That's a...
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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 hosting, be sure to check both sit...
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As we continue our efforts to improve LowEndBox, we've recently moved the "Post Archive" block from the side bar on the home page to its own dedicated page. It's hard to believe that LowEndBox is now...
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To continue LowEndBox’s new “interesting news” series, we recently received a submission from Dustin Cisneros at RackNerd to feature their newest expansion, which is AMD Ryzen based KVM VPS’s riding o...
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DigitalOcean (DOCN) acknowledged today that it has informed some customers that DO had “confirmed an unauthorized exposure of details associated with the billing profile on your DigitalOcean account.”...
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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 hosting, be sure to check both sit...
Read MoreBeing a provider means mastering many challenges - customer support, security, networks, and many more. One of the most challenging is marketing. How do you get the word out about your services? Ho...
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The staff at LowEndBox would like to take a moment to recognize several advertisers who've recently come on board: OnApp: These are the guys behind cloud.net, a soup-to-nuts SaaS cloud platform...
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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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We regularly post offers for the cheapest VPSes on the planet...but did you know there are places you can get a VPS for free? Naturally there are caveats, provisos, and gotchas, but if your budget is...
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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 hosting, be sure to check both sit...
Read MoreMost folks use Debian, Ubuntu, or CentOS, with the occasional pro using RedHat or the hipster using Arch. But there are over 1,000 Linux distros! Not all are suitable for running on a VPS of course,...
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To continue LowEndBox’s new “interesting news” series, we recently received a new submission from Dustin B. Cisneros over at RackNerd to let everybody know that AlmaLinux is now officially available a...
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A long time ago in a galaxy...well, in Florida, there was a company called BackupDragon. They provided backup VPSes, in a time when these were not yet common. Today, "storage VPSes" are all over the...
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Most of the time, we feature industry news, or tutorials as a “guest post”. From time to time, we also want to bring to you interesting finds, related to the hosting industry that we’ve discovered. Ou...
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Of all the categories I thought we might add to LowEndBox one day, "Datacenter Fires" was not on my short list. But maybe we need to create this section. On the heels of OVH's huge SBG Datacenter fi...
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As you may have read yesterday, WHMCS has ended support for owned licenses. For a lot of shops, this is a significant financial hit, given that the cost of moving to a monthly subscription is signifi...
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If you sell cloud hosting with any platform that isn’t based on OnApp, and you’re paying your current platform provider more than $500/month… Cloud.net is offering to match your current pricing if you...
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WHMCS, a popular publisher of customer management/invoicing/billing systems in the hosting market, announced today that they are discontinuing all support for owned licenses. WHMCS has slowly ramped u...
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We wanted to take the time to reflect on some of the most popular offers that were featured on LowEndBox/LowEndTalk on Black Friday 2020. Some of the below offers may (or may not) be available for ord...
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OnApp will shortly be releasing their new SaaS cloud platform, cloud.net, and we're excited to get a preview of their plans in the press release below. Readers might remember our recent interview with...
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Over the past year, since we announced that we are back on Twitter on April 9th, 2020 we've added thousands of followers. And that is awesome. Thank you! If you haven't followed up on Twitter yet, and...
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Most of the companies appearing on LowEndBox submit offers requesting publication. From time to time, we bring you other companies that our staff has discovered over the years. Our goal is to provid...
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Comment Free For All: Which Obscure Linux Distro Do You Regularly Use?
Recently, we asked you which obscure linux distro you regularly used. After all, someone has to use some of the 1,000 Linux distros in existence. Some of the interesting comments: I use TinyCore Linu...
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