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Apr 25, 2021

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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...

Comment Free For All: Which Obscure Linux Distro Do You Regularly Use?

LowEndTalk Offers Weekly Roundup (April 24, 2021)

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Apr 24, 2021

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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...

LowEndTalk Offers Weekly Roundup (April 24, 2021)

Providers: Partner with LowEndBox!

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Apr 23, 2021

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Comments (4)

Being 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...

Thank You to Recent Advertisers: OnApp, HostSailor, and CrossBox

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Apr 23, 2021

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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...

Thank You to Recent Advertisers: OnApp, HostSailor, and CrossBox

IPv4 Exhaustion: Industry Leaders Give Their Opinion!

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Apr 22, 2021

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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...

IPv4 Exhaustion: Industry Leaders Give Their Opinion!

Free VPS Hosting Providers – How to get a free VPS!

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Apr 21, 2021

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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...

Free VPS Hosting Providers – How to get a free VPS!

LowEndTalk Offers Weekly Roundup (April 17, 2021)

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Apr 17, 2021

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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...

LowEndTalk Offers Weekly Roundup (April 17, 2021)

Comment Free For All: Which Obscure Linux Distro Do You Regularly Use?

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Apr 14, 2021

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Comments (10)

Most 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,...

Community News: AlmaLinux OS Now Available on RackNerd’s Platform!

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Apr 13, 2021

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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...

Community News: AlmaLinux OS Now Available on RackNerd’s Platform!

raindog308’s Journeys: Secure Your Data With a Dragon at SecureDragon

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Apr 12, 2021

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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...

raindog308’s Journeys: Secure Your Data With a Dragon at SecureDragon

How to Start a WEB HOSTING BUSINESS in 2021 (VIDEO)

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Apr 10, 2021

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Comments (8)

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...

How to Start a WEB HOSTING BUSINESS in 2021 (VIDEO)

Fire Damages WebNX Utah Datacenter, Causes Extended Outage

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Apr 07, 2021

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Comments (4)

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...

Fire Damages WebNX Utah Datacenter, Causes Extended Outage

WHMCS Alternatives

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Apr 07, 2021

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Comments (7)

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...

Do You Sell VPS at Scale? Cloud.net Will Match Your Current Platform Pricing (if they can!)

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Apr 07, 2021

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Comments (1)

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...

Do You Sell VPS at Scale? Cloud.net Will Match Your Current Platform Pricing (if they can!)

WHMCS Kneecaps Owned Licenses: No More Support

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Apr 06, 2021

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Comments (12)

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...

BLACK FRIDAY Recap: Best Black Friday 2020 Offers on LowEndBox & LowEndTalk!

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Apr 01, 2021

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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...

BLACK FRIDAY Recap: Best Black Friday 2020 Offers on LowEndBox & LowEndTalk!

OnApp Brings Cloud Hosting into the SaaS Age, with Cloud.net!

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Mar 31, 2021

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Comments (1)

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...

OnApp Brings Cloud Hosting into the SaaS Age, with Cloud.net!

LowEndBox is on Twitter! Follow us for great deals on web hosting!

Jon Biloh

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Mar 28, 2021

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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...

raindog308’s Journeys: BuyVM, Pony-Powered in the LowEnd Market for 10+ Years!

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Mar 26, 2021

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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...

raindog308’s Journeys: BuyVM, Pony-Powered in the LowEnd Market for 10+ Years!

Spring is a great time to advertise on LowEndBox!

Jon Biloh

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Mar 25, 2021

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Comments (1)

The long winter is starting to pass and soon comes warmer weather for our Northern Hemisphere friends. As your advertising budgets start to thaw, now would be a great way to consider advertising on Lo...

Spring is a great time to advertise on LowEndBox!

Poll Results: What are Your CentOS Plans?

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Mar 25, 2021

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We recently asked you what your plans were regarding CentOS. As you may have read, CentOS is changing and we were curious how the community was going to react. The results are in! With 270 votes, he...

Poll Results: What are Your CentOS Plans?

LibrePlanet (the FSF Conference) One Week From Today – and it’s Free (as in Beer)!

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Mar 13, 2021

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If you don't have plans for next weekend (March 20-21), you might consider attending LibrePlanet, an annual conference held by the Free Software Foundation. Because of COVID-19, LibrePlanet is once a...

OVH CEO Releases Video on SBG Fire

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Mar 12, 2021

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OVH's CEO Octave Klaba has released a video giving an update on the SBG fire. In it, he discusses the extent of the damage, results of initial investigation, and future plans. It's a pretty low-budge...

Mid Market Hosts Compared: DigitalOcean vs. Vultr vs. Linode

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Mar 12, 2021

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Comments (6)

There’s three companies that I think of as mid-market hosts: Digital Ocean Linode Vultr What do I mean by mid market? They’re between two extremes: Tech behemoths like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google w...

Mid Market Hosts Compared: DigitalOcean vs. Vultr vs. Linode

Fire Destroys OVH’s SBG Datacenter (Strasbourg, France)

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Mar 10, 2021

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Comments (8)

OVH, one of the largest hosting providers in the world, suffered a runaway fire at their SBG datacenter in Strasbourg, France. We have a major incident on SBG2. The fire declared in the building. Fire...

Fire Destroys OVH’s SBG Datacenter (Strasbourg, France)

Poll: What are Your CentOS Plans?

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Mar 10, 2021

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