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WHMCS Hacked, Client data leaked online

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May 23, 2012

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WHMCS is a popular billing software used by most of the small to medium scale hosting companies. The intruder gained access to the servers using "social engineering attack". There are approx half a mi...

VMPort acquired by FTNHosting

Liam

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May 14, 2012

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Comments (38)

Today it was announced that FTNHosting had acquired a popular LEB company, VMPort. I decided to write up this post to mix up the content on LEB a bit and because Ashley (from VMPort) has been an activ...

Like a phoenix from the ashes…

Liam

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Mar 13, 2012

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Comments (55)

We will rise again! First off, I want to apologize because many of you were hoping for new LEB offers and instead received this post. This post is a call to action for our regular users and our ever r...

exit(0);

LEA

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Jan 19, 2012

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Comments (254)

Well, posts here from the last few months have been slow, irregular and unenergised. Here is one post that I have intended to write for the last couple of months. TL;DR version -- for personal reasons...

Running out of time… and I am taking a break

LEA

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Dec 11, 2011

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Comments (60)

Just a quick note on what will be happening over the next couple of days. I am running out of time. Apology to all the providers who have emailed me their Christmas specials (and in some cases, just r...

LowEndTalk’s Current Situation at eNetSouth

LEA

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Oct 29, 2011

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Comments (130)

Our community site, LowEndTalk, has been down for the last 6 hours. For those who didn't get the context, read the comments in eNetSouth's last offer (warning: 800+ comments currently and takes a whil...

DDoS’ed Again – Both LowEndBox and LowEndTalk Affected

LEA

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Jul 15, 2011

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Comments (225)

As seen on WHT. I was on my last day of holidays -- driving 500km back home. I was at the beginning of the journey when I received the notification from Pingdom. At the beginning it was LowEndBox.com...

Best Low End Providers in 2011 Q2 – It’s RAM Host, QuickWeb and BuyVM AGAIN!

LEA

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Jul 03, 2011

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Here's a quick announcement on last quarter's poll on the best Low End Providers. The ranking I am revealing here might be a bit different from the vote scores on that LET post. Basically I am NOT cou...

LowEndBox Featured on Hacker News

LEA

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Jun 12, 2011

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Via LowEndTalk. One of my two year old article got featured on Hacker News earlier today. For those who do not know about Hacker News, read more about it on its Wikipedia entry. HN and one of my local...

A Little Note on LowEndBox Domain (and Chance to Win 4VPS.com!)

LEA

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Feb 24, 2011

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Comments (134)

Yesterday Chris sent me an email trying to sell me both "lowendbox(dot)net" and "lowendbox(dot)org" domains for $100. See his domain sales thread on WHT. Well I did not really say that this site is ta...

Too Many “Offers” on LowEndBox?

LEA

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Jan 24, 2011

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<RANT> I have just looked at my inbox and saw around 10 emails that I have received since late Friday which I have not yet actioned -- 10 from various hosting providers trying to have their offe...

LowEndBox is Taking a Break for 2 Weeks

LEA

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Dec 07, 2010

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Comments (70)

Here is just an announcement that I will be taking a break for the next 2 weeks. I will be on holidays with family somewhere in South East Asia (leaving tomorrow), and will be back just before Christm...

LowEndTalk.com is Live at eNetSouth Cloud

LEA

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Dec 02, 2010

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Comments (53)

Thanks to everyone who beta-tested the new LowEndTalk.com over the last week. It was hosted on a $20/month Linode with 512MB of memory, which some people reckon it is not low end enough! Also thanks t...

Nominate and Vote for Your Favorite VPS Provider on LowEndTalk!

LEA

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Nov 24, 2010

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Comments (29)

abdelhalim asked this question on LowEndTalk beta: I'm interested to get a VPS box to host some git repos + probably mail server in future, and I was looking for ranking for the VPS providers mentione...

Beta-Testing New LowEndTalk – an OSQA-Powered QA Site

LEA

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Nov 22, 2010

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I have posted on LowEndTalk last week, and am now just relaying the same message here on this blog. I am setting up a new LowEndTalk, the community website for this blog. Instead of going with one of...

Beta-Testing New LowEndTalk – an OSQA-Powered QA Site

How to Tell Your Xen VPS is Overselling Memory?

LEA

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Nov 13, 2010

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Comments (28)

Alright. We all know OpenVZ VPS are generally oversold in either memory, disk space or bandwidth (or all of them). Overselling memory and disk space is easy. You just vzctl create a new virtual enviro...

Hosting Provider Tracker Available on Low End Wiki

LEA

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Sep 30, 2010

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Comments (38)

Because of volatility of budget VPS market, I have been using a simple script to track various web hosting providers that I have posted about here. Basically it is a Python script using TornadoWeb (to...

Advertisement Situation at LowEndBox.com

LEA

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Aug 18, 2010

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Hi all. This is a "house-keeping" post so please ignore if you are only interested in cheap virtual private server offers :) I am posting here because "advertising" has been a frequently asked questio...

Advertisement Situation at LowEndBox.com

Why I Don’t Like OpenVZ VPS Plans with Large Burstable Memory

LEA

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Aug 03, 2010

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Comments (26)

"superblade" asked on WebhostingTalk -- Can somebody explain Burst Ram?. It got to be the 1 zillionth times "burstable memory" explained on WHT, and about the same number of times even web hosting pro...

Who The @#$% is Load Testing This Blog?! [Updated]

LEA

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Jul 28, 2010

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When I checked my Cacti installation just then and spotted the following graph. WTF?!!! About 1.5 hours ago the out bound bandwidth utilization of this low end VPS went from ~50kbps to almost 5Mbps! I...

Who The @#$% is Load Testing This Blog?! [Updated]

Show off Your Low End Box

LEA

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Jul 23, 2010

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Comments (58)

First of all, I am taking a short break for a week, because work has been really hectic (damn, I have a "real work" to feed my family). Meanwhile, feel free to occupy yourself here and at the new doma...

Ask LowEndBox – What Hardware Spec to Sell VPS for?

LEA

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Jul 21, 2010

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Comments (37)

Got an email from Paul -- sorry it is not his real name as he seems to email me from his email address of a Defence Department of a certain large island nation. To protect him from possible future per...

Moved Again, to QuickWeb/MicroVPS

LEA

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Jun 18, 2010

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If you are seeing this blog post, that shows you are now landing on the new VPS that hosts this blog. Yes, Low End Box has moved again, one month since moving from VPSLink to 2HOST. This time to Quick...

Temporarily Moved to 2HOST.com

LEA

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May 18, 2010

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Comments (19)

If you see this post -- this page is served by PHP 5.2.6 FastCGI and Nginx on a $5 VPS at 2HOST.com. LowEndBox has been hosting on VPSLink for more than a year now -- and thanks to Dan L at VPSLink/Sp...

LowEndBox on Short Hiatus

LEA

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Apr 01, 2010

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Comments (11)

Hey. Just a short notice here that I will be having a short hiatus. I've been getting emails almost daily inquiring about this blog, and sorry that I have not been responding. First of all. My compute...

Ask LowEndBox – What Do You Do with Empty VPS?

LEA

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Mar 08, 2010

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Comments (24)

One question drmike asked here in the forums has drawn my attention, because in fact I am also facing the same situation. What do you do with empty VPS? I know virtual servers at the price listed on L...

Find LowEndBox.com on Facebook

LEA

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Feb 22, 2010

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Comments (6)

I have just added the Facebook widget on the front page. However, it looks a bit sad with 0 fans... Yes. Go ahead and DO IT. I know you always wanted it -- be the LowEndBox fanboi/fangal! Here is your...