HostPapa, a leading global web hosting and cloud service provider, today announced that it has completed the acquisition of Tailor Made Servers (“TMS”), a Dallas, Texas-based dedicated server hosting provider that has been serving businesses and resellers since 2003.
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Last year, DataIdeas closed shop, and with them the original iteration of RPIServers. This week, Josh announced that RPIServers is reborn!
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I'm sure a lot of people are sitting around on any given day thinking "You know what the world needs? A brand new IP protocol.” Because the every-so-slowly adoption of IPv6 is just not exciting enough. Fear not: a brand-new Draft titled “Internet Protocol Version 8 (IPv8)” just landed.
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There's a rather screechy post making the rounds about a change in BackBlaze's backup policies. The author uses words like "betrayal", "furious", "alarmed", and other such superlatives. Whether this is really the worst thing since World War II, I will leave for you to decide. But it is disappointing, for sure.
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Yesterday, we talked about how Calude's Mythos model is over-hyped. I should have googled a little further because there's a great piece of evidence out there.
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Is Claude's new AI model, Mythos, really so incredibly godlike that it's a threat to the Internet? I wish this one was on Polymarket.
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Our community has been following RackNerd’s growth for quite some time now. Since first appearing on LowEndBox back in 2020, they’ve continued to build a strong reputation among our readers, and they’ve consistently shown up with both solid deals and impressive milestones. And speaking of milestones, RackNerd has officially been ranked #90 on the 2026 Inc. Regionals: Pacific list!
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Post-quantum computing has always been 10 years in the future. It's not any longer.
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Imagine if your job was to look at the most vile, repugnant images on the Internet for 12 hours a day...
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So about those company names and CEO last names...
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LowEndBox has been live since February 1, 2008. In those 16 years, we've had 6,264 posts published (including this one) with a total of 129,351 approved comments. And how many spam comments?
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Starting a month or so ago, I started getting meetings popping up on my calendar, like the one shown to the left. Out of nowhere, I'd get a reminder telling me that I had a meeting that was about to start. It was very annoying, but thinking through how they were sending this junk made the solution obvious.
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Don't believe me? Just look at the Microsoft Copilot terms of use.
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A while back I was browsing Reddit and came across a fascinating post by a man who'd created his own AI companion. We sat down with him and learned a lot about this really cool project.
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The name "Buffalo" is legendary in our community. It's a city in Western New York state where ColoCrossing has offered service since the earliest days of LowEndBox. It's a strategic geography - close enough to New York City to serve the East Coast very well, yet much cheaper than operating out of a Manhattan data center. This has allowed them offer wonderfully low prices, and over the years many providers have hosted there. And now ColoCrossing is expanding!
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GitHub has announced that going forward, your data on GitHub will be used to train Microsoft's Copilot LLM. Here's how to opt-out.
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"Under our precedents, a company is not liable as a copyright infringer for merely providing a service to the public with knowledge that it will be used by some to infringe copyrights." So wrote Justice Clarence Thomas in the US Supreme Court decision Cox Communications vs. Sony Music released today.
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Yih-Shyan “Wally” Liaw, one of the founders of server manufacturer SuperMicro, has been indicted on charges of smuggling billions of dollars' worth of high-end Nvidia GPUs to China.
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HostDime, a global datacenter provider with over 200 employees, has had its service in London terminated. Downstreams are feeling the pain.
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TNAHosting just rocked the community with a fantastic offer on LowEndTalk!
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In the LowEnd community, a "deadpool" is not a wisecracking Marvel superhero. It's a provider who cratered, often taking our readers' money with it. Let's take a look at some prominent deadpools over the last few years to see what lessons we can learn.
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Some people think you need to spend $5 or $10 a month to get a VPS. But as Servitro demonstrates, all you need is a dollar a month to get service!
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If you had to guess the percentage of American adults who say they have a "personal" relationship with an AI chatbot, what would be your guess? And what percentage of those would describe it as "romantic"?
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TrueNAS has eliminated the ability to reproduce their ISO. Is this the beginning of the end of the community edition?
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200,000 human brain cells playing DOOM. Is that mind-blowing? Well...
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Now that reimplementing software is so easy to do, copyleft is crumbling. The Linux kernel may well be next.
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New York Senate Bill S7263 is under consideration, and it seeks to prohibit LLMs from dispensing advice on a broad range of topics.
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Amazon's AI broke Kiro. But they'd rather blame a human engineer, for rather obvious reasons.
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