Want to generate high quality AI-authored videos at home, for free, without sending any data to the cloud? Piotr walks us through using Wan 2.1, an awesome model from Alibaba.
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Community provider Crunchbits is organizing a community-wide charity event on LowEndTalk, to be launched later this month. It's shaping up to be a big event in our community and we plan to promote it to the hilt. Rewards for those who donate, publicity for participating hosts, and a lot of money going to a worthy cause. We don't have all the details yet, but we got a head's up and permission to share a teaser with you.
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Pope Leo XIV is here! Let's take a quick peek at the Vatican's datacenter and online presence.
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Do some people develop serious illnesses when exposed to the electromagnetic fields that Wi-Fi routers, cell phones, and other modern devices emit? According to believers, exposure to WiFi, cell phones, and other electromagnetic fields (EMFs) can cause nausea, fatigue, headaches, skin rashes, memory problems, and more.
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The Soviet Union may drop a space egg worth $1,000 in your backyard in mid-May. Let's look at the odds and
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The CharityHost story just keeps going. There's been a half-dozen lengthy threads on LowEndTalk and now there's a site setup to consolidate all the scandal information.
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32GB RAM for $5 first month! Wow! That's pretty amazing, and that's what Hostiger has for you in Istanbul.
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What is an "exotic" geography? One in which there are few datacenters and few offers. One LowEndTalk member has proposed categories, and it's pretty accurate.
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If you put something in private FTP space and the provider flags it as a violation of their AUP, is that an invasion of your privacy? The community seems to think so and doesn't like it.
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Recently I exchanged PMs with a LowEndTalk member who lost $4,100 on lifetime offers. Are those kinds of offers safe? A scam? How should you think about them?
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Every checklist you've ever seen for securing your VPS includes "update your system regularly". But is that one of those "best practices" that is more theoretical than a real-world necessity? To be honest, it's easy to not get around to running "apt update && apt upgrade". In my experience, at least with Debian, updates rarely break things but it's always a small risk. Nevertheless, it requires remembering to do it, spending the commands run, maybe rebooting, etc. Unfortunately, history has shown time and time again that skipping OS updates can leave even the best admins wide open to disaster.
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Last week I was preparing for a long plane ride. I grabbed my preferred travel video player - an Amazon Kindle Fire, which has a handy microSD port - and dug out a fingernail-sized piece of storage media to insert. It occurred to me that this tiny centimeter-sized slab of plastic and silicon holds more data (1TB) than the entirety of the first datacenter I worked in back in the early 90s. What does the future portend for this popular format?
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Beancount is a neat FOSS project with a simple concept: full double-entry accounting from the command line. It's a very simple idea, well-implemented, with some neat add-on tools.
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When the internet was first taking shape, the idea of country-code Top-Level Domains (ccTLDs) was simple: give every nation its own digital space. What no one expected was that some countries would find themselves sitting on virtual gold mines — not from their native users, but from clever marketers and businesses around the world who saw these two-letter domains as branding shortcuts.
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Imagine if you could encode any HD movie down to 8KB. That's what Romke Jan Bernhard Sloot promised the world back in 1999, and he pocketed a nice check from investors to make it work. Alas, he died shortly thereafter. Was he on to something?
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In these days of subscription fatigue, shelling out another $5 or $10 a month for yet another monthly fee can be...well, fatiguing. Is there a magic ticket that lets you read around any paywall? Surprisingly, the answer is "most of the time".
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On the island nation of Cuba, cars from the 1940s and 1950s dominate the landscape. This isn't due to passionate classic car enthusiasm. We might see similar adaptations to scarcity coming to a LowEnd hosting provider near you.
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We’ve reviewed the top free website builders, comparing their strengths, limitations, and ideal use cases. Whether you're looking for simplicity, creative control, or long-term scalability, this guide will help you find the platform that fits.
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RackNerd continues its amazing growth trajectory. It is now number 94 on the Inc. 5000 Regionals Pacific List! Learn a bit more about this provider...and some of the cool deals that are still available, including a 1GB VPS for under $1/month on an annual plan.
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Before you buy, come talk with the community that can't be fooled! Our community is the best way to get the low-down on Low-End providers.
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Broadcom has made it clear that they're only interested in selling VMware to big companies. If you're a small or medium business - much less a LowEnd hoster - you are not welcome.
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Running your own infrastructure can be empowering. Whether you're managing a SaaS side project, self-hosting your favorite tools like Nextcloud or Uptime Kuma, running a game server, or just learning...
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The PicoCalc is so cute! Packaging a Raspberry Pi Pico in a calculator-like enclosure, it's packed with power in an easy-to-carry format.
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In today’s tech landscape, the average VPS just doesn’t cut it for everyone. Whether you're a machine learning enthusiast, video editor, indie game developer, or just someone with a demanding workload, you've probably hit a wall with standard CPU-based servers. That’s where GPU-enabled VPS instances come in.
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The internet feels virtual, but its infrastructure—data centers, networking gear, and servers—runs on electricity, much of which still comes from fossil fuels. For LowEndBox readers, who often self-host or use budget-friendly VPS providers, it’s worth asking: what can you do to reduce your carbon footprint?
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Oracle's Free Tier is very popular in our community. Sadly, today news was announced that 6m records from 140,000 tenants was leaked. Here's how to check if you're affected.
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MyW has been on a community lifeline for the last 6 months, but looks like the party is finally coming to an end. Kudos to @jar for helping keep it alive. And BTW, he has really amazing deals on mail hosting!
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