Hostragons Threatens LowEndLawsuit in Response to Allegedly Stealing $13,000 From Client
Customer claims Hostragons stole $13,000 from him. Community says file a chargeback. Company lawyer types threats into Google Translate. Enjoy.
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Put Down Your Chia, The Party's Over: Dropbox Stops Offering Unlimited
The party's over, folks: no more free petabytes of Chia farms on Dropbox. Now you have to pay.
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Danish Cloud Hosting Provider, CloudNordic, Loses All Client Data After Ransomware Attack
On Friday 8/18/23, Danish cloud hosting provider, CloudNordic, was exposed to a ransomware attack. (What their website used to look like....
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Our Coleco ADAM Post Was Broken But Now It's Fixed
Last month we published a fun article titled "The Future of the Coleco ADAM". Unfortunately, it was a bit broken at publication time, but it's fixed now and is ready for you to enjoy.
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Five Reasons Why LowEndTalk is the Best Place to Sell Your Domain
Do you have a .com, .net, .org, .party, .rich, or other domain to sell? If so, you should check out the Domains category on LowEndTalk, where you can list your domain for sale. The experience is much better than you'll find elsewhere and we have five really compelling reasons why LowEndTalk is the best place to sell your domain.
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Electricity Is This Data Centers Biggest Enemy… (Power Problems at Nocix)
Nocix, 1530 Swift, Wholesale Internet, and formerly DataShack are all the same company. A Kansas City, Missouri (yes, strange) budget-dedicated server and colocation provider. If you review their term...
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The Free Audiobook Landscape: The Pros, the Volunteers, and the Bots (20,000 Books for You to Choose From!)
LibriVox has 15,000 free audiobooks and now Gutenberg has 5,000 AI-generated ones. Let's take a look at the current free audiobook scene.
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Kiwi Farms' Joshua Moon Did Not Like Our Article Yesterday
We've published several pieces about Kiwi Farms but yesterday's article provoked a fiery response (enclosed) from Joshua Moon. Read on, drama connoisseur...
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Polish 'Bulletproof' Host, Lolek Hosted, Seized by FBI (Kiwi Farms Host?)
Recently, the infamous site, Kiwi Farms, partially switched to using Polish data center, Sprint data center. It's unclear if Kiwi Farms was operating through a downstream customer, Lolek Hosted...but, what is clear is right around the time Sprint data center kicked Kiwi Farms off their network (according to Joshua Moon, founder of Kiwi Farms), Lolek Hosted was seized by the FBI.
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A VPN Isn’t the Right Solution for Anonymity – You Need To Be Using Tor, Here’s Why…
A VPN encrypts your traffic, but, at the cost of the VPN provider being in the middle of everything. That provider could still see everything. Sure, your ISP can now no longer see your traffic, but yo...
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6G is Coming And It Will Make You a Cyborg: The Industry's Wild, Wild Predictions for Life With 6G
Is 6G just around the corner? Maybe not that quick, but according to some, when it arrives it's going to turn the world in to a Cyberpunk 2077 DLC.
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Was Crunchbits Serious About Their raindog308 Sale?!? We Hope So!
A LowEndTalk user said we need a raindog308-themed offer to celebrate raindog308 reaching the 20,000 "thanks" tier on LET. Crunchbits teased they were in...
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How Easy Is It To Acquire IPv4 Addresses Among Scarcity Concerns in 2023? Let’s Find Out...
IPv4 is an increasingly scarce resource. Where can you acquire IPv4 addresses in 2023? We have some leads. The landscape is certainly changing as competition over these scarce resources intensifies.
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Why Did DigitalOcean Stock Drop Like a Rock Today? (-25%)
If you'd invested $10,000 in DOCN stock in November 2021, your stake would only be worth $2,700 today. Ouch. As recently as July, DOCN was trading at almost its March 2021 IPO price but now it's cratered again.
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What Does “Offshore Hosting” Even Mean, Anyway?
"Offshore hosting". "Bulletproof hosting". "DMCA-Ignored". What do these terms mean? Is there any host that really operates with total impunity on the net? SirFoxy breaks it down for us.
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Free Speech Hurricane: HE Cuts off Kiwi Farms, IncogNET Points to the Law, and Battle is Joined
Community provider IncogNET is going to bad for free speech after Hurricane Electric dropped KiwiFarms' prefix in the middle of the night. As the saying goes, free speech laws only matter when they're applied to unpopular speech. Were HE's action illegal under Washington state law? How do they compare to other provider's response to KF?
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EthernetServers Urgently Moves Servers Amid DediPath Downtime, and the CTO’s Suspected Departure
Recently over in the LowEndTalk-sphere, fears have been growing over a DediPath deadpool... There's been a thread with over 4,000 views up for days about a curious case of DediPath downtime, with no r...
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Follow the Relaunch of DynaBlogger!
Fight the Wordpress monoculture! LowEndTalk veteran member vitobotta is working on a relaunch of his platform, DynaBlogger. Let's take a look at this cool project.
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Amazon Starts Charging for IPv4 Addresses and Why It's a Good Thing for You
Amazon has announced that it will not start charging for IPv4 addresses (but not for the free tier). Is this a bad thing? Not really.
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Community News: RackNerd is Now an Inc.com Verified Company
RackNerd has got some press from Inc. Magazine! If you're a Alphabet or Tesla, you get covered in Fortune. If you're the next Alphabet or Tesla, you're in Inc., and it's a pretty big deal to attract their attention. Let's dig in.
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GreenValueHost: The Lowend VPS Host That Ended With the Founder Being Sentenced to Prison
GreenValueHost is far from new to here, and the LowEndTalk budget VPS community. They came onto the scene way back in 2013 -- you can even still see their offers around here if you dig for it. Threads...
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Surveying the Global Internet Landscape: Dataplane.org
Meet the group that watches the Internet and provides fascinating insights into the global internetwork - as well as the raw data so you can make your own insights. Dataplane is doing very cool work and is a fun site to learn from.
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Check Out This Network Benchmark Script!
The gold standard for benchmark scripts is YABS. We've got another tool to keep on your belt, which focuses more on the network piece. It's written by the developer who added network testing to YABS originally. Check it out!
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Providers: Tons of Free Advertising Just for Asking!
If you're looking for new ways to reach your audience and don't have the budget for expensive AdWords campaigns or big advertising campaigns where you're competing head on with giant corporations, why not partner with LowEndBox and let us take your brand to the next level.
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Man Found Guilty of Child Porn, Because He Ran a Tor Exit Node (The Story of William Weber)
Guns. Drugs. TOR. Child pornography. The long and twisted tale of LowEndTalk's famous member William goes deep.
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The Future of the Coleco ADAM
How's your Coleco ADAM running today? You know, the one you bought at Toys R Us in 1983? In one of our periodic forays into vintage computing, we resurrect an amazing address given in 1995 that gives an insight into the Coleco ADAM die-hard community. Yes, such a group exists.
Read MoreSeismic Industry Shift: Is RHEL About to Vanish From the Web Hosting Landscape?
A few years ago, RHEL/CentOS was embedded into the web hosting ecosystem. Now we are on the cusp of that distribution vanishing from the landscape.
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A New Mysterious Streaming Platform, Kick, Is Poised To Overtake Amazon-Backed Twitch
Twitch was originally founded back in 2011 by Justin Kan and Emmett Shear. A couple of y...
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