We'd like to welcome Warren.io, a company offering an interesting product in the cloud platform space. In a nutshell (see the one pager), they offer a way for smaller players to compete with big public clouds. You may think that's an impossible…
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Hello from New York City and Mexico! Here is another fun guest article contributed by Eddie Barksdale from Porkbun. Low End Box and @Not_Oles…
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If you go back seven or eight years and asked me to recommend a LEB provider, I would have asked you some basics and…
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One of the headaches in cloud environments is licensing for proprietary software, and no one is more of a headache on this point than…
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Check out this sentence: "For the author, this business model enables them to scale their earnings from their software with less risk." I slightly…
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I was running some errands this morning and passed an Orthodox church. Out front was a colorful tri-color banner declaring that next weekend is…
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Readers, do you use Trustpilot? Providers, do you live and die by it? For those unfamiliar, Trustpilot is a sort of "Yelp of everything".…
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Martin Shkreli has been released from prison. You may remember him as "pharma bro", who made a killing by exploiting an interesting aspect of…
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Sometimes you see stuff in the media and wonder if it's really news. Some celebrity broke up with some other celebrity. Some tech company released…
Read more about LastPass Releases Its Security Incident for 2022
Afghanistan launched a crackdown on crypto exchanges, closing at least sixteen such exchanges in the last week. According to Sayed Shan Sa'adat, an Afghanistani…
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Okay, that last one is not really possible. Fortunately for the human race, a social network based on our sense of smell has not…
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DigitalOcean revealed today that they're tired of Cloudways fronting their panel, so they're going to buy them for $350 million. Cloudways has a fantastic…
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Presenting at the Black Hat USA conference this week, Trend Micro had an interesting comment: Over the last few years, we’ve noticed a disturbing…
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There's a small scrappy start-up company that's emerging in the web space. They've been posting a different themed picture on their main service page…
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MailChimp revealed they've had a security breach: "In response to a recent attack targeting Mailchimp’s crypto-related users, we’ve taken proactive measures to temporarily suspend…
Read more about MailChimp Security Breach. Yes, Again.
Just want a free VPS? Yes, there are actually legitimate ways to get a free VPS. Interested in a bit of LowEndLore s we…
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Read 'em and weep, folks. That smooth 7% curve is what Verisign has planned for .com owners. As DomainNameAPI.com notes: Verisign, the registrar of…
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Earlier this summer, Microsoft released new emojis for their platforms. If you're a corporate slave staring at Teams all day, there is a palette…
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I was explaining UUIDs to a junior colleague today, who was hung up on the idea of probabilities, and it lead to an interesting…
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Twilio has suffered a data breach and the attackers "used the stolen credentials to gain access to some of our internal systems". Twilio is…
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I've been wanting to give PikaPods a spin ever since we interviewed their founder. The one-sentence summary of PikaPods is: packaged apps on individual…
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Both Visa and MasterCard cut off payment processing for TrafficJunky, the advertising arm of MindGeek, the proprietor of pornography site PornHub. There is a…
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We had an interesting story play out on LowEndTalk recently about OVH and their game server offering. OVH has really had a powerful offering…
Read more about OVH Chops Network Promise in Half, So Customer Returns 30 Servers
According to a recent Kaspersky report, DDoS attacks have gotten much worse over the last 12 months. According to the report: The average duration…
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A few weeks ago we asked our visitors to vote on which social media platform we should add to LowEndBox. Since we published the…
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News this week broke that both Apple and Meta are both taking out huge loans. Apple is borrowing $5.5 billion, and Meta is borrowing…
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Interesting discussion on LowEndTalk over the last week about Virmach, a provider that has been sharing offers with our community for quite a while.…
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We put a video on TikTok with a giveaway bonus code. Naturally, as LowEndBox management surveys their enterprise from their lofty corporate jets, they…
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Backblaze is a cloud storage/backup company that has done some interesting things with its storage. They innovated the Backblaze Storage Pod: "Offering both an…
Read more about The Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2022 Q2 Are Here!
We all love our favorite editor or IDE! Over the years, I've learned that folks especially love the ed editor, vim, emacs, and too…
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It's been a few months since we've done a giveaway and now community provider RackNerd has stepped up to the bat with an awesome…
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Confession time: we want to grow our social media presence. Besides the economic reasons, it's also part of our core mission to educate people…
Read more about Let’s Cross-Synergize Our Social Media Presences! I kinda like going thrifting If I get it for the low we're business yeah Whoa, my God, what's the price on that, whoa!…
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Well known Low End regular GTHost recently asked Low End Box for a review, and we are happy to oblige. As reported below, we…
Read more about Review of GTHost servers — 15 minute setup at 17 locations![US] Pre-Black Friday Sale | 50% OFF Intel VPS Monthly & Yearly | VPS from $2.13/mo | Free…
Hello LET, We have just opened a new location in Bursa, Türkiye, and we would like to celebrate…
Fourplex Telecom LLC is built on unconventional, innovative thinking. Our team has over a decade of IT and…
More Power. More RAM. More Possibilities. DediRock continues to grow, and we're excited to bring even more hosting…
