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Paying by the Hour: Do You Use Hourly Instances?

Low-end providers have steadily adapted features that were once the exclusive province of big companies.  For example: Reverse DNS configuration by the user Anycast configuration Block storage But one feature that hasn't made it is hourly instances.  If you go to Linode, Amazon AWS, or Azure, you can spin up an instance for 5 minutes, spin it down, and only pay for those 5 minutes.  But if you go to LowEnd providers, you...

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Paying by the Hour: Do You Use Hourly Instances?

Why Don’t You Like Us? Or Follow Us, For That Matter…

We live in a push world, and if you prefer to get deals, posts, and news delivered to you in an app, we can help with that. We're on major social media platforms and we're growing our content there. ...

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Why Don’t You Like Us?  Or Follow Us, For That Matter…

500 Million New IPv4 Addresses Coming! Well, Maybe. Or Maybe Not.

The idea of changing up the IPv4 protocols to free up reserved ranges is not new.  Heck, I posted about it on LowEndTalk at least ten years ago and it wasn't new then. The idea is simple: when IPv4 wa...

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500 Million New IPv4 Addresses Coming!  Well, Maybe.  Or Maybe Not.

Got a Tip? Share it With Us!

Have you read something interesting? Have you heard something suspicious? Did you come across a cool deal for hosting, computers, online services, educational materials, stickers, shirts, sheets, or s...

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Got a Tip?  Share it With Us!

Lotus 1-2-3 Resurrected! — Runs Natively On Linux After Hack By Tavis Ormandy!

  Lotus 1-2-3 And The 1990s Tavis Ormandy is a world class white hat hacker who works at Google Project Zero. Hacker News ("HN") is a news aggregator and comment board run by the well known start...

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Lotus 1-2-3 Resurrected! — Runs Natively On Linux After Hack By Tavis Ormandy!

Community News: RackNerd is Officially a Certified cPanel Partner

To continue LowEndBox’s new “interesting news” series, we recently received a new submission from Dustin B. Cisneros over at RackNerd to let us know that they’ve officially become a Certified cPanel P...

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Community News: RackNerd is Officially a Certified cPanel Partner

When Bitcoin Collapses, It Doesn’t Get Cheap. Or, is it a New Store of Value? Place Your Bets!

There was a provocative headline on SeekingAlpha (a popular investing website) today: When Bitcoin Collapses, it Doesn't Get Cheap.  The author is referring to Bitcoin but his arguments apply to all c...

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When Bitcoin Collapses, It Doesn’t Get Cheap.  Or, is it a New Store of Value?  Place Your Bets!

Google Relents: Gmail Legacy Will Remain Free for Personal Accounts

By now, you've probably owned up to the fact that G Suite Legacy accounts are going away and you're going to have to pay $5/head/month because you want a custom domain.  Maybe you've even converted ov...

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Google Relents: Gmail Legacy Will Remain Free for Personal Accounts

DigitalOcean Breaks the $5 Price Point

DigitalOcean has announced new pricing starting July 1, 2022.  Notably, 1GB RAM VPSes will now be $6/mo. $5/mo for 1GB has been a price point for a long, long time.  Linode, Vultr, and others have all...

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DigitalOcean Breaks the $5 Price Point

FREE DOMAIN: Get a .app or .dev from Porkbun, FREE for a Year with Reasonable Renewals!

Looking for a free domain?  How about a .app or a .dev, free for 1 year? That's what Porkbun is offering!  Just head over to the page and claim yours, while supplies last.  However, supplies are unlim...

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FREE DOMAIN: Get a .app or .dev from Porkbun, FREE for a Year with Reasonable Renewals!

Get Ready to Upgrade to RedHat Enterprise Linux 9

RedHat Linux 9 will soon be here.  It was announced this week at Red Hat Summit and will be the first major release post-IBM acquisition. Presumably Alma and Rocky releases will soon follow.  As a rem...

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Get Ready to Upgrade to RedHat Enterprise Linux 9

EU Will Be Reading Your Private Messages for the Sake of the Children

Thanks to LowEndTalk member @symonp for sharing news of an EU plan to require messaging services to scan private message to find child sexual abuse material (CSAM). The proposed rules state that hosti...

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EU Will Be Reading Your Private Messages for the Sake of the Children

Chinese Government Orders State Firms to Dump Foreign PCs in 24 Months

Bloomberg reported today that the Chinese state government will require all state firms to eliminate foreign PCs within two years.  An estimated 50 million PCs will be affected. Note that this affects...

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Chinese Government Orders State Firms to Dump Foreign PCs in 24 Months

C# Gaining in Popularity According to TIOBE; Python, C, and Java Still Lead

The most recent TIOBE index shows C# gaining significantly in popularity over the last 5 years. "If we compare the current TIOBE index rankings to 1 year ago (May 2021), C# is gaining most popular of...

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C# Gaining in Popularity According to TIOBE; Python, C, and Java Still Lead

Low End Editorial: Are Linux Distributions And Operating Systems Obsolete? Have One-Click VPS App Installs Completed Our Move To The Web?

I have a friend who is a hardware engineer. Every time I see this friend I wonder about how much is going on inside the hardware of whatever laptop or server I might be using. Other times I kind of "d...

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Low End Editorial: Are Linux Distributions And Operating Systems Obsolete?  Have One-Click VPS App Installs Completed Our Move To The Web?

25 Exabytes in Your Pocket: Here Come Diamond Wafers!

You never know what you're going to learn in a LowEndTalk thread!  LET member @Ahfaiahkid shared a link to an interesting news article about some research going on in Japan.  Researchers there announc...

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25 Exabytes in Your Pocket: Here Come Diamond Wafers!

DediPath’s High-Bandwidth World: Your Cheap VPS or Dedi Runs on DDoS-Protected 1tbps Fabric

Patrick Kussy, Marketing Specialist at DediPath asked us to share some of their news with the community.  In the meantime, be sure to check out DediPath's latest offer from a few days ago which featur...

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DediPath’s High-Bandwidth World: Your Cheap VPS or Dedi Runs on DDoS-Protected 1tbps Fabric

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: The Johnny Nguyen (GreenValueHost) AMA is Now Open!

Long-time community members will remember the saga of Johnny Nguyen and GreenValueHost. It was a long saga of a spectacular hosting company flameout.  GreenValueHost offered fantastic, unsustainable p...

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: The Johnny Nguyen (GreenValueHost) AMA is Now Open!

The Technologies of War – with Part Numbers

Recently the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI), a British defense think-tank, published a highly informative paper entitled "Operation Z: The Death Throes of an I...

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The Technologies of War – with Part Numbers

DRAMA FIRES: MaxKVM Blows Its Brand Up, LowEndTalk Moderators are Biased

MaxKVM posted a cryptic message on LowEndTalk yesterday: "ANNOUNCEMENT Our global datacenter provider has limited core network access and is threatening early termination of our long term contract. Pl...

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DRAMA FIRES: MaxKVM Blows Its Brand Up, LowEndTalk Moderators are Biased

Elon Musk Buys Twitter. WebHostingTalk Next?

Quick analysis is that he overpaid, by approximately $44 billion.

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Elon Musk Buys Twitter.  WebHostingTalk Next?

USENET Part 1: Wasn’t USENET Part of AOL or Something Back in the Dial-Up Days?

In this article we begin a series on USENET, a "worldwide distributed discussion system available on computers," as Wikipedia puts it.  USENET was begun in 1980 and has changed dramatically over its l...

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USENET Part 1: Wasn’t USENET Part of AOL or Something Back in the Dial-Up Days?

Flashback: The World of Harpoon, via Proxmox and Windows 11

In 1989, one of my favorite computer games was published: Harpoon. In the game, players take control of very detailed naval and aviation assets in future Cold War (e.g., US vs. USSR) scenarios.  Real...

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Flashback: The World of Harpoon, via Proxmox and Windows 11

OpenSSH Suffered a “Near Miss” But is Now Post-Quantum

According to the change log, OpenSSH 9.0 suffered a "near miss" - a potential vulnerability that was found and fixed before anyone could attempt to exploit it: "Near miss in sshd(8): fix an integer ov...

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OpenSSH Suffered a “Near Miss” But is Now Post-Quantum

Join the MEGA Deal Chat on LowEndTalk Happening Now!

Happy Easter! Did you know there's an "Easter Megathread" on LowEndTalk right now? There will be exclusive deals published directly by our community hosts, so be sure to check out the deals and show s...

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Join the MEGA Deal Chat on LowEndTalk Happening Now!

Is Social Media a Failed Experiment?

When I heard that Elon Musk is toying with the idea of buying Twitter, I wondered why he'd want it.  I suppose he thinks on grander societal scales than I do, and perhaps he sees some strategic use fo...

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Is Social Media a Failed Experiment?

Low End Detectives: IP Address of Low End Talk Phishing Attacker Revealed In Just 5 Minutes!

The Phishing Attack On April 9, 2022, some not-so-nice ungentleman went phishing. As announced on Low End Talk, phishing emails were received by several Low End Talk members. The phishing emails false...

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Low End Detectives: IP Address of Low End Talk Phishing Attacker Revealed In Just 5 Minutes!

Concerns Voiced Over Sweeping New India Surveillance Law. Legit?

India's Criminal Procedure Identification bill passed in parliament last week and is raising concerns about government snooping. The law requires those arrested or detained to provide biometric data (...

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Concerns Voiced Over Sweeping New India Surveillance Law.  Legit?
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