LowEnd provider Clouvider suffered a website hack today. A group styling itself "Katyusha SecurityExploitCrew" defaced a website they manage, as reported on LowEndTalk. The site was a redirect to their main web site and no customer data was compromised. Clouvider posted the…
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Australian law enforcement will soon be able to takeover accounts and impersonate their owners, "disrupt data" by modifying it. Three new warrant powers are…
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AWS announced this week that Amazon Braket, their quantum algorithm development environment, is available now in their US East and US West regions. AWS…
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A while back, I used CoinBase (NASDAQ: COIN) for some cryptocurrency transactions and found their system buggy and the customer service nonexistent. After failing…
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Do you have some domains you're looking to offload? Or are you looking for a new dot-something? One of the best places to buy…
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If you haven't read LowEndTalk lately, you're missing out on some interesting stories and discussions. Here's some recent community news and threads that have…
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Microsoft announced that they are raising prices for Office 365 subscriptions. The price increase is between 10% and 16%, depending on product. This is…
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When a provider needs IPs, they typically request them from their Regional Internet Registry (e.g., ARIN) or purchase them from an IP broker. The…
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T-Mobile announced on Wednesday that a "a bad actor had compromised T-Mobile systems": "Some of the data accessed did include customers’ first and last…
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Spamhaus's 2021 Q2 Botnet Threat Update has been released and it's interesting reading. Overall, there has been a reduction in observed command and control…
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We don't see a lot of offers for Sweden. I'm not entirely sure why. It's obviously a very well-developed country with robust infrastructure, and…
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Security research firm Fortbridge has released a report claiming to have discovered "multiple vulnerabilities in cPanel/WHM". The report states: "Our team has found multiple…
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According to recent data, Microsoft Azure is the world's largest public cloud with $17.7 billion in quarterly revenue. Amazon AWS trails not far behind…
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RackNerd, a well known provider within the LowEndBox & LowEndTalk community which was recently voted #1 top provider by the community members, was recently…
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Newfold Digital, a leading web technology provider that no one has ever heard of but owns a variety of well-known brands including HostGator, Network…
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Debian 11, code-named Bullseye, was released today. If it's not already available on your favorite VM provider's panel, I suggest you own a thread…
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Apple announced today that will begin scanning every photo, iMessage, and search you perform on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac in order to verify…
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Unlike most hosting companies, DigitalOcean (NYSE: DOCN) is a publicly-traded company and hence must file quarterly audited financial reports. While there are other big…
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Sorry to harsh your summer buzz, but that Verisign announcement from back in February that you briefly grumbled about and then forgot because it…
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Long-time community member @randvegeta has been sharing the story of his Lithium-powered datacenter UPS setup on LowEndTalk. He is the proprietor of MLNL.host, a…
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Every month, LowEndBox puts a question in front of hosting industry leaders and LEB community providers, who are invited to comment and offer their…
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SmallWeb announced Friday that they are being acquired by NexusBytes, effective August 1, 2021. Full details are available in an email sent to customers,…
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PayPal announced earlier this month that they are jacking up their fees...er, we meant to say, "making changes to published rates to better align…
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Rocky Linux offered their first official release (8.4) on June 21st and now providers are adding it as an option to their hosting platforms. …
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In a blog post this week, Cloudflare complained that Amazon AWS's egress fees are too high. According to CF's calculations, customers are paying: 80…
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I once watched an episode of Law & Order with a friend who is an attorney. From the moment the action switched from the…
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A user on LowEndTalk reported that shared hosting provider SmallWeb has emailed customers to report that their London shared hosting has suffered a "catastrophic…
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In a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Rackspace announced Friday that they are laying off 10% of their workforce. "On July…
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Akamai, a leading global content delivery network, was responsible for an outage today which impacted large portions of the Internet, including popular websites FedEx,…
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Loss ratios in the cyber insurance world have skyrocketed in recent years - surging 400% year over year. They have hit 70% of paid…
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Popular cryptocoin Chia has been wreaking havoc in the hard drive market of late, chewing up all available supplies in some markets as miners…
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I'd like to go back to the founding of LowEndBox to ask the question: whatever happened to LEAdmin? It's February 1st 2008, and lowendbox.com…
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Hello LET, We have just opened a new location in Bursa, Türkiye, and we would like to celebrate…
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