Remember Amazon HQ2? Job Losses Instead of Gains
A couple years back, Amazon lit up the country as civic leaders competed to win a landing spot for HQ2. Turns out things haven't panned out as planned.
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Protest Against Your Employer and Get Terminated. Well, Duh. Google Axes Anti-Google Employees
Turns out that if you protest against your employer, engage in demonstrations, participate in sit-ins, etc., your employer may terminate you. Gee, who could POSSIBLY have expected that?
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Should You Change Your Windows RDP Port? Yes.
A colleague has a couple Windows VPSes which are getting hammered on the RDP port by attackers trying to get in. What's the easiest way to stop that?
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You Don't Want to Start a Hosting Company: A Parallel From History
Let's see, a market with a low barrier to entry, a reputation for cheap prices, and giant competitors...should you jump in?
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Gloo.top - a Cool LowEndTalk Member Link Shortener You Should Check Out!
We love to highlight projects created by our members, and today we're taking a look at @noob404's link shortener, gloo.top.
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Let's Check In: sh97's Network Benchmark Script has Plenty of New Developments!
Last July we wrote about sh97's network benchmarking script, network-speed. He's been hard at work improving it. Let's check in!
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Looking for a Cheap Domain and Don't Care About the TLD?
Recently I was looking for a cheap domain and didn't care about the TLD. Here's a quick overview of the cheapest of the cheap.
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The Coolest Project Ever: bashvm
Today we're going to take a look at a really cool project: bashvm.com. This project allows you to create, modify, and manage virtual machines using - you guessed it - bash. The entire environment is coded as a bash shell script. That's really neat!
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QuadraNet Acquired by Edge Centres
QuadraNet has been acquired by Edge Centres, expanding the latter's US footprint. This was reported in Datacenter Dynamics...oh wait, they pulled the article.
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Spectacular Growth in Corporate Version of OpenAI's ChatGPT
OpenAI went from 150,000 ChatGPT Enterprise users to 600,000 in the space of four months. The AI sector is red hot and so is corporate America's love affair with generative AI.
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Will the Grid Collapse as Skynet Comes Online? Not According to Princeton
Is the grid about to collapse as Skynet comes online?!?!? That's the fear...well, to put it a bit more tamely, the fear is that the electric grid is unprepared for the surge in demanding AI projects. But it may not be so bad, according to a Princeton prof.
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We are Social Butterflies! Check Us Out Wherever You Browse, View, or Tap!
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 who are paying way too much for hosting services.
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Colohouse Acquires Hivelocity: News and Analysis
M&A in the hosting space continues, with Colohouse announcing today that it is acquiring Hivelocity, a well-known provider in our community.
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Amazon to Spend $150 Billion on Datacenters in the Next 15 Years, Getting Creative on Powering Them
Amazon is planning to spend $150 billion on datacenters over the next 15 years. Finding electricity to power them is getting increasingly difficult, so the online giant is getting increasingly creative in finding juice to power all those VMs.
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The Mother of All Supply Chain Attacks! Is 1Password Safe?!? (UPDATED)
A backdoor was slipped into xz, a widely used compression library. Is a 1Password employee somewhere in the mix?
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SHOTS FIRED! Is Vultr Claiming Full Perpetual Commercial Rights Over All Hosted Content?
Vultr's terms of service sure caused a firestorm yesterday. Is it the beginning of a new era of Orwellian surveillance or was it poorly crafted legalese that is soon to be rectified?
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My Latest Pet Monster: I Try Out a 4TB Storage VPS for Only $12/Month from Crunchbits!
I wanted a big storage box in the USA, so I gave Crunchbits a try. So far, so good!
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Examining the Top 12 Server Operating Systems of 2024: Choose the Best One for Your Needs
So many operating system options! Which one is best for you and your VPS or dedicated server? Let's sort it out.
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PulsedMedia: A 7-Year Review
I realized today that I've been a PulsedMedia customer for 7 years. Wow. And it's been a good ride.
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UN Embraces U.S.-Led Resolution for Safe AI Development
After testimony at the United Nation from learning artificial intelligences...just kidding. But the UN did pass a resolution on AI this week.
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HOT TAKE: DOJ's Antitrust Lawsuit Against Apple is Dead on Arrival
I'm not an anti-trust lawyer, so naturally I'm going to give you my opinion on the US Department of Justice lawsuit filed against Apple today.
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Uncle Sam Slips Intel $20B for New Chip Factories
Uncle Sam is heading out cash to Intel to build chip factories. Remember when companies built these on their own?
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Equinix Exposed: Major Accounting Manipulation, Core Business Decay And Selling An AI Pipe Dream As Insiders Cashed Out Hundreds of Millions
That's the headline for a very in-depth report on Equinix's finances, from short seller Hindenburg Research.
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SuperMicro: Is This a Bad Sign for the Server King or Was SprucePoint Just Completely Ridiculous?
Last year, famed short seller SprucePoint Capital Management told us that Supermicro stock would soon plunge by 40-50%. That's not what happened.
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Unraveling the Mystery: Bare Metal and Dedicated Servers...Are They the Same Thing?
Dedicated server? Bare metal server? What's the difference? Maybe nothing, maybe something...let's sort it out.
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Binary Racks: Cheap VPS and an Awesome Dedicated Server Deal in London, UK!
Hey there, Binary Racks! Some hosts constantly want to be featured, and some only dip in for special offers they know will delight our audience. Binary Racks is one of the latter providers, and we ha...
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Different Day, Same Drama: Path.net Booted Off Six Exchanges for Non-Payment
Path.net got booted off six exchanges and seems to have quite the employee morale issue. Fresh drama to savor and enjoy.
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How I Learned Bootstrap in Exactly 2.5 Hours
I needed to learn Bootstrap for a project, and I found a couple resources that let me get up and running with the framework in only 2.5 hours.
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