Oracle's Free Tier is very popular in our community. Sadly, today news was announced that 6m records from 140,000 tenants was leaked. Here's how to check if you're affected.
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MyW has been on a community lifeline for the last 6 months, but looks like the party is finally coming to an end. Kudos to @jar for helping keep it alive. And BTW, he has really amazing deals on mail hosting!
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The GNU Public License was once extremely popular in the FOSS world. But over recent years, its popularity has rapidly faded and the nails in its coffin are really starting to stack up. Most recently, Ubuntu has announced they're swapping out coreutils for an Apache-licensed alternative.
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We've got your lunchtime read! Enter a world of corporate espionage, spies flushing secrets down toilets while government agents pound on the door, and meticulously crafted charts outlining a shocking tale of skullduggery perpetrated by a competitor's most senior leadership. Enjoy Rippling v. Deel!
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The world's premier sporting event takes place this week: the World Server Throwing Championship, hosted at CloudFest 2025 in Germany. How far can you hurl a rackmount?
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Dropbox offers a great product that "just works" and I've been a very happy customer since 2008. But how much longer can they survive? The numbers are a bit frightening.
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$22,000 in missing crypto, provider deadpools, suspicious CPU steals...you need to be reading LowEndTalk!
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Mailbird promised that lifetime licenses were for the life of the user. Turns out they were only for the a small window of time when that version was current, and now they're invalid for go-forward versions.
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Mozilla has changed the language of its Terms of Use and Privacy FAQ, stripping away its pledge to never sell your data. The user community has its pitchforks out.
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You have to love it when there's an offer that is amazing...and then a provider goes and makes it twice as nice. Little Creek Hosting posted a great deal for us on LowEndTalk. I checked and it's still available!
Read More about Did You Overlook Little Creek’s Latest Offer? I Checked and It’s Still Available! 4GB…Make That 8GB KVM (!) for $3.50/Month!
This is probably our final update on the QuadraNet saga, because they're about done. If you haven't seen the signs and were holding out hope, give it up, my friend. Inside is the email they sent to customers giving them one week to get out.
Read More about Read The Final QuadraNet Email: You’ve Got One Week to Get Out of Los Angeles
A Quebec man is selling both his Teslas, and canceling his order for a Cybertruck. Is he the leading edge of a wave of Tesla boycotts? The picture is murky. The stock chart isn't. Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA...
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This is RubyHost's first appearance on LowEndBox, and they're making a splash! They've got a great offer in Dallas, Texas for us, which includes a special bonus for our readers.
Read More about RubyHost: Cheap VPS Offer in Dallas! 4GB VPS for $3.96/Month! Special Bonus for Our Readers!
While Elon Musk roots around in Federal IT systems for waste, one particular argument he's advanced is that there are millions of people aged 120 years old and older getting Social Security checks. Is it really that simple? Not where COBOL is concerned.
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Bill Gates' new Netflix series, "What's Next? The Future with Bill Gates" is available. Will you glimpse the future by watching it?
Read More about Will You Glimpse the Future Watching “What’s Next? The Future with Bill Gates”? No.
As we've covered previously, QuadraNet is in deep trouble. Now they're being evicted from their Los Angeles datacenter, due to $600,000 worth of unpaid rent.
Read More about $600,000 in Overdue Rent: Read the QuadraNet Eviction ComplaintsEquinix sunset their Equinix Metal last year. Now they've asked some important FOSS projects that they've been hosting for several years to find new homes. The costs are pretty staggering.
Read More about Sunset of Equinix Metal Hitting FOSS Projects Hard: Any Provider Got a Spare $288,000 Per Year of Gear and Network Transfer to Donate?
StackOverflow's flow of questions has plummeted since LLMs come along. Given the community's other problems, how much longer will it survive?
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RackNerd, a provider consistently voted as a top provider year after year by the LowEndTalk community, and recently recognized on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies, has launched its latest innovation: its "Promote Like a Nerd" instant monetization portal. Learn how you can cash in!
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Just kidding...we don't have the $8 million advertising budget it takes to buy a 30-second SuperBowl spot. But if we did...
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We've published a directory of cheap GPU options for you to consider. No pocket change offers here, alas - it's still a pricey market. But we found a few gems.
Read More about Our Cheap GPU Directory is Now Live! Nvidia GPUs for AI, Training LLM Models, and More!
Let's Encrypt is no longer going to email you when cert expirations are coming up. If you need that kind of functionality, here's 3 easy alternatives.
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Tons of new apps have been added to PikaPods, plus they now support S3 backups. And you can still get $5 in free account credit to try them out!
Read More about Tons of New Apps Added on PikaPods, Plus More Features! FREE $5 Welcome Credit Offer Still Good!
At one point, QuadraNet owned nearly 300,000 IPs. Now they're down to 6,656, after a sale to HostPapa. Combined with the extended, ongoing outage at QuadraNet's Los Angeles datacenter, this is a concerning development for their customers.
Read More about HostPapa Acquires a Large Portion of QuadraNet’s IPv4 Addresses Amidst Ongoing Service IssuesEither Path.net just having a horrible run of luck, or there is more to the story. But what?
Read More about Multiple POPs Down For Days: Is Path.net Circling the Drain?
The Doomsday Clock is now 89 seconds from midnight. Isn't it kind of silly?
Read More about AI Pushes the Doomsday Clock a Second Closer to Midnight
QuadraNet's Los Angeles DC has been having issues for a while, and users are growing increasingly concerned.
Read More about QuadraNet’s LA Datacenter Has Been Offline for Five Days
The Open Source Pledge wants to use peer pressure to make companies pay open source developers. It doesn't appear to be working.
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