What We Know So Far About the Hivelocity VPS Launch
Community provider HiVelocity shared a video announcement on LowEndTalk to tease their upcoming VPS launch. Here's what we know so far.
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The Top 5 Hosting Providers for THCa and CBD Websites
As of 2018, cannabis with below 0.3% THC content is federally legal per the Farm Bill. The only problem? Hemp companies keep getting de-platformed by brands like Shopify. That's why I made a list of the top 5 hosting providers that allow cannabis related brands -- including THCa and CBD.
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GoDaddy VPS: Overpriced, Awful Company, and...Actually Not that Bad for One Specific Use?
For a community that prizes VPSes that cost under $20 per year, the idea of paying $60 per month for a VPS sounds like a crime against nature. That's the kind of VPS that GoDaddy offers. But one LowEndTalk member is quite happy with them for a specific use case.
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Is DirectAdmin Going the Way of cPanel? Some Angry People Think So
DirectAdmin is pulling the rug out from under their legacy lifetime licensees. Lifetime licenses never last your lifetime.
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Exim Didn't Fix a Vulnerability for a Year and Now It's Public
Exim has another vulnerability and its owners seem to care even less than they did last time this happened.
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Bad News Friday, Part 2: WHMCS Announces Huge Price Increase (You Won't Believe It)
Guess which popular hosting provider software solution is going to be 32% better in January? Keep guessing because none of them will be, but one of them is cranking up their prices by that much.
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Bad News Friday, Part 1: cPanel is Raising Prices, Again!
Guess who's raising prices again? You don't have to guess very hard.
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Here Comes the Raspberry Pi 5
Three years after the Raspberry Pi 4 hit the market, its successor is here. What do you think about it?
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Microsoft Goes Nuclear: Planning to Build its Own Reactors to Power its Datacenters
Microsoft is planning to build its own nuclear reactors and has a job posting to hire a leader for this project. Is nuclear power the future of the datacenter industry?
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Why You'll Hate a Foldable Laptop...and Why You Might Love One
Foldable laptops are coming - er, actually, they're already here. LG just released a new one. Let's look at the state of the art and think about pros/cons of this new wave of devices.
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Your NFTs are Worthless. Everyone's NFTs are Worthless.
The NFT boom and bust happened at light speed. Now a new report highlights what most already knew: nearly all (and we do mean nearly) of those blockchain entries have zero value.
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The Unbelievably Fumbled Rebranding of Twitter
Twitter is now known as X. Actually, it's now known as "X, formerly known as Twitter" because "X" has zero brand and the Twitter brand is still iconic. A cautionary tale.
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Why You Shouldn’t Start a Hosting Provider Anymore
Thinking of starting out as a hosting provider? There's two key words you need to understand: commoditization and differentiation. If you don't understand these words, you don't have a prayer.
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Hosting Providers Are Outraged at IPXO Over 'Two Incident' Abuse Report Policy
IPXO's "two incident" policy is not sitting right with providers. They're in a difficult spot, balancing providers and block owners, legit complaints and trashy noise. SirFoxy explores it for us.
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Plex Blocks Hetzner in Move Against Piracy
Recently, if you host your own Plex server on a Hetzner IP address, there's a very good chance you received the following email: Important notice about the hosting service you may be using. We're cont...
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CyberBunker: The ‘Bulletproof’ Darknet Market Host That Operated out of Bunkers (Founder Sentenced to Prison)
CyberBunker was a "bulletproof" hosting operation run primarily by Xennt or Herman-Johan Xennt, and CB3ROB or Sven Kamphuis (specifically early on). It opened up in the late 1990s operating out of a r...
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Ten Less-Commonly-Known Youtube Channels to Listen to on a Long Road Trip
Heading out for a road trip? Check out my list of 10 awesome YouTube channels to stream (or download) while you're on the road. All are audio-only-approved and will keep you company as the miles fly by.
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The Top 5 Mini PCs Worth Buying in Late 2023 ($159 for an Entire PC?)
What if I told you there's a cheaper Windows or Linux equivalent to a Mac Mini that's just a little bit bigger than a Raspberry Pi? (Raspb...
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The Curious Case of 4.1 Million Misappropriated AFRINIC IPv4 Addresses
AFRINIC is the regional internet registry (RIR) for Africa. The second employee ever hired at AFRINIC way back in 2004 was directly responsible for the biggest IPv4 heist in history: 4.1 million IPv4 addresses. This is the story.
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Rumors Circulate About DediPath’s Database Being Sold
Over here at LowEndBox, we've been covering the entire DediPath bankruptcy situation since it was only skepticism. Most recently, we covered DediPath's official closure at the end of August, and it al...
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Money, Money, Free Advertising, Free Money! Partner with Us and GROW!
Hey provider: free advertising can lead to free money! And that's what we're offering. Whether it's an interview, a free promo piece, publishing your content, or other options, let's use our juice to get you more sales!
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How to Sell Out to Microsoft and Make Easy Money - $450 and Counting for Me
I've sold out to Microsoft...at least for search. For over a decade, Microsoft has dropped a steady drip of Amazon gift cards to me. Here's how you can get on the gravy train.
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MicroSD Cards: Size, Manufacturer, Application Performance Class (A1 vs. A2): How to Choose
Size. Manufacturer. Application Performance Class. Decide those three things and you can get the perfect MicroSD card for whatever you need.
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EFF Releases Statement About HE Blocking Kiwi Farms: 'ISPs Should Not Police Online Speech—No Matter How Awful It Is'
Censorship is bad. Kiwi Farms is also bad. The EFF sorts it out for us.
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Urgent: DediPath Is Closing Today (DediPool Confirmed)
Recently over on LowEndTalk, a user named @haolun posted a thread titled: "DediPath Closure Of Business". In which, he posted the following email he received from DediPath: Dear *name* We will are wri...
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The Top Ten OpenBSD Songs: "Goldflipper", "Pond-erosa Puff", and More!
For over 20 years, new versions of the OpenBSD operating system have been accompanied by new and free music. These songs are surprisingly good and are a fun part of the project. These are our top ten favorites. What about you?
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Order Rejected by Fraud Checks? Five Ways to Avoid This Fate
Providers' automated fraud detection systems inevitably generate false positives. Here's five ways you can avoid being one of them.
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August is International "Providers Drop Unlimited Storage" Month. The Latest? Microsoft's OneDrive
All those unlimited cloud storage plans you've been stuffing full of Linux ISOs are coming to an end. The latest? Microsoft.
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