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Silicom Network: Cheap cPanel Shared Hosting Starting at Only $4.50/YEAR!

Silicom Network has returned with the same incredible offer they ran during Black Friday: less than five bucks a year for cheap shared hosting. And we're talking cPanel, unlimited bandwidth, and Softaculous! It's all waiting for you in St. Louis, Missouri. Read on!

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Silicom Network: Cheap cPanel Shared Hosting Starting at Only $4.50/YEAR!

Celebrate National Sticker Day with FREE Stickers PLUS an Awesome $1 Pack!

We've got free stickers and a $1 pack of IT-related stickers that includes free shipping! Come celebrate National Sticker Day!

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Celebrate National Sticker Day with FREE Stickers PLUS an Awesome $1 Pack!

Our Articles Are Written By Humans, Unlike ONE Site We Could Name. And We Do.

SOME sites will use computer-generated texts. Not here! We ran across and article with an interesting take on one famous site's growing reliance on AI-written content.

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Our Articles Are Written By Humans, Unlike ONE Site We Could Name.  And We Do.

HiVelocity Acquires Heficed to Expand Global Footprint

HiVelocity announced today that they are acquiring UK-based provider Heficed, adding nine (!) datacenter locations to the HiVelocity global footprint.

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HiVelocity Acquires Heficed to Expand Global Footprint

SuperMicro is a Shaky House of Cards?

A new short seller report scorches SuperMicro with allegations of "grave concerns about the accuracy of its financial reporting" and unresolved "widespread accounting violations". Who is SprucePoint capital and is there any truth to these shocking revelations?

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SuperMicro is a Shaky House of Cards?

Email: The Struggle is Real, Especially If You're Running a Server

Running an email server at home? Of course you aren't because it's 2023. Let's talk about email and some options for making sure that mail you send and receive lands in the appropriate inboxes.

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Email: The Struggle is Real, Especially If You're Running a Server

Story Time! The Offers You Don't See

Hosts that are only two months old? Only four days old? Some of the interesting offer submissions you don't get to see...

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Story Time!  The Offers You Don't See

Getting Started with GlobalPing: Hands On!

We played with a GlobalPing hardware probe and have pictures, hardware breakdown, nmap scans, API tests, and more for you! We also look at the global distribution of GlobalPing's probes. It's a cool project and it's fun to see this project start to take off.

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Getting Started with GlobalPing: Hands On!

Have You See the Internet Archive's Stolen Truck?

The Internet Archive's truck was stolen on Christmas Eve! If you see a grinch driving this customized beauty around, please notify authorities.

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Have You See the Internet Archive's Stolen Truck?

We Said Goodbye to These Technologies in 2022

Technologies come and go - here are some of those that went in 2022. Are there any other that you'll miss...or any you are happy to see ride off to the sunset?

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We Said Goodbye to These Technologies in 2022

Still Need a Fantastic Deal on a Cheap VPS or Dedi? Take Your Pick!

If you are still in the market for a great deal, you might want to check out the 2022 Christmas and New Year Megathread on LowEndTalk! Cheap shared hosting...dedis in Mumbai on sale...and ridiculously cheap VPS systems. Click now!

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Still Need a Fantastic Deal on a Cheap VPS or Dedi?  Take Your Pick!

Merry Christmas!

The staff and ownership of LowEndBox would like to wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! Thank you for reading LowEndBox this year and we look forward to see you again in 2023 as we post more...

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Merry Christmas!

Providers: Grow Your Business in 2023 - Partner with LowEndBox for FREE Advertising!

If you're looking for new ways to reach your audience and don't have the budget for expensive AdWords campaigns or big advertising campaigns where you're competing head on with giant corporations, why not partner with LowEndBox and let us take your brand to the next level.

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Providers: Grow Your Business in 2023 - Partner with LowEndBox for FREE Advertising!

BREAKING THE RECORD: RackNerd Accomplishes 2.6 Million Views and Over 30,000 Comments on LowEndTalk

This year, we set a new record for both number of views in a single thread and number of comments in that thread. The stats are very impressive! Read on for all the details.

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BREAKING THE RECORD: RackNerd Accomplishes 2.6 Million Views and Over 30,000 Comments on LowEndTalk

DEEP DIVE: The Freedom House 2022 Report

FreedomHouse's 2022 report on Internet freedom is flawed as usual, reflecting a lot of their extraneous politics and ignoring factors they don't care about, but at a broad level, it's an interesting survey of the world. Let's take a look.

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DEEP DIVE: The Freedom House 2022 Report

Shared Hosting for Under $10/Year with cPanel?! Is it Possible in 2022?

Iin 2019, cPanel rocked the hosting industry by industry by introducing sharply higher prices. Since then, they've ratcheted up the cost every year, most recently in September 2022.

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Shared Hosting for Under $10/Year with cPanel?! Is it Possible in 2022?

Here Come the RackSpace Lawsuits

"That Rackspace offered opaque updates for days, then admitted to a ransomware event without further customer assistance is outrageous," according to one attorney. Class-action lawsuits against Rackspace are popping up around the country.

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Here Come the RackSpace Lawsuits

Funny Meme = Cheap Dedi? Math Checks! Meet Scaleblade's Giveaway!

Scaleblade is not only running a sale on their Ryzen 5600X cheap dedicated servers in London, UK, they're also giving away two months FREE! All you need to do is post a meme in Scaleblade giveaway thread on LowEndTalk before December 26!

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Funny Meme = Cheap Dedi?  Math Checks!  Meet Scaleblade's Giveaway!

We Stand With Those in Darkness

As we hurry about our busy holiday schedules and fill our calendar with family, friends, and shopping, we remember those whose immediate concerns are less festive.  Specifically: finding warmth and light.

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We Stand With Those in Darkness

HostColor Promotes Open-Source Web Hosting Control Panels

Dimitar from HostColor recently contact used to share news about its new program where it is supporting open source projects through hosting sales.  Looks interesting, and the newsroom on their web si...

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HostColor Promotes Open-Source Web Hosting Control Panels

How Tesla is Killing AM Radio

Will EVs kill the radio star? Receivers are being phased out by manufacturers, which will likely be the death-knell for this venerable techology.

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How Tesla is Killing AM Radio

Just Stop Using LastPass: They've Been Hacked for the 9th Time

LastPass had security incidents in 2011, 2015, 2016, 2017 (twice), 2019, 2021, and twice now in 2022. Are you still using them? Why?

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Just Stop Using LastPass: They've Been Hacked for the 9th Time

How TikTok Stole My Car. It Started at 4am This Morning With a Banging on My Door.

It's never good when the police come to your door at 4am. Turns out that TikTok played an important role in the culture and psychology that lead to my car being stolen from my driveway overnight and subsequently used in crimes, general mayhem, and finally a very abrupt stop. The thieves did the deed with a USB cable.

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How TikTok Stole My Car.  It Started at 4am This Morning With a Banging on My Door.

How to Save Money on a Cheap VPS System, by ChatGPT

In the words of StackOverflow, "The primary problem is that while the answers which ChatGPT produces have a high rate of being incorrect, they typically look like they might be good and the answers are very easy to produce." Turns out that that describes its advice on LowEnd hosting.

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How to Save Money on a Cheap VPS System, by ChatGPT

H1-B Visas: Indentured Servitude for 195 Years?

Companies can bring foreign nationals over to work in the US on various programs, most prominently in this discussion, the H1-B visa.  It's designed for situations where the US lacks engineers, scientists, or technical specialists in critical skills. But at its worst, the program is a form of modern-day indentured servitude.

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H1-B Visas: Indentured Servitude for 195 Years?

Google: Let's Use Our Hiring Process For Our Firing Process

Google has turned its hiring process into its firing process. Why? It's bizarre but Google always wants to show that it's different and better. Unfortunately, those interviewing (again) for their jobs and then losing them are not likely to be impressed.

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Google: Let's Use Our Hiring Process For Our Firing Process

Twitter: Stuck on CentOS 7

Twitter was preparing to upgrade from CentOS 7 to CentOS Stream but now everyone's gone and they're looking at a June 2024 end of life. Twitter's relationship with FOSS is getting complicated fast.

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Twitter: Stuck on CentOS 7

Let's Go Jurisdiction Shopping: Data Sovereignty and the Cloud

Internet users are accustomed to thinking of the global network as a sort of separate, special space.  In early days, people talked about "cyberspace" - a virtual world disconnected from our shared physical world.  When you hear the Zuck talking about the "metaverse" it feels like he's describing an alternate dimension. However, all these grand virutal realms are impossible without actual physical metal and electricity. And that's when we get into data sovereignty.

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Let's Go Jurisdiction Shopping: Data Sovereignty and the Cloud
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