Sometimes you see stuff in the media and wonder if it's really news. Some celebrity broke up with some other celebrity. Some tech company released version X.Y which is .0001% better. LastPass was hacked again. Some athlete said the wrong thing. There's a new kpop band. You see these pieces and wonder why anyone bothered reporting them. Take a random example: LastPass was hacked. Um...so what? Isn't this just conti...
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Afghanistan launched a crackdown on crypto exchanges, closing at least sixteen such exchanges in the last week. According to Sayed Shan Sa'adat, an Afghanistani security official: "[Afghanistan's cent...
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Okay, that last one is not really possible. Fortunately for the human race, a social network based on our sense of smell has not been developed (though humans have tried to invent smell-transmission...
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DigitalOcean revealed today that they're tired of Cloudways fronting their panel, so they're going to buy them for $350 million. Cloudways has a fantastic business model: they buy a VM for $6, put the...
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Presenting at the Black Hat USA conference this week, Trend Micro had an interesting comment: Over the last few years, we’ve noticed a disturbing trend – a decrease in patch quality and a reduction in...
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There's a small scrappy start-up company that's emerging in the web space. They've been posting a different themed picture on their main service page every day, celebrating holidays, unofficial rememb...
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MailChimp revealed they've had a security breach: "In response to a recent attack targeting Mailchimp’s crypto-related users, we’ve taken proactive measures to temporarily suspend account access for a...
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Just want a free VPS? Yes, there are actually legitimate ways to get a free VPS. Interested in a bit of LowEndLore s we look back at a famous community landmark that has left the scene? Read on! At...
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Read 'em and weep, folks. That smooth 7% curve is what Verisign has planned for .com owners. As DomainNameAPI.com notes: Verisign, the registrar of the .COM domain extension, on 1 September 2021 inc...
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Earlier this summer, Microsoft released new emojis for their platforms. If you're a corporate slave staring at Teams all day, there is a palette of these smiling faces to inject some humanity into yo...
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I was explaining UUIDs to a junior colleague today, who was hung up on the idea of probabilities, and it lead to an interesting viewpoint. A UUID is a Universal Unique IDentifier. They're used all ov...
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Twilio has suffered a data breach and the attackers "used the stolen credentials to gain access to some of our internal systems". Twilio is a messaging platform with a nice API. I used it last year t...
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I've been wanting to give PikaPods a spin ever since we interviewed their founder. The one-sentence summary of PikaPods is: packaged apps on individual containers and you pay by the app. I wanted to...
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Both Visa and MasterCard cut off payment processing for TrafficJunky, the advertising arm of MindGeek, the proprietor of pornography site PornHub. There is a pending lawsuit which claims that Visa "k...
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We had an interesting story play out on LowEndTalk recently about OVH and their game server offering. OVH has really had a powerful offering in this space. Because of their size and efficiency and ma...
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According to a recent Kaspersky report, DDoS attacks have gotten much worse over the last 12 months. According to the report: The average duration of a DDoS attack in Q2 was about 3000 minutes (roughl...
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A few weeks ago we asked our visitors to vote on which social media platform we should add to LowEndBox. Since we published the Poll in July, LowEndBox has added both TikTok and Instagram to our socia...
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News this week broke that both Apple and Meta are both taking out huge loans. Apple is borrowing $5.5 billion, and Meta is borrowing $10 billion. Both are for "general corporate purposes, share repur...
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Interesting discussion on LowEndTalk over the last week about Virmach, a provider that has been sharing offers with our community for quite a while. Several users are reporting issues. Their Looking...
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We put a video on TikTok with a giveaway bonus code. Naturally, as LowEndBox management surveys their enterprise from their lofty corporate jets, they want to put that code only on TikTok so later th...
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Backblaze is a cloud storage/backup company that has done some interesting things with its storage. They innovated the Backblaze Storage Pod: "Offering both an unlimited online backup service and the...
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We all love our favorite editor or IDE! Over the years, I've learned that folks especially love the ed editor, vim, emacs, and too many others to list. Apologies if I didn't mention your favorite edit...
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It's been a few months since we've done a giveaway and now community provider RackNerd has stepped up to the bat with an awesome giveaway! How awesome? Check these prizes! Enter for a chance to win...
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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. Someo...
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I kinda like going thrifting If I get it for the low we're business yeah Whoa, my God, what's the price on that, whoa! You can tell me that these things don't matter But I know that You like high pric...
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Well known Low End regular GTHost recently asked Low End Box for a review, and we are happy to oblige. As reported below, we successfully installed multiple servers in multiple locations with great re...
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Amazon's Ohio datacenter experienced a significant outage today. Amazon reported that "some instances within a single Availability Zone (USE2-AZ1) in the US-EAST-2 Region have experienced a loss of p...
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NEC revealed that they have taken a contract to build a new trans-Pacific fiber-optic cable called JUNO. The new cable (which will be 10,000km or about 7,000 miles long) is expected to be completed in...
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