This morning, LowEndTalk member @ralf shared news of an AWS tragedy. The title of the thread is "Do your own backups (AWS deleted person's 10-year account and all data without warning)". Now, before I even opened the thread, I knew what the community's reaction would be: do your own offsite backups. This is practically the sacred creed of the LowEnd world.
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About 34% of the web is still powered by HTTP/1.1 and that protocol will likely come under severe attack starting on Wednesday. Get a preview of what's in store for the latest security headache.
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ConfigServer is closing! Talk about end of an era. These products will not stop working after August 31st, but you'll never be able to move the license or reinstall again.
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Just.Hosting contacted us to feature the announcement of their new AI assistant. We run it through its paces to find its strengths and weaknesses.
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The Year 2038 problem is well-known among Unix users. Debian is rolling out a fix in Debian 13 "Trixie"...11 years after OpenBSD fixed it.
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Today we celebrate System Administrator Day! This holiday falls on the last Friday in July and salutes all of the hard-working sysadmins around the world.
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If you're in the United Kingdom, get ready to fight against your fellow citizens for access to Wikipedia. Why? Because quotas are coming. What...quotas?
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What do you do when you've got a lot of LowEndBoxes that you've accumulated over the years? Let them all expire? Naw...if you're FAT32, you start a MegaThread to trade!
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The "Tell Dell" survey is supposed to be confidential. The results are definitely supposed to be. But they were leaked to Business Insider...
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Our Happy 15th Birthday, LowEndTalk thread is still going gangbusters. Lots of great celebration deals shared by providers. Check it out!
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You have a domain renewal bill for $265 that shows up in your mailbox. Is it legit?
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Figma is spending a boatload on AWS every month. Is this the best use of 15% of their revenue?
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A little less than 24 hours ago, a catastrophic fire erupted at Telecom Egypt’s Ramses Exchange in downtown Cairo, resulting in the deaths of four employees and injuries to at least 27 others.
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Microsoft has laid off 15,000 people in the last 60 days. Is that because AI is taking people's jobs? Not exactly.
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The Internet is not one flat network where anything goes. Humans gonna human, which means erecting all sorts of barriers. One of the biggest walls is between the outside world and Russia. Can you buy a VPS in the Motherland?
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Writing is hard. Perhaps you need a $1,100 typewriter to make it easy?
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On Friday, the US Supreme Court ruled that states can require age verification for pornography web sites. There's 23 states with these laws on the books nowl
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If you love Meta's free series of AI models (LLaMA), sorry to inform you that its days may be numbered. Meta is considering "de-investing" in LLaMA as it overhauls its AI strategy.
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We've all done it: seen some incredible offer that checks a couple of our desire boxes and done a speed run through purchasing...only to end up with a system that doesn't meet our needs because we made assumptions. Be smart and double-check the details before signing up!
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Back in the day - waaaay back in the day - unicore systems were the norm. Today, they're a rarity. The Linux kernel is being updated to reflect that.
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RackNerd has landed in Toronto, Canada! And of course, they've got amazing cheap VPS offers for you. Come to the Great White North!
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Well, it had to happen eventually. AI services are being sued left and right by authors, artists, and musicians. And now Hollywood has entered the fray. Disney, 20th Century Studios, Universal City Studios Productions, and DreamWorks Animation have jointly filed a lawsuit against Midjourney accusing it of rampant copyright infringement.
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CharityHost is rebranding (again), this time as ExactVM. So now we're waiting for ExactVMgate, which should happen any day now.
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If you're trying to learn an instrument, gamification is a concept that could play a huge role in your success. It's worked very well for me. A followup on an earlier post from last October.
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Ransomware is always a rough experience. Do you pay? Do you go through a laborious recovery? How do you manage outraged users? And what if you made over €300K in profit in the experience?
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Remember the part in Mark Twain's 1884 novel, Huckleberry Finn, where Huck uses a laser sniper rifle? Me neither.
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As you've undoubtedly read by now, a sophisticated Ukrainian operation (Operation Spider's Web) launched drones from prepositioned storage crates outside four Russian air bases and blew up about a third of Russia's strategic long-range bomber fleet. What's been less noted is the open source software that powered these systems.
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Everyone knows MinIO, a popular S3-compatible object storage platform. It used to have a lot of love in the community. Then it decided it didn't want its community any more.
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