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Do You Get Downtime Notifications? Reason for Outage Explanations? If Not, You May Need a New Provider

Is getting an email about a provider's upcoming outage or reason for an unexpected outage a good sign or a bad sign? It's a very good sign. Not getting emails like that is a bad sign.

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Do You Get Downtime Notifications? Reason for Outage Explanations?  If Not, You May Need a New Provider

SuperMicro Takes Another Torpedo Below the Waterline: The Hindenburg Research Short Seller Report Hits Hard

First SprucePoint shorted SuperMicro back in may. Turns out Hindenburg Research started an investigation at the same time, and now they've released their conclusions. It isn't a pretty picture.

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SuperMicro Takes Another Torpedo Below the Waterline: The Hindenburg Research Short Seller Report Hits Hard

HelpScout for Under $2/Month? You Can With FreeScout and PikaPods!

Can't afford HelpScout? Consider a free feature-loaded alternative with unlimited users and tickets, running on community provider PikaPods' reliable and affordable infrastructure!

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HelpScout for Under $2/Month?  You Can With FreeScout and PikaPods!

AMD Boosts AI Prowess Through Strategic Acquisition of ZT Systems

AMD has declared its intention to purchase ZT Systems, a key player in AI infrastructure solutions catering to major hyperscale computing entities. This strategic move aligns with AMD's aim to enhance AI training and inferencing solutions by making advancements in silicon, software, and system levels. Can Intel ever catch up?

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AMD Boosts AI Prowess Through Strategic Acquisition of ZT Systems

Guess Who Just Got a $5 Billion Check From the Government?

Unfortunately, the answer is not "raindog308". But the feds are handing out BIG checks these days...

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Guess Who Just Got a $5 Billion Check From the Government?

Did You Miss DartNode's $10/Year VPS? They Have Another Awesome Deal in Houston for You!

DartNode had a $10/year VPS deal on LowEndTalk. Sadly, it's out of stock now. But they have another cheap VPS deal in Houston that is still pretty wowza!

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Did You Miss DartNode's $10/Year VPS? They Have Another Awesome Deal in Houston for You!

Tucows Q2 2024 Financial Results: The Struggle Continues

We've published a few articles about the performance of Tucows peer, Digital Ocean, and their struggles, in August 2023 and again in October 2023 as Digital Ocean navigates challenging growth with high capital spending. Meanwhile, it seems Tucows is booking modest, incremental, revenue growth but is still reporting huge (relative) net losses.

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Tucows Q2 2024 Financial Results: The Struggle Continues

Time for a Cheap VPS? You're in the Right Place!

You’re reading this because you believe it is time for you to get a VPS: a new shiny Virtual Private Server! Most people reach this stage after being with a web host for some time.

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Time for a Cheap VPS? You're in the Right Place!

We Need To Stop Supporting THIS As Consumers… (My One Apple Complaint)

Everyone has their own preferences, but personally? I'm a big Apple guy. I think they have the world's best UX/UI, and generally produce quality products. Of course the given complaint is they're expe...

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We Need To Stop Supporting THIS As Consumers… (My One Apple Complaint)

I Gave Two Friends Advice on a Cheap VPS and Now I'm on the Hook if Anything Goes Wrong

Coincidentally, two different friends asked me for advice on a VPS this week. How do you handle these kinds of requests?

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I Gave Two Friends Advice on a Cheap VPS and Now I'm on the Hook if Anything Goes Wrong

Is SuperMicro in Trouble?

SuperMicro got blasted earlier this year by famed short selling firm SprucePoint. Now Q2 financials are out and the picture they paint isn't pretty.

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Is SuperMicro in Trouble?

SolusVM V1 New Security Feature: Two-Factor Authentication Now Available!

Two factor authentication for Solus v2 is here! Community provider RackNerd walks us through setting it up, whether you're an end user or provider.

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SolusVM V1 New Security Feature: Two-Factor Authentication Now Available!

BinaryRacks: Summer Sale in London Means Big Savings on Cheap VPS and Cheap Dedicated Server Offers!

Summer sales are all the rage, and as we finish off July and head for August, BinaryRacks has a great offer in London for a cheap VPS or cheap dedicated server.

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BinaryRacks: Summer Sale in London Means Big Savings on Cheap VPS and Cheap Dedicated Server Offers!

Microsoft: VMware Pricing "Gave The World The Greatest Gift Of All"

“Everyone wants to get off of VMware and get into the cloud." So says Microsoft's Chief Commercial Officer, and he's right.

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Microsoft: VMware Pricing

RedHat Prepares to Give Bootloaders the Boot

Do we still need GRUB? RedHat says no and they're working on a project to replace GRUB by moving everything it does into the kernel itself.

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RedHat Prepares to Give Bootloaders the Boot

The Time eBay Mailed a Bloody Pig and Live Cockroaches to Someone Who Dared Criticize Them

Criticize eBay and you might find a dead pig in your mailbox. Or your house vandalized.

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The Time eBay Mailed a Bloody Pig and Live Cockroaches to Someone Who Dared Criticize Them

The Top 20 CrowdStrike Memes You Can Enjoy While You Fix Servers

What a bender!  CrowdStrike pushed out a bad update and woke me up at 3am.  I guess there were some other global impacts as well.  I've been keeping an eye on the global meme tubes and have collected 20 of the best so far for you.  If you're still hip deep in deleting  C:\Windows\System32\drivers\CrowdStrike\C-00000291*.sys, take a break and enjoy some laughs.

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The Top 20 CrowdStrike Memes You Can Enjoy While You Fix Servers

CloudLinux Changes Pricing Lineup and Their CEO Talks to Our Community

The community is displeased with CloudLinux's new pricing stance. Igor Seletskiy

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CloudLinux Changes Pricing Lineup and Their CEO Talks to Our Community

Install Windows Server on any VPS or Dedicated Server without KVM/iLO or IPMI!

Do you need to install Windows on your VPS?  Usually you'd go to your provider's panel and install a template, or perhaps boot from an ISO.  But what if neither of those are options? Can you somehow install Windows on a KVM VPS? Yes!

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Install Windows Server on any VPS or Dedicated Server without KVM/iLO or IPMI!

Google Says AI Is a Lot More Important Than Saving the Planet

Google is going gangbusters for green...right? They were, until the next shiny thing came along.

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Google Says AI Is a Lot More Important Than Saving the Planet

Nomi AI vs Kindroid AI: Will You Find Love on Either of These AI Companion Apps? Plus TEASE: How to DIY Your AI Companion

Let's take a look at Nomi and Kindroid, two of the leading AI companion (aka AI girlfriend) apps. They take radically different approaches and have made interesting technical choices. PLUS: see Jon Biloh looking buff!

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Nomi AI vs Kindroid AI: Will You Find Love on Either of These AI Companion Apps? Plus TEASE: How to DIY Your AI Companion

Our First VPNaaS Offer! 3GB RAM@$22/YR and 6GB RAM@$42/YR From Serverhost.com!

Check out this innovative offer from ServerHost.com: VPN As A Service! Pricing is excellent and if you want to get into the VPN business or

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Our First VPNaaS Offer! 3GB RAM@$22/YR and 6GB RAM@$42/YR From Serverhost.com!

Extract a Bullet Point Summary of Any YouTube Video at the Command Line in Seconds With This Incredible AI Command Line Tool!

Here's an awesome command-line one-liner that will watch a YouTube video for you and come back with a summary, key points, quotes, references, etc., all formatted in Markdown and done in about 60 seconds!

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Extract a Bullet Point Summary of Any YouTube Video at the Command Line in Seconds With This Incredible AI Command Line Tool!

Happy One Year Birthday, Threads! We're Sorry You Failed

Threads was supposed to be a Twitter killer. It wasn't.

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Happy One Year Birthday, Threads!  We're Sorry You Failed

Need a Cheap, Cheap Nvidia GPU Rental? Here are the Cheapest GPU Rental Spots!

Need a cheap GPU? Well my friend, those don't exist. But if you want the cheapest possible GPU, we have some leads for you.

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Need a Cheap, Cheap Nvidia GPU Rental?  Here are the Cheapest GPU Rental Spots!

"I Married My AI! We Met on Tinder AI! Pictures!!! ": We Need to Talk About the Exploding World of AI Girlfriends

People are romancing and marrying AI girlfriends and boyfriends. We're starting a series on this emerging - dare we say exploding - phenomenon.

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ColoCrossing Expands into Dublin, Ireland!

Leathnaíonn ColoCrossing isteach i mBaile Átha Cliath, Éire! OK, I don't actually speak Gaelic, but that's Google does and that is how you say ""ColoCrossing into Dublin, Ireland" in the Irish language. Let's dive in and learn more about their expansion!

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ColoCrossing Expands into Dublin, Ireland!

Want to Run a LLM Like Llama3 at Home for a Self-Hosted ChatGPT? A Mac Might Be Your Best, Cheapest Option

If you want to run AI, you need a bunch of high-end Nvidia GPUs, right? There's actually an alternative that is about half the price.

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Want to Run a LLM Like Llama3 at Home for a Self-Hosted ChatGPT? A Mac Might Be Your Best, Cheapest Option
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