The Art of Writing a Good Root Cause Analysis/Reason for Outage
The art of writing an RCA is not complicated. We recently had a good example of one on LowEndTalk.
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How Are Residential IPs Obtained for Proxies and VPNs? Is It Legal?
It's much smoother browsing the internet on a residential IP address -- you won't have to deal with hardly as much headaches in terms of blocked IPs, CAPTCHAs and beyond in comparison to a data center IP address. So, it's nice to be able to use a residential IP address on your VPN or proxy. But... how are these obtained? Is it legal? Ethical? Let's talk about it.
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Four Customers Who Found Out the Hard Way You Need To Backup Your Cloud Data
To the cloud! It's this magical place where resources are infinite, SLAs are tight, and you never need to back things up because that's all handled by the provider. Right? Well...
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OpenAI Releases Dall-E 3 Beta for ChatGPT Subscribers, Here’s How To Use It
Interested in generating high-quality images with ChatGPT? Hate Midjourney? Well then, I have good news for you: OpenAI has finally integrated Dall-E 3 with ChatGPT for plus and enterprise customers. Let's dive into the functionality it offers in its beta.
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The Reason Scientology is Fighting Right-to-Repair That No One is Talking About
A few media outlets have reported that the Church of Scientology is opposing right-to-repair legislation. But the reason might be a little surprising.
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SerpBear: A Free Open-Source Google Page Ranking Tracker That’s Better Than You’d Expect
SEO is lucrative, that's why tracking your Google search results is important. The problem is, the popular SEO tracking solutions like Ahrefs, SemRush, and the like cost hundreds of dollars. So, I gave a free page rank tracking solution, SerpBear, a shot. The verdict? It works surprisingly well, let me break it down for you...
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Did AI Cause StackOverflow's Massive Job Cuts, or Did StackOverflow's Community?
StackOverflow has been sailing in rough waters lately and has just hit another reef. Massive job cuts have been announced. Is SO designed for failure?
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Servacus: "Get Out. You Have Nine Days."
Servacus is winding down operations in one of their DCs. They've had a rough go, as reviews indicate.
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Do We Finally Have a Free WHMCS Alternative With Paymenter?
All of the hosting billing solutions on the market right now are dinosaurs, and the king of the dinosaurs, WHMCS, keeps raising prices without adding any improvements. Thus, the demand for new options on the market. The question is, though, is Paymenter up to the task?
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Looking for a Job? Looking for a Great Employee? Maybe Our Community Can Help!
We have an informal job posting thread on LowEndTalk and some employers and employees have matched up already. We'd love to keep it going, so if you're looking on either side of the table, check it out.
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Starting a Forum? Strong Opinions on Which Platform to Choose
In case you didn't know, forums are dead and have been completely obsolete for 20 years. Yet, they keep growing and people keep starting them. Here's our take on popular forum software.
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The Only Reason to Have an Email Address in 2023
Nowadays you communicate with people over Discord, Whatsapp, SnapChat, and if you're a boomer, maybe Facebook Messenger. Do you even use your email any more? Is there any reason to still have an account? There's one very good reason.
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Omi in a Hellcat: How the Founder of the $30M IPTV Streaming Service, Gears TV Reloaded, Got Himself Sentenced to Prison by Flexing His Wealth on YouTube
Omi in a Hellcat grew to YouTube stardom very quickly by flexing his wealth in a very blatant (even a bit obnoxious) type of way. It worked temporarily, but... the problem is, you need to be able to explain where your wealth is coming from when you center your image around it. Plus, more than just civilians can watch YouTube...
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Fresh Meat Weekend: Use This Hack to Get a Super-Cheap VPS in Stockholm, Sweden!
This provider has a pretty good deal in Stockholm, Sweden but you can make it exceptional with this little hack. Or as the clickbaiters say, this ONE WEIRD TRICK...
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Providers: Black Friday is Coming! Get Your Offers in NOW or Miss Out on the Greatest Retail Event of the Year
The year's greatest retail event - most people would call it the year's greatest event period - is coming soon! If you're a provider, you need to start thinking about how you're going to appeal to our eager audience and get your offers in now.
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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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