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New Trans-Pacific Cable: Will It Improve Asia Bandwidth?

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 about two and a half year, starting operating by the end of 2024. And the bandwidth?  350Tbps.  Now if you figure that the typical LEB link is on 1Gbps shared port, and there's got to be 20 or so VMs at least with some provi...

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New Trans-Pacific Cable: Will It Improve Asia Bandwidth?

Google Still Addicted to Third Party Cookies, May Need to Go to Rehab

Everyone is making too much money using third party cookies so they're not going away "yet". You may recall that back in January of 2020, Google announced that they were going to remove third party co...

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Google Still Addicted to Third Party Cookies, May Need to Go to Rehab

Does WHMCS License Verify Even Work?

When a new host comes along, one of the standard checks I make is to ensure that they are not using a cracked version of WHMCS.  Since time immemorial, the LowEndTalk selling rules have stated that "U...

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Does WHMCS License Verify Even Work?

Apple Silicon: A Hard Use Review

I'm an Apple fanboy.  Actually, I'm a Unix fanboy and I find macOS to be the best desktop expression of that OS.  I wouldn't want to run macOS on my servers - I use Linux or *BSD for that - but for de...

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Apple Silicon: A Hard Use Review

Own a Network of Data Centers for Less than $150!

You might think that buying an interest in a global network of data centers would cost you tens or hundreds of millions of dollars.  But you can get in cheaper.  Way cheaper.  How cheap?  Less than $1...

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Own a Network of Data Centers for Less than $150!

Is Starlink Service a Sinking Ship?

Are you a Starlink user? Starlink is the satellite Internet service started by Elon Musk.  Unlink earlier technology providers like Dish Network, Starlink's birds fly a lot lower and this improves lat...

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Is Starlink Service a Sinking Ship?

Why It May Be Illegal to Pay Ransomeware and Why a Ban on Payments Won't Work

If your organization's data is being held for ransom by hackers, should you pay up?  The universal consensus is that you shouldn't because it encourages criminals.  But an earlier question needs to be...

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Why It May Be Illegal to Pay Ransomeware and Why a Ban on Payments Won't Work

Your Wordpress Has Been Scanned. Hope You Weren't Hacked.

Wordfence reports that hackers are widely attempting to exploit a vulnerability that they reported over three months ago.  According to The Register: Wordfence disclosed the flaw almost three months a...

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Your Wordpress Has Been Scanned.  Hope You Weren't Hacked.

Free! 8 vCPUs And 32GB RAM! -- Coming Soon From Google Cloud!

In today's Google Cloud Blog Post, Product Managers Subra Chandramouli and Jamie Kinney announced plans for expanding the use of Arm® architecture CPUs at Google Cloud. Following last year's introduct...

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Free! 8 vCPUs And 32GB RAM! -- Coming Soon From Google Cloud!

ALMOST GONE: Save 90% on Shodan.io! Only $5 Lifetime!

LowEndTalk member @Chuck alerted the community to a terrific deal: you can get a full access lifetime membership for Shodan.io for only $5 - that's 90% off the list price! However the deal expires at...

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ALMOST GONE: Save 90% on Shodan.io!  Only $5 Lifetime!

"We Can't Send Email More than 500 Miles". A True Story.

I was working in a job running the campus email system some years ago when I got a call from the chairman of the statistics department. "We're having a problem sending email out of the department." "W...

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Should We Use This Template For Your Low End Box Interview?

One of the things I love the most about my job as Content Creator here at Low End Box is doing some of our Interviews! It's really fun for me to meet our friendly members and providers. I like getting...

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Should We Use This Template For Your Low End Box Interview?

Your DirectAdmin Cost Might Be Going Up By 250%

The community's favorite web hosting control panel is raising prices. The popularity of retail Pro Pack licensing has surged over the past few years while volume growth of legacy licensing (licenses w...

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Your DirectAdmin Cost Might Be Going Up By 250%

What's Going on with NexusBytes?

A while back, a company named NexusBytes appeared in our community. They had very good prices and their marketing was pretty sharp. Instead of just "X GB = $X" price listing, they presented some attra...

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What's Going on with NexusBytes?

Become a Certified Datacenter Associate Online...for FREE!

I sometimes peek at HostingJournalist and I saw this article come across the feed. More than 650,000 users of data centers have taken more than one million courses from Schneider Electric University,...

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Become a Certified Datacenter Associate Online...for FREE!

An Incredibly Amazing Co-Incidence Of Doubled, Double Disk Failures!

Just recently we were introducing our newer Low Enders to Hacker News ("HN"). Now, suddenly, we have news of a doubled, double disk failure over there at HN. The doubled, double disk failure took HN d...

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An Incredibly Amazing Co-Incidence Of Doubled, Double Disk Failures!

Retbleed: Your x86 Speculative Attack Du Jour

"Today Intel released two security advisories addressing 2 medium severity vulnerabilities reported by academic researchers from ETH Zurich who have labeled their side-channel attack as “Retbleed” due...

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Retbleed: Your x86 Speculative Attack Du Jour

There are 19,000 Crypto Coins in the World, and 18,980 of Them are Going Bust

The bold prediction you read in the headlines come from Paul Krake, a former hedge fund manager. Crypto is BS, complete BS. I'm the ultimate skeptic on crypto. China can never ban crypto? China banned...

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There are 19,000 Crypto Coins in the World, and 18,980 of Them are Going Bust

Guest Post: Top Five Reasons Why Most Businesses Either Fail or Stay Stagnant by Dustin B. Cisneros, CEO of RackNerd

Continuing our Guest Article Series, today we are talking with Dustin B. Cisneros, CEO of RackNerd, about why businesses either fail or stay stagnant, and how you can avoid that for your own business....

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Guest Post: Top Five Reasons Why Most Businesses Either Fail or Stay Stagnant by Dustin B. Cisneros, CEO of RackNerd

LowEndBox Redesign is Live! What Do You Think?

As you may have noticed, we've give the place a fresh paint job, spackled over some rough spots, and had someone with some actual taste (no offense LEAdmin) come in and renovate things. Welcome to Low...

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LowEndBox Redesign is Live!  What Do You Think?

How Providers Can Get Free Advertising and SEO On Low End Box!

Thousands Of People Visit Low End Box Every Day! Through its advertisements, offers, interviews, and industry news, Low End Box gives readers the cheapest, best, and most current Low End hosting, VPS,...

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How Providers Can Get Free Advertising and SEO On Low End Box!

Should You Invest in Pure-Play Hosting Companies like DOCN or RTX? Analysis Says...

When looking for pure play hosting companies to analyze, there aren't many with public financials.  The largest public webs are all components of larger companies.  AWS is part of Amazon, Azure is par...

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Should You Invest in Pure-Play Hosting Companies like DOCN or RTX?  Analysis Says...

Whore Presents? Molestation Nursery? Friday Fun: Be Careful When Picking Domain Names!

Choosing a domain name should be pretty easy.  For most companies you simply add a ".com" to your company name and you're good to go.  That is, unless mashing the letters in your name together makes a...

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Whore Presents?  Molestation Nursery?  Friday Fun: Be Careful When Picking Domain Names!

CoinPayments Pulls Out of the US, Creating Chaos for Users

"In light of a constantly changing market in the United States of America, CoinPayments Inc. and UAB Star Ventures are at this time discontinuing services to and access to our platform by U.S. users."...

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CoinPayments Pulls Out of the US, Creating Chaos for Users

BackBlaze (BLZE) to be Acquired. You Heard it Here First.

When Backblaze (NASDAQ:BLZE) went public last November, I thought it might be an interesting play, but I didn't like the valuation or the earnings. And I still don't. And this concerns me because I'm...

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BackBlaze (BLZE) to be Acquired.  You Heard it Here First.

Declare Your Independence from High-Cost Hosts with Our Weekend Deals Thread!

Happy Fourth of July! As we celebrate America's independence, I'd like to draw your attention to a fabulous deals thread on LowEndTalk.  It's petty casual and doesn't have the scope or depth of our bi...

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Declare Your Independence from High-Cost Hosts with Our Weekend Deals Thread!

Bye-Bye PayPal Friends And Family Payments To Business Accounts!

Today, June 30, PayPal sent me three emails. The first wants me to check the May activity for my company's business account. The second wants me to "take my business online with a PayPal partner." And...

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Bye-Bye PayPal Friends And Family Payments To Business Accounts!

Introduction to Hacker News ("HN")

Besides Low End Box and Low End Talk, one of the great joys of my days has been reading Hacker News. Anybody interested in computers and the internet will find Hacker News, always referred to as "HN,"...

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Introduction to Hacker News (
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