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 a customer. Backblaze generated $41m and $54m in 2019 and 2020 respectively. They were barely profitable in 2019 and had a small loss in 2020 - fair to say they've been right at break even during these periods. For 2021, sale...
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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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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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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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Goodbye, TikTok. According to news reports, both Apple and Google have received letters from the FCC requesting they remove the TikTok app from their app stores. Neither Apple nor Google has commente...
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Hosting provider HostMantis has announced that it is moving all hosts to DynamicHosting.ca. "As of July 1st, 2022, to continue our evolution we are partnering with Dynamic Hosting. Going forward, Dyna...
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I'd like to quote a post from @Mumbly, a LowEndTalk reader: "Every time I opened LEB decade ago I found introductions of some new low end VPS providers....When LEA started this community he didn't rel...
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If you haven't heard, there's a problem with IPv4 exhaustion. If you're looking to rent or lease IPs, we have the thread for you. There are many choices in the marketplace, and LowEndTalk does not hav...
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OVH announced on June 14 that it will begin charging for IPv4 addresses. That loud screaming sound you heard was thousands of low-end hosts watching their profit margins vaporize. "Given the scarcity...
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Stop me if you've heard this on before. You started a web site and were thrilled when you started to get substantial traffic. At first, your cPanel hosting could keep up but eventually either you or...
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Thanks to a LowEndBox tipster for submitting this news! You may recall the horrific datacenter fire that OVH suffered about 15 months ago. A Paris law firm has filed a lawsuit seeking damages from OV...
Read MoreWe've all been there. You see a deal, it's too good to pass up, and then two weeks later you realize it's idling and will go on idling until you cancel. If it's an hourly VM, bang, it's gone. But wha...
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Get LowEndBox delivered directly to your inbox every time we share an offer or post! Our list will send you an alert for every post. Sometimes offers have limited stock, particularly when they're exc...
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Udemy recently has been featured both here on Low End Box and on Low End Talk. Also, on September 20, 2021, Low End Box previously featured Low End Talk's Udemy thread. Low End Talk's Udemy thread has...
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On some gear-oriented YouTube channels, people will do pocket dumps or bag dumps where they'll show you everything that they carry on a daily basis. These are things like phones, chargers, multitools...
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Remember when you could just fire off an email and be sure it'd arrive? Me, neither, it's been so long. Email deliverability is a real hassle here in the 21st century...thanks for this look at one s...
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A while back, we alerted you to a thread on LowEndTalk where community member - and now moderator! - @Arkas shared free courses from Udemy. That thread was started in September and the community is st...
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Low-end providers have steadily adapted features that were once the exclusive province of big companies. For example: Reverse DNS configuration by the user Anycast configuration Block storage But one...
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We live in a push world, and if you prefer to get deals, posts, and news delivered to you in an app, we can help with that. We're on major social media platforms and we're growing our content there. ...
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The idea of changing up the IPv4 protocols to free up reserved ranges is not new. Heck, I posted about it on LowEndTalk at least ten years ago and it wasn't new then. The idea is simple: when IPv4 wa...
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Have you read something interesting? Have you heard something suspicious? Did you come across a cool deal for hosting, computers, online services, educational materials, stickers, shirts, sheets, or s...
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Lotus 1-2-3 And The 1990s Tavis Ormandy is a world class white hat hacker who works at Google Project Zero. Hacker News ("HN") is a news aggregator and comment board run by the well known start...
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To continue LowEndBox’s new “interesting news” series, we recently received a new submission from Dustin B. Cisneros over at RackNerd to let us know that they’ve officially become a Certified cPanel P...
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There was a provocative headline on SeekingAlpha (a popular investing website) today: When Bitcoin Collapses, it Doesn't Get Cheap. The author is referring to Bitcoin but his arguments apply to all c...
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By now, you've probably owned up to the fact that G Suite Legacy accounts are going away and you're going to have to pay $5/head/month because you want a custom domain. Maybe you've even converted ov...
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DigitalOcean has announced new pricing starting July 1, 2022. Notably, 1GB RAM VPSes will now be $6/mo. $5/mo for 1GB has been a price point for a long, long time. Linode, Vultr, and others have all...
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Looking for a free domain? How about a .app or a .dev, free for 1 year? That's what Porkbun is offering! Just head over to the page and claim yours, while supplies last. However, supplies are unlim...
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RedHat Linux 9 will soon be here. It was announced this week at Red Hat Summit and will be the first major release post-IBM acquisition. Presumably Alma and Rocky releases will soon follow. As a rem...
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