It's a common misconception in the hosting industry that snapshots and backups are interchangeable terms. However, this is not the case: snapshots are NOT equal to backups! While both snapshots and backups serve to protect data, they differ in some key ways that are important to understand.
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Have a virtual AI girlfriend? Here's something fun to try. A teaser for our upcoming series on the explosion of AI companions.
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Back in our initial review of SolusVM 2.0 in late 2022, we at RackNerd felt that SolusVM V2 was not capable of handling production environments. Since then, they have fixed those concerns and implemented many fixes to the platform. Read on to see whether SolusVM 2.0 is ready for prime time...
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Here's a summary of my experiments with FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and DragonFlyBSD.
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DragonFlyBSD was a bit frustrating for me.
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The GNU GPL, BSD license, MIT...those are so last century. Today we have many other cool licenses to use and you should definitely switch all your code to one of these.
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Now it's time to look at OpenBSD, the security-focused BSD. We have quite a time getting things going and learn a lot along the way.
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Last time we looked at FreeBSD. Now we're onto NetBSD. It wasn't a pleasant experience.
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Miniscribe, a hard drive maker who flourished in the 1980s, once ran into serious inventory problems. And since a masonry brick is about the same size and weight of a hard drive from that era...
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We're continuing our journey through the BSD universe and today we're trying out FreeBSD. Does it have "The Power to Serve"?
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Here the Vultr VM I'm using for these BSD tryouts.
Read MoreIn this series, I'll be trying out each of the four major BSD operating systems (FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and DragonFlyBSD), including install, configuration, and web serving. We're paying a visit to the weird cousins from the other continent, and we'll have some fun exploring the OTHER free operating systems.
Read MoreI'm on a quest to create the perfect AI-powered personal assistant. We're closer than I thought, but still have a ways to go.
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OpenAI is thrilled to get a new trove of Apple data to train on. Except of course, they promise, cross their hearts and hope to die, stick a needle in their eye that this won't happen.
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LowEndBox's first album, "Shawty Got LowEnd" has been released! Likes to all 22 tracks with lyrics and insider notes!
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Google's Hamina, Finland datacenter is a pioneering green datacenter, leveraging the chilly Gulf of Finland waters to keep it cool without climate-intensive chillers. Let's take a quick look at this datacenter now that Google has announced that they're making a substantial new investment into this former paper mill.
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Leopold Aschenbrenner, a former safety researcher at ChatGPT creator OpenAI, has published a stunning series of articles forecasting Artificial Generalized Intelligence (AGI) - followed very shortly by Arficial Generalized Superintelligence (ASI) by 2027.
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I like to host with the best, and my LowEnd empire is a star-studded cavalcade of great LowEnd providers. Who are you hosting with these days?
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Later this month we're doing a 7-part series on BSD. Here's a quick preview.
Read MoreBoth Hostaris and IKIHOST were acquired in the last few days as M&A fever sweeps through the LowEnd community.
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The OpenAI board has asked a fox to guard their henhouse. What could go wrong?
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"Have you noticed MailBaby's service quality declining recently? That's because they stopped using MailChannels to send emails their own platform couldn't handle." And so it began.
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We've all read about how that ChatGPT voice sounds "uncannily" like ScarJo. That isn't an accident, and OpenAI has inflamed the artistic community by continuing to focus on the shiny instead of the safe.
Read MoreThe proprietor of Doxbin has been kidnapped. Or maybe not.
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Broadcom has blown chaos all over the VMware landscape with their acquisition but they're releasing desktop products for free. They just make it very difficult to download them.
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Unhappy with service? Just hit that chargeback, right? Hold your horses.
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Farewell, HyperExpert. I was a customer since 2020.
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Turning off a system? Make sure you get everything cleaned up and avoid future hassles with this checklist.
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