Being a provider means mastering many challenges - customer support, security, networks, and many more. One of the most challenging is marketing. How do you get the word out about your services? How do you stand out from the crowd? If you're looking for new ways to reach your audience and don't have the budget for expensive AdWords campaigns or big advertising campaigns where you're competing head on with giant corpora...
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The staff at LowEndBox would like to take a moment to recognize several advertisers who've recently come on board: OnApp: These are the guys behind cloud.net, a soup-to-nuts SaaS cloud platform...
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Every month, LowEndBox puts a question in front of hosting industry leaders and LEB community providers, who are invited to comment and offer their perspective. Our goal is to stimulate discussion ar...
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We regularly post offers for the cheapest VPSes on the planet...but did you know there are places you can get a VPS for free? Naturally there are caveats, provisos, and gotchas, but if your budget is...
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We feature many great offers here on LowEndBox, but you'll also find some unique provider postings on our sister site, LowEndTalk. If you're in the market for great hosting, be sure to check both sit...
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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 everybody know that AlmaLinux is now officially available a...
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A long time ago in a galaxy...well, in Florida, there was a company called BackupDragon. They provided backup VPSes, in a time when these were not yet common. Today, "storage VPSes" are all over the...
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Most of the time, we feature industry news, or tutorials as a “guest post”. From time to time, we also want to bring to you interesting finds, related to the hosting industry that we’ve discovered. Ou...
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Of all the categories I thought we might add to LowEndBox one day, "Datacenter Fires" was not on my short list. But maybe we need to create this section. On the heels of OVH's huge SBG Datacenter fi...
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As you may have read yesterday, WHMCS has ended support for owned licenses. For a lot of shops, this is a significant financial hit, given that the cost of moving to a monthly subscription is signifi...
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If you sell cloud hosting with any platform that isn’t based on OnApp, and you’re paying your current platform provider more than $500/month… Cloud.net is offering to match your current pricing if you...
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WHMCS, a popular publisher of customer management/invoicing/billing systems in the hosting market, announced today that they are discontinuing all support for owned licenses. WHMCS has slowly ramped u...
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We wanted to take the time to reflect on some of the most popular offers that were featured on LowEndBox/LowEndTalk on Black Friday 2020. Some of the below offers may (or may not) be available for ord...
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OnApp will shortly be releasing their new SaaS cloud platform, cloud.net, and we're excited to get a preview of their plans in the press release below. Readers might remember our recent interview with...
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Over the past year, since we announced that we are back on Twitter on April 9th, 2020 we've added thousands of followers. And that is awesome. Thank you! If you haven't followed up on Twitter yet, and...
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Most of the companies appearing on LowEndBox submit offers requesting publication. From time to time, we bring you other companies that our staff has discovered over the years. Our goal is to provid...
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The long winter is starting to pass and soon comes warmer weather for our Northern Hemisphere friends. As your advertising budgets start to thaw, now would be a great way to consider advertising on Lo...
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We recently asked you what your plans were regarding CentOS. As you may have read, CentOS is changing and we were curious how the community was going to react. The results are in! With 270 votes, he...
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If you don't have plans for next weekend (March 20-21), you might consider attending LibrePlanet, an annual conference held by the Free Software Foundation. Because of COVID-19, LibrePlanet is once a...
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OVH's CEO Octave Klaba has released a video giving an update on the SBG fire. In it, he discusses the extent of the damage, results of initial investigation, and future plans. It's a pretty low-budge...
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There’s three companies that I think of as mid-market hosts: Digital Ocean Linode Vultr What do I mean by mid market? They’re between two extremes: Tech behemoths like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google w...
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OVH, one of the largest hosting providers in the world, suffered a runaway fire at their SBG datacenter in Strasbourg, France. We have a major incident on SBG2. The fire declared in the building. Fire...
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As we reported last December, CentOS is changing. Instead of being downstream of RHEL (and seeking to be a free RHEL clone), it is now moving upstream of RHEL and will be a development playground for...
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Being a provider means mastering many challenges - customer support, security, networks, and many more. One of the most challenging is marketing. How do you get the word out about your services? Ho...
Read MoreAs discussed on LowEndTalk, community favorite BuyVM has decided to pause new signups for BuyShared, its shared-hosting brand for 2021. According to @Francisco (BuyVM's owner), they are focusing on t...
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Every month, LowEndBox puts a question in front of hosting industry leaders and LEB community providers, who are invited to comment and offer their perspective. Our goal is to stimulate discussion ar...
Read MoreCalifornia-based hosting company InMotion Hosting announced today that they had acquired well-known LEB provider RamNode. An official press release will come out next week, but in a post on LowEndTalk...
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Most folks use Debian, Ubuntu, or CentOS, with the occasional pro using RedHat or the hipster using Arch. But there are over 1,000 Linux distros! Not all are suitable for running on a VPS of course,...
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