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Aug 26, 2021

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Australian law enforcement will soon be able to takeover accounts and impersonate their owners, "disrupt data" by modifying it. Three new warrant powers are granted Australian Federal Police (AFP) an...

Australian Police Will Soon Have Sweeping New Surveillance Powers

Amazon’s Quantum Computing Service Goes GA with 1 Hour for Free Tier Users

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Aug 25, 2021

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AWS announced this week that Amazon Braket, their quantum algorithm development environment, is available now in their US East and US West regions. AWS Free Tier customers receive 1 free hour of simul...

Amazon’s Quantum Computing Service Goes GA with 1 Hour for Free Tier Users

CoinBase Customer Service Continues to be Appalling: Thousands Hacked

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Aug 25, 2021

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A while back, I used CoinBase (NASDAQ: COIN) for some cryptocurrency transactions and found their system buggy and the customer service nonexistent. After failing repeatedly to get an account verified...

CoinBase Customer Service Continues to be Appalling: Thousands Hacked

Need a Domain? Selling a Domain? Check out LowEndTalk!

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Aug 22, 2021

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Do you have some domains you're looking to offload? Or are you looking for a new dot-something? One of the best places to buy and sell domains is on LowEndTalk, where you have a targeted audience of...

Need a Domain? Selling a Domain? Check out LowEndTalk!

Marketing 201, MiniPCs, Provider News, Stolen CPU, and Acquired Slackers: Recent LowEndTalk Threads

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Aug 21, 2021

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If you haven't read LowEndTalk lately, you're missing out on some interesting stories and discussions. Here's some recent community news and threads that have been popping on the forum: Slacker Networ...

Marketing 201, MiniPCs, Provider News, Stolen CPU, and Acquired Slackers: Recent LowEndTalk Threads

Microsoft Raising Fees for Office 365

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Aug 20, 2021

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Microsoft announced that they are raising prices for Office 365 subscriptions. The price increase is between 10% and 16%, depending on product. This is the first price increase since Office 365 launc...

Is Your Provider Squatting on Someone Else’s IPs?

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Aug 20, 2021

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When a provider needs IPs, they typically request them from their Regional Internet Registry (e.g., ARIN) or purchase them from an IP broker. The blocks are then assigned to the provider's AS (Autonom...

Is Your Provider Squatting on Someone Else’s IPs?

T-Mobile Leaks Almost 50 Million People’s SSNs and Driver’s Licenses

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Aug 19, 2021

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T-Mobile announced on Wednesday that a "a bad actor had compromised T-Mobile systems": "Some of the data accessed did include customers’ first and last names, date of birth, SSN, and driver’s license/...

T-Mobile Leaks Almost 50 Million People’s SSNs and Driver’s Licenses

SpamHaus Botnet Report Highlights Some LowEnd Providers

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Aug 19, 2021

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Spamhaus's 2021 Q2 Botnet Threat Update has been released and it's interesting reading. Overall, there has been a reduction in observed command and control (C&C) systems. However, at regional and...

SpamHaus Botnet Report Highlights Some LowEnd Providers

Looking for Hosting in Sweden? Check Out This Site!

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Aug 18, 2021

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We don't see a lot of offers for Sweden. I'm not entirely sure why. It's obviously a very well-developed country with robust infrastructure, and historically some of the more famous/infamous free sp...

Looking for Hosting in Sweden? Check Out This Site!

Report Reveals cPanel/WHM Suffers “Multiple Vulnerabilities”

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Aug 17, 2021

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Security research firm Fortbridge has released a report claiming to have discovered "multiple vulnerabilities in cPanel/WHM". The report states: "Our team has found multiple vulnerabilities in cPanel/...

Report Reveals cPanel/WHM Suffers “Multiple Vulnerabilities”

Microsoft Azure is the World’s Largest Cloud

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Aug 16, 2021

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According to recent data, Microsoft Azure is the world's largest public cloud with $17.7 billion in quarterly revenue. Amazon AWS trails not far behind at $13.3 billion. The top five (which also inc...

Microsoft Azure is the World’s Largest Cloud

RackNerd’s CEO, Dustin B. Cisneros on the Evolution of the Hosting Landscape, Aggressive Expansion, and Managing 17 Datacenter Locations

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Aug 16, 2021

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RackNerd, a well known provider within the LowEndBox & LowEndTalk community which was recently voted #1 top provider by the community members, was recently featured on an interview with HostAdvice...

RackNerd’s CEO, Dustin B. Cisneros on the Evolution of the Hosting Landscape, Aggressive Expansion, and Managing 17 Datacenter Locations

Yoast Acquired. Apparently, It Was a Company. Who Knew?

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Aug 15, 2021

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Newfold Digital, a leading web technology provider that no one has ever heard of but owns a variety of well-known brands including HostGator, Network Solutions, and Bluehost, has acquired Yoast. Read...

Debian 11 “Bullseye” Released Today!

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Aug 14, 2021

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Debian 11, code-named Bullseye, was released today. If it's not already available on your favorite VM provider's panel, I suggest you own a thread on LowEndTalk and complain bitterly. Major new featu...

Apple Installs Mandatory Software on Every Apple Device That Allows Engineers to See Your Photos, Approve Your Searches

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Aug 14, 2021

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Apple announced today that will begin scanning every photo, iMessage, and search you perform on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac in order to verify that Apple approves of the content you are viewing. Under...

Apple Installs Mandatory Software on Every Apple Device That Allows Engineers to See Your Photos, Approve Your Searches

Analyzing DigitalOcean’s Financials

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Aug 09, 2021

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Unlike most hosting companies, DigitalOcean (NYSE: DOCN) is a publicly-traded company and hence must file quarterly audited financial reports. While there are other big hosting companies that must fil...

Verisign Increasing .COM Fees September 1. NameSilo Increasing Them Even More

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Aug 06, 2021

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Sorry to harsh your summer buzz, but that Verisign announcement from back in February that you briefly grumbled about and then forgot because it was in the future is now relevant. As of September 1, y...

Verisign Increasing .COM Fees September 1. NameSilo Increasing Them Even More

LowEndTalk Member Creates Homemade Datacenter UPS Out of Tesla Batteries

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Aug 05, 2021

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Long-time community member @randvegeta has been sharing the story of his Lithium-powered datacenter UPS setup on LowEndTalk. He is the proprietor of MLNL.host, a cheap VPS provider we featured yester...

Industry Roundtable: The Chia-Driven Hard Drive Shortage

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Aug 03, 2021

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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...

Industry Roundtable: The Chia-Driven Hard Drive Shortage

NexusBytes Acquires SmallWeb

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Aug 02, 2021

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SmallWeb announced Friday that they are being acquired by NexusBytes, effective August 1, 2021. Full details are available in an email sent to customers, which has also been posted on LowEndTalk. Mich...

PayPal Rates Increasing on August 2nd

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Jul 30, 2021

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PayPal announced earlier this month that they are jacking up their fees...er, we meant to say, "making changes to published rates to better align pricing with the value their products and services pro...

Community News: Rocky Linux OS Now Available on RackNerd’s Platform!

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Jul 30, 2021

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Rocky Linux offered their first official release (8.4) on June 21st and now providers are adding it as an option to their hosting platforms. If you're not familiar, Rocky Linux is CentOS Reborn. You...

Community News: Rocky Linux OS Now Available on RackNerd’s Platform!

Cloudflare Complains About Amazon AWS Egress Fees

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Jul 28, 2021

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In a blog post this week, Cloudflare complained that Amazon AWS's egress fees are too high. According to CF's calculations, customers are paying: 80 times Amazon's costs in the US, Canada, and Europe...

Cloudflare Complains About Amazon AWS Egress Fees

Comment Free For All: Hacking in the Movies

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Jul 28, 2021

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I once watched an episode of Law & Order with a friend who is an attorney. From the moment the action switched from the police to the prosecutors, he was tied up in knots, shouting at the screen a...

Comment Free For All: Hacking in the Movies

SmallWeb Suffers “Catastrophic Data Loss” in London

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Jul 27, 2021

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A user on LowEndTalk reported that shared hosting provider SmallWeb has emailed customers to report that their London shared hosting has suffered a "catastrophic data loss". "Dear friend, At 6:03PM UK...

SmallWeb Suffers “Catastrophic Data Loss” in London

RackSpace Lays Off 10% of its Workforce

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Jul 25, 2021

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In a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Rackspace announced Friday that they are laying off 10% of their workforce. "On July 21, 2021, the Company [Rackspace] committed to an inter...

Outage at Akamai Takes Down Major Internet Sites

Jon Biloh

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Jul 22, 2021

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Akamai, a leading global content delivery network, was responsible for an outage today which impacted large portions of the Internet, including popular websites FedEx, UPS, Home Depot, and many others...

Outage at Akamai Takes Down Major Internet Sites

AFRINIC Cracks Down on IP Fraud

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Jul 22, 2021

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AFRINIC (the Regional Internet Authority for Africa which controls allocations of IP addresses on that continent) appears to be cracking down on people who obtain African IPs and use them elewhere. Co...

Insurers Tire of Paying Ransom to Cyber Crooks

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Jul 20, 2021

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Loss ratios in the cyber insurance world have skyrocketed in recent years - surging 400% year over year. They have hit 70% of paid premiums, which some industry commentators are saying is unsustainab...

Insurers Tire of Paying Ransom to Cyber Crooks

Chia Crypto Farming Wreaks Havoc in the Hard Drive Market

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Jul 19, 2021

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Popular cryptocoin Chia has been wreaking havoc in the hard drive market of late, chewing up all available supplies in some markets as miners - er, farmers - look for capacity to work the crypto algor...

Chia Crypto Farming Wreaks Havoc in the Hard Drive Market

Beware Black Hat Cookie Stuffing Affiliate Marketing

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Jul 18, 2021

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