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Apr 12, 2021

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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...

raindog308’s Journeys: Secure Your Data With a Dragon at SecureDragon

How to Start a WEB HOSTING BUSINESS in 2021 (VIDEO)

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Apr 10, 2021

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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...

How to Start a WEB HOSTING BUSINESS in 2021 (VIDEO)

Fire Damages WebNX Utah Datacenter, Causes Extended Outage

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Apr 07, 2021

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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...

Fire Damages WebNX Utah Datacenter, Causes Extended Outage

WHMCS Alternatives

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Apr 07, 2021

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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...

Do You Sell VPS at Scale? Cloud.net Will Match Your Current Platform Pricing (if they can!)

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Apr 07, 2021

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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...

Do You Sell VPS at Scale? Cloud.net Will Match Your Current Platform Pricing (if they can!)

WHMCS Kneecaps Owned Licenses: No More Support

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Apr 06, 2021

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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...

BLACK FRIDAY Recap: Best Black Friday 2020 Offers on LowEndBox & LowEndTalk!

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Apr 01, 2021

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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...

BLACK FRIDAY Recap: Best Black Friday 2020 Offers on LowEndBox & LowEndTalk!

OnApp Brings Cloud Hosting into the SaaS Age, with Cloud.net!

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Mar 31, 2021

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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...

OnApp Brings Cloud Hosting into the SaaS Age, with Cloud.net!

LowEndBox is on Twitter! Follow us for great deals on web hosting!

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Mar 28, 2021

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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...

raindog308’s Journeys: BuyVM, Pony-Powered in the LowEnd Market for 10+ Years!

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Mar 26, 2021

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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...

raindog308’s Journeys: BuyVM, Pony-Powered in the LowEnd Market for 10+ Years!

Spring is a great time to advertise on LowEndBox!

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Mar 25, 2021

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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...

Spring is a great time to advertise on LowEndBox!

Poll Results: What are Your CentOS Plans?

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Mar 25, 2021

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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...

Poll Results: What are Your CentOS Plans?

LibrePlanet (the FSF Conference) One Week From Today – and it’s Free (as in Beer)!

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Mar 13, 2021

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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...

OVH CEO Releases Video on SBG Fire

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Mar 12, 2021

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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...

Mid Market Hosts Compared: DigitalOcean vs. Vultr vs. Linode

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Mar 12, 2021

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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...

Mid Market Hosts Compared: DigitalOcean vs. Vultr vs. Linode

Fire Destroys OVH’s SBG Datacenter (Strasbourg, France)

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Mar 10, 2021

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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...

Fire Destroys OVH’s SBG Datacenter (Strasbourg, France)

Poll: What are Your CentOS Plans?

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Mar 10, 2021

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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...

Providers: Partner with LowEndBox!

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Mar 09, 2021

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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...

BuyVM Puts New BuyShared Signups on Pause

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Mar 08, 2021

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As 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...

BitCoin and Price Volatility: Industry Leaders Give Their Opinion!

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Mar 06, 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...

BitCoin and Price Volatility: Industry Leaders Give Their Opinion!

InMotion Hosting Acquires RamNode

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Mar 04, 2021

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California-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...

We want to be friends on Facebook! Like LowEndBox today.

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Mar 04, 2021

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We really thank you for visiting LowEndBox and we hope you enjoy all of the great (and cheap) hosting deals we publish each week. We also hope that our Tutorials, Interviews, News and Opinion-Editoria...

We want to be friends on Facebook! Like LowEndBox today.

Guest Post: How to Choose Your Products by Dustin B. Cisneros, CEO of RackNerd

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Feb 27, 2021

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Continuing our Guest Article Series, today we are talking with Dustin B. Cisneros from RackNerd about how to choose your products as a business. Are you planning to start a new business, or do you alr...

Guest Post: How to Choose Your Products by Dustin B. Cisneros, CEO of RackNerd

Get all of our cheap VPS and hosting deals emailed to your inbox!

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Feb 21, 2021

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If you are hungry for all the best and cheapest VPS, web hosting, dedicated server and VPN deals then you need to be on our email subscriber list. Each day we send out a short email, which you can uns...

Get all of our cheap VPS and hosting deals emailed to your inbox!

LowEndTalk 2020 Best Providers Award Results

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Feb 15, 2021

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LowEndTalk's 2020 Best Providers poll has been taken, the votes have been counted, the people have spoken, and the awards have been given! Here are the results: Congrats to RackNerd, NexusBytes, and...

LowEndTalk 2020 Best Providers Award Results

Installing Linux on Your VPS: Template or ISO?

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Feb 11, 2021

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Recent events with SolusVM's templates bring up an age-old question: should you install from a template or from an ISO? What's the Difference? A template is provided by the provider, or more likely by...

Installing Linux on Your VPS: Template or ISO?

No Support Linux Hosting Hacked, Shuts Down

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Feb 10, 2021

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No Support Linux Hosting announced today that they have been hacked and can no longer operate. According to an announcement on their web site: No Support Linux Hosting is Shutting Down On February 8,...

No Support Linux Hosting Hacked, Shuts Down

Community News: KVM Ryzen NVMe SSD VPS by RackNerd Now Available in New York

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Feb 10, 2021

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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 feature their newest addition, which is AMD Ryzen based KVM VPS...

Community News: KVM Ryzen NVMe SSD VPS by RackNerd Now Available in New York

Inception Hosting Acquired by Clouvider

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Feb 09, 2021

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Today Clouvider announced it was acquiring Inception Hosting, a UK hosting provider. Both providers have posted offers on LowEndBox in the past (and Clouvider shared some awesome stickers back at Chr...

Vulnerability in Debian 10 SolusVM Templates – You Need to Take Action

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Feb 03, 2021

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SolusVM is a popular virtualization management solution used by many VPS providers. It's a familiar control panel for end users, who use it to setup their VPSes. Most providers offer templates, whic...

The Problem with Benchmarks

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Jan 29, 2021

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Following a highly successful Black Friday/Cyber Monday on LowEndTalk/LowEndBox, providers endured a round of YABS (Yet Another Benchmark Script). Users signed up for cheap VPSes - sometimes many more...

Huge sudo Security Issue – Update Your Systems Now!