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Vultr Partners with SQream to Enhance Data Analytics through GPU Acceleration and Improved Scalability

Modern hyperscaler Vultr, who is often mentioned on LowEndBox, is excited to announce its new partnership with SQream as part of the Vultr Cloud Alliance, aimed to provide greater efficiency in data processing and a reduction in cloud and AI costs.

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Vultr Partners with SQream to Enhance Data Analytics through GPU Acceleration and Improved Scalability

DigitalOcean Enhances Security with New Role-Based Access Control Features

DigitalOcean, known for its developer cloud services tailored for startups and growing digital businesses, recently announced enhancements to its role-based access control (RBAC). This system allows f...

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DigitalOcean Enhances Security with New Role-Based Access Control Features

Rocket.net's Skyrocketing Success: Rapidly Growing WordPress Hosting Market

Rocket.net's impressive WordPress hosting packages is well presented and, apparently, well appreciated by hosting consumers.  In the competitive world of web hosting, where user demands are constantly...

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Rocket.net's Skyrocketing Success: Rapidly Growing WordPress Hosting Market

Tucows Q2 2024 Financial Results: The Struggle Continues

We've published a few articles about the performance of Tucows peer, Digital Ocean, and their struggles, in August 2023 and again in October 2023 as Digital Ocean navigates challenging growth with high capital spending. Meanwhile, it seems Tucows is booking modest, incremental, revenue growth but is still reporting huge (relative) net losses.

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Tucows Q2 2024 Financial Results: The Struggle Continues

Bluehost Launches Innovative Features Tailored for Web Professionals and Agencies

Bluehost today announced the expansion of its agency partner program, accompanied by its most comprehensive and robust hosting solutions and tools to date. The expanded partner program now provides we...

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Bluehost Launches Innovative Features Tailored for Web Professionals and Agencies

More Bits, More Atoms: How Datacenters Are Driving Nuclear Demand

Datacenters are power hungry and the only solution to keeping them powered may be nuclear. The Small Modular Reactor trend is growing.

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More Bits, More Atoms: How Datacenters Are Driving Nuclear Demand

Unveiling a 256-Core Arm Processor for Data Centers!

Want a 256-core Arm processor in your server? How much would you pay? $7/month?

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Unveiling a 256-Core Arm Processor for Data Centers!

The Inevitable AI Bubble: Industry Pundits' Opinions

Of course there's an AI bubble coming. How could there not be? Industry pundits sound off.

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The Inevitable AI Bubble: Industry Pundits' Opinions

Microsoft Bought 10 Nuclear Power Plants' Worth of Energy

Microsoft Corp. and Brookfield Asset Management’s green energy arm signed the biggest corporate clean-energy purchase agreement ever announced, as the technology giant ramps up its investment in artif...

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Microsoft Bought 10 Nuclear Power Plants' Worth of Energy

Remember Amazon HQ2? Job Losses Instead of Gains

A couple years back, Amazon lit up the country as civic leaders competed to win a landing spot for HQ2. Turns out things haven't panned out as planned.

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Remember Amazon HQ2?  Job Losses Instead of Gains

Protest Against Your Employer and Get Terminated. Well, Duh. Google Axes Anti-Google Employees

Turns out that if you protest against your employer, engage in demonstrations, participate in sit-ins, etc., your employer may terminate you. Gee, who could POSSIBLY have expected that?

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Protest Against Your Employer and Get Terminated.  Well, Duh.  Google Axes Anti-Google Employees

Spectacular Growth in Corporate Version of OpenAI's ChatGPT

OpenAI went from 150,000 ChatGPT Enterprise users to 600,000 in the space of four months. The AI sector is red hot and so is corporate America's love affair with generative AI.

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Spectacular Growth in Corporate Version of OpenAI's ChatGPT

Will the Grid Collapse as Skynet Comes Online? Not According to Princeton

Is the grid about to collapse as Skynet comes online?!?!? That's the fear...well, to put it a bit more tamely, the fear is that the electric grid is unprepared for the surge in demanding AI projects. But it may not be so bad, according to a Princeton prof.

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Will the Grid Collapse as Skynet Comes Online?  Not According to Princeton

Amazon to Spend $150 Billion on Datacenters in the Next 15 Years, Getting Creative on Powering Them

Amazon is planning to spend $150 billion on datacenters over the next 15 years. Finding electricity to power them is getting increasingly difficult, so the online giant is getting increasingly creative in finding juice to power all those VMs.

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Amazon to Spend $150 Billion on Datacenters in the Next 15 Years, Getting Creative on Powering Them

Examining the Top 12 Server Operating Systems of 2024: Choose the Best One for Your Needs

So many operating system options! Which one is best for you and your VPS or dedicated server? Let's sort it out.

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Examining the Top 12 Server Operating Systems of 2024: Choose the Best One for Your Needs

UN Embraces U.S.-Led Resolution for Safe AI Development

After testimony at the United Nation from learning artificial intelligences...just kidding. But the UN did pass a resolution on AI this week.

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UN Embraces U.S.-Led Resolution for Safe AI Development

Uncle Sam Slips Intel $20B for New Chip Factories

Uncle Sam is heading out cash to Intel to build chip factories. Remember when companies built these on their own?

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Uncle Sam Slips Intel $20B for New Chip Factories

Unraveling the Mystery: Bare Metal and Dedicated Servers...Are They the Same Thing?

Dedicated server? Bare metal server? What's the difference? Maybe nothing, maybe something...let's sort it out.

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Unraveling the Mystery: Bare Metal and Dedicated Servers...Are They the Same Thing?

Polycrisis! Addressing the Industry's Biggest Challenges: Highlights from the UK Data Center Event

Data Centre World UK just wrapped up, and there was a lot of talk about all the challenges facing the datacenter industry in the EU. And the problems are many.

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Polycrisis! Addressing the Industry's Biggest Challenges: Highlights from the UK Data Center Event

Is America's Power Shortage the Fault of Data Centers?

Are our idling VMs to blame?  Well, probably not the idling ones but maybe all those systems you're using to mine crypto, power game servers, and serve web apps.

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Is America's Power Shortage the Fault of Data Centers?

Summit US Hosting Firm Announces Acquisition of Deft

Deft, a comprehensive supplier of data center and managed cloud services, was bought by Summit, a major provider of virtual servers and cloud-based application hosting in the United States and Canada....

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Summit US Hosting Firm Announces Acquisition of Deft

Screamin' Streamin': Cisco Sets Record with 800Gbps Transatlantic Cable Test

Holy cow, that's fast, especially when going at transcontinental distances.

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Screamin' Streamin': Cisco Sets Record with 800Gbps Transatlantic Cable Test

Exploring the Viability of Hosting Hyper-V Virtual Machines on RAM Disks

Ten years ago, I mused about creating a VPS platform where people were allocated RAM and only RAM. They could then choose to divide it between RAM and RAMdisk. Let's go over that.

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Exploring the Viability of Hosting Hyper-V Virtual Machines on RAM Disks

OVHcloud Launches Cloud Local Zones in Spain and Belgium, Sets Sight on Global Expansion

OVHcloud has inaugurated its premier public cloud 'Local Zones' in Brussels, Belgium, and Madrid, Spain. This strategic initiative forms part of OVHcloud's ambitious plans for its network to exploit gridscale, a recently acquired entity that's now part of OVHcloud.

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OVHcloud Launches Cloud Local Zones in Spain and Belgium, Sets Sight on Global Expansion

IDC Forecast: Surge in META Region's ICT Spending with Soaring AI and Cloud Investments

The total amount spent on ICT overall in the Middle East, Turkey, and Africa (META) is expected to exceed $238 billion this year, representing a 4.5% rise from 2023, according to IDC. Spending on AI i...

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IDC Forecast: Surge in META Region's ICT Spending with Soaring AI and Cloud Investments

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