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Hyper Expert 2.0: A Whole New Mission, Same Great Team - an Interview with Founder Ali

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I'm a former Hyper Expert customer and used my VPS for several years.  I had a great experience with them. They've gone through some changes and refocused their enterprise (indeed, their whole mission) and we thought it'd be a good opportunity to sit down with their founder, Ali, and catch up on what's new with this provider.  If you're a student or teacher, you definitely need to check out this provider because you may qualify for a free VPS!

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What Apps Should You Be Self-Hosting is 2026?

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Dec 26, 2025
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Not long ago, LowEndTalk member @vitobotta started a great thread listing what he self-hosted and invited others to share their lists.  It reminded me of the venerable Awesome-Selfhosted list on GitHub, which has hundreds and hundreds of apps in dozens of categories to choose from. What are you hosting?

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Merry Christmas From LowEndBox!

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Merry Christmas from LowEndBox!

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Merry Christmas From LowEndBox!

The Biggest Scams of the Biggest Web Hosts

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Dec 24, 2025
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Stop me if you've heard this one: get shared hosting with unlimited disk, unlimited bandwidth, free domain, and it's only $1/month from a Big Web Host. Yeah, about that...

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Here's Some Help to Win an Amazing Gift from RackNerd (A Gaming Laptop, ASTRO Wireless Headset, or Merch)!

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Dec 23, 2025
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RackNerd is sponsoring another fantastic giveaway for our community! Win a laptop, gaming headset, RackNerd merch, and more! Now through December 31.

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Here's Some Help to Win an Amazing Gift from RackNerd (A Gaming Laptop, ASTRO Wireless Headset, or Merch)!

Hack the Urchin! What Are Those 'utm' URL Params Are All About Anyway, and How You Can Mess With Big Tech's Mind

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Dec 22, 2025
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What does "utm" stand for? If you don't know, well...it's weird. These tags have a long history.

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Hack the Urchin! What Are Those 'utm' URL Params Are All About Anyway, and How You Can Mess With Big Tech's Mind

Get a VPS for Under £7/Year in Fremont, CA or Frankfurt am Main, Germany from BitsFlow!

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Dec 21, 2025
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BitsFlow a UK-based hosting company that's closing in on two years in the hosting industry.  They have some really dynamite offers for you!

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Get a VPS for Under £7/Year in Fremont, CA or Frankfurt am Main, Germany from BitsFlow!

What Deal Did You Get This Black Friday? And... Did You Win Anything?

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Dec 20, 2025
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Every year, once the dust settles from the Black Friday on LowEndBox and LowEndTalk, a familiar question starts circulating around the community: So… what did you get? Tell us!

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What Deal Did You Get This Black Friday? And... Did You Win Anything?

Have You Checked Out ServerVerify Insights? Pretty Cool Data!

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Dec 19, 2025
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As I was putting the finishing touches on my DediRock review article published Wednesday, I uploaded the YABS to ServerVerify. While there, I noticed a new tab, Insights, and decided to take a look. Pretty cool!

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Have You Checked Out ServerVerify Insights? Pretty Cool Data!

Inside the 2025 Hosting “Trade War”: Hardware Turbulence, Vanishing Deals, and What It Means for All of Us

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Dec 18, 2025
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In one of our earlier posts, we talked about the fun part: Black Friday, megathread madness, and record-breaking traffic numbers that pushed LowEndTalk’s servers to their absolute limits. For example, look at the surge of interest on RackNerd’s LowEndTalk Black Friday thread – RackNerd achieved over 4.2 Million views on their LowEndTalk thread alone! But the celebration only makes sense if you understand the backdrop behind it.

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Inside the 2025 Hosting “Trade War”: Hardware Turbulence, Vanishing Deals, and What It Means for All of Us

REVIEW: I Tried One of DediRock's $6.85/Year VPSes

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Dec 17, 2025
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Hard to say no to an offer for a 1.5GB VPS with IPv4 for only $6.85/year. I decided to give DediRock's CyberMonday offer a spin.

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REVIEW: I Tried One of DediRock's $6.85/Year VPSes

ANOTHER BONUS CODE for RackNerd's Gaming Laptop, ASTRO Wireless Headset, and RackNerd Merch Giveaway!

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Dec 16, 2025
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RackNerd is sponsoring another fantastic giveaway for our community! Win a laptop, gaming headset, RackNerd merch, and more! Now through December 31.

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ANOTHER BONUS CODE for RackNerd's Gaming Laptop, ASTRO Wireless Headset, and RackNerd Merch Giveaway!

Free VPS Alert! Got a FOSS Project? You Qualify!

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Dec 15, 2025
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Are you developing a FOSS app? Then FOSS VPS may have a free - as in zero cost, no scratch, nada dollar, free as in beer - VPS for you!

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Free VPS Alert! Got a FOSS Project? You Qualify!

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The Biggest Scams of the Biggest Web Hosts

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Dec 24, 2025
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Stop me if you've heard this one: get shared hosting with unlimited disk, unlimited bandwidth, free domain, and it's only $1/month from a Big Web Host. Yeah, about that...

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The Biggest Scams of the Biggest Web Hosts

Hack the Urchin! What Are Those 'utm' URL Params Are All About Anyway, and How You Can Mess With Big Tech's Mind

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Dec 22, 2025
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What does "utm" stand for? If you don't know, well...it's weird. These tags have a long history.

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Hack the Urchin! What Are Those 'utm' URL Params Are All About Anyway, and How You Can Mess With Big Tech's Mind

Get a VPS for Under £7/Year in Fremont, CA or Frankfurt am Main, Germany from BitsFlow!

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Dec 21, 2025
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BitsFlow a UK-based hosting company that's closing in on two years in the hosting industry.  They have some really dynamite offers for you!

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Get a VPS for Under £7/Year in Fremont, CA or Frankfurt am Main, Germany from BitsFlow!

Free VPS Alert! Got a FOSS Project? You Qualify!

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Dec 15, 2025
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Are you developing a FOSS app? Then FOSS VPS may have a free - as in zero cost, no scratch, nada dollar, free as in beer - VPS for you!

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Free VPS Alert! Got a FOSS Project? You Qualify!

How Can There Possibly Be More Charity Host Drama? New Federal Law Violations

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Dec 05, 2025
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CharityHost violated U.S. Federal law. Will "Josh" end up in court?

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How Can There Possibly Be More Charity Host Drama? New Federal Law Violations

CYBER MONDAY: Save on Cheap cPanel Shared Hosting and Cheap cPanel Reseller Hosting from VisualWebTechnologies!

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Dec 01, 2025
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VisualWebTechnologies has some great deals on cPanel shared hosting and cPanel reseller hosting this Cyber Monday!  You can get cPanel hosting for as low as $8.30/YEAR!

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CYBER MONDAY: Save on Cheap cPanel Shared Hosting and Cheap cPanel Reseller Hosting from VisualWebTechnologies!

CYBER MONDAY: CheapWindowsVPS has - You Guessed It - Cheap Windows VPS Offers! Get a 4GB VPS for Only $33/YEAR!

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Dec 01, 2025
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For over a decade, Cheap Windows VPS has been a trusted name in providing top-notch Windows VPS hosting solutions. This Cyber Monday, they're bringing the biggest sale of the year!

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CYBER MONDAY: CheapWindowsVPS has - You Guessed It - Cheap Windows VPS Offers! Get a 4GB VPS for Only $33/YEAR!

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Nyr's Legendary Road Warrior Script: Still the Rock Solid Go-To for Easy VPN!

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Dec 08, 2025
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Nyr's Road Warrior script makes setting up VPNs trivially easy. It's still my go-to!

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Nyr's Legendary Road Warrior Script: Still the Rock Solid Go-To for Easy VPN!

Set Up Your Own Private Pastebin: Control Your Snippets and Secrets

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Sep 28, 2025
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If you’ve ever relied on public pastebin services to share code snippets, logs, or sensitive configurations, you’ve probably worried about privacy and longevity. Public pastebins can delete content at any time, expose data to unwanted eyes, or fail to give you fine-grained control over who sees what.  And what if they get hacked?  Even if you're anonymous, logs and other data could possibly trace things back to you.  And if you're stored anything sensitive there, they could be exposed.  The good news is that you can easily set up your own self-hosted Pastebin.  That's the LowEnd DIY way!

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Knock, Knock: How to Shield Your VPS From Port Scanning with Port Knocking

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Sep 21, 2025
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xposing port 22 to the internet invites bots and brute-force attacks. There are different ways to prevent this: changing your SSH port or implementing fail2ban. There's also port knocking, which we'll implement using knockd and the knock client.

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Knock, Knock: How to Shield Your VPS From Port Scanning with Port Knocking

What Happens When You Run a VPS with Zero Swap?

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Sep 12, 2025
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Do you need swap? Maybe. What happens if you don't? You'll meet the OOM Killer. Is that the end of the world? Let's look at the whole virtual memory landscape.

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What Happens When You Run a VPS with Zero Swap?

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Hello From Albania! Enjoy an Interview with Andrew from AVS ISP - And a Special Discount Code!

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Jul 19, 2025
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Today we're speaking with Andrew, the CTO of AVS ISP, an Albanian-based community provider we've featured several times before.  They're a neat husband-and-wife team who's brought some great offers to our community. And today is no exception! They've got a special offer for us.

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Hello From Albania! Enjoy an Interview with Andrew from AVS ISP - And a Special Discount Code!

JustHosting: Growth Story, Service Philosophy, and Future Vision — An Interview with Founder Anton Pankratov

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May 17, 2025
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JustHosting has built its growth on a simple foundation: reliability, responsive support, and fair pricing. We caught up with founder Anton Pankratov to talk about how it all started, how the team keeps their infrastructure solid across dozens of countries, and what users should know when picking a VPS. We also looked ahead at what’s coming next — and why their approach continues to resonate with more and more customers.

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JustHosting: Growth Story, Service Philosophy, and Future Vision — An Interview with Founder Anton Pankratov

Perfectionists Welcome! The PQ Hosting Interview (with a Special Discount Code!)

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We sat down with PQ Hosting for an interview with this community provider based in Moldova. Read about the IT scene there and how PQ is growing, and get a special discount on their offers!

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Not Just Jaw-Dropping Offers: The Virtarix Interview with CEO Peter French

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Oct 12, 2024
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We sat down with Peter French, CEO of Virtarix, to understand this emerging provider - and their amazing prices - a little better. It's a fun interview so dive in!

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Not Just Jaw-Dropping Offers: The Virtarix Interview with CEO Peter French

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Piotr Returns: Is Coolify the "Sweet Spot" Between Heroku/Vercel and a Self-Hosted VPS?

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Apr 25, 2025
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Services such as Vercel and Heroku provide an easy on-ramp to hosting your app, but they come at very premium prices. The alternative is to roll your own infrastructure with a self-hosted VPS, but this is starting from scratch and you sacrifice a lot of speed in getting your app to market. Coolify is a nice middle-ground between these two extremes.

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Have You Missed Any of these LowEndBoxTV Videos?

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Dec 07, 2024
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Our video master, Piotr, has been lighting up the metrics on YouTube with some great videos on LowEndBoxTV.  If you're not a subscriber, you're missing out!  Did any of these slip past your stream unclicked?

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LowEndBoxTV: AMD Shootout: Ryzen vs. Epyc - Which is Right For You?

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Nov 24, 2024
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Ryzen is fast! Epyc is epic! But is it the best for your server? Piotr sorts out the AMD product lines and provides some benchmarks to help you decide which chip is right for you when you're shopping for a cheap VPS or cheap dedicated server.

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LowEndBoxTV: AMD Shootout: Ryzen vs. Epyc - Which is Right For You?

LowEndBoxTV: Are All Hetzner Locations Alike? No! And Piotr Has the Proof: "This is Clearly Not the Same Processor"

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Nov 22, 2024
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For a long time, hosting with Hetzner meant hosting in Germany or Finland.  But recently they've gone global, expanding into the USA and later to Singapore. They claim their systems are the same at each location, but are they...? No! And Piotr has the proof.

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