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Oct 05, 2021

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Security gurus have suggested for years that relying on SMS for two-factor authentication is a bad idea. Reasons include Your phone may be stolen Many people allow SMS messages to be displayed on lo...

The Syniverse Hack: Why Using SMS for 2FA is a Bad Idea

Boomer.Host: Free Stickers with Every Order! $7.95/Year for a 1GB VPS!

Jul 27, 2021

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Hello, Boomer.Host! Some hosts are deadly serious when it comes to their names and some prefer a bit of humor and I don't have to tell you which category Boomer.Host falls into. However the proprieto...

Boomer.Host: Free Stickers with Every Order! $7.95/Year for a 1GB VPS!

Insurers Tire of Paying Ransom to Cyber Crooks

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

Whatever Happened to LEAdmin?

Jul 13, 2021

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I'd like to go back to the founding of LowEndBox to ask the question: whatever happened to LEAdmin? It's February 1st 2008, and lowendbox.com is registered. The companion domain, lowendtalk.com, won't...

Fire Damages WebNX Utah Datacenter, Causes Extended Outage

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

Puffy vs. Penguin: Getting Started With OpenBSD

Mar 02, 2021

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In this tutorial, we're going to get up and running with OpenBSD on a KVM VPS. What is OpenBSD OpenBSD is one of the three primary BSD-based operating systems. While FreeBSD focuses on x86 architectur...

Puffy vs. Penguin: Getting Started With OpenBSD

Interview with Igor Seletskiy, CEO of CloudLinux on Project Lenix, CentOS Changes, and Much More!

Jan 01, 2021

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Recently, CentOS dropped the bombshell news that they would be moving upstream from RHEL, which radically changes the Linux distribution landscape. Various companies and organizations announced they...

Interview with Igor Seletskiy, CEO of CloudLinux on Project Lenix, CentOS Changes, and Much More!

Provider 911: Responding When Something Bad Has Happened

Oct 26, 2020

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In 1982, seven people in the Chicago area died after they bought and consumed Extra Strength Tylenol capsules. An investigation determined that the capsules had been laced with cyanide by parties unkn...

Provider 911: Responding When Something Bad Has Happened

Interview: Q&A with LowEndTalk Member jsg

Aug 14, 2020

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LowEndTalk member @jsg has been on LET for a little more than two years. In that time he's gained a lot of respect in the community for the depth of his technical understanding on many fronts. From...

Ryan Flowers

Apr 28, 2019

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Welcome to another LowEndBox tutorial. We're going to explore the world of SFTP: What it is, isn't, how to use it and why. Let's get to it! What is SFTP? We're glad you asked! SFTP is the Secure File...

How to Setup SFTP to Securely Transfer Files on CentOS 7

Cheap Windows VPS – $21/quarter 1GB KVM-based Windows VPS in 11 worldwide locations

Nov 30, 2015

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Tony, from Cheap Windows VPS, has sent in this exclusive offer for a Windows VPS available in 11 locations across the globe, including Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam! On top of that, this machine has unmetered...

Cheap Windows VPS – $21/quarter 1GB KVM-based Windows VPS in 11 worldwide locations

Rackulous – KVM offers in the UK starting at £1.79/month for 1GB

Oct 26, 2015

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Jonathan from Rackulous, formerly known as EvoRack, has written us to share these offers with you. 1GK UK KVM 1GB RAM 25GB HDD space 4 vCPU cores 1TB transfer 1Gbps uplink 1x IPv4 IPv6 KVM/SolusVM £1....

Rackulous – KVM offers in the UK starting at £1.79/month for 1GB

Veeble – Three offers including $7/month 512MB Windows VPS in UK

Apr 07, 2015

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Ashwin, from Veeble, has written us share these offers with you. These offers are located in Hampshire, UK and of of them in Arizona, US. Optionally they come with a 10Mbps unmetered connection. 512MB...

Veeble – Three offers including $7/month 512MB Windows VPS in UK

AlphaRacks – OpenVZ and Windows VPS in LA from $10/year

Jan 24, 2015

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Julian, from AlphaRacks, has written us to share these offers with you located in Los Angeles, California, USA. 256MB VPS 256MB RAM 512MB vSwap 2 CPU cores 25GB HDD space 500GB transfer 1Gbps uplink 1...

AlphaRacks – OpenVZ and Windows VPS in LA from $10/year

LunarVPS – $5/month 512MB OVZ and $7/month 512MB Xen or KVM in Sweden or Switzerland

Aug 13, 2014

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Due to another host dropping out, I'm doing another surprise post this month! LunarVPS offers VPS in Switzerland and Sweden with a fair amount of bandwidth and you can even choose between OpenVZ, Xen,...

LunarVPS – $5/month 512MB OVZ and $7/month 512MB Xen or KVM in Sweden or Switzerland

Top Providers Q3 2013 Poll: The Results

Oct 29, 2013

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The moment we've been waiting for is finally here, the results of the Top Providers Q3 2013 poll! I would like to thank everybody for voting! Without you guys this poll wouldn't even exist! Thank you!...

ShardHost – £13/Year ($20~) 256MB SSD KVM VPS in Dallas, Texas or Buffalo, NY

Sep 25, 2013

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NOTICE: ShardHost has closed down with a one-hour notice to customers before starting to shut down servers. The reason for this is unknown. Marc, from ShardHost, recently wrote in to share a couple of...

ShardHost – £13/Year ($20~) 256MB SSD KVM VPS in Dallas, Texas or Buffalo, NY

Install Nagios (CentOS) for Server Monitoring

Jul 20, 2013

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Nagios is one of the most easy, expandable and trustworthy ways to monitor the status of your server(s). It is highly configurable and even lets you write your own plugins in whatever language you wan...

Install Nagios (CentOS) for Server Monitoring

fileMEDIA 256 MB KVM (3 Month Review)

Apr 28, 2013

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You can view more reviews at lowendreview.com Here is a Low End Review for you... fileMEDIA are a German based hosting provider who were founded in 2008. They operate as a ‘Einzelunternehmer’, which r...

Review: CastleGem 256MB KVM (7 Months)

Feb 17, 2013

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Here is a LowEndReview for you... CastleGem are a London based Internet Service Provider and a software consulting & engineering company, who have been supplying IT solutions since 1995. They've b...

Review: Hostigation 256 MB OpenVZ Monthly

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Jul 16, 2012

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Hostigation are no newcomer to the LowEndBox scene having had several great offers over the last few years and coming in as a finalist in the past two Top Provider polls. Hostigation offer both standa...

Review: Hostigation 256 MB OpenVZ Monthly

Dead Pool February to July 2012