The Linux Kernel Will Soon Be MIT-Licensed and Copyleft Will Be Dead Within 5 Years
Now that reimplementing software is so easy to do, copyleft is crumbling. The Linux kernel may well be next.
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Has Your Gulf System Been Disrupted? HostingB2B Can Help Out With Dubai Colocation!
The Persian Gulf is on fire and there have already been datacenter attacks and disruptions. If you need help, get in touch with HostingB2B.
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Launch Your Personal AI Agent Today! 50% OFF Plans from Hostiger!
Unless you've been living under a rock, you've heard about OpenClaw, an open-source, autonomous AI agent that goes beyond conversation. Hostiger is ready to hook you up with this amazing technology for just $4.99/month!
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"An Extremely Interesting Early Morning": An AI Agent Wrote a Hit Piece Targeting a Developer After Its PR Was Rejected
The developer of a very widely used Python package rejected an AI-authored pull request. The AI agent responded by going into hostile mode and publishing a hit piece about the developer. Welcome to the future.
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Are You Running Automated Updates? Fail Back Easily With Proxmox Snapshots! But There's a Catch...
Every patch carries a risk. How can you quickly revert back if you have an issue. In Proxmox and other VM systems, you can use snapshots...thought there's a catch.
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You Need Biometric Protection For Your Apps
If your iPhone is stolen and the thief has observed your passcode, your digital life could be turned upside down. However, you can protect yourself with recent mobile OS biometric options.
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cPanel Forks CSF (ConfigServer Firewall) and Will Maintain the Product for Its Users
ConfigServer Firewall (CSF) is no more. cPanel has noticed this and decided to pick up maintenance. And probably not much more.
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Design Your Personal To-Do System Using the Apple Reminders Toolkit (Or Any Other To-Do Management System)
Most to-do management systems are highly opinionated. The specifics of what you need to get done are what you put into it, but how you track those tasks and organize them is within the paradigm presented by the application. Other systems present you with a wide variety of tools and it's up to you to design how the system works. Reminders (and many others) are more toolkit-y. Here's some guidelines on how to use all the features.
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SoftShellWeb Has Expanded into Los Angeles, California and Has Deals for Us!
Hello again, SoftShellWeb! They're a UK-based hosting provider that we've been happy to feature many times in the past. They've recently expanded in Los Angeles, California, and are have some special offers based in their new geography.
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The Year Ahead: Our Predictions for 2026
On the spectrum between speculation to prediction to guarantee, these are definitely towards the left end. The hosting industry has a special talent for making fools of us all (usually right after you prepay for three years). Here are five bets for what 2026 will look like.
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Looking Back at 2025: What a Wild Year! Our Recap of the Year's Biggest Moments
Satellites crashing to Earth. Providers expanding and deadpooling. Everyone getting sick of AI. And the launch of ServerVerify. What a year!
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Revisiting One of the Greatest Posts in LowEndBox History
One of my all-time favorite posts on LowEndBox - indeed, maybe on any site -is the seminal article "Yes, You Can Run 18 Static Sites on a 64MB Link-1 VPS". 16 years later, is it archaic? No.
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Is FOSSBilling a WHMCS-Killer?
If you run a hosting company (or any subscription-ish online service), you may be running WHMCS. And you probably hate it. There's a FOSS alternative on the horizon.
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Whatever Happened About that Provider Who Claimed a Virtualizor Bug Caused a Breach?
Provider says Virtualizor caused a breach. Virtualizor says no way. Providers says "video incoming..." Aaaaaaand...we're still waiting.
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The AI Killing Spree Has Begun. The First Victims: Crucial and MinIO
As you all know, as soon as AI gets a single tick past human intelligence, it's going to take over the world and exterminate homo sapiens. At least, that's what a lot of people assume. Will that happen? Your guess is as good as Sam Altman's. Meanwhile, we have two confirmed victims of AI, both of which are household names in the IT community.
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Provider Claims Virtualizor WHMCS Plugin Vulnerability Caused Breach. Virtualizor Doesn't Agree.
Provider says Virtualizor caused a breach. Virtualizor says no way. Providers says "video incoming..."
Read MoreBuild Your Own VPS! All the Configuration Knobs Are Yours to Turn at al.uy!
Community provider al.uy posted a pretty neat offer on LowEndTalk yesterday. Instead of a pre-configured bundle of resources (CPU, RAM, etc.), they've opened up the knobs and dials and let you get as much or as little of each resource as you want.
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OpenBSD 7.8 is Out - Now With Multithreaded TCP/IP!
OpenBSD 7.8 is out. Some new features and a beautiful new graphic installer...just kidding.
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Happy Diwali from HostNamaste and VirtualizorVPS! Cheap VPS Offers in Toronto, Canada to Celebrate the Festival of Lights!
It's Diwali season!vvThis festival, often called the “Festival of Lights,” celebrates the triumph of light over darkness and good over evil. It's celebrated by millions of people and dates back over 2,000 years. HostNamaste is celebrating with some special offers for our readers!
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[Community News] RackNerd Expands cPanel Shared & Reseller Hosting to New York City
RackNerd, a provider well recognized within the LowEndBox & LowEndTalk community for its consistent growth and customer-first approach, has just announced another expansion! This time bringing their popular cPanel Shared and Reseller Hosting services to the New York City area. Known for their frequent infrastructure rollouts and global footprint, RackNerd is now delivering on requests for an East Coast US shared/reseller hosting option.
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Get a Cheap VPS in Stockholm, Sweden Starting at Only €8.64/Year with UNMETERED Bandwidth (IPv6-only) from Skhron! Wow!
Skhron has a great offer in Stockholm, Sweden location with UNMETERED bandwidth on an IPv6-only VPS, starting at only €8.64/Year!
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No Way! ColoCrossing Enables IPv6 On All Services
Hell has finally frozen over. ColoCrossing has enabled IPv6 on all services!
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Set Up Your Own Private Pastebin: Control Your Snippets and Secrets
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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What Really Are the Differences Between RHEL, Alma, and Rocky Linux?
In the RPM family tree, you've got several high quality distributions to choose from: RedHat Enterprise Linux, AlmaLinux, and Rocky Linux. They're very similar. Which one is right for you?
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Knock, Knock: How to Shield Your VPS From Port Scanning with Port Knocking
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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So How Exactly Do You Learn About Security Issues on Your VPS?
If you're a sysadmin - and if you've got a VPS, you are - how do you learn about new security threats?
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Do You Need BGP? Probably Not, But Here’s What It Is and Why It Matters
What the heck is BGP and why should you care? Is it relevant to your day-to-day computing? Yes, but it may be a bit more involved than you need.
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Hackers Love Default Windows RDP Ports: Here’s Why You Should Change Yours, and How to Do It
Should your change your Windows RDP port? In LowEndBox's opinion, yes. Let's discuss why, and how to do it.
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