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Oct 05, 2022

Grandmaster Hans Niemann outed as a cheater but gets a $1 million offer to play naked online.

Strap in for Drama and Stats: Major Cheating Scandal Rocks Online Chess

When Akamai is Bought, What Happens to Linode?

Oct 03, 2022

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A mysterious private equity buyer has been stalking Akamai (Linode's owner) for months.

When Akamai is Bought, What Happens to Linode?

How To Install Caddy Web Server On Oracle Cloud Free Tier

Sep 27, 2022

Back in March, LEB published Asking the Oracle, "Is 'Always Free' the future of the Low End?" The March article pointed out one of the main features of Oracle Cloud Free Tier: no credit card is requir...

How To Install Caddy Web Server On Oracle Cloud Free Tier

Meet the Man Running His Business on a 1967 Mainframe! Plus Hugo Award Nominee Galactic Journey!

Sep 22, 2022

You're telling me there's a guy who runs his business on a 1967 operating system in 2022? And uses Gopher too? Yes, we are telling you that. Plus meet Hugo Award-nominated Galactic Journey and hear about their vintage mainframe experience!

Meet the Man Running His Business on a 1967 Mainframe! Plus Hugo Award Nominee Galactic Journey!

BRING YOUR OWN JOKE: Uber Has Many Openings in IT Security

Sep 16, 2022

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As of this morning, Uber has the following positions open: Senior Security Engineer - Application Security Security Engineer - Penetration Testing Security Engineer II Security Incident Commander II T...

BRING YOUR OWN JOKE: Uber Has Many Openings in IT Security

LowEndBox BUSTED for Dealing in Mind Expanding Substances

Sep 10, 2022

And you thought Silk Road was bad. This place is a cess pool of consciousness expanders, horizon growers, and barely legal performance-enhancing skill boosters.

LowEndBox BUSTED for Dealing in Mind Expanding Substances

Abundance of Caution: If You are a MXroute Customer, Take Action

Sep 06, 2022

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In a textbook example of good customer service and proper crisis management (even though this is no crisis), MXroute founder and former LowEndTalk administrator @jar disclosed the following: Github's...

Abundance of Caution: If You are a MXroute Customer, Take Action

CloudFlare Needs to Turn on Attack Mode

Sep 02, 2022

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CloudFlare (NASDAQ: NET) is under social assault from people upset about KiwiFarms' usage of the platform. For those who have lives, here's the brief on KiwiFarms from Wikipedia: Kiwi Farms...is an Am...

Warren.io: Providing Cloud Platform Power Suits to Small Providers!

Sep 02, 2022

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We'd like to welcome Warren.io, a company offering an interesting product in the cloud platform space. In a nutshell (see the one pager), they offer a way for smaller players to compete with big publi...

Warren.io: Providing Cloud Platform Power Suits to Small Providers!

This Week's Initial Ransomware Offering (IRO) Calendar

Aug 29, 2022

Check out this sentence: "For the author, this business model enables them to scale their earnings from their software with less risk." I slightly modified the original, but we're not talking about a...

This Week's Initial Ransomware Offering (IRO) Calendar

More On Installing And Configuring Certbun For Use With Apache

Aug 26, 2022

It's true - I'm a Porkbun fan. Nicest interface I've found and they have either great or at least reasonable pricing. They're one of the more popular registrars in our community. --raindog308 Hello!...

More On Installing And Configuring Certbun For Use With Apache

LastPass Releases Its Security Incident for 2022

Aug 26, 2022

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Sometimes you see stuff in the media and wonder if it's really news. Some celebrity broke up with some other celebrity. Some tech company released version X.Y which is .0001% better. LastPass was h...

LastPass Releases Its Security Incident for 2022

Afghanistan Shutters Domestic Crypto Exchanges

Aug 25, 2022

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Afghanistan launched a crackdown on crypto exchanges, closing at least sixteen such exchanges in the last week. According to Sayed Shan Sa'adat, an Afghanistani security official: "[Afghanistan's cent...

Afghanistan Shutters Domestic Crypto Exchanges

MailChimp Security Breach. Yes, Again.

Aug 15, 2022

MailChimp revealed they've had a security breach: "In response to a recent attack targeting Mailchimp’s crypto-related users, we’ve taken proactive measures to temporarily suspend account access for a...

Cut Your Cloud Storage Bill by 75% with Internxt! Special Recurring Deal!

Aug 06, 2022

We've talked about Internxt before. We interviewed their founder/CEO and shared a previous offer from them back in May. Now they've returned and want to share a RECURRING HALF OFF deal! Yes, really!...

The PikaPods Interview: Super Easy Hosted Apps From People Who Care About Privacy...Plus a Darn Cute Mascot!

Jul 30, 2022

Today we continue our interview series with LowEndTalk member @m4nu, proprietor of PikaPods. What are PikaPods, you ask? A very cool service where you pick apps to host and they do all the work. It...

The PikaPods Interview: Super Easy Hosted Apps From People Who Care About Privacy...Plus a Darn Cute Mascot!

Review of GTHost servers -- 15 minute setup at 17 locations!

Jul 29, 2022

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Well known Low End regular GTHost recently asked Low End Box for a review, and we are happy to oblige. As reported below, we successfully installed multiple servers in multiple locations with great re...

Review of GTHost servers -- 15 minute setup at 17 locations!

Amazon Broke the Internet Today. Good Sales Tactic?

Jul 28, 2022

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Amazon's Ohio datacenter experienced a significant outage today. Amazon reported that "some instances within a single Availability Zone (USE2-AZ1) in the US-EAST-2 Region have experienced a loss of p...

Amazon Broke the Internet Today. Good Sales Tactic?

Three New Virtono Locations With 25% Lifetime Discount - Interview With Daniel Draga, VP

Jul 23, 2022

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Wow! Virtono has been on Low End Talk since 2014! They have a lot of Low End experience! And, they'...

Three New Virtono Locations With 25% Lifetime Discount - Interview With Daniel Draga, VP

Your Wordpress Has Been Scanned. Hope You Weren't Hacked.

Jul 18, 2022

Wordfence reports that hackers are widely attempting to exploit a vulnerability that they reported over three months ago. According to The Register: Wordfence disclosed the flaw almost three months a...

Your Wordpress Has Been Scanned. Hope You Weren't Hacked.

ALMOST GONE: Save 90% on Shodan.io! Only $5 Lifetime!

Jul 17, 2022

LowEndTalk member @Chuck alerted the community to a terrific deal: you can get a full access lifetime membership for Shodan.io for only $5 - that's 90% off the list price! However the deal expires at...

ALMOST GONE: Save 90% on Shodan.io! Only $5 Lifetime!

Become a Certified Datacenter Associate Online...for FREE!

Jul 13, 2022

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I sometimes peek at HostingJournalist and I saw this article come across the feed. More than 650,000 users of data centers have taken more than one million courses from Schneider Electric University,...

An Incredibly Amazing Co-Incidence Of Doubled, Double Disk Failures!

Jul 12, 2022

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Just recently we were introducing our newer Low Enders to Hacker News ("HN"). Now, suddenly, we have news of a doubled, double disk failure over there at HN. The doubled, double disk failure took HN d...

An Incredibly Amazing Co-Incidence Of Doubled, Double Disk Failures!

Retbleed: Your x86 Speculative Attack Du Jour

Jul 12, 2022

"Today Intel released two security advisories addressing 2 medium severity vulnerabilities reported by academic researchers from ETH Zurich who have labeled their side-channel attack as “Retbleed” due...

Retbleed: Your x86 Speculative Attack Du Jour

How To Fix A CertBot CAA Error Blaming Your Nameservers

Jul 05, 2022

This post discusses how to resolve a possible Certbot error. Certbot can fail to install a Let's Encrypt certificate when the certificate is requested for a subdomain in situations where a DNS Certifi...

How To Fix A CertBot CAA Error Blaming Your Nameservers

Bye-Bye PayPal Friends And Family Payments To Business Accounts!

Jul 01, 2022

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Today, June 30, PayPal sent me three emails. The first wants me to check the May activity for my company's business account. The second wants me to "take my business online with a PayPal partner." And...

How To Begin On Your New VPS Or Dedicated Server

Jun 16, 2022