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I Gave Two Friends Advice on a Cheap VPS and Now I'm on the Hook if Anything Goes Wrong

Coincidentally, two different friends asked me for advice on a VPS this week. How do you handle these kinds of requests?

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I Gave Two Friends Advice on a Cheap VPS and Now I'm on the Hook if Anything Goes Wrong

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

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

¡Hola México! AWS Plans $5B Investment in a New Cloud Infrastructure Region in Mexico

Amazon is adding a new region in central Mexico. Central and Southern America has been a slow-growth geography since cloud computing kicked off. Will this accelerate development in this part of the world?

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¡Hola México!  AWS Plans $5B Investment in a New Cloud Infrastructure Region in Mexico

Amazon Starts Charging for IPv4 Addresses and Why It's a Good Thing for You

Amazon has announced that it will not start charging for IPv4 addresses (but not for the free tier). Is this a bad thing? Not really.

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Amazon Starts Charging for IPv4 Addresses and Why It's a Good Thing for You

A New Mysterious Streaming Platform, Kick, Is Poised To Overtake Amazon-Backed Twitch

Twitch was originally founded back in 2011 by Justin Kan and Emmett Shear. A couple of y...

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A New Mysterious Streaming Platform, Kick, Is Poised To Overtake Amazon-Backed Twitch

Amazon Dropping Simple Email Service (SES) Free Tier, Here's a Better Alternative

All good things must end, and Amazon's Simple Email Service (SES) is the latest service to drop its free tier. But rather than pay Amazon, we know a better service you can subscribe to.

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Amazon Dropping Simple Email Service (SES) Free Tier, Here's a Better Alternative

When Akamai is Bought, What Happens to Linode?

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

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When Akamai is Bought, What Happens to Linode?

Is It Too Early to Talk About Black Friday? (SPOILER ALERT: No!)

Amazon Prime Day? Amateurs. Wal-Mart doorbusters? Yawn. Let's talk about REAL savings.

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Is It Too Early to Talk About Black Friday? (SPOILER ALERT: No!)

Have You TrieId Northflank? Microservices Platform with a Free Tier!

I have not, but maybe you have.  If so, please comment and let us know what you think.  I just stumbled across them while browsing tonight and when I saw free tier I knew I had to write it up for the...

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Have You TrieId Northflank?  Microservices Platform with a Free Tier!

Amazon Broke the Internet Today. Good Sales Tactic?

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...

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Amazon Broke the Internet Today.  Good Sales Tactic?

Cloud Providers Prepare to Pull the Plug on Putin

Major cloud services companies such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Oracle may cut off Russia's access to cloud services in days to come.  Already, Amazon has suspended new service signups. This is...

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Cloud Providers Prepare to Pull the Plug on Putin

B2 or C2? That is the Question. That is the Quest.

For some time, I've been using BackBlaze B2 as my primary (though not exclusive) cloud backup solution.  I would love to use TarSnap for everything, but it's too expensive, though I do keep my top-tie...

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B2 or C2?  That is the Question.  That is the Quest.

DigitalOcean Shares Plunge 9% on High Volume

DigitalOcean (NYSE:DOCN) shares dropped 9% today.  Volume was more than double normal. It's been a rough season for DO.  Shares today traded for as cheap as $59/share - well off the stock's highs abov...

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DigitalOcean Shares Plunge 9% on High Volume

Amazon's Quantum Computing Service Goes GA with 1 Hour for Free Tier Users

AWS announced this week that Amazon Braket, their quantum algorithm development environment, is available now in their US East and US West regions. AWS Free Tier customers receive 1 free hour of simul...

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Amazon's Quantum Computing Service Goes GA with 1 Hour for Free Tier Users

SpamHaus Botnet Report Highlights Some LowEnd Providers

Spamhaus's 2021 Q2 Botnet Threat Update has been released and it's interesting reading. Overall, there has been a reduction in observed command and control (C&C) systems.  However, at regional and...

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SpamHaus Botnet Report Highlights Some LowEnd Providers

Microsoft Azure is the World's Largest Cloud

According to recent data, Microsoft Azure is the world's largest public cloud with $17.7 billion in quarterly revenue.  Amazon AWS trails not far behind at $13.3 billion.  The top five (which also inc...

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Microsoft Azure is the World's Largest Cloud

Cloudflare Complains About Amazon AWS Egress Fees

In a blog post this week, Cloudflare complained that Amazon AWS's egress fees are too high.  According to CF's calculations, customers are paying: 80 times Amazon's costs in the US, Canada, and Europe...

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Cloudflare Complains About Amazon AWS Egress Fees

LowEndBoxTV: How to Get a Free VPS

Is cheap cloud hosting not cheap enough for you?  Can you really get a VPS for free? Yes! In this video we review a variety of offers from various providers. Some are 1-year trials, some are shorter-t...

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LowEndBoxTV: How to Get a Free VPS

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