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PSA: Your Data is Not Safe on Just One Cloud (AWS Nuked a 10-Year Account and All Data Without Warning)

Aug 03, 2025

This morning, LowEndTalk member @ralf shared news of an AWS tragedy. The title of the thread is "Do your own backups (AWS deleted person's 10-year account and all data without warning)". Now, before I even opened the thread, I knew what the community's reaction would be: do your own offsite backups. This is practically the sacred creed of the LowEnd world.

PSA: Your Data is Not Safe on Just One Cloud (AWS Nuked a 10-Year Account and All Data Without Warning)

Hybrid Hosting: The Preferred New Solution for IT Leaders

News Team

Oct 14, 2024

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67% of IT decision makers now favor a hybrid hosting infrastructure. The shift back to traditional datacenter infrastructure continues to gain momentum as the allure of an all-public-cloud approach fades.

Hybrid Hosting: The Preferred New Solution for IT Leaders

Oracle Cloud Launches in Colombia, While AWS/GCP/Azure Lag in South America

raindog308

Dec 11, 2023

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Oracle cloud recently announced they're setting up shop in Columbia, their third South American location. Let's take a quick look at the South American hosting situation.

Oracle Cloud Launches in Colombia, While AWS/GCP/Azure Lag in South America

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

Sir Foxy

Jul 21, 2023

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

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

Amazon Broke the Internet Today. Good Sales Tactic?

raindog308

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?

Does Your Provider Offer Snapshots?

raindog308

Oct 10, 2021

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For a long time, VPS snapshots were only available in high-end hosting companies, but over the last few years they've become increasingly common in the marketplace. This neat feature can be a real ti...

SpamHaus Botnet Report Highlights Some LowEnd Providers

raindog308

Aug 19, 2021

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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...