This week we covered free cookies (that you don’t want), hard drives driven hard, cyber insurers driven crazy, Afrinic crackdowns, and more! We also had an interview, three tutorials, multiple offers, and some news on one of our community advertisers. It’s all here in the LowEndBoxTV Weekend Update for July 24, 2021.
LowEndBox Weekend Update for July 24, 2021
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July 24, 2021 @ 2:46 pm, by raindog308How to Check Out Your Dedicated Server’s Hard Drive
With the rise of Chia farming, many hard drives provisioned in LowEnd dedicated servers are arriving having suffered phenomenal (ab)use. Sure, your dedi provider is usually on the hook to replace if your drive dies, but who wants to go through that kind of hassle and disruption? Here’s a quick technique for checking what state […]
Chia Crypto Farming Wreaks Havoc in the Hard Drive Market
cheap dedicated server, chia, cryptocurrency, dedicated server July 19, 2021 @ 12:00 am, by raindog308Popular cryptocoin Chia has been wreaking havoc in the hard drive market of late, chewing up all available supplies in some markets as miners – er, farmers – look for capacity to work the crypto algorithms needed for the coin. It’s been reported that large-capacity hard drives “have virtually gone out of stock in Vietnam”. […]
