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Put Your Idlers to Work for a Good Cause! What To Do With All That Spare Horsepower You Have Lying Around

Sep 02, 2025

Admit it - you bought systems you're not using. We've all done it! You see a good deal and can't resist. Or you have a grand vision for a vast digital empire but it never quite seems to get done (yet!). What do you do with all the spare LowEndBoxes you have lying around? Other than tracking them with MyIdlers, of course. There's a number of things you could consider doing with them to make the world a better place.

Put Your Idlers to Work for a Good Cause! What To Do With All That Spare Horsepower You Have Lying Around

Getting Started with GlobalPing: Hands On!

raindog308

Jan 02, 2023

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We played with a GlobalPing hardware probe and have pictures, hardware breakdown, nmap scans, API tests, and more for you! We also look at the global distribution of GlobalPing's probes. It's a cool project and it's fun to see this project start to take off.

Win a Globalping Probe in the LowEndTalk Giveaway! WORLDWIDE Now Through December 5!

raindog308

Nov 20, 2022

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LowEndTalk community member @jimaek is giving away 20 of Globalping's hardware probes, now through December 5, 2022! Enter to win and read up on this cool FOSS project.

Run Ping From a Stranger's Apartment: GlobalPing is Coming!

raindog308

Nov 13, 2022

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"Globalping is a platform that allows anyone to run networking commands such as ping, traceroute, dig and mtr on probes distributed all around the world. Our goal is to provide a free and simple API for everyone out there to build interesting networking tools and services."