The Buzz: Latest News, Gossip, and Drama from LowEndTalk
$22,000 in missing crypto, provider deadpools, suspicious CPU steals...you need to be reading LowEndTalk!
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Hetzner Terminates Kiwix With Extreme Prejudice - What Do You Think?
Kiwix is an information archival service and recently they were dropped by Hetzner. It's quite a tale.
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Have You Missed Any of these LowEndBoxTV Videos?
Our video master, Piotr, has been lighting up the metrics on YouTube with some great videos on LowEndBoxTV. If you're not a subscriber, you're missing out! Did any of these slip past your stream unclicked?
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LowEndBoxTV: Are All Hetzner Locations Alike? No! And Piotr Has the Proof: "This is Clearly Not the Same Processor"
For a long time, hosting with Hetzner meant hosting in Germany or Finland. But recently they've gone global, expanding into the USA and later to Singapore. They claim their systems are the same at each location, but are they...? No! And Piotr has the proof.
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So What do I Run On? Raindog308's LowEnd Empire and Preferred LowEnd Provider List
I like to host with the best, and my LowEnd empire is a star-studded cavalcade of great LowEnd providers. Who are you hosting with these days?
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LowEndBoxTV: Is a ServerFactory Ryzen VPS Faster Than a Hetzner Dedicated Server? You'll Be Surprised!
Is a high-end dedicated server faster than a high-end VPS? It depends but the numbers are a lot closer than you'd think! In this new LowEndBoxTV video, I dig into a comparison between a ServerFactory Ryzen VPS and three different Hetzner dedicated servers.
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Need a Cheap GPU Server? Hetzner Brings Them Back, With Some Controversy
The GEX44 is under $200/month. Is it right for you?
Read MoreLowEndBoxTV: Is Windows or Linux Faster on a Hetzner Dedicated Server?
Is Windows or Linux faster on a server? The answer is, naturally, "it depends". But what it depends on might surprise you, and the benchmarks will definitely surprise you!
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LowEndBoxTV: Thinking About a Hetzner AX41? Consider the EX44 Instead! Nearly AX102 Performance!
The Hetzner AX41 looks like an amazing deal. But for just 2 EUR more per month, you can get something that is a bit more interesting! The EX44 features an i5, 14 cores, 65GB of RAM, and dual 512GB NVMe drives and is a lot closer to the AX102 in performance. Piotr conducts a full review!
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Hetzner Tells Russian Customers to Get Lost
Goodbye, Russian Hetzner customers. The West can't take your money anymore.
Read MoreLowEndBoxTV: How Does the Hetzner AX102 Dedicated Server Stack Up?
How does Hetzner's AX102 dedicated server compare to their AX41? Let's go in-depth and see!
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LowEndBoxTV: The 5-Minute Setup Guide to Windows on Hetzner: How to Make it Work, and How to Secure it
Installing Windows on Hetzner servers is not as straightforward as you might think. The tutorial they publish does not work on their newest dedicated servers. But Piotr has a fixed!
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Plex Blocks Hetzner in Move Against Piracy
Recently, if you host your own Plex server on a Hetzner IP address, there's a very good chance you received the following email: Important notice about the hosting service you may be using. We're cont...
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LowEndBoxTV: Which Providers Does Piotr Use? Quite a Few!
Piotr uses a LOT of providers. In this video he goes into each and every provider he uses: RackNerd, GreenCloud, HostHatch, Hetzner, Netcup, PHP-Friends, and BuyVM! Get his opinions on the pros and cons of each service and why he chose them.
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Hetzner CAX vs CPX - What's the Deal with ARM?
CAX vs CPX - or in other words ARM vs x86. Which is the best choice for you? Piotr helps you pick as he breaks down the pros and cons of each offering.
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100TB Storage Server for $110: Why You Want to Use ZFS Instead of EXT4 RAID
Piotr got at 100TB server but then faced the question of how best to set it up. The benchmarks he did might surprise you!
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Piotr has a Cheap Dedicated Server with 100TB of Disk: Optimizing it With ZFS
Piotr likes disk. A LOT of disk. How should he optimize his 10x10TB hard drives? With ZFS it's a snap but setting it up on a Hetzner dedi is not straightforward. Fortunately Piotr makes it a breeze.
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How to Setup a Highly Available Wordpress Site From Scratch: Two Years Later, It Still Works!
We did a six-part tutorial on setting up a highly available Wordpress site using two VPS systems, configuring MariaDB and replication, using DRBD and OCFS2 for filesystem replication, and tying it all off with round-robin DNS. It still works!
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Setup Odoo? Swap out Slack? Create Plugins for Python? Dynamic DNS? We've Got the Tutorials!
Want to setup OpenLiteSpeed on Oracle Cloud arm instances? Need to transfer data between Telegram and your VPS? Want to configure your VPN to exit fast TOR nodes? Check out LowEndTalk's tutorials!
Read MoreWhat You Need to Know About Buying A Hetzner Auction Server
It's like eBay for cheap dedicated servers!
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The InterServer Storage VPS Experience: Interview with LowEndTalk Member Teko!
LowEndTalk @Teko recently posted a comment that he was enjoying his InterServer storage VPS. I thought his experiences might be interesting to everyone, so we stepped it up to a full interview. Here...
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How To Check ECC Memory On A Hetzner Dedicated Server
Recently we've been discussing getting started on a new VPS or dedicated server. Specific topics have included updating the operating system and configuring ssh, running a yabs benchmark, and checking...
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How To Check Hard Drives On A Hetzner Dedicated Server
Recently we posted How To Begin On Your New VPS Or Dedicated Server. That post discussed our first steps on a new server, including updating the operating system and configuring sshd. Next we posted a...
Read MoreHow To Use YABS To Check Your New VPS Or Dedicated Server
Enjoy this YABS workout from Tom! Sorry, couldn't resist the pun. I should have. --raindog308 Benching With Yabs Hello again from sunny Sonora! Recently I wrote about How To Begin On Your New VPS O...
Read MoreHow To Begin On Your New VPS Or Dedicated Server
Introduction Hello from sunny Sonora! This morning I was delighted to receive an email from Hetzner telling me that my new AX41-NVMe server was provisioned with Debian and ready to go! This post discu...
Read MoreFaster, Easier Proxmox Install On A Hetzner Dedicated Server!
Last night, in a moment of sudden Low End Inspiration, I grabbed a Hetzner Auction Server! It's been awhile since I had a server at Hetzner. I wanted something for a few new projects. I haven't decide...
Read MoreLowEndTalk Community Best Provider Award Voting Results Are In! Congrats to RackNerd, BuyVM, VirMach, and Hetzner!
LowEndTalk’s 2021 Best Providers poll has been taken, the votes have been counted, the people have spoken, and the awards have been given! #1 Best Provider Award: RackNerd #1 Most Professional Provide...
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🇩🇪🇫🇮 The Hetzner Has Landed! 🇺🇸
Hetzner announced Wednesday that they are adding a new location: Ashburn, Virginia, USA! This is the company's first foray into North America and it joins their existing German and Finnish locations. ...
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