Do You Need BGP? Probably Not, But Here’s What It Is and Why It Matters
What the heck is BGP and why should you care? Is it relevant to your day-to-day computing? Yes, but it may be a bit more involved than you need.
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Before You Click ‘Buy’ on That Hosting Deal, Read This Checklist And Avoid the #1 Mistake People Make!
We've all done it: seen some incredible offer that checks a couple of our desire boxes and done a speed run through purchasing...only to end up with a system that doesn't meet our needs because we made assumptions. Be smart and double-check the details before signing up!
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Hosting Providers Are Outraged at IPXO Over 'Two Incident' Abuse Report Policy
IPXO's "two incident" policy is not sitting right with providers. They're in a difficult spot, balancing providers and block owners, legit complaints and trashy noise. SirFoxy explores it for us.
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The Curious Case of 4.1 Million Misappropriated AFRINIC IPv4 Addresses
AFRINIC is the regional internet registry (RIR) for Africa. The second employee ever hired at AFRINIC way back in 2004 was directly responsible for the biggest IPv4 heist in history: 4.1 million IPv4 addresses. This is the story.
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How Easy Is It To Acquire IPv4 Addresses Among Scarcity Concerns in 2023? Let’s Find Out...
IPv4 is an increasingly scarce resource. Where can you acquire IPv4 addresses in 2023? We have some leads. The landscape is certainly changing as competition over these scarce resources intensifies.
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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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POLL: OVH IPv4 Pricing Apocalypse! If Your Provider Begs, What Will You Say?
The LowEnd community was rocked today by news that OVH is substantially increasing IPv4 prices. The OVH blog has a table showing the impact for different IP block sizes, which is strange since the pri...
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Looking for IPv4 IPs? We've Got IPv4 IPs.
If you haven't heard, there's a problem with IPv4 exhaustion. If you're looking to rent or lease IPs, we have the thread for you. There are many choices in the marketplace, and LowEndTalk does not hav...
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Is the Golden Age of LowEnd VPSes Coming to a Screeching Halt?
OVH announced on June 14 that it will begin charging for IPv4 addresses. That loud screaming sound you heard was thousands of low-end hosts watching their profit margins vaporize. "Given the scarcity...
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500 Million New IPv4 Addresses Coming! Well, Maybe. Or Maybe Not.
The idea of changing up the IPv4 protocols to free up reserved ranges is not new. Heck, I posted about it on LowEndTalk at least ten years ago and it wasn't new then. The idea is simple: when IPv4 wa...
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A New Dimension of Connectivity Begins with PubConcierge’s Cutting Edge Network Infrastructure
LowEndBox would like to welcome PubConcierge, a company that provides exclusive technical concierge services. They are a global company that handles IP configuration and infrastructure setup for thei...
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Learn More About ipv6 with Hurricane Electric's Free Certification Program
As you've probably heard, IPv4 has been deprecated and IPv6 is the new network hotness. In fact, it's been the new protocol on the scene since Windows 95 was a thing. For those born and raised on IPv4...
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Over the Past Year, the Price of an IP Address Has More Than Doubled
According to information published IPv4 Global, a IP address auction service, the price of IP addresses between August 2020 and August 2021 has more than doubled. Their data shows that at the end of A...
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Comparing BGP Stacks' Performance: bird vs. frr vs. OpenBGP vs gobgp Shootout Data Published
Most users don't spend a lot of time worrying about BGP, much less BGP performance. But if you the kind of person who worries about BGP performance, it's likely very important to you. BGP is the Bord...
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AFRINIC Cracks Down on IP Fraud
AFRINIC (the Regional Internet Authority for Africa which controls allocations of IP addresses on that continent) appears to be cracking down on people who obtain African IPs and use them elewhere. Co...
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LowEndBoxTV: Weekend Update for May 1, 2021
Free VPS, Cheap VPS, and Ryzen VPS, plus interviews with DirectAdmin and OnApp, plus our Industry Roundtable on ipv4 exhaustion, plus...whew, it was quite a week! This video is our weekly update of ev...
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IPv4 Exhaustion: Industry Leaders Give Their Opinion!
Every month, LowEndBox puts a question in front of hosting industry leaders and LEB community providers, who are invited to comment and offer their perspective. Our goal is to stimulate discussion ar...
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WindowsVPS.Host - VPS plans starting at $5.50!
WindowsVPS.Host has contacted us once again with their offers of VPS Plans and Reseller Plans, specifically targeted for Lowendbox visitors with special discounts. These plans start at $5.50 a month f...
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WindowsVPS.Host - VPS plans starting at $5.50 and Windows VPS Reseller Plans!
WindowsVPS.Host has contacted us with more offers specifically targeted for Lowendbox visitors with special discounts. They have VPS offers starting at $5.50 a month and Windows VPS Reseller plans sta...
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ChicagoVPS - Welcomes in the New Year starting @ $3.50/mo and more!
Nick from over at ChicagoVPS has sent over some of their customers and our readers favorite deals to continue with the New Year Celebration! If you don't see what you need they also have a site wide s...
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HudsonValleyHost – $4.99/mo 4GB OpenVZ Linux VPS (normally $20/mo) + 40% OFF select items and more for Cyber Monday!
Hudson Valley Host sent over some aggressive deals for Cyber Monday. They are back again with their hottest seller which is the 8GB VDS (KVM VPS) for $17.50/mo with 100GB's of pure RAID-10 SSD! They a...
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ChicagoVPS - 5GB Linux OpenVZ for $5/mo, 40% off sale and much more for Black Friday!
Nick from over at ChicagoVPS has sent in their largest sale of the year for our Black Friday celebration! If you don't see what you need they also have a site wide sale running, just use coupon code "...
Read MoreSolvedByData - Special Prices on OpenVZ VPS Plans out of Los Angeles and New York!
SolvedByData is back with some new plans on sale for the community. They have 3 VPS plans on sale, that we are told have full root access and control and that their SSD powered VPS's are perfect for s...
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WelcomeHosting - 3 New KVM Plans on Sale, starting at $22 a year out of various locations!!!
WelcomeHosting reached out to us with 3 more KVM VPS Specials that they wanted to share. This is KVM VPS Hosting powered by pure SSD. All of their plans come with the following as a standard: custom K...
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SupremeVPS - SSD Linux VPS Plans starting at $42.50 a year!!!
SupremeVPS is back with some exclusive offers for the community. This time, they are focusing on their SSD Linux VPS offers. As always, every offer by SupremeVPS is all powered by RAID-10 SSD's for to...
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PDQServer - 2GB KVM w/ 30GB SSD and 1Gbps port for $4.50/mo and more!
PDQServer recently sent in their first-ever offer to share with the LowEndBox community! They are offering up KVM based VM's powered by RAID-10 SSD's in Dallas, Los Angeles and New York. We hope you e...
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WindowsVPS.host - 2GB Windows VPS w/ 20GB SSD for $5.50/mo and more!
WindowsVPS.host is back with another amazing offer for us today! They have 3 different aggressively priced Windows VPS plans all powered by RAID-10 SSD's on 1Gbps Ports and also are now offering these...
Read MoreDCNHost - New Sale for the LEB community on OpenVZ VPS Plans Out of New York!
DCNHost recently contacted us with a new sale for November. They are offering deals two OpenVZ VPS plans that they have on sale specifically for the LEB community. You can see details for the plans be...
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