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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)

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.

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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)

Hybrid Hosting: The Preferred New Solution for IT Leaders

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.

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Hybrid Hosting: The Preferred New Solution for IT Leaders

Amazon Broke the Internet Today. Good Sales Tactic?

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...

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Amazon Broke the Internet Today.  Good Sales Tactic?

Microsoft Shrugged Off 2.4Tbps DDoS Attack

Microsoft reported recently that it had fended off a 2.4Tbps DDoS attack in August.  The attack - launched from 70,000 sources in Asia and the US - was the second biggest attack on record, eclipsed on...

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Microsoft Shrugged Off 2.4Tbps DDoS Attack

Does Your Provider Offer Snapshots?

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...

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Does Your Provider Offer Snapshots?

Microsoft Azure's CosmosDB Accidentally Left Wide Open

Microsoft revealed Thursday that some customers' CosmosDB databases in Azure were accidentally left wide open. A security researcher named Wiz discovered that it could access keys that unlocked thousa...

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Microsoft Azure's CosmosDB Accidentally Left Wide Open

SpamHaus Botnet Report Highlights Some LowEnd Providers

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...

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SpamHaus Botnet Report Highlights Some LowEnd Providers

LowEndBoxTV: How to Get a Free VPS

Is cheap cloud hosting not cheap enough for you?  Can you really get a VPS for free? Yes! In this video we review a variety of offers from various providers. Some are 1-year trials, some are shorter-t...

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LowEndBoxTV: How to Get a Free VPS

Free VPS Hosting Providers - How to get a free VPS!

We regularly post offers for the cheapest VPSes on the planet...but did you know there are places you can get a VPS for free? Naturally there are caveats, provisos, and gotchas, but if your budget is...

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Free VPS Hosting Providers - How to get a free VPS!

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