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Amazon Broke the Internet Today. Good Sales Tactic?

Jul 28, 2022

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 power". This was likely a non-event for big users because they'd have multiple availability zones, etc. and would probably just detect the failure and carry on. But it's interesting to see that 38 different services was affec...

Amazon Broke the Internet Today. Good Sales Tactic?

Microsoft Shrugged Off 2.4Tbps DDoS Attack

raindog308

Nov 07, 2021

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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...

Microsoft Shrugged Off 2.4Tbps DDoS Attack

Does Your Provider Offer Snapshots?

raindog308

Oct 10, 2021

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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...

SpamHaus Botnet Report Highlights Some LowEnd Providers

raindog308

Aug 19, 2021

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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...

SpamHaus Botnet Report Highlights Some LowEnd Providers

LowEndBoxTV: How to Get a Free VPS

raindog308

May 12, 2021

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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...

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

raindog308

Apr 21, 2021

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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...