As you've undoubtedly read by now, a sophisticated Ukrainian operation (Operation Spider's Web) launched drones from prepositioned storage crates outside four Russian air bases and blew up about a third of Russia's strategic long-range bomber fleet. What's been less noted is the open source software that powered these systems.| LowEndBox
Last week I was preparing for a long plane ride. I grabbed my preferred travel video player - an Amazon Kindle Fire, which has a handy microSD port - and dug out a fingernail-sized piece of storage media to insert. It occurred to me that this tiny centimeter-sized slab of plastic and silicon holds more data (1TB) than the entirety of the first datacenter I worked in back in the early 90s. What does the future portend for this popular format?| LowEndBox
When the internet was first taking shape, the idea of country-code Top-Level Domains (ccTLDs) was simple: give every nation its own digital space. What no one expected was that some countries would find themselves sitting on virtual gold mines — not from their native users, but from clever marketers and businesses around the world who saw these two-letter domains as branding shortcuts.| LowEndBox
MariaDB is free as in love, but MariaDB Plc is no longer free as in independent. It's been swallowed up by private equity.| LowEndBox
Google is building a new datacenter in...well, I wouldn't have guessed this city.| LowEndBox
Is getting an email about a provider's upcoming outage or reason for an unexpected outage a good sign or a bad sign? It's a very good sign. Not getting emails like that is a bad sign.| LowEndBox
Can't afford HelpScout? Consider a free feature-loaded alternative with unlimited users and tickets, running on community provider PikaPods' reliable and affordable infrastructure!| LowEndBox
AMD has declared its intention to purchase ZT Systems, a key player in AI infrastructure solutions catering to major hyperscale computing entities. This strategic move aligns with AMD's aim to enhance AI training and inferencing solutions by making advancements in silicon, software, and system levels. Can Intel ever catch up?| LowEndBox
Unfortunately, the answer is not| LowEndBox
We've published a few articles about the performance of Tucows peer, Digital Ocean, and their struggles, in August 2023 and again in October 2023 as Digital Ocean navigates challenging growth with high capital spending. Meanwhile, it seems Tucows is booking modest, incremental, revenue growth but is still reporting huge (relative) net losses.| LowEndBox
You’re reading this because you believe it is time for you to get a VPS: a new shiny Virtual Private Server! Most people reach this stage after being with a web host for some time.| LowEndBox
