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The Federal Trade Commission has filed a lawsuit in San Francisco Federal Court against AT&T over its practice of throttling unlimited data plan customers, some by 90%. http://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/cases/141028attcmpt.pdf Hopefully the FTC gets busy smacking the cellular companies...

Someone sent me an interesting piece from GoDaddy.  Their cPanel hosting namely.  Xeon i7 12 cores / 24 with hyperthreading. Is this a real server? https://www.godaddy.com/pro/cpanel-hosting  

Sure a few people are wondering about the Q3 2014 LE* provider poll results. Like past few I've tallied the numbers.  There are some catches.  I threw a few votes where people couldn't count to 5... I think there were maybe 3-4 voters outright with problems.   Further changes will be factored...

With all the recent site attacks elsewhere and continued finger pointing about CloudFlare, I went over there finally to check their stuff out. Major problem, they have no support for failover.   Meaning no way to tell CF to point elsewhere when your backend server can't be reached. Am I...

Stumbled into this in my pile of stuff a bit ago.  Unsure if it appeared elsewhere yet. Yet another ChicagoVPS loses data claim with no backups in place. Entirely unsure if the customer was using their "optional but included" Central Backup solution.  Multiple days, ticket hockey... etc. I...

Unsure what is going on at Datashack in Kansas City.   It appears they are moving out of their North Kansas Datashack facility which is only a few years along now. Customers received this email today:

http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2014-3566 Overview The SSL protocol 3.0, as used in OpenSSL through 1.0.1i and other products, uses nondeterministic CBC padding, which makes it easier for man-in-the-middle attackers to obtain cleartext data via a padding-oracle attack, aka...

So, ColoCrossing appears to be having a rather large outage. Roughly an hour or more downtime.    Definitely out in Los Angeles at Quadranet. Other locations folks are mumbling about being down in as well. What are you seeing?

In the market for a new piece of hardware for dd-wrt.  Something more ahh modern and ideally with better CPU + more RAM. Would like to get a good spec off the shelf solution that bundles 600Mhz or faster CPU + 256MB of RAM minimum and does 2.4Ghz + 5Ghz. Running OpenVPN client to connect to...

Working on updating an old project and have random problem getting something working in nginx. Trying to do something like this: existing url:  www.domain.com/page.asp ---> redirect "invisibly" to user to new url: www.domain.com/page.php (via nginx reverse proxy) I basically have a list of...

Anyone here dealing with colocation of gear in Harris or Dallas County or any other Texas counties that have taxation on servers/gear colocated within their geographic boundaries? I have multiple people in said scenario with personal colo units (typically 1-2U) who have received tax bills or...

Draining Sales from other Lowendtalk and Lowendbox Companies Have you ever visited Servermania's website? Wondering why wherever you go online you keep seeing Servermania ads for dedicated servers of VPS packages? Seen such on Facebook, Youtube, random websites that run Google Ads? Odds are...

This morning some idiot thought his little compromised Wordpress bot net would terrorize a provider.  It worked for a few minutes then humans sprung to. Slews and slews of URL requests made at the same time through common WordPress exploitation. This details the common exploit via the Pingback...

Ad Stalking, the process whereby as a website visitor you get cookie stuffed - cookie for site you are visiting put in your browser for long time.  Then later you end up at some other site where they too are tied into same ad network or other javascript bugging which then fires off an ad for...

In light of the latest BASH exploit I've been patching and updating things. Someone pointed me to Vultr and their approach where it appears they maintain inside the container access: Appears they have unattended security updates inside folks containers if others are reading correctly and so am...

Appears that a bunch of us are experimenting with file replication solutions lately or maybe have such running for a bit. This is for BTSync / Bittorrent Sync. Some questions: 1. Anyone successfully running BTSync on a LAN/WAN on all internal IP arrangement?   Does it work with such or does...

We've covered CloudAtCost here on vpsBoard with mixed fanfare. They have a well produced video teasing about their 2.0 re-launch of CloudAtCost coming soon.     It's nice to peer a bit into their operation and get a view of their setup, datacenter, etc. [hint to others]...

VPN.sh, the low cost VPN provider seen around here, and documented over time to have gone MIA, wonky, etc. is cooking up a new VPN brand: FixedRoute. http://fixedroute.com/ The website is pretty and the launch is October 1. The FixedRoute VPN service will be available in New York and Seattle...

Was wondering if anyone in these parts is a current happy T-Mobile customer in the USA? Considering their $80 a month unlimited plan [other carriers pricing leaves a lot to be desired and the cheap stuff over Sprint's network is dialup-like for data]. Anyone on this plan currently...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYcSqIuqkz4 For all the lads that lacked the marbles and the storage sack to tell the boss goodbye, this sassy lady shows you how to go out in a blaze.