There are still a few things to do that really need to be fully tested on a live VPS for optimisation and a few tiny but important plugins to finish that would also benefit from being live.

I was just about to spin up another VPS on hetzner to probably end up taking over as the main LES server, then I see that the prices went up +300% they are charging around $20 now for a fairly basic 2GB VPS, its a bit silly, sorry hetzner... you are not LE* anymore, so we need to move.

Looking for recommendations, currently LES lives in Germany, yet looking at traffic patterns, about 70% is north america based, so I am thinking the best option is to look for East Side USA, part of me kind of likes the idea of Ashburn... feels like a good home for old internet things

Does not have to be Ashburn but that would be a bonus, I probably would not want to get any further west than Dallas, though.

Looking for strong recommendations, I was going to put it on quickpacket, but they only do dedicated servers and it feels like LES should really be running on a VPS.

Updates.

Lots of other Ui fixes and theme fixes and also some standardisation, side bar has been updated, more for trending and offers, and a lot of irrelevant or duplicated UI stuff has been removed.

Theme toggles on the top bar now, no password needed, as well as a slider, if you want none of the animations or anything related to karma that has a visual impact, you can have it.

The support system and blog system is built directly into vanilla now also.

It's not really THAT different to how it is now, at the core, it is the foundation and groundwork for a much more self-moderating community; not everything connected to that is in, yet, but the foundation for that to happen is, once live it will become easier to do these updates and have a better test environment.

Once V2 is live, I will start to drop some of the old resources and drop the price, google adverts are still enabled for none logged in users, so far that gave a total of £5.20 over 24 days, so probably about £6.50 by the end of the month.

On that basis, I will be looking for ways to better monetise, probably either in the promoted listings or buy a square type of things, prices will be low, and karma can be used, and it will be open to everyone, but I will try to keep it tasteful and non-flashy as much as possible.

Before any of that, though, I need to work on the numbers, or why would anyone be here

Also as a heads up, part of this rejig is going to make a little bit of a conflicting mess with the old tag system and the new karma system, they can both exist together but it looks a bit funny, I will be starting to remove tags that are not really in use much like the senpi and content creator / writer tags, and reduce the old tag system to functional only.

@yoursunny troll will be turned into a 1 of 1 karma badge, only he will have, unless he decides to pass it on (That will be possible)

We will also have host-specific decorations if you want to show support for specific hosts.

So at some point, without much warning, this place will go into maintenance mode or just offline while I panic and realise what I forgot to consider when migrating everything, hopefully not more than a couple of hours.

That's all for now.

We’ve launched a new community space called the "Alexhost Hub" for our users and supporters and customers.

This thread is meant to be the place for everything Alexhost - product announcements, company updates, user feedback, and casual conversations with our team. Drop in to stay informed, share ideas, or just say hello.

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• Recently we added our VPS in Las Vegas, USA.
• New IXs connected
• Datacenter improvements
• Upgraded Network
• New design of Billing
• Global Expansion: We are always expanding and improving our services and DDoS Protection.
• Added Storage Dedicated Servers 20TB up to 120TB!

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Acceptable Usage Policy
Terms of Service (available in PDF through our website only)
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I decided to just post a single TierHive thread instead. I might still post some offers and specials from time to time, but for now, I will keep it contained to a single thread for updates etc, as most offer threads seem to turn in to that anyway.

So what's been going on recently?

Updates in live bullet points to keep it simple

1. IPv6 was added, its free, you get 1 x /64 per location and can then add individual addresses from that /64 to any VPS in that location, elastic IPv6 coming based on user take-up over 6 months, Current user take-up on IPv6 is 1.5% This is measured by the number of users that have allocated at least 1 IPv6 address to a VPS.
2. Users can now allocate 5 additional NAT ports in addition to the SSH port.
3. Users can now manage the internal forwarding of ports, so for example, if you are allocated 2345 you can have that forward to 8080 internal if you want.
4. You can now download your SSL certificate from the HAProxy directly. I don't fully understand why anyone wants this, but it's a very popular request.
5. We have introduced burst buckets on IOPS and Network as of today for network and disk, you now can now double your tier limit for 5 seconds continuously, any VPS that existed before today will need to change their network and disk tier down and up again to gain access to this (Sorry, it's a pain in the ass to do restrospectivley) so if medium tier is on 300mbit for example you will be able to do 600mbit for 5 seconds sustained, then when you idle again below 300mbit your bucket empties and you can burst up again on demand. (Hope I explained that ok)
6. You can now copy the IP, Port or whole ssh string separately in the UI, aparently that was annoying for Windows users.
7. Crypto mining detectors are now deployed on all nodes, load dropped globally by 50% in the first hour haha.. just wow.
8. We decided to remove the network disk options and the sql service, and the mail relay, even fewer people use this than use IPv6 so it's not really worth the code maintenance and complexity. It might come back one day, for now its not worth it, you will still be able to attack backups as network disks.
9. We plan to decouple the backups from the VPS so that you can put a VPS disk image on cold storage.
10. Added an FAQ which is being built following support tickets to provide real answers without needing to open a ticket, but you can if you want anyway.

Things we are playing with now that may make it out of the sand pit version.

1. A static hosting layer, which will likely just be free to any user with a positive balance, details still in progress.
2. We want to start charging less for shut down VPS, obviously we still maintain the mesh elements, the disk/data, and the firewall and port reservations and have to account for the fact that you can boot it at any time, but initially I am thinking 50% discount for powered off servers, it helps us keep it cheap if you make the effort to shut down when not using it.
3. unikernels - not me playing with this, I think its an interesting idea but lets see where it goes
4. Bring your own image automation, this will have 2 modes, give us the key or password for another running VPS somewhere else and we will try to import it, obviously its best if thats in rescue mode but not absolutely needed, and just give us the url to a qcow2 or raw image and we will do the rest.
5. long long long term, personal project I am working on multiplexing VNC for audio into a custom html5 client using a single WebSocket, but this is actually sort of for another project but would be cool in TierHive.
6. It makes me very sad how few people have enabled DHCP or mess with the DHCP options for your scopes, it took me bloody ages to get it working over the whole /24 regardless of location, so I will probably end up being free, if people still don't use it, ah well, its done, nothing new to add.
7. network page for network tests and mesh status.

And thats it, thats my update, probably missed 100 minor things but at least I have a thread to do it in now.

Linky: https://tierhive.com/

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Also that it's a soft limit so AWS in crack style you start getting billed for overages.

https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/FreeTier/freetier_topic-Always_Free_Resources.htm

Documentation has been updated and a few chat screen it's on Reddit show that the terms and calculator will follow.

So just a heads up, oracle are not known for playing nice, this could be nothing but just in case, manage your usage or you could end up with a nasty bill.

Thought I would post this so it can be updated as we go.

Could still be nothing.

Edit: now confirmed

You will start being billed from the 15th if you are over the NEW free tier ... enjoy your 4 days notice.

Some of you saw the original Hypervisor V2 thread when we launched it as a lightweight KVM control panel. Big update: it grew up. Hypervisor.io is now a full self-hosted KVM cloud, the kind of stack you would reach for OpenStack or CloudStack to build, minus the multi-server control plane and the ops headache. One master, as many slave nodes as you like. Provisioning, the cloud-services layer, and billing all in the same box.

The bit we are most proud of: The AI assistant. Not a docs chatbot, it actually provisions. You type "spin up 3 VMs behind a load balancer with SSL" or "resize my Postgres and add a replica" and it reads your real infra and executes through the same API the UI uses. No one else in this category ships that.

Stuff competitors just do not ship (full sheet: https://hypervisor.io/compare/):

The rest of the kit:

• Compute: full KVM lifecycle, live migration, HA monitoring, VNC + browser SSH, GPU passthrough, cloud-init, IPv4 + IPv6
• Networking: VPC (VXLAN overlay), NAT gateways, VPN gateways, security groups, IP sets, HAProxy load balancers with SSL
• Data services: managed databases (MySQL / MariaDB / Postgres + replicas + PITR), tenant S3 object storage, managed Kubernetes + autoscaler
• Backups: streaming backups (S3 / SFTP / FTP / rclone) + volume snapshots with point-in-time rollback
• Billing: built in (Stripe / PayPal / Razorpay) with metering, multi-currency + tax invoicing, or run WHMCS / Blesta / HostBill / Paymenter
• Automation: full REST API (OpenAPI docs) plus the AI assistant, so anything the UI does, you script or just ask for

30-day free trial, full platform, no card.

Not here to bash anyone, Virtualizor and Solus are solid and OpenStack/CloudStack scale huge. The difference is we ship the cloud-services layer plus billing plus an AI that runs it as one product. If you just need VM provisioning, the classics do fine. If you want the AWS-style stack on your own metal with invoicing and an AI assistant already wired, that is us, running the same day.

• Site: https://hypervisor.io/
• Docs (will be improving): https://docs.hypervisor.io
• Compare: https://hypervisor.io/compare/

Questions and feature requests welcome, drop them below.

To catch you up to speed...

• OnePoundEmail launched in 2022 as an MXroute reseller, offering SmallEmail for One Pound per month.
• We slowly grew since then as understandably, I worked on regaining trust in the community having left the industry before.
• We now have close to 300 registered users and would be happy to take on many many more.
• In July 2023 I posted about some personal circumstances that led to a lack of attention to the brand. Extra help was contracted for the rest of that year, bills were settled in advance, subscriptions created where applicable, things looked a lot better.
• In September 2023 I followed up and posted about plans to re-do the website, make the affiliate program better, possibly rebrand, make bigger packages, acquire more customers/brands and add some additional services.
• I did manage to get most of that done. The website was updated, affiliate program enhanced and a couple extra packages added. On top of that, I reduced annual pricing, added discord and live chat, fixed some pesky issues, simplified the control panel navigation and added Crypto, EUR and USD payments.

We're now over a year after that post and have had a very successful Black Friday campaign, acquiring a stupid number of new customers, and it's time to use the higher number of users to our advantage and improve the service where possible.

Here are some base plans for 2025:

• Completely fill the entire knowledgebase. I've taken some inspiration and asked for feedback about how to approach this, and have started to section it out. We have categories for starter information, DNS setup, transferring guides and troubleshooting. As well as the usual sales, billing, etc. The plan is to reformat every single article and add images. I've already started the formatting process on a few dozen.
• On the topic of knowledgebase, each article will have a video equivalent. I do have a OnePoundEmail YouTube channel - it has a few guides on there. It gets 100s of views every month and I haven't touched it in almost 2 years. Time to change that.
• Again sticking with the theme of documentation, I plan on publishing a full contingency plan. Everything from the potential of MXroute kicking me to the curb to me being fisted with a christmas tree (maybe not). The plan is to be 100% transparent with what would realistically happen in certain scenarios.
• UK domain management. I started the application process with Nominet, only to realise I am not budgeting for the one-time and maintenance fees associated with that. It won't be worth it, so an alternative option for managing UK domains in the client portal will be implemented.
• Launching a blog. I had a blog, somewhere. I will be making a new one for more general topics.
• Rely less on promotional pricing. Black Friday has increased the client numbers by a lot. Discounts will be less frequent and hard hitting going forward to focus on stability and healthy growth.

There's lots more. But it's 2AM. I want to go to bed. Have this for now.

@FrankCastle, @Crab, and @Not_Oles want to point the spotlight on freely available, currently updated software derived from the Berkeley Software Distribution ("BSD").

We want people who have never tried BSD to give it a shot. Also, we ask for other people's insights, adventures, use cases, and general feedback on BSD. We want to survey members and providers to find out who here already is using BSD in any part of their setup.

These days, BSD includes the following popular distros, and more:

• OpenBSD

• NetBSD

• FreeBSD

• Dragonfly BSD

• OPNsense

• pfSense

Why BSD?

• Security -- OpenBSD aims to be "NUMBER ONE for security."

• Portability -- NetBSD works on 57 CPU architectures!

• Speed -- FreeBSD Performance Milestones by Netflix!

  • "2017 -- First 100 Gb/s CDN server"
  • "2020 -- First 200 Gb/s CDN server"
  • "2021 -- First 400 Gb/s CDN server"
  • "2022 -- First 800 Gb/s CDN server"
  • "2023 -- First 100 Gb/s CDN server consuming only 100W of power"

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• Do you want to try BSD?
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​Writing this with @mikho to share some important news regarding the future and management of LowEndSpirit.

​Mikael and I took over LES from @AnthonySmith back in 2021 (side note: I swear that was just a couple years ago... nope, 5! Holy smokes!). We had big plans for the community and future of LES and made some (small) strides, but ultimately fell short on bigger projects due to work/family/life events for both of us.

​To be completely candid, Mikael and I simply haven't had the time or energy required to give LES the active management and attention it truly deserves. Over our time at the helm, we’ve pretty much made zero significant changes to the website or the community -- I bet the wayback machine can attest. Whether that was for better or worse is up for debate, but we did keep the lights on and the servers humming. This is, without a doubt in my mind, in large part due to the insanely talented, level-headed, and brilliant moderators that have donated countless hours of their time back into the community to keep Ant's original vision alive -- shout out to @FrankZ, @bikegremlin, @MichaelCee, and @AuroraZero for all their hard work over the years!

We are extremely proud to say we kept our biggest promise to you all: we kept this community entirely ad-free, and we made sure it cost absolutely nothing for participating providers to advertise with us here (cough... unlike some other places... cough).

Now... with all that said... some astute observers have already noticed we slapped the Admin tag back on Anthony. After some discussion between the three of us and now that Ant is back in the low end hosting game, we have decided that we will be passing the LES torch back and will be transitioning ownership of LES and its assets back into his hands. We believe this to be the best possible outcome to give LES the much needed attention that will be required to remain fresh and relevant.

The transition of Admin duties and ownership will take place gradually over the next few weeks. Mikael and I aren't vanishing, we will be around to help out however possible to ensure a smooth handover.
​Thank you all for keeping the Spirit alive over the last few years. Please join us in welcoming Anthony back to the helm!

-Mason & Mikael (@mikho)

Started this as it was time we had 1 thread for all HOST-C stuff related.

Welcome all, trolling, memes or whatever is allowed, heck, even welcomed . All in the limits of LES Rules

https://lowendspirit.com/discussion/26/rules-rules-rules-rules-rules-info-updated-october-9th-1935/p1

We managed to clear most of the Tickets from the BF Sale, still have to fix some and to provision the 20 TB deals

Next..

I will start with a thank you for choosing HOST-C.

Here is an insight for the first part of 2025:

• Another Payment Gateway ( no crypto, at least for the first part of 2025 )
• Captcha - a more normal version then the one currently used
• rDNS in User Panel
• A new location for IPV6 only deals + a new location for higher speeds
• TOS will get some updates - these will be sent out via e-mail to all customers
• A decent website
• A lot of tweeks in products, pricing and product flexibility
• Dyson Sphere will be made a always available product ( well, as much as possible / location )

Now, for the rest of 2024, we will do some minor tweaks to server performance, might have to take a few nodes offline for a few minutes, as CPU or RAM is not hot-swap capable, at least not on the DELL's we use.

I wish to underline to everyone that we are no DMCA ignore, that term is pretty widely interpreted as PORN, Shady Stuff over the internet and other, some might got this idea as I am from Romania and some of my fella providers endorsed this type of activity in the past or still do, I will gladly disappoint some in this statement. Whatever you publish must follow this rule, whatever you store, that is not our business.

Short version of TOS can be found here, each subject has a revision number and date when it was published, as we update it, version number changes so is the date.

https://host-c.com/knowledgebase/2/Terms-and-Services

I wish to thank those that trusted/trust us with whatever data they have ( regardless of the type ) .

Get your self prepared, more to come.

As usual, if you have any questions, shoot.

HOST-C

Requesting a provider tag for Packetra, a privacy-focused hosting brand launched January 2026.

What we offer: Shared hosting, WordPress hosting, Cloud VPS (1G and 10G, unmetered bandwidth), Dedicated servers, and Domain registration. Infrastructure in Finland (Hetzner) and Switzerland (Private Layer). No-KYC signup, Bitcoin and Monero via self-hosted BTCPay Server.

Company: ASPB Limited (Hong Kong), company no. 79739840, incorporated 2 February 2026, registered office at Yam Tze Commercial Building, 23 Thomson Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong. Verifiable via the HK Companies Registry.

Website: https://packetra.com
Billing portal: https://portal.packetra.com

Background: 16 years in the web hosting industry. Happy to answer any questions.

We run DDoS-protected KVM VPS and game-server hosting out of Frankfurt am Main. Small team, EU-registered in Austria. The setup, straight:

• Hardware: leased compute nodes (Ryzen 9 9950X, DDR5, NVMe). Our backup hardware and storage we own (refurbished), racked in a datacenter in Salzburg, Austria, which we're opening up as a second location next year.
• Network: 25 Gbps per node, shared with fair-use. Everything runs from Frankfurt am Main, 99.9% network uptime.
• DDoS: standard VPS get reactive auto-mitigation at L3/4 (there's a brief detection blip on the first hit). Shield plans run through the scrubbing layer 24/7 with L7 filtering and per-game tuning, 28+ profiles (FiveM/RedM, Minecraft, Rust, DayZ, ArmA, Palworld, TeamSpeak and more), and we add profiles on request.
• IPv4: 1 included, extra at €3/mo. IPv6: not live yet, we're rolling it out next quarter.
• Plans: VPS Start €6.99 (2 vCPU / 2 GB / 40 GB / 3 TB), VPS Pro €21.99 (4 vCPU / 8 GB / 100 GB / 8 TB), Shield M €10.99 (2 vCPU / 2 GB / 40 GB / 3 TB, advanced DDoS). Monthly, no commitment.
• Unmanaged, full root. We handle hardware, network and uptime; the OS and stack are yours.
• Billing: licensed WHMCS plus our own control panel (reinstall, browser console, rescue mode). Payment in Bitcoin via self-hosted BTCPay, plus PayPal and Stripe.
• Privacy: no content inspection, no trackers, minimal logging.

For verification: 1337 Hosting Solutions e.U., Salzburg, Austria. Firmenbuch FN 665783v (Landesgericht Salzburg) and VAT ATU82601007, both checkable on the official Austrian register at justiz.gv.at or north data.

Website: https://1337hosting.com
Billing: https://clients.1337hosting.com

Happy to answer anything on the network or the DDoS side.

GENERAL:

• Don't be a dick
• LES is white hat, no illegal content or links to illegal content
• LES is eternal, don't post it if you don't mean it, you accept that you are here of your own free will and can leave at any time but the content you post here will always be part of LowEndSpirit.
• Multiple accounts for the same person or legal entity are not allowed without prior approval by LES staff.
• Smoking guns are not required, admin/mod decisions are to be respected (reasonable questioning of decisions is fine, we dont have hours to spend on every decision)
• Negative "reviews" without proof will be placed in the Rants section, which is de-indexed and will do no damage outside of this community.
• Being a general Admin/mod time vacuum = ban.
• LES is a buyer-beware market; it is not possible to pre-filter every offer or host.
• Do not stalk anyone or any service provider; repeatedly adding the same comments or negative experience will be considered vendetta-type behaviour.
• Do not dox people in ANY sense of the word.
• Posting a product or service for sale thread requires a [provider tag] https://lowendspirit.com/discussion/10949/new-les-forum-rules-active-as-of-11th-june-2026/p1?new=1#Provider "provider tag") will get you banned. Exceptions: Domain Sales, Service Transfers, and Free Offers. Other exceptions may be requested by sending a PM/DM to a moderator or administrator.
• If you find yourself in a room of 100 strangers the chances of you not getting along with 1 of them are quite high, now amplify that and make 'the room' an internet forum and make the 100 people 1000's of people the odds of disagreement are much higher, people are different, no one agrees with everyone 100% of the time, consider that when posting, sometimes it really is not worth it.
• Even though we are from different parts of the world, the English language is what brings us together. To make sure that we understand each other, we use English when posting.
• When new hosts and service providers are requesting a tag please keep the discussions on topic. This area will be more heavily moderated than others to keep the information clear and on point.

How to get a Hosting Provider or Services Provider tag:

• Open a thread on the forum with the subject "TAG Request - (some info/name/business etc)"
• Let the community know who you are with an introduction, who or what you represent, what you want to sell and some business background.
• If available and possible, please include the following information: Company Name, Website, Billing portal link, link to public incorporation information (official GOV/State sites only) and anything else you feel is relevant.
• The community as a whole is then welcome to give their overall opinions, ask any reasonable questions and provide feedback and concerns. If it is reasonably well-received, then a moderator or administrator will apply your tag.
• LES reserves the right to revoke a provider tag when it feels that it is in the best interest of the community.

Rules for posting offers:
The world is a different place today in 2026 than it was when this forum started, and even more different to when the $7 meme started. Setting arbitrary limits really helps no one. People will buy what they buy, and skip what they are not interested in. As of today 11th June 2026 there are no longer any price limits on offers, products or services. for a trial period of 6 months. (Subject to change based on actual results and data)

We have sub-forums for offers now:

• VPS <-- Virtual Servers Only
• Dedicated servers <-- Dedicated Servers Only
• Shared hosting <-- Shared hosting only
• Services and Other <-- Any Hosting-related services and anything that is hosting-related but does not fit elsewhere
• Free Offers and Stuff <-- Anything with a none monitary cost.
• LES Exclusive Offers <-- Deals you want to post on LES first or exclusively
• Must See Deals <-- Deals found elsewhere that can be posted by the community via cross-posting or links.

You may post in any or all of these categories once per 7 days, meaning that you can post both a VPS offer, and a Shared Hosting offer, and a Dedicated server offer in the same week.

• Any special offer terms must be fair, non-predatory, none preditory, and clearly stated in the title or body of the offer. Offers judged by LES staff to be misleading will be removed and may result in your TAG being removed.
• Failure to follow the rules may result in your Hosting provider tag being removed
• Please do not bump your own offer posts repeatedly unless you have something of genuine significance to add or are directly responding to a comment made within the last 24 hours.
• Providers: Don't encourage spam, i.e. require customers to post a comment in order to get benefits ("double bandwidth" and similar stuff). Unless there is limited quantity (apply common sense)
• Providers are welcome to have their own mega thread to provide general updates and general discussion. You are also welcome to post any new offers in here if you wish; we just ask that you apply common sense with these so they do not get spammy and duplicate offers posted in the offers section within the same week.

Exclusive LES Offers

• The LES Exclusive offers section is now simply for offers you only want logged-in LES members to see. We only ask that if you use this, LES is the first place you post the offer. When the karma/trust system is in place, you will get extra karma for posting in here.
• You can post in here as often as you want. (Apply common sense)

FREE Offers

• Offers must be for free stuff only and posted in the "Free Offers and Stuff" category, Free hosting or non-hosting related, free as in no monetary value.
• Anyone can post free offers.
• 7 days between Free Offer posts.
• Trial offers (Test our service free for X amount of time) are allowed as long as there is no requirement for payment information in advance and a clear policy on how personal data gathered is used.

Domain Sales

• Domain sales are fine but please use the Domain Sales Category it is logged-in user access only i.e. not indexed by google.
• Due diligence is the responsibility of the seller and the buyer; LES staff will not get involved extensively with any disagreements or issues post-sale.
• Sale terms, requirements and purchase pricing or starting bids are to be made clear.
• Domain sales threads should include all relevant details including but not limited to, the domain name, current domain expiration date, the starting bid, currency type, payment methods accepted, and auction end date/time, including time zone.
• You cannot set a reserve price; if you want a minimum amount, this should be the starting bid.
• If a seller has a Buy It Now (BIN) price, this can remain active throughout bidding and anyone bidding the BIN wins the auction automatically.
• An auction bid is not retractable. Be sure you want the domain before you bid.
• Failure to follow through with the purchase by the winning bidder, or seller, of a Domain Sale auction will result in permanent barring from future domain auctions.
• Auctions, once started, cannot be terminated early.
• Failure to abide by Domain Sales rules will result in a permanent barring from future domain auctions.

Server Transfer Threads

• Transfer threads are allowed in the general section by anyone without limitation.
• Transfers are buy at your own risk. LES will not play a mediating or facilitating role during the process.
• Due diligence is a must on both sides, which includes verification that service transfers are allowed by the provider and completed in accordance with the provider's guidelines for transfer.

Signatures

• No more than 2 lines for general users.
• No more than 3 lines for Hosting Providers & Service Providers.
• Feel free to be creative but never deceptive.
• Affiliate links are fine if prefixed as affiliate links. (aff)
• No Images
• Abuse it and lose it (ZERO TOLERANCE)
• If using affiliate links make it clear where they lead e.g. My "Vultr link"
• Affiliate links or any links that have the intent of injecting/stuffing cookies are not allowed.

WARNINGS

• As previously stated, this is a buyer-beware forum; some efforts will be made to prevent people from falling victim to obvious scams; however, this forum is not a nanny state; you must apply common sense.
• Do not buy yearly deals from a company that has not even been in business for a year.
• If someone without a hosting provider or services provider tag wants you to PM them for an offer or PM's you directly with a proposition that involves you parting with money, you should do a significant amount of research before paying a penny, a large percentage of these types of offers are likely to at best, not be what they seem and, at worst, an outright scam.
• Anything that is considered to be damaging to the community or the good reputation of the forum (relatively speaking) will be acted upon.

Privacy Policy
The LES Privacy Policy can be found HERE

Terms of Service
The LES Terms of Service can be found HERE

INFO:

The rules are an updated version of the original rules https://lowendspirit.com/discussion/26/rules-rules-rules-rules-rules-info-updated-march-13th-2025/p1 from 2019. Times have changed, and the rules have been updated. The original rules were written for a time that is no longer relevant. The new rules are designed to work with the upcoming planned changes and be less controlling and more community self-moderation driven.

While the reasons for some rules are perhaps not obvious today, there is a plan ( https://lowendspirit.com/discussion/10844/hello-again-les-things-are-probably-going-to-change-a-bit-here-are-my-ideas-i-want-your-input/p1 ) and each change fits in with that plan, even if that change has not yet been made.

If anyone has any concerns with anything please feel free to send me a PM or an email admin@ this domain name dot com.

You can change your theme between Night and Day under your profile/edit profile to work best for your eyes/device, bugs exist, please report them in the bug reports thread.

Our goal is to deliver quality hosting with responsive support, strong hardware, and a stable network, while continuously improving based on customer feedback.

Our services include:
* Game Server Hosting
* VPS & VDS Hosting
* Dedicated (Bare Metal) Servers
* Web Hosting
* Discord Bot Hosting
* Custom Infrastructure Solutions

Our infrastructure is powered mainly by AMD Ryzen 9 processors, paired with NVMe storage, premium DDoS protection, and a high-performance network. Full hardware details can be found here: https://nolimithost.cc/about/hardware

We operate servers in Frankfurt (Germany) and Chicago (USA), ensuring low latency across Europe and North America.

Company Information:
* Company Name: NolimitCloud s.r.o
* Website: https://nolimithost.cc/
* Billing Portal: https://panel.nolimitcloud.eu/
* Company Registration: https://or.justice.cz/ias/ui/rejstrik-firma.vysledky?subjektId=1276630&typ=PLATNY

Always open to feedback and collaboration. Thanks for considering our TAG request, looking forward to being part of the community!

I have always used keys because it's more convenient but I was just wondering how keys are more secure as compared to an extremely strong password (say, 24 characters long comprising of multiple symbols, uppercase+lowercase alphabets and numbers all mixed up randomly)?

Don't need much, will use my own domain, and mostly incoming mails than outgoing, probably won't reach higher than 10 emails a day anyways, need alias support even if they share the same storage.

Reaching out from DartNode to officially introduce ourselves to the LES community. We wanted to get involved here, hang out, and let everyone know what we're all about.

What We Do

DartNode focuses on hosting infrastructure built for pretty much all budget ranges. We run our own network infrastructure (AS399646) and offer a mix of:

• VPS Options: Flexible virtual servers for various workloads.
• VDS Slices: Dedicated slices of hardware giving you isolated cores and resources.
• Dedicated Servers: High-performance, bare-metal hardware.
• Colocation: Secure space, power, and network bandwidth for your own gear.

Our Background & Snaju

For some quick background, DartNode is backed by Snaju Development, a software development firm. Having that backing gives us a really solid engineering and development foundation to keep our infrastructure stable and properly supported.

Verification Details

• Company Name: DartNode / Snaju LLC
• Website: https://dartnode.com
• Parent Company Website: https://snaju.com
• Public Incorporation: Registered in Texas under Snaju LLC.

Twitch & Giveaways

We’ve also recently started up a Twitch stream and will be hosting some giveaways for the community over there, so keep an eye out for that!

It’s a pleasure to meet all of you. If you want to know more about what we do or just want to chat, feel free to reach out to me anytime. Looking forward to sticking around!

I'm requesting to be added as a provider.

I offer VPSs hosted on OpenBSD, on second hand, low power hardware, from Spokane, Washington, USA. The datacenter is in a building built in the 1800s. I rack the hardware myself. IPv4 is available for $1/month, routed /64 IPv6 allocations are standard. The cheapest server is 768MB/24GB disk for $3/month, the most expensive is 16GB/512GB disk for $64/month. One vCPU with all, and it's not a fast one. I generally just do annual billing, especially for accepting cryptocurrency.

Payment is Monero, Bitcoin, or Bitcoin Cash. Can also send cash in the mail. I may start offering USDT and maybe Ethereum. Surprised by how many people want to pay with USDT.

https://slowservers.net/
Or: gemini://slowservers.net/

Please let me know if you need anything else.

Thank you!

PS: I also run SporeStack, which I started in 2017. Slow Servers is from this year.

They are only forced for non-logged-in users.

If you enable it, you get a supporter tag as a thanks, but no pressure, no one likes adverts, I get it, the revenue will first pay for LES costs and then go towards community projects, promotions and advance buy downs to bring better deals to the community.

I won't go into it again, the reasons have been discussed. I hope this is is least intrusive model possible, if it turns out to be an issue I will change it, already not pumped about the google overlay shit for EU users.

Comments are welcome.

please see the poll

The PHP and MariaDB conversion is complete, I now have a fully functional vanilla 3.x (if you can still call it that) running on PHP 8.4.22 and MariaDB 11.8.8, even the polls plugin works

All the plugins are now going to be written in the development version and tested there. Once it is done, I will schedule some downtime and move LES to the new server with the new code base, but I will continue to provide updates anyway so you know what's coming when the switch is made.

Doing it this way to save having to make a 7.x version and an 8.x version then change after.

Plugin: Necro Post Gate done in dev version

Before necro

After

When done, negative karma will count x2 for necro posting.

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Plugin: Flagged posts

This one will show you if a post has already been flagged and how many times, you can add weight to it by also flagging or you can just see it has already been reported and ignore it.

A mod/admin can take whatever action, and then this indicator will clear.

If a threshold is hit the post will be automatically hidden. This threshold is set lower for <XX day accounts, so for example, if someone signs up from PurplePeopleHost and immediately starts advertising, ignoring the rules, 5 flags would basically remove the post, so only mod/admins can see it.

Latest release, v2.6.0, adds support for external nodes, which was a highly requested feature.

Control plane must remain in Hetzner Cloud, but you can now configure external nodes which can either be "generic", meaning from any provider, or Hetzner dedicated servers managed via Robot interface. In both cases, only SSH access is required, then hetzner-k3s will set up the nodes exactly like standard or autoscaled nodes.

We are already using this at work with dedicated servers for our Postgres cluster (with CloudNativePG). I love the integration.

The only limitation for now is that this only works if you configure the cluster to use the public network (with Wireguard encryption), because external nodes cannot connect to the Hetzner Cloud private networks.

However I will change this for Hetzner dedicated servers in a future release since dedicated servers can indeed be connected to a cloud private network via vSwitch.

I am really happy with this update and hope others will find it useful.

https://github.com/vitobotta/hetzner-k3s

Has anyone used this service?

I probably could set up a cronjob using imapsync somewhere, but besides all the faff to get it to work properly and tune everything (e.g., folders, labels, etc.), a family member would be the main user. I thought I'd use something more intuitive for a non-tech person.

LES Ignore User

This gives you the ability to ignore the discussions and comments by any other user you just can't find common ground with, or that causes you any irritation or distress.

Just click on their name to get to their profile and select ignore user:

Their discussions will now be hidden in the main forum feed for you, to remove the ignore, it's the same process.

Their comments will also be hidden in line, instead you will just see a small indicator so at least if the discussion takes a strange turn from your perspective will have some clue why.

This does not hide quoted posts from the user you ignore in posts other users you dont ignore.

Feels like a bit of a negative start, I suppose, but people have talked about this off and on for years, the logic is simple so it was a good one to start with.

Any bugs, please report them here or PM me or email me.

Notes:

• 1 hard refresh might be needed.
• You won't see a list of ignored users; it's not to be used lightly. Only use it if you really want it.
• You cannot ignore mods or admins.

On June 2, MIRhosting had all of its hardware, including colo racks of their customers taken offline by nLighten in Netherlands and Germany. As far as I know, it's was not an action of law enforcement.

To this day hardware remains offline, and customers are unable to access it in nLighten datacenters.

It has escalated to a battle between nLighten and lawyers of affected customers.
Statements from some of the affected hosts can be read here: https://hosting.kitchen/tag/nLighten/ (archive)

It affects multiple providers, some of which are present here.

1. I did some pretty big rule changes, the biggest one being that the community now decides who gets a provider tag, there is no more support desk (just use a PM or email), and all the price limits are gone for now while the world has gone a bit mad.
2. Added more offer categories and industry news categories.
3. @mikho and @Mason are regular users again (That might change; it was a good suggestion to have one or more of the old admins hold the dead man keys to keep the place going if anything happens to me as they already know the backend)
4. I spent some time getting familiar with the backend again, and the changes, 1 server has been made surplus to requirements already, just waiting for project rights at Hetzner, so I can move some out.
5. I cloned LES and made a new dev environment and worked on 3 improvements:
   5.1 - Ignore user plugin, figured I would start with something simple, it does not work yet but it's almost there, this will allow you to ignore all posts and discussions by any users you dont want to see or interact with.
   5.2 - Google AdSense account created and simple adverts will be displayed to not logged in users you will have the option to opt-in, but it is not the default and not expected, Hopefully this alone covers all costs.
   5.3 - looked at adding a storage volume to the Hetzner VPS and using that for images, so users can upload images again, they will be processed, compressed and have meta/exif data stripped out so we can get rid of the bloody imgur links etc going forward.

The quick and easy changes I can do first (I have help), I will get done, so the place immediately starts standing on its own 2 feet financially and have some spare hopefully for fun projects and to pay for community stuff!

Then there might be a period of not seeing a great deal as Vanilla is converted to php 8.4 and MariaDB 11.x

You might see a few little strange page loads over the next few weeks. Please try refreshing and hard refreshing a few times before reporting anything, if you spot anything that lingers, email me at admin@ this forum's domain dot com

About 16 hours of work went into this today, probably the same tomorrow, just to smash out the quick wins, then once we get to stable supported versions, we might have a few hours downtime while everything is moved off runcloud + ubuntu and onto Debian and then the rest of the discussed changes will start to roll out pretty regularly after that.

After all that, we need a new theme. I vote for a Windows Aero theme and a vBulletin theme and a Windows 3.1 theme... but then again, I am old.

By now, anyone who cares has probably seen the announcement by @Mason and @mikho about me taking over as administrator on LES.

I never thought this would happen. When I handed the community over to the community to manage 5 years ago, I very quickly lost the feeling of any ownership or authority for the place, it was always a permanent decision in my head.

I won't go into all my recent health issues again, they are documented and dotted around here already. Needless to say, I am not in a good state but stable. The silver lining is that this gave me an opportunity to get back the low-end spirit bug, and it bit hard.

Out of nowhere, I got a message asking if I would like to carry the torch again, and I have been on average 17.6% more happy every day since. The transition in the backend is going to be slow because the guys are slammed time and work-wise right now, which likely prompted the thought to hand it on/back.

Having a solid long break from the LE* world has allowed me to gain some fresh perspective but if I am being totally honest, because I was out of the mix for so long, I feel less connected to the community than ever, probably a bit of imposter syndrome.

For those that don't know me, I was on LowEndBox when LowEndTalk did not exist. I remember the WordPress forum plugin that morphed into LET, I was a moderator and an administrator on LowEndTalk, I remember a time when conversations happened on WHT!!!!! I started LES due to just being sick of the scams on LET (bit more to it but lets not dig all that up now). if someone can find and cross-post the link to my exit from LET 8 years ago, that might be a fun read.

What I can see from my perspective is that some things need to change here, no reflection on M&M, sometimes you cant see the wood for the trees or you just dont have the time and tools available to do what you want to do, the post count and comment count is down considerably by the look of it, but the core small community is still strong.

So here is what I am proposing nothing is set in stone, and I value considered opinions. I am not going to start a poll because they suck I am just going to make informed decisions on what people want and what people obviously don't. Putting what I know, I will be the most controversial first.

1. Advertising and money in general.

This place is creeping towards a 4-figure per year bill, apart from the fact that it is not low-end and that I am ok to pay for it out of my own pocket, it would be good to get some support.

This does not mean it is going to turn into low-end talk. Initially, my thinking is to use something like TinyAdz (which filters bot traffic) minimally and for not logged-in users only and taking a judgment call from there, it was a previous suggestion i think from @bikegremlin. Sorry if I am not remembering the exact details.

Excess money if any can be used to sponsor community projects and increase the resources of the free services providers to benefit the community by way of grants or paying invoices directly.

2. Offer post format.

The way offers are posted and displayed needs to change. I am proposing we remove offers from the standard forum feed and instead, they will display on the right-hand column (which obviously needs to be refactored). Clicking on them will still take you to them as a post, just like now.

The offers will be posted via a form that providers will have access to, rather than a free post, to force rules being followed and make any rule-skirting very obvious, this also gives us the opportunity to better manage the data and make things more database-driven.

3. New Users

We need to change the way new users are onboarded. Currently, you need manual approval. I am sure I can come up with something better, limited posting rights for xx hours, a new users section to post in/introduce, etc. either way the flow of people coming in needs to not have a potential 12+ hour delay.

4. The ticket/support system

This will probably be dropped and integrated into the forum, just a personal preference, I hate having to flick between the 2, I will likely just publish a break glass in case of emergency email address and centralise everything.

5. The active providers List/wiki

The plan for this from day 1 was to make it database-driven and the existing list is not maintained beyond adding new hosts, this will become database-driven and provide more stats and info.

6. Thanks

This is great, the thanks system, but it needs to evolve. I want the community to become much more self-modderating al la reddit / HackerNews so my thinking is that thanks get turned into karma and we add a "dont like/downvote" type of option, I appreciate this has a lot of challenges and probebaly 1000 conflicting opinions but I want the community to be able to have direct input in this way, annoying clickbait offers get sunk and or deindexed etc deserving good quality content gets more attention.

It's a challenge, but i think with enough tweaking we can find a balance. I had a great conversation with @joepie91 about this many many years ago, is he still around?

Good karma needs to be able to be redeamed somehow also maybe against the community free offer threads and bad karma needs to force some sort of accountability on accounts.

7. Dedicated Server offers

We need to do something about dedicated server offers, the world is just different now, static pricing is not fir for purpose, I don't know what that is yet, but once offers go form based we may be able to do something about a scale per region/hardware type/GPU etc

8. LES Exclusive offers

This is probably going to change completely. During the last poll, what was very obvious is that it was the need to be exclusive that was kneecapping it; instead, the section will probably have different, no need to be exclusive but require a reply to reveal, maybe spend karma points on, because I can say first hand, you post in there, its on nodeseek in 5 minutes or a telegram group. it does not serve its purpose.

9. user tags

User tags will become condition-based and automatic.

10. Blog/microblog/content

I don't really want to give this a name, but something that allows good quality content and information to be indexed better, in a more generic way, not buried 5 years and 20 posts deep in a forum and provide a platform for content in general.

This could be anything from good reviews, how-to, tips, mitigations, warnings, or dedicated provider pages.

11. The right-hand column rework

It is not useless, but it's really not pulling its weight. When was the last time you made use of the tag cloud?, we can make better use of this space.

12. Community Notes

This is more of a concept in my head than a fully formed idea, but an X-style community notes plugin would be a good modern tool to have in today's internet discourse.

13. Host validation

It occurred to me when handling tickets requesting a provider tag recently that it's not really offering any real protection; it takes about an hour to register a company, you can do it pretty much anonymously, and we then trust the information source provided to validate against. I am not saying it does nothing, but it may be a bit of a paper shield in reality.

I recently had to allow a host I can't really get any information on because I am not a lawyer, and their country makes finding details ridiculous. Meanwhile, I rejected a sole trader for being a sole trader who had clearly been doing a bang-up job for a while.

So I am proposing that the community gets to decide. I don't know the exact method or mechanism yet, but this is in principle, if it's a yes, we will do the checks we do that I can't discuss openly to ensure its not ban evasion, known scams, etc.

14. flagged posts and moderation

Most of you won't have ever experienced this, but it's pretty annoying to have the forum literally filled with flagged posts because @WSS said a bad word or someone does not agree with something.

Reports are great, and visibility is great, but we see them as actual posts when you flag something, and there is no real need; we can move these to a mod-only sidebar.

15. flagging in general

I want to make it visible on a post that it has been flagged to everyone and possibly even have a threshold whereby it is hidden if flagged enough, more community moderation tools.

16. remove edit limits

I want to remove edit limits on posts, its just annoying, but this will come with a public, indexed version history after the standard edit thresholds.

17. general platform changes

Vanilla open source has been EOL over a year now bigger thread about that here https://lowendspirit.com/discussion/9220/is-higher-logic-terminating-open-source-vanilla

So, at some point, this is going to become a problem. I would rather be ahead of that, but its also a massive undertaking, personally I don't see any benefit in just moving to another forum platform and trying to force a round peg in a square hole, my thinking is that we need something more bespoke, an actual LES Platform.

The base of the platform can be vanilla and it can evolve, I dont want to over promise and under deliver on this so I am waiting to get access again so I can see what the situation is, make sure dev matches prod well enough and dump the schema and map it all out a bit more first, but I think we just evolve what we have and make it more fit for purpose.

18. Doing this alone.

I am not sure I can or want to manage this solo, and by this, I mean the entire community, the daily stuff, the changes, the unresolvable clashing personalities, etc., etc., I am not sure any 1 person should.

So I am proposing we have a 2nd administrator type of role, a deputy administrator, someone who has absolute control on the forum but not platform access or technical or financial maintenance responsibilities, almost a natural succession plan, not least of all because my health situation is complex, there may be significant periods of time I am just not available later this year.

It will be my responsibility that, in the event I am incapacitated, the keys to the kingdom can be handed over entirely, instead of the forum going offline one day and never coming back.

But also someone to challenge ideas and be a second personality to provide balance, suggestions on a person? Self-nomination is also fine. ideally someone who is prepared to manage the discord channel.

I am looking forward to getting started on all of this, but in reality its probably going to be June before I can even start, so we have time to gather opinions, thoughts and dreams from everyone. Please have your say now rather than complain later

Maybe you have always thought... It's dumb that LES does not do (thing) its a great time to say it, I have my notebook open!

19. The Discord channel

While I don't plan to shut it down, that would be a dick move. I really don't like or use Discord; it always feels forced. I personally will not be managing it long term; it will go community-managed or vanish

I am not against using some real estate on the forum as a real-time chat via a websocket or something.

Finally

These are my ideas; they can change. I would always rather try something and fail and adapt and admit mistakes than never try anything, I am also very aware that the absolute reality is that there may be no desire for change, and if that's the case, so be it.

I am also prepared to do none of this and just maintain the status quo as long as people accept offers are at an all-time low, as is everything else. We can't see the drain yet, but we are circling it, if you don't want new content or new people or change, that's fine; it's a totally valid position that should not be attacked.

If the general feedback I get is that there is no remit for change, there will be no change; if there is a lack of feedback, I will take that as apathy and a remit for change.

Hit me.

Among those listed are also Stark Industries, a web hosting service, its CEO Iurie Neculiti and owner Ivan Neculiti. They have been acting as enablers of various Russian state-sponsored and affiliated actors to conduct destabilising activities including, information manipulation interference and cyber-attacks against the Union and third countries.

Those designated today will be subject to an asset freeze and EU citizens and companies will be forbidden from making funds available to them. In addition, natural persons will also be subject to a travel ban, which will prevent them from entering or transiting through EU territories.

https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2025/05/20/russian-hybrid-threats-eu-lists-further-21-individuals-and-6-entities-and-introduces-sectoral-measures-in-response-to-destabilising-activities-against-the-eu-its-member-states-and-international-partners/ (archive)

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=OJ:L_202500966 (archive)

They knew about it ahead of time, and have moved their ASN from STARK to their Moldovan company

Status of the network as of now

Edit:
VPS buy different plans+ proxmox Ha cluster etc and rsync the content

It is another option as well

This morning I made another Tierhive VPS in Kansas City, MO USA.

Right now it's running Alpine. I do love Alpine! Maybe, however, I will get even more lucky and successfully install a few other fun operating systems. We will see.

Here are two screenshots from the VPS creation followed by terminal output from the initial login and update/upgrade.

Thanks and best wishes!

Tom

friendly:~# date
Thu May  7 18:09:51 UTC 2026
friendly:~# uptime
 18:09:56 up 5 min,  0 users,  load average: 0.58, 1.10, 0.63
friendly:~# df -h .
Filesystem                Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/vda                953.0M    164.4M    741.6M  18% /
friendly:~# date; apk update
Thu May  7 18:13:24 UTC 2026
v3.23.4-140-ga88b91bf008 [https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.23/main]
v3.23.4-143-g3bc1a23661e [https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.23/community]
OK: 27619 distinct packages available
friendly:~# apk upgrade
Preupgrading:
(1/2) Upgrading libapk (3.0.3-r1 -> 3.0.6-r0)
(2/2) Upgrading apk-tools (3.0.3-r1 -> 3.0.6-r0)
Executing busybox-1.37.0-r30.trigger
Continuing with the main upgrade transaction:
( 1/39) Upgrading alpine-baselayout-data (3.7.1-r8 -> 3.7.2-r0)
  Installing file to etc/fstab.apk-new
  Installing file to etc/group.apk-new
  Installing file to etc/hostname.apk-new
  Installing file to etc/inittab.apk-new
  Installing file to etc/passwd.apk-new
  Installing file to etc/shadow.apk-new
  Installing file to etc/shells.apk-new
( 2/39) Upgrading musl (1.2.5-r21 -> 1.2.5-r23)
( 3/39) Upgrading alpine-baselayout (3.7.1-r8 -> 3.7.2-r0)
  Executing alpine-baselayout-3.7.2-r0.pre-upgrade
  Installing file to etc/motd.apk-new
  Executing alpine-baselayout-3.7.2-r0.post-upgrade
( 4/39) Upgrading libcap2 (2.77-r0 -> 2.78-r0)
( 5/39) Upgrading alpine-release (3.23.2-r0 -> 3.23.4-r0)
( 6/39) Upgrading libcrypto3 (3.5.4-r0 -> 3.5.6-r0)
( 7/39) Upgrading libssl3 (3.5.4-r0 -> 3.5.6-r0)
( 8/39) Upgrading zlib (1.3.1-r2 -> 1.3.2-r0)
( 9/39) Upgrading ca-certificates-bundle (20251003-r0 -> 20260413-r0)
(10/39) Upgrading musl-utils (1.2.5-r21 -> 1.2.5-r23)
(11/39) Upgrading alpine-base (3.23.2-r0 -> 3.23.4-r0)
(12/39) Upgrading libtasn1 (4.20.0-r0 -> 4.21.0-r0)
(13/39) Upgrading gnutls (3.8.11-r0 -> 3.8.13-r0)
(14/39) Upgrading chrony (4.8-r1 -> 4.8-r2)
  Executing chrony-4.8-r2.pre-upgrade
(15/39) Upgrading chrony-openrc (4.8-r1 -> 4.8-r2)
(16/39) Upgrading libeconf (0.8.0-r0 -> 0.8.3-r0)
(17/39) Upgrading libblkid (2.41.2-r0 -> 2.41.4-r0)
(18/39) Upgrading blkid (2.41.2-r0 -> 2.41.4-r0)
(19/39) Upgrading libsmartcols (2.41.2-r0 -> 2.41.4-r0)
(20/39) Upgrading partx (2.41.2-r0 -> 2.41.4-r0)
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Executing busybox-1.37.0-r30.trigger
Executing kmod-34.2-r1.trigger
Executing mkinitfs-3.13.0-r0.trigger
* creating /boot/initramfs-virt for 6.18.26-0-virt
Executing syslinux-6.04_pre1-r19.trigger
* /boot is device /dev/vda
OK: 147.8 MiB in 222 packages
friendly:~# 

ItsFoss also tested them:
https://itsfoss.com/comparison/libreoffice-vs-freeoffice/

In case anyone wants the Softmaker Office 2021 suite for free (scroll down and you will see it for 0€, add to cart..), there's the deal link: https://shop.softmaker.com/?couponcode=officefree

A cheap upgrade to 2024 is possible, according to MyDealz

Their Free Office Suite (also has Linux support) that receives regular updates is: https://www.freeoffice.com/en/

MyDealz discussion for user feedback: https://www.mydealz.de/share-deal-from-app/2729882

Alternatively, I could opt for a cheap 5€ key (not license) from some store on Idealo and use original MS Office 2024. These keys are bound to one device (probably some volume licensing) and the sellers claim they're legit in Europe due to Erschöpfungslizenz or smth and it's some sort of grey area. Could also just use some kms activation.

CVE: CVE-2026-29204

Email:

Hello <snip>,

Tomorrow, May 13, 2026, we will be releasing an important maintenance update for the WHMCS 9.0 and 8.13 series. This release addresses a security vulnerability (CVE-2026-29204) which has been identified in WHMCS 7.4 and later. 

Recommended versions with required updates are WHMCS 9.0.4 and WHMCS 8.13.3 - and will be available at 19:00 PM GMT, Wednesday, May 13, 2026. 

from @SilverCreek on OGF