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Steam Deck, Ryzen Servers, Apple M1 On Linux & Milan-X Excited Linux Users In Q1

March 31, 2022 Dedicated Hosting News 0

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Here is a look back at the most-read stories on Phoronix during Q1’22 with our daily content around Linux hardware, open-source news, and lots of benchmarking.

During this past quarter on Phoronix were 42 featured Linux hardware reviews written by your’s truly as well as 729 original news articles pertaining to Linux/open-source happenings. Fresh new and original content each and everyday continues to be the norm. Sadly still being the norm are the challenges of the web advertising industry and continuing to be compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic on the industry and that of ad-blockers… Operations continue to be stretched thin here with being reliant on pay-per-impression web advertising to keep Linux hardware testing and the daily flow of news going ahead of Phoronix.com turning…


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Squarespace: The Apple iPhone of web hosting has its limitations

July 16, 2021 Web Shared Hosting News 0

Seventeen-year-old New York-based hosting firm Squarespace has been dubbed by one Wall Street stock analyst “the iPhone of hosting.” 

That description is apt in more ways than one. 

Like the iPhone, there is a slick quality to many elements of Squarespace that is user friendly, especially to people with limited technical acumen, such as picking pleasing templates for blogging that provide an immediately attractive visual feel.

And similar to Apple products, the veneer of ease can produce a false sense of security. There are times when Squarespace won’t function the way you’d wish, and when it can cause frustration with functions that suddenly break, with little recourse except to be patient…


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Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) – Parler Back Online With SkySilk’s Web Hosting

February 16, 2021 Web Shared Hosting News 0

  • Parler, popular with right-wing conservatives, relaunched its social media platform on Monday with assurances over “sustainable, independent technology,” CNBC reports.
  • Web infrastructure company SkySilk CEO confirmed that it is hosting Parler, NPR reports. The company had deployed a “privacy-preserving process” with AI and human moderators and a “trolling filter” to counter the alleged violent content. 
  • Parler appears to be using CloudRoute as its new host and substituted Amazon.com, Inc (NASDAQ: AMZN) with open-source software platform Ceph, as per CNBC.
  • Parler intends to usher its current users online in the first week and be accessible to the new users next week.
  • The social media platform founded…

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Amazon Suspends Parler From Web-Hosting Service After Google, Apple Remove App From Stores

January 12, 2021 Web Shared Hosting News 0

Amazon suspended web-hosting services for Parler one day after Google and Apple removed the social networking app from their app stores for failing to regulate users’ posts that promote violence. What do you think?

“Good on them for removing Parler before it became enormously popular and dangerous.”

Austin Kurtay • Landfill Organizer

“You can’t just shut down an app because you don’t agree with the murders it led to.”

Lola Sotelo • Bug Handler

“What’s next? Banning overthrowing the government?”

Chuck Groves • Unemployed


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Parler removed from Google and Apple stores; Amazon no longer hosting

January 11, 2021 Web Shared Hosting News 0

by: The Associated Press and Nexstar Media Wire

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President Donald Trump has been kicked off of most mainstream social media platforms following his supporters’ siege on the U.S. Capitol. But it remains to be seen how fast or where — if anywhere — on the internet he will be able to reach his followers.

The far right-friendly Parler had been the leading candidate, at least until Google and Apple removed it from their app stores and Amazon booted it off its web hosting service just after midnight Pacific time early Monday.

Parler’s CEO said that could knock it offline for a week, though that might prove optimistic. And even if it finds a…


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