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UK GAME VPS Hosting

Powerful Box now offer UK GAME VPS hosting powered by the AMD Ryzen 7 3800x and on super fast SSD NVMe drives delivering you, and your users the best gaming experience with no I/O bottleneck issues! Powerful Box UK GAME VPS also offer unique game Anti DDoS protection filtering bad and genuine traffic using the UDP protocol ensuring your services stay secure and online.

Our GAME VPS hosting also includes the usual perks such as IPv6, Snapshot back ups and Windows license all included.

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Windows 10 Pro now available on VPS

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AMD Ryzen 7 now Powers our SSD VPS Hosting nodes.

AMD Ryzen 7

Our UK SSD VPS nodes is equipped Ryzen 7 3800X processor. It is designed for processing and encrypting videos, and creating virtual gaming platforms. It offers the simultaneous multithreading (SMT) feature, to optimize performance in audio, video and image rendering applications. With water-cooling technology, the frequency of this basic processor can reach 4.5GHz with the Boost mode, guaranteeing you constant high performance.

Combined with our Datacentre class NVMe SSD hard disks, makes Powerful Box UK SSD VPS Hosting abnormally blazing fast, but still at the competitive price.

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Centos 8.1 now Available to Install.

Centos 8.1 is now available to install on your SSD VPS Hosting and Dedicated Servers.

Highlights include kernel live patching, a new routing protocol stack called FRR which supports multiple IPv4 and IPv6 routing protocols, an extended version of the Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) to help sysadmins troubleshoot complex network issues, support for re-encrypting block devices in LUKS2 while the devices are in use, as well as a new tool for generating SELinux policies for containers called udica.

“With udica, you can create a tailored security policy for better control of how a container accesses host system resources, such as storage, devices, and network. This enables you to harden your container deployments against security violations and it also simplifies achieving and maintaining regulatory compliance,

Updated components

CentOS Linux 8.1 also comes with additional FIPS-140 and Common Criteria certifications, XDP (eXpress Data Path) eBPF-based high performance data path as a Technology Preview, support for importing QCOW virtual images, and a new command-line tool in Identity Management called Healthcheck that helps users find issues, which could affect the reliability of their IdM environments.

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Debian 10 Buster | Now available at Powerful Box

Debian 10 Buster

New Debian 10 (Buster) Features. Debian 10 comes with several desktop applications and environments. The following are some of the desktop environments GNOME 3.22, KDE Plasma 5.8, LXDE, LXQt 0.11, MATE 1.16, and Xfce 4.12. Buster is the first Debian release to ship with Rust based programs such as Firefox, ripgrep, fd, exa, etc. and a significant number of Rust based libraries (more than 450). Buster ships with Rustc 1.32. What is more, Wayland is the default session type for GNOME 3.

UEFI Secure Boot With buster, Debian can now be installed and run on most PCs with Secure Boot enabled. Secure Boot is a security feature enabled on most PCs that prevents loading unsigned code, protecting against some kinds of bootkit and rootkits during OS installations.

AppArmor enabled per default Debian Buster for the first time brings a mandatory access control framework enabled per default. New installations of Debian buster will have AppArmor installed and enabled per default. Owing to the large number of security issues being currently experienced around the globe, this is a wonderful move made by Buster. AppArmor is a mandatory access control framework for restricting programs’ capabilities (such as mount, ptrace, and signal permissions, or file read, write, and execute access) by defining per-program profiles.

Network filtering based on nftables framework by default nftables is the new packet classification framework that intends to replaces the existing ip,ip6,arp,eb_tables infrastructure. nftables provides a full replacement for iptables, with much better performance, a refreshed syntax, better support for IPv4/IPv6 dual-stack firewalls, full atomic operations for dynamic ruleset updates, a Netlink API for third party applications, faster packet classification through enhanced generic set and map infrastructures, and many other improvements.

Cryptsetup defaults to on-disk LUKS2 format The cryptsetup version shipped with Debian buster uses the new on-disk LUKS2 format. New LUKS volumes will use this format by default.

Driverless printing with CUPS 2.2.10 Driverless printing is targeted at the client side of printing and refers to the ability of the client device (computer, smartphone, tablet, laptop etc) to print without having to install any static capability files or drivers (manufacturer-specific or otherwise) on the client. Debian 10 provides CUPS 2.2.10 and cups-filters 1.21.6. Together these give a user everything that is needed to take advantage of driverless printing. The principal requirement is that a network print queue or printer offers an AirPrint service. A modern IPP printer is highly likely to be AirPrint-capable; a Debian CUPS print queue is always AirPrint-enabled.

Basic support for Allwinner A64 based devices Debian buster will have basic suport for many devices based on the Allwinner A64 SoC. THis includes FriendlyARM NanoPi A64; Olimex A64-OLinuXino and TERES-A64; PINE64 PINE A64/A64/A64-LTS, SOPINE, and Pinebook; SINOVOIP Banana Pi BPI-M64; and Xunlong Orange Pi Win(Plus).

Linux Kernel 4.19.0-4 Debian Buster will jump from kernel 4.9.0.3 to 4.19.0-4

Installing Debian 10 (Buster) Installation guide: How To Install Debian 10 Buster – Complete Steps With Screenshots

Conclusion There are some of the top new features that Buster will come into the field with. There is much more in store as this new release of Debian again comes with a lot more software than its predecessor stretch. This includes over 15346 new packages, for a total of over 51687 packages.

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Windows Server 2019 Available at Powerful Box

Microsoft Windows Server 2019 is now available at Powerful Box and comes included with any SSD VPS.

Microsoft Windows Server 2019 is the latest iteration of Microsoft’s venerable operating system (OS), and it brings to the table a laundry list of new and improved capabilities and features. This release of Windows Server should especially appeal to IT professionals because of the huge number of functional scenarios it can address. While Windows Server isn’t seen on customer premises as much anymore, it’s still the most popular server OS, and that’s across both on-premises data centers as well as in public clouds where it’s widely used in Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) implementations.

New features in Windows Server 2019

System Insights System Insights is a new feature available in Windows Server 2019 that brings local predictive analytics capabilities natively to Windows Server. These predictive capabilities, each backed by a machine-learning model, locally analyze Windows Server system data, such as performance counters and events, providing insight into the functioning of your servers and helping you reduce the operational expenses associated with reactively managing issues in your Windows Server deployments.

Hybrid Cloud Server Core app compatibility feature on demand: The Server Core App Compatibility Feature on Demand is an optional feature package that can be added to Windows Server 2019 Server Core installations. Features on Demand (FODs) are Windows feature packages that can be added at any time. Common features include language resources like handwriting recognition or other features like the .NET Framework (.NetFx3). When Windows 10 or Windows Server needs a new feature, it can request the feature package from Windows Update. This app feature significantly improves the app compatibility of the Windows Server Core installation option by including a subset of binaries and packages from Windows Server with Desktop Experience, without adding the Windows Server Desktop Experience graphical environment

Improvements in the area of Security i. Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) ATP’s deep platform sensors and response actions expose memory and kernel level attacks and respond by suppressing malicious files and terminating malicious processes. Windows Defender ATP Exploit Guard is a new set of host-intrusion prevention capabilities. The four components of Windows Defender Exploit Guard are designed to lock down the device against a wide variety of attack vectors and block behaviors commonly used in malware attacks. ii. Security with Software Defined Networking (SDN) These security enhancements are integrated into the comprehensive SDN platform introduced in Windows Server 2016. They include: Encrypted networks Firewall auditing Virtual network peering Egress metering iii. Shielded Virtual Machines improvements Linux support If you run mixed-OS environments, Windows Server 2019 now supports running Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server inside shielded virtual machines Troubleshooting improvements Troubleshooting shielded virual machines has been made easier by VMConnect Enhanced Session Mode and PowerShell Direct. These features do not need to be configured, and they become available automatically when a shielded VM is placed on a Hyper-V host running Windows Server version 1803 or later. iv. HTTP/2 for a faster and safer Web Improved coalescing of connections to deliver an uninterrupted and properly encrypted browsing experience. Upgraded HTTP/2’s server-side cipher suite negotiation for automatic mitigation of connection failures and ease of deployment. Changed our default TCP congestion provider to Cubic to give you more throughput!

Storage This release of Windows Server adds the following storage changes and technologies.

i. Manage storage with Windows Admin Center ii. Storage Migration Service iii. Storage Spaces Direct (Windows Server 2019 only) • Deduplication and compression for ReFS volumes • Native support for persistent memory • Nested resiliency for two-node hyper-converged infrastructure at the edge • Two-server clusters using a USB flash drive as a witness • Windows Admin Center • Performance history • Scale up to 4 PB per cluster • Mirror-accelerated parity is 2X faster • Drive latency outlier detection • Manually delimit the allocation of volumes to increase fault tolerance iv. Storage Replica v. File Server Resource Manager

Windows Server 2019 includes the ability to prevent the File Server Resource Manager service from creating a change journal (also known as a USN journal) on all volumes when the service starts. vi. SMB • SMB1 and guest authentication removal • SMB2/SMB3 security and compatibility

vii. Data Deduplication • Data Deduplication now supports ReFS • DataPort API for optimized ingress/egress to deduplicated volumes

Application Platform i. Linux containers on Windows It is now possible to run Windows and Linux-based containers on the same container host, using the same docker daemon. ii. Building Support for Kubernetes Windows Server 2019 continues the improvements to compute, networking and storage from the semi-annual channel releases needed to support Kubernetes on Windows. iii. Container improvements • Improved integrated identity • Better application compatibility • Reduced size and higher performance • Management experience using Windows Admin Center (preview) iv. Low Extra Delay Background Transport Low Extra Delay Background Transport (LEDBAT) is a latency optimized, network congestion control provider designed to automatically yield bandwidth to users and applications. v. High performance SDN gateways This greatly improves the performance for IPsec and GRE connections vi. Persistent Memory support for Hyper-V VMs This can help to drastically reduce database transaction latency or reduce recovery times for low latency in-memory databases on failure vii. Windows Time Service viii. Network performance improvements for virtual workloads New features include: Receive Segment Coalescing in the vSwitch Dynamic Virtual Machine Multi-Queue (d.VMMQ)

Removed Features in Windows Server 2019 • Business Scanning, also called Distributed Scan Management(DSM) • Internet Storage Name Service (iSNS)\ • Print components – now optional component for Server Coreinstallations • Remote Desktop Connection Broker and Remote Desktop Virtualization Host in a Server Core installation • These RDS roles are no longer available for use in a Server Core installation. If youneed to deploy these roles as part of your Remote Desktopinfrastructure, you can install them on Windows Server withDesktop Experience.

Compaq Presario C700

Compaq Presario C700 Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit, Intel Pentium T2330 2×1.60Ghz, 2GB DDR2 RAM, 160GB Hard drive, Intel 965 express chipset graphics, DVD/CD-RW, Webcam, Wifi, ethernet, svideo and 3 USB ports.

This laptop is in good condition and fully working just has a few slight scratches to the lid. The battery lasts an estimated 1 hour and 20 minutes and charger is included.

£60 or best offer now available on www.powerfulbox.co.uk/preowned-computers.html

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Asus X59GL Laptop

Asus X59GL Laptop Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit, Intel core 2 duo T5800 2x2Ghz, 3GB DDR2 RAM, 250GB Hard drive, Nvidia Geforce 8200M G DVD/CD-RW, Webcam, HDMi port, wifi, card reader, ethernet and 4 USB ports.

This laptop is in ok condition however has some staining on and a few scuffs on the lid but all is in working order. The battery lasts only 10 minutes so needs replacing, charger included.

£65 or best offer now available on www.powerfulbox.co.uk/preowned-computers.html pick up from Winchester, Hampshire or delivery anywhere to UK mainland.

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