LEA (LowEndAdmin) is the original founder of LowEndBox and the visionary who gave rise to an entire movement around minimalist, efficient hosting. In 2008, LEA launched LowEndBox with a simple but powerful idea: that it was possible to run meaningful applications, web servers, VPNs, mail servers, and more – on small, low-cost virtual machines with minimal resources.
At a time when most infrastructure discussions were dominated by high-end servers and enterprise platforms, LEA championed the opposite approach: lightweight Linux distros, self-managed servers, open source software, and thoughtful optimization. This philosophy gave birth to the term “Low End Box”, which would come to define a new genre of hosting tailored to developers, tinkerers, and budget-conscious users around the world.
Through LowEndBox and its companion forum, LowEndTalk, LEA built the foundation for what would become one of the most active and enduring communities in the hosting world, prioritizing knowledge-sharing, transparency, and accessibility.
After several years of nurturing the site and community, LEA stepped away from active involvement, passing the torch to a new generation of admins, contributors, and moderators. Today, LEA remains a respected figure in the LowEnd ecosystem, credited with launching a platform and philosophy that continues to influence thousands of infrastructure providers and users globally.
LowEndBox’s legacy, and its thriving community, is a direct result of LEA’s original vision.
Nice offer, anyone with them for long time please share experience :)
Does it come up with free DA?
No, they dont :)
There’s a few comments on their previous offer. Seems to be fine. No one yelling and screaming at least.
@Roel,
will this offer be available in US?
At the moment the are out of stock and no ETA of when the will be available.
At the moment very very good:
hostfolks (they have a very good IO)
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dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
1073741824 bytes (1,1 GB) copied, 13,8467 s, 77,5 MB/s
whynotavps
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dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
1073741824 bytes (1,1 GB) copied, 8,25206 s, 130 MB/s
77MB/s vs 130MB/s
The IO perfomance is incredible…
We use a hardware raid 10 configuration for our storage.
I was interested but they have no other payment support like MB or Google Checkout/2co.
Sorry to say, but on my whynotavps vps I only have 34.9 MB/s,
and I have a vps with 1256/1512 memory, so it should be no problem with memory.
They are great, i using their vps a long time ago :) Recommed host.
Hey the thing is this coupon is not recurring!
Subtotal: $17.45 USD
56.75% One Time Discount: $9.90 USD
Total Due Today: $7.55 USD
Total Recurring: $17.45 USD Monthly
Check it out please, and corrigate.
Yes it does seem that VPS C offer is not recurring. I’ll ask Roel.
Seems the check-box for recurring was not set correctly thanks for the notice, should be fixed now.
bought one for some script testing, hope it will be good.
Yes, I think so. They have good support.
They are definietly one of the best i seen around. Respect.
One of the most stable hosts I have had so far.
Please add Moneybookers service.
Fahim, we are looking into integrating Money bookers as a payment gateway.
I have had a VPS with whynotavps for 4 months and not had any downtime.
Support tickets have always been answered quickly
Thanks for the positive feedback.
How come your client area and vps panel(solus) login pages not using SSL?
Hmm, but today my server sent up and down several times the last 15 hour…
and no respond from support. Just now it’s down again !!
I think maybe the experience network problems @ Hetzner
Gunnar, we place a reply to your support ticket that you placed a couple of hours ago, the HN you are on is receiving a small DDOS at the moment resulting in packloss.
Yes, thank you, I have received your answer…
Think that 14 hours of downtime is a bit too long,
it seems as if Hetzner often have problems with their network ?
It’s still down, about 36 hour, not so impressed.
I have a vps their aswell, Not happy about this at all, I new it was to good to be true!, Am sending my cancellation notice now!
My VPS don’t come up again, I think that they have closed their business.
Did you try call them ?
I have had a VPS with whynotavps for 5 or 6 months and was considering getting a new one with this offer – however since last Thursday I have had prolonged and intermittent downtime which is causing me a lot of grief.
A shame really as I have never had any problems in the past at all.
I have raised a support ticket and updated it in vain, but no reply.
Considering the prompt and good service I have had in the past I am extremely disappointed, and would hesitate to recommend wnav to anyone at the moment.
Bit of a late reply here, everyone should be back on-line since the beginning of the week. Only a small part of our clients where effected by the recent downtime, because one Hardware Node received a rather large DDOS attack. Everyone should have received a email regarding the issue. Anyone that need more information regarding this can open a support ticket on our website.
Can confirm that everything is back to normal now. Big thanks for the good explanatory email from wnavps staff explaining the reasons for the downtime.
Have decided to take out that 2nd VPS after all, in light of the fact this was beyond their control and did everything they could to get everything up and running as soon as possible.
Offer no longer valid. gone up to nearly $11!
Hi,
We have currently the following order here on LowEndBox:
http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/whynotavps-4-87-512mb-openvz-vps-in-germany/