If you see this post — this page is served by PHP 5.2.6 FastCGI and Nginx on a $5 VPS at 2HOST.com.
LowEndBox has been hosting on VPSLink for more than a year now — and thanks to Dan L at VPSLink/Spry for sponsoring this blog so I have not really been paying for this Link3 VPS. Their network and stability is also quite good — my VPS always feels fast with 150+ days of uptime currently. However, as some of you might know, VPSLink has been acquired by Endurance International at the end of March. Moreover, all the VPS (I have two with VPSLink, another one that I’ve paid for) are migrating from Seattle to Boston (!!) Hmm, okay. Until you read about all the migration issues including higher latency, 24+ hours of down time, new control panel, unresponsive support, etc. I have just received my 48 hour notice of migration, so I think I better migrate my sites elsewhere first, just in case there’s any unforeseenable disaster.
I have now temporarily moved the site to my Xen VPS at 2HOST.com, which I acquired 12 months ago and now running Debian 5.
I might move back to VPSLink once the migration completes and everything stablise again. However I much prefer to be on a VPS on the west coast (LA, San Jose or Seattle). We’ll see.
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.
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Good luck with the move! I have the same 2Host Xen VPS from a year ago too. It’s stable and decently fast.
Hey the site is loading fast and okay here…
Cheers
Hi,
How have you moved the site? Is there any guide that you can suggest for newbies?
@ terii – speaking of speed on 2host, is ssh slow for you there? I got a vps there to test out and it takes like 5 seconds for typing to show up in ssh :\
should add: everything else loads fine (it just serves some simple web pages). Just SSH is real slow for me
@Mudel — try to disable DNS resolution for SSH, i.e adding
in /etc/ssh/sshd_config
@Ali — The move has already been done over 24 hours, and I do find the site loads faster than on VPSLink. All I did is just tar up the files, scp over to the new server, untar it, populating the DB using mysql/mysqldump, restart Nginx, update DNS, and that’s it :)
@Mudel SSH is fine with me. Try “UseDNS no” suggested above.
Thanks. I’ll try that.
Would kinda suck is VPSLink goes under. I used to be ready to recommend them to anyone right away, but now I’m iffy.
It seems ironic that 2Host isn’t offering cheap VPS packages anymore. Their cheapest option on their site is a $39/month managed VPS.
George, you’re wrong. Those plans are not shown on the main site you have to enter the order page and then you can see all the cheap plans
On the order page all the cheap plans seem to have “0 available”.
Check out Damn VPS! They are in beta but they look quite cheapo!
all their plans on the “order page” seems to have been sold out
@ Ali – After what happened to VAServ, I’ll pass. No insecure node passwords for me.
@Mudel — however I probably would still trust Rus more than many college-aged hosting provider owners that are behind many low end plans listed here :)
I think “college aged” may be giving some too much credit. ;)
@ LEA – True. I had a VPS with one of Rus’ companies quite a while ago and it went well except for the above mentioned event :) Luckily, I wasn’t using my VPS anymore at that point.
Hope he learned his lesson :)
I ordered 512MB package this monday with ubuntu 9.10. But get ubuntu 9.04, until now.
I submitted ticket, the response is very slow.