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.
Just a follow up remark. While the domain was created in Feb 2009, we started off as Paintball Hosting.com and we officially opened in 2008.
Even with the discount it’s still kinda expensive for the specs you offer.
There was a part that also was not included in the article above, we are offering DOUBLE storage AND bandwidth at that price. It’s only available to low end box readers. Feel free to email me if you have any questions, I will be glad to help you find specs and prices within your needs.
Dudeist, expensive? Good joke! :-)
I never, ever saw expensive vps for the specs they offer at lowendbox. Never! And this one isn’t exception. Imho. LEB vps “tasters” lost sense of reality long time ago :) What I see here are decent vps specs for LOW PRICE. Not as low as some crappy not worth of our time 1.5$ vpses but there’s atlest hope that this one will work as decent vps server should as there wont be hundreds “out of control” abusive vps users…
Spirit,
Thanks for the kind words. One of the principals our company was founded on is to give the customers the quality of service they deserve at a price that is fair and reasonable. We don’t overload our network or our servers just to make a buck. We want our clients to be happy with the quality of service they get from our infrastructure.
We invite you to visit Web Hosting Stuff and read the review that was left by one of our VPS clients. They have a more advanced website and require a larger VPS than what was offered to Low End Box, but you will be able to read an unbiased review.
Regards.
Some folks have inquired about possibly getting more memory for the low end boxes. We have decided to INCREASE the standard memory to 384mb with 512mb burst for the same low price of $6.83.
Low End Boxes feel free to edit the original article to reflect this great change!
Regards.
We have revamped our VPS plans to include more space, bandwidth, and memory. The LOWENDBOX coupon is still valid for these new VPS machines.
Just thought I’d pass it along!