Brian from Big Brain Host emailed me their new LowEndBox exclusive offer. It has been a while since their last offer here. They are now back with a new fancy design + a nice low end deal. Here is the sign up link and for $5/month you can get the following VPS “LEB-512MB Special”.
- 512MB guaranteed/1024MB burstable memory
- 40GB storage
- 600GB/month data transfer on 100Mbps
- OpenVZ/SolusVM
They have recently turned one year old. According to Brian, they have had some big changes since late last year. They now have their own colo space in Northern Virginia and have been doing pretty well. You can traceroute their home page to find out that their servers are now with InfoRelay in Ashburn VA. That has been a big change since the early days where they were reselling VPS from Virpus.
Pretty standard AUP. Take Credit Card and PayPal. One nice review on WHT and from previous posts, Big Brian Host excel in support.
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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.
apt-get install build-essential libx11-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libxext-dev perl perl-modules make cd /usr/local/src wget http://byte-unixbench.googlecode.com/files/unixbench-5.1.2.tar.gz tar -zxvf unixbench-5.1.2.tar.gz cd unixbench-5.1.2 make ./Run dhry2reg whetstone-double syscall pipe context1 spawn execl shell1 shell8 shell16 BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 5.1.2) System: va: GNU/Linux OS: GNU/Linux -- 2.6.18-194.26.1.el5.028stab079.2 -- #1 SMP Fri Dec 17 19:25:15 MSK 2010 Machine: x86_64 (unknown) Language: en_US.utf8 (charmap="ANSI_X3.4-1968", collate="ANSI_X3.4-1968") CPU 0: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5520 @ 2.27GHz (4533.6 bogomips) Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Inte l virtualization 21:20:17 up 5:36, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00; runlevel 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Benchmark Run: Sun Jul 17 2011 21:20:17 - 21:45:59 1 CPU in system; running 1 parallel copy of tests Dhrystone 2 using register variables 16456318.6 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Double-Precision Whetstone 2646.2 MWIPS (9.9 s, 7 samples) Execl Throughput 3507.7 lps (29.5 s, 2 samples) Pipe Throughput 1834925.7 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Pipe-based Context Switching 377767.2 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Process Creation 10933.5 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples) Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 5876.4 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples) Shell Scripts (16 concurrent) 331.1 lpm (60.1 s, 2 samples) Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 757.4 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples) System Call Overhead 3156495.5 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) System Benchmarks Partial Index BASELINE RESULT INDEX Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 16456318.6 1410.1 Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 2646.2 481.1 Execl Throughput 43.0 3507.7 815.7 Pipe Throughput 12440.0 1834925.7 1475.0 Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 377767.2 944.4 Process Creation 126.0 10933.5 867.7 Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 5876.4 1386.0 Shell Scripts (16 concurrent) --- 331.1 --- Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 757.4 1262.3 System Call Overhead 15000.0 3156495.5 2104.3 ======== System Benchmarks Index Score (Partial Only) 1105.3Hello,
Thanks for listing us again, LowEndAdmin!
We’re just about out of stock on these orders! All orders from the last day or so have been processed and have been successfully setup.
Hi,
I guess you are firewalling the VPS ports which precludes the use of SSH alternative ports. Is it possible to disable your firewall on a per VPS basis?
Thanks.
Hi Francisco,
We do use a firewall to protect users. Just submit a ticket to the helpdesk if you require another port for SSH.
Regards,
Brian