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 wanted to point out to all your wonderful LowEndBox folks, our LEBONLY coupon also applies to our Scoots256 and Scoots512 (not recurring on Scoots512) package as well.
Be sure to get a hold of us if there are any questions/concerns we could help you with!
Gotta hand it to them, very nice site :) Was scrolling down and didn’t pay much attention and almost though there was black on my screen. Then realized it was just birds. I like it.
Yeah, their website is very pretty n_n and funny LOLOLOL!
I don’t understand why it’s called big scoots when Scott and Justin look skinny and the scooter looks small.
HAHAHA! I don’t know but I am ROFL with that website.
ha, well we appreciate your kind words. Now only think of how great our VPS’ must be because our design is so fantastic :)
Excellent support, very quick fixes. It does appear though that my VPS is in a /24 that is assigned to some other company (certainly the reverse is delegated to someone else’s non-answering DNS servers): 74.117.237.0/24 it makes a lot of things that do reverse lookup’s before talking a tad slow.
[bad form replying to self, sorry]
I can see you’re already on top of it (whois has been updated with new NS’s and we’re now waiting on propagation).
If there is anything else we can do for you be sure to let us know :)
I tried one of their 128MB plans a while ago. The performance is really good, one of the best in this size range. Here is mpstat and cat /proc/cpu/info:
I picked up another one of their plans, the 512MB, and my first impression is also really good. Plus support is friendly and fast.
We have set our entire day around making sure you are a happy camper Matt :) Let me know if there is anything else we can do for you.
I’m interested in what they’re offering, but their order form isn’t working for me in Chrome or Firefox.
Confirmed in Firefox 4.01 on Winblows Vista. Can’t select the checkboxes.
Buck, may be a better idea to drop them an email pointing that out to them.
Sorry for the confusion guys. We are still tinkering with our ordering system but as far as I can tell there is no currently active bug on firefox or chrome.
On the initial order page you will be unable to select a radio button until you input your domain. You of course do not have to register a domain but it is part of the order process so we can link your VPS to it properly.
Please feel free to e-mail me directly if you have any further issues and I will sort you out right away!
Figured it out though. They have step 1 and 2 of the registration on the same page. You have to click on the search button first to get the checkboxes to be active.
There’s nothing on the page to suggest that you have to do each half separately. Very confusing.
Fixed.
Sorry :S — Quite right. As said, still tinkering with the ordering system but hopefully with any luck this will due until we can roll out our new system in a couple weeks.
Please e-mail me directly if you have any further questions.
All the best!