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.
Thanks for listing us on your website! I just wanted to clarify our server spec’s.
We have (3) Cisco UCS Blade Chassis, with 8 blades each totally 24 blades that power our VPS environment :) Each blade has Dual Xeon E5540 CPU’s, 48GB RAM and SAN Attached Disk. You can see a picture of this here on our datacenter photo stream. :)
Cisco UCS – http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluemile/4497477493/in/set-72157623790028428/
EMC SAN – http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluemile/4498113394/in/set-72157623790028428/
I moved my web site with over 7,000 beta testers from SliceHost onto Bluemile Cloud last week.
They have EMC Clariion SAN storage (over a quarter of a petabyte in RAID 10 – [16 path] fibre connected config), and those specs mentioned above (3 UCS blades, 8 chassis, 24 blades, etc.) – comes out to VPS’s being hosted on a grid of clusters with 8 blade servers each, where each cluster (and thus all VPS’s on it) share 64 cores, 161.66 GHz and 383.52 GB of total resources!
All I can say is – AWESOME!
Petar
– iBetaTest.com
I have been with this guys since for about 4-5 days now and I must say, they are an absolutely great host. Their network is extremely fast, and the quality of their nodes is more then what I expected from the a low budget provider. Their custom control panel was actually quite nice as well.
I really recommend these guys. Even if their plans aren’t are large as the other providers (which means they may be less as likely to be overselling), their quality is amazing.
I’m considering this hosting provider, since they seem solid to me and the offers look not bad, even without the promo code. There’s been surprisingly few comments on it. Please share your experiences!
@Petar, I see that your venture is working – good luck with it! Care to share your experiences with regard to hosting?
– are you still on Bluemile Cloud?
– what plan(s) do you use?
– what are you running on your VPS’s, software-wise?
– how do your VPS’s put up with that?
Great hardware … awful support, non flexible (billing team bla team)
-non flexible,
-not understanding what you ask
-no refunds policy!
-serious downtimes (hours)
What seems to be issue? Have you asked for your support ticket to be escalated? What are you on – Xen, OpenVZ, Shared Hosting, Dedicated Servers, Enterprise Cloud?
There is refund policy and everything else is explained in links below:
– TOS: http://bluemilecloud.com/about-us/terms-of-service-tos/
– AUP: http://bluemilecloud.com/about-us/acceptable-use-policy-aup/
Would not mind talking to you about what are the problems you’ve encountered.
Please feel free to contact me.
Petar Smilajkov – Peconi
Bluemile Cloud Architect
petar.smilajkov at bluemilenetworks dot com
may I just share experience for my 3+ years with fivebean and after bluemile ?
half of the links not working:
http://cl.ly/2Z433L272b0X422C0y2z
http://cl.ly/3i3G2C1E2w3p3y2U2t3Y
“we made mistake” right ?
How about emailing me to the address provided in previous reply to you so I can help you out with any issues you may have?