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.
Great deal. I’m gonna go for it. Thanks!
Anyone had an account setup yet, i signed up 24 hours ago , still nothing
I guess ill wait and see how this goes
Ordered. Server was activated in about 8 hours. Their CentOS image is very minimal which is good for me since I prefer to compile everything by myself. Think I’ll keep the server for my development needs.
Ordered!Debian image only 140M,very small.but when i use “apt-get update”,have many error occured!apt-get can’t install php! support is very slow!
System is centos!
INDEX VALUES
TEST BASELINE RESULT INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 7499787.6 642.7
Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 1996.2 362.9
Execl Throughput 43.0 2244.2 521.9
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 3960.0 133240.0 336.5
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1655.0 66311.0 400.7
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 5800.0 411302.0 709.1
Pipe Throughput 12440.0 557627.8 448.3
Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 126555.1 316.4
Process Creation 126.0 6827.7 541.9
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 732.7 1221.2
System Call Overhead 15000.0 722494.8 481.7
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FINAL SCORE 503.4
Very very good!
I buy one VPS from BoxVPS using this promo code @ 7/7/09
And until this day, i got ZERO DOWNTIME.
Thanks BoxVPS! Also thanks to LowEndBox for the information.
I have a Gentoo VPS with BoxVPS and my experience has been very good. The support is outstanding. I chose this provider after my debacle with ViperVPS (2 weeks down time, no response to ticket, no refund). BoxVPS is by far the best VPS provider I have used
Support is lightning fast. I asked them to rebuild my VPS, got a reply with the ask for confirmation in less than a minute and enjoyed a fresh OS in about 2-3 minutes. Superb!