Via this WHT offer. When Michael from DashingHost contacted me last time, the provider was targeting medium-high end users with starting price of $12/month for a 128MB OpenVZ VPS. He offered special discount to LowEndBox readers to reduce that to $6.99. However it appears that they have completely changed the direction — and now are offering their “Starter” VPS for $2.99/month with 3 months prepayment! You get
- 80MB guaranteed/128MB burstable memory
- 2GB storage
- 50GB/month data transfer
- OpenVZ/SolusVM
Servers are still with PacificRack in Los Angeles CA, which is great for Asia/Australia visitors. Low end VPS at this spec is more than capable of running a few websites. Heck. Even LowEndBox.com would fit into this profile (it is using 69MB committed/95MB allocated memory at the moment, less than 1GB space OS included, and ~ 7GB/month of data).
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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.
wow, i thought this blog uses at least 512MB or something. But how do you make it load faster?
I set up a WordPress blog with Nginx, it’s really slow even only me who visit the blog. it end up with 502 Bad Gateway since php-fastcgi die, and need to restart the php-fastcgi again and again.
> But how do you make it load faster?
Hmm. Nothing?! I haven’t even attempted to optimize it with those WordPress caching plugins. The CPU sits idle most of the time. Maybe some of you guys can send in more traffic here so I can at least “do something”.
Very simple stack – Nginx, PHP 5.2, MySQL running on Debian 5 32bit. 3x PHP/FastCGI backend max out at around 15-20MB each. VPSLink is pretty stable though. Not quite sure now as they have just been acquired and the new company are moving the servers to Boston.
I’ve had that happen to me a couple of times now. Not a fun experience.
They made a package identical to ramhost’s nano package. That would be fine because ramhost is sold out until they get their new servers up later this year, except for the fact ramhost is sold out because people rush to them as they have a spotless reputation.
Even I am waiting for the opportunity to buy their nano package to test it out, but considering this package is the exact same, I have no reason to switch, they should have made a little bit better.
@LowEndAdmin dear god, endurance bought vpslink!?
@skomes I think the fact that they are LA based would be a benefit for those from the other side of Pacific, where RamHost’s servers are all in Atlanta (which benefits East Coast and European visitors).
@ui Yes. Still waiting to see what the outcome will be. But with VPSLink’s existing stability + Seattle DC, I think it would be hard to beat.
NEVER TOUCH DASHINGHOST.COM!!! You may lose everything without any notification, any execuse, any explanation.
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1068867&highlight=dashinghost