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.
First. :P
The review is interesting and looks valid. The poster is a long time user of WHT and in fact one of their community guides.
Can’t believe I just said something nice about a WHT admin type.
So what? WHT status makes it automatically viable ?
But it looks ok.
Don’t be butter because you are banned from WHT Jason.
WHT is going down. 500 internal error. :p
It happens a lot lately :P
Low bandwidth …
M.e.h. at 150GB transfer at this pricepoint.
they do look having solid service from what others mentioned here, maybe budget but in that category, might be good to run an application that demands resources, not only file hosting.
I’m using 1G Ram with 20G HD from Club Uptime which is using Softlayer for $2.98/m,
and the server never goes down and fast.
Why would anybody interested in this, paying double for less spec?
One reason might be more user friendly TOS, as example:
IRC: FuseVPS prohibits the hosting of IRC without permission from the administrator of the
network. To gain permission please email support@FuseVPS.com– Please note we are under
no obligation to allow you IRC related processes, scripts or SSH access.
There’s different companies available for different people :)
Macro:
> I’m using 1G Ram with 20G HD from
> Club Uptime which is using Softlayer
> for $2.98/m, and the server never
> goes down and fast.
I don’t see that deal…? do you have a
coupon / code you could share (please)?
Thx…
Order one and it’s kind of a low quality box: Xeon 5148. :\
This vendor has provided excellent technical service. Auto-provisioning was immediate, and the most complete we have experienced from any vendor. All the details had been attended to in the auto-provision.
The owner/operator had an overreaction to an erroneous spam report, leading to a suspension of service and some strong language. This occurred early and did not impact bringing the server into service. The operator recovered quickly, apologized, and has been very professional since.
Both IPv4 and IPv6 work well. Softlayer.
We highly recommend this vendor.