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.
Would just like to note that the portfolio link was removed while I design a separate site for my personal portfolio. If you would like I can shoot over a link once I have that site ready. :)
Well, or regarding the $10 reviews, sometimes bad is good.
Hi, Benz guy, does it takes about 1/4h to set up your plan?
No SSL on WHMCS… don’t feel sending personal info over plain text. VPS3 (512MB) plan have no burstable RAM while every other plans has it, probably a typo? Overall, good prices though.
Patrick, are the physical servers running under RAID? If so, what topology?
SSL really isn’t that important imo. It adds extra protection if your on an pen wifi network or mobile dongle but otherwise doesn’t really do anything.
Subscribes – Forgot to before
Right ! Rollin’ anyway Jk
@PG I’m hesitating between your plan and RackVM ones, any argument for a future new customer?
IMHO SSL is important. I think it’s just a good practice if you intend to sell anything online to shoot toward for PCI compliance. To each its own. :)
An SSL certificate is $10/year. There’s really no good reason not to have one… or more.
Thanks for noticing the typo! The plan in Solus and WHMCS did have 1GB burst but the page had it listed as 512. Kind of put SSL for WHMCS on the back burner when I left PayPal as the only payment option, address and other personal info completely left my mind. We will get SSL setup for the members area ASAP!
Feel free to open up a live chat or contact us via email with any other questions [or typos ;)].
— hmm, I subscribed to this but I never got any notifications about the new comments? I’ll double check it did not go into spam.
@AntiPop3 – Not sure if I understand you, I extended the $10/review to give an incentive for customers to tell others of their experience. I don’t want lies, or people posting without being customers, I would just like future customers to have some sort of background to look at.
@terii – Oops, forgot to tell you about our RAID. RAID 10!
@Goldstein – if you are referring to setup time after the order has been placed… its set to immediately setup after payment is received. in past orders it has taken a few minutes for the email with server details to be delivered.
@Lapagaud – One thing you should look at is where you want your server to be located, if you are closer to France then RackVM may be your better bet if that is important. The nodes VPSs are going onto right now are in Baltimore, MD. I can tell you that your customer service will be top notch, I cannot guarantee the fastest turn around time but the service you get cannot be beat. Besides servers/websites that is what I know best. If you have any specific questions or comments feel free to open up a live chat, will be available all day!
Also FYI…
10WHT2010 is available for use on ALL VPS packages. This is on top of standard pricing where you get a month knocked off the price for every 5 months paid for in advance. Total discount if you pay in advance is ~25% off with the promo code. The code will be available for use all the way up to the end of the year :)