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.
Latency in Poland (I live near Gdańsk) is ok, their servers are in Nephax datacenter in Gdańsk (it’s one of best DCs in .pl). Best if you REALLY care about price and it MUST be in Poland. If it could be anywhere else, >100ms is ok for you – just get something from USA or Sweden.
..if just their support wouldn’t be so slow and need 2 days or so for every ticket reply…
More or less abandoned hosting. It seems like guy log into support ticket system once in a week, randomly reply some ticket and some left open for another week or so.
Cancelled! (but it might take some week or two before guy will actually notice cancellation and process it)
Since last review a lot has changed. HitMe.net.pl now ensured 24/7/365 suport. We speak in Polish and English.
Services based on OpenVZ and HVM [Xen HVM] are provisioned automagically, Xen packages are provisioned within a few hours.
We have own VPS control panel which allows you to manage the VPS. Description and screenshoots are here: hitme.net.pl/serwery_vps.php
If you are interested in testing our services please make an order and send Invoice# to bok@hitme.pl – We will setup an account for you for free of charge 7 days test.
Now We have extended out offer of VPS servers with new Xen, Xen HVM and OpenVZ packages.
We have also budget offer with no support: budgetvps.pl.
Hope to see you on our platform!
Best Regards,
Marek Bajerski
Are you still offering native ipv6 addresses?
Dirk – yes
I would be nice to have the website in English too and to have the info on ipv6 on it too.
I tried hitme.net.pl when it was on Lowendbox, and never got further then getting a wrong invoice. No reaction to any ticket/mail/….
For one of my projects it would be nice to have a VPS in Poland, however I do want to know what “you”‘re saying and for that I would at least need a website that I’m able to read and understand.
The site will be translated in the next week.
Please place your order and litter on bok@hitme.pl account number you activate the service to test and verify
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It’s no one there. I tryed to get in touch to with them to get promised IPv6 address so many times… Then when I finally got reply to my ticket they requested ID to unblock ports for IRC and after they recieved it.. they completely vanished. COMPLETELY!
And after I requested account cancellation because their unavailability there was no one to cancell it and I got plenty invoices months and months later…
My rough guess would be that there’s some special day every third or forth month in year when some guy in Poland open his hitme.pl support ticket interface and answer few of them with basic c/p reply which doesn’t solve anything while those out of luck customers need to wait another four months or so for similar reply.
hitme.pl is big waste of time. Hobbyist host.
Currently hitme.net.pl is true 24/7/365 support as above written.
There is no longer any problems with ipv6 on openvz.
To convince you of our quality and show that we are worthy of trust I can offer you your chosen package vps a month of tests.
Place your order and send ID to bok@hitme.pl
Apart from native IPv6 address support We offer our customers /64 subnets with reverse delegation to customer’s own DNS servers.
Right now We have international connections via Telia, Level3, GTS, Task. There is also one operator which will be very soon – NTT.
If you have any questions please feel free to contact us @ bok@hitme.pl.
Best Regards,
Marek
I must update my previously expressed opinion about hitme.net.pl here.
I didn’t accept his offer above for free month of testing service. Infact I didn’t even responded on this offer above but instead of this I simply ordered their budget/no support budgetvps.pl vps and so far… it seems truth this what he said. After I got vps and reinstalled new OS I had some minor issues with IPv6 and their support guy willingly worked with me in order to solve issue. Support was responsive more or less whole time.
Unlike first time they respond on every ticket in decent time frame now. Even with their budget/unmanaged vps line I didn’t get impression like they don’t care. Service seems really changed. Better. In those two weeks while I am their customer again no reboots or anything. Almost boring – and I like that. I hope that it will stay that way and me as their customer.
Just ordered mentioned plan, of course OpenVZ based (I’d prefer it over Xen). You could try “50free” code to get 50% off first month (it’ll be 9,50 PLN which will be about 3,34 USD). to Admin: can you add their second offer (budgetvps.pl – mentioned by Spirit)?
I buy VPS XEN HVM, offer is cheap, but is good. Server is located in Gdansk PL Nephax datacenter (http://www.nephax.com/en/). They have promotion for 5 birthday http://hitme.net.pl/openvz.php , http://hitme.net.pl/xen_hvm.php, 1USD=3,20PLN. Serwer xen working perfectly.