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.
Cheers for the mentioning of the blog being down!
Is all sorted now
Signed up and was provisioned, I’ll keep people posted!
lol
http://whois.domaintools.com/mercuryweb.net
“Reverse IP: 164 other sites hosted on this server.”
That needs updating, the new IP is 96.31.75.93
Which you will see if you ping mercuryweb.net
Cheers
I can’t help but note that $6/mo – 20% is $4.80, not $4.90….
It’s not realy a significant mistake, but attention to detail can
often tell you how well run a company is…
@abjr That – and they don’t give a professional impression in their own WHT thread…
3 Weeks in and my VPS is still up and running good. Everything is very good and the only problems I have experienced are short network burps, there has not been many though. (they affected the whole datacenter.)
I orderd one over 24h,but it still not open,what happen?