Of all of our 5,000+ pages and posts, one stands out as consistently the most popular page.  This page gets a ton of views every day, and if you google “lowendbox” it’s usually the second listing, right under the home page listing.

The page?  Our listing of $1 cheap VPS systems!

Yes, you can get a fabulous VPS system for $12 a year or yes.  Considering that you’ll pay 4-6 times that to get in the door at major providers, this is a pretty amazing deal.

Of course, technically it’s not $1 a month but $12 a year (or less) in most cases.  That’s because there is a transactional cost to billing someone for a dollar twelve times a year which would swamp any profits.

But getting a full years’ service for $12 is still a great deal!

These are usually systems in the 512MB-1GB range.  What could you do with such a system?  A lot.  Don’t look at that 512MB the way you’d look at your laptop.  512MB to 1GB is more than enough to run a VPN, monitoring poller, or small web site.  Really?  Oh yes, really.

We’ve got featured offers on that page from

• RackNerd: 768MB for only $10.28/YEAR!
• CloudServer: 1GB for only $10/YEAR!

Now if you want to step up to a little bit more – say, about $1.50 a month – then the field opens quite a bit.  Including:

• ServerHost: 1.5GB system with unmetered bandwidth for $1.40/month
• Ethernet Servers: 1GB system with 2TB bandwidth for only $14.95/year!

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raindog308

Dread Lord of LowEnd Content at LowEndBox

I'm raindog308, techno polymath and long-time LowEndTalk community Administrator. My technical interests include all things Unix, perl, python, golang, shell scripting, vintage operating systems such as MVS, and relational database systems such as Oracle, PostgreSQL, and MySQL.

I also enjoy using LEBs! I have an empire of little guys for VPNs, larger guys for apps, and big guys for databases and storage. When I'm not in front a screen I'm into German Shepherd dogs, quality knives, target shooting, theology, tabletop roleplaying games, and forest hiking.

I enjoy writing technical articles here on LowEndBox to help people get more out of their systems. You can find me on LowEndTalk @raindog308

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