This is our 5,000th post on LowEndBox!

That was way back in 2008.  In that year:

• Breaking Bad premiered.
• Eli Manning lead the New York Giants over Tom Brady’s New England Patriots in Superbowl XLII
• The first movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (Iron Man) was released
• The first iPhone model was a year old, was the only one you could buy until July, when the 3G came out.
• Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (the fourth movie) premieres.

And here’s what our first LowEnd offer looked like:

Saw this special deal at WHT on echoServers, where you can get 3 month free when you prepay for 1 year. With their low end VPS starting at $5.99/month, you basically pay for 9 months ($53.91) and then get 12 months service — worked out to be $4.50/month.

Not bad for a 64MB (guaranteed)/128MB (burstable) OpenVZ VPS, however as the monthly transfer limit is only 10GB the usage will be quite limited. Probably can only host a few unpopular sites like this one :)

Wow…for $6/month you could get a 64MB VPS with 10GB bandwidth.  And of course, we were right about hosting sites on it.  A year later, we’d publish the famous article Yes, You Can Run 18 Static Sites on a 64MB Link-1 VPS.

Our first comment (of 128,848!) was on our fourth post, “FreeXen.com – 64MB Xen VPS for Free Too Good To Be True?”  That post was in Feburary 2008 but by October the host had deadpooled.

We’ve come a long way in 15 years.  THANK YOU for your continued patronage!

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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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