This year we are going to take a fresh approach to Low End Box to help make sure we are providing interesting and useful content to our community and readers. To help get us started we need to hear from you!
What sort of content do you want to see from Low End Box in 2020 and beyond? What would make you want to keep coming to the website? Please share your thoughts and ideas in the comments. Don’t hold back, we are looking for honesty above all else. We promise to listen.
Thanks for taking the time to help make Low End Box better.
Jon Biloh is the owner and operator of LowEndBox and LowEndTalk, two of the most recognized platforms in the global web hosting and infrastructure community. With nearly two decades of experience in the IT industry, Jon has spent his career building, growing, and acquiring internet infrastructure companies, with a focus on affordability, transparency, and performance.
Before acquiring LowEndBox and LowEndTalk, Jon was involved in founding and scaling several hosting-related ventures, from bare-metal data center operations to high-volume cloud platforms. His hands-on understanding of both the business and technical sides of infrastructure has shaped his approach to community building and editorial strategy.
Today, Jon’s mission is to modernize and expand the LowEnd ecosystem while staying true to its roots: serving developers, small businesses, and independent providers who value control, value, and community. Under his leadership, LowEndBox is evolving into more than just a deals site, it’s becoming a resource hub, media platform, and discovery engine for DIY hosting enthusiasts and indie cloud providers.
When he’s not working on platform improvements, Jon can be found engaging with users on LowEndTalk (@jbiloh), collaborating with providers, and exploring new ways to support the next generation of internet builders.
I don’t have any suggestions to add, I just want to thank everyone at LEB and the community for all the great deals, content, and advice.
I run a software startup that does quite well and it would not have happened without LEB. When we first started, I had no idea what to do with servers and provisioning and LEB provided a low cost yet effective solution. In fact one of the earlier $10 a year OpenVZ server provider we first used to test and sell our original product is still in use and the provider now hosts hundreds of our servers for customers along with AWS.
Once again thank you to all the great people who make this happen. For all the kids looking for cost-efficient and versatile tech, have fun here!
Thank you for being a part of our community and for the feedback.
More offer from Europe and the rest of the world, outside of US
We’ve got a great Asian offer coming up in two days. 🙂
More technical tutorials about configuring, securing and maintaining dedicated/virtual servers and services like www etc. But not another incomplete guidebook of which there are many on the internet. Also more warnings about companies that are not trustworthy. twice this year, I took offer of VPS companies that simply deceived their clients (lowendbox and snowvps).
We’ve hired two community members from Low End Talk to help write some great content. Hopefully we’ll start publishing this soon.
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Thanks for the comments so far. Please keep them coming. 🙂
More deals from India and Asia.
Would be great to find some hosts in India, I agree!
You should do inhouse compilations or review posts. like “Top 10 price/performance” or full reviews.
We are working on some reviews like this. The first will be posted next week.
Just cheap, low-end VPS systems. I’m not interested in shared hosting or dedicated servers. Think LEB 8 or 9 years ago.
Mark,
What sort of VPS type packages specifically?
I want to see more offers with ipv6.
Good idea, we’ll keep our eye out for this.
It would be nice to have some Canadian options.
VPS or dedicated servers? If dedicated servers check out the Server Mania offer we just published a few days ago as they have a location in Montreal.
Preferably Canadian VPS (KVM)
I would also love to see special section for trading/leasing of ips. Haven’t find anything like this anywhere.
This doesn’t exist on Low End Box yet (perhaps it should). But it does exist on Low End Talk here: https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/160162/the-aio-ip-related-thread-ipv4-ipv6-asn-only-providers-are-allowed-to-post-offers-2
Really low end VPS (like $5/month (I don’t consider that low-end). And also: more outside of the US!
We are going to focus on providers outside of the US in an expanding fashion. 🙂
More special servers
We have more dedicated server offers coming.
To stop getting.ripped.of.by the fly.by nighters you promote here constant should be ashamed.of it
Yes we’re working harder to help avoid this type of stuff moving forward.
Not only Black Friday and Cyber Monday offers, you guys need to add the other countries festival offers also like Diwali, It is new year for India. Chinese new year for Chinese etc.
I just wanted to say thanks for existing, you guys rock!
Thank you we appreciate that!
I agree with Mitesh. We need more festival offers and should definitely focus on other countries and regions also.
I’d like to see better search capability. As of now, there is “Looking for Cheap VPS?” box where I can search by location tag (i.e. “United Kingdom”), but I can not select the whole “Europe” or multiple countries at once. Or I can search by virtualization (i.e. “Xen”), but then I can not select location…
Great suggestion, thank you. We will look into this.
I agree on this point. Having a better overview of all active offers would add great values. Having all offers in a Table view which can be filtered for example would be great!
This is a great idea and we are working on some improvements for the next few weeks.
More tutorials, I saw you published a lot last year, they were great, really helpful, though there could be more – I had to google for some things not covered
We are working to add more tutorials to Low End Box. Right now we are hiring writers.
VPS with big data store – for private cloud storage.
I’ve noticed that the reply nesting for comments seems to be broken here, so I am looking into that. Anyone have any idea why or what might be causing it?
I like some of the following suggestions:
1. VPS with big storage
2. VPS focused for forex
3. Not only Black Friday and Cyber Monday offers, you guys need to add the other countries festival offers also like Diwali, It is new year for India. Chinese new year for Chinese etc.
4. I’d like to see better search capability. As of now, there is “Looking for Cheap VPS?” box where I can search by location tag (i.e. “United Kingdom”), but I can not select the whole “Europe” or multiple countries at once. Or I can search by virtualization (i.e. “Xen”), but then I can not select location…
5. It would be nice to have some Canadian options.
Just wanted to report that nested comments are fixed guys. 🙂
More European options.
Plenty more on the way over the next 30 days.
Cheap OpenVZ and KVM VPS around $10-$20/Year.
I want to stop seeing ads of 1 server VPS startups
India, under the Asia / Pacific region in menus.
Love the offers, keep them coming!
As a beginner, I would like more tutorials and guide from the experienced folks here rather than having to go and watch other noobs on YouTube.
– list of recommended providers
– recommendations for new VPS installs/setups – i.e. must do for security etc
– control panel recommendations
– specific function recommendations i.e. what VPS for a mailserver, multi WordPress server, storage etc
I appreciate, most of this is newbie stuff but it would be great to have a somewhere to go where actual pros in this give advice.
Thanks 🙂
Thanks for the feedback guys, keep it coming, this is really helpful.
I would like to see better vetting of some of the new “players”. It’s well and good to promote new people, but require enough information so only “real” businesses can show up.
Also make sure the tags match the offers. Like if I am looking for a KVM offer, I get other offers that didn’t even have a KVM type listed.
Better vetting is something we agree with. We’re working to enhance that now. On the tags we’ll pay closer attention to that too.
+1 for Better (and more) search options. And then some advanced search options, something probably built especially for LEB. For example: search by date (last 3 months, holiday specials, last year only, etc.), search by provider, search by features (RAM, disk size, number of IP addresses, etc.).
This would be great!
We are working on something like this.
In the meantime we have added more search options in the top dialog box on the home screen, such as High CPU, High RAM, High Storage, etc.
stop the bad hosting providers
agree with @marching
“stop the bad hosting providers”
Hosts like RACKNERD that have owners with a bad history need to go
> Hosts like RACKNERD that have owners with a bad history need to go
whats up with RackNerd? they look pretty solid
I like the adequacy of their offers
I again thought about what i’d like to see and came up with the following:
– estimate number of already active VPS nodes per VPS provider ad, so that I can filter out several-boxes startups
Hello,
We’re doing quite well as a company, we’re healthy, sustainable and lots of positive feedback is being distributed by our end users. I have dealt with many customers over the years, and a lot know me as a solid individual and can vouch for that.
What you’re referencing is simply a rumor, sadly. This rumor has also already been addressed. Now you’re simply re-distributing a rumor, in addition to creating an online username that is targeted towards our company in attempt to tarnish our name. Or perhaps, you truly believe everything you read online. I’m not entirely sure, but I wish you well.
Hi Dmitry!
Thank you so much! Appreciate the support, we’re rapidly expanding and doing our best to create attractive promotions, most importantly providing services end users can count on.
Very good suggestion.
Low End Box has now been moved to the new hosting platform, all plugins are updated and the back end is updated. The website should be faster now too.
We also removed a handful of ads.
We also added links to Discord (instead of IRC) and cleaned up some of the older posts and older content.
More improvements on the way!
Hi Jon!
Loving the work you and the team are putting into LEB/LET. This community is amazing, happy to see that you’re running it.
Keep crushing it.
We’re definitely doing the work that’s long overdue. Lots of positive stuff on the way. Glad you are enjoying the website Dustin and hope your hosting stuff is going well.