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Community Roundup: October 2012

We recently decided to launch a 'Providers Roundup', which would be an editorial piece for providers to share their latest interesting news. However we've decided instead to call it the 'Community Roundup' which will cover a much broader range of news; well anything community related, such as community projects and of course provider news. Feel free to leave a comment below if you think were missing something. Rage4 A new...

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Community Roundup: October 2012

LowEndBox Top Providers Q3 2012 - The Results

In late september we asked you, the community, to vote for your favourite LowEnd Provider. After two weeks of voting, we can now reveal who the top three providers are for Q3 2012. Without further ado...

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LowEndBox Top Providers Q3 2012 - The Results

LimeStoneNetworks threatens LowEndTalk with DMCA

Welcome to the world of LimeStoneNetworks, whereby you send an unsolicited, unrequested, unwelcome email to a host soliciting your products and services. That host replies unfavourably to your actions...

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LimeStoneNetworks threatens LowEndTalk with DMCA

New LowEndBox Offers Helpdesk

Today we have made a change to the way offers are handled, and that is through a new Ticket System. This will now allow us as a team to work on offers, without offers being assigned to a single indivi...

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New LowEndBox Offers Helpdesk

Sticky: Follow @LowEndNetwork on Twitter to WIN!

Follow @LowEndNetwork on Twitter and you could win. We are picking winners at random from our Twitter Followers as we give away multiple prizes over the next week. So visit our twitter page and "follo...

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Sticky: Follow @LowEndNetwork on Twitter to WIN!

Review: Hostigation 256 MB OpenVZ Monthly

Hostigation are no newcomer to the LowEndBox scene having had several great offers over the last few years and coming in as a finalist in the past two Top Provider polls. Hostigation offer both standa...

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Review: Hostigation 256 MB OpenVZ Monthly

Community Review: EDIS 256 MB vServer Monthly

EDIS are a long time host and are one of few LEB friendly hosts that use vServer (a VM system similar to OpenVZ) and run their own panel. This means that they are very familiar with the technology and...

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Community Review: EDIS 256 MB vServer Monthly

Review - Fiber Volt 256 MB OpenVZ Monthly

Fiber Volt are a newcomer to the community but their representatives have shown themselves to be polite and helpful, leading me to do this review. After seeing the offers they posted on LET I am very...

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Review - Fiber Volt 256 MB OpenVZ Monthly

Top Low End VPS Providers (2012 Q2)

Liam made this thread on LET, asking all users in the community to vote for their TOP provider, making it roughly 150  replies before the time was up and the votes were counted. The rules were simple:...

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Top Low End VPS Providers (2012 Q2)

WHMCS Hacked, Client data leaked online

WHMCS is a popular billing software used by most of the small to medium scale hosting companies. The intruder gained access to the servers using "social engineering attack". There are approx half a mi...

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WHMCS Hacked, Client data leaked online

VMPort acquired by FTNHosting

Today it was announced that FTNHosting had acquired a popular LEB company, VMPort. I decided to write up this post to mix up the content on LEB a bit and because Ashley (from VMPort) has been an activ...

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VMPort acquired by FTNHosting

Like a phoenix from the ashes...

We will rise again! First off, I want to apologize because many of you were hoping for new LEB offers and instead received this post. This post is a call to action for our regular users and our ever r...

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Like a phoenix from the ashes...

exit(0);

Well, posts here from the last few months have been slow, irregular and unenergised. Here is one post that I have intended to write for the last couple of months. TL;DR version -- for personal reasons...

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exit(0);

Running out of time... and I am taking a break

Just a quick note on what will be happening over the next couple of days. I am running out of time. Apology to all the providers who have emailed me their Christmas specials (and in some cases, just r...

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Running out of time... and I am taking a break

LowEndTalk's Current Situation at eNetSouth

Our community site, LowEndTalk, has been down for the last 6 hours. For those who didn't get the context, read the comments in eNetSouth's last offer (warning: 800+ comments currently and takes a whil...

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LowEndTalk's Current Situation at eNetSouth

DDoS'ed Again - Both LowEndBox and LowEndTalk Affected

As seen on WHT. I was on my last day of holidays -- driving 500km back home. I was at the beginning of the journey when I received the notification from Pingdom. At the beginning it was LowEndBox.com...

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DDoS'ed Again - Both LowEndBox and LowEndTalk Affected

Best Low End Providers in 2011 Q2 - It's RAM Host, QuickWeb and BuyVM AGAIN!

Here's a quick announcement on last quarter's poll on the best Low End Providers. The ranking I am revealing here might be a bit different from the vote scores on that LET post. Basically I am NOT cou...

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Best Low End Providers in 2011 Q2 - It's RAM Host, QuickWeb and BuyVM AGAIN!

LowEndBox Featured on Hacker News

Via LowEndTalk. One of my two year old article got featured on Hacker News earlier today. For those who do not know about Hacker News, read more about it on its Wikipedia entry. HN and one of my local...

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LowEndBox Featured on Hacker News

A Little Note on LowEndBox Domain (and Chance to Win 4VPS.com!)

Yesterday Chris sent me an email trying to sell me both "lowendbox(dot)net" and "lowendbox(dot)org" domains for $100. See his domain sales thread on WHT. Well I did not really say that this site is ta...

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A Little Note on LowEndBox Domain (and Chance to Win 4VPS.com!)

Too Many "Offers" on LowEndBox?

<RANT> I have just looked at my inbox and saw around 10 emails that I have received since late Friday which I have not yet actioned -- 10 from various hosting providers trying to have their offe...

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Too Many

LowEndBox is Taking a Break for 2 Weeks

Here is just an announcement that I will be taking a break for the next 2 weeks. I will be on holidays with family somewhere in South East Asia (leaving tomorrow), and will be back just before Christm...

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LowEndBox is Taking a Break for 2 Weeks

LowEndTalk.com is Live at eNetSouth Cloud

Thanks to everyone who beta-tested the new LowEndTalk.com over the last week. It was hosted on a $20/month Linode with 512MB of memory, which some people reckon it is not low end enough! Also thanks t...

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LowEndTalk.com is Live at eNetSouth Cloud

Nominate and Vote for Your Favorite VPS Provider on LowEndTalk!

abdelhalim asked this question on LowEndTalk beta: I'm interested to get a VPS box to host some git repos + probably mail server in future, and I was looking for ranking for the VPS providers mentione...

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Nominate and Vote for Your Favorite VPS Provider on LowEndTalk!

Beta-Testing New LowEndTalk - an OSQA-Powered QA Site

I have posted on LowEndTalk last week, and am now just relaying the same message here on this blog. I am setting up a new LowEndTalk, the community website for this blog. Instead of going with one of...

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Beta-Testing New LowEndTalk - an OSQA-Powered QA Site

How to Tell Your Xen VPS is Overselling Memory?

Alright. We all know OpenVZ VPS are generally oversold in either memory, disk space or bandwidth (or all of them). Overselling memory and disk space is easy. You just vzctl create a new virtual enviro...

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How to Tell Your Xen VPS is Overselling Memory?

Hosting Provider Tracker Available on Low End Wiki

Because of volatility of budget VPS market, I have been using a simple script to track various web hosting providers that I have posted about here. Basically it is a Python script using TornadoWeb (to...

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Hosting Provider Tracker Available on Low End Wiki

Advertisement Situation at LowEndBox.com

Hi all. This is a "house-keeping" post so please ignore if you are only interested in cheap virtual private server offers :) I am posting here because "advertising" has been a frequently asked questio...

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Advertisement Situation at LowEndBox.com

Why I Don't Like OpenVZ VPS Plans with Large Burstable Memory

"superblade" asked on WebhostingTalk -- Can somebody explain Burst Ram?. It got to be the 1 zillionth times "burstable memory" explained on WHT, and about the same number of times even web hosting pro...

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Why I Don't Like OpenVZ VPS Plans with Large Burstable Memory
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