LowEndBox

Exclusive Deals and Advertisement

Sep 14, 2009

Two small changes to this blog today. I have moved the VPSLink exclusive offer to a new page -- Low End Exclusive Deals. Also thanks to Matt Hall at Kerplunc.com for offering long running 25% off discount for SuperBytes (when you quote LOWENDBOX at checkout). All the other providers -- feel free to send our readers exclusive offers as well :) LowEndBox has been accepted to BuySellAds advertising network and now you can bu...

XenVZ £0.99 OpenVZ VPS Quick Review

LEA

Aug 23, 2009

Comments (20)

Marcus wrote to me a few days ago regarding this VPS offer from XenVZ -- a 32MB guaranteed/48MB burstable OpenVZ VPS for 0.99 British Pound. That could very well be the cheapest virtual server availab...

Quick Survey - What Do You Use Your $5 VPS For?

LEA

Jun 18, 2009

Comments (20)

With the recent tragic at LxLabs which pretty much pushed HyperVM out of market, I haven't seen any new provider advertising low end virtual servers at under $7/month range. While we wait for the alte...

Quick Survey - What Do You Use Your $5 VPS For?

RIP KT Ligesh of LxLabs

LEA

Jun 09, 2009

Comments (18)

This is an update to this post, where HyperVM and Kloxo are now open sourced at LxCenter. Just read a link on WHT to this article on India Times -- Tecie hangs himself in HSR Layout: On Monday morning...

Down Time - WHT Hacked and EveryDNS is Offline

LEA

Mar 24, 2009

Comments (1)

Not a good start of the week. First of all, WebHostingTalk was hacked with user data compromised. Moreover, the h4x0r has also destroyed the backup server, before wiping out the database tables on WHT...

Down Time - WHT Hacked and EveryDNS is Offline

Yes, You Can Run 18 Static Sites on a 64MB Link-1 VPS

LEA

Mar 18, 2009

Comments (174)

One thing I hated about WebHostingTalk is how much bad advice the so-called "professionals" are giving out to the world. Some poor college student asked in the VPS forums whether he is able to run 18...

Yes, You Can Run 18 Static Sites on a 64MB Link-1 VPS

Look Mom - New Theme!

LEA

Mar 06, 2009

Comments (3)

Have I just wasted the last hour updating this blog with a new minimist theme? Our pretty much idling forums is also now featuring a similar look! /me now back to low end box hunting.

Added Forums to talk about Low End Stuff

LEA

Dec 15, 2008

Comments (1)

I am a bit surprised that there are actually 40-50 visitors to this small website, and many have emailed me the low end stuff that they have found. I think a good way to build the community (yes, due...

Added Forums to talk about Low End Stuff

You Get What You Paid For, Sometimes

LEA

Jul 08, 2008

Comments (13)

One aim for running this website is to find the cheapest root you can find on the Internet (legally, of course :) For me I just want to have my own little box that I can do whatever I want, and instal...

Stick to 32 Bit For Your Low End Box

LEA

May 07, 2008

Comments (3)

When you go and find a cheap low end Linux virtual server, the criteria usually involve price (very important!), location (for low latency SSH access), virtualization (Xen vs. OpenVZ?), etc. However t...

Tuning for 64MB Virtual Private Server

LEA

Feb 12, 2008

Comments (1)

Zein: Making the most out of a 64MB VPS -- how Ahmed tuned his 64MB Xen VPS from VPS Village to run Lighttpd, PHP/FastCGI and MySQL. He was also trying to get a Ruby on Rails app running but OOM seems...

Hello world!

LEA

Feb 01, 2008

Comments (6)

Welcome to LowEndBox.com, a place to discuss running very low end virtual private servers. I will be listing VPS plans that I found on the web that cost less than USD$7 per month, and how to run vario...