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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 question by the hosting providers. LowEndBox.com was started back in early 2008 as I was hunting for cheap VPS boxes for my processing nodes for one of the projects I had at that time. Basically the rule was simple -- I only wanted...

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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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Who The @#$% is Load Testing This Blog?! [Updated]

When I checked my Cacti installation just then and spotted the following graph. WTF?!!! About 1.5 hours ago the out bound bandwidth utilization of this low end VPS went from ~50kbps to almost 5Mbps! I...

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Who The @#$% is Load Testing This Blog?! [Updated]

Show off Your Low End Box

First of all, I am taking a short break for a week, because work has been really hectic (damn, I have a "real work" to feed my family). Meanwhile, feel free to occupy yourself here and at the new doma...

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Ask LowEndBox – What Hardware Spec to Sell VPS for?

Got an email from Paul -- sorry it is not his real name as he seems to email me from his email address of a Defence Department of a certain large island nation. To protect him from possible future per...

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Moved Again, to QuickWeb/MicroVPS

If you are seeing this blog post, that shows you are now landing on the new VPS that hosts this blog. Yes, Low End Box has moved again, one month since moving from VPSLink to 2HOST. This time to Quick...

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Temporarily Moved to 2HOST.com

If you see this post -- this page is served by PHP 5.2.6 FastCGI and Nginx on a $5 VPS at 2HOST.com. LowEndBox has been hosting on VPSLink for more than a year now -- and thanks to Dan L at VPSLink/Sp...

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LowEndBox on Short Hiatus

Hey. Just a short notice here that I will be having a short hiatus. I've been getting emails almost daily inquiring about this blog, and sorry that I have not been responding. First of all. My compute...

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Ask LowEndBox – What Do You Do with Empty VPS?

One question drmike asked here in the forums has drawn my attention, because in fact I am also facing the same situation. What do you do with empty VPS? I know virtual servers at the price listed on L...

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Find LowEndBox.com on Facebook

I have just added the Facebook widget on the front page. However, it looks a bit sad with 0 fans... Yes. Go ahead and DO IT. I know you always wanted it -- be the LowEndBox fanboi/fangal! Here is your...

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Find LowEndBox.com on Facebook

Negative Reviews – Would You Like to See Them?

What the title says. Interestingly I spotted LowEndBox got mentioned on one of the WHT discussion thread here, when someone asked about "reliable reviews of VPS providers". I have tested out more than...

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What’s Your Best Low End Box Experience in 2009?

Merry Christmas all the Low End Box readers! I might take a break in the next few days and wrap up for the year. Before I sign off, here is one question I would like to ask -- What's your best low end...

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Ask LowEndBox – Installing IspCP Omega on a Low End Debian?

Alaettin emailed me today: I consider installing a control panel to debian which is IspCP Omega. Do you advise me to install it or not? To a 256 MB VPS from Server Complete. I will use that vps for my...

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How Do You Tell a Provider is Dodgy?

First of all, for all the non-brits/aussie/kiwis out there, here is the definition of "dodgy": Adjective evasive and shifty unsound and unreliable dishonest risky deviant weird Sounds like a good desc...

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Low End Providers – Please Keep Your DNS Up!

Due to high number of dead hosts featured on this blog (well, you expect low end providers selling low end boxes, don't you?), I have set up a notification process that scan through all the providers...

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Exclusive Deals and Advertisement

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 disc...

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XenVZ £0.99 OpenVZ VPS Quick Review

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...

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

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...

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

RIP KT Ligesh of LxLabs

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...

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Down Time – WHT Hacked and EveryDNS is Offline

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...

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

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...

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Look Mom – New Theme!

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.

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Added Forums to talk about Low End Stuff

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...

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You Get What You Paid For, Sometimes

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...

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Stick to 32 Bit For Your Low End Box

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...

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Tuning for 64MB Virtual Private Server

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...

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Hello world!

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...

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