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Too Many “Offers” on LowEndBox?

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Jan 24, 2011

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<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...

LowEndBox is Taking a Break for 2 Weeks

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Dec 07, 2010

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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...

LowEndTalk.com is Live at eNetSouth Cloud

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Dec 02, 2010

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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...

Nominate and Vote for Your Favorite VPS Provider on LowEndTalk!

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Nov 24, 2010

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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...

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

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Nov 22, 2010

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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...

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

How to Tell Your Xen VPS is Overselling Memory?

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Nov 13, 2010

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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...

Hosting Provider Tracker Available on Low End Wiki

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Sep 30, 2010

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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...

Advertisement Situation at LowEndBox.com

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Aug 18, 2010

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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...

Advertisement Situation at LowEndBox.com

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

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Aug 03, 2010

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"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...

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

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Jul 28, 2010

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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...

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

Show off Your Low End Box

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Jul 23, 2010

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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...

Ask LowEndBox – What Hardware Spec to Sell VPS for?

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Jul 21, 2010

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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...

Moved Again, to QuickWeb/MicroVPS

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Jun 18, 2010

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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...

Temporarily Moved to 2HOST.com

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May 18, 2010

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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...

LowEndBox on Short Hiatus

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Apr 01, 2010

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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...

Ask LowEndBox – What Do You Do with Empty VPS?

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Mar 08, 2010

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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...

Find LowEndBox.com on Facebook

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Feb 22, 2010

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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...

Negative Reviews – Would You Like to See Them?

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Jan 26, 2010

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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...

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

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Dec 23, 2009

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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...

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

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Dec 15, 2009

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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...

How Do You Tell a Provider is Dodgy?

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Nov 23, 2009

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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...

Low End Providers – Please Keep Your DNS Up!

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Nov 09, 2009

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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...

Exclusive Deals and Advertisement

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Sep 14, 2009

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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...

XenVZ £0.99 OpenVZ VPS Quick Review

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Aug 23, 2009

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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?

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Jun 18, 2009

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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

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Jun 09, 2009

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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

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Mar 24, 2009

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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...