The long period of acquisitions and mergers of hosts that are in trouble seems to be over. Over the past two months or so, I have seen several hosts deadpool where they would have been saved by another company in the period before. So, it's time for my first ever deadpool post! TacticalVPS Status: Server not found/website offline/nodes offline TacticalVPS gained popularity quickly when they started. Ian offered some nice...
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Update: Only a few days left to enter.... LowEndBox kickstarter Update! Thanks to everybody who has entered, or participated, in the contest one way or another so far. This post is a gentle reminder t...
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LowEndBox Kickstarter is Back! LowEndBox is happy to announce the return of the LowEndBox Kickstarter competition! We ran this competition last September, but for whatever reason the winner hasn't tak...
Read MoreToday we have launched our Top Providers poll for the Q2 period of 2013. For those unfamiliar with our top providers poll, it's a chance for the community to showcase and vote for the best provider. W...
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It all began back in February when DireVPS, a subsidiary of OpenITC, began offering 4GB OpenVZ VPS for $6.10 per month. At the time, many users were calling into question the authenticity of the offer...
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I hope you are all well and enjoy the following community roundup. Please email me (liam at lowendbox.com) any hints, tips or requests. You can even email some questions for our next interviewee. If y...
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Update 24th June 2013: According to LowEndTalk, Wire Works Communications have entered the deadpool. Wire Work Communications got in touch with us a while ago about listing one of their dedicated serv...
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I'm not sure what happened to Saturday, but unfortunately I didn't find the time to write this - well I wrote some but I didn't complete it alas. This is our second 'Community Roundup', I would like t...
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Here is your latest deadpool installmant. I will try and do it monthly however, as I was away at the end of July, this edition covers both July and August. As usual we appreciate your input in the com...
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Win A Whole Small Business / VPS Provider Setup! LowEndBox is giving away a whole package to kickstart you as a VPS Provider. Starting off with an Intel Xeon E3-1240 server for 6 months thanks to the...
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It's been a while since the last dead pool! Forgive me if I've missed anyone; sorting through 6 months of data isn't easy. Aerovps Current Status: Redirects to Racklot.com AeroVPS first, and only, app...
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LEB & LET are an awsome place, sometimes fun, sometimes stressful, sometimes 3D. Over the past week we have been working towards a "plan" for LEB/LET that would bring this place forward. The LowEndBox...
Read MoreWell, 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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Updated February 2012 -- Deadpooled. Business partner has recommended people file a chargeback to get their funds back. Please see this post. Chris, director at ico7 Network which manages NixDot Web S...
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Just a quick note on yesterday's outage here at LowEndBox. It was a DDoS (yes, again!) and the VPS required a reboot to get back to shape. LowEndBox.com availability issues can be discussed on LowEndT...
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Via this WHT offer. According to the About section on their website, CHVPS is "owned and directly operated by Private Layer INC. Private Layer is a Panama Corporation providing hosting services since...
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Sorry guys for the slow update on last month's dead pool post. I am still away and will be back home in a week -- which means (1) what I can research on this post might be limited, due to poor 3G/HSPA...
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Update December 2011 -- See LeetNet admin's comment here. They are now part of Dead Pool. Initially I wasn't sure whether I was going to post this one. After all, most people pay for their low end VPS...
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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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Avish from Evolucix has written to me about their special promotions for LowEndBox readers. Two LEB-exclusive offers here: Evo384-LEB 384MB guaranteed/768MB burstable memory 10GB storage 250GB/month d...
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We had a little bit of rest in March with only one dead provider. However in April it seems the Hades of dead providers have came back to full strength. Let's get the listing started. 321 Hosted Curre...
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Don't think we can ever have a month without any dead-pool-providers. Here are some from last month. The Server Experts Current Status: IP not resolvable Looks like being in business for 9 years, havi...
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Sorry about the late post on last month's dead pool list. After a quiet month in December, list of dead providers seem to be picking up again! I did make some changes to my tracker which flags more po...
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Via this WHT offer. RethinkVPS has just launched -- domain registered in late October with privacy-guarded WHOIS and adjacent NS that's typical to our new providers. But anyway, they do have pretty go...
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Update May 2011: NoVPS is now showing just cPanel default page, and looks pretty dead now. Welcome to deadpool May 2011. Sounds like you are getting NoService from NoVPS. Someone at NoVPS emailed me t...
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Due to popular demand I am posting this, which can also be found on this WHT offer page. QuickWeb has recently launched some low end packages using PhoenixNAP in Phoenix AZ. They were last mentioned h...
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Via Hacker News. Amazon Web Services apparently just released a Free Tier which includes quite a few nice freebies for whole year, including a free 750 hours/month Amazone EC2 Micro Instance (i.e. eno...
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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...
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