Some of us are paying hundreds or thousands of dollars per month on a dedicated server with multiple cores, gigabytes of memory and a huge disk array. Some of us, however, only have a few bucks spare each month to pay for a low end box…
This website is dedicated for running websites and services on low end dedicated servers/virtual private servers, where you only need to pay a few dollars a month to get full root access. Most of them will be CPU, memory, space and bandwidth limited, but can still be a work horse if tuned properly.
I will be listing virtual server deals for less than USD$7 per month or dedicated server deals for less than USD$30 per month (those buying cheap dedicated should have been buying medium-range VPS anyway). I will also be writing about getting out more from your low end box.
Web Hosting for This Site
I am trying to eat my own dog food here by hosting LowEndBox.com on a low end virtual private server. Currently it is running on Datarealm’s Xen VPS with 64MB RAM (for $4.95/month). It runs Debian Etch, and the following software:
- Lighttpd 1.4.13
- PHP 5.2.0
- MySQL 5.0.32
- Postfix 2.3.8
- Dropbear 0.48.1
And it has plenty of space to serve a few small sites + acting as secondary MX for all my domains.