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. Update: Yes I have listed dedicated servers before — but these days I really don’t see a reason why people would want $30 dedicated, comparing to $30/month VPS on actual server-grade hardware.
But Why?!!
Because I was bored. Actually I came up with 5 reasons why you want to use a low end box.
About LowEndAdmin
LowEndAdmin runs LowEndBox.com in his spare time, including scanning through VPS offers on various web hosting forums for cheap low end servers. He was born in the 70′s, married with kids, and works in boring day job as a code monkey. His very first computer is a VIC-20 which is a truly low end box with 4KB of RAM and a tape drive.
Contact LowEndBox
Just in case you have any question that you wish to contact LowEndBox.com, email to
co.....@lowendbox.com
Spams or unsolicited commercial emails will be silently ignored.
FAQ
Q. What offers can be listed on LowEndBox? What is your listing criteria?
For virtual private server (VPS) packages,
- It must be under USD $7 per month for monthly billing, or USD $48 per year for yearly billing (~USD$4/month). Updated: I have lower again the yearly payment requirement. People should not have to commit for the whole year unless there’s a big financial incentive, as in this market providers rarely last more than a year.
- I would not list VPS offers that only have yearly billing option, if the provider is under 1 year old.
- I will only list one offer per provider per 30 days.
- Providers under 12 months old need to display valid Public WHOIS information on their domain.
Q. I am a VPS hosting provider. How do I get my offers posted?
Please contact me (using the email address above) and tell me about your hosting package. It must meet my listing criteria, and please include
- Amount of memory, disk/storage space, monthly data transfer or unmetered bandwidth
- Type of virtualization, i.e. Xen, OpenVZ, VMWare, etc
- Location of your servers and which data center are you hosting with
Q. Why don’t you reply my email?! Why don’t you list my offers?! ARGHHH!!!
Because I am busy. If you are sending me your latest VPS offers, please check whether you have met the listing criteria. Especially if I have already previously written about your offer over the last 30 days.
Some of the common reasons why you don’t get listed:
- You emailed me less than 30 days after your last offer was featured here. It goes straight to archived and I probably forget about it.
- You emailed me too many times and I probably have flagged you as a spammer.
- Your web hosting “business” is full of issues. Incomplete website, dodgy domain registration details, cryptic terms of services, using nulled software etc. Make sure you have those issues fixed before submission (otherwise you’ll probably get public ridicule from the community here).
- “Please re-list my offer” usually goes to the bottom of list. If you can’t bother to improve your offers over the last 30 days, I probably won’t bother list it again either.
- You are less than 12 months in the industry and are using private WHOIS.