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 [...]
Who The @#$% is Load Testing This Blog?! [Updated]
July 28, 2010 @ 2:58 pm 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 thought, hurray I have finally made it to the Slashdot. But then I looked through the logs and spotted something [...]
Show off Your Low End Box
July 23, 2010 @ 1:43 am 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 domain of my Low End Box forums — Low End Talk. It is running a current [...]
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/Spry for sponsoring this blog so I have not really been paying for this [...]
Webangel.ie – €9/6 Months 64MB Xen VPS in Germany
Paul from Webangel.ie wrote to me again regarding to their plan changes. Their “micro” Xen VPS package is now half-priced, dropped to €9/6 months (USD$1.90/month). The spec has also been slightly altered, and now you get 64MB memory 2GB storage 50GB/month data transfer Xen Servers are in Germany. It is now one of the cheapest [...]
LowEndBox on Short Hiatus
April 1, 2010 @ 1:08 pm 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 computer died. It was no where near low end either (Dell Latitude business laptop), but somehow the hard drive [...]
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 chance to show off your support on Facebook :) Update: Now we have 1 fan! [...]
Negative Reviews – Would You Like to See Them?
January 26, 2010 @ 12:45 pm 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 a dozen VPS providers over the years and many of them are in the low end range — however many rarely got [...]
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 discount for SuperBytes (when you quote LOWENDBOX at checkout). All the other providers — feel free to send our [...]
Quick Survey – What Do You Use Your $5 VPS For?
June 18, 2009 @ 1:17 am 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 alternate control panels to be developed (and kudos to providers who do not use a control panel or have already developed [...]