Well, 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 and for the future of LowEndBox blog and LowEndTalk community, I have decided to step down and take an [...]
Running out of time… and I am taking a break
December 11, 2011 @ 1:00 pm Just a quick note on what will be happening over the next couple of days. I am running out of time. Apology to all the providers who have emailed me their Christmas specials (and in some cases, just repeats of their previous offers), and sorry I won’t be able to fulfil all your requests. I [...]
LowEndTalk’s Current Situation at eNetSouth
Our community site, LowEndTalk, has been down for the last 6 hours. For those who didn’t get the context, read the comments in eNetSouth’s last offer (warning: 800+ comments currently and takes a while to load). So I thought I might as well start a new blog post to discuss the issue here. The website [...]
DDoS’ed Again – Both LowEndBox and LowEndTalk Affected
As seen on WHT. I was on my last day of holidays — driving 500km back home. I was at the beginning of the journey when I received the notification from Pingdom. At the beginning it was LowEndBox.com (hosted at QuickWeb), and a few hours later (after I left some messages on LET), LowEndTalk (hosted [...]
Best Low End Providers in 2011 Q2 – It’s RAM Host, QuickWeb and BuyVM AGAIN!
Here’s a quick announcement on last quarter’s poll on the best Low End Providers. The ranking I am revealing here might be a bit different from the vote scores on that LET post. Basically I am NOT counting the negative votes, and here is the result… Winners RamHost (24 votes, not counting 4 negative votes). [...]
LowEndBox Featured on Hacker News
June 12, 2011 @ 1:20 pm 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 news paper are two sites that I usually read first thing in the morning, as it [...]
A Little Note on LowEndBox Domain (and Chance to Win 4VPS.com!)
Yesterday Chris sent me an email trying to sell me both “lowendbox(dot)net” and “lowendbox(dot)org” domains for $100. See his domain sales thread on WHT. Well I did not really say that this site is taking too much of time, although it is true. Going through a job transition at the moment and it’s mega busy [...]
Too Many “Offers” on LowEndBox?
January 24, 2011 @ 8:08 am <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 offers posted here. Looking back I have posted over 30 low end offers since the beginning of this month. [...]
LowEndBox is Taking a Break for 2 Weeks
December 7, 2010 @ 12:28 am 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 Christmas. That means There won’t be any posting on this blog within the next two weeks. But feel [...]
LowEndTalk.com is Live at eNetSouth Cloud
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 to Brandon from eNetSouth Cloud who is sponsoring me a new VMWare-based VPS, which I have migrated LowEndTalk to and [...]