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Why I Don’t Like OpenVZ VPS Plans with Large Burstable Memory

Tags: Date/Time: August 3, 2010 @ 3:50 am

“superblade” asked on WebhostingTalk — Can somebody explain Burst Ram?. It got to be the 1 zillionth times “burstable memory” explained on WHT, and about the same number of times even web hosting providers have no idea what they are talking about. All those crap on “you should rely on guaranteed memory, and burstable is [...]

What’s Your Best Low End Box Experience in 2009?

Tags: Date/Time: December 23, 2009 @ 11:24 pm

Merry Christmas all the Low End Box readers! I might take a break in the next few days and wrap up for the year. Before I sign off, here is one question I would like to ask – What’s your best low end box experience in 2009? There has been heaps of low end providers [...]

How Do You Tell a Provider is Dodgy?

Date/Time: November 23, 2009 @ 5:00 am

First of all, for all the non-brits/aussie/kiwis out there, here is the definition of “dodgy”: Adjective evasive and shifty unsound and unreliable dishonest risky deviant weird Sounds like a good descriptive word for many past low end providers featured on this blog. I have seen many hosts open their business and advertise their cheap low [...]

Low End Providers – Please Keep Your DNS Up!

Date/Time: November 9, 2009 @ 11:46 am

Due to high number of dead hosts featured on this blog (well, you expect low end providers selling low end boxes, don’t you?), I have set up a notification process that scan through all the providers featured here, and notify me when Provider’s website’s IP address has changed, or Provider’s website becomes uncontactable, or Provider’s [...]

RIP KT Ligesh of LxLabs

Tags: , Date/Time: June 9, 2009 @ 8:41 am

This is an update to this post, where HyperVM and Kloxo are now open sourced at LxCenter. Just read a link on WHT to this article on India Times — Tecie hangs himself in HSR Layout: On Monday morning, software company owner K T Ligesh, 32, was found hanging in his house. He was also [...]