Low End Box Reviews and details

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• Vultr Raises $333M at $3.5B Valuation

  Do you mean on vultr or in general? Because $2.5/month VPS are still widely available on lowendbox: https://lowendbox.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Kubernetes on Hetzner: cutting my infra bill by 75%

  Https://lowendbox.com/ Wouldn't reccomend any of these outside out personal use though. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Colocation: Non-Clown Hosting

  Related and kinda related links: * In San Francisco, good old MonkeyBrains offers an off-the-menu, In'n'Out-style coloc deal: https://www.monkeybrains.net/colocation.php Fun! If you're thinking of doing this, say so here, maybe we can all share an amp or two. * If you just want to play with something that isn't an Amazon instance, and are not sure you want to commit to a >$50 a month server somewhere,... - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• Alternative clouds are booming as companies seek cheaper access to GPUs

  I've got a dedicated machine for $30/month. It's ancient, a xeon L5640 with 16 GB ram, and 1 TB spinning disk, but it's dedicated and it works great. Well actually, the first one stopped working well, and I got a replacement with double those specs for the same price; and the second one is working great. I also run with full disk encryption, because I don't trust their opsec on wiping drives, so that's a bit of a... - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

• Day 0 - Creating Your Own Local Server

  We normally recommend using Amazon's AWS "Free Tier" or Digital Ocean - but both require that you have a credit card. The same is true of the Microsoft Azure, Google's GCP and the vast majority of providers listed at Low End Box (https://lowendbox.com/). Source: over 1 year ago

• Replit moves to permanent paid hosting after 7 years of free service

  I get them from the aggregator https://lowendbox.com when companies offer deals; some have been great, some poor, but all very cheap; I think $14/year has been a decent one. Although my current one only has 512MB RAM and isn’t enough for Rust to compile Scryer Prolog. Prolog, a language first run on the computers of 1971 and standardised around 1998. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Tech Independence

  FWIW, I recently found a VPS offering for $1.41/month (!) @ 1.5GB RAM & 30GB HDD via https://lowendbox.com/, at https://my.racknerd.com/index.php?rp=/store/black-friday-2022 (please note I have no idea how reliable it is though!). I managed to deploy NixOS there through nixos-infect (https://github.com/elitak/nixos-infect. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Migrating WordPress from Do to Hetzner

  Hetzner is still expensive for a blog. Check out offerings on http://lowendbox.com/ you can get a 4GB/2vCPU for like $45/year. Year, and not month. That is the kind of margin these big brand sellers have. I have been using a couple for the past 3-4 years and been pretty nice so yeah. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• How I run my servers

  If your goal is to minimise costs, some of the cheaper providers that have offers on https://lowendbox.com/ will have reasonable annual discounts. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Day 0 - Creating Your Own Local Server

  We normally recommend using Amazon's AWS "Free Tier" or Digital Ocean - but both require that you have a credit card. The same is true of the Microsoft Azure, Google's GCP and the vast majority of providers listed at Low End Box (https://lowendbox.com/). Source: over 1 year ago

• Need Recommendations and Help - VPS with residential ISP IP

  Low End Box would be a great place to do some initial research. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Average Lemmy Active Users by Day after recent decision made by Reddit

  If you just want a cheap server there are alway specials on https://lowendbox.com. Source: almost 2 years ago

• what is a "power user", and how do i become one?

  Or if you don't want to run the hardware in house/home, there are hosting services available, you can setup a ton of the same things on a hosted VPS, a little cheaper since you don't have to buy the hardware, but you have a recurring payment. I have a VPS I use that's 45 for the year. Found a deal on https://lowendbox.com/. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Day 0 - Creating Your Own Local Server

  We normally recommend using Amazon's AWS "Free Tier" or Digital Ocean - but both require that you have a credit card. The same is true of the Microsoft Azure, Google's GCP and the vast majority of providers listed at Low End Box (https://lowendbox.com/). Source: almost 2 years ago

• Friendly Reminder: Do not trust Oracle Cloud. If it's too good to be true, it probably isn't.

  If you absolutely need a VPS then you could check out LowEndBox, but check their TOS closely before using as a proxy/VPN. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Server For My Portfolio Site

  Https://lowendbox.com/ is a nice website to have bookmarked. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Cheapest High ram vos

  Check out https://lowendbox.com/ for some providers. Source: almost 2 years ago

• I need help to choose a VPS to use as a VPN

  Try lowendbox.com -- they review/aggregate low-end VPSes. Some of them are scams/rug-pulls but I've only ever actually lost money once in years there and most of the hosts are legit and decent quality. They also have a forum you can ask for recs in. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Absolute cheapest VPS for small-time hosting?

  Perhaps check out lowendbox.com, if you havenrt already. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Day 0 - Creating Your Own Local Server

  We normally recommend using Amazon's AWS "Free Tier" (http://aws.amazon.com) or Digital Ocean (https://digitalocean.com) - but both require that you have a credit card. The same is true of the Microsoft Azure, Google's GCP and the vast majority of providers listed at Low End Box (https://lowendbox.com/). Source: almost 2 years ago

• Any News On External IPs?

  Only way to get static IP is to move to a business account -- why not get a cheap virtual server with a static IP? I was able to setup a VPN gateway on a VPS for $23/year from a provider I found on https://lowendbox.com/. Source: almost 2 years ago