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Which LEB Specialization Group is least/most interesting?
Just a quick question. Current on Low End Box we have a new "Specializations" sub-section to help users find what they are looking for more easily:
Current list is:
High CPU
High RAM
High Storage
NVMe Storage
VPN
Web Hosting
Dedicated Servers
Exotic Location
Resident Host
What do you think should be added or removed?
I was thinking that "DDOS Protection" should probably be added.
What do you guys think?
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Offering at least IPv6 /64.
Right now that's a hot topic with all the kids of school for sure.
I think some re-arangement of the geographical setions would be good. For example put Canada on the left and title it North America. Perhaps reduce the categories there too and introduce more options for Other. You should be able to do that now if you are serious about showcasing more hosts than just CC locations.
North America * 2, Europe, Asia & South America would make more sense as far as columns go.
That certainly makes sense.
What would you suggest specifically for the order/arrangement?
N. America
US West
Los Angeles
Seattle
San Jose
US East
Buffalo
New York
Atlanta
Miami
US Central
Chicago
Dallas
Denver
Kansas City
Other
Canada
Mexico
Europe
Austria
France
Germany
Italy
Netherlands
Sweden
Switzerland
United Kingdom
S. America
Brazil
Chile
Asia / Pacific
S.E Asia
Aus & NZ
Other
What a way to help users find deadpooling scam hosts
Hi Jon,
I would like to see the following changes (Added New Locations in bold):
East Coast
Buffalo
New York
Atlanta
Jacksonville
Asia / Pacific
India
Russia
Aus & NZ
Virtualization/OS
OpenVZ
Xen
KVM
VMWare
Windows
LInux
OpenVZ vs KVM
I am making some tweaks to this now and will come back with a revised break down shortly.
Keep the suggestions coming.
Sure you want to see your own locations...
I don't think Jacksonville is a big enough market to list specifically.
I have added India and Russia because that seems like a no brainer.
Here is the revised version.
What other changes should we make?
I want to add "DDOS Protection" - should we remove one of the specilizations or just add DDOS Protection and leave all the others?
Thanks for the input everyone.
Remove:
High CPU
High RAM
High Storage
Add: Anonymous Services and/or Crypto Payments. Just my 2 cents.
I think "Hyper-V" should be added in Virtualization/OS, but not sure how popular it is in this biggest market of OpenVZ and KVM at this time.
Add: Deadpooling and/or Scam. Just my 2 cents.
Who shares this opinion? At least I was thinking that high RAM and High storage were valuable.
Crypto could work. Problem is many offers that accept bitcoin are not tagged specifically for that so the information would not be very thorough.
I am open to adding Hyper-V but there are very few offers for it, see: https://lowendbox.com/tag/hyper-v/
Here is the latest revision:
@jbiloh My 2 cents,
-> Tags based on product type instead of specialization (Storage/VPS/Reseller/Shared)
-> How hard would be the have a filter system? So if one wants to narrow down let's say, USA->New York->KVM->High Ram or any other ways around?
-> A tag for "Proceed with caution" for hosts that has been in business for less than a year?
-> Tag based on accepted payment type.
-> A clear explanation of why/what makes a host "Trusted Hosts". Specially when seeing an old veterans name next to a new one, it doesn't really make much sense? Maybe even create a list of trusted store? Maybe something like this, where things aren't arbitrary info but rather data driven https://lowendboxes.review/the-whitelist/
These are great suggestions.
I will look into creating a page for certain specializations rather than just a category or tag so that more information can be provided. I can see that being useful for things like explaining DDOS Protection, High CPU/RAM/Storage, Trusted Hosts, etc.
Also agree that setting a more formal process for establishing "Resident Providers / Trusted Hosts" is a good idea. This dates back to @mpkossen from years ago.
I made a few more tweaks to the whole block today.
Tomorrow I am going to create some pages for each specialization to explain them, too.
I think the problem is less "we need more of XYZ" but rather structure and presentation. Offering choices in the form of links either limits the choices or gets unwieldy quickly. Drop down lists at the right level, e.g. european countries might be better for anything beyond very basic grouping (like continents or large regions like west-coast).
One probably increasingly attractive point to add is "Intel - AMD - ARM" processors I think.
Panel like cpanel, plesk etc and if or not included in price
Thanks for the suggestion. Will look into this.