About Slow Servers
Slow Servers is a VPS (Virtual Private Server) host based out of North Idaho. It's currently a one man show. The servers themselves are racked at Neutron Colocation's Levy Building in Spokane, Washington. The hosts run OpenBSD and virtualization is handled through VMM.
Slow Servers isn't the cheapest host, nor the most expensive. The host servers, aside from the occasional screw or heatsink, are secondhand with prior life behind them. This isn't to say that they aren't carefully selected. It's my view that the Internet can offer great value for communication and collaboration, but buying new products, in particular electronics, that are not fully recyclable, isn't something I can easily justify. Especially when adequately performant used hardware is available.
So yes, I sell slow servers, but for many they are fast enough. If needs are modest they are sufficient for many. Certainly not for all, and they are of course by no means the latest and greatest. They are a little worn and time tested but should have life left to give to host your Gemlog, blog, onion, Syncthing relay, Jabber server, etc. This text that you're reading, for instance, came to you from our smallest sized VPS (768MiB memory and 24GiB disk for $4.50/month when paid yearly.)
History
Slow Servers was started in January 2026 by the same guy behind SporeStack, on SporeStack's 9th year anniversary. Though SporeStack has been almost entirely resold VPS hosting, I have years of experience in virtualization.
I have worked with Xen and Citrix XenServer in professional settings. I have dabbled with KVM and FreeBSD's bhyve virtualization. I was fully responsible for Xen hosts at one job. I would install Debian on them using iPXE in the lab. Settings as low level as BIOS were handled by Puppet and RAID configuration was fully automated through d-i scripts that I wrote. I would then cart the servers down to colocation, rack them, and then manage them from the office.
While I am newer to OpenBSD itself and I don't have Slow Servers fully automated, I feel that I have sufficient industry experience to be considered relevant. (Or at least I know enough to be dangerous!)
Company Registration
Slow Servers doesn't have a formal legal registration at this time.
Mailing address
If you wish to contact Slow Servers by mail, use this address:
PO Box 163
Saint Maries, ID
83861
Note that the PO Box will likely be checked about once a month or less, most of the time.
Email
For most inquiries, the support email should work fine. For the rest, see the relevant email below.
support@slowservers.net
legal@slowservers.net
abuse@slowservers.net
Phone
This is not a normally supported contact method, but if phone must be used, this phone number should work for the time being. No guarantees on response time with this method.
+1-719-886-7767
Jabber
TODO!
While I strongly dislike most social media, there are a couple of Slow Servers accounts that may or may not see much activity in the future.
/u/slowservers on Reddit
@slowsvr7 on X
@slowservers on Gab
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