Low End Box X: April 2014

Senin, 28 April 2014

ChicagoVPS â€“ 2 OpenVZ VPS and 1 dedicated offer starting at $35/year for 2GB

ChicagoVPS – 2 OpenVZ VPS and 1 dedicated offer starting at $35/year for 2GB

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April 26, 2014 @ 1:00 pm, by Maarten Kossen

Chris, from ChicagoVPS, is back with three offers for the LowEndBox community, this time including a dedicated server! The OpenVZ VPS offers are all available in six locations across the USA, while the dedicated server is available in Buffalo, New York. The dedicated server features the fairly new Intel Atom C2750 8-core CPU which supports up to 64GB of RAM and VT-x, making it a quite powerful CPU while using only 20W. I personally haven't heard how this CPU performs yet, so if you do give it a shot, let us know! ChicagoVPS is using host nodes with dual CPUs and Intel 520 SSDs for caching for their OpenVZ offers. Orders will be set up instantly, so you can get started right after ordering! Customers have been quite positive about ChicagoVPS recently. If you sign up, or are already a customer, feel free to leave a review in the comments or at LowEndTalk.com.

The offers

Dedicated server

Intel Atom C2750 2.4Ghz
8GB RAM
250GB hard drive
10TB bandwidth
100Mbps uplink
/29 IPv4
Buffalo, New York
$49/month

Special Promotion Series 2GB

2GB RAM
50GB disk space
3TB bandwidth
1Gbps uplink
1x IPv4 address
OpenVZ/Custom
Six locations across the USA
$35/year
Order here

Special Promotion Series 3GB

3GB RAM
100GB disk space
3TB bandwidth
1Gbps uplink
1x IPv4 address
OpenVZ/Custom
Six locations across the USA
$29/6 months
Order here

ChicagoVPS accepts payments via major Credit Cards, by personal check, cashier's check, PayPal, electronic check, or money order. Their refunds policy states that "Refunds are subject to approval by ChicagoVPS on a case by case basis". ChicagoVPS guarantees a 99.9% uptime with all services. Free central backups, free automated weekly node backups and free DNS hosting are all included. For more information, take a look at their Terms of Service.

Network Information

Los Angeles, CA, USA
Test IPv4: 198.23.128.127

Buffalo, NY, USA
Test IPv4: 75.127.3.3

Chicago, IL, USA
Test IPv4: 206.217.137.110

Atlanta, GA, USA
Test IPv4: 198.46.150.130

New Jersey, NJ, USA
Test IPv4: 199.188.100.34

Dallas, TX, USA
Test IPv4: 172.245.57.2

Source : http://lowendbox.com/blog/chicagovps-2-openvz-vps-and-1-dedicated-offer-starting-at-35year-for-2gb/

Vultr â€“ $5/month 768MB KVM VPS in multiple locations and $5/month 160GB storage VPS in NJ

Vultr – $5/month 768MB KVM VPS in multiple locations and $5/month 160GB storage VPS in NJ

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April 28, 2014 @ 1:00 pm, by Maarten Kossen

Vultr is the next provider in my series of surprise posts! Having come "to the scene" at LowEndBox and LowEndTalk only a couple of months ago, they have quickly gained popularity. They technically have been featured before in the 2014 Q1 Top Provider Poll, where they came in ninth, but I felt they needed to be in the spotlight just a tad more. Vultr has SSD-based cloud servers starting at $5/month in multiple locations across the globe. Last week they got stock back in their London location. In addition to that, they currently offer services out of New Jersey (NJ, USA), Dallas (TX, USA), Los Angeles (CA, USA), Atlanta (GA, USA), Chicago (IL, USA), Tokyo (Japan), and Sydney (Australia). If you think that's a long list, keep in mind that their Frankfurt (Germany) and Paris (France) are currently out of stock and will be available again in the future. Contrary to some other "cloud" providers, Vultr offers you the option to deploy any distribution you like by upload! ing your own ISO, which gives this service a real nice edge. Vultr uses modern hardware with latest generation Intel CPU and pure SSD drives. The bandwidth varies per location, but I see a Level3 and an nLayer logo on their website, so I think they are at least used heavily in the USA and Europe! If you give them a shot, or already have, please share your experiences with us!

As a limited time promotion, Vultr doubles all the payments you make up to $100! This is not a LowEndBox.com promotion as this is a surprise post!

SSD KVM VPS

768MB RAM
1 CPU core
15GB SSD space
1TB bandwith
1Gbps uplink
1x IPv4 address
KVM/Custom
$5/month
USA (New Jersey, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Atlanta)
Amsterdam, The Netherlands and London, UK
Tokyo, Japan and Sydney, Australia (100GB bandwidth)
Sign up here

SATA Storage VPS

512MB RAM
1 CPU core
160GB SATA disk space
1TB bandwith
1Gbps uplink
1x IPv4 address
KVM/Custom
$5/month
USA (New Jersey, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Atlanta)
Amsterdam, The Netherlands and London, UK
Tokyo, Japan and Sydney, Australia (100GB bandwidth)
Sign up here

While Frankfurt and Paris are listed as out of stock, you could get lucky by getting an instance there. I clicked on one of those locations to get notified and got a 'Pending' instance to see it being deployed about 15 minutes later. So, always worth a shot if you need something there.

Vultr accepts payments via Credit Cards and PayPal. Each instance comes with one IPv4 address, more IPv4 addresses are currently not available but may be in the future. IPv6 is also still under development. SMTP is blocked by default to prevent SPAM. To unblock SMTP you need to contact support and fill out an authorization form. For more information, read their FAQ. And as always, read their Terms of Service before ordering!

Network information

To test connectivity to all of their locations, please check this page: https://www.vultr.com/locations/

Source : http://lowendbox.com/blog/vultr-5month-768mb-kvm-vps-in-multiple-locations-and-5month-160gb-storage-vps-in-nj/

OpenITC â€“ $20/year 256MB SSD OpenVZ, $4.25/month 512MB KVM, and more in Maidenhead, UK

OpenITC – $20/year 256MB SSD OpenVZ, $4.25/month 512MB KVM, and more in Maidenhead, UK

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April 25, 2014 @ 1:00 am, by Maarten Kossen

openitc Sean, from OpenITC, has sent in some new offers for LowEndBox readers! This time, he sent both OpenVZ and KVM offers. OpenITC have been in business for over 6 years and their company is a registered 'partnership' in the UK. They were featured many times before under their subsidiary "XenVZ" and later as OpenITC. XenVZ were first listed in 2008 and, we suspect, once offered the cheapest vps plan ever at the time. Users will use OpenITC's own custom coded control panel to manage their virtual servers as apposed to the popular SolusVM. KVM users can even use Spice with TLS rather than the relatively insecure VNC. Also, the KVM servers come with two IPv6 /64 subnets. All these servers run on a host node with dual hex core E5-2630s with a battery-backed RAID card and dual power supplies. The OpenVZ offers are hosted on SSD drives. Please leave any ! reviews or remarks in the comments!

OpenVZ SSD VPS #1

256MB RAM
3.25GB SSDspace
3.25GB off-site backup
1.6180339887TB bandwidth
2 CPU cores
1x IPv4 address
2x IPv6 address
OpenVZ/Custom
£12 ($20)/year
Order here

OpenVZ SSD VPS #3

1024MB RAM
13GB SSD space
13GB off-site backup
42TB bandwidth
8 CPU cores
1x IPv4 address
2x IPv6 address
OpenVZ/Custom
£4 ($6.70)/month
Order here

The Sean Surprise VPS#1

512MB RAM
25GB disk space
12.5GB off-site backup
2.5TB bandwidth
2 CPU cores
1x IPv4 address
2x /64 IPv6
KVM/Custom
£2.50 ($4.25)/month
Order here

More offers inside!

OpenVZ SSD VPS #2

512MB RAM
6.5GB SSD space
6.5GB off-site backup
3.14159265359TB bandwidth
4 CPU cores
1x IPv4 address
2x IPv6 address
OpenVZ/Custom
£6 ($10)/quarter
Order here

The Sean Surprise VPS#2

1024MB RAM
50GB disk space
25GB off-site backup
5TB bandwidth
4 CPU cores
1x IPv4 address
2x /64 IPv6
KVM/Custom
£4 ($6.75)/month
Order here

With OpenITC's panel, you can install any Operating System you like via the recovery console (VNC or Spice with TLS) and you can virtually mount any CD/DVD from a HTTP server, basically allowing you to install any .iso (KVM only). You can also set the disk driver and the network model (KVM only). Whilst it fully supports both IPv4 and IPv6, at present only rDNS on IPv4 addresses can be instantly configured. Cgroups have been fully implemented, allowing OpenITC to control CPU and Disk I/O.

They accept both Paypal & Google Checkout as payment methods and have a 14 day refund policy. As well as allowing VPN and Adult content, IRC is also allowed but only on request. Legal content only.

Network Information

Their nodes are online at the RapidSwitch datacenter in Maidenhead, UK. They are a RIPE NCC member and thus their IP space is fully owned by themselves. From this simple search, they appear to have a lot of it. They have a 100% SLA with their upstream provider.

Test IPv4: 78.129.169.250
Test File: http://dc5.rapidswitch.com/DC5/1000mb.bin

Source : http://lowendbox.com/blog/openitc-20year-256mb-ssd-openvz-4-25month-512mb-kvm-and-more-in-maidenhead-uk/