Michael from DashingHost sent me his LowEndBox exclusive offer last month and the email was somehow misplaced as I was busy. But don’t worry and none is lost! I dug out the email and here is the deal you can get when you use LowEndBox as coupon code on their Starter VPS product — price reduced from $12/month to $6.99/month. You get
- 128MB guaranteed/256MB burstable memory
- 5GB storage
- 150GB/month data transfer
- OpenVZ/SolusVM
All their VPS are in Los Angeles CA which would be good for Asia Pacific customers. Some sanity test shows that the domain has been around for 1/2 a year, and has BOTH name servers on the same server. Thanks to exclusive offer, but for $7/month, the previous offer from Virpus does sound a lot better.
Kenneth from Virpus emailed me about their exclusive offer for LowEndBox.com readers. Similar to their popular $7/month OpenVZ VPS offer, but with Free DirectAdmin license even if you pay by monthly. Yup, similar to their current offer on WHT but you don’t need to prepay 6 months in order to get the free license. Use coupon code LEB-FREEDA when you sign up. Offer expires on 18 Feb 2010.
- 512MB guaranteed/2048MB burstable memory
- 25GB storage
- 5Mbps bandwidth
- 2 IP addresses
- OpenVZ/VSXPathway
Servers are in Kansas City. I’ve actually got one from them for around a month now, and
- Server/network has been responsive. Although I’ve not put any load on it.
- Equal share (i.e. not cpulimited) of 4x AMD Opteron 270. Old CPU but works well.
Personally I don’t really use control panels but I guess it would be something useful if you are not comfortable on the command line, or to use it to host sites for family and friends & give them the panel access.
Via this WHT offer. Here is another Netherlands provider — WeServeIT. The website is still in the process to be translated to English. They do have some cheap Xen VPS on offer though at 5 Euro per month (~$6.93 USD). USD has raised a bit over the weekend so now all the 5 Euro plans can be listed on LowEndBox. Anyway, here’s the VPS 128 box you get:
- 128MB memory/256MB swap
- 20GB storage
- 100GB/month data transfer
- Citrix Xen Server
Not too sure about the company but according to Google Translate it seems to be a pretty new provider with many pages still having temp holder. You can also use VPS_50% to get 50% off for the first month to test them out.
Via this WHT offer. HostMist — probably played on the pun of “cloud” — has some low end virtual server plans starting at $6/month.
- 128MB guaranteed/192MB burstable memory
- 10GB storage
- 150GB/month data transfer
- OpenVZ/SolusVM
Servers are in Seattle with Wowrack.com. HostMist site itself is also in Seattle (which has pretty low ping to LowEndBox.com, that’s also in Seattle). Interestingly the IP block of the HostMist site belongs to FazeWire (which I reported their low end VPS half year ago. HostMist has been running for more than a year from its About page and has around 6 servers (although it is still running both NS off the same box).
Marc from GigaTux emailed me about their offer. GigaTux is based in UK and has been in business for almost 3 years (since Feb 2007).
I have produced three coupon codes exclusive to LowEndBox.com, valid until 28 Feb 2010 or until stock run out. Discount are recurring.
| LOWENDBOX-YEAR |
Taking £48 off the price of a yearly package. |
| LOWENDBOX-3MONTH |
Taking £12 off the price of a 3-month package. |
| LOWENDBOX-MONTH |
Taking £4 off the price of a 1-month package. |
So taking their cheapest package (Uno L), prepay for 12 months, apply the coupon, it should now come down to £47.88/Year (£3.99/month or USD$6.44 as of today). The package includes
- 128MB memory/128MB swap
- 5GB storage
- 50GB/month data transfer
- Xen
Their servers are Xeon E55xx Nehalem minimum, and are in Maidenhead UK. They have a large collection of Turnkey Linux distributions range from Django stack to Zimbra box, and from the website it looks like they know what they are doing.
Via this WHT offer. We have previously covered TOCICI’s VPS product. It looks like they have completely revamped their virtual server page, and is now hosting on its own site — BuildYourVPS.com. The model has also changed. Instead of listing out plans, it let you mix ‘n’ match options such as bandwidth, RAM, disk and type of IP connection to come out a final price. So if you choose the cheapest options…
- 16MB burstable memory
- 0.5GB storage
- 1GB/month data transfer
- Nginx Accelerated Shared IP
And it would come out to only $0.75/month! The servers are in Portland OR, and it uses OpenVZ (no control panel AFAIK).
What you can use it for is another interesting question. 16MB burstable might mean you can’t even system level utilities such as apt-get to install/update software. You can probably burn through 1GB of data transfer from just the “noise” on the line. 500MB of disk space is barely enough for the base OS install. Glorified shell account with root access? You don’t even own a public IP.
What the title says.
Interestingly I spotted LowEndBox got mentioned on one of the WHT discussion thread here, when someone asked about “reliable reviews of VPS providers”. I have tested out more than a dozen VPS providers over the years and many of them are in the low end range — however many rarely got posted here.
Why? Because they are most likely negative reviews. Providers that die on me while I am testing them. Those that provide bad services. Or simply bad configuration all over the places that make my little virtual server unusable.
Providers hate it. I have previous experience (not this blog, but something else I’ve reviewed) that the merchant stalked me and chased after my back after a mixed-but-generally-negative review. Maybe it could be a question for the readers — would you like to see negative reviews posted here?
If you have some reviews that you would like to share with other readers on LowEndBox, also feel free to email that to me (contact at lowendbox.com) if you like to have them published.
Via this WHT post. urgentVPS has released their 2010 pricing and they have a special offer at €14.85/3 Months, i.e. €4.95/Month. Which at last week’s sharp change against USD, it’s roughly $7/month which meets my listing criteria. I guess I better post it just in case USD slides again this week. You get the following no-so-lowend OpenVZ VPS:
- 384MB guaranteed/512MB burstable memory
- 30GB storage
- 100GB/month data transfer
- Virtuozzo
- CentOS/Fedora Core/Debian/Ubuntu
Servers are in Frankfurt Germany, although the company is based in UK. You can get even more discount with yearly payment and coupon code “WHT-ANNUAL-25OFF” to get 25% off. It’s very cheap for Virtuozzo-based VPS, which we have rarely featured comparing to OpenVZ-based plans. You also get “free” Plesk 9.x 10 domain license, but I guess you won’t be of “low end box spirit” if you fall to the dark side and use a memory hungry hosting control panel 
Via this WHT offer. OneXenVPS.com is a budget virtual server provider with Xen packages starting from $5/month. You get:
- 128MB memory
- 10GB storage
- 20GB/month data transfer
- Xen
Domain has been registered for less than a month by someone in Kansas. Servers are in Frankfurt, Germany.
Via this offer from WHT. Enotch Networks, part of NY based Enotch Technologies, has now introduced a few cheap OpenVZ based virtual servers. Starting from $5.95/month you get
- 512MB guaranteed/1024MB burstable memory
- 20GB storage
- 2000GB/month data transfer
- OpenVZ
Servers are in New York. Very cheap (Cogent) traffic. The cheapest plan is actually not listed on their plan page, but once you head down to the cart you’ll see it there.