Via this WHT offer. VPSEU is an UK company that has its domain registered in December 2009 (with privacy protection, argh!) and has its servers in Frankfurt Germany (which I guess where “EU” in its domain name came from). Currently there is a 50% off recurring discount at the moment with coupon code MARCHPRO50. That brings its “Basic” package down to £3.75/month (USD $5.62).
- 256MB memory + 768MB burstable memory (for OpenVZ)
- 15GB storage
- 100GB/month data transfer
- OpenVZ or Xen + SolusVM
Good that Xen or OpenVZ of the same spec are at the same price.
Via this WHT offer. TheVPSNode — based in Australia from its WHOIS record and domain registered for more than 6 months now. However its current website is going through facelift so not much other info you can gather from it. Here is the package that they offer at $5.95/month:
- 512MB guaranteed/1024MB burstable memory
- 20GB storage
- 1000GB/month data transfer
- 2 IP addresses
- OpenVZ/vePortal
Okay. It does not really say where the servers are located. The website’s IP goes to WebNX in LA, but all its NS are in UK. However for $5.95 with that spec, readers of this blog should be immediately alerted with BURSTNET RESELLER in their head. Well. Good luck with reselling the service (provides there is any value-add), but I think it would be hard to compete against BurstNET themselves when the pricing and packages are exactly the same.
Via this WHT offer. VPSVille, the Canadian VPS provider that has been around since mid-2007, has 25% off life time discount at the moment for their OpenVZ VPS in all 4 locations (UK, Canada, LA and Dallas). Interestingly due to the concurrency conversion today, UK one is actually the cheapest. After the discount it comes down to £3.75/month ($5.85 USD). The specs are:
- 64MB guaranteed/128MB burstable memory
- 5GB storage
- 100GB/month data transfer
- OpenVZ
VPSVille uses their own custom control panel (which is a big plus in my book as it shows their competency over OpenVZ). They do have their DNS on the same box though, which might mean you can’t even mail them for support when their DNS is down (can’t believe there are still so many hosts doing it).
One question drmike asked here in the forums has drawn my attention, because in fact I am also facing the same situation. What do you do with empty VPS?
I know virtual servers at the price listed on LowEndBox can sometimes lead to impulse buys. Hey it is cheap! I have this great project coming up and it ought to be on its own server! The next thing you know, I am $6-$7 poorer but am a proud owner of a shining new low end VPS. Except a few weeks down the track that “great project” did not turn out to be too great.
So I am left with a some virtual servers lying around doing nothing. Sometimes they can lie around for a couple months because I prepaid them for up to a year. D’oh. Assuming that you are not interested in using it as a seed box, but would like to use it for something interesting, or useful, or something with minimal effort but generate enough revenue to recoup the cost.
Any good idea?
Thanks to Joe from QuickWeb, the New Zealand based web hosting company, for offering LowEndBox readers this exclusive offer. With coupon code lowenddeal, for $4.95/month, you get:
- 256MB guaranteed/384MB burstable memory
- 12GB storage
- 120GB/month data transfer
- OpenVZ/SolusVM
2 locations to choose from –
For more offers (include $6.95/month Xen VPS in US West Coast), please see this WHT offer page. Use code lowenddeal when you put in the offer though to get the extra discount.
Via this WHT offer. Zabogo is part of the Graxis Inc company, and can probably be called the re-incarnated version of BuzzServers when BuzzServers got sold to Graxis back in July last year. They have a new promotion at the moment offering $1 off their cheapest VPS plans using coupon code 1DOLLAR. That brings the price down to $4.95/month with the following spec:
- 256MB guaranteed/512MB burstable memory
- 2GB storage
- 50GB/month data transfer
- OpenVZ
From the test IP it appears to be in ChicagoDallas. While the domain was only registered in July last year, as said before that it is part of a larger company that has quite a few web hosting business under its wing. Good amount of memory for running sites with even Apache — but you might soon find yourself limited by the amount of disk space & monthly data transfer limit.
Via this WHT offer. Crucial Paradigm is an Australian web hosting company that does both Australia (which was featured here before) and Dallas-based Xen VPS. With their latest promo-code LVPS20L, you can get their new VPS plan for $6.40/month.
- 128MB memory
- 10GB storage
- 150GB/month data transfer
- Xen
There is also additional discount for prepays (15% off for annual payment for example). From their VPS plan page, it appears that they are still using HyperVM so it might be a concern for some people here. Otherwise Crucial Paradigm is an established shop with good reputation. Only 64bit kernels/userland are offered so might use more memory than 32bit.
Via this WHT offer. It has been quite a while since our last review of Up2vps. They are now almost 6 months old. Offering exactly the same plan, but now with 15% recurring discount using the promo code 15%. You get
- 128MB guaranteed/256MB burstable memory
- 6GB storage
- 300GB/month data transfer
- OpenVZ/SolusVM
I think the big changed they made since last time was converting HyperVM to SolusVM (like many others in the industry). Their website migrated a lot since last time I visited it, from WebNX to VolumeDrive to BurstNET/HostNOC. They do have the refund of $2/2 hours of downtime though.
Via this WHT offer. Sweden Dedicated is a hosting company in — you guess it — Sweden! From its about page it looks like their HQ is situated in someone’s house (and let’s hope it’s not in the car port). They do have some cheap virtual servers to offer though. At 15 Euro/3 Month (~$6.79/month) you can order them with this link.
- 128MB memory
- 4GB storage
- 50GB/month data transfer
- Xen or VMware
Servers are in Stockholm in Sweden. On the WHT offer it explicitly said “… are perfect for torrenttrackers and seedboxes” so I guess that will also be the kind of customers they attract. Domain has been created for more than a year now, although it looks like the owner previously run Xema.nl which has been around a bit longer. Website was hosted on the same server as both DNS.
Via this WHT offer. Here we finally have a low end VPS offer that is not of our regular boring Xen, OpenVZ or even FreeBSD offers. Some people prefer graphical user interface that you use this cursor positioning device called “mouse” to operate, and Atelra is providing low end solutions for all you Windows lovers! With current 20% off promotion, you can get a low end Windows VPS for $3.96/month. However I think to run a GUI environment you might need a bit more memory, so the next step up at $6.36/month it will probably good enough for the job:
- 256MB memory
- 5GB storage + 2GB backup
- 250GB/month data transfer
- Windows 2003 Server
Atelra.com has been registered for almost 5 years however I am not sure how recent have they ventured into web hosting, espeicially when it was actually founded in 2008 according to this profile on eLance. Website is hosted with 1and1 so I presume the VPS will be in the same location in Lenexa KS.