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TheNYNOC – $3.95 Super Tiny VPS

Low End Virtual — Tags: , , — December 31, 2008 @ 12:45 pm

You thought their $5 512MB VPS was crazy, The New York NOC has done it again. Via this WHT offer, you can get this “Super Tiny VPS” for as much as $3.95/month. And from the spec it’s not tiny either.

256MB guaranteed memory
5GB storage
500GB/month data transfer
2 IP addresses
OpenVZ / HyperVM
CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSuse

Testing IP [...]

ConnectSwitch – £3.95 OpenVZ VPS

About — Tags: , , , — December 26, 2008 @ 11:58 am

ConnectSwitch, a UK based VPS hosting provider started in March 2008, has some pretty cheap HyperVM/OpenVZ based VPS to let. For £3.95/month (~USD$5.83 thanks to weaken GBP), you get:

128MB guaranteed / 256MB burstable memory
20GB storage
250GB/month data transfer

Two data centers to choose from — either Bluesquare, Maidenhead, United Kingdom or Avaya Databurg, Frankfurt, Germany. There’s [...]

XenVZ – 3.99 GBP Xen/OpenVZ VPS

Low End Virtual — Tags: , , , — December 18, 2008 @ 12:32 am

Thanks to the rising US Greenback (which is 1 GBP is around USD$1.55 at the moment according to Google Finance), some of the VPS across the Atlantic have actually become affordable! Via this offer at WHT, XenVZ in UK is having a special VPS offer at 3.99 GBP/month (around USD$6.18) — and free until [...]

RapidXen – 128MB Xen VPS $5.24/Month

Low End Virtual — Tags: , , , — December 17, 2008 @ 4:30 am

Thanks to thekreek posting in the forums. RapidXen is currently having Christmas sale on their Xen VPS, starting from $6.74/month (save 10%). If you prepay for 12 months, the price would drop to $62.92 (save 30%) — or equivalent to $5.24/month! You get:

128MB RAM
256MB swap
5GB storage space
1 IP address
Unmetered bandwidth (although you can’t abuse [...]

Added Forums to talk about Low End Stuff

About — Tags: , — December 15, 2008 @ 10:42 am

I am a bit surprised that there are actually 40-50 visitors to this small website, and many have emailed me the low end stuff that they have found. I think a good way to build the community (yes, due to financial crisis and imminent recession, there’s actually a community for running low-end servers) would be [...]

FiberLite – $5.95 OpenVZ VPS with 128MB

About — Tags: , , — December 6, 2008 @ 1:58 pm

Update April 2009: Site is not reachable. Another sinking boat… FAIL.Update October 2009: Website is now parked. End of tracking for me.
Via this WHT offer. FiberLite is a “small but professional” web hosting company that provides cheap VPS plans. For $5.95/month, you’ll get the following OpenVZ plans.

128MB guaranteed / 384MB burstable memory
8GB storage
60GB/month data [...]

TheNYNOC – $5 OpenVZ VPS with 512MB

Low End Virtual — Tags: , , — December 1, 2008 @ 12:08 pm

Thanks to Jerret for sending in this VPS deal at WHT. The New York NOC currently has a $5/month “Super VPS Plan” that comes with:

512MB burstable memory
10GB storage
1,000GB/month data transfer
2 IP addresses
HyperVM

Yup. 512MB burstable memory — it’s almost too high-end for me. 1TB of data transfer per month?! I might need to set up [...]