Via this WHT offer. FazeWire in that discussion thread has announced their August Budget VPS special giving 25% off their first month of service. However if you checked out their current promotion page, it is still July and you can get either 75% off first month OR 15% off recurring! That makes their Alpha [...]
InternetVPS – $6.29 128MB OpenVZ VPS
When I did some search on the net today, found that an old provider that I’ve covered last year, InternetVPS, has updated their budget “Baby A” VPS plan. It now has:
128MB memory
3GB storage
100GB/month data transfer
Basically double the memory and monthly transfer amount from over a year ago. The cost remains the same — $4.99/month… [...]
RAM Host – $2.99 64MB OpenVZ VPS
Thanks to Alex for spotting this new plan from RAM Host. The price is — $2.99/month! You do have to pay quarterly though, but it still seems to be pretty cheap for a low end box. The specification is quite basic as well:
64MB guaranteed/96MB burstable memory
10GB storage
50GB/month data transfer
OpenVZ + In house customised panel
Again, [...]
HostLatch – $5 256MB OpenVZ VPS
Via this WHT offer. HostLatch has a special offer that you must order here. For $5/month, you are getting this OpenVZ VPS on special.
256MB guaranteed/384MB burstable memory
15GB storage
100GB/month data transfer
OpenVZ
CentOS, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, OpenSUSE, Ubuntu
Servers are in either Seattle WA, or Dallas TX, and you need to specify during ordering. It is also limited [...]
Nixism – $5 128MB OpenVZ VPS
Via this WHT offer. Nixism — a 3 year old web hosting company (pretty good in this end of market) — is offering WHT visitors an OpenVZ VPS plan for only $5/month.
128MB guaranteed/256MB burstable memory
10GB storage
100GB/month data transfer
2 IP addresses
CentOS/Debian/Gentoo/Fedora Core/Ubuntu/OpenSUSE
Servers are in Los Angeles CA. You have to use the order link in [...]
Site Penguin – $4.99 128MB OpenVZ VPS
Via this WHT offer. Site Penguin, on a domain that has only been registered less than a week ago, is offering some low end VPS plans. It starts at $4.99, and this Starter OpenVZ container comes with:
128MB guarantee/256MB burstable memory
5GB storage
50GB/month data transfer
OpenVZ
Chicago servers.
Using a Low End VPS as SeedBox Hosting
Saw quite a few visitors coming from Whirlpool.net.au, an Australian community forum, from a post asking about seedbox hosting. Now, the term “seedbox” was foreign to me until a few months ago. According to this Wikipedia entry,
A seedbox is a private dedicated server used for the uploading and downloading of digital files. Seedboxes generally make [...]
BoxVPS – $3.75 256MB OpenVZ VPS
Via this WHT offer. More BoxVPS offers, whom have given us the $25/year VPS before which is actually cheaper than Buzz Servers’ $3/month. Anyway, it gets dealer this time with a 25% off promotion using coupon code 25off. Moreover they are giving WHT members (and LowEndBox readers I believe) double storage + double data [...]
BuzzServers – $3 256MB VPS
Update Dec 2009: Hostname has not been resolving since 28 Nov 2009. I am now marking this as DEAD.
Let’s see how low can the price go. Via this WHT offer. Buzz Servers has now introduced “The World’s First $3/Month VPS”. Yup you read it right — $3/month. $0.50 to cover the PayPal or credit [...]
DMEHosting – $5.95 256MB OpenVZ VPS
DMEHosting has recently updated their VPS offers, and their OpenVZ products are now listed under their Budget Linux VPS lines. For $5.95/month, you get:
256MB guaranteed/384MB burstable memory
20GB storage
700GB/month data transfer
Servers are in Denver CO. They are also doing instant provisioning.