December 31, 2011 @ 11:41 am 
Erik from FastVPS emailed me their “Boxing Week” promotion, which was also posted on WHT — with lots of replies there already which might be a good sign. By the way, Boxing Week “is a period of six days or more that starts with Boxing Day and ends with New Year’s Eve” so I might be a bit late posting their offer — we’ll see. It’s a 50% off recurring discount when you use promo code boxingweek. It applies to all their OpenVZ VPS plans except for the “FAST $12/YR”. So these are their low-end plans:
- FAST $12/YR
- 128MB guaranteed/256MB burstable memory
- 15GB storage
- 1TB/month data transfer on 100Mbps (upgraded from 500GB/month)
- $12/Year — Direct signup link
- FAST256MB
- 256MB guaranteed/512MB burstable memory
- 30GB storage
- 2TB/month data transfer on 100Mbps (upgraded from 1TB/month)
- $1.50/month — Direct signup link after discount
- FAST512MB
- 512MB guaranteed/1GB burstable memory
- 60GB storage
- 4TB/month data transfer on 100Mbps (upgraded from 2TB/month)
- $2.50/month — Direct signup link after discount
- FAST1024MB
- 1GB guaranteed/2GB burstable memory
- 110GB storage
- 6TB/month data transfer on 100Mbps (upgraded from 3TB/month)
- $6/month — Direct signup link after discount
Payment in either PayPal or AlertPay. Yes I know on the WHT post it says “cut by 50% our price on Semi-Annually and Annually Billing cycle”, however tried on monthly billing and the coupon code still works. Servers in Scranton PA which I presume would be with VolumeDrive (test IP: 199.168.142.37). Personally I think $2.50 for 512MB/1024MB would probably be the best value here. There is no need to commit for the whole year, (almost) everyone can afford to lose $2.50, and 512MB is plenty for many applications. They are using Xeon X3450′s with 16GB memory and 2TB SATA. IRC, Gameservers and Shoutcast are allowed, according to Erik.
Domain itself was registered by “Nicholas Eouani” in Florida in October 2011 which makes it merely 2 months old. However the registrant email address led me to a different person — “Emeric Olenga” of Montreal Canada, who was on WHT previously running a hosting company which he dumped 4 years ago. Anyway, I would still treat this as a new company and the plan is “too good to be true” at the moment. Some brave hearts would definitely give it a try, and we’ll see how things stabilise over the next couple of months.
Would I be shunned if I screamed ‘uptimeVPS’ at the top of my lungs?
Francisco
Why would anyone give these folks their infomation??
Esepcially credit card payment details and adress’s.
I already promised myself never to buy any hosting services from scranton.
Looking at the domain they seem to be colombian..
Fancy to be a Colombian as well? Here is your chance…
I know but I don’t understand why a company would use .co instead of .net/.com or their local tld.
.CO is quite popular and it’s pushed like the “new .COM” by registrars.
The main advantage of .co is that, like a lot of ccTLDs, there are pronounceable domains available.
The registrars are pushing it because they want everyone who owns a .com to buy the .co to match (hooray, more money).
Probably o.co started this crap. Would not surprise me one bit.
lol,
OMG… “too good to be true” is an understatement here
*shrug* Not much to lose on a monthly offer.
I signed up before it was listed here on LEB and I cannot recommand FastVPS; Surprise surpirse, their one and only node is overloaded.
I’m on node Alpha and I’m VMUser #66. Some other folks over at LET have signed up as well, and are also on node Alpha and are VMuser #77 or so.
At the moment, the node is being abused once again. My VPS has been slow the past 2 days.
Erik used to answer tickets very fast, but now I don’t hear anything from him anymore.
BTW they have a ‘no refunds’ policy, just so you know
When I saw their ads on WHT, the first thing I thought was uptimevps, hope it wasn’t that bad ;)
Worth a punt, I’m sat here bored so I went for one of the $2.50 ones.
cat /proc/user_beancountersVersion: 2.5
uid resource held maxheld barrier limit failcnt
178: kmemsize 1596989 3439990 2147483646 2147483646 0
lockedpages 0 427 999999 999999 0
privvmpages 3365 29537 262400 262400 0
shmpages 640 1312 131072 131072 0
dummy 0 0 0 0 0
numproc 13 31 999999 999999 0
physpages 1954 11843 0 2147483647 0
vmguarpages 0 0 131072 2147483647 0
oomguarpages 1954 11843 131072 2147483647 0
numtcpsock 2 12 7999992 7999992 0
numflock 2 10 999999 999999 0
numpty 1 3 500000 500000 0
numsiginfo 0 18 999999 999999 0
tcpsndbuf 41712 227832 214748160 396774400 0
tcprcvbuf 32768 1036904 214748160 396774400 0
othersockbuf 2328 22904 214748160 396774400 0
dgramrcvbuf 0 8472 214748160 396774400 0
numothersock 5 13 7999992 7999992 0
dcachesize 0 0 2147483646 2147483646 0
numfile 274 816 23999976 23999976 0
dummy 0 0 0 0 0
dummy 0 0 0 0 0
dummy 0 0 0 0 0
numiptent 24 24 999999 999999 0
cat /proc/cpuinfoprocessor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 30
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X3450 @ 2.67GHz
stepping : 5
cpu MHz : 2660.062
cache size : 8192 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 8
core id : 0
cpu cores : 4
apicid : 0
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 11
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc ida nonstop_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt lahf_lm
bogomips : 5320.12
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: [8]
two of the above, out of 4 cores/8 threads.
dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 18.7391 s, 57.3 MB/s
wget http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test -O /dev/null
--- ... ---
2011-12-31 18:23:21 (9.97 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]
========================================================================
BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 5.1.3)
System: fastvps: GNU/Linux
OS: GNU/Linux -- 2.6.32-274.7.1.el5.028stab095.1 -- #1 SMP Mon Oct 24 20:49:24 MSD 2011
Machine: i686 (unknown)
Language: en_US.utf8 (charmap="ANSI_X3.4-1968", collate="ANSI_X3.4-1968")
CPU 0: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X3450 @ 2.67GHz (5320.1 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization
CPU 1: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X3450 @ 2.67GHz (5319.9 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization
19:02:12 up 48 min, 2 users, load average: 0.43, 0.15, 0.05; runlevel 2
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Benchmark Run: Sat Dec 31 2011 19:02:13 - 19:33:54
2 CPUs in system; running 1 parallel copy of tests
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 12970160.2 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Double-Precision Whetstone 2690.5 MWIPS (9.8 s, 7 samples)
Execl Throughput 4279.1 lps (29.6 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 464043.6 KBps (30.1 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 135149.6 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 1170015.9 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Pipe Throughput 820122.5 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Pipe-based Context Switching 183086.2 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Process Creation 12387.5 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 2746.2 lpm (60.1 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 594.6 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples)
System Call Overhead 668591.2 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
System Benchmarks Index Values BASELINE RESULT INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 12970160.2 1111.4
Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 2690.5 489.2
Execl Throughput 43.0 4279.1 995.1
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 3960.0 464043.6 1171.8
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1655.0 135149.6 816.6
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 5800.0 1170015.9 2017.3
Pipe Throughput 12440.0 820122.5 659.3
Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 183086.2 457.7
Process Creation 126.0 12387.5 983.1
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 2746.2 647.7
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 594.6 991.1
System Call Overhead 15000.0 668591.2 445.7
========
System Benchmarks Index Score 817.2
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Benchmark Run: Sat Dec 31 2011 19:33:55 - 20:05:00
2 CPUs in system; running 2 parallel copies of tests
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 23935085.7 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Double-Precision Whetstone 5233.3 MWIPS (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Execl Throughput 7554.7 lps (29.4 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 341999.8 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 95911.3 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 952417.8 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Pipe Throughput 1584406.0 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Pipe-based Context Switching 505001.9 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Process Creation 21762.2 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 4847.9 lpm (60.1 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 684.9 lpm (60.1 s, 2 samples)
System Call Overhead 1231139.1 lps (10.1 s, 7 samples)
System Benchmarks Index Values BASELINE RESULT INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 23935085.7 2051.0
Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 5233.3 951.5
Execl Throughput 43.0 7554.7 1756.9
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 3960.0 341999.8 863.6
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1655.0 95911.3 579.5
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 5800.0 952417.8 1642.1
Pipe Throughput 12440.0 1584406.0 1273.6
Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 505001.9 1262.5
Process Creation 126.0 21762.2 1727.2
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 4847.9 1143.4
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 684.9 1141.5
System Call Overhead 15000.0 1231139.1 820.8
========
System Benchmarks Index Score 1193.9
Interesting, well, for the price the performance is.. meh :P
But as some people says… again:
Too good to be true.
and
UptimeVPS!!!!
Actually, Scranton + .co TLD + supercheap deal makes me think of IPAP, but YMMV, obviously.
Like Ginger, I try to avoid anything in Scranton like the plague.
What’s so bad about Scranton? (Newbie here)…
Both Volumedrive and Burst are kinda shitty.
No tech support at VD, everything else is okay.
Burst is more than kind of shitty, I just recently had a long ordeal where they charged me for a dedicated server after cancellation. They tried to charge half of the cost of the server due to them having to “investigate” my claim lol. My bank blew them out of the water.
There are two kinds of Burst customers: Those who have horror stories to tell, and those who will eventually have horror stories to tell…
Scranton makes me think of someone else not Uptime. I won’t mention any names just causes grief but I avoid them like the black plague. IDC if the data center is a different one then this other company uses or has, I still will not take the chance.
Uptime was likely using volumedrive as well though.
Francisco
UptimeVPS us2 node was on VolumeDrive (E3-1230). Now I have my own dedicated server at VolumeDrive, and interestingly my IPs are on the same subnet of the one I got from UptimeVPS. I tried to get details about “Ken” from VD, but as always they remained silent, just like their tech support (at VolumeDrive basically you have no support and you are on your own LOL).
You know that other company with capital letters in their name. ALL CAPITAL LETTERS. When I hear Scranton, PA it reminds me of them and I tend to go the other way.
So I decided to throw away a few bucks and try it out.
Ordered on 12/31 8pm PST and I got this email on 1/1 12pm.
Finally got my box at 5pm PST 1/2.
At first I couldn’t log in through ssh. Went to serial console and I got my shell, but I couldn’t connect to various sites. 15 mins later it worked, but when I connected through ssh it was a different key? Eh..
I was in the mood for throwing away some money, so I ordered the 512/1024 plan and was setup automatically. I’m on the Beta node.
I have full 100Mbps speed, a mid-range I/O and access to two non-throttled cores of an L5420.
I’m not complaining for my $2,50 ;)
Is it still at VolumeDrive?
Looks like they’re indeed planning something, just received this mail 30min ago:
Dear Customer,
Thank you for your patience and your support, we have almost finished the installation of new nodes servers.
following a decision of the management your VPS will be transferred to a new node server.
We have no choice but to take this decision because our current supplier is not able to provide the necessary support to guarantee a quality service.
Support will be back after the completion of the migration because all teams are assigned to it for this to be completed as quickly as possible.
You will be glad of the new servers.
thank you
Nicholas C
FASTVPS.co
So I’m being transferred to a new node, and they complain about the “current supplier”. Does that mean the new node won’t be VolumeDrive, I wonder?
They sent me the same email. I got one vps two days ago, and still waiting…
New node is in Miami. It seems ok so far..
I wonder what Datacenter they are switching to.. On the bottom of their site it says: “Softlayer”. Could this be true?
Never.
Buy FAST 128Ram vps, Not “Instant Setup”, This website write “Instant Setup”..
…
Mine was setup instantly, but right now they’re setting up new nodes so I guess it isn’t instant at the moment.
If it is not instant, even for a few days, those words should be removed from their site.
They say 24/7 support which is also bollicks.
False advertising pops into mind….
Not really, I can advertise 24/7 support even if I never do offer support as long as there is at least somewhere for you to send me an email which is accessible 24/7. I’m aware of lots of people who use this “tactic”.
Also tickets are not answered
Mine was activated directly after opening a ticket mentioning bad reviews lol
I thought I was supposed to be getting moved to a new node, but if it’s happened then it hasn’t fixed the iowait problem. Massively overloaded nodes, do anything involving disk writes/reads and the whole thing grinds to a halt.
My VPS just got setup again. It’s in Miami now.
It has become worse after the move. I’m opening a ticket.
Looks like they use Cogent..
ipap spelling mistakes lol
Sigh, looks rather nasty here..
Picked up a cheap $2.50 one and it’s still awaiting setup. Ticket was never answered.
Shall i go with them guys?
Since my VPS was setup with these guy’s, which should be 24 hours + now, the VPS has not went down and the node seems to be slower now after loading the others on this Miami node. Looks like they are cramming all of us on this 16GB Ram Node in Miami, FL. Just wait till someone abuses the node, we will all go down but I hope this won’t happen. But hey, this is dirt cheap!
Cheap, and useless?
Some real stability problems…
Now it seems that we do not have 2 cores at 3Ghz, but 2 cores at 750Mhz each:
Think yourself lucky, I have 2x665mhz. Like CPU is the problem on these nodes…
Haha! While I was typing that:
Broadcast message from root@fastvps (Tue Jan 10 21:36:30 2012):The system is going down for system halt NOW!
There was, of course, no prior warning of the node reboot. Good to see that the operation that was underway, that has taken the last hour+ because of the shit IO on these nodes, has just been trashed by their no-warning reboot.
These guys are morons, avoid.
Fastvps, I think not!!
According to the email I just received they’re migrating everyone to some other server with new IPs.
Here’s the most interesting part:
I wonder why they’re not just migrating the containers across…
It’s like BlazeVPS all over again. :)
Probably not enough bandwidth spare on the dedicated.
Francisco
To no surprise, there were some slowdowns and abusers leading to downtime. Been decently stable for a few days until last night, followed by a reboot.
I got this VPS to see if a light seedbox was right for me, and it’s not worth the hassle, along with the instability. I’m going to just cancel pre-migration.
Now my VPS is on the news node (Node1)
The new node seems to work faster than the previously even if we have only 2 x 773Mhz shared CPU :)
I hope it will stay like that :D
Is it possible to get a box setup with iptables and natting by tomorrow?
I am trying to get setup to use for site backups as soon as possible.
Thanks!
Nathan
You can’t be serious.. asking this few providers over third party LEB blog. What about to use proper contact site?
We provide instant setup.
I can’t believe he wants to shut down, I need LEB!
There is a better venue for you to post your question. Moreover LowEndBox is NOT shutting down. I am taking an exit and LowEndBox is a lot more than just me.
LowEndBox is you! Its your blog :P It wont be the same regardless of who takes over.
Isn’t that the truth, the commentary is what brought me here (Lol…) Any who, found a deal through this link that saved me last night, why I love this place!
Wtf?
Wrong post… heh
wow, I understand from where come the majority of our new customers now :)
Our servers are powerful and stable, a high-speed network and a serious supplier. Here, the result, since we moved to Kansas City, all of our customers are happy :).
@Francisco, we have spent thousands of $ on servers just this month and we have the bandwidth required to transfer our customers’s data. But to avoid that data are corrupt, we prefer to let our customers address this aspect.
Anyone with a CPU problem, please send us a email to support and we will fix that asap.
Erik A.
FASTVPS.co
So, anyone with a FastVPS box have an update on this? :P
At the end, is in Scranton? Or Kansas? lol
NetRange: 173.208.128.0 – 173.208.255.255
CIDR: 173.208.128.0/17
OriginAS: AS32097
NetName: WII-OAK-2
NetHandle: NET-173-208-128-0-1
Parent: NET-173-0-0-0-0
NetType: Direct Allocation
Comment: http://www.wholesaleinternet.com
RegDate: 2009-12-17
Updated: 2009-12-17
Ref: http://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-173-208-128-0-1
OrgName: WholeSale Internet, Inc.
OrgId: WHOLE-125
Address: 324 E. 11th St.
Address: Suite 1000
City: Kansas City
StateProv: MO
PostalCode: 64106
Country: US
RegDate: 2003-09-24
Updated: 2009-06-03
Comment: http://www.wholesaleinternet.net
Ref: http://whois.arin.net/rest/org/WHOLE-125
Stay away… Stay very far away. Slow support, and server go down on average 2-3 times weekly. Node2
Yeah, I definitely couldn’t recommend them. Rebooting the node more or less every other day, downtime, all sorts. Pain in the ass. I don’t expect much in the way of performance for $2.50 but I DO expect the damn thing to be up.
I’m sorry for the problem you had on Node2 server… we are not happy too.
We work hard to have the best servers and services for you…
This morning, we had a kernel crash and lately, we had a problem with a hard drive failure that make the server go down for more that 12 hours (the time we used to transfer our customers data from the old hard drive to the new). We are working with the datacenter to fix the problem on this server.
omg I found my vps rebooted every time. Regular downtimes. I dont care about performance but I need my server 24/7 available!
Jesus christ…
Dear customers,Your vps is down because the datacenter (datashack.net) null routed our ips range so your vps is down.
This is the email we got:
############
The following ranges have been null routed for being target of attack:
63.141.234.160/27
173.208.232.128/25
We were unable to narrow the attack down to a single target IP.
-- Best regards, Rebecca ############### We are waiting after them to remove the null route on our ips. Erik A Sincerely
then
If they don fix the problem in Next hour, we Will Begin looking for a new datacenter.Erik A
Sincerely
Shoddy as hell.
If they were able to narrow it down to those two subnets, why couldn’t they narrow it down to a single IP? The first narrowing would tell you the IP right away, assuming they just tcpdump’d/flowed the traffic.
please contact datashack.net and ask them this question…
they never gave us a reply to this question.
is this work fine?i want to try
hey please reply i send you a email that my vps status is offline,what should i do
MY vps too is offline ,bought and cant do anything support says its fixed but its not!
go to hell ,i look up into my control panel i see NO SERVER looks like you cheat me for only 2.99usd
He probably didn’t pay the bill for the server, that’s why it’s offline, and trying to raise cash to pay for the server, but he has nothing to sell now, so people, forget it, nothing will be back, done, pump and run again.
Sucks! My VPS is down/offline for two days till now!
My VPS was down for hours…I eventually just tried starting it again in SolusVM to see what happened and it booted. Who knows why it was shut down but it might be worth checking.
Mine was down around 5pm PST Feb-16. Noticed that it was off this morning as well and powered it on just fine. Deleted everything, powered down, and am cancelling my account.
How to explain …. Buy the VPS, configure, start and soil. Too bad. Change data center by God.
Thanks lowendbox for the recommendation! I went to their site and purchased the $1/month VPS :)
It’s been 2+ weeks now and I could be happier…Really realiable and fast VPS for dirt cheap.
View my full review: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?p=7964840
its ok now my new vps has been release old vps are corrupt.you can email them now
offline again,i will not recommend this vps
After 1,5 months using it.
First 3 weeks changing VPS from one server to another.
Two weeks semi-stable,
3 days with it semidown due ddos from/to vps in same machine
And 2 days without vps due HDD crash (of course loosing all of my data, backups is full customer responsibility)
And now with VPS offline again. I just decide that this VPS is fully unusable/unstable.