Adam from NordicVPS emailed me about their special offer for the LowEndBox readers. While you can get their Xen VPS with 128MB for $7/month, they are now offering 50% recurring discount on their Xen 256 package. Normally at $12/month — it is now $6/month with promo code LOWENDBOX. You get
- 256MB memory
- 10GB storage
- 250GB/month data transfer
- Xen/SolusVM
You can choose either San Jose, CA in US (good for US, Asia and Oceania users), or Falkenstein in Germany (good for European users).
NordicVPS itself is based in Denmark, whom have been providing virtual servers since 2008. The domain itself is registered in March 2009.
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Admin, any idea which datacenter their San Jose VPS located?
Germany is with Hetzner. Not sure about San Jose. Let me shoot Adam an email…
@king: Take2Hosting DC in San Jose
Ordered VPS in Germany. Very fast setup and rather fast server
thanks for offer
@alexey
Thanks & Welcome to NordicVPS :)
I tried to sign up the San Jose service with the promotion code and I do see monthly charge after discount becomes $6. But after click “Complete Order” and entering the paypal page, the charge becomes $11.20.
@Hui
Hi, we do prorate our bills for the small packages XEN128 and XEN256. If you signed up on any day, other than the first day of the month, your first bill is automatically prorated to reflect that.
@Everybody
Please don’t hesitate to open a support ticket if you have any further questions or/and suggestions :)
I was interested in NordicVPS offer, but unfortunately the only e-payment method they offer is 2checkout. I hope they could offer payments through LibertyReserve or WebMoney.
Is there a burst memory limits?
@Francesco: Sorry, We do not accept LibertyReserve or WebMoney but we accept Paypal via 2Checkout :)
@NordicVPS-Adam: How about less posting and more activating?
@AC
All VPS are set-up instantly after payment is received and you did not trigger and Fraud alerts :)
Btw. we do now support Ubuntu 10.04 both in 32bit and 64bit version on our XEN VPS’s
Unix Benchmark results from Nordic VPS in Hetzner, Germany
sh: 3dinfo: not found # # # # # # # ##### ###### # # #### # # # # ## # # # # # # # ## # # # # # # # # # # # ## ##### ##### # # # # ###### # # # # # # ## # # # # # # # # # # # # ## # # # # # # # ## # # # # #### # # # # # ##### ###### # # #### # # Version 5.1.2 Based on the Byte Magazine Unix Benchmark Multi-CPU version Version 5 revisions by Ian Smith, Sunnyvale, CA, USA December 22, 2007 johantheghost at yahoo period com 1 x Dhrystone 2 using register variables 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 x Double-Precision Whetstone 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 x Execl Throughput 1 2 3 1 x File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 1 2 3 1 x File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1 2 3 1 x File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 1 2 3 1 x Pipe Throughput 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 x Pipe-based Context Switching 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 x Process Creation 1 2 3 1 x System Call Overhead 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 x Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 1 2 3 1 x Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 1 2 3 ======================================================================== BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 5.1.2) System: fra.li-node.com: GNU/Linux OS: GNU/Linux -- 2.6.32-305-ec2 -- #9-Ubuntu SMP Thu Apr 15 04:14:01 UTC 2010 Machine: i686 (unknown) Language: en_US.utf8 (charmap="UTF-8", collate="UTF-8") CPU 0: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz (5351.4 bogomips) Hyper-Threading, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT 21:20:07 up 17:00, 2 users, load average: 0.42, 0.23, 0.19; runlevel 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Benchmark Run: Fri Jul 23 2010 21:20:07 - 21:48:49 1 CPU in system; running 1 parallel copy of tests Dhrystone 2 using register variables 14219975.8 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Double-Precision Whetstone 2531.0 MWIPS (10.2 s, 7 samples) Execl Throughput 1814.0 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples) File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 402343.6 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples) File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 121184.7 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples) File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 1203280.3 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples) Pipe Throughput 713357.0 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Pipe-based Context Switching 84853.7 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Process Creation 3918.4 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples) Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 2756.7 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples) Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 361.2 lpm (60.1 s, 2 samples) System Call Overhead 629430.4 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) System Benchmarks Index Values BASELINE RESULT INDEX Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 14219975.8 1218.5 Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 2531.0 460.2 Execl Throughput 43.0 1814.0 421.9 File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 3960.0 402343.6 1016.0 File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1655.0 121184.7 732.2 File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 5800.0 1203280.3 2074.6 Pipe Throughput 12440.0 713357.0 573.4 Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 84853.7 212.1 Process Creation 126.0 3918.4 311.0 Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 2756.7 650.2 Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 361.2 602.0 System Call Overhead 15000.0 629430.4 419.6 ======== System Benchmarks Index Score 602.1 root@fra:~/unixbench-5.1.2#This is all messed up, anyway, to see Benchmark results, I have posted them on my blog
http://www.asim.pk/2010/07/23/nordicvps-benchmark/
NordicVPS…exelent VPS. Thanks for LOWENDBOX promo code
@Rara You welcome :)
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1024221
I have two VPS there. In past month i had about 40% uptime. But that is not uptime as expected, they crippled all VPSs on german nodes (they cant pay for servers so they go to few bigger). VPS’s work with one CPU Core at 800mhz because nodes are overcrowded. With that VPS u can’t do anything except for blog… Recently i moved customers to other server and wanted to use vps as seedbox (network is still good 1gbps), but when i do reinstall no vps can boot (but i can ping ip!?). Support don’t respond except for uniform messages like “we are moving VPS to other node”, “Moving failed, expect downtime”… So far they moved mu VPS THREE TIMES (ovz02, ovz03, vm03, vm09). Admin it is time for dead pool… They took our money and when bills came they are nowhere to be found… I lost 70$ with this b-e-e-p company…