March 13, 2010 @ 8:52 am 
4 days ago Jimmy from PhotonVPS emailed me about their latest Xen VPS packages with a reference to this offer on WHT, but the email was somehow buried inside my totally chaotic inbox. Oops. Anyway. They now have Xen packages “Warp .25″ for just $5.95/month.
- 128MB memory/256MB swap
- 2GB storage
- 150GB/month data transfer
- Xen
PhotonVPS has their servers in Los Angeles CA according to their network page. PhotonVPS was launched by Profuse Solutions last year, but the company itself that has been around since 1999. Somehow, probably due to their West Coast service, PhotonVPS seems to be very popular in Far East/South East Asia. The fact that they have full Chinese website shows who they have been targeting. I guess the fact that PhotonVPS staffs actually replying in Chinese to Chinese web hosting forums such as hostloc.com also helps.
Signed up already. LA servers. Big benchmark scores. Really good CPU for a LEB. Great service so far… only 2 things are not so good. Only 2GB of storage will make you cry, and there is no VPS control panel to start/stop/reload the server. You’ll have to create a support ticket, but they are quick regardless of the time apparently. Mine was at 2am PST, and they finished the reload by 3am PST.
I’m a member of hostloc.com. Photon is a very popular US VPS supplier for China.
The benchmark score of PhotonVPS is really amazing — around 270 with 128M memory. Normally you can only get a benchmark score around 60 with a Xen VPS having same amount of memory.
The panel is out for the majority of the nodes with a few remaining. Just open a ticket to see if your VPS is on a node that’s on SolusVM already.
@gomobi: do you have the benchmark scrore of PhotonVPS for 512MB VPS?
OpenVZ – BEAM1
BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 4.1-wht.2, 8 threads) INDEX VALUES TEST BASELINE RESULT INDEX Dhrystone 2 using register variables 376783.7 27683286.2 734.7 Double-Precision Whetstone 83.1 1033.0 124.3 Execl Throughput 188.3 19710.9 1046.8 File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 2672.0 473664.0 1772.7 File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1077.0 102737.0 953.9 File Read 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 15382.0 2618294.0 1702.2 Pipe-based Context Switching 15448.6 1347337.8 872.1 Pipe Throughput 111814.6 4583813.7 409.9 Process Creation 569.3 55117.5 968.2 Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 44.8 2647.1 590.9 System Call Overhead 114433.5 5247754.3 458.6 ========= FINAL SCORE 717.2just to let you know, I thing the guys from Proton are messing with users VPSs, denying to reinstate backup and instead trying to blame “hackers”. this poor guy lost everything, no logs, no backup, how is it possible?
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=390838.msg2704290;topicseen#new
How do you know? As been stated in the forums, the 1st thing a hacker would do is to cover his trace, i.e. removing logs, so how is it NOT possible? After all it is a unmanaged service so the user should be responsible for their own backups.