We covered RapidXen before but unfortunately their $5/month 64MB Xen VPS is no longer available. Instead they have updated their Xen VPS plans with a base VPS that starts with $7.99/month. However if you prepay for a year you’ll get 25% off (promotion ends on 13 Nov 2008), which brings the price down to around $5.62/month. You get:
- 128MB memory + 256MB swap
- 1 CPU core
- 5GB storage
- Unmetered data transfer
Their servers are in Fremont, CA with HE, or in Chicago, IL with Steadfast.
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I have one of the 64mb services, not sure if I’ll continue with it though.
All the VMs recently got wiped on the host I’m on, apparently an ex employee
Bit of an inconvenience to have to rebuild from scratch and my own backups.
Up until that point it has been a pretty decent service.
Posted 29 Oct 2008 at 12:41 pm ¶I’ve had a 64Mb account with RapidXen for a couple months now and have been very happy with their offering. I’m at their Fremont datacenter. At this point, I’m simply using the VPS as secondary DNS, but am so pleased, I’ll be getting one of their new 128Mb servers in Chicago and setting it up as a Centreon (http://www.centreon.com/) monitoring server. I presently have budget XEN VPS’s with VPSlink, RapidXEN, and VPSVillage. RapidXen is the best performer so far.
Regarding the VM’s getting wiped by an ex-employee, luckily my server wasn’t one that was touched. However, you should never keep data on a VPS without maintaining backups. Plus, after companies experience this type of internal security breach, they usually come back stronger and more secure than ever. I’m not dropping them.
Posted 06 Nov 2008 at 5:10 pm ¶Bad news. I miss the 64MB plan.
Posted 14 Nov 2008 at 2:45 pm ¶Actually, the base plan is $7.49/mo. (It is literally the old $5 plan with a 64MB upgraded added.)
We dropped the 64MB plan because there was a lot of overhead involving VPS running out of memory.
We will likely do another promotion soon to lock in a slightly cheaper price on both monthly and yearly pricing… we’re adding a bunch of new nodes around December 15th, and we will want to fill those up quickly. Stay tuned on that.
Posted 05 Dec 2008 at 12:32 pm ¶Post a Comment