Comments on: BuildYourVPS – OpenVZ VPS from 75 Cents/Month

By: TOCICI

TOCICI — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:46:12 +0000

Thanks everyone for the positive and honest feedback. Our primary focus has always been to provide stable, fast, secure and predictable VPS hosting services, that are backed by prompt, transparent and friendly communications. I’m very happy to see our internal business processes & goals so accurately reflected regularly in feedback.

Our VPS offering is very much intended, marketed and managed as a DIY hosting solution. Our public support forums exist to enable peer-support…and we enjoy participating often as well. At this time, ~4% of all customers are signed-up in the forums, and I strongly encourage everyone to checkout our increasingly-active forums at http://forums.tocici.com

We are also very focused on guaranteeing cost-effective and prompt hands-on support. We provide DIY VPS customers with customized support services at no additional charge, although we’re the first to admit we triage all communications: any rare outage and performance issues are immediately addressed, then there’s support for our managed-services customers, then, it’s our DIY VPSes environments. This workflow guarantees the highest levels of competent and predictable services, and that we’ll continue to be around for years to come.

We’re also growing; adding team members, more equipment, higher-speed connections, and even more process automation and support resources. Stay tuned for some very exciting August 1st announcements! :-)

By: Neves

Neves — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 02:20:28 +0000

The same with me. The service is great, but the support is very very very slow.

By: michael

michael — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 01:41:54 +0000

just want to add. So far I’m satisfied with the service, despite the slow customer service respond. My only complaint is that it doesn’t have standard client area and doesn’t have any virtualization. Anyway, I recommend this service for these who just wanted to start using VPS. It’s pretty much affordable and I would use the service again in future.

By: michael

michael — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 14:32:59 +0000

update: just upgraded my package with 256 mb, with extra $2, upgrade is possible if you ordered a new VPS package and your old order will be refunded, though unfortunately I havent received my refund even after 24 hours.

By: michael

michael — Sun, 02 May 2010 04:29:17 +0000

just ordered vps for $3, I want to test the performance before I take bigger capacity.

By: TOCICI

TOCICI — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 04:19:09 +0000

@Hendra & @Chuck Awesome…and a couple of us were just joking about the “slow” weekend; one of the only things we were not yet monitoring (complete email flows from *outside* the systems). The issue has been resolved, and this has been bumped up on the priority list for implementation within our monitoring system. We’re also working through a few pending orders (did I yet point out that we’re hiring another SysAdmin) :-)

By: Hendra Herviawan

Hendra Herviawan — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 02:15:59 +0000

i had sigup for buildyourvps.com order $1.5 vps, 18 april 2010 at 6.00 am (GMT+7). but until today i never get single email from them. when i am open ticket at “support@tocici.com” the email bouncing with error :

This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.

A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed

i hope buildyourvps.com had recive my order and process it.

By: Chuck Findlay

Chuck Findlay — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 19:33:22 +0000

Good friendly support, and haven’t had a problem with speed here. Slight billing mishap, but this was quickly corrected.

Though, they appear to be having an issue with their support email the past few days.

—
This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.

A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:

pipe to |/opt/rt3/bin/rt-mailgate –queue “support” –action correspond –url http://rt.tocici.com/
generated by support@rt.tocici.com
local delivery failed: retry timeout exceeded
—

Happened when I contacted them requesting a reboot for my VPS (I reinstalled openssh on my shared IP plan, but forgot to restart it after killing dropbear. Oops!)

By: TOCICI

TOCICI — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 15:26:30 +0000

@michael Yes, file/image hosting is alright – as long as the data itself does not violate our terms of service (ie: no warez or porn). We strongly you encourage you to perform your own bandwidth tests, and to not rely on subjective offhand comments by others. For most accounts, we guarantee 1Mbit/sec to our backhauls, with bursts up to 10Mbit/sec. While our default 1Mbit/10Mbit CIR/Burst works very well for ~90% of our business customers, we do have the capacity to accommodate other provisions; please contact us via sales@tocici.com to discuss your specific goals.

We have 10MB and 100MB test files linked from our About Us page at http://www.tocici.com/aboutus.html please do your own tests and draw your own conclusions. Feel free to contact us with specific questions.

My offhand tests this morning:
With curl from our primary nameserver to the webserver, sitting on the same LAN:
~$ curl http://www.tocici.com/100MB.zip > /dev/null
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 97.6M 100 97.6M 0 0 60.8M 0 0:00:01 0:00:01 –:–:– 64.2M

With curl from my desktop computer:
~$ curl http://www.tocici.com/100MB.zip > /dev/null
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 97.6M 100 97.6M 0 0 860k 0 0:01:56 0:01:56 –:–:– 994k

With curl from our secondary nameserver (yep, our webserver is in Portland Oregon and the secondary nameserver is in the New York area):
~$ curl http://www.tocici.com/100MB.zip > /dev/null
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 97.6M 100 97.6M 0 0 931k 0 0:01:47 0:01:47 –:–:– 990k

By: Neves

Neves — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 10:32:51 +0000

Michael, according to my tests, the bandwidth performance is very slow, even for a single site.
If that is not a problem for you, go ahead.

By: michael

michael — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 03:10:48 +0000

hi there, I’m interested to get this vps. I’m actually looking for vps to be used as external file/image hosting for my website, it’s not really high traffic, but could we use such tiny vps as image and file hosting?

By: TOCICI

TOCICI — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:25:26 +0000

@ksx4system – your VPS was setup in the morning of the 16th, please check your email for that setup info.

@ALL – with a sharply-increased influx of new customers, we’ve been a bit short-staffed these past few weeks (yay for an upturn in the economy!). Our long-term solution is nearly production-ready; currently putting the finishing touches on a fully-automated VPS build engine, so that future VPS setups will occur within moments of your order.

By: ksx4system

ksx4system — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:20:19 +0000

It’s about 28hrs from payment and I still haven’t got access to my VPS, it was not created. Of course it’s 16Mb one with shared IP ;) it’s going to be pure fun if they create it!

By: Tucker Lee

Tucker Lee — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:02:02 +0000

This was kinda lame. Couldn’t execute ANY command. I’ll pass and stick with my slightly more expensive VPS’s.

By: TOCICI

TOCICI — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 17:22:38 +0000

Thanks everyone for the support and suggestions. To update; many of the above ideas have been suggested internally for a few months, some have been implemented already, while others were already on the implementation schedule; in the final steps of testing/staging now. We’ll be pushing some exciting production-ready updates out in the next few days.

By: Neves

Neves — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:32:24 +0000

to Tocici: A good configuration for a 16/32MB vps would be dropbear as ssh server, dash as the default shell and no other service started by default, like cron or klogd or other log.
Here my memory usage:
total used free
16384 2980 13404

Does ruby use more memory then python? I can run python on the vps above, but ruby gives malloc errors when I try to require ‘rubygems’

By: Lao Dze

Lao Dze — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:52:29 +0000

also want to say that it is interesting vps, which will be a small price to 1 $, even with shared IP. is very amusing to raise the level of development of the mind. And if possible on such a configuration, make a blog, or what some sites, or service DNS. I think if the price to 1 $, it will be all very interesting. Also highly recommended, and will not write until a support, set the configuration of 16mb, the control panel to start, stop, restart, reinstall, and for precisely this configuration, provide a few preliminary settings: a Web server, DNS server, or other areas of application, what else can be.

By: Lao Dze

Lao Dze — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:51:50 +0000

to Tocici: I recommend you to organize a forum on your site, to discuss problems. For many this would be useful. also requested to organize a wiki.
I am interested for example, a description of different issues when dealing with such small vps. I have in stock, and other vps, where memory and 512mb and above, but they’ve never worried about the problem of saving memory, and if you, for example, drew on the Web server configuration 16mb, I think many of you would say thank you! For example, I tried to work nanoweb 2.2.9, this web server is built on php, and at low loads, in principle, I believe, should work on 16mb. In fact, these miniature vps very interesting, because there must think :)))) I have multiple vps, where resources abound for work sites, and I’ve never thought about saving, but it is just that, the plant and that excites the mind:)
I recommend you develop, the distribution system to the presence of a webserver and works on the 16mb, I think it will be interesting to many of the finished product.

By: TOCICI

TOCICI — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:05:04 +0000

While we’ve been able to do many things with a default of openssh & bash, a few of our customers have been experiencing difficulties with this configuration. We’re running tests on default builds with dropbear and dash now, and will likely be pushing them to staging soon.

As for working with a small VPS, upgrades are cheap; an extra $0.25/month for 32MB of burst RAM, or $0.75/month for 64MB.

By: Neves

Neves — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:02:50 +0000

Sure. It´s just for the challenge :)
The only things I found to run on a 75c vps are:
1) uptime monitoring node using python that is built in.
You could have many nodes for a very low price (5 vps nodes would cost only $3.75)
2) Other long running task like robots (page scraping, search, etc)
3) If you buy an IP address for $1, you can have a DNS node for only $1.75
4) Any other suggestion?