Comments on: Virpus – $7 512MB OpenVZ VPS

By: Tucker Lee

Tucker Lee — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 05:23:20 +0000

I had 28 servers with them, all worked perfectly. I now have a dedicated (another company) and I only use 1 server from them, and it still works wonder. Been a customer since January. I give them an A+, 10/10, etc…

By: terrible-hosting

terrible-hosting — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 22:13:59 +0000

Virpus Networks wrote:

Hello,

This is very odd. I have not seen or heard of such performance. Have you opened a ticket?

your suprised how when on other sites all your services get terrible terrible reviews by many people :)

By: Albi M.

Albi M. — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:31:49 +0000

Signed up yesterday, waiting for my VPS to be created. So far support had been good and e-mailed me when there was an issue with a delivery concerning some hardware and told me to wait 1 day or get a refund – don’t mind waiting 1 day, but I’m a little concerned with what Francesco just wrote as I am thinking of opening a small Ubuntu download centre; hope it turns out to be relatively fast!

By: Virpus Networks

Virpus Networks — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:29:18 +0000

Hello,

This is very odd. I have not seen or heard of such performance. Have you opened a ticket?

By: Francesco

Francesco — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:09:06 +0000

I signed up for the $7 package a few days ago, it took a little over the 24hrs to set up.
I wanted to give it a try, basically fooled by the shiny unmetered feature advertised, since I wanted to use it as a small streaming video server. The box processing power itself isn’t exactly Usain Bolt speed and it took ages just to perform a yum update, but what the hell, it’s there for just 7 filthy dollars, I wasn’t expecting too much.

Then I attempted to stream something out, and I realized that the 5MB uplink was shared with at least another 5 million people.

After that I tried to wget a test file in the apache home and download it from my local machine. Top speed 14.5 Kb/s (approx. a 120Kbit bandwidth).

I’m now going to their control panel and cancel everything. I don’t think I’ll try ‘unmetered’ plans anymore.

By: Allen

Allen — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:10:34 +0000

Hmmm.. I tried this host. So far, bad experience.

The support is pretty fast and good, I would say. My guess is because its under “fully managed” for 1 month. They replied in within 30 minutes. However, to term the support as fully managed. It is overrated.

Its web control panel, VSXPathway, has given me quite a bit of headache. Every time, I tried to reinstall the OS, the vps will go down and never came back up. I need to get the support to help me turn it back on.

Therefore I decided to escalate the problem to the support of unable to reinstall the OS/reformat the vps. The support decides to forward the ticket to their admin instead. My assumption? This shows how much limited of service, the support is.

Furthermore, it has been 4 days (2 weekends, 2 business days) the issue has been brought forward. Till today, there is no further information about it. Again my guess? Maybe the admin is too busy and left out the ticket.

I have decided not to press on the matter and will wait out and see. But my first impression of virpus? It may be too good to be true afterall.

By: Kenneth Odem

Kenneth Odem — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:46:13 +0000

Midcolo.com is actually a colocation brand that Virpus is establishing, but not fully launched. Virpus is leasing colocation space with Wholesale Internet in Kansas City, MO.

By: innya

innya — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:31:23 +0000

Domain name MidColo.com is owned by virpus. So, which data center are they actually colocated their servers?

By: Kenneth Odem

Kenneth Odem — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 05:33:23 +0000

Thanks Nicholas.

By: Nicholas Orr

Nicholas Orr — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 05:28:20 +0000

Here you go Ken

Ping stats
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 216.295/219.937/222.828/2.339 ms

http://gist.github.com/270036 (details here and 2 other vps hosts I have)

By: Kenneth Odem

Kenneth Odem — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 05:16:29 +0000

Nicholas,

Great to hear! I appreciate your comments! Also, out of curiosity, what are your response times like from your location to our network?

Thanks,

Ken

By: Nicholas Orr

Nicholas Orr — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 05:04:35 +0000

I’ve singed up and my CenOS vps is up and running.

In the process of installing everything.
The control panel, vs x pathway is pretty neat, first time I’ve seen this one.
I like the inbuilt firewall stuff, very handy.

Also response times from Sydney are nice a quick, frustrating as hell when ssh commands lag, zero lag here :)

By: lainme

lainme — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 05:01:22 +0000

Sounds good. One month fully management will be very useful for newbies.

By: Nicholas Orr

Nicholas Orr — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:54:43 +0000

This is an ideal plan to setup a PowerDNS nameserver on – I’m currently using SliceHost & VR.org.

Will look into this :)

By: LowEndAdmin

LowEndAdmin — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:48:22 +0000

Kenneth — thanks for the comment. Can’t blame me for being a bit sus on offers “too good to be true” but all the best with this promotion :)

By: Kenneth Odem

Kenneth Odem — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:30:22 +0000

I am glad that our offer got the attention of this website. I just wanted to comment and say that none of our nodes are oversold, nor our network (In fact, we just ordered an additional 1Gbps dedicated line for expansion). There is no reason for us to being that we have many resources available to us, and would just like to pass down our savings to our customers.

Anyway, should anyone have any questions about our offer, feel free to e-mail sales@myvirpus.com.

Kenneth Odem
Virpus Networks, Inc.