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ErrantWeb – $5.50/month 512MB OpenVZ VPS in Detroit

Chief — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:48:18 +0000

ErrantWeb has a 512mb OpenVZ “LEB Users Special” hosted in Metro-Detroit for $5.50/month. You can also grab a similar, slightly less resourced “LowEndBox Special” off LET for $4.50/month. ErrantWeb is a completely new provider, domain registered in January 2012. However Aldryic from BuyVM notes that he is happy with the services so far provided by ErrantWeb.

512MB of Ram
256MB of vSwap
25GB Raid-10 Storage
75GB Bandwidth
1 CPU Core
1 IPv4 Address
OpenVZ/SolusVM
Direct Signup Link

ErrantWeb is hosted in Michigan-Colocation operated by Waveform Technology. ErrantWeb makes “sure that your tickets gets a response within 24 hours.” Being a new, small operation this is understandable. Keep cautious on signup, being a new company we suggest only paying month to month until ErrantWeb has developed a solid history.

HostingInside – $7.00/month XEN in Los Angeles & London

Mark — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:32:42 +0000

Joni from HostingInside has sent us a 60% off coupon off on their XEN offerings. Normally $17.00/month, they’re going for $7.00/month until the end of February. Be sure to use the coupon SUPERFEB whilst checking out. HostingInside originally opened in 2008 offering IRC shells and has been in the VPS market since 2009.

X512

XEN Virtualization
2 Cores
20GB on a RAID 10
512MB dedicated memory
256MB swap
500 GB per month traffic
1 IPV4 Address / 2 IPV6 Addresses (US Only)

Order UK / Order US

Los Angeles – QuadraNet – 173.254.221.101
London, UK – UKServers – 78.110.173.199

HostingBix – $5.39/month 1024MB OpenVZ VPS in France

Chief — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:56:47 +0000

HostingBix is a new VPS provider based in India and hosting out of OVH France. HostingBix informs us that their nodes are running Intel Xeon W3520 CPUs and 24GB ram per node. They’re offering an introductory LEB offer of $5.39/month (55% Discount) with promo code “OFF552012″

Plan B-Standard $5.39/month (normally $11.99/month)
1024MB of Ram
40GB of Storage
600GB of Bandwidth
1 CPU Core Access
1 IPV4 Address
100Mbit VPS Connection
SolusVM/OpenVZ
Direct Signup Link (Promo Code: OFF552012)

There is a relation between HostingBix and Pintwire, both Indian headquartered VPS companies with similar information on WHOIS. HostingBix.Com was registered on the 24th November 2011, exercise some caution on signup.

Payment methods accepted are 2checkout and Paypal. Test IP Address: 37.59.64.4

VMPort – $7/m OpenVZ & KVM offers in Germany, UK & US

Mark — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:09:40 +0000

Hello LEBers, My name is Mark, the second member of the LEB trio and I’ll be your pilot this evening. Ashley from VMPort has sent us the following OpenVZ Medium listing with approximately 30% discount and also a KVM offer for LEB members.

Ashley was helpful enough to include the following test IP’s

UK > RackCenter #1, Hampshire > 188.227.165.34
DE > Equinix DC, Dusseldorf > 80.83.123.200
US > WholeSale Internet, Kansas City > 63.141.247.106
US (KVM) > NJ3 Equinx > 108.60.137.162

OpenVZ Medium £4.42/month ($6.95USD/month)
512MB RAM
1024MB Burst
60GB HDD Space
2 CPU Cores
600GB Data transfer on 100Mbit
Signup Link (Promo Code: LEB)

KVM Tiny £4.42/month ($6.95USD/month)
12GB HDD Space (Based on a 4X 15K RAID10 disk setup)
256MB Dedicated RAM (DDR3/ECC)
500GB Data Transfer (On a 1000Mbit connection)
1 Xeon “E3-1230″ CPU Core @ 3.20GHz with HT
1 Dedicated IPv4 Address
SolusVM Control Panel
100% Non oversold resources
Signup Link (Promo Code: C5BZDN8K)

VMPort’s offerings are based out of Germany, the UK and the USA with the KVM Nodes running Intel Xeon E3-1230 CPU’s and 15K Raid 10 storage setups.

miniVPS – £3.99/Month 256MB SSD OpenVZ VPS in France

Chief — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:43:01 +0000

Simon from miniVPS has sent us an exclusive LEB offer of £3.99/month SSD OpenVZ with 256mb Ram and 5gb SSD storage space. The SSD OpenVZ nodes are running on Intel Xeon i7 W3520 processors located in France with OVH. miniVPS received some positive feedback from their last offer, and sold out very quickly. Direct Signup Link.

256MB of Ram
256mb of vSwap
5gb of SSD Storage Space
200gb Bandwidth
1 Shared Core
100mbit Port Speed per VPS

miniVPS is the unmanaged VPS brand of Xavvo.
They offer a 99.9% Uptime guarantee and 7-Day Money Back guarantee.

Magoro – $6.27 256MB KVM VPS in Southfield

Chief — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:00:44 +0000

Peter Mayhew from Magoro has started a 30% off KVM VPS servers sale across their entire range which drops the 256mb KVM in to the LEB market. Their last offer back in November was similar, however it was Xen based. The 30% discount brings their $8.95 256mb KVM down to $6.27 recurring for life. Direct Link for Sign Up (Promo Code: KVM230892).

256MB of RAM
15GB of storage
110GB of bandwidth
KVM/SolusVM

Magoro’s KVM servers are based in Southfield, Michigan USA.
Test IP: 173.225.186.6

Magoro has been operating since 2009 and is a registered LLC in Michigan.

LowEndBox Kickstart Offers!

Chief — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:01:23 +0000

LowEndBox Team is ready to take offers, check here for criteria and where to send your offers.
All old emails have been cleared, please submit fresh plans and offers. Providers under 12 months old please take note of the updated criteria before submitting your offers.

#!/bin/bash

Chief — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:36:56 +0000

LEB & LET are an awsome place, sometimes fun, sometimes stressful, sometimes 3D. Over the past week we have been working towards a “plan” for LEB/LET that would bring this place forward. The LowEndBox market is incredible, unique, and has a couple of main driving factors. Generally those trying to grab the cheapest possible VPS, and those trying to squeeze the most out of the smallest possible VPS. The most interesting posts generally come from the second of the two groups, and discussions become interesting and informative.

However over time LowEndAdmin grew tired of the kids “plotting their next pump ‘n dump” on LEB/LET, and this was a deciding factor for him moving on. In this time “A Trio” of us was left with LEB/LET, and we have been discussing ways privately that we can make this a better place. LowEndBox is not LowEndStartup, and while we always want new providers and new competition, we also want to be promoting providers whom have a proven record, or are of a higher percentage of being around in six months to a year.

To assist in this we have added some basic new rules to accepting LEB offers:
* Using a nulled WHMCS grants you a lifetime ban on LowEndBox and LowEndTalk.
* Hosts posting offers are not to use Private WHOIS data on their domain

I invite you also to join the discussion on LET as well and suggest what other safeguards you would like to see. LEB is a place for quality, not quantity, it would be better that we promote 10 hosts who are still in existence in 12 months, than 25 hosts who have all disappeared in 3 months.

We will start taking offers and new plans from Friday 3rd February for posting on LEB, and will work towards a dedicated “DeadPool” page as some are already looking to return post-Christmas.

We are clearing the backlog in Moderation and Flagged comments, posts, spam etc. So if you see anything that you believe is in breach flag it, and after Friday you should see a quicker, more timely response to flagged items.

5ITE – $5.96 256MB OpenVZ VPS in Chicago or Germany

LowEndAdmin — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:10:53 +0000

5ITE, founded by Andrew and first featured here in October 2010, seems to have quite a few issues in October 2011. It appears that they have been sold, and was having some transitional issues. Earlier this month Nancy, the new 5ITE account manager who also represents Swift Communications (new owner of 5ITE), contacted me regarding to their new LowEndBox offer. So here it is — use coupon code LEB2012 to get 25% off recurring discount on all their VPS plans. “VZ-1″ would be $5.96/month after the discount. Sign up link here.

256MB guaranteed/384MB burstable memory
30GB storage
3TB/month data transfer
OpenVZ/SolusVM

Servers in either Nuremberg Germany or Chicago IL. This is actually worse when you compare it with previous offer given by Andrew, although the ordering link still works on that. They are now a part of a bigger company also means that you might be able to get phone support, and VPS might actually moved to migrated to their own facility in the future. Well, recent review wasn’t so positive. Maybe it’s just the migration pain, but hopefully things will become more stable.

Jolly Works Hosting – $13/Year 128MB OpenVZ VPS in Phoenix

LowEndAdmin — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 06:13:26 +0000

Mark from Jolly Works Hosting emailed me their new offer that has also been posted on WHT. “Tiny One” is how this hosting plan is called. $13/Year and here is the signup link.

128MB guaranteed/256MB burstable memory
15GB storage
500GB/month data transfer on 100Mbps
OpenVZ/SolusVM

Servers in PhoenixNAP in Phoenix AZ (test IP: 174.138.175.114). Jolly Works Hosting is based in Philippine and was founded in March 2009 — makes them almost 3 years old. Looks like they are trying to aggressively grow their customer base with this yearly plan. Being 3 year old and relatively good track record I do hope it’s not an attempt of pump and dump :)

OpenVZ.ca – CAD$7 384MB OpenVZ VPS in Canada

LowEndAdmin — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 05:35:32 +0000

Joseph from OpenVZ.ca has sent me a special LowEndBox offer. It sits between the “Small” and “Medium” plans on their OpenVZ VPS plans page. Here is the signup link, and the cost is CAD$7/month (~USD$6.87). It comes with the following resources:

384MB memory
20GB storage
300GB/month data transfer on 100Mbps
1x IPv4 + 1x IPv6 address
2x vCPU cores
OpenVZ/SolusVM

Coupon code LowEndFirstMonth also gives you 80% off the first month. Payments can be made using PayPal, credit card, mail-in cheque or money order. Servers are housed in CANIX3 in Montreal CA (test IP: 199.167.128.10) and they have been running their own BGP (AS14442) since April-May 2011. Being part of Media Hosts they have been in business since 2002.

RethinkVPS – $6.60 128MB OpenVZ 1Gbps Unmetered VPS in LA/Scranton

LowEndAdmin — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 03:02:01 +0000

Here is a new offer for the new year from ReThinkVPS, from an email from Sam. According to Sam, they will be ReThink’ing the strategy for 2012, doing things a little bit differently and trying to penetrate the low end VPS market. Well, best of luck. The promo here is not much different from what they have offered 2 months ago though. Use the coupon code 2012 to get 17% off of the same package. So “VPS 1.0″ comes down to $6.60/month after the discount. Signup link.

128MB guaranteed/512MB burstable memory
30GB storage
1Gbps unmetered bandwidth
OpenVZ/SolusVM

There’s a bit more info on the same offer posted on WHT. Nodes are located in either Los Angeles CA or Scranton PA. Servers themselves are connected to 1Gbps ports, although what you might eventually receive depends on a lot of other factors. From section 9 of their Terms of Services, they would contact abusers if a VPS is slowing down others. They have been around for more than a year now.

If P2P, IRC and public proxies are forbidden according to ToS, what other applications would you use such VPS for (1Gbps unmetered but only 128MB guaranteed memory)?

Castlegem – £4.25 256MB Xen VPS in UK or Austria

LowEndAdmin — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:55:02 +0000

Bernhard from UK-based Castlegem emailed me about some of their low end VPS hosting packages. They do have quite a few different plans to offer. Here they are:

UK/AT – XEN/OpenVZ mini
256MB memory
20GB storage
100GB/month data transfer
£4.25/month Xen (Direct signup link)
£3.50/month OpenVZ (Direct signup link)

USA West Coast – XEN/OpenVZ mini
256MB memory
20GB storage
500GB/month data transfer
£4/month Xen (Direct signup link)
£2.50/month OpenVZ (Direct signup link)

Servers in either Manchester UK, Vienna AT or Fremont in West Coast USA. 20% VAT is payable for those in UK/EU. Both PayPal and Google Checkout are accepted. Also note that provisioning is currently a manual process which can take up to 12 hours wait. According to CompaniesHouse, Castlegem Ltd has been registered since 2008 and they are boasting 1,400+ customers according to Bernhard. Bernhard was from Austria running the Progipark team that has been doing business since the ’80s, and been on the Internet since 1995.

They do have funny DNS server name. Fartling? YouNaughtyMonsters? Geez…

RhinoRack – $7 512MB OpenVZ VPS in Orlando

LowEndAdmin — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:17:26 +0000

New Business Name Rule #1 — do not use an already established name, even in a total different market, unless your aim is confusion. Now, Nicholas from RhinoRack Networks emailed me their special offer — not a new roof rack for your automobile, but a low end OpenVZ VPS plan that’s also posted on WHT. Named “OpenVZ – Node1 BEAST”, it’s $7/month and you have to use this link to order as it’s not publicly visible on their website.

512MB guaranteed/768MB burstable memory
30GB storage
200GB/month data transfer
OpenVZ/SolusVM

PayPal only. They own their hardware, which are colocated with HostDime in Orlando FL — see Nick’s data center hunting thread. Yes, it’s the same Nick who used to run RackMountain, which he sold it 2 months down the track. Lots of informative comments in the old posts there so do check them out. Anyway he is back! RhinoRack.net is a new venture that he has only recently started.

We’ll see how long this one is going to last.

NixDot – $4.49 256MB OpenVZ VPS in Phoenix

LowEndAdmin — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 11:30:22 +0000

Chris, director at ico7 Network which manages NixDot Web Solutions, emailed me their offer a few days ago. According to this WHT thread they have recently re-launched NixDot and have one low end OpenVZ VPS plan that fits my listing criteria. “OpenVZ I” is $4.49/month and it comes with

256MB guaranteed/512MB burstable memory
30GB storage on RAID10
500GB/month data transfer
2x vCPU cores
2x IPv4 addresses
OpenVZ/SolusVM

Signup link here. If you pay yearly it will get discounted to $30/year. They take PayPal or Google Checkout. Servers with PhoenixNAP in Phoenix AZ (test IP: 199.30.48.138). IRC and legal P2P are allowed. ico7 Network is based in UK. Domain has only been registered since May 2011 and wasn’t trading until November so pretty much a new provider. Any one knows about these folks?

Binary Computer Solutions – $5.95 256MB OpenVZ VPS in Chicago with 20Mbps Unmetered

LowEndAdmin — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 13:21:27 +0000

Here is another Chicago offer. Blaine from Binary Computer Solutions emailed me their 2012 promotional package. Here is the sign up link, and for $5.95/month you get

256MB memory/256MB vswap
20GB storage
20Mbps unmetered bandwidth
2x vCPU cores
OpenVZ/SolusVM

Payment in either PayPal, Google Checkout or AlertPay. Servers with SingleHop in Chicago. Do note that they are doing firewall white-listing on allowed ports for incoming connections (See comments from previous offer), but you can use support tickets to get them to open ports for you. Domain has been registered since November 2008.

ChicagoVPS – Rerun of $7 2GB OpenVZ VPS Offer in Chicago

LowEndAdmin — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 13:03:55 +0000

Normally I hate to re-post offers, as I’ve been getting quite a few emails from providers who simply asked “hey can you just re-post the same offer from last month?” Unless the previous offer was exceedingly popular, which is the case here when Chris from ChicagoVPS asked me to re-post their 2GB OpenVZ “Enterprise” offer. So, for $7/month and coupon code 2048, you can get a VPS with

2048MB memory
50GB storage
2TB/month data transfer
OpenVZ/SolusVM

Direct signup link, and servers are with ColoCrossing in Chicago IL (test files here). Chris is away at the moment so thanks to Jeremiah for setting this up. ChicagoVPS has been around since October 2010 and has been providing great services here.

XenVZ – £1.30 128MB Xen VPS in UK

LowEndAdmin — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 13:43:07 +0000

Sean from XenVZ recently emailed me their very first LowEndBox special. They have been featured here many times since December 2008, and had pretty good reception amongst the community here, which makes it hard to believe that this one is actually their first exclusive special. The Xen VPS package “LowEndXen 2012″ can be had for £1.30/month (~USD$2.01) although longer billing period would get slightly more discount. Direct signup link here. You get

128MB memory
2.5GB storage
20GB/month data transfer on 40Mbps
Xen/Custom VM

Servers might get deployed to their old datacentre, RapidSwitch in UK (test IP: 95.154.254.253), or their new datacentre (which I can’t seem to be able to find info about). As I have previously stated, they have been on LowEndBox for more than 3 years now, and XenVZ have been in business for more than 4 years. They have much expansion recently with new racks in a second datacentre in UK and became a full RIPE NCC member. They are using their own control panel integrated with their own billing system. It’s not pretty but very functional. I have actually been a customer of XenVZ for about a year and was very happy with their service.

While their servers have 100/1000Mbps ports, “LowEndXen 2012″ is port limited to 40Mbps to ensure fair distribution of bandwidth. I doubt you need more though, since you’ll easily chew up your 20GB monthly quota. For those looking for higher plans, I found their Christmas offers are still available with 512MB Xen VPS + 250GB/month for £3.75/month. Some other points that Sean wishes to mention:

Since these are rock bottom price, no technical assistance beyond control panel provided by them, i.e. you are on your own once you are on the command prompt.
Be considerate when you think about asking for refund, especially when providers are already having tiny margin on these plans.

VMHosts – £4.40 256MB Xen VPS in UK

LowEndAdmin — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 07:49:54 +0000

Michael from VMHosts emailed me their LowEndBox exclusive special. It has less resource and a lot cheaper than their “Cloud Infrastructure” VPS packages listed on their website. At £4.40/month (~USD$6.88) with this direct sign up link, you get

256MB memory
20GB storage on RAID10
150GB/month data transfer
1x vCPU core
Xen

PayPal is the only available payment method. Their servers are with BlueSquare in Maidenhead UK, according to their About Us page. On the same page they also stated that they use HP Proliant for servers and LeftHand for SAN storage. Michael disclosed that VMHosts provide “True Cloud XEN infrastructure” without any specific details. OnApp maybe?

Domain has been registered for 18 months, although “VMHosts” does not exist in CompanyHouse. Michael seems to be a seasoned IT solutionist though. Reasonable ToS — no IRC, no torrent, and no dodgy Perl scripts.

123Systems – $10/Year 128MB OpenVZ VPS in Dallas

LowEndAdmin — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 06:48:11 +0000

One of the LowEndBox “Hien” forwarded me an email from 123Systems that was intended for existing subscribers. They are restocking some old offers including some cheap annual billing deals.

Linux-128-Yearly
128MB memory
5GB storage
250GB/month data transfer
$10/year — Direct signup link

Throw in $5 more and you can get a plan that’s much more useful with burstable memory.

Linux-192-Yearly
192MB guaranteed/384MB burstable memory
10GB storage
500GB/month data transfer
$15/year — Direct signup link

For their OpenVZ VPS plans with 512MB memory or more, you can also use coupon code STOCK0 to get 40% off recurring discount when you pay annually. For example 512MB OpenVZ plan would be $43.20/year after the discount.

Servers with Limestone Networks in Dallas TX I believe. 123Systems has been in business for almost 2 years and have lots of offers previously listed here.