LowEndBox

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.