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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…

Overclocked Host – $6.49 128MB Xen VPS in Fremont

LowEndAdmin — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:23:51 +0000

Brandon from Overclocked Host emailed in to notify me about their recently launched Xen VPS offering (which is also posted at WHT here). Their cheapest VPS plan, “VPS-128″ is $6.49/month, and you can use promo code 10vpsopening to get 10% off discount for the first month (i.e. not recurring). Direct signup link.

128MB memory/256MB swap
3GB storage on RAID10
400GB/month data transfer
Xen/SolusVM

Their servers are with HE.net in Fremont CA. According to their About Us page, the business started in July 2011, although they have only been selling VPS since a week ago. Even their shared hosting/reseller hosting uses the free Kloxo. There’s also no SSL on the HostBill pages, which makes me doubt whether “24×7 Support” and “Reliable Servers” written on their home page can be trusted. Finally, we are near the end of 2011 and $6.49/month for a 128MB Xen VPS with a tiny storage space is really nothing to write home about. Buyers beware, and there are better offers elsewhere.

NordicVPS – $7 768MB OpenVZ VPS in US, UK and Germany

LowEndAdmin — Tue, 17 May 2011 14:36:36 +0000

Updated February 2012 — It’s long time coming, but NordicVPS has finally bite the dust. Website is no longer working on 24 January 2012. Bye!

The death of NordicVPS might have been greatly exaggerated, as they have just emailed me some new offers today. 3 locations, one price — $7/month.

768MB guaranteed/1024MB burstable memory
20GB storage
1TB/month data transfer
OpenVZ/SolusVM

Servers in either Fremont CA (HE.net), UK (Burst) or Germany (Hetzner). NordicVPS colo their own servers in US and in UK, but on leased servers in Germany. No IRC, no torrent, etc. They do seem to have more machines coming up in US to allow them scale out economically. We’ll see.

NordicVPS has been around for 2 years, and they are operated from Denmark. Check their past offers for comments and reviews.

BuyVM – $15/Year 128MB VPS Coming on Monday 18 April!

LowEndAdmin — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 12:35:53 +0000

“Do BuyVM have any stock?” seems to be one of the most frequently asked questions here. And behold! Pony the Almighty has spoken. Jay wrote in to point me to this announcement on FranTech:

Francisco went to bzImage and said, “Thus says The Pony, the God of Frantech, ‘Let My people go, that they may purchase VPS goodness.” But bzImage said, “Not until Monday April 18th at 12:00pm GMT-7″

New Clients: Please remember to register with accurate account details as the red sea shall not be parted for fraud.

Not too sure whether there will be 10 plagues, and the last one kills bzImage’s first born process (die, init(1) die!) but at least the date/time is clear. Monday. April 18^th at lunch time. BuyVM will have stock (yes Francisco — don’t make us disappointed). Including their popular $15/year offer.

128MB guaranteed/256MB burstable memory
15GB storage
500GB/month data transfer
1x IPv4 + lots of IPv6
OpenVZ/SolusVM

Their servers are with Hurricane Electric in Fremont CA, and BuyVM were voted the #1 in 2011 Q1 by the LowEndTalk community. Get your world clock ready if you are not in US :)

Ethelite Hosting – $6.80 256MB Xen VPS in Fremont

LowEndAdmin — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 12:42:58 +0000

Via this WHT offer. Ethelite Hosting is currently having a promotion — use coupon code WHT15 to get 15% off recurring discount, and the code expires on 16 April. “Plan 2″ comes down to $6.80/month after the discount, and you can order it with this link.

256MB memory/512MB swap
6GB storage (RAID 10)
750GB/month data transfer (double, if you leave ordering number in that WHT thread)
Xen/SolusVM

Servers with Hurricane Electric’s data center in Fremont CA (test IP: 184.105.172.195). Current website shows 90′s designs, saying “Re-Opening Promotion” — which I presume that they must have somehow closed, and then re-opened the business again. Domain has been registered since February 2010, but WHOIS info is currently masked by privacy guard. However, on another domain owned by the same owner, “pewf.in”, contains possibly his actual profile including birthdate and other info. WHOIS of that domain also points to a local high school.

Anyway. This industry is nothing short of teenage boys making their first entrepreneurial effort. HE’s DC in Fremont also seems to be quite popular. So take your bet :)

GigaTux – £3.99 128MB Xen VPS in Fremont

LowEndAdmin — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 10:23:27 +0000

While few US-based companies have crossed the pond to sell UK-based low end VPS, many have came from the other side — GigaTux in this case. Marc emailed me that they have now started offering Hurricane Electric Fremont-2 based Xen VPS, and use promo code LOWENDBOX-0211M to bring the price of “Uno L” package down to £3.99/month (~USD$6.48). Here is what you will get

128MB memory
5GB storage
125GB/month data transfer
Xen

The above promo code is available only to Fremont-based services and not their UK and Germany based VPS. GigaTux has been in business since February 2007 (makes them 4 year old this month). HE.com’s Fremont DC seems to be pretty popular because of its connectivity to Asia Pacific. There might be better deals, although currently neither BuyVM nor NeoSurge has any stock there.

BuyVM – $15/Year 128MB OpenVZ VPS (is Available for Ordering Again)

LowEndAdmin — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 06:52:32 +0000

Francisco emailed me that the ever-so-popular $15/year OpenVZ VPS package from BuyVM.net is available for ordering again. Here is what you will get

128MB guaranteed/256MB burstable memory
15GB storage
500GB/month data transfer
1x IPv4 + 16x IPv6
OpenVZ/SolusVM

Servers with HE.net in Fremont CA. BuyVM is probably one of first few VPS providers that got native IPv6 working correctly. IPv4 will be exhausted soon — APNIC just got 2 last /8 from IANA, and when we will be completely out of IPv4 addresses would be anyone’s guess. There are also some extra features from BuyVM to set itself apart from other budget providers.

/dev/net/tun is available by default, and all VPS support PPTP VPN.
Free DNS hosting
5GB of free off-site backup space
Private IP for internal traffic
Offloaded MySQL for $0.99/month

There are also 256MB instances for $3.50/month and 512MB instances for $5.95/month. BuyVM is part of Frantech that has been around since 2007 (according to domain age).

SolidVPS – $20/Year (+$2 Setup) 128MB OpenVZ VPS

LowEndAdmin — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 23:43:05 +0000

Via this WHT offer. SolidVPS (with a .ORG domain) is a company (ahem) that claims (on their WHT page) “SolidVPS is becoming a leader in VPS Hosting Solutions, SolidVPS has been bringing Professional, Affordable and Quality managed & unmanged hosting solutions to users all around the globe”. Professional or Quality we do not know as the domain is very new (registered on 28 Oct 2010). Affordable? YES! They currently have a special promotion at the moment — $20/Year with $2 once off set up fee. Here’s the spec:

128MB guaranteed/256MB burstable memory
15GB storage
500GB/month data transfer
1 IPv4, 16 IPv6 addresses
OpenVZ/SolusVM

Ordering link here. From FAQ page it says the servers are located in either Fremont CA or New York City. Website is hosted on box inside HostDime in Orlando with both NS on the same IP as the website (FAIL!) Domain information masked by WHOIS protection — that’s a double FAIL for a company. You do get to see the pre-masked info on this WHT thread though (linked in an image file).

Since their servers are in Fremont so naturally I compared their plans with the ones from BuyVM.net. Then I found they have pretty much the same spec — except quite a bit more expensive. They could almost make a tidy sum by just reselling BuyVM’s (except they are out of stock at the moment).

NeoSurge – $4.95 128MB Xen VPS Exclusive Offer

LowEndAdmin — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 00:13:39 +0000

Brian from Neosurge emailed me their exclusive offer for the LowEndBox readers. Use promo code lowendboxexclusive to get $2 recurring discount from their VPS packages. So for $4.95/month you get

128MB memory/128MB swap
5GB storage
200GB/month data transfer
Xen

Servers are in Chicago IL, and also in Fremont CA. Direct order link here. Neosurge is also based in Chicago according to WHOIS, and has been around since 2002. Whoever they seem to be using the same box for DNS.

NordicVPS – $15/Year 128MB OpenVZ VPS in Fremont Exclusive Offer

LowEndAdmin — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 13:10:18 +0000

Updated February 2012 — It’s long time coming, but NordicVPS has finally bite the dust. Website is no longer working on 24 January 2012. Bye!

Adam from NordicVPS has emailed me about them getting their California nodes ready. Same offer as last time,

OVZ128-LEB (Sign up link)
128MB guaranteed/256MB burstable memory
15GB storage
600GB/month data transfer

OVZ256-LEB (Sign up link)
256MB guaranteed/512MB burstable memory
30GB storage
1000GB/month data transfer
$35/Year

OVZ512-LEB (Sign up link)
512MB guaranteed/1024MB burstable memory
30GB storage
1000GB/month data transfer
$5.95/Month

These new servers will be in Hurricane Electric’s Fremont 1 facility, and will be using Xeon 5620 with RAID10 drives. Test IP: 68.68.96.10.

Just a note that for 2 cheaper plans these are annual payment only so make sure you know what you are getting into and remember to make regular backups :) The plans and pricing pretty much match what BuyVM has, and now they are in the same location as well. Hmm, did I smell a little bit of competitions out there?

BuyVM – $15/Year 128MB OpenVZ VPS is Back

LowEndAdmin — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 00:09:23 +0000

It took Francisco a while (no worries, we can wait!), but previous offer from BuyVM is back! Francisco has restocked their servers and you can now order from their website again. For $15/year you can get the following VPS:

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

Servers are with HE.net in Fremont. I have actually ordered one this time — 256MB/512MB memory, 30GB, 1TB/month data for $35/year to backup my production servers in Fremont. Missed out last time due to procrastination :P It allows full burst to 2 cores of Xeon L5420 and seems to be pretty fast so far. It also comes with 16 IPv6 addresses.

VPSBB – $4.95 128MB OpenVZ VPS

LowEndAdmin — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 01:59:18 +0000

Updated December 2011 — Looks like Andrew from 123Systems might have forgot to update the DNS on this site. VPSBB site went dark on 14 November and will be on dead pool this month.

Andrew from 123Systems sent me an email yesterday about their latest brand, VPS BB (which I think stands for “Bargain Bin”). Usually you find items with defects in the bargain bin in your local markets but I do hope the offer here would be top notch as it is from 123Systems (multiple locations, not a one man shop, etc). For $4.95/month you will get the following VPS

128MB guaranteed/256MB burstable memory
10GB storage
1000GB/month data transfer
OpenVZ/SolusVM
Fully managed

This package should have instant setup and the servers are located in Fremont CA. Same company as 123Systems who will be doing the management. Nice minimalistic design :)

BuyVM – $15/Year 128MB OpenVZ VPS

LowEndAdmin — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 13:28:33 +0000

Francisco said in this WHT forums post — “We’re back with more fantastic California based VPS’s”. Indeed. At $15/year, you get this from BuyVM:

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

They are with Hurricane Electric in Fremont (one of most popular US DC amongst Far East Asia users, according to what I read). Wow. They also got TUN and PPTP enabled by default to make it easy setting up VPN.

I guess the question is, is FranTech/BuyVM going to do a BlazeVPS? I guess FranTech has been around for a while (and has been a great commenter/contributor to this blog). I do hope they stick around for a long time though — or at least for a year as I might get one to backup my other VPS at Fremont :)

Neosurge – $6.25 128MB Xen VPS

LowEndAdmin — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 01:37:17 +0000

Via this WHT offer. It has been a while since I posted about Neosurge’s offer — more than a year actually. The pricing has not really changed nor has the spec. It is still $6.25/month after the 10% off recurring discount promo code wht2010. The package you get has

128MB memory
5GB storage
200Gb/month data transfer
Xen

On the order page you can specify whether you want to order it in Chicago IL (with Steadfast network I believe) and Fremont (Hurrican Electric?). They have also been a long time LowEndBox sponsor with their ads purchase. They have been in business since 2002 so it looks like they are here for the long haul.

Anyone else has experience with Neosurge?

123Systems – $8.85/3 Months 64MB OpenVZ VPS Exclusive Offer

LowEndAdmin — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 06:14:22 +0000

Andrew from 123Systems sent me another exclusive offer for the LowEndBox readers. Here is the direct ordering link. For $8.85/3 months ($2.95/month) you can get the following VPS

64MB guaranteed/128MB burstable memory
5GB storage
250Gb/month data transfer
OpenVZ/SolusVM

On the ordering page you can also choose between Fremont CA or Chicago IL for data center location. Limited stock & first come first serve. I do appreciate that Andrew wrote to me about the stability of his company (10 technical staffs currently, apparently), although I do not think there is a need to repeat it here. Customers are free to give their own testimonies here.

A 64MB OpenVZ VPS can still do quite a few things with a bit of optimization. We did see the rise of sub-$3 VPS featured here — maybe that will be a new trend?

123Systems – $37.73/Year 256MB OpenVZ VPS Exclusive Offer

LowEndAdmin — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 04:58:57 +0000

Andrew from 123Systems emailed me an exclusive special with their new Fremont CA based virtual servers. Use promo code 55LEB you can get 55% off recurring discount when you prepay for a year or two years. So picking thier low end offer, you can get the following virtual server for $37.73/year:

256MB guaranteed/512MB burstable memory
10GB storage
500GB/month data transfer
OpenVZ/SolusVM

Servers are in Fremont CA with HE.net which has pretty good connectivity to Asia/Australia. There are other monthly offers from 123Systems if you are not comfortable to pay for a whole year up front.

BuyVM – $5.95 OpenVZ VPS with 512MB

LowEndAdmin — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 00:29:35 +0000

Francisco @ Frantech pointed me out to this WHT offer here. We did profiled Frantech quite a while ago and only until recently they still did not have a proper website. Looks like things are changing. While Frantech.ca has moved to VMWare hosting with higher price virtual servers, they are also branching out a new division, BuyVM, to offer OpenVZ servers on the low end. For $5.95/month you get

512MB memory
50GB storage
2000GB/month data transfer
OpenVZ/SolusVM

And it is not a BurstNET reseller! The servers are in fact in Fremont CA with HE.net (I’ve got 2 VM there in the same DC and they are great). Good West Coast location for Asia/Australia users.

RapidXen – 128MB Xen VPS $5.24/Month

LowEndAdmin — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 04:30:06 +0000

Thanks to thekreek posting in the forums. RapidXen is currently having Christmas sale on their Xen VPS, starting from $6.74/month (save 10%). If you prepay for 12 months, the price would drop to $62.92 (save 30%) — or equivalent to $5.24/month! You get:

128MB RAM
256MB swap
5GB storage space
1 IP address
Unmetered bandwidth (although you can’t abuse it)

It’s currently available at either Chicago or Fremont data centers.

Prgmr.com – $6/Month 128MB Xen VPS

LowEndAdmin — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:38:25 +0000

Thanks to Luke who notified us about their plan changes. Prgmr.com has released their new Xen VPS plans. The disk space and monthly data transfer amount has shrinked for their $5/month 64MB VPS. However for an extra dollar per month, you can get:

128MB memory
3GB storage
20GB/month data transfer
CentOS 5 or Debian 4

Their new server seems to be at Fremont with HE.net (one of my favourite DC). The amount of data per month is a bit limiting although the overage is at only 10 cents/GB. As the motto of Prgmr.com is “We don’t assume you are stupid.”, this is a strictly unmanaged service.

Update: Got an email from Luke @ Prgmr.com, and he said that you can get a 256MB Xen VPS for $6.40/month if you prepay for 12 months, which would fit in our criteria of a “low end box”. And you get 256MB dedicated memory, 6GB storage and 40GB/month data transfer.

RapidXen – $5.62 Xen VPS with 128MB

LowEndAdmin — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:34:08 +0000

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.