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Thrust::VPS – $5.05 US and £4.21 UK VPS Exclusive Offer

LowEndAdmin — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 22:35:12 +0000

Rus from Thurst::VPS has sent me an exclusive offer to LowEndBox readers, where you can get 15% off recurring discount when coupon code LOWENDBOX is applied. That means for their US OpenVZ VPS (Los Angeles, Dallas, New Jersey) it’s now starting from $5.05/month and their UK OpenVZ VPS is now starting from £4.21/month (~USD$6.34). Do note that you need to change the currency to GBP before adding package to the cart, as it has much inflated GBP to USD on their site. You will get the following package

512MB guaranteed/1024MB burstable memory
15GB storage
1000GB/month data transfer
OpenVZ/SolusVM

Thrust::VPS has been adding quite a bit of features lately, including free 1GB backup space and private IP address for unmetered inter-VPS traffic within the same data center.

ThrustVPS – $71.95/Year Xen VPS with 512MB

LowEndAdmin — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 12:48:10 +0000

Via this WHT offer. ThrustVPS, formally known as Damn::VPS, is still having its opening special. Yes it did get a much needed face lift on the website. OpenVZ plans stay competitive at $5.36/month after the discount. Xen plans (both PV or HVM) require to prepay annually to fit into LowEndBox’s listing criteria. For $71.95/Year ($6/month) using promo code OPENING, you get the following VPS:

512MB memory/512MB swap
15GB storage
1TB/month data transfer
Xen PV or Xen HVM/SolusVM

You get to choose between Los Angeles, Dallas or New Jersey.

DamnVPS – $5.95 512MB OpenVZ VPS

LowEndAdmin — Sun, 23 May 2010 12:22:52 +0000

I have been a follower of Rus’ Twitter feed for a while, and have recently learnt that he has quit VAServ and started another VPS hosting company — DamnVPS. Yeah you thought something like FsckVPS was slightly inappropriately named, this one is not any better. It has just announced the opening offer on their blog, and for $5.95/month you can get the following system

512MB guaranteed/1024MB burstable memory
15GB storage
1TB/month data transfer
OpenVZ

These apply to only US-based OpenVZ plans, and you can choose between Los Angeles (West Coast), Dallas (Center) or New Jersey (East Coast). Not too sure about the availability of these locations, as the company has just been set up.

Well. Rus has certainly been a veteran in the virtual server hosting space. All the best to his new venture.

VPS Squad – $83.87/Year 256MB OpenVZ VPS

LowEndAdmin — Mon, 17 May 2010 00:45:58 +0000

Via this WHT offer. I just figured out that you can buy VPS Squad‘s premium LA VPS for $83.87/year, by using the coupon code 45OFFLIFESALE. That’s roughly $6.99/month and you get

256MB guaranteed/384MB burstable memory
10GB storage
200GB/month data transfer
OpenVZ/SolusVM

Being in LA means good connection to Asia, Australia and New Zealand, and they have release Ubuntu 10.04 LTS image for their OpenVZ VPS (it’s been out for 3 weeks why aren’t more VPS providers supporting it?!) A bit of information about the company can be found in my previous post. VPS Squad by itself still seems to be pretty new — probably too new for me to prepay something for a while year.

DashingHost – $8.97/3 Months OpenVZ VPS with 80MB

LowEndAdmin — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 01:40:10 +0000

Via this WHT offer. When Michael from DashingHost contacted me last time, the provider was targeting medium-high end users with starting price of $12/month for a 128MB OpenVZ VPS. He offered special discount to LowEndBox readers to reduce that to $6.99. However it appears that they have completely changed the direction — and now are offering their “Starter” VPS for $2.99/month with 3 months prepayment! You get

80MB guaranteed/128MB burstable memory
2GB storage
50GB/month data transfer
OpenVZ/SolusVM

Servers are still with PacificRack in Los Angeles CA, which is great for Asia/Australia visitors. Low end VPS at this spec is more than capable of running a few websites. Heck. Even LowEndBox.com would fit into this profile (it is using 69MB committed/95MB allocated memory at the moment, less than 1GB space OS included, and ~ 7GB/month of data).

PhotonVPS – $5.95 128MB Xen VPS

LowEndAdmin — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:52:42 +0000

4 days ago Jimmy from PhotonVPS emailed me about their latest Xen VPS packages with a reference to this offer on WHT, but the email was somehow buried inside my totally chaotic inbox. Oops. Anyway. They now have Xen packages “Warp .25″ for just $5.95/month.

128MB memory/256MB swap
2GB storage
150GB/month data transfer
Xen

PhotonVPS has their servers in Los Angeles CA according to their network page. PhotonVPS was launched by Profuse Solutions last year, but the company itself that has been around since 1999. Somehow, probably due to their West Coast service, PhotonVPS seems to be very popular in Far East/South East Asia. The fact that they have full Chinese website shows who they have been targeting. I guess the fact that PhotonVPS staffs actually replying in Chinese to Chinese web hosting forums such as hostloc.com also helps.

DashingHost – $6.99 128MB OpenVZ VPS Exclusive Offer

LowEndAdmin — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:05:49 +0000

Michael from DashingHost sent me his LowEndBox exclusive offer last month and the email was somehow misplaced as I was busy. But don’t worry and none is lost! I dug out the email and here is the deal you can get when you use LowEndBox as coupon code on their Starter VPS product — price reduced from $12/month to $6.99/month. You get

128MB guaranteed/256MB burstable memory
5GB storage
150GB/month data transfer
OpenVZ/SolusVM

All their VPS are in Los Angeles CA which would be good for Asia Pacific customers. Some sanity test shows that the domain has been around for 1/2 a year, and has BOTH name servers on the same server. Thanks to exclusive offer, but for $7/month, the previous offer from Virpus does sound a lot better.

The NY NOC – $60/Year OpenVZ VPS with 512MB

LowEndAdmin — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:39:48 +0000

Via this WHT offer. And The NY NOC is back to the budget VPS hosting scene! They were the one that started this 512MB memory for $5 trend, have “re-adjusted” their price, and is now offering $5/month VPS again provided that you prepay for 12 months. You have to use the order link from WHT’s offer page, and you get

512MB memory
10GB storage
1,000GB/month data transfer
OpenVZ/HyperVM

Location is either Los Angeles or New York, when you need to specify when you order. I still have one ordered from late last year. Uptime was great… Until a few days ago where there was an extended outage (something like 18 hours) and my VPS got rebooted. Personally I found the VPS got slower and slower due to high IO latency (someone else is thrashing the disk), and best of luck for using all the data transfer allocated, as the network connectivity has been pretty patchy. They don’t put limit on the CPU though so it has been great doing various process/memory intensive tasks I’ve thrown at it.

Up2VPS – $5.99 128MB OpenVZ VPS

LowEndAdmin — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 12:44:53 +0000

Via this WHT offer. up2vps is yet another new’ish budget low end virtual server provider. It’s Linux6 plan, listed on their VPS hosting page, is a low end VPS plan that costs $5.99/month. You get

128MB memory
6GB storage
300GB/month data transfer
CentOS, Fedora Core, Debian, Ubuntu
OpenVZ/HyperVM

Just noted that on their WHT listing, it says “HypeVM” so it might be using some new VM control panel that’s powered by hype :) Domain registered 2 weeks ago so buyers beware. 99.999% guaranteed uptime with SLA, which should again ring your alarm bell. Less than 6 minutes of downtime guaranteed with an SLA for less than $6/month? Fat chance… (but I hope I am wrong here)

Servers in Los Angeles.

SteadCom – $4.95 32MB Xen/OpenVZ VPS

LowEndAdmin — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:07:57 +0000

While the 64MB VPS crowd has moved up to compete on 128MB memory territory, there are some wanted to explore a special niche by offering VPS with only 32MB of memory! XenVZ did it, and SteamCom has also started to offer VPS of this size. For $4.95/month, you can get:

32MB memory
2.5GB storage
100GB/month data transfer
OpenVZ or Xen

SteamCom has been trading for 2 years and have their servers in Los Angeles CA. It has provide a choice between Xen and OpenVZ — one provides swap space and the other has “burstable RAM”.

GrandiosHost – $6.95 128MB Xen VPS

LowEndAdmin — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:35:50 +0000

GrandiosHost is one of the new Xen VPS provider that I found when browsing through WHT. Domain was registered less than 2 months ago with WHOIS protection on. Well. At least it is offering some cheap VPS plans. Their Xen VPS plans start at $6.95/month, and you get

128MB memory
5GB storage
50GB/month data transfer
VSControl (developed by JaguarPC)

Not too bad. Until when you read their about page.

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Yeah. Full of place holder text. Looks like the website is far from being finished. Their website is on WebNX in Los Angeles CA, but their network page says “The GH Network – Powered by GNAX”. GNAX is obviously on the other side in Atlanta GA, so I am not sure which one should I believe in. Their NS records also show some interesting stuff. Hmm.

Nixism – $5 128MB OpenVZ VPS

LowEndAdmin — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 09:36:29 +0000

Via this WHT offer. Nixism — a 3 year old web hosting company (pretty good in this end of market) — is offering WHT visitors an OpenVZ VPS plan for only $5/month.

128MB guaranteed/256MB burstable memory
10GB storage
100GB/month data transfer
2 IP addresses
CentOS/Debian/Gentoo/Fedora Core/Ubuntu/OpenSUSE

Servers are in Los Angeles CA. You have to use the order link in the WHT offer as it is not available on their VPS offering page. Looks like 128MB is the new 64MB now as most recent offerings at our target range are all having at least 128MB, which is a lot more liveable than 64MB even in 64bit mode.

Elite Data Hosting – $5 160MB Xen VPS in LA

LowEndAdmin — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 01:00:03 +0000

Via this WHT offer. Elite Data Hosting, a Texas based web hosting business, have a recurring 20% off discount on their Xen virtual servers + extra memory and disk space (code AWE20EXTRA). Their “Tiny Bertha” plan starts at $6.25/month so after the discount code you pay $5/month and get:

160MB memory + 256MB swap
15GB storage
10Mbps unmetered
CentOS/Debian/Ubuntu/FreeBSD/NetBSD
HyperVM

It’s great to be able to run xBSD on the cheap here, and there’s even a choice of running OpenSolaris but not at the cheapest plan. It’s also very cheap for a 10mbps unmetered pipe (if you are into that kind of thingy). Domain was registered back in February this year (i.e. new business). Servers are located in Los Angeles CA.

Interesting setup I’ll say. From owner’s LinkedIn profile he seems to be pretty technical so hopefully it goes well.

SteadCom – $6.95 OpenVZ/Xen VPS (Annual Payment)

LowEndAdmin — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 11:21:01 +0000

Via this WHT offer. SteamCom is running some specials on their VPS packages, and their low-end Budget VPS can be had for around $6.95/month if you prepay for 12 months. It is available in either OpenVZ or Xen flavors.

128MB memory/256MB burstable (OpenVZ) or swap (Xen)
10GB storage
300GB/month data transfer
2 IP addresses
HyperVM

You will need to go through this special order link. I think SteamCom has been around for a while so it would be a safer choice. Their servers are in Los Angeles CA.

Veeblox – $3 128MB OpenVZ VPS

LowEndAdmin — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 12:21:27 +0000

Here is another new host with newly registered domain name — which hopefully the readers here know what I meant :) Veeblox has a few economical VPS offers, and the cheapest one being only $3/month (Micro VPS). You get:

128MB guaranteed/256MB burstable memory
10GB storage
100GB/month data transfer
2 IP addresses

No words on the virtualization technology, which I presume to be OpenVZ. IP address of their website is with Peer1, and hosted in UK. You can pay monthly (which I guess $3 will easily be eaten away by processing fees), and there’s 99.9% uptime + 30day money back guarantee…

Yeah. Whatever. Their web pages are full of mistakes (“Shared Linux Hosting Packages” in VPS page? 120MB burstable to 96MB?). Anyone wants to give them a try? :)

TheNYNOC – $3.95 Super Tiny VPS

LowEndAdmin — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:45:12 +0000

You thought their $5 512MB VPS was crazy, The New York NOC has done it again. Via this WHT offer, you can get this “Super Tiny VPS” for as much as $3.95/month. And from the spec it’s not tiny either.

256MB guaranteed memory
5GB storage
500GB/month data transfer
2 IP addresses
OpenVZ / HyperVM
CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSuse

Testing IP address shows that they are in Los Angeles.

TheNYNOC – $5 OpenVZ VPS with 512MB

LowEndAdmin — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:08:47 +0000

Thanks to Jerret for sending in this VPS deal at WHT. The New York NOC currently has a $5/month “Super VPS Plan” that comes with:

512MB burstable memory
10GB storage
1,000GB/month data transfer
2 IP addresses
HyperVM

Yup. 512MB burstable memory — it’s almost too high-end for me. 1TB of data transfer per month?! I might need to set up a zillion blog sites like this to use that up. The DC is actually not in New York but in Los Angeles. You do have to prepay for 12 months though — but for $60/year it’s still a great value.

Actually. The same deal came up on around 10 days ago, and I signed up on the 21st. I also added 256MB more memory for $27.50/year, and it runs Ubuntu 8.04. The setup was pretty quick — 22 minutes for me after paid by PayPal. It has access to a Core 2 Quad Q9300 (i.e. fast), but it’s sitting there idling at the moment, until I can find something for it to do.

PTXL – $5.50 OpenVZ VPS with 128MB

LowEndAdmin — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 13:06:42 +0000

Via this WHT offer, PTXL has some cheap VPS plans. For $5.50/month, you get their “Extra Small” VPS which is far from “small” IMO:

128MB guaranteed / 256MB burstable memory
2GB storage
50GB monthly data transfer
2 IP addresses
CentOS or Debian

These guys are in Los Angeles with either Awknet or WebNX. WHOIS points to someone in Coimbra, Portugal.

VPS R Us – $6.80 OpenVZ VPS with 128MB

LowEndAdmin — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:25:10 +0000

Update: VPS R Us no longer services VPS but spammy content.

Via this offer at WHT, VPS new start up “VPS R Us” has 20% off coupon for August for their VPS servers, which makes their low end plan “Entry R Us” $6.80/month. It’s an OpenVZ VPS with the following spec:

128MB guaranteed / 256MB burstable
10GB storage
75GB monthly data transfer
2 IP addresses

DC in Infomart, Dallas and One Wilshire Los Angeles. You need to use the code “aug20″ to get the 20% discount. LxAdmin is offered as a free option so I guess it would be HyperVM based. The spec looks good and they are guarateed to have you on a Quad core system — although on OpenVZ seeing all the cores does not mean the provider won’t limit your CPU usage with the cpulimit parameter. Here’s also a list coming out from my “dodgy meter”:

Domain registered 2 weeks ago.
Self-signed SSL certificate on the ordering page.

Certainly a quick launch — not sure whether they will also attempt to find a quick exit like the FiveMinuteVPS and VPS Empire.

VPSRepublic – $3.50 OpenVZ VPS with 128MB RAM

LowEndAdmin — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:36:17 +0000

Via this offer on WHT, VPSRepublic has some some amazingly cheap VPS deals, starting at $3.50/month (!!). You get

128MB guaranteed / 256MB burstable memory
1GB storage
75GB monthly data transfer
OpenVZ
Debian / Ubuntu / CentOS / Fedora / Gentoo / OpenSUSE

Their standard plan also fits into the criteria at $5.50/month with 256MB/512MB of memory. Their servers are at KevWorks in Los Angeles. Not sure about the control panel but as their site is hosted on an LxAdmin host, I presume it would be HyperVM based. Their domain was only registered early this month so caveat emptor. You can find out more about the owner by googling around.