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.

Prgmr.com – $5 64MB Xen VPS + Free First Month

LowEndAdmin — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:35:08 +0000

Prgmr.com has been around offering Linux and NetBSD Xen VPS for a while but last time I checked they had temporarily suspended new sign ups. Good news is — they are back! You can now sign up to their Xen VPS offerings, including their low-end $5/month VPS in Herakles DC in Sacramento.

64MB memory
~~10GB~~ 5GB storage
20GB monthly transfer
Debian 3/4, Ubuntu 7.04, CentOS 4/5, FedoraCore, Slackware, NetBSD

Currently they are offering a time limited special — first month is free, because “prgmr.com is still something of a mess”.

Update: Prgmr.com is now offering 5GB instead of 10GB of storage because of mirroring. Doing RAID 1 is a Good Thing^TM — you get 2x the read speed, but most importantly, a failed drive does not take hours (or days!) of downtime.

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