• 128MB memory
• 15GB storage
• 500GB/month data transfer
• $25/Year

• 256MB memory
• 30GB storage
• 1000GB/month data transfer
• $5/Month

• 128MB memory
• 250GB storage
• 100Mbps download/5Mbps upload unmetered
• $7/Month

(Yes I know the last one was $7.50/month on BuyVM at the moment, but Fran did write $7/month in his email, with a note saying “very very limited stock of these”). Windows 2003 is also available on all KVM plans for no extra charge. San Jose servers — all owned gears with some pretty nice network connectivity. Since August they have also replaced SolusVM with their own control panel known as “Stallion” that’s specially designed for KVM.

So there you go. For Francisco — Happy Birthday! and for the rest of you — get your stopwatch ready because from experience it’s going to be a rush. 1PM GMT-7, or 1318708800 seconds since epoch (I think).

Brandon from eNetSouth has just put up some new servers at SoftLayer in San Jose CA, and asked me to “catch us off guard”. So here’s the deal from them. With this sign up link, $7/month gets you this:

• 2GB memory
• 50GB storage
• 1500GB/month data transfer on 1Gbps
• 1x IPv4 + 1x IPv6
• OpenVZ/SolousVM

Those are powered by Xeon E3-1270 Sandy Bridge CPUs. Test IP: 50.23.74.242. Instant activation, subject to IPv4 availability from upstream.

eNetSouth has grown quite a bit since Brandon started working full time on it. Now they have Brain working as full-time support there and Miguel doing part-time between colleges, so hopefully the ticket turn-around time would be shortened.

Disclaimer: LowEndTalk, the community website, runs on a VMWare server sponsored by eNetSouth.

• 256MB memory
• 20GB storage
• 100GB/month data transfer
• Xen/SolusVM

Credit card or PayPal can be used. Xen PV is offered by default and no extra charge for Xen HVM. Servers in San Jose CA in Market Post Tower DC (test IP: 199.68.196.196). According to their About Us page, they were founded in July 2003 and were incorporated in 2004 in South Carolina. They have also been acquiring smaller VPS providers, including BlueShoreHost which was previously featured here.

Stock has been announced! August 3rd, 1PM, GMT -7 :)

That’s less than 10 hours to go! Lock your browser to BuyVM or the excellent DoesBuyVMHaveStock.com and wait for the ponies to appear. Francisco also emailed me that “for the rest of the summer we’ll have 300 128MB’s available per week as well as whatever other inventory we’ll have”. 4 weeks until the end of summer that means around 1,200 $15/year 128MB OpenVZ VPS will be made available at BuyVM. Ordering link here.

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

Other under-$7 low end plans:

• 256MB/512MB memory, 30GB storage, 1000GB/month data — $3.50/month. [Sign up link]
• 512MB/1024MB memory, 50GB storage, 2000GB/month data — $5.95/month. [Sign up link]

Let the wait begin! /me going back to work

Brandon from eNetSouth has been busy… From what I’ve heard he has been building and testing new box for KVM. Anyway — here is the deal for the LowEndBox readers. $6.99/month for this KVM VPS:

• 400MB memory
• 45GB storage
• 1000GB/month data transfer
• KVM/SolusVM

Direct sign up link here. Instant setup but the customers have to build their own instance from ISO. Servers in Birmingham, AL. 32GB node with 8x 2TB Hitachi drives in RAID10 configuration. 4 virtual CPU cores.

There are other offers Brandon sent to me:

• LEBeVZ768 — $7/month
• 768MB guaranteed/1024MB burstable memory
• 20GB storage
• 1000GB/month data transfer
• OpenVZ/SolusVM
• Sign up links for Birmingham AL, Chicago IL and San Jose CA

• LEBeVZ160 — $23/year
• 160MB guaranteed/200MB burstable memory
• 15GB storage
• 500GB/month data transfer
• OpenVZ/SolusVM
• Sign up links for Birmingham AL

• VMWare — $15/3 months
• 512MB memory
• 20GB storage
• 1500GB/month data transfer
• VMWare
• Direct sign up link

For the VMWare plans, nodes are available in Chicago IL, Dallas TX and San Jose CA. They don’t get instant setups though (where the SolusVM-based OpenVZ/KVM plans are). From previous comments on eNS Cloud, they usually get set up within 24 hours.

Disclaimer: LowEndTalk.com is currently hosted on a VMWare VPS in Chicago sponsored by eNetSouth.

• 256MB memory/512MB swap
• 15GB storage
• 10Mbps unmetered bandwidth
• Xen

Servers with SVTIX in San Jose CA (Test IP: 173.252.197.147). Founded by Dhanank in Indonesia since 2006, who also runs SoerabaiaNetworks and having years of sysadmin experience. PayPal is offered as well as “Bank Transfer” which I presume would only be applicable if you are doing it from an Indonesian bank.

Here is another company getting their gears up ready for the summer, and coming to LowEndBox asking us to help them off-load some stocks! Brandon from eNetSouth has released some LowEndBox-exclusive offers. Here are the deals:

• LEBeVZ768 — Sign up links for San Jose CA (test IP: 98.158.22.164) or Chicago IL (test IP: 206.217.133.98)
• 768MB memory
• 20GB storage
• 1000GB/month data transfer
• $7/month

• LEBeVZ200 — Sign up link for Birmingham AL (test IP: 216.180.128.2)
• 200MB guaranteed/256MB burstable memory
• 20GB storage
• 650GB/month data transfer
• $26/year

• LEBeVZ160 — Sign up link for Birmingham AL (test IP: 216.180.128.2)
• 160MB guaranteed/256MB burstable memory
• 15GB storage
• 500GB/month data transfer
• $23/year

San Jose VPS also comes with 2x IPv6. They are also giving away an iPod Nano and free 6 months VPS hosting at their summer away promotion. I must say that Brandon has done a great job this year in their previous offer. You can also vote them in our current top provider poll here. They have also been testing Xen HVM and KVM VPS — hopefully we will see them next month.

Disclaimer: LowEndTalk.com is hosted on a VMWare VPS provided by eNSCloud.

We know that some of you had a lot of problem with their previous $15/year offer. It has been almost 2 months now and they are keen for another try. Nope, not cheap annual plan anymore, but Pete from Vazapi emailed me a special promo for LowEndBox readers as “an apology to teething problem during annual promotion”. Promo code is LEB0611, and makes “uVZ-2″ $5/month at checkout. Direct sign up link here, and this is what you will get

• 512MB guaranteed/1024MB burstable memory
• 20GB storage
• 1TB/month data transfer
• OpenVZ/SolusVM

Servers will be provisioned to San Jose by default (test IP: 199.48.146.2), but if you want Chicago (test IP: 64.79.100.38), you would need to open a ticket to have your VPS re-provisioned. IPv6 is “available” — you’ll be given a /64 on request, however from previous posts IPv6 might not actually work so YMMV.

Vazapi is affiliated with ServerMinds, Graxis, etc.

Brandon from eNetSouth had survived a tornado, moved their Alabama servers to a new location (HiWAAY in Birmingham), and is back offering more deals! Here is one yearly OpenVZ offer for $22/year (Direct sign up link).

• 160MB memory
• 15GB storage
• 500GB/month data transfer
• OpenVZ/SolusVM

Instant activation if passed fraud test and made the payment. Co-lo servers. Test IP: 216.180.128.10. Birmingham has pretty good South America connectivity according to Brandon.

eNetSouth is also now offering OpenVZ VPS in both San Jose CA (with 8×8) and Chicago IL (with ColoCrossing). $7/month gives you

• 768MB memory
• 30GB storage
• 1500GB/month data transfer
• OpenVZ/SolusVM

Direct order link for Chicago IL or San Jose. Finally, eNetSouth Cloud is also offering a special new VMWare package in Dallas TX. For $6.95/month you get

• 512MB memory
• 20GB storage
• 1500GB/month data transfer
• VMWare

Sign up link for this one. Servers with ColoCrossing in Dallas TX (test IP: 98.158.22.180). Do note that VMWare purchases don’t get instant activation, as accounts need to be manually setup.

Updated disclaimer: eNetSouth Cloud hosts one of my sites, LowEndTalk, yada yada yada.

Dominic from Vazapi emailed me a LowEndBox special. Looks like I am going to break my rules again by posting a yearly offer on a pretty new domain — although Vazapi is owned by Graxis/ServerMinds that has been around for a while. The price is at the very-low-end spot — $15/year. And here is the spec of their special “uVZ-0″ package:

• 256MB guaranteed/512MB burstable memory
• 15GB storage
• 1000GB/month data transfer
• OpenVZ/SolusVM

Ordering link here. Servers are in either San Jose CA (test IP: 199.48.146.2) or Chicago (test IP: 64.79.100.38). IPv6 is available on request. Do note the extra terms for this plan — no email marketing and associated services, and no bittorrent. See previous posts on this provider, and Dominic’s explanation on previous projects.

Dominic, who is the CEO of ServerMinds and Graxis, who owns their low-end VPS brand Vazapi emailed me about their special offer. Use this direct sign up link to get a “leVZ-1″ for $4.99/month (or $49.90/year). It’s similar to “uVZ-1″ of their budget OpenVZ packages, but with extra disk space.

• 256MB guaranteed/512MB burstable memory
• 30GB storage
• 1000GB/month data transfer
• OpenVZ/SolusVM

They have servers with Continuum in Chicago (test IP: 64.79.100.38), and they have also recently announced their San Jose location (test IP: 199.48.146.2). See previous post on Vazapi on a bit of my commentary on them. It’s not a one man company and they do own their IP range and their hardware. However I am still wondering what happened to the clients under their other failed brands. Dominic said that they were re-launching Zabogo in a few weeks — last September! I know business strategies change everyday. But at the same time I guess every consumer deserve a bit of assurance.

• 256MB memory/512MB swap
• 12GB storage
• 10TB/month data transfer on 1Gbps port
• Xen/SolusVM

Test IP: 184.105.195.10, which is with HE.net in San Jose. 10TB of data is nice, only if the pipe is wide enough with a fast & stable CPU. Whether you can use 10TB is one thing. I would, however, feel anxious thinking what my VPS neighbours would do to use all that data. From experience of 2Host’s servers in St. Louis and Asheville, the connectivity can be patchy sometimes. The VPS themselves are pretty stable though, as I was with 2Host for over 15 months. I did receive bad reports on their lack of support + server instability so YMMV.

Brandon from eNetSouth Cloud emailed me about their new exclusive offers for LowEndBox readers. This is a 5 day only sale — from Friday 19 Nov to Wednesday 24 Nov. Here is the sign up link, and the cost is either $18.75/3 months (~$6.25/month) or $34.50/6 months (~$5.75/month).

• 512MB memory
• 20GB storage
• 1500GB/month data transfer
• VMWare

Note that this promotion applies to Linux only, i.e. can’t use it for Windoze servers. You can also choose between Chicago IL or San Jose CA. From their past offers they seem to be providing quite a solid VMWare-based solution, although support can be a bit slow sometimes. According to Brandon they did have “fraud signup nightmare” last month.

If you rather have monthly billing, their previous offer is still available — $6.95 for 400MB VMWare VPS.

For those of us who prefer more dedicated-server like VPS (rather than glorified jail, ala OpenVZ), this latest exclusive offer from eNetSouth Cloud might interest you. The last offer from eNS Cloud in San Jose was good — except their earlier offer for Chicago was even better! Co-lo in San Jose is more expensive after all, and they did have a much beefier server in Chicago. However Brandon decided to amended the offer, and now you can use this sign up link to get the same VMWare offer for both Chicago and San Jose! So for $6.95/month you get

• 400MB memory
• 20GB storage
• 10Mbps unmetered bandwidth
• VMWare/vSphere

You can pretty much install any OS you want on your VMWare box (Windoze, Linux, xBSD, etc). See previous threads on discussions on this company.

It took them a while, but Brandon from eNetSouth Cloud emailed me that their racks in San Jose California is finally live. Here is a special offer for the LowEndBox readers — $6.95/month for following VMWare ESX-based VPS.

• 256MB memory
• 20GB storage
• 2500GB/month data transfer
• VMWare vSphere

Use this link to order the above product. Co-lo in San Jose is quite a bit more expensive than Chicago thus it is more expensive than their previous exclusive offer in Chicago. Servers are with 8×8/CentralHost with Level3, Global Crossing and Cogent bandwidth and good connectivity to Asia. Test IP: 98.158.22.163.

Brandon also showed me a sample VPS he has got. It was a different spec CentOS 5 build with access to one single Xeon X3430 core and pretty decent IO performance. I suspect it would be similar with the one above.

• 80MB memory/128MB swap
• 3GB storage
• 300GB/month data transfer
• Xen/SolusVM

Here are the direct order link for San Jose California and Germany. The package comes with 64MB although on the WHT offer it says there will be an upgrade to 80MB memory. Pay a bit more ($45/year) will get you 128MB memory Xen VPS instead in either San Jose or Germany.

Disclaimer: LowEndBox.com is currently hosted on one of those 80MB Xen VPS in Dallas provided by QuickWeb free of charge.

Via this WHT offer. Fastrackservers claims “instant VPS setup and 30 minutes dedicated servers” with their San Jose CA data center, which is actually with Take2Hosting. For $5.95/month you can get their “VPS Budget” with

• 256MB guaranteed/1GB burstable memory
• 30GB storage
• 700GB/month data transfer
• OpenVZ/SolusVM

Domain is registered merely 2 months ago. The postal address of Fastrackservers is in Illinois but I can’t seem to be able to find it in the LLC search so might not be a registered company. 4 NS on exactly the same subnet — might even be on the same box. Also some interesting sites hosted there :P

• 256MB memory
• 20GB storage
• 150GB/month data transfer
• Xen/SolusVM

The servers are in San Jose and they use HE.net which has good support for IPv6. I guess what’s coming up for them would be either Xen HVM or KVM hosting — both are probably providing the same thing that allows you to run native OS in a VM. Looks like it has pretty good network set up with HE, Savvis and Level3.

• 64MB memory/128MB swap
• 3GB storage
• 300GB/month data transfer
• Xen

QuickWeb seems to have come a long way since last year and have been pulling quite a few good offers. 64MB is more than adequate to run a site like LowEndBox.com which gets around only ~70k page views/month (only average 1.62 pages/minute arghhhh). 1 year prepaid is a bit inconvenient though — not that they might not be around in 12 months time, but your demand might change then.

• 256MB memory
• 20GB storage
• 200Gb/month data transfer
• OpenVZ/SolusVM
• 1x IPv4 + 2x IPv6

They use the data center in San Jose with IP provided by Ethr.net. The IP range is registered to “Lightwave Networking LLC” (which I guess I can dig out more info if I know how to do US business lookup). On their product page they are also intending to provide Xen PV, Xen HVM and KVM hosting. On their dedicated server testimony page though they do have nenolod of RapidXen as reference.

Would be an interesting provider to look out for.