• 256MB guaranteed/512MB burstable memory
• 20GB storage
• 1TB/month data transfer
• Virtuozzo

Payments in either PayPal or 2Checkout. Servers with Equinix in Switzerland (test IP: 46.19.136.110). You should be able to find quite a lot of discussion from their previous offer post. Do note that they are currently putting an IO limit on the low end VPS at 10.8MB/sec, which is pretty slow. However I guess it’s not too bad if the performance is consistent. No SSL on the ordering page and some bad DNS configurations.

Wish everyone a great weekend so far. Over the last week or two, a few people have sent me info on HostRail‘s new Windows VPS line of products. They also currently have special promotion — until 3^rd of April (i.e. today). Promo code WINDOWSBUYNOW will get you 15% recurring discount on their Windows VPS, and longer payment cycles also have larger discount. For example up to 40% off if you purchase annually. Their “2 Power Units Server” would be $5.94/month after the discount is applied. Direct order link here.

• 384MB memory
• 60GB storage
• 800GB/month data transfer
• Virtuozzo/Windows 2003/2008

This has also been discussed on LowEndTalk. Servers in Switzerland (test IP: 46.19.136.1). I believe that it is Virtuozzo-powered Windows VPS, which is very different from Hyper-V or Xen HVM powered Windows VPS (such as this CityNetHost and this Thrust::VPS offer). It’s a container based virtualization with shared kernel — yes shared Windows kernel which you can’t update if I remember correctly. So like OpenVZ, it might not run everything you throw at it especially when the program requires dedicated-server like environment.

HostRail’s previous offers have received huge number of responses — both over 500+ comments. HostRail is based in Cyrpus, been in business since 2004. They must have done something right to get that many responses — at least they are very hard to beat price-wise.

• 384MB memory
• 30GB storage
• 250GB/month data transfer
• Virtuozzo

Servers are in Germany with Interwerk (test IP: 109.230.232.7). urgetVPS do seem to own their own /22, are a registered company in UK, and have been around since early 2009. Also note that it is using Parallel’s Virtuozzo product with SLM which I think is quite a lot better than OpenVZ with user_beancounters.

• 384MB memory
• 30GB storage
• 250GB/month data transfer
• 3 IP addresses
• Virtuozzo

Data center in Frankfurt Germany. 3 IPv4 addresses seem to be very generous, and I don’t know whether any IPv6 is included. Not as cheap as their Black Friday offer though, and moreover you need to pay a year in advance. urgentVPS has been around for 2 years now, had quite a few hiccups early last year, and hopefully the system regained stability later on. It’s also one of few providers that use Virtuozzo.

• 384MB memory
• 30GB storage
• 250GB/month data transfer
• 3 IP addresses
• Virtuozzo

Servers in Frankfurt, Germany. Check past posts on this provider to get more insights.

• 384MB memory
• 30GB storage
• 250GB/month data transfer
• 3 IP addresses
• Virtuozzo

Yes, 2 more IP addresses than you ever need. And Virtuozzo — Parallel’s (previously known as SWsoft) paid product, which uses SLM memory management that’s superior than OpenVZ’s UBC model. Servers are in Frankfurt, Germany. Some interesting comments from our last post about them, and hopefully their new DC is more stablized. They had pretty turbulent year from what I read on the threads tagged with urgentvps on WHT.

For LowEndBox readers, there’s also a once-off 25% off discount with promo code LEB-25.

Via this WHT offer. Atelra is currently having a summer blowout sale offering 25% off to their Linux Virtuozzo VPS packages! So for their Iron package, that’s $5.96/month and you get

• 128MB memory
• 5GB storage + 2GB backup
• 250GB/month data transfer on Gbits network
• Virtuozzo

From our previous post on Atelra, their facilities are in Denver/Englewood CO. You can get more info about the owner from the previous post. It is a properly registered LLC in Colorado (ID=20081258904). So even though the web design might not be all that flashy, but at least it looks like a legitimate business.

• 384MB guaranteed/512MB burstable memory
• 30GB storage
• 100GB/month data transfer
• Virtuozzo
• CentOS/Fedora Core/Debian/Ubuntu

Servers are in Frankfurt Germany, although the company is based in UK. You can get even more discount with yearly payment and coupon code “WHT-ANNUAL-25OFF” to get 25% off. It’s very cheap for Virtuozzo-based VPS, which we have rarely featured comparing to OpenVZ-based plans. You also get “free” Plesk 9.x 10 domain license, but I guess you won’t be of “low end box spirit” if you fall to the dark side and use a memory hungry hosting control panel :)

You get

• 128MB guaranteed
• 10GB storage
• 100GB/month data transfer
• Virtuozzo

Since no burstable memory is specified I presume it would be Virtuozzo SLM, which is a lot better than the user beancounter model in all of OpenVZ virtual servers. Their website now appears to be hosted at Liquid Web in Lansing MI.

• 256MB memory
• 10GB storage
• 500GB/month data transfer
• 1 Domain Plesk License

According to their about us page, the DC is in San Jose CA. Domain was registered in 1998 and they claim to be in business since 1997. It seems to be in the hosting business for that long according to the wayback machine. Not much review I can find except this one at WebhostingTalk. Still a $7 Virtuozzo container is cheap, if Virtuozzo+Plesk is your thing.

• 128MB guaranteed/256MB burstable memory
• 5GB storage
• 50GB/month data transfer
• CentOS

Servers are using high end Xeon 5420/5520 so they are probably squeezing a lot of VEs onto those beefy boxes. Their data center information on be found on this page with an IP address to do traceroute and download speed test.

Personally I am not a big fan of Virtuozzo. In fact I much prefer OpenVZ unless SLM is used on the Virtuozzo (which apparently is not the case here).

Edit: offer is for US DC rather than India DC.

Let’s see how low can the price go. Via this WHT offer. Buzz Servers has now introduced “The World’s First $3/Month VPS”. Yup you read it right — $3/month. $0.50 to cover the PayPal or credit card gateway fee. $1 to cover the IP address allocated to you, and $1.50 for your memory + disk storage space + data bandwidth. It lets you pay monthly as well, and you get:

• 256MB memory
• 15GB storage
• 75GB/month data transfer
• CentOS 5 only

All the best with Buzz Servers and I am not surprised that they are using it to probably lure users to upgrade later (although you can do heaps of stuff with the spec above, unless the CPU is badly throttled). The servers are either in Dallas TX or San Jose CA. Too bad only CentOS 5.3 is offered.

• 160MB memory
• 10GB storage
• 150GB/month data transfer
• 2 IP addresses
• Virtuozzo Power Panel

If it is using SLM, it would be a very good offer. According to their company page they have been offering Virtuozzo VPS since 2003. Servers are in UK.

• 64MB memory
• 2.5GB storage
• 30GB monthly data transfer
• CentOS/Debian/Fedora/Ubuntu

It uses Virtuozzo 4 so I assume it’s using SLM (which is much better than user bean counter). Severs are in Chicago at Steadfast Networks, hosted on dual quad core boxes. Another special feature is “shared MySQL” so you don’t even need to run your own MySQL server (which can be quite memory hungry sometimes).

• 128MB guaranteed memory
• 256MB burstable memory
• 10GB storage
• 100GB monthly transfer
• CentOS 4/5, Fedora Core 4/5, Debian 3.1, Suse 10
• Layered Tech in Dallas, TX

Pretty good for Virtuozzo based VPS that comes with PowerPanel. Also you get 20% discount if you prepay for 12 month — that brings the price down to $5.18/month. If you are willing to fork out $25 for setup, plus 12 month prepay, it will be around $3.57/month (+ setup fee). Smokyhosts has been around for 3 years so I guess they can’t be too bad.