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BuyVM 1 Year Review
I current have a KVM server on both locations offered -- Vegas and New Jersey. The uptime is superb, and reboot is mainly self initiated due to update requiring it such as kernel upgrade. The network has been consistently stable. The I/O speed would more than likely be faster with a normal setup; the systems are encrypted, so there's slight overhead. The support is professional and timely. There is also an IRC channel; it can be a bit wild at times because there's no filter, but I personally believe it's better that way.
Vegas:
CPU model : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU L5639 @ 2.13GHz
Number of cores : 1
CPU frequency : 2133.408 MHz
Total amount of ram : 119 MB
Total amount of swap : 119 MB
System uptime : 4 days, 7:24,
Download speed from CacheFly: 7.73MB/s
Download speed from Coloat, Atlanta GA: 9.46MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Dallas, TX: 19.6MB/s
Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 1.08MB/s
Download speed from i3d.net, Rotterdam, NL: 751KB/s
Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 274KB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Singapore: 5.83MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Seattle, WA: 15.6MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 17.4MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Washington, DC: 14.7MB/s
I/O speed : 73.1 MB/s
New Jersey:
CPU model : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31230 @ 3.20GHz
Number of cores : 1
CPU frequency : 3200.020 MHz
Total amount of ram : 119 MB
Total amount of swap : 59 MB
System uptime : 4 days, 10:40,
Download speed from CacheFly: 49.7MB/s
Download speed from Coloat, Atlanta GA: 652KB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Dallas, TX: 40.4MB/s
Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 10.0MB/s
Download speed from i3d.net, Rotterdam, NL: 13.7MB/s
Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 14.6MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Singapore: 8.71MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Seattle, WA: 30.1MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 29.5MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Washington, DC: 55.8MB/s
I/O speed : 150 MB/s
One feature where BuyVM beats all competitors is its Stallion VPS control panel management; in comparison, SolusVM would be like Windows 95 compared to Windows 7. Stallion has a very well designed interface, and it's really easy to use. Take for example, the VPS usually comes with 16 IPV6 addresses, but with a single click, you can obtain a /64 block and also generate random IPs from that block. I recommend BuyVM for anyone looking for a stable and affordable VPS.
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Tell us something we don't know!
Someone linked me this on skype earlier but I didn't have a chance to reply, but, thanks
We put a lot of work into Stallion and hope that the billing2 merge
is just as awesome (in our eyes at least). I'm currently working out the last
details on backups & snapshots for KVM's before I start coding away at it.
I hope to have floating IP support in the coming few months as well.
Francisco
yup, there are few providers that you don't need reviews, like BuyVM, or Prometeus.
Now it's perfect.
I'm sorry, you're right. Also, FlipHost or serverian, too.
what about Catalysthost, and linode(though not le)
I have to add Inception Hosting onto that list.
Buyvm provides solid service
Is LV stable now?
the netspeed from LV above seems not fast
Vegas has been stable for a long time. There was some outages when NTP floods were hitting really hard on everywhere, but I since then gave Fiberhub an autonull.
You'd have to check the reverse to see if you take above as well. We've seen some async routes where it goes cogent back sometimes.
Francisco
Vouch for this.
I've been a customer of BuyVM for roughly 2 months now. The server itself is extremely stable, haven't had one minute of downtime & no overselling what so ever is happening, strange huh? (considering 99% of hosts are overselling).
Taking this into regard, I'm proud to call BuyVM a top tier provider. The uptime is great, the people in the IRC are fun to chat to & support, oh my, I cannot even begin to properly word how excellent their support department is.
I'm on their DDoS protected plan, and only one very large (large!) attack has managed to take my site offline, after submitting a ticket and panicking in the IRC like a wild goose, the support team resolved it within 5 minutes and cut down the attack by 3/4. They put filters in-place to prevent it from happening again, and to this day, not one attack has managed to pass through.
I couldn't believe all these reviews about BuyVM, I honestly thought they were fake, but being a client now, I understand what all the fuss is about.
Thank you BuyVM! And most importantly THANK YOU Francisco!
Buyvm no more #1 in LET poll probably because of slow network speed and slow io comparing to other hosts. Time is going fast and without improvements probably will deadpool soon or after.
Plus stallion is ripped solusvm, right? When there is a problem be sure Francisko will blame something and it's not their fault.
Yeah, because coming 3rd, 4th and 5th in the last 3 provider polls is a clear sign that that they suck, right? They're down in the polls because others have upped their game, and because EVERYONE loves RamNode.
These days all LET wants is Ramnode. They have a cheerleading squad in here, after all..
Ramnode: Such I/O. Much wow.
But guys.. I can change the node's caching so that all the dd tests appear amazing too..
Yes, free upgrades to SSD's on all 256MB+ plans in Vegas, free nightly backups, tons of features that solus doesn't have, etc, etc, etc.
We're just dying over here!
Francisco
I just noticed that BuyVM includes windows 2003 in the cost of the server.. Still better than no windows if you don't want to use linux :P
As well as 2008, & 2012.
Once 2003 is EOL it'll be delisted but for now our low RAM plans love the damn thing, no matter how annoying it is
Francisco
I can see why. On my personal windows 2012 vm, it eats 1.2gb min ramwise
BuyVM are not in the top poll because they are no longer active here and there are no coupons. Not because they offer poor service or performance.
Cut through all the shit on LET and the simple fact is that those who make the top is first and foremost because the discounts are good and therefore more sign up. The service and performance will always be secondary but expected. If that was not the case Greenvaluehost would have Deadpooled long ago. In fact I would expect to see them high up in the next poll purely for the volume of clients acquired who are happy only because of what they paid.
It's a bit like volumedrive, shit service and mediocre performance but people stay and put up with it for the value.
My point is that if ramnode stops the 40% discounts they will quickly loose ground and start dropping down the LET polls. People, certainly at LET will not be so quick to pay full price.
This is no different to what happened with BuyVM and many others besides.
And besides, other hosts can setup their servers to make the DD tell you what you want to see.
Like there were any coupons from them ever...
That's may be true, but comparing them head to head this coupon give us a vps within similar pricing range ($13 - $15) as BuyVM vps. How high on polls are some BlueVM (not BuyVM, I mean it BlueVM) with their regular appearance and discounts at LEB?
I am not bitching against BuyVM, their service is decent, but there's more competition than ever. Some are simple doing better now.
I thought the 40% coupons for Ramnode were quite a recent thing. They were riding high in the polls before them?
They always had a decent sized coupon, but I just used them as an example.
Pretty sure Nick's coupons have been a pretty constant thing...
People like deals. While i've laid down whatever beef I had with Mr. Clarke, people went clamoring for him last year during the black friday sales just because he had a 50%+ off coupon or something like that.
It's pretty easy to get to a run of the mill SSD setup on an E3 with SolusVM. What else are you bringing to the table that others aren't? Lower price? Well, that works for now until someone can get the sameish deal as you and rinse repeat.
Anyway, this is going to get way off-topic and cause the mods a headache and I'm not sure if vanilla supports splitting threads.
Thank you for the feedback everyone, do try our best.
Francisco
Tons of features? please list them if you have so much.
What you (buyvm) exactly provide that others aren't ?
with Jersey getting the same love as well as all regular KVM plans
That's to top it with us using a panel that hasn't been hacked wide
open multiple times now. Up until just last year Solus didn't have the ability
to set VIRTIO for the end user or even proper RDNS controls for IPV6.
Within the year we'll have our full billing system merged into the
same platform and hopefully around the same time we'll have
bandwidth pooling, floating IP support, ANYCAST IP support,
& an API to allow all of this to be handled outside of Stallion itself.
If our panel was so boring and lacking, then why do I still get
at least 2+ PM's a week from hosts trying to buy it off us? I just recently
had a $20k+ offer for it as well as a few others.
Francisco
@Francisco : couple of suggestions for the control panel improvement:
ability to change the time zone of the logs listed there
ability to add email notifications for API key logins, not just website logins
other than that, it works just fine for me
Do me a favor and open a ticket for this?
I'm gathering a list of features
people are really wanting right now that I can work on. I got people
wanting 2-factor auth setup ASAP so I'm specing that out while working
on Jersey's backups.
We need to change the formatting for logs so it provides an actual time as well, not just the Y-m-d.
Francisco