LFCVPS: 35% off, 2x ram, 2x bandwidth, 11 FREE backups

jeff_lfcvps

Use promotion code "LETJUNE" for 35% recurring discount, 2X ram, 2X bandwidth (until July 1st, 2012) at http://www.lfcvps.com/

Our VPS Nodes: - ASUS Z9PE-D16 Server Motherboard - 2 x Hexa-Core Intel Xeon E5-NNNN CPUs with Hyper-Threading - 64GB of ECC DDR3-1600 RAM (minimum) - Adaptec 6805 w/ write-caching enabled (Zero-Maintenance Cache Protection) - 8 x Seagate 15,000RPM 600GB SAS Hard Drives (RAID-10)

Why choose LFCVPS: - Parent Company (LFCHosting) has been in business since 1996 - No overselling - You control your rDNS (both IPv4 and IPv6) - CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, Slackware, Fedora, Gentoo, Arch, Scientific Linux - Includes free backups (7 daily, 3 weekly, 1 user controlled) and the ability to securely access them using FTP-SSL

LFC-128 ($27.30/year): - Xen/SolusVM - 256MB RAM / 256MB Swap - 10GB disk space - 400GB bandwidth - 4 vCPU cores - 1 IPv4 Address - 10 IPv6 Addresses

LFC-256 ($5.17/month): - Xen/SolusVM - 512MB RAM / 512MB Swap - 20GB disk space - 600GB bandwidth - 4 vCPU cores - 1 IPv4 Address - 10 IPv6 Addresses

NOTE: We can route you a /64 of IPv6 space if you request it

Network and Datacenter: - 1500 Champa St, Denver - Test IP: 208.68.106.21 / 2605:6f00:532::21:1 - Test Files: http://mirrors.lfcvps.com/speedtest/

Contact:

We can be reached at sales (at) lfcvps.com

CVPS_Chris

Prices dont match up with Node specs, sorry but had to say it

jeff_lfcvps

Sorry, @CVPS_Chris, my original comment of "I'm afraid they do" wasn't really a great reply :) Our node specs are 100% accurate -- you don't stay in business for 10+ years by lying about specifications that can be easily vetted by anyone who signs up for a VPS.

Taylor

Seem very tempted by this, but no use /:

liamwithers

Removed post D: Clearly gonna get some serious abuse for having an opinion.

rds100

What's the problem with that? Providers usually work for profit, not as charities. The specs are good, the prices are not bad.

yomero

Pretty decent I think. Lots of cpu power to use :P

dmmcintyre3

[root@den ~]# ioping -RL .

--- . (ext3 /dev/xvda1) ioping statistics ---
3017 requests completed in 3000.1 ms, 1262 iops, 315.5 mb/s
min/avg/max/mdev = 0.6/0.8/2.3/0.1 ms
[root@den ~]# ioping -R .

--- . (ext3 /dev/xvda1) ioping statistics ---
8196 requests completed in 3000.1 ms, 4563 iops, 17.8 mb/s
[root@den ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=16k count=64k conv=fdatasync;rm -f test
65536+0 records in
65536+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 6.05183 s, 177 MB/s
[root@den ~]# ioping . -c 5
4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/xvda1): request=1 time=0.2 ms
4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/xvda1): request=2 time=0.3 ms
4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/xvda1): request=3 time=0.4 ms
4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/xvda1): request=4 time=0.3 ms
4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/xvda1): request=5 time=0.3 ms

--- . (ext3 /dev/xvda1) ioping statistics ---
5 requests completed in 4002.3 ms, 3381 iops, 13.2 mb/s
min/avg/max/mdev = 0.2/0.3/0.4/0.1 ms

CVPS_Chris

@jeff_lfcvps said: Sorry, @CVPS_Chris, my original comment of "I'm afraid they do" wasn't really a great reply :) Our node specs are 100% accurate -- you don't stay in business for 10+ years by lying about specifications that can be easily vetted by anyone who signs up for a VPS.

I was not talking about the specs of the machines. The prices your charging do not make any sense and over a one year period would barley pay for the machine. Then we have to throw in colo/bw pricing etc.

Spirit

@CVPS_Chris said: The prices your charging do not make any sense and over a one year period would barley pay for the machine.

I heard this hundreds times before. Your prices/offers wasn't exception here. It's so futile to go to the same accusation route as you experienced from others when you came out with your unrealistic offers ;-)

jeff_lfcvps

@CVPS_Chris, that's what I'm charging. I'm confused why you posted at all?

CVPS_Chris

Spirit,

Mine make perfect sense, I make a profit, the ROI on machine is less than 2 months etc.

His does not

CVPS_Chris

@jeff_lfcvps said: @CVPS_Chris, that's what I'm charging. I'm confused why you posted at all?

I posted because I am just pointing out that your business plan is flawed and that the prices are not sustainable

jeff_lfcvps

@CVPS_Chris, oh, I didn't realize you had access to our financial records. I'll clear my posts by you in the future.

CVPS_Chris

lol @jeff_lfcvps,

Just pointing out facts that your putting these plans on a machine that costs $6k+.

Unless the equipment is stolen, the pricing does not fit what your trying to do and is not a sustainable offer.

Not to mention the free backups that also cost money.

rds100

@CVPS_Chris why? It's just marketing. You sell some at a loss, have some happy customers, they post good things about you, then you get higher paying customers. What's the problem here?

Francisco

@rds100 said: @CVPS_Chris why? It's just marketing. You sell some at a loss, have some happy customers, they post good things about you, then you get higher paying customers. What's the problem here?

I'm not going to chime in on if their plans are legit or not, but I can assure you that your quoted plan is rarely how it goes. You should expect at least a year where people aren't willing to put anything production ready on you as they simply test you out.

Granted, if you're very open about your business plan/margins and any large people that back you it can help shorten that window, but there's been many hosts that have jumped on the super LEB market and sank because they sold it at a loss

Francisco

rds100

@Francisco i know, but still we have seen a lot more unreasonable plans here :)

CVPS_Chris

@rds100 said: i know, but still we have seen a lot more unreasonable plans here :)

I think your missing the point, I am not talking about the price of his plans ( to be honest they are not that great ). I am pointing out the hardware he is putting them on

prometeus

@CVPS_Chris said: Just pointing out facts that your putting these plans on a machine that costs $6k+.

Unless the equipment is stolen, the pricing does not fit what your trying to do and is not a sustainable offer.

Not all offers need to be sustinable, some are just a way to attract clients. 5 months ago we were asked for $5K for a quarterly banner campaign, instead we decided we should use the same money giving near free service. Some space in each node is still used for marketing purpose.

rds100

Well, i know of one provider who is very active here at LET and their boxes cost 5-6k EUR or more each and yet they keep adding more boxes at new locations every month. Why do they do it? :)

CVPS_Chris

@prometeus said: Not all offers need to be sustinable,

Marketing the lowendmarket. Gotta love it.

Spirit

My rough guess would be that unlike many companies here this host don't concentrate whole business around lowendbox/lowendtalk community (which is ok). And I doubt that they will sell hundreds and hundreds little boxes from this offer as they don't circle jerk 24/7 here.

Francisco

@Spirit said: My rough guess would be that unlike many companies here this host don't concentrate whole business around lowendbox/lowendtalk community (which is ok).

Which makes sense, they only have 2 plans that are LEB priced.

Francisco

key900

@CVPS_Chris said: Just pointing out facts that your putting these plans on a machine that costs $6k+.

Unless the equipment is stolen, the pricing does not fit what your trying to do and is not a sustainable offer.

Not to mention the free backups that also cost money.

Are you sure it cost more than 6K or 6K?!!

prometeus

@CVPS_Chris said: Marketing the lowendmarket. Gotta love it.

marketing is required to sell everything. The time you pass here isn't accounted in your marketing budget? The banners you have here and there aren't marketing? Why your price was settled at $7?

Spirit

@Francisco said: Which makes sense, they only have 2 plans that are LEB priced.

Actually they have none (except 42$/y) LEB offer on their site. I see them post here and there (not often) some good special deal and this is it. The reason why I posted in this host defence is that partially knowing his past decade and half (open source) work I think that this veteran won't just dissapear.

CVPS_Chris

@prometeus said: marketing is required to sell everything. The time you pass here isn't accounted in your marketing budget? The banners you have here and there aren't marketing? Why your price was settled at $7?

I gave an offer, and pay for a banner. Beyond that I dont do much for the LEB community advertising wise. We have a higher number of higher paying clients and dedicated/colocated server clients.

We offer VPS because we can, and at a price better than anyone else.

CVPS_Chris

@key12 said: are you sure it cost more than 6K or 6K?!!

Yes

prometeus

@CVPS_Chris said: We offer VPS because we can, and at a price better than anyone else

every mid sized company with some cash can. you are joking with your $7 openvz plans. do the same with xen, then came back and talk again.

key900

@CVPS_Chris said:

$2811.00 for Supermicro SuperServer Dual LGA2011 Xeon 440W/480W 1U Server 2x Intel Xeon Six-Core Processor E5-2630 2.3GHz 8x Kingston KVR1333D3D4R9S/8GI DDR3-1333 8GB LSI/3Ware 9650SE LSI/3Ware BBU-MODULE-04 Battery Backup Unit

I guess 3ware card more explensive than Adaptec 6805?! and I Don't know what it cost SAS Hard Drives but it can't be more 2K right?