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CloudAtCost 50% off today - 1 Core/512MB/10GB VPS for $17.5 one time payment
Was on the CloudAtCost website and the sales chat provided a coupon for "50% off everything TODAY only. Please use Code LAVIDAD for 50% off."
Just signed up for the smallest plan which is usually offered for $35
1 Xeon vCPU
1 public IP
512MB ECC RAM
10GB HDD
100Mbit internet
500GB monthly transfer
Older threads on this provider:
http://lowendtalk.com/discussion/22558/cloudatcost-one-time-payment-cloud-vps
http://lowendtalk.com/discussion/14586/cloudatcost-512mb-ram-10gb-hdd-for-35-one-time
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One-time payment? Amazing..
Even the shape of the text looks like a Pyramid. Buyer beware.
:-D:-D:-D
In case anyone is wondering, this is the owner
The oldest thread i can see is in Oct, 2013, just a notice
So, how do you pay the electricity? You have solarpanels on the roof or what?
Possibly one of the WORST providers around.
I particularly liked the Live Chat where "Christina" tried to convince me by chatting me up with
Though when I asked an actual question silence fell onto the land
All this "one time fee" is a scam. It is like saying, if you pay the cost of 5 months rent, I will let you live to my house for ever and I will pay all the expenses (electricity, phone bills, water, taxes, maintenance etc.)
I don't use my cloudatcost vps anymore, it's insanely slow. I tried using it again a few weeks ago and it locked up multiple times while I was just trying to type in a document while in SSH.
Bernie Madoff laughs at this.
I'm not the provider, just someone who signed up. They have some warped logic on their website about how they are able to do this:
http://www.cloudatcost.com/faqs.php
Running a benchmark as we speak ... and it looks pretty bad!
ah Logic to theft peoples money nice.
Strangely though, if I reload the page she is suddenly free again
Go away, she's talking to me now!!
So because of you she is so busy .....
a cutie however ;-D
It's easy to offer VPS at cost as:
Hardware is only ever a one time investment. It never breaks.
Bandwidth is free.
Power is free.
Space is free.
IPs are free.
Christina is free.
--- Reality ---
Every new sign up is funding the ever growing customer base. What happens when the customer base grows so large that the signup rate no longer pays the bills?
She must be the OS in the movie "HER".
Wait a second? An instance of Christina comes with the deal?!
Benchmark .... couldn't wait for the whole thing to run
CPU model : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU L5520 @ 2.27GHz
Number of cores : 1
CPU frequency : 2266.747 MHz
Total amount of ram : 490 MB
Total amount of swap : 953 MB
System uptime : 9 min,
Download speed from CacheFly: 8.29MB/s
Download speed from Coloat, Atlanta GA: 1.32MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Dallas, TX: 1.41MB/s
Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 485KB/s
Download speed from i3d.net, Rotterdam, NL: 209KB/s
Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 3.58MB/sSame company who ran Freephoneline.ca which I used for about 15 minutes it was so bad.
Their business model for Freephoneline was the same. Pay a one time $50 dollar free to "unlock" the SIP credentials.
I'm also curious where their servers are located, because if it's here in Ontario, I have no idea how they can claim "power and internet costs are far lower".
I chuckled.
if you're the one who just signed up - I feel pity for you!
Oh come on, its just a $7k one-time payment. One-time .....
Got a test server, last I checked IP geolocates to Kitchener, Ontario. Their blog mentioned solar panels for power, not sure how much truth there is to it ...
Edit: from ip whois, http://www.kwdatacentre.com/
$6 for one year 512MB plan isn't bad either.
my $2.99 for one year xvmlabs can perform much better than cloudatcost !!! openvz pwned kvm.
Think I would rather pay 50 cents/month then $17.50 one-time.. Thats like prepaying for 3 years..
So the DC is supposed to be in Kitchener, but their website gives the address:
KW Datacenter
151 Front St West,
Toronto Ontario, M5J 2N1.
Strange ...
Damn they need money fast...just like GVH...LOL
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1378769
Strange ...
151 Front is a large colo building in downtown Toronto, so they might have the business registered there
Network's not that good at the moment. Hope it won't be like this afterwards every time they do a network "upgrade".
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