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Virtual VM - More Free Virtual Servers
Hi LET,
You may recall we gave away over 200 free virtual servers back in May. They are still running, and still free:
[root@vps3 ~]# vzlist | wc -l
236
We are now giving away 120 more free virtual servers via a raffle.
To enter the contest:
Signup for a free VPN account at Castle VPN using this link: https://portal.castlevpn.com/cart.php?a=add&pid=1
That's it! You will automatically be entered in the drawing for 120 Free VPS's.
- Each signup has about 1 in 9 chance of winning a Free VPS.
- You can cancel or close your account at Castle VPN and still be eligible for the drawing.
- The drawing will be held when Castle VPN receives 1000 signups.
- Winners of a Free VPS will be notified via the email address registered at Castle VPN.
Free VPS Specs:
IPs: 2, RAM: 128MB, VSWAP: 128MB, CPU Speed: ~400Mhz, Network Speed per host: ~8Mbps, Virtualization: OpenVZ, Location: USA, West Coast, 1Gbps.
-VVM
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How long will the existing users be allowed to keep the free servers?
An end date has not been set.
Fixed, thanks.
I have one and uptime so far is >35 days and it runs pretty good. So recommeded!
@virtualvm I have a VPS with you, could I be 'upgraded' to those specs?
any chance of activating tun/tap & ppp on the free account?
Since it will take awhile to reach 1000 signups, we've decided to give out Free Virtual Servers periodically during the raffle.
The first seven winners have just been notified via email. Thank you!
just received the mail about the free vps activation. thanks!
but the spec seems different with what you list in this thread.
mem is 64M guaranteed/128M vswap(128M burstable in Dashboard?), cpu is only 30MHz that always 100% utilised, wget from cachefly is about 2MB/s. dd test is about 6MB/s.
whatever it's free that i couldn't ask for more...
Hi,
I can confirm i just received one of the free VPS containers listed with similar specs. I will post more info as i work through some basic tests.
@virtualvm Is it possible to get second IP on already existing VPS (registered in May, obliviously)?
Oops - Those specs are too low, that's an error. I will adjust this for you. Thanks for pointing this out.
The first 7 Free VPS' should now all have the promised 400Mhz CPU core, and 128MB RAM.
Specs seem to have been updated as indicated. General terminal command response speed drastically improved.
CPU model : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31220 @ 3.10GHz
Number of cores : 1
CPU frequency : 401.690 MHz
Total amount of ram : 128 MB
Total amount of swap : 128 MB
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/simfs 2.0G 755M 1.3G 37% /
Got mine! Will work with it tomorrow
Can old users be upgraded?
After i registered,i got an email with subject "Castle VPN Activation" but link given at the email looks dead... help
Same here.. however this provider is known to block IP ranges to different panels without any mention, so I have given up on them. Waste of time.
If you click the link your account is activated. They forgot to close the title tag, but if you view the source it says that the account is activated successfully.
I've been running my Asterisk pbx server on my VirtualVM VPS. I'm currenty monitoring it with Uptimerobot and a few other tools, uptime was a bit hit and miss at the start (during May) maybe due to abusers but it currently stands at >36 days so I'm more than happy with their service. Hope the new users don't cause any problems :-)
[root@ ~]# cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 42 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31220 @ 3.10GHz stepping : 7 cpu MHz : 308.063 cache size : 8192 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 4 core id : 0 cpu cores : 4 apicid : 0 initial apicid : 0 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 13 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx rdtscp lm c onstant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 sse4 _2 x2apic popcnt xsave avx lahf_lm ida arat epb xsaveopt pln pts dts tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid bogomips : 6185.43 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: [root@ ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=iotest bs=64k count=1k conv=fdatasync && rm -fr iotest 1024+0 records in 1024+0 records out 67108864 bytes (67 MB) copied, 1.84737 seconds, 36.3 MB/s [root@ ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=iotest bs=64k count=2k conv=fdatasync && rm -fr iotest 2048+0 records in 2048+0 records out 134217728 bytes (134 MB) copied, 3.19128 seconds, 42.1 MB/s [root@ ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=iotest bs=64k count=3k conv=fdatasync && rm -fr iotest 3072+0 records in 3072+0 records out 201326592 bytes (201 MB) copied, 4.35732 seconds, 46.2 MB/s [root@ ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=iotest bs=64k count=4k conv=fdatasync && rm -fr iotest 4096+0 records in 4096+0 records out 268435456 bytes (268 MB) copied, 6.43268 seconds, 41.7 MB/s [root@ ~]# vmstat procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- -----cpu------ r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa st 0 0 16188 73972 0 8724 0 1 2 12 0 47 1 1 98 0 1 [root@ ~]# free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 128 55 72 0 0 8 -/+ buffers/cache: 47 80 Swap: 512 15 496 [root@ ~]# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/simfs 4.0G 2.2G 1.9G 53% / none 64M 4.0K 64M 1% /dev [root@ ~]# df -hi Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on /dev/simfs 977K 44K 934K 5% / none 16K 109 16K 1% /devCan someone do the IOPING on theirs?
They would be placed on new nodes. Correct if I am wrong, @virtualvm.
Just so that you know Uptimerobot is known to give false positives.
I double checked it with scalexteme (get a sms if down >5mins) and checked with uptime command too, think I may have new relic running on it as well (but I think new relic is crap), think I will set up Pingdom too. Talk about overkill!
And you only have 128MB of RAM
With 512MB swap and 4GB of HDD goodness xD
You don't want to go to swap too much...but anyways, good luck if you can get everything up and running OK.
seems my vps not update the spec. still the 30Mhz CPU, 64/128 RAM, 1G disk, 10G BW.
also issue a ticket but no response over 24 hour.
Applied.
awesome signed up
i hope i get one
Looks promising, signed up