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Six months Virmach review
I have been a @Virmach customer for about 6 months now so review was due. I was actually a Linux noob at that time (still is) when I was searching for some VPS.
Basically, I had plans to start a forum so I can become a millionaire someday just like @jarland and for that I was looking for a VPS. All my life I had hosted websites on shared hosting so this was my first experience. I researched a little bit and found DigitalOcean with good reviews and features. I went ahead but hit a wall because I am from a country where Paypal doesn't work. Plus I don't have CC either only DC which doesn't work on DO. Plus they only accept Bitcoins from customers who have used CC/Paypal first. They were kind enough to remove DC restriction for me once I submitted verification document but then still there was no guarantee that it would work.
Then I found Vultr and it has same problem.
Then I searched a little bit and found this forum along with another low end VPS related forum, name of which I forgot but I remember that forum didn't have much activitiy and it is practically dead now.
So I found Virmach here and decided to give them a try after reading all the reviews and the fact that they accept Bitcoins from first customers. I was very excited because of using/managing server for the first time and went ahead with Debian (obligatory thx).
So far I have found Virmach support to be top notch and service rock solid. I used to open many tickets in the beginning (because of being a noob) and they would reply me promptly. They have been helpful ever since. During this time I only experienced downtime only twice. Once was I think 3 or 4 months ago due to some hardware issue (CPU overheating I guess) so the VPS was down for around 20, 25 minutes. They credited me for the lost time. Next downtime was a couple of weeks ago I guess when that spectre/meltdown issue was hot and they had to apply some patches and restart.
Apart from that not a single second of downtime. Now I don't open many tickets either (I think in last 2 months I have only opened 2 tickets that too was not related to some issue with VPS).
I have now paid yearly instead of monthly and surely plan on renewing it next year. I also got my friend a micro VPS (for VPN) and he is using it for four months now and didn't have to open a single ticket till yet.
Overall Virmach provides top notch service.
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Nice to see Virmach getting some of the credit they deserve :-)
Which plan did you go for, if you don't mind me asking?
Previously I was using their $2.5/month OVZ VPS that comes with 512MB, 20GB and 500GB but later I found a great new year deal (lucky for me but unlucky for them :P ) which is OVZ $8/year for 1GB RAM, 30GB, 1TB.
What kind of speeds do you get from test files located near your vps location?
I did some testing in the first few days but don't remember the speed and neither the command. If you can tell me command to run then I will be happy to run it on my VPS and provide results.
I didn't have those payment snafus and Virmach's Black Friday promos were incredible, so I now have several Virmach servers working furiously on the LET Distributed Idling Project with no issues.
I have windows VPS $10 a year with them. It always offline. I don't know what should I use it for.
Hit the boot button in SolusVM?
wget http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
That'll always give you the best server. You can delete the file afterwards via
rm 100mb.test
But also:
wget http://lg.lax.psychz.net/200MB.test
Note the speed then
rm 200mb.test
wget http://lg.texas.psychz.net/200MB.test
Note the speed then
rm 200mb.test
wget http://lg.va.psychz.net/200MB.test
Note the speed then
rm 200mb.test
That would be great
Why would I want that ?
Why would I want that ?
What is that?
it's a community-implemented RAIS (Redundant Array of Idling Servers)!
fucking millennials
currently I need to install ubuntu 16 manually by mounting cd. I only wish they had ubuntu 16 automated installation.
otherwise all going great with virmach
For what your paying too bad. Their test files have always been the slowest for me that's part of the reason i shyd away but the actual vps seems decent. About 400mbps to regionally close boxes. Wonder what backhaul they use
what's the specs?
Don't have a VPS with them, but do have a website on their shared. Anyone that looks at the big host like BH are just throwing money away. Virmach is fantastic!
They suspended my vps twice without giving me any notice. once it was offline for 3 days before i found out, and the second time 2 days. no email at all so it is really bad! they said i had too many connections when i contacted them on the 1st occasion and for the second it was because i was using all my resources (128mb, 10gb disk maxed out but only used 15gb/mo bandwidth and cpu was 0.00, 0.04, 0.00... um i thought i had paid for those? best to idle virmach, if you try to use they suspend. i've had same services running on about 4-5 providers and never had any problems.
It's just a joke. Buying servers is so cheap and easy that a lot of people here buy them and then don't do anything with them (so they stay idle). The Distributed Idling Product is a joke pretending that this is an organized activity. A typical way to join is to buy a server for use in some project, and then never get around to actually doing the project.
I had one nastygram from Virmach in Q1/2017, and after explaining to them that a small spin of apt-get doing it's job wasn't that high on the abuse scale, they completely changed how they handle things.
I've had nothing turned off, and haven't had a nastygram since I usually hold under 0.2 CPU, but still have a spike of that, or traffic upon occasion.
Well, some of us are organized about it: stats.distributed.net/team/tmsummary.php?project_id=28&team=849
;-)
..don't try to run dnetc there.
2GB of RAM 2 Core, something like that.
Virmach does (or did at one point) offer "unlimited" (but still shared, not dedicated) CPU option for some plans - but since I've been drawn more to their low cost / decent specs / okay network / great uptime value proposition, I've not yet felt particularly motivated to pay for more CPU.
The (super cheap special offer) 1 GB and 2 GB KVMs I have from Virmach have been working just fine for personal wiki (involving git backend and perl static site generator, so some very occasional processing but nothing significant on a consistent basis).
To their credit, they do spell out limits pretty clearly in their T&C page (https://virmach.com/terms-conditions/#tab1):
Transfer it to me if you don't use it anymore...
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about virmach.com :
I have a VPS runs Windows Server 2016 in LA datacenter, it works great!
And the unbeatable price, monthly pay under $5 (using coupon LEB30)
network speed is good and stable, but the CPU is a little laggy,
what you pay and what you get, reasonable.
If someone are looking cheap Windows VPS, give them a try.