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VPS under 2$
raihan0888
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Do you know any vps provider at 2 usd or under 2usd?
i know about 128mb ram vps at 12$ or more if i pay 12month.But I search for monthly payment at that price.Is it possible to get at this price?
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minivps.co.uk do a £1.50/month.
https://clients.openitc.co.uk/order/page2.php?type=9 (XenVZ from .uk)
£1.30 GBP per 1 month(s)
I'm not even sure how that would be profitable after any kind of merchant fees. Paypal for instance charges $0.35 per transaction plus a percentage.
Is that still the same for smaller transactions though? Dealextreme will sell and offer free shipping on <$1 items from china
I should add that I have one of those £1.50/mo minivpses, it's not the fastest CPU or disk wise, but I get 20-30mbit/s off it at home
Yup. For a $1 transaction Paypal will take $0.33 cents. That leaves $0.67 to cover IPs, server costs, licenses, bandwidth, and everything else.
I don't know how minivps are doing (but so far I didn't experienced any flaw in their service) however Sean (XenVZ) do this successfully around 4 years already. He have own equipment in Maidenhead DC rack, recently expanded to Newcastle DC, got own IP range, have imho. best custom control panel among all LEB hosts I ever tryed... and his nodes wasn't ever overloaded.
I have one 128 OpenVZ at 1.5 $ with BlueVM and so far so good. Didnt have any issue, I presume support for this money should be 0, but you have unlimited rebuilds (as long as they are more than 10 min apart). Of course, as on any LEB, I will never suggest to host your life on it, even with backups, however, it is good for play and learning, I teach a friend on it. Learning to cope with 128 mem and command line will make the switch to Desktop Linux much easier and enjoyable, I think.
MySQL wont install tho, will just run out of memory, but postgres does and in combination with lighttpd works blazing fast for that money.
It is 64 guranteed ram and 128 burstable, but I had no issues with that yet.
M
P.S.
http://www.bluevm.com/cart.php?gid=4
P.S.2: Output of top at one user browsing phpbb:
top - 10:34:29 up 10 days, 20:01, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Tasks: 16 total, 2 running, 14 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.0%us, 0.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 99.7%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 131072k total, 79828k used, 51244k free, 0k buffers
Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 0k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
3722 postgres 15 0 44940 1224 404 S 0.3 0.9 0:00.44 postgres
1 root 15 0 2024 708 616 S 0.0 0.5 0:00.54 init
1354 root 18 0 8664 820 484 S 0.0 0.6 0:00.00 saslauthd
1355 root 18 0 8664 500 164 S 0.0 0.4 0:00.00 saslauthd
1362 root 15 0 1732 632 528 S 0.0 0.5 0:00.00 syslogd
1383 root 18 0 2284 844 664 S 0.0 0.6 0:00.00 cron
1402 root 18 0 5484 992 604 S 0.0 0.8 0:00.00 sshd
1413 root 25 0 2388 864 692 S 0.0 0.7 0:00.00 xinetd
1422 root 15 0 8684 3032 2468 S 0.0 2.3 0:00.13 sshd
1424 root 15 0 2956 1628 1304 S 0.0 1.2 0:00.00 bash
3719 postgres 15 0 44940 5292 4484 S 0.0 4.0 0:00.38 postgres
3721 postgres 18 0 44940 1772 932 S 0.0 1.4 0:00.51 postgres
3723 postgres 15 0 45072 1452 544 S 0.0 1.1 0:00.10 postgres
3724 postgres 18 0 13108 1168 300 S 0.0 0.9 0:00.04 postgres
3766 root 15 0 6156 3408 2200 S 0.0 2.6 0:00.46 mc
3768 root 17 0 2956 1612 1288 S 0.0 1.2 0:00.00 bash
3811 root 15 0 8684 3028 2468 R 0.0 2.3 0:00.04 sshd
3813 root 15 0 2956 1620 1292 S 0.0 1.2 0:00.00 bash
5693 www-data 15 0 6264 1864 848 S 0.0 1.4 0:00.00 lighttpd
5694 www-data 25 0 19704 5364 3644 S 0.0 4.1 0:00.00 php5-cgi
5695 www-data 25 0 19704 1976 256 S 0.0 1.5 0:00.00 php5-cgi
5701 www-data 25 0 19704 5368 3644 S 0.0 4.1 0:00.00 php5-cgi
5702 www-data 25 0 19704 1980 256 S 0.0 1.5 0:00.00 php5-cgi
5703 www-data 25 0 19704 5364 3644 S 0.0 4.1 0:00.00 php5-cgi
5704 www-data 25 0 19704 1976 256 S 0.0 1.5 0:00.00 php5-cgi
5705 www-data 25 0 19704 5368 3644 S 0.0 4.1 0:00.00 php5-cgi
5706 www-data 16 0 23900 8440 2572 S 0.0 6.4 0:00.05 php5-cgi
5708 root 15 0 2324 1076 872 R 0.0 0.8 0:00.00 top
is there some way to make them as donations? Donate a dollar a month and we are kind enough to give you a vps. there wont be any SLA that way. I remember a famous reseller mentioning that in their paypal payments page. I shall try to find and will later update this thread with exact thing.
For less than $2/m its a bit difficult to get a quality VPS as there is absolutely no profit from it - only the IP Address would cost a provider around $1/m plus the PayPal fees.
Having said this it does depend, a provider may be able to have lower IP Address fees, offer unmanaged service and offer a quality VPS at $2-$3/m but not less than $2.
Look forward to HostFail if you're expecting those prices.
sshvm has $2, but minimum payment is quarterly
vpscheap 1.99$/m
Well, I think they are alive and well atm. As long as you dont host anything critical there (and this goes with any LEB) you should be fine, 1.5 $ max loss wont kill anyone.
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One of our VPS packages is less than $2 per month. We're using the "micropayments" gateway of Paypal, since most of our products are under $12 per month, and we don't sell that many of the products over $12 per month.
it seems interesting. I need to see if paypal make this available in Italy ... :-)
Looking into this as an option now. Don't want to maintain 2 different Paypal accounts though.
@KuJoe: Yeah, neither did we.. we made the decision to use only the micropayments account, since the bulk of our sales are under $12, which is the break-even point of micropayment Paypal vs regular Paypal, and just eat the balance on larger sales (they're larger sales after all!).
As an example of this, our largest monthly recurring invoice is $88.76. Regular Paypal fees on that are $2.87, while micropayment fees are $4.49. So it's $1.62 more for this invoice.
On the other hand, on a $1.99/m VPS invoice, where regular Paypal charges $0.36, micropayment Paypal is $0.15, a difference of 21 cents. So just a couple of $1.99 VPS's make up the difference we're "losing" on a single $88.76 invoice, the profit margin is higher on the higher invoice, and we have a lot more customers with $1.99 invoices than we do with $88.76 invoices.
Long story short, we've found that we keep more from Paypal. I use this fee calculator: http://ppcalc.com/