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The results pretty neat with aruba... Really. I will stay on it. It's decent performance.
@desperand - that benchmark was requested for Server.it provider, which currently has a promotion, offering VPS at €1/month in Italy.
Regarding Aruba - I already canceled all my services. They accepted to do refunds of remaining credit. I did this by opening a ticket towards "Right to Cancel" department. and support staff replied, and refunded, after ~4 days. I was also considering the alternative of spending any remaining credit on domain transfers.
Meanwhile, I am still open to other offers for idling VPS.
Saw this on a thread, $1/m 1GB RAM.
https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/3111306/#Comment_3111306
@Dazzle - indeed, that offer from @Serverum costs just $1/month, but it offers only 10mbps (1.25mb/s) bandwidth.
server.it has been mentioned earlier in this thread. If you are going to use them, beware that they selectively filter certain traffic. The one that I encountered was with NTP. Only a selection of NTP servers are allowed through. time.apple.com, time.windows.com, time.facebook.com, and most of pool.ntp.org are blocked. They insist on time.ien.it being used.
Their support is as good as none. First, they denied having a problem. Next, they insisted that it is the customer's problem. When it is demonstrated that it is a problem seen also with a freshly imaged VM, and thus if it is a VM problem, it must be their faulty image, they again denied having a problem. Upon suggestion that they check with their upstream, they replied that it is a promo product! They subsequently responded that they already know of the problem!
So be aware of what you would be dealing with ...
Thank you for the feedback. To me, your experience seems like they use outsource support.
@default
It is not entirely evident that server.it is using outsourced support.
Regarding the first point, I did not see anywhere indicating that traffic may be filtered. I may have missed it, of course.
Second, the behavior saying that it's the customer's problem when finally it is admitted to be their known problem, and then refusing to fix it, has also been observed with a certain large French hoster which has in-house support. Regardless, in-house or outsourced support is no excuse for such level of performance.
Guys, you'll never believe who just posted a cray cray offer.
Hint: my sig
The reference is for: https://vpsdime.com/onedollar
That offer though:
LOL@regional banning.
I don't think an OVZ7 VPS in the US should be considered a suitable replacement for VMWare in EU. Just my view.
Still a great deal for Central US and all of South/Central American continent (annual $7/yr)
I've got dokku running on it. 4.15 kernel is nice.
I've had it since 2014.
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Better stay away from Turkish Customers.
I'm a completely legit and non public_tor-public_vpn-miner-spammer-torrenter-whatever_illegal user, I have a personal, non-public VPN and Socks proxy to unblock US tv or some banned sites etc, and have some NodeJS personal daemons running on the machine, mostly idle. Why would anyone be stay away from my business?
Apparently, VPSDime returned to me, and they mentioned that limitation about Turkey is regarding the payment gateway, and there's not an actual ban in the first place. I quite understand the situation if it's like that, and will do business in the first place.
What were they offering, 1GB RAM, 1 vCPU, 20GB disk, 2TB for 1 Euro per month? Any specific limitations? How is their AUP? Did they give that core as a dedicated core? They mention Windows being available somewhere, did they actually allow people to instlal that/licensed at the same cost? I see it marked as Linux here so maybe it's Linux only and if that's the case, that's a plus. What payment methods? Did they add in any fees for payment processing? I do see there's a minimum top-up of 10 Euros to start, anything else? Any specific features? Gigabit? Anything else useful to know? Any quantity limit per person?
I think if we do it on a mass scale, we could maybe get close in Amsterdam with a pre-order. Something like crowdfunding, and there would have to be a quick way to verify. Something like $13.44 per year instead of the 10 Euro deposit and 1 Euro per month (right now $13.44 USD is 12 Euros.)
For this to work we would have to get something like a few thousand people commit to it and pay via a method that actually refunds fees to us if we refund (or take refund to store credit if it falls through) and we'd have to prevent every person from making a bunch of tickets and contacting us about it somehow.
Of course, with CC involved, I'm not sure if we could roll them out by the 1st of August (which sucks by the way, that they only gave that much notice for such a high increase.) But I might, and this is a big might, be able to get CC to even do IPv6 for it. I noticed that they may actually already have IPv6 available but disabled to avoid dealing with it logistically maybe?
Anyway, I just want to help. Let me know what you guys think and get back to me with as much information as possible. Consider this all a 20% possibility.
Early warning: I didn't read every comment in this thread so I apologize if that causes me to look stupid, I just skimmed through it.
I'm not sure about most of the spec, but as far as I'm aware, Arubacloud had been offering:
1gb ram
1 vCPU (Not dedicated)
2TB Bandwidth
20gb Disk
1 Dedicated IPv4
for 1 euro/month.
If I'm not mistaking, it was a 1gbps network. The biggest part of the offer was just the locations, which were very good for a very low price. They also use VMWare, which is quite nice.
Yes. Claimed to have some type of DDOS protection. 1 IPv4 plus IPv6
I can't speak to AUP as I wasn't pushing the limits. I can say that SMTP ports are open. Core is not dedicated, but resources are not crippled like VirMach "KVM Lite" (i.e. reasonable IOPS and CPU use is OK). No Windows on that plan (1GB).
No payment processing fee. Payment CC and PayPal. No quantity limit at the time, although they obviously closed off new orders ages ago. Top-up is 10 Euro minimum, but note that this is per account, not per VM, so if you have 3xVPS for 3 Euro per month total you still only need to top up 10 Euro or ~3 months in advance.
I don't really care about pre-paying for a year at those prices. Payment method is not the issue (for me). The main thing for me was that Aruba were exceptionally solid and really low ping times on their network.
The other challenge you might face is that Aruba were dispersed across Europe, e.g. DC in London, Frankfurt, Arezzo, ... and you'd be asking at least a reasonable number of people to consolidate in Amsterdam.
Personally Amsterdam is fine with me and if you could get a setup as solid & reliable as theirs without the crippled resource limits (your "KVM Lite" IOPS kills me), I'd be in at 12 Euro/year.
Aruba's support (in my experience) is totally abysmal, so I don't think there is a high bar to beat on that.
@Virmach - Thank you for trying to recreate this offer. I also think it will be interesting to get this from you.
@Virmach offering something similar as Aruba and even in Amsterdam would be a dream
Found €1 server but IPv6 only
https://pcextreme.nl/cloud-servers
Might not. No. Just no. A big no.
Yeah I think it's safe to say they're not actually anti-Turkish given that the owner (Oktay) is Turkish and the company was originally registered in Istanbul.
Maybe it might be possible to make it Cryptocurrency and/or AliPay only with no refunds, no support, and no SLA.
Basically “buy at your own risk”. And maybe top it up to US$14/yr just for a round number (and to maybe cover the small processing fees your payment gateway will charge).
I didn’t use Aruba but seriously hoping people will be able to find a a new home, especially with Virmach!
I got one, thanks for the tip!
Got this one as well :P