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What was your first VPS?
raindog308
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Mine was vpslink. Didn't even qualify for LET pricing. I don't think they've updated their pricing since I bought it...I think I had the link-3. A towering 256MB of RAM, 10GB of disk, and 300GB of bandwidth for $19.95/month!
The most famous article in LEB history used a vpslink-1 for its example. For its day, vpslink was OK...ish...I didn't stay long.
I then moved on to DamnVPS. That was a sad time in my life. They're dead now.
Then I found LET.
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Mine was the GCP free tier. If counting payed VPS, it was the SAS-Special-1 with 4GB RAM and 100GB HDD from @UltraVPS which I still have. I'm gonna let go of it soon, but only because I got the absolute steal from @hosthatch, otherwise it's great.
@IntoVPS was my first VPS, had to cancel due to broken routing in my ISP parts and it would go "offline" randomly, for some minutes/hours.
https://intovps.com/plans.html
I can see they are here, they still exists and went OpenStack, got much more locations than just RO
I started with slicehost. 256mb for $20 a month and there was a months long wait list to even get that.
Jolly Works Hosting, 512MB VPS. Pricing still hasn't changed since way back then when, surprised they're still in business.
Mine was NFOServers for a large Gmod DarkRP server I ran for a while.
This is the earliest I could find but I do not remember vpslink at all.
Looks like I switched to arpnetworks shortly afterwards for FreeBSD.
Then prgmr... also because they had support for FreeBSD.
It was a 1gb KVM from Woot hosting that came with a free cPanel reseller for $30/year. Memories....
that damnvps. i believe i used them in the past.
My first was PhotonVPS WARP .5.
Before ordering, I read carefully regarding OpenVZ vs Xen and the possibility of overselling.
Xen
2 cores
256MB RAM
512MB swap
4GB disk
600GB transfer
$9.95/month
Ordered 2011-08-21, canceled 2011-09-05, received full refund as I canceled within one month.
It's expensive because it's actually a managed VPS and I didn't know what that meant.
cPanel Power-1 VPS from VirtaCore. Came with free cPanel and ClientExec License. It was supposed to be $44.50 monthly but got it with a recurring discount for a total monthly due of $11.12 which I thought was a great bargain at the time (2010). Forgot the specs but it was at least 2 GB and had a lot of disk space. Kept it for years until KVM became an option for me.
Edit: Forgot that it was fully managed, too.
My first vps is hostrail from lowendbox.
Always had my own equipment and generally ran things out of my home when they were needed. But @Francisco and BuyVM was my first actual VPS.
ServInt 12-13-10
Essential VPS
50 GB Storage UPGRADED
30 GB Storage
1 TB Monthly Transfer
768 MB Guaranteed (1.5 GB Burst RAM)
Hardware RAID 10
CentOS 5 Operating System
4 IP Addresses
Fastest drives in the industry
Unlimited Domains and User Accounts
FREE cPanel, Plesk, or Parallels SBP
FREE Virtuozzo Power Panel
FREE Daily Off-Server Backups
No Setup Fee
$49.00 Monthly
A fucking summerhost. I never looked up the exact specs, but it was recommended for hosting a MCPE server for 20 people.
Burst burst baby.
This brings back memories! - https://web.archive.org/web/20120103112811/https://hostigation.com/
My first real VPS (KVM) was with @miTgiB from Hostigation back in October 2012.
He was one hell of a guy who provided rock solid services, and didn't seem to mind answering some of my newbie questions back then.
I hope he's well in 2020.
My first server was a managed Dedi from Liquidweb about 15 years ago
You're so young!
They were famous back in the day. I think they had a pretty intense library of tutorials as well. Sold out to RackSpace IIRC.
I remember JW as doing white-label VPS reselling...buy a pool, carve it up, etc. But I never heard good things about them.
I remember getting up at 2am to order a buyvm and then waiting for an hour while @Francisco futzed around releasing stock. The IRC back then was epic.
Aw yeah. I used them as well at one point. Never was impressed.
Yep, Hostigation was solid! Great systems. Did storage early on - before a lot of Lowend players did. It was a huge SATA array he carved up and had nothing with problems with it because it caused so many problems. He stopped offering it but grandfathered existing...I held onto mine part of it for a long time because it was a while before "storage servers" became common.
The discords pretty memetastic
Francisco
Was a free 128MB RAM 'micro VKS' by OVH .
My first one was with FsckVPS/VAServ in 2008. 512 MB RAM and 20 GB space for $10/month. Here's the original post: https://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=854546
I was also renting a dedicated server (at a small host that doesn't exist any more, but later migrated to Hivelocity) for several years, and used the VPS as a secondary DNS server. FSCKVPS' entire server cluster was completely wiped (
rm -rf /as root on every node) by an attacker using a security hole in HyperVM. That was "fun". https://news.softpedia.com/news/VAServ-Hack-Results-in-Massive-Data-Loss-113660.shtmlI moved from them to PhotonVPS and ThrustVPS in 2009, then to BuyVM in 2012. BuyVM was the first VPS host I used as a 'primary' host for some of my sites rather than just using it for backups, failover, and secondary DNS. I'm still using BuyVM today! I posted a 7 year review of BuyVM last year: https://hostedtalk.net/t/buyvm-7-year-review/1919
A storage VPS from BuyVM a couple of years back. Coming from at the most 100mbps residential internet, the nearly consistent 300+mbps was definitely a groundbreaking experience.
2010 on WHT .. eNetSouth: Hyper-V specials in Chicago, IL and Dallas, TX
512MB RAM
40GB Storage
1000GB Transfer
1 IPv4 Address
$15.00 /mo
Here's the original post
https://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1004306&p=7160195#post7160195
I got my first vps on frevps.us
just posts 20 post every month and i can keep my vps
My first was Burst.net and then Crissic.
That was a cool idea...though I never saw much value in reading the forum itself. I think I got a free VPS from KiloServe when they still existed. But I gave it up pretty quickly as others benefitted more. The community at freevps just didn't excite me but I know @dmmcintyre3 put a ton of time and effort into it.
Blast from the past!
Hostigger - Turkey
Hetzner - Germany
Leaseweb - rest of the world
BandwagonHost.
128MB ovz (AMS) from Ramnode around 2014.
I just learned about openvpn so wanted to try it to bypass my college internet. Fun learning time.
BurstNET's dedicated servers were amazing for the price. Their support was absolutely horrible though.