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Rus Foster guns for the $15/year market: TechieVPS offers 128MB/10GB/1TB OVZ in London or USA West
quirkyquark
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TL;DR of WHT post:
OpenVZ 128Mb/256 Burst/10GB Disk Space/1TB of transfer for $15/yr in London, UK (test: 83.170.117.122) or Salt Lake City, USA (West) (test: 69.36.161.83); SolusVM with self-enable-able TUN/TAP.
UK datacenter is UK2 (their parent company) [ASN/Peering]; US DC is WestHost, also UK2-owned.
Rus has come up numerous times in our discussions, from running OVZ on KVM to how he hands his masterpieces over to others before completing them. That said, this offer claims:
We are backed by UK2 Group who provide hosting to over a million domains with customers in 75+ countries meaning that you know you are in safe hands and not a fly by night pump and dump company.
The UK offer is definitely very interesting.... Discuss!
For those interested, link to WHMCS (see top left). TL;DR of AUP: boilerplate -- no apparent restrictions other than no IRC.
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If the Salt Lake City location is good for Asian customers for VPN then I suspect he will do a lot of business on the $15/yr plans .
No thanks.
BuyVM is same price, so why would I bother with this.
Made me laugh
People should be doing this at every company.
Built on VPS.net cloud, you'll know the performance.
I have to say, the US west test ip 69.36.161.83 network is not so good in test....
ping from different location in china is averagely about 300ms, as buyvm is about 200ms.
but they provide 1TB bandwidth, double against buyvm
ping from different location in china is averagely about 300ms, as buyvm is about 200ms.
Of course that IP doesn't test well, its in the UK.
Try the other ip listed - 83.170.117.122 (Salt Lake City, Utah)
are sure?
i think the post is not correct, 69.36.161.83 is in US, 83.170.117.122 is in UK.
you can also check in their page:http://techievps.com/front-page/locations/
With eyes wide open I jumped in and got one of the UK plans...
Geekbench 2.2.7/2.3.1 32-bit (segfaults) Processor Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5504 @ 2.00GHz @ 2.00 GHz 4 Processors Memory 1.47 GBYes, here's the answer I got from Rus:
Inception.
Fixed the swap-typo, sorry.
The 1.47 GB number from Geekbench is a dead giveaway that there is another layer of virtualization beneath....
vps.net is high uptime? Since when?
Rus said that. Looks he's quite proud with his company.
interesting, but i didn't see such self-enable in other VPS provider's SolusVM.
Which is codename for VPS these days?
@yywudi it's new feature which is available in SolusVM since yesterday (to let the users enable/disable tun/tap when they want).
But some other providers have implemented other means of enabling tun/tap without the need to open tickets, even before soluslabs came up with this.
I reviewed TechieVPS here http://www.asim.pk/2012/04/20/techievps-review/
But some other providers have implemented other means of enabling tun/tap without the need to open tickets, even before soluslabs came up with this.
We did that. Just used SolusVMs API. Was a 5 minute job
@LV_Matt me too
Looks in line with the poor performance of the last product I tried from Rus.
Could be still ok for strictly VPN use.
@liam yes
That was Xen, this is a new OpenVZ offering (albeit on Xen ;-))
It doesn't show up in their SolusVM, although other providers have implemented it...
Yeh, it will be crap.
@Asim nice review. Just one thing. UK2 doesn't own ThrustVPS.
IOMart/RapidSwitch does
Rus only worked for them. However I will admit he has a controversial past.
Agreed. Some also say he was partly responsible for the loss K.T Ligesh (Including me)
That doesnt change anything. Why would he get himself stuck in such a situation then?