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Virmach is a good hosting provider ...just keep in mind they were having some glitches in their Germany setup...but the node was up and support is good...but they don't have a status page..
When the outage happened they didnot inform their client... that's one thing i didn't like ....otherwise a good hosts
Someone from VirMach promised exciting offer: the cheapest 512MB VPS we can get! IIRC it was two weeks ago. They already have some delay, but I'm still waiting...
They said July 2nd but I am getting the feeling that they won't actually deliver, or it'll be a loss leader promotion in a very limited amount.
It was on June 16th when they said "Next week we are have an exciting offer that I guarantee will be the cheapest you can get a 512MB VPS for". But true, later it was shifted to "approx. July 2nd". Moreover, they recently had some problem with web or whatever, so it might get another delay...
Happy with mine. I have six or seven VPSs with them. Very minor hiccups every now and then, but you get those everywhere. Support is great.
It didn't happen unfortunately.
I just ordered one from Atlanta. LG gave me good latency for my location (70ish) but after ordering i'm getting twice as that, it's doubling from edge router to VPS.
I've opened a support ticket, hopefully it gets sorted.
Seattle OpenVZ 128mb yearly, no issues.
You should remove your IP to prevent ddos welcomes.
Oh god whoops, thanks. Wouldn't want another AureAWorld disaster
Sorry for the delays - this is why I usually don't like disclosing upcoming sales because it's hard to set dates in stone. Anyway, the sale is now live. The offer I was speaking about is the 512MB OpenVZ for $5/yr. I hope this fit your expectations. I may have accidentally over-hyped the sale with one comment I made on that LET thread.
It is a loss leader & limited number as @Kobe speculated, but it's limited to 100 quantity which I believe is a good amount.
Value+ server bear benchmark:
http://serverbear.com/benchmark/2016/07/06/bkvAeikuSQujfO4XThey use maxmind for fraud detection, so if you're traveling like myself and your IP doesn't match your billing address location exactly they'll want to see a proof of residency and an identification document. I didn't want to bother so I went elsewhere and found just as good a deal if not better.
Yeah, and their support isn't very friendly on the matter either. Its really annoying, and Virmach has been going downhill for a while.
It was great when I first signed up a year ago but ended up cancelling the servers I didn't need, which included Virmach. Signed up again and its becoming like a somewhat sustainable GreenValueHost that will deadpool in a matter of years rather than months. Their servers aren't as great, connectivity is spotty on some nodes, and the abuse policies have gotten really overbearing where you can't even use it for anything beyond a nginx web server.
You provide real details when travelling and you get burned. Provide fake details and you're all set, so if you're travelling and they're going to be difficult about it, you just sorta either move on or lie about your residency. Its pretty ironic how their fraud detection works.
But then again, its hard to say that they're horrible for the price point, but if you have the money or the willingness to spend a bit more, go with another host and skip some of the BS you'll encounter with Virmach.
And I just have to say that Virmach's late fees are some of the dumbest attempts to monetize their client base ever. Late fees on a $6 VPS?
Yeah about that.........
Francisco
Yes they were also pretty rude to me as well, not friendly at all and didn't care about what I had to say.
Wow I've had the opposite experience. I have a dedicated server with them and also had a Windows VPS that I never saw an issue with.
Even their support when I messed up the dedi order was pretty friendly and got me online pretty fast.
Tried them for a month, support was actually decent. No canned responses, usually my requests were actually done within the day.
@Virmach reached out to me after I posted that and highlighted some aspects of their support and how they've been trying to improve. I think their initiative is very well-spoken. Virmach is a really decent host for the price point.
Been using them for almost a year now I think. They are one of the most decent hosts for that price point you will ever find.
I was lucky to grab one of those cheap promo 512MB@$5/y VPS. I'm using it as master-dns and backup-mx. Pretty fast and responsive, ioping 50-100μs. The best of all those promo-vps I got till now! Support competent and helpful (asked them to increase entropy in my vps). Just two small "problems" I can live with:
I can not use "dd" to measure i/o transfer rate. whenever I try, it gets killed immediatelly. I suppose Virmach is doing this as protection. And "free" is reporting memory somehow strangely, with only "total" being correct (but this is known openvz-problem).
Overall I'm very satisfied. Usually I get only one vps from every company, but if Virmach offers something special in EU, I'll go for it again...
I'm not facing the issues that you mention ?
Cheers for the review, I was considering them (missed the EU offers, but they have some US options available) and interested in reviews.
"available" less than "free"?
"used" less than "buff/cache"?
512MB plan:
1GB plan:
Even your numbers are not correct, i.e. for 512MB plan: buff/cache 183M, used only 153M? But as I said, OpenVZ does not count memory correctly...
i use almost one year. never complaint or received complaint.
nobody mentions these guys access client's VM without asking for permit just because they suspect that client were doing traffic exchange. Although they get proof but presumption of guilt and disregard client privacy are not acceptable, they have better way to solve this, like suspend service ask client to provide evidence and reiterate their TOS.
I believe this is much more serious professional attitude problem than the service you mentioned here.
If you guys want some at the same cost performance ratio products, there are plant available in LET, hostus, tragicserver and so on.
(by mentioning TOS, their strict terms give you calm neighbors as you are, but the only few thing you can do and I can imaging is VPN, low traffic site and maybe a personal dns server?)
@colingpt: you do not think that "P" in "VPS" stands really for "private" do you? Wake up, man! Of course they can access VPS, without client even noticing it. And I do not think they should first ask for pemission. You'd better face the fact there is no privacy in VPS. You can hide your identity if you are smart enough, but you can not hide your data when you are using their hardware.
You prefer suspending service in case they suspect something wrong is going on, but I prefer keeping my VPS running...