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Nephoscale 1 Year Free Trial Cloud

twaintwain Member
edited March 2013 in General
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  • JetsoJetso Member

    mark

  • kalamkalam Member

    They want a credit card.

  • @kalam said: They want a credit card.

    Too bad.

    And it is just me or their "Live Sales Chat" not working?

  • @kalam said: They want a credit card.

    So just cancel before the one year is up?

  • lumaluma Member
    edited March 2013

    So far so good!

    KVM I think as the cpu shows up as QEMU virtual cpu. 2.4Ghz.

    The control panel seems really well built. I was even able to upload or generate a new SSH key instead of standard password.

    dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync ; rm test
    16384+0 records in
    16384+0 records out
    1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 2.43129 s, 442 MB/s
    
    ./ioping -c 10 .
    4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/vda2): request=1 time=0.5 ms
    4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/vda2): request=2 time=0.3 ms
    4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/vda2): request=3 time=0.2 ms
    4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/vda2): request=4 time=0.3 ms
    4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/vda2): request=5 time=0.2 ms
    4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/vda2): request=6 time=0.2 ms
    4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/vda2): request=7 time=0.3 ms
    4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/vda2): request=8 time=0.2 ms
    4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/vda2): request=9 time=0.2 ms
    4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/vda2): request=10 time=0.2 ms
    
    --- . (ext3 /dev/vda2) ioping statistics ---
    10 requests completed in 9005.3 ms, 3922 iops, 15.3 mb/s
    min/avg/max/mdev = 0.2/0.3/0.5/0.1 ms
    
    wget cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test -O /dev/null
    --2013-03-11 17:46:11--  http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
    Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net... 205.234.175.175
    Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net|205.234.175.175|:80... connected.
    HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
    Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
    Saving to: `/dev/null'
    
    100%[============================================================>] 104,857,600 42.9M/s   in 2.3s    
    
    2013-03-11 17:46:14 (42.9 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]
    
  • kalamkalam Member

    @MannDude said: So just cancel before the one year is up?

    I don't like handing out my credit card information.

  • Stumbled upon this in case anyone is interested...

    cloud offering started by Silicon Valley Web Hosting's founder (svwh.net) and some ex-GoGrid employees

  • lumaluma Member

    @DomainBop said: cloud offering started by Silicon Valley Web Hosting's founder (svwh.net) and some ex-GoGrid employees

    Is that good or bad? I have not heard of them.

    Thanks

  • Got one. Thank's mate.
    Let see how it works

  • Anyone gave their credit card to them yet?

  • I have never read about them, too.

    My opinion: if you want to give me something FOR FREE I do not need to give you my credit card data. It has no sense.
    Why don't they ask for a Paypal account, for example? Why a credit card?

    It is your card's data with a company most of us do not know.

  • lumaluma Member

    @chinmoy said: Anyone gave their credit card to them yet?

    I did.

    I looked over the site and it seems pretty legit. They have tons of info, videos, real phone numbers etc so I figured worth a try.

  • lumaluma Member

    @DragonDF said: My opinion: if you want to give me something FOR FREE I do not need to give you my credit card data. It has no sense.

    To avoid spammers and scammers.

    If you don't want to provide your information just move along, simple.

  • use virtual cc w\ $1 limit then cancel it

  • The following operating systems are available for use on the CS025 free cloud server:

    >

    CentOS 6.2 64-bit – base image
    Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS 64-bit – base image

    So old Ubuntu :(

  • DomainBopDomainBop Member
    edited March 2013

    Anyone gave their credit card to them yet?

    They use telephone verification so you'll receive an automated call immediately after ordering and the call will give you a 4-digit code to enter on their website to complete the order.

    Is that good or bad? I have not heard of them.

    It should be good. GoGrid is one of the better cloud providers and SVWH has been around since the mid 90's.
    http://www.crunchbase.com/company/nephoscale
    http://www.nephoscale.com/management-team (experienced management and no 12-yr-old CEO's ... +1 )

    The datacenter is CoreSite San Jose

    SVWH/Nephoscale ipV4 peers: http://bgp.he.net/AS13332#_peers

    The only negative so far is the limited OS choices: CentOS 6.2 64-bit or Ubuntu 10.04 LTS 64-bit

    The free account includes both an ipV4 ip address and a private VLAN ip address

  • twaintwain Member

    @hayhayday said: use virtual cc w\ $1 limit then cancel it

    Where/how would you get one of these?

  • @luma said: To avoid spammers and scammers.

    If you don't want to provide your information just move along, simple.

    Yes, it is really simple. For this YOU insert your credit card data and I did not.
    Are you trying to explain why you did this or are you trying to make me do it?

    Spammers and scammers can buy VCC, too.

    If you want to see if a person is or not a spammer or scammer you can monitor what he/she is doing in your host, right?

  • Just remember your bandwidth usage.
    Outbound traffic is $0.10/GB after you spend the free 50GB.

  • twaintwain Member

    @DalComp said: Just remember your bandwidth usage.

    Outbound traffic is $0.10/GB after you spend the free 50GB.

    This is another reason why they require a CC I would imagine.

  • @twain said: This is another reason why they require a CC I would imagine.

    Yep. It's pretty expensive too, IMO.

  • @kalam said: I don't like handing out my credit card information.

    Create a virtual CC number for them.

  • DomainBopDomainBop Member
    edited March 2013

    successful upgrade from 10.04 server LTS to 12.04 server LTS

    Welcome to Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.2.0-38-generic x86_64)

    to upgrade just do:
    sudo apt-get update & sudo apt-get upgrade
    sudo do-release-upgrade -d

    (answer yes to any prompts during the upgrade)

  • @nutjob said: Create a virtual CC number for them

    Would you tell us how to do that?

  • dnomdnom Member

    This has been posted over a year ago:
    http://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/475/free-vps-for-two-years-ok-theres-a-catch

    I tried it biut I found the CPU too weak for my needs it was consistently scoring 150-200 on geekbench IIRC. That was a year ago though so YMMV.

  • necrobump from the dead :P

    Nephoscale just added an east coast data center in Virginia.

  • @DomainBop said:
    necrobump from the dead :P

    Nephoscale just added an east coast data center in Virginia.

    Is it available under the free tier? Any chance you have a test IP?

  • @chinmoy said:

    I imagine using Vanilla or something.

    An alternative is to just go to your neighbourhood supermarket, buy a VISA gift card, use that for EC2 + all the other services you need, and spend the card on a week's worth of coffee or something.

  • @asterisk14 said:
    Is it available under the free tier? Any chance you have a test IP?

    Both locations are available under the free tier. The new Virginia datacenter is QTS in Richmond.

    http://www.datacentermap.com/usa/virginia/richmond/qts-richmond.html

  • @DomainBop said:
    successful upgrade from 10.04 server LTS to 12.04 server LTS

    (answer yes to any prompts during the upgrade)

    Use -y option.

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