KVM and OpenVZ Cheap Yearly VPS Offers in USA, France, Canada - HostNamaste

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• sanchogodinho Member

  March 11

  First, glws!

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• yoursunny Member, IPv6 Advocate

  March 11 edited March 11

  OpenVZ 7 End of Maintenance: 20 months ago.
  Countdown to OpenVZ 7 End of Life: 9 months.
  More information: Virtuozzo Product Lifecycle Policy.

  If you purchase a 12-month VZ7 plan now, your final 3 months will be donated to botnet for free, and the inevitable SpamHaus listing will be blamed on you. You would not be able to chargeback when that happens.

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• lovelyserver Member

  March 11 edited March 11

  Third !!!

  OpenVZ...

  Do you have any $7/y deals, as KVM.
• schenleyssy2 Member

  March 11

  nice

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• hostnamaste Member, Patron Provider

  March 11

  @yoursunny said:
  OpenVZ 7 End of Maintenance: 20 months ago.
  Countdown to OpenVZ 7 End of Life: 9 months.
  More information: Virtuozzo Product Lifecycle Policy.

  If you purchase a 12-month VZ7 plan now, your final 3 months will be donated to botnet for free, and the inevitable SpamHaus listing will be blamed on you. You would not be able to chargeback when that happens.

  Thank you for pointing that out.

  These OpenVZ plans are mainly intended for lightweight workloads, testing environments, and short-term projects where container virtualization is sufficient.

  For customers who prefer full virtualization and longer-term deployments, we also provide KVM VPS plans in the same locations.

  Appreciate the feedback!
• hostnamaste Member, Patron Provider

  March 11

  @lovelyserver said:
  Third !!!

  OpenVZ...

  Do you have any $7/y deals, as KVM.

  At the moment our lowest KVM yearly plan starts at $48/year due to the cost of full virtualization and IPv4.

  However, during special promotions we sometimes run very low-cost offers. For example, during our Black Friday / Cyber Monday 2025 promotion we had KVM VPS deals around ~$10/year.

  Thread reference: https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/212271/hostnamaste-black-friday-and-cyber-monday-2025-usa-france-canada-free-vps-giveaway

  We may run similar promotions again in the future, so please keep an eye on upcoming offers 🙂

  Thanked by 1lovelyserver
• hostnamaste Member, Patron Provider

  March 11

  @sanchogodinho said:
  First, glws!

  Thank you, we appreciate the support 🙂

  Thanked by 1sanchogodinho
• hostnamaste Member, Patron Provider

  March 11

  @schenleyssy2 said:
  nice

  Thank you, we appreciate the support 🙂
• hostnamaste Member, Patron Provider

  March 11

  Just to add a quick clarification for anyone reviewing the offer:

  • Multiple locations available including USA, Canada, and France
  • Both container-based (OpenVZ) and full virtualization (KVM) options
  • SSD storage with RAID protection
  • Suitable for both lightweight projects and larger deployments depending on the selected plan

  If anyone has questions about the plans or deployment locations, feel free to ask. Thank you for checking out the offer!
• yoursunny Member, IPv6 Advocate

  March 11

  @hostnamaste said:

  @yoursunny said:
  OpenVZ 7 End of Maintenance: 20 months ago.
  Countdown to OpenVZ 7 End of Life: 9 months.
  More information: Virtuozzo Product Lifecycle Policy.

  If you purchase a 12-month VZ7 plan now, your final 3 months will be donated to botnet for free, and the inevitable SpamHaus listing will be blamed on you. You would not be able to chargeback when that happens.

  Thank you for pointing that out.

  These OpenVZ plans are mainly intended for lightweight workloads, testing environments, and short-term projects where container virtualization is sufficient.

  For customers who prefer full virtualization and longer-term deployments, we also provide KVM VPS plans in the same locations.

  Appreciate the feedback!

  According to Hostnamaste ToS:

  Account Security and Host Namaste Systems

  • C. Any account found connecting to a third party network or system without authorization from the third party is subject to suspension. This includes but is not limited to denial of service attacks, brute force attacks, email spam, and web spam.
  • D. Any account which causes us to receive an abuse report may be suspended or terminated. If you do not remove malicious content after being notified, we reserve the right to leave access to services disabled.
  • E. We reserve the right to impose fees for verified abuse. Payment must be made for abuse of services prior to account re-activation. We reserve the right to deviate from our abuse schedule as we see fit. Our abuse fee schedule is as follows: -First notice: no charge. (Service will be suspended if not entertained in 12-24 hours) -Second notice: $5 penalty. -Third notice: $25 penalty. -Fourth notice: Account Termination

  Given that the 12-month service period will certainly extend after VZ7 end of life, how could the user be held accountable for a kernel level vulnerability, where the vulnerable kernel is provided by YOU?
  If the abuse occurred because of a kernel compromise, would you be willing to pay the $5 and $25 penalties to the customer?

  If the VZ7 plan is designed for short-term usage, would you be willing to offer a 9-month plan at 75% of quoted price point?
• hostnamaste Member, Patron Provider

  March 11

  According to Hostnamaste ToS:

  Account Security and Host Namaste Systems

  • C. Any account found connecting to a third party network or system without authorization from the third party is subject to suspension. This includes but is not limited to denial of service attacks, brute force attacks, email spam, and web spam.
  • D. Any account which causes us to receive an abuse report may be suspended or terminated. If you do not remove malicious content after being notified, we reserve the right to leave access to services disabled.
  • E. We reserve the right to impose fees for verified abuse. Payment must be made for abuse of services prior to account re-activation. We reserve the right to deviate from our abuse schedule as we see fit. Our abuse fee schedule is as follows: -First notice: no charge. (Service will be suspended if not entertained in 12-24 hours) -Second notice: $5 penalty. -Third notice: $25 penalty. -Fourth notice: Account Termination

  Given that the 12-month service period will certainly extend after VZ7 end of life, how could the user be held accountable for a kernel level vulnerability, where the vulnerable kernel is provided by YOU?
  If the abuse occurred because of a kernel compromise, would you be willing to pay the $5 and $25 penalties to the customer?

  If the VZ7 plan is designed for short-term usage, would you be willing to offer a 9-month plan at 75% of quoted price point?

  Thank you for the detailed comment.

  To clarify, our abuse policy applies to activities originating from a VPS instance such as spam, brute-force attacks, denial-of-service traffic, or other forms of network abuse. These policies are standard practice across hosting providers and are intended to address misuse of services rather than vulnerabilities in the underlying host kernel.

  In the unlikely case of a platform-level security issue, that would of course be handled at the infrastructure level by us rather than being treated as customer abuse.

  Regarding OpenVZ 7 lifecycle: these plans are primarily offered as budget container solutions for lightweight workloads and short-to-medium term projects. As with any platform lifecycle, we continue to monitor upstream developments and will evaluate appropriate migration paths or alternatives as needed.

  For users who prefer long-term full virtualization environments, we also provide KVM VPS plans across the same locations.

  We appreciate the feedback and the discussion.
• yoursunny Member, IPv6 Advocate

  March 11 edited March 11

  @hostnamaste said:

  According to Hostnamaste ToS:

  Account Security and Host Namaste Systems

  • C. Any account found connecting to a third party network or system without authorization from the third party is subject to suspension. This includes but is not limited to denial of service attacks, brute force attacks, email spam, and web spam.
  • D. Any account which causes us to receive an abuse report may be suspended or terminated. If you do not remove malicious content after being notified, we reserve the right to leave access to services disabled.
  • E. We reserve the right to impose fees for verified abuse. Payment must be made for abuse of services prior to account re-activation. We reserve the right to deviate from our abuse schedule as we see fit. Our abuse fee schedule is as follows: -First notice: no charge. (Service will be suspended if not entertained in 12-24 hours) -Second notice: $5 penalty. -Third notice: $25 penalty. -Fourth notice: Account Termination

  Given that the 12-month service period will certainly extend after VZ7 end of life, how could the user be held accountable for a kernel level vulnerability, where the vulnerable kernel is provided by YOU?
  If the abuse occurred because of a kernel compromise, would you be willing to pay the $5 and $25 penalties to the customer?

  If the VZ7 plan is designed for short-term usage, would you be willing to offer a 9-month plan at 75% of quoted price point?

  Thank you for the detailed comment.

  To clarify, our abuse policy applies to activities originating from a VPS instance such as spam, brute-force attacks, denial-of-service traffic, or other forms of network abuse. These policies are standard practice across hosting providers and are intended to address misuse of services rather than vulnerabilities in the underlying host kernel.

  In the unlikely case of a platform-level security issue, that would of course be handled at the infrastructure level by us rather than being treated as customer abuse.

  Regarding OpenVZ 7 lifecycle: these plans are primarily offered as budget container solutions for lightweight workloads and short-to-medium term projects. As with any platform lifecycle, we continue to monitor upstream developments and will evaluate appropriate migration paths or alternatives as needed.

  For users who prefer long-term full virtualization environments, we also provide KVM VPS plans across the same locations.

  We appreciate the feedback and the discussion.

  Once the hypervisor is compromised, the hacker can enter any container and launch abuse traffic from the container.
  From a packet trace, it’s indistinguishable whether the abuse was initiated by the customer or by a hacker who compromised the kernel.
  When the abuse notice arrives, who would have the burden of proof regarding abuse traffic from a “customer IP”, in order to assign the $5 and $25 penalty fees?
  Would you be willing to waive all suspensions and abuse fees for any abuse that occurs after 2026-Dec?
• hostnamaste Member, Patron Provider

  March 11

  Once the hypervisor is compromised, the hacker can enter any container and launch abuse traffic from the container.
  From a packet trace, it’s indistinguishable whether the abuse was initiated by the customer or by a hacker who compromised the kernel.
  When the abuse notice arrives, who would have the burden of proof regarding abuse traffic from a “customer IP”, in order to assign the $5 and $25 penalty fees?
  Would you be willing to waive all suspensions and abuse fees for any abuse that occurs after 2026-Dec?

  Abuse reports are always reviewed on a case-by-case basis. Our abuse policy is intended to address situations where services are knowingly misused (such as spam or attacks) originating from a VPS instance. If there were ever a confirmed infrastructure-level issue affecting the host node itself, that would naturally be handled at the provider level rather than being treated as customer abuse.

  Regarding the OpenVZ platform lifecycle, we continue to monitor upstream developments and will evaluate migration paths if required. Customers who prefer full virtualization may also migrate to our KVM VPS plans before the platform’s end-of-life if they wish.

  Please note that these VPS plans are unmanaged, so migrations would normally be performed by the client. However, we are always happy to provide basic guidance (such as taking backups or preparing for migration) if needed.
• yoursunny Member, IPv6 Advocate

  March 11

  @hostnamaste said:

  Once the hypervisor is compromised, the hacker can enter any container and launch abuse traffic from the container.
  From a packet trace, it’s indistinguishable whether the abuse was initiated by the customer or by a hacker who compromised the kernel.
  When the abuse notice arrives, who would have the burden of proof regarding abuse traffic from a “customer IP”, in order to assign the $5 and $25 penalty fees?
  Would you be willing to waive all suspensions and abuse fees for any abuse that occurs after 2026-Dec?

  Abuse reports are always reviewed on a case-by-case basis. Our abuse policy is intended to address situations where services are knowingly misused (such as spam or attacks) originating from a VPS instance. If there were ever a confirmed infrastructure-level issue affecting the host node itself, that would naturally be handled at the provider level rather than being treated as customer abuse.

  How would you confirm an “infrastructure-level issue affecting the host node itself”?
  It’s certainly possible for a hacker to compromise the unpatchable hypervisor kernel, send abuse traffic from a container IP, and then delete the logs.
  In the case of a dispute on whether an infrastructure level issue had lead to the abuse traffic, would you be willing to provide full traffic traces and hypervisor logs to a third party auditor, in order to properly assign blame for the compromise?
  (In that case, the third party expert auditing fee shall be paid by whoever loses the case.)
• lovelyserver Member

  March 11

  @hostnamaste said:

  @lovelyserver said:
  Third !!!

  OpenVZ...

  Do you have any $7/y deals, as KVM.

  At the moment our lowest KVM yearly plan starts at $48/year due to the cost of full virtualization and IPv4.

  However, during special promotions we sometimes run very low-cost offers. For example, during our Black Friday / Cyber Monday 2025 promotion we had KVM VPS deals around ~$10/year.

  Thread reference: https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/212271/hostnamaste-black-friday-and-cyber-monday-2025-usa-france-canada-free-vps-giveaway

  We may run similar promotions again in the future, so please keep an eye on upcoming offers 🙂

  Excellent
• hostnamaste Member, Patron Provider

  March 11

  How would you confirm an “infrastructure-level issue affecting the host node itself”?
  It’s certainly possible for a hacker to compromise the unpatchable hypervisor kernel, send abuse traffic from a container IP, and then delete the logs.
  In the case of a dispute on whether an infrastructure level issue had lead to the abuse traffic, would you be willing to provide full traffic traces and hypervisor logs to a third party auditor, in order to properly assign blame for the compromise?
  (In that case, the third party expert auditing fee shall be paid by whoever loses the case.)

  Security and abuse handling follow our internal operational procedures and policies, and investigations are handled accordingly when required. For security and privacy reasons we do not disclose internal infrastructure logs or operational details publicly.

  As this discussion is moving into hypothetical security and forensic scenarios beyond the scope of this offer thread, we’ll keep the focus here on the VPS plans being offered.

  If anyone has questions regarding the plans, locations, or deployment options, feel free to ask.
• DeepSeeks Member

  March 11

  glws

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• Beanzy Member

  March 12

  This price for a VPS is too expensive for me.

  Thanked by 2yoursunny jcn50
• yoursunny Member, IPv6 Advocate

  March 12 edited March 12

  @Beanzy said:
  This price for a VPS is too expensive for me.

  Correct.
  2GB VZ7 with 2013-era processor costs $36/year plus inevitable $5 and $25 abuse fees, for $66 total.
  You can get a 2GB KVM for $44/year with newer EPYC Milan processor and routed /64 from premium providers, but it’s 10GB NVMe instead of 50GB HDD SSD storage.

  We did use Hostnamaste Dallas 2.5GB KVM in 2024.
  Their Dallas location was in the same facility as UptimeRobot.
  The internal routing was misconfigured such that UptimeRobot detects both the IPv4 and the single IPv6 to be “forever red”.
  Hostnamaste support refuses to acknowledge the issue despite we provided traceroute in Ticket 776951.

  We do not recommend Hostnamaste services, either VZ7 or KVM, to any serious user.

  Thanked by 1jcn50
• hostnamaste Member, Patron Provider

  March 12

  @yoursunny said:

  @Beanzy said:
  This price for a VPS is too expensive for me.

  Correct.
  2GB VZ7 with 2013-era processor costs $36/year plus inevitable $5 and $25 abuse fees, for $66 total.
  You can get a 2GB KVM for $44/year with newer EPYC Milan processor and routed /64 from premium providers, but it’s 10GB NVMe instead of 50GB HDD storage.

  We did use Hostnamaste Dallas 2.5GB KVM in 2024.
  Their Dallas location was in the same facility as UptimeRobot.
  The internal routing was misconfigured such that UptimeRobot detects both the IPv4 and the single IPv6 to be “forever red”.
  Hostnamaste support refuses to acknowledge the issue despite we provided traceroute in Ticket 776951.

  We do not recommend Hostnamaste services, either VZ7 or KVM, to any serious user.

  The ticket you referenced is valid and was related to a KVM VPS that was provided as part of our Black Friday / Cyber Monday promotional giveaway, so the service was offered free of charge.

  At the time of the report we checked the VPS and both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses were responding normally to ICMP. Based on the diagnostics you shared, the echo replies were leaving the VPS correctly, which indicates the VPS and network connectivity were functioning as expected.

  As mentioned in the ticket, if a third-party monitoring service reports incorrect results while the server is responding normally, the issue would need to be verified with that service provider directly. We are not able to troubleshoot or support third-party monitoring software.

  Since this thread is intended for the VPS offer itself, we won’t continue discussing individual support tickets here. If there are any further questions regarding services, please feel free to contact our support team directly.
• hostnamaste Member, Patron Provider

  March 12

  @Beanzy said:
  This price for a VPS is too expensive for me.

  Thank you for the feedback.

  Just to clarify, the VPS plans are using SSD storage rather than HDD. We understand that pricing may not suit every budget, but we try to keep a balance between affordability and reliable infrastructure across multiple locations.

  Feel free to reach out if you have any questions about the plans.
• hostnamaste Member, Patron Provider

  March 12

  @DeepSeeks said:
  glws

  Thank you, we appreciate the support 🙂
• yoursunny Member, IPv6 Advocate

  March 12

  @hostnamaste said:

  @Beanzy said:
  This price for a VPS is too expensive for me.

  Thank you for the feedback.

  Just to clarify, the VPS plans are using SSD storage rather than HDD. We understand that pricing may not suit every budget, but we try to keep a balance between affordability and reliable infrastructure across multiple locations.

  $6/year and we’ll give you another chance.

  Thanked by 1jcn50