Chris, from ChicagoVPS, has got three different offers for LowEndBox readers. Now that ChicagoVPS are present in six different cities, the Chicago part of their name is quite deceiving!
OpenVZ SSD-Cached
| KVM SSD Cached
| OpenVZ Pure SSD
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ChicagoVPS, who first invented the $7/month 2 GB VPS back in 2011 (https://lowendbox.com/blog/chicagovps-7-2gb-openvz-vps-in-chicago/), are taking the spotlight once again by being the first host to offer this amount of resources for $4 per month. As you may have noticed, ChicagoVPS has also got a new website design, now that they’re focused towards the SSD VPS market (all VPS are now either SSD cached or pure SSD plans). They’re using the Dual Intel E5-2620 processors for their KVM nodes and the Intel 520 SSD for their SSD nodes. If you sign up, or are already a customer, do leave a review below.
ChicagoVPS accept payments via major Credit Cards, and by personal check, cashier’s check, Paypal, electronic check, or money order. Their refunds policy states that “Refunds are subject to approval by ChicagoVPS on a case by case basis”. ChicagoVPS guarantees a 99.9% uptime with all services. Free central backups, free automated weekly node backups and free DNS hosting are all included. For more information, take a look at their Terms of Service.
Network Information:
Los Angeles: 198.23.128.127
Buffalo: 75.127.3.3
Chicago: 206.217.137.110
Atlanta: 198.46.150.130
New Jersey: 199.188.100.34
Dallas: 172.245.57.2
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I felt that I should say something about this provider. I have been with Chicago VPS since about 2011 and I have found them one of the most reliable VPS’s I’ve used (and I use a lot, just for interest’s sake mainly) to the extent that I use them as my main, permanent host for all my stuff.
Since I’m on the $7 plan, I’d love to get this discount. If I were to sign up on the $4 plan, would ChicagoVPS be willing to migrate my container for me so I didn’t have to move everything manually ?
I am on the same boat man. I had to cancel my yearly vps plans with them and reconfigure my whole vps again. It would be nice if they don’t leave the existing customers in the wind and migrate them to this plan
To be honest, while I was surprised and disturbed by the negative comments on this page about ChicagoVPS (I am not sure I’ve ever heard such an outpouring of unhappiness for any company) I’ve personally never had any problems with them and I like my server. However, now that prices are dropping and other providers offer the same service at much lower prices, if ChicagoVPS aren’t willing to even offer this reduced price to existing customers then I’ll just shift my stuff to someone else. There’s no point going through all the hassle of moving all my data and configurations to another VPS at the same provider when I could move it to someone else.
I just got a far better VPS than what ChicagoVPS offer from ServerMania (with double the disk, ssd caching and much more bandwidth) for only $4 a month (paid yearly), so if ChicagoVPS don’t even want to offer their new special price to the existing customers who ARE satisfied with their service then I don’t think they are worth supporting.
Might be worth ChicagoVPS showing their loyal customers some love if they want their reputation to improve.
I signed up for my current VPS at Chicago VPS on July 6th, 2012. I have never had a significant problem, and they were always pretty good with support when I needed it.
My current VPS uptime is:
05:37:55 up 97 days, 17:21, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
However, in view of the overwhelming negative opinion on this page, and their lack of desire to offer their newly discounted price to existing customers, I will be leaving. Any ChicagoVPS representative want to contact me and offer me the new rate ? I’d be happy enough to stay if I got the new deal, otherwise I can host cheaper on a better box elsewhere.
Your load average of 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 means you’re doing absolutely jack shit with your server.
… although, to be fair, if you did try to do something, you’d have nothing but problems. I tried to run a message board on there, got 500 errors just under 10% of the time, and the disk wait was around 20% AT BEST.
Cpu(s): 2.4%us, 0.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 75.5%id, 21.6%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.3%st
Well, at least they’re now secure, right?
… when asked how it was possible for a password supposedly hashed/encrypted to be displayed to the user in plain text, their Chief Networking Officer says “I understand the concepts, please review my signature. There are two options, you get passwords or you don’t. “ That signature does well display his A+ Certification, among others.
So, uh, hopefully everything you put on there is absolutely worthless.
Same here, i am their client since 2011 and I notice price drop for new clients too. While 7$ isn’t much, i’d love to have SSD performance instead of what I have for now for 7$ or at least my current bill lowered to $4 (if not lower because i’m not on SSD).
Another thing that bothers me, is the network latency I can feel every other day. I’ve been telling myself it’s because of EU-US link or something, but it really bothers me occasionally seeing my sites loading slower.
Other than that, I should say that i’ve never had any problems with them. Few times i’ve written to helpdesk, they (or he) responded well within an hour so i’m fine with it. I would indeed suggest more people using chicagovps because so far it has been good, but i’m afraid everyone will jump on my node and hog it 🙂
P.S. I’ve been watching other offers lately too, probably time to let it go if there’s no love for existing customers.
I emailed their sales department last week asking if they would be willing to offer the discounted rate to existing customers. Not so much of a peep in reply.
Also, last week I had a high memory process killed off on my server by them. What’s the point of leasing a 2gb server if they kill off your processes when you actually go close to using it ?
Jumped the gun. They replied today. They said they were happy to reduce my plan to $4 a month. There you go, it was worth asking after all. Still little bit wary of them after all the bad press, but my box has always worked well and without problem (apart from when I ran that one process which they didn’t like).
Going to stick with them for a while now since they’ve been happy to acknowledge my loyalty as a longstanding customer.
I had two 2GB packages with them and I’m letting one of them expire out/terminate. It would reboot itself everyday and when ever I had an issue all they did was want to change my node and move me around to different hardware. I have my production site on knownhost.com but I pay a premium price there but uptime has been %100 and efficiency has been stellar. Then again CVPS is so cheap you almost have to expect such high over selling and all the issues. Wanna get a 2GB VPS for $40/year then expect technical problems, reboots and maybe %80. Not trying to bad mouth them, but just moving me around to another node all the time isn’t really quite sufficient support at all. And you’ll see my previous comments all have been the same….just keep moving me to different nodes. Been happening for like 9 months now and that is why I stopped paying on one of the services with them.
I had 4 VPS with them but I recently canceled 3 of them because of unreliable performances and slow to no tech support that do not admit their problems with their servers.
Have 2 servers with them, I don’t even bother using them. They refuse to give me refund and they can’t fix it. They don’t let me change servers password then they shut it down saying it uses to much data. I didn’t even install anything on the server. I know they were badly hacked but it is so unprofessional to blame customers for that.
I am still waiting maybe one day they fix password issue and backup issue so may use it for some things however I’ll never put any serious web site on Chicagovps servers. I moved sites to RamNode, and never have problems.
Chicagovps customer support is a joke.
Everyone gets attracted to such the low price and everyone is a sucker for low prices. I’d rather pay a little more and get zero DDOS attacks and almost %100 uptime with adequate support. It is too bad really, cause we all like cheap prices…but at that moment when you really need your VPS and it isn’t working you’ll be kicking yourself in the butt.
I paid them $60 for 2 GB VPS, some are cheaper then that.
top – 18:15:29 up 91 days, 12:58, 1 user, load average: 4.91, 2.50, 1.19
Tasks: 54 total, 1 running, 53 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.2%us, 0.2%sy, 0.0%ni, 43.0%id, 56.6%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 2097152k total, 361840k used, 1735312k free, 0k buffers
Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 89436k cached
There ya go. 17% of the memory in use, all waiting on disk to fetch information. They’ve released how badly they oversold, and here’s proof of it.
DO NOT USE!
Simple issue but instead of resolution they closed out our account. The only good thing is that they were sooooo bad so we saw it coming and had already closed and moved all our sites. Not the worst service but by far NO professionalism.
NO concern for clients or security.
DO NOT USE!
I LOVE the random avatar, it looks like a certain gesture I might give to CHICAGOVPS. (Our issues did not carry over to the new location so you tell where the fault was :-\)
hmm… chicagoVPS seems to be down right now, I can’t get to my server or the billing panel on their website
2 months now and i can’t use any of my two servers with ChicagoVPS.
I don’t even run anything on the server and they accuse me of using all data then shut it down.
At same time they don’t let me change root password but have to use one they give me.
Lucky I moved sites to RamNode. No single problem with them. When setting the server I asked few questions and they answered within 5 minutes.
With Chicago VPS support is slow sometimes it takes them few days to answer.
Example;
Client; Friday, September 27th, 2013 (19:53)
and they answered after 7 days
Friday, October 4th, 2013 (15:23)
But the worst is that in the answer they didn’t address the issue at all.
wow. i’m so sad. i purchased a vps for 1 year and got low performance.. is it possible for me to get a refun?
oh no… my vps is very low. already paid for 1 year but got the worst experience. no respond, no action from them.
made the mistake of trying to use chicagovps’s ubuntu 12.10 template.. now my vps is dead. hours later.. my support request is responded to with the reason is due to my ‘node’ doesnt support it. also found out that not all their nodes are ssd/ssd-cached
Very unprofessional, but in all fairness, this is not limited to ChicagoVPS. I’ve come across this issue with a number of VPS providers. They waste not only your time, but their own as well – having to respond to such tickets. There is really no excuse I can think of for listing an OS template for all nodes and then not adding it to some nodes. What is more, in all cases I have come across (again, not only with ChicagoVPS) was failure to rectify the situation – either de-listing the template or adding the missing template.
This said, what do you expect at LEB pricing? At a few $$ per month they can’t possibly afford to hire top notch, professional tech support staff. This is why I now prefer to go with smaller operators or those where the founder/CEO runs things hands on. The minute they start delegating, things go downhill in a hurry. They delegate (which is good, by the way) but lack the management skills or move on to other ventures and plain forget about the need to supervise their less than top notch and unmotivated staff. Been there, done that myself 😉
I disagree with this implication that you shouldn’t expect things to work properly for a low price. I can forgive a lot of things when it comes to VPS providers, especially hardware downtime and internet connectivity issues. They are just some guy working from home (most of the time) who has a server in a rack somewhere.
But it’s also worth remembering that there isn’t a lot of “support” involved in running one of these services. Everything is automated with their management software from signups to activation. Unless something “goes wrong” there should be nothing they need ever do.
That means there’s really no excuse for someone who sets these businesses up to not pay basic attention to detail with regard to making sure that what is offered on their website or advertising is what is actually available. Not putting particular OS templates on certain nodes is really just laziness. Copying across the image, modifying some configuration and adding it to the menu is really not a big deal.
I sympathise when these providers have actual issues relating to crashes, hardware problems etc. But I don’t sympathise at all when they are too lazy to make sure their templates are there and work properly. That’s the most fundamental part of their business. If they can’t even get that right, how can you expect them to get the more difficult stuff right ?
And don’t forget, the fact that we are getting special LEB pricing doesn’t mean that the people who pay full price aren’t experiencing these same issues. I think the proliferation of low-cost, automated VPS providers for as little as a couple of dollars a month is fantastic and a massive boon for the hosting and publishing industries, but the fact that it is so easy to get “into the game” means that a lot of players don’t really have the attention to detail to make sure things are done right. I don’t think it’s lack of skill, I think it’s lack of care.
I couldn’t agree with you more! I was referring to objective reality and speculating on possible reasons for such a sad state of things, not implying that things shouldn’t work properly if offered at a low price.
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Have no idea about this damn VPS Provider, My VPS Went down 6 hours, cant access billing or cp. How can i contact you ?
You are getting this message because the Billing website has been shutdown in order to protect our customer’s information and our system from intruders.
We have found a security issue in the WHMCS system that we use. We are waiting for WHMCS to issue a fix.
Please check back here and on the main website (www.chicagovps.net) for any additional information.
For any issues, please email us at: support@chicagovps.net
All VPS’s will be kept running, they are not affected by this issue at all.
as usual, no response *yet*
Just wonder if you can post quick summary performance if you are using CVPS? I’m a current user and got the script from one of the comments around LOB. Here is my statistics of my VPS:
sudo wget freevps.us/downloads/bench.sh -O - -o /dev/null|bash
CPU model : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1240 V2 @ 3.40GHz
Number of cores : 4
CPU frequency : 2400.000 MHz
Total amount of ram : 2048 MB
Total amount of swap : 0 MB
System uptime : 28 days, 56 min,
Download speed from CacheFly: 77.4MB/s
Download speed from Coloat, Atlanta GA: 25.2MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Dallas, TX: 36.5MB/s
Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 12.3MB/s
Download speed from i3d.net, NL: 8.10MB/s
Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 8.34MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Singapore: 7.59MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Seattle, WA: 48.1MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 96.4MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Washington, DC: 19.7MB/s
I/O speed : 264 MB/s
From August I cat still use any of 2 servers i bought with them.
latest is that 2Gb one they changed to 256mb
on KVM i am again locked and waiting for 3 days until they fix that.
This company is a joke. Stay far, far away. Not worth it at any price.
Well I just had my VPS down for 2 days and a complete data loss. Ouch. It was one of the buffalo nodes.
i have using chicagovps for 1 year, so far no big problem, great service but little slow respond on new order
So cheap! But what the best server, Im choice chicago, Hope it is good
Ok, I already have 4 boxes with CVPS (all enterprise 2BG) since 2012, I’m not going to complain, there were issues but again it is cheap.
I’d like to know has anyone bought the Pure SSD 2GB? or SSD-cached 2GB?
I’m thinking about adding one of those to my list but not sure if I can expect better performance because of the SSD disk.
Can someone explain/share experience with SSD and which would be better pure SSD or SSD-cached?
Thanks.
Can someone share any experiences with their SSD plans?
Thanks
Just taken a Windows VPS Plan with 2GB of RAM. The RDP is very low, u can’t control it very well… And the VPS’s are emulated by QEMU, the worsest method for emulate Windows… A time ago I had an OVH plan with 2 cores and 1gb the ram only and worked 5 times better than Chicago… I don’t recommend it too much