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Cloud Shards - $30/year 512MB OpenVZ, $7/month 500GB storage KVM, and more

cloudshardsHarry, from Cloud Shards has sent in the following offers all of which are available in Dallas, Texas, USA and some of which are available in Los Angeles, California, USA. No coupon code is required for any of these offers.

OpenVZ 512MB

OpenVZ 2GB SSD

More offers inside!

Cloud Shards is based in Sydney, Australia and have been around for well over a year now. They’re a legally registered entity in Australia and are also GST registered, which means Australian customers have to pay 10% GST. In addition to that, Cloud Shards is also a registered LLC (Cloud Shards DBA Query Foundry, LLC) in the state of Wyoming, USA. OpenVZ nodes have either dual L5520 CPUs, 6x 256GB Sandisk Enterprise SSD in RAID10, and an LSI RAID card, or dual E5-2620 CPUs with 8x 2TB hard drives in RAID 10 backup up by an LSI RAID card. Storage nodes have either dual L5520 CPUs or a single E3-1230v3, 12 or more 4TB Western Digital SE drives in RAID50, and an Adaptec RAID card with battery backup! Cloud Shards have been featured multiple times before and has positive comments from the community. As always, feel free to share your experiences in the comments or at LowEndTalk! Personally I’ve had nothing but good experiences with Cloud Shards, so I’d say it’s pretty safe to buy from these guys!

KVM 250GB

  • 1 CPU
  • 320MB RAM
  • 250GB HDD space
  • 500GB traffic
  • 1Gbps uplink
  • 1x IPv4
  • 8x IPv6
  • KVM/SolusVM
  • $4.75/month
  • Order in Dallas
KVM 500GB

  • 1 CPU
  • 320MB RAM
  • 500GB HDD space
  • 2TB traffic
  • 1Gbps uplink
  • 1x IPv4
  • 8x IPv6
  • KVM/SolusVM
  • $7/month
  • Order in Dallas

Cloud Shards accepts payments via PayPal and 2Checkout. They offer a 7 day no questions asked refund policy and provide a 99.9% uptime SLA. You can view more of their budget plans here and backup plans here. 8 IPv6 are provisioned by default and more can be requested via support tickets. Extra IPs, disk and bandwidth can be ordered at checkout. Anything legal in the USA is allowed. Tor Exit, IRC and public VPN/Proxy are not allowed. Be sure to take a look at their Terms of Service before signing up.

Network Information

Dallas, TX, USA (Cloud Shards DBA Query Foundry, LLC, Infomart Dallas)
Looking glass: http://tx.lg.cloudshards.net
Carriers: PCCW, Internap, Cogent, Zayo (pending)

Los Angeles, CA, USA (MultaCOM)
Looking glass: http://ca.lg.cloudshards.net
Carriers: PCCW, Internap, Cogent, Zayo (pending)

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9 Comments

  1. msg7086:

    Had a very low end vps with them and the uptime was amazing. Nice provider.

    November 8, 2014 @ 1:52 am | Reply
  2. rootlinux:

    Can the OpenVZ 512MB sufficient for Cpanel DNS Only with hosting 30 domain names? Thanks.

    November 8, 2014 @ 3:47 am | Reply
  3. Stabilize it?

    November 8, 2014 @ 11:18 am | Reply
  4. Yomero:

    Any restrictions about what can I run on the storage servers?

    November 8, 2014 @ 5:02 pm | Reply
  5. Need cheap Dedicated servers.

    November 10, 2014 @ 1:55 am | Reply

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