Via this WHT offer. Newwebsite.com is a Virginia-based hosting provider that has its domain registered since 1997! According to its about page it started in web design business, moved to hosting 2 years later, had its own small DC, and now have all its equipment with OnePartner.com in Duffield VA. It has released some low end specials starting from $6.95/month:
- 512MB guaranteed/2048MB burstable memory
- 25GB storage
- 500GB/month data transfer
- OpenVZ/SolusVM
- DirectAdmin/Installatron included
Sounds like pretty good deal for those looking for DirectAdmin bundles to have a ready-to-run VPS for hosting websites. 256MB-512MB under 7 bucks seems to be the norm these days although those are no where near “low end box” IMHO. Well. The world moves on and I shall go back to play with my Commodore 64 and Apple IIe.
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At $6.95/month their business is not sustainable:
DirectAdmin $5/month
Installatron $1/month
SolusVM $10/month per server, assuming 10,20,30,40 VPS per server – $1-$0.25
So their base cost without the server cost and bandwidth = $7-$6.25
Hmm this seems to be a too good to be true scenario so I signed up but in their signup page they didn’t even ask for my payment info. I just got redirected to a page telling me everything will be setup soon after I placed my order. I’m confused now.
@anonymous
Most of these budget providers don’t have sustainable business models. A lot oversell till it comes out of their ears, then maybe sell the company off (like BoxVPS did)
Virpus used to do $7 special with DirectAdmin as well. Maybe they can source some very cheap licenses? But yes, many providers listed on this blog are in fact not sustainable.
Note: the budget plans may be just an action – means to attract people to the service. In this given case it is said the specials may vanish at any moment.
DirectAdmin’s lowest price point is $5, Installatron on 50 units $1, you can get probably get it for 50c on 100-200+
Just got my login details. The VPS is very fast and everything seems ok so far. Still haven’t paid yet though…
@Mike, they do have WHMCS system. Once you logged in you will see your invoice. I was a little surprised seeing an e-mail from them stating I passed the fraud check when I didn’t even paid yet.
Yeah, I just logged into WHMCS before I read your message, and noticed the invoice.
Start Benchmark Run: Wed May 26 16:19:41 EDT 2010 16:19:41 up 7:52, 1 user, load average: 0.03, 0.10, 0.08 End Benchmark Run: Wed May 26 16:30:58 EDT 2010 16:30:58 up 8:04, 1 user, load average: 13.83, 5.94, 2.70 INDEX VALUES TEST BASELINE RESULT INDEX Dhrystone 2 using register variables 376783.7 24196658.8 642.2 Double-Precision Whetstone 83.1 1504.8 181.1 Execl Throughput 188.3 7902.7 419.7 File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 2672.0 195394.0 731.3 File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1077.0 54361.0 504.7 File Read 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 15382.0 1433691.0 932.1 Pipe-based Context Switching 15448.6 728688.3 471.7 Pipe Throughput 111814.6 2244097.0 200.7 Process Creation 569.3 23692.2 416.2 Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 44.8 1450.0 323.7 System Call Overhead 114433.5 3698461.9 323.2 ========= FINAL SCORE 418.6@ Evo, Thats good enough for me! I just placed my order, so we will see..
I tried to go for quarterly payment, but they only billed me for 1 month. My guess is the price will be hiked next month :(
I love how people assume they know what our costs are. People have no idea what our costs are and we plan to keep it that way. We are not beginners at this. We have been here long before most of the big companies out there now.
@ 10. Evo,
How do you run those benchmarks? (on debian)
@David
Try this thread http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=924581
David – I run the benchmark on Cent OS. It should be almost the same on Debian.
I picked up one of the 11.95 VPS packages for hosting my sites and the 6.95 VPS for use as development/test environment. I must say I have been really impressed with the support. Floyd forgot to add the additional IP addresses on one of my VPS instances. I e-mailed him and asked about it. He promptly replied with apologies and they were added within 5 minutes. The servers have been solid with zero downtime, good speeds, and support requests have been answered quickly. Floyd (the owner) is doing things right it seems.
I for one would love to know more about the $5 price point for Direct Admin. With 122 servers, I’m paying $19 per box. I don’t see a $5 price point. (Although I no longer see my $19 price point either. Hmmm….)
I’ts a code 500 license for internal providers you need to request it from DirectAdmin.
Thanks. We get the internal pricing even though we do a mix of shared and dedicated. Be a long while if ever until we hit 500 servers.
BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 5.1.2) System: xxxx.xxxxxxx.xxx: GNU/Linux OS: GNU/Linux -- 2.6.18-194.3.1.el5.028stab069.6 -- #1 SMP Wed May 26 18:31:05 MSD 2010 Machine: i686 (i386) Language: en_US.utf8 (charmap="UTF-8", collate="UTF-8") CPU 0: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5410 @ 2.33GHz (4666.7 bogomips) Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization CPU 1: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5410 @ 2.33GHz (4666.0 bogomips) Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization CPU 2: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5410 @ 2.33GHz (4666.1 bogomips) Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization CPU 3: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5410 @ 2.33GHz (4666.1 bogomips) Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization 04:33:24 up 22:23, 1 user, load average: 0.17, 0.08, 0.02; runlevel 3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Benchmark Run: Fri Jun 18 2010 04:33:24 - 05:05:50 4 CPUs in system; running 1 parallel copy of tests Dhrystone 2 using register variables 9521686.2 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Double-Precision Whetstone 2186.9 MWIPS (10.2 s, 7 samples) Execl Throughput 3495.6 lps (29.4 s, 2 samples) File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 407056.2 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples) File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 113307.4 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples) File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 713582.8 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples) Pipe Throughput 692754.6 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Pipe-based Context Switching 101081.1 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Process Creation 10921.8 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples) Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 4164.6 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples) Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 1163.9 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples) System Call Overhead 604720.7 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) System Benchmarks Index Values BASELINE RESULT INDEX Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 9521686.2 815.9 Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 2186.9 397.6 Execl Throughput 43.0 3495.6 812.9 File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 3960.0 407056.2 1027.9 File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1655.0 113307.4 684.6 File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 5800.0 713582.8 1230.3 Pipe Throughput 12440.0 692754.6 556.9 Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 101081.1 252.7 Process Creation 126.0 10921.8 866.8 Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 4164.6 982.2 Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 1163.9 1939.9 System Call Overhead 15000.0 604720.7 403.1 ======== System Benchmarks Index Score 725.9 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Benchmark Run: Fri Jun 18 2010 05:05:50 - 05:38:21 4 CPUs in system; running 4 parallel copies of tests Dhrystone 2 using register variables 37647727.5 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Double-Precision Whetstone 8449.8 MWIPS (10.2 s, 7 samples) Execl Throughput 5749.2 lps (29.7 s, 2 samples) File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 221723.3 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples) File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 73437.5 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples) File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 463451.5 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples) Pipe Throughput 2759811.7 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Pipe-based Context Switching 903765.5 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Process Creation 19674.1 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples) Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 9349.0 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples) Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 1477.5 lpm (60.1 s, 2 samples) System Call Overhead 1791599.3 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) System Benchmarks Index Values BASELINE RESULT INDEX Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 37647727.5 3226.0 Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 8449.8 1536.3 Execl Throughput 43.0 5749.2 1337.0 File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 3960.0 221723.3 559.9 File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1655.0 73437.5 443.7 File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 5800.0 463451.5 799.1 Pipe Throughput 12440.0 2759811.7 2218.5 Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 903765.5 2259.4 Process Creation 126.0 19674.1 1561.4 Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 9349.0 2205.0 Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 1477.5 2462.5 System Call Overhead 15000.0 1791599.3 1194.4 ========I must say, that this is a wonderful service! I’ve been using the VPS for about a month now, and it’s absolutely great – the server, the support and of course the price! Maybe they could add 6 months and 1 year subscription options and plans with more bandwidth. I hope that the quality will remain the same in the future!
We now have XEN VPS’s available for under $7. I don’t know if a link here would be considered spam so I won’t post it. But you can see the ad at WHT.
@Newwebsite.com
As a current customer on this special, would I be able to switch over to Xen (and have you move my data, etc for me?) w/same disk, b/w, etc & cost?
@Eric
We can do this for you but for the exact same specs Xen is a little more. Mostly its because of the memory. I am trying to be careful how much I post here because I don’t want to spam. There is a WHT post a few weeks ago with the Xen link to the specials.
… the website and nameserver was disappear…
seems the promote already expired…
@ghost
What are you talking about?
Newwebsite.com hasn’t missed a bit on my own tracker. I guess he was talking about the offer has expired?
I don’t know why he would say the offer has expired either.
sorry i make a mistake,
i didn’t find your VPS on your website home page link,
so i think it’s expired.
disappear, that’s because when i want to link to your websit before,
i got fail almost 2~3 minutes,
then it’s ok.
but i can’t delete before comment…
Hi Newwebsite.com, please give me test ip!
There is a test download file at the WHT offer.
Horrible experience with this host http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?p=6996576#post6996576
STAY AWAY people =//
Sorry Tom has had a bad experience. It is inevitable. Not one host is going to be able to please everybody. All we can say is we stand behind the money back guarantee. If you don’t like the service all it costs you is a little time.