Jimmy from PhotonVPS/Profuse Solutions has emailed me about their announcement of YardVPS, a “new brand of completely unmanaged VPS”. VPS packages start from $15/Year — a price point famously created by BuyVM back in August and subsequently copied by NordicVPS. You get
- 128MB guaranteed/256MB burstable memory
- 10GB storage
- 500GB/month data transfer
- OpenVZ/SolusVM
Servers will be at the same DC where the other services from Profuse Solutions are — Los Angeles CA. Here is one related WHT thread about them. Domain is indeed only registered 3 weeks ago but do remember that they are a new brand of an existing player that has pretty good support from Asia.
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Wow, those colors look funny in Firefox.
Argh. Don’t tell me your web developer has only tested the site on MSIE…
Nope, Google Chrome.
I checked again on Firefox and it looks corrected now though, the screenshot just displays the colors incorrectly.
> a price point famously created by BuyVM back in August and subsequently copied by NordicVPS.
I think it’d be fair to also mention AvailableVPS with their $14/year :)
http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/availablevps-12year-128mb-openvz-vps-exclusive-offer/
Only difference is that buyvm is a crook, running the show, and Photon, they have a reputable history.
chachiris, so you got on an empty train and you are wondering why is it going so fast?
Don’t worry you will arrive at the stop sooner or later.
that’s what I’m talking about. say it straight. peeps don’t get this; if you sign up in the beginning with a cheap provider you get great service coz he don’t have too many customers, but as the confidence grows and peeps buy into the plan; the node gets overstuffed. my policy: avoid all the stuff in the yearly division. its just not worth it.
@Tom
What are you talking about? I have been with buyvm since the $15 128MB offer and had no problems.
Pike, I mean that calling buyvm a crook backed by frantech is simply retarded and that no matter what provider, if you end up being one of the the first people on the node your performance will be great until they fill up the node.
but it’s true, they are TOTAL CROOKS! avoid them.
they got no clue about VPS and hosting. their servers reboot all the time, and my process keep getting killed. because out of memory, but im only 50% of memory usage.
they are total useless.
Yeah my BuyVM VPS is going great. Had no issues.
Mine too, absolutely excellent. His dissing of buyvm only devalues and casts doubt on his praise of photon.
If you do check comments from their past offers you’ll see that BuyVM is not smooth sailing either. Mine at BuyVM is okay. Rebooted a few times, had some IO wait issue every now and then, but is generally okay.
You’re on a bummed node that has some back cores on the CPU, hense the reboots. We finally got it diagnosed so there is going to be a planned swap out on Wednesday most likey. Pretty sad, the CPU was the only thing we didn’t replace in the chassis swap :(
I have 2 accounts with BuyVM. The 128/256MB ($15/year) was a “disaster”, but it has been stable for this past 2 weeks, while the 256/512MB ($3.5/Month) is stable from the start. However, I haven’t utilize it for production until I am sure that there will be no problem of the same type arise in the future.
I bought one of the $15/yr 128MB plans from BuyVM. It took a couple of hours to setup but it’s been running steady since.
BuyVM has been good to me as well. My node (10) had no issues whatsoever. I hope that will continue.
Anyone can comment about NordicVPS compare to this???
Nothing to compare, nordic has been at least for a month with there offer and this one has been 2 days.
I think nordic had only 2 node restarts in 30 days and no downtime besides that on there 128mb offer.
Their site is yet to be completely developed.
One stunning thing is they give a 10% commission for affiliates. Really amazed if they can make profit of even a dime with such low rates. :)
Examples of prohibited content or links include (but are not limited to):
• IRC & IRC related software
BuyVM and Nordic allow it so there isn’t hard choice for me. I will pass this offer.
Thanks for spotting this. Also check out this ‘gem’:
> Examples of prohibited content or links include (but are not limited to):
> * Distribution of music files or any other material in which the account holder does not own the copyright.
Why yes sir, I do not own the copyright on the Debian GNU/Linux distribution, and yet it is perfectly legal for me to distribute it (as well as thousands of other similar freely licensed works). With such dimwitted AUP, this offer is definitely useless compared to BuyVM and Nordic. You can say it’s a minor thing, but it’s exactly things like that, which are helpful in estimating what to expect from the service.
Ya I have a BuyVM and Nordic and use them for IRC. Would love to add another vps to the collection
if these guys would be willing to change their rules.
Yeah, me too. IRC (internet relay chat) isn’t illegal by itself. It’s true that it might be misused same as everything in hosting industry.. but nowaday are better ways for abusers to abuse than half forgotten chat protocol consisted mostly by teenagers and few older idlers.
[wordpress]
http://173.224.223.124/w/
[probe]
http://173.224.223.124/info.php
http://173.224.223.124/iProber.php
vps:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=1G.tmp bs=1M count=1024
1024+0 records in
1024+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 1.38848 s, 773 MB/s
Looks pretty good to me!
sorry, but i am ridiculously OCD, so here goes: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=VVAy6ct8
html/css valid and cross browser as far as i know
Do you provide Native Ipv6 support? Or will you have Ipv6 Module loaded so we can use he.net tunnel?
Tom @ Pike@, this is exactly same stuff going on before Rackvm went down.
I warned, and everybody said ‘what’re you talking about?’ including LEA, what do you say now?
One more big scam ! This makes me remeber RackVM !!!
@HeXel, what makes you think we’re a scam? Our parent company has been around for more than 9 years.
@PhotonVPS-Jim Domain is registered at 3 weeks. And what payment methods YardVPS accept ?
We accept Paypal and Alipay and working on getting Credit Cards within the next few weeks.
PhotonVPS has been registered since 2008
Psychz has been registered since 2001
And can I host adult content in YardVPS accounts ?
Plus PhotomVPS is only registered since 17-apr-2008
I wonder how many Big Mac meals can you get with 15 bucks. I’d say use it while you can, but don’t overflow your love and trust on it.
I would recommend these strictly for development and not production use.
Is it good for DNS cluster / backup?
Yes, of course!
@Hexel, we allow adult content as long as it’s legal and legal for you to distribute.
And can I run an public imageboard for example ?
Yes.
@PhotonVPS-Jim
Any release date for the Xen plans? :)
We have plans for Xen & Xen HVM, however I don’t want to put a specific date on it just yet. Just stayed tuned here or on our Twitter for the latest announcements.
Waiting your Xen HVM :)
Xen plans released, however they are not available to order as of now. Should be ready next week though :)
http://www.yardvps.com/xen.php
I am planning to buy LEAF 3, how fast is setup? Also, would you recommend LEAF 3 for production use?
Setup is instant after payment is received.
Do you allow plan upgrades?
Of course, it’s automated as well :)
Just got my first plan with you, LEAF 1! :)
ipv6 supports! do you have?
Do you provide Native Ipv6
support? Or will you have Ipv6
Module loaded so we can use
he.net tunnel?
We don’t have IPV6 yet but will soon. You are welcome to use your own tunnel and that shouldn’t be an issue.
@PhotonVPS-Jim: The checkout only allows payment via “PayPal 支付宝” Dont you allow credit card payments?
You should be able to pay with your own credit card with PayPal
Hi PhotonVPS,
I’ve just signed up – can you put me on the LAX nodes? Thanks.
All our VPS are located in Los Angeles, California.
1x Core only!
What do you mean by 1 core only … The cores are seperated to all clients.
Of course you wouldn’t have a 3 ghz octa core just for 15 bucks a year !
This is clearly listed on our site.
It looks like OpenVPN or PPTP not support at yardvps? my friend just bought Leaf1, I have not found the required modules such as TUN & MPPE, but buyvm support these two.
TUN/TAP is enable at customer’s request this allow us to fight abuse that might go on in terms of fraud.
MPPE is not enable due to our multi-level platforms we support. It is recommended to use our WARP edition for PPTPD since no custom compilation of kernels are necessary.
We currently use Ksplice + stocked kernel giving us better security updates and stability.
What are the link speeds? 100mbit?
All our nodes are on 100mbit connections.
Feel free to test the links off our site: http://www.yardvps.com/network.php
I can confirm this.
I purchased Leaf 1 package and everything is running smooth !
Just hope they do not oversell the servers.
Folks may want to review the comments on the previous posts on this company:
http://www.lowendbox.com/tag/photonvps-com/
These folks are spamming me and, no, I’m not a client.
If you weren’t a client how did you we get your email? As I mentioned in the previous post, feel free to open a ticket to see why we have your email on file and we’ll gladly remove it.
Looked and their comments are overwhelmingly positive… except for yours.
It seems like you’re spamming all their adverts about them spamming you… ironic.
Instead of spending so much effort badmouthing them (and failing), how about you try to contact them directly to get it resolved?
They told you 7 days ago http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/photonvps-6-97-256mb-xen-vps-exclusive-offer/#comments but you chose to ignore it.
Troll.
Ordered just a few minutes ago. Setup was instant. The only issue was my VPS was provisioned with CentOS when I selected Debian 5 on the order screen. Debian was also reflected on the welcome e-mails. I noticed when I tried to run apt-cache and it was strangely missing. :) A quick visit to SolusVM and a reinstall should get things in order.
@Jeff, so do I, I should reinstall with debian from Solusvm.
Currently, I’m asking them to enable the tun/tap on my vps, still not respond yet.
We’re looking into this issue.
Finally my tun/tap is enabled now, after waiting for almost 3 hours :).
Do you have Debian 5 32-bit template?
Just checked Solus on my YardVPS and Debian 5.0 32-bit is listed as an install option.
I’m VERY satisfied about Leaf 1. The support team is quick plus it has a nice uptime.
Thanks for the feedback :)
I noticed you don’t provide your own DNS server for webhosting, can anyone guide me how to use my vps for webhosting? I have apache/mysql/webmin installed but have no clue how to setup DNS.
Michael,
As you have webmin installed, you can configure BIND to run via Webmin, Here’s a Tutorial i found after googling just for you.
http://rimuhosting.com/support/bindviawebmin.js
I hope this helps, if not, install bind via your package manager (yum/apt-get etc) and read the readme files. If your too lazy to read, then you won’t learn ;)
-Mark
lol thanks Mark! I got it working using Centmin already, just trying to get phpmyadmin working now.. or I might just get a cpanel or something.
Nevermind! I got it working using Centmin, thanks to someone from YardVPS for referring me to this :)
Bought a Leaf 3 VPS. Got my VPS info a few mins after payment.
So far so good.
I just wish they use SSL on their SolusVM panel.
@photonvps-jim
Unfortunately, your xen VPS is not cheap. And can’t be listed in this blog
http://www.lowendbox.com/wiki/listing-criteria
Thanks for the feedback, perhaps we’ll adjust some prices ;)
Any review about this VPS ?
Uptime?
I just signed up the $15/year plan with them.
After made my payment 5 hours ago, still not getting my VPS information :(
I’ve raised a ticket with my invoice number and paypal transaction ID to confirm, but there are no replies from them.
Is anyone still with them?
Sei Kan, probably the sales team still on the bed at your hours :(
They are pretty much alive, I got mine about 4 hours after I made the payment but that was a month ago when they first launched this YardVPS. It’s usable, but I’d say the performance is bad compared to BuyVM.
YardVPS
free -m
real 0m4.815s
user 0m0.001s
sys 0m0.000s
ls -al
real 0m4.924s
user 0m0.002s
sys 0m0.005s
BuyVM
free -m
real 0m0.059s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.002s
ls -al
real 0m0.127s
user 0m0.001s
sys 0m0.001s
eLohkCalb, have u submit a ticket to them?
No, I don’t usually submit ticket over performance issues for a package like this. But I would do so if it goes down though.
@Wing Loon I hope so..
@eLohkCalb I didn’t put much hopes on them LoL.. Use for file backup or DNS backup only..
All orders are processed in real time so if it didn’t go through, it probably didnt past our fraud check and those are manually batched through. We batch through these every so often to ensure a fast deployments for new clients.
Any performance issues please let us know we have quite a lot of nodes which we managed. Given the way OpenVZ works there will be spikes from
other clients or over usage of another account. We constantly monitor our node but if they were missed just let us know so we can pinpoint where this is occurring.
If you want a better stable feed I recommend going to our Tree editions where CPU isolation and spikes are better controlled on these node.
In whois information yardvps.com is property of Psychz.net…My question is Psychz.net or Photonvps?
Thanks.
Same thing.