The “President” & “CEO” of BurstNET just sent me an email about their current UK/EU promotion. You can get 20% off recurring discount with promo code JAN20OFF when you purchase their UK Manchester based VPS products. “VPS Package #1” is now £3.96/month after the discount (~USD$6.34), although you might need to pay VAT depending on where you are from.
- 512MB memory
- 20GB storage
- 1000GB/month data transfer
- 2 IPv4 addresses + IPv6
- OpenVZ/vePortal
I guess most people here would be familiar with BurstNET, and I won’t bother with any “investigation”. INC500™ company, and many claim to have servers in Scranton PA are actually just BurstNET resellers.
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Burstnet has a great European network.
Do I need to pay VAT if I am not Europe resident?
The BurstNET EU/UK system will NOT charge you VAT if you are not based in the EU.
The system also accepts valid VAT numbers for those in the EU that do not need/required to pay VAT.
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Promo could last longer, I’d order in Feb =/
I’ve had flakey performance and connections issues with the US based VPS offer.
I wonder how good the Manchester VPS is…
I’m wondering the same thing. Terribly disappointed with the Scranton VPS I tried out recently, and the support response times. Wondering if the new operations will have decent servers, support, etc.
Please provide traceroutes regarding such, or support ticket #(s) regarding these claimed issues.
Both our US & UK networks are pretty rock solid, so I would like to see what you are referring to exactly.
Many factors can influence you feeling that way, including issues not even within our network, such as your ISP or their route to our network.
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I didn’t bother with the support because it was non existent and i didn’t expect any for the amount i was paying. I’ve also tried your “live” support which seemed like it was just for show; no answers after multiple messages over the 6 hours i waited for a reply.
I have another server in Scranton and one in Netherlands with no problems (both with different provider), so i’m sure it’s not my ISP. Might be a problem with the particular node i was on. It doesn’t matter anyhow, it was just a month’s trial.
I’m willing to try out the Manchester VPS when there’s a better offer (Still not used to the new VAT rates even if it’s only 2.5% increase :)).
How can I avoid filling the PayPal AUTHORIZATION FORM? I’m from Poland and the problem is that first: we don’t use faxes and second: I’m not 18+ and I only have got my school license…
You just go through the signup and use the Paypal “Subscribe” button at the top right.
As I see that there is somebody from BurstNet following the thread:
Any test IP?
And is there any RAM Burst on the cheap VPSes or is it only on prenium?
Thanks!
It looks to me like there is no RAM burst on the cheap VPS…
resource held maxheld barrier limit failcnt
kmemsize 1860169 3157114 51200000 51200000 0
We gave higher Guaranteed RAM with the package, rather than Burst RAM.
BURSTNET
Ping/Traceroute Test:
66.96.192.92 (Scranton) – 184.82.225.2 (California) – 178.238.129.83 (EU/UK)
Download Test:
http://66.96.192.92/bigtest.tgz – Scranton, PA USA
http://184.82.225.2/bigtest.tgz – Los Angeles, CA USA
http://178.238.129.83/bigtest.tgz – Manchester, UK
BURSTNET
good price. wanna try this
Have been waiting for this one – signed up, will see how it goes! :)
@Chris
Really? I don’t know, when I registered it showed me links to authorization forms. Where are you from? Maybe they require that for users outside the UK. The worst thing is that I’m not 18+, and I’m not sure they will accept polish school license…
And by the way, how’s that VPS? CPU speed, etc?
It showed me that too… just ignore them, the Paypal buttons are at the end of signup.
CPUInfo…
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 15
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5335 @ 2.00GHz
stepping : 11
cpu MHz : 2000.071
cache size : 4096 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 4
core id : 0
cpu cores : 4
apicid : 0
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 10
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall nx lm constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm
bogomips : 4000.14
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 38 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:
I’ll check speed / network later on
Great, and you can use more than one core at a time? (I need to run some php task in background).
I’m waiting for your speed tests – I’m hesitating between burst UK & liteservers NL :)
Thanks anyway!
That depends on the VPS package/plan ordered…
BURSTNET
BurstNet have provided a pretty good service in the state but their customer support (mostly the attitude, technical ticket responses are good… sucks).
They had a fairly major outage at one of their data centres due to a near by power station/sub station going up in smoke. Fair enough, act of god if you will. This took out both of my VPS’ for a couple of hours. One of them promptly came back without issue.
The other came back, file system became read-only. Tried a reboot. Machine never came back. Received a [very late] response to my ticket to be told the host node had gone up in smoke and I was re-provisioned.
My node was out of action for quite some time. When I questioned their SLA, requesting the appropriate service gratis (in-line with their SLA)…. No response except their very busy.
A month has no gone past, I’ve killed all my services with them as I received no response.
Just watch out.
Oh, for your own benefit burst you appear to be charging VAT to clients in the channel islands – they’re outside the EU.
I’m agree with Miles.
You can wait response from their support more than 48 hours.
I’m had one VPS from them several month ago, but they suspend him as if for overload and promise migrate to other more powerful node. After more than 4 days of waiting, i’m stopped using their services. But there no problems and complaints from other providers by using the VPS for the same purposes, and even for less money…
After such a relationship to the clients, for me BurstNET is a very bad VPS provider, albeit very famous :)
In addition, i’m found a other similar negative character reviews about them, before ordering a VPS. But then saw this on my own experience.
Sounds like you were over-utilizing your VPS, probably doing something that should not be done on a budget VPS. If we suspended your service, it was for good reason.
BURSTNET
And what should be done on a budget VPS?
That’s weird…
I mean if I have heavy consuming tasks I do with php every few hours, would that be fine?
Just imagine the 512MB VPS you paid for is actually a 64MB, 100MHz machine and they probably won’t suspend you.
Thanks Chris. How long did it take to get your VPS online? I just paid it and it’s still pending… And where do they send you details like IP, root pass, etc?
Our VPS service delivery is instant/automated, as long as:
1. Order paid in full at time of ordering
2. No outstanding prior overdue debts
3. Pass our fraud checking measures
BURSTNET
Got it
Here’s cpuinfo of the cheapest VPS packet:
30001230:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 23
model name : Genuine Intel(R) CPU @ 2.33GHz
stepping : 4
cpu MHz : 2333.436
cache size : 6144 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 4
core id : 0
cpu cores : 4
apicid : 0
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 10
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall nx lm constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr sse4_1 lahf_lm
bogomips : 4666.87
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 38 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:
a little bit weird, will post more soon.
genuineintel-23 looks like a E5410
Internet speed is very slow to Poland, but it’s just great to DE / FR. If you are from Poland, dont take it. I don’t know why, but tracert from Poland goes by Cogent and ping = 300, 400 so it’s very, very bad especially that Poland is in Europe. But it’s great to DE or other countries.
Please post some traceroutes, if you are still seeing issues currently.
One of our carriers was having issues, and we have shut them off temporarily to resolve.
BURSTNET
That is an issue between Cogent and Global Crossing, and completely outside of our network/control.
That will happen from time to time between backbone providers…and they usually clear it up after notification, if they are not doing it on purpose.
That is not indicative of our overall UK routing/network performance.
BURSTNET
…oops, that was meant for the “vetrg” traceroute below.
BURSTNET
Very strange routing…
The signal from Europe comes first in to the US through a Cogent network , then from the USA to BurtstNET servers in UK:
http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/8763/burstneteupingandtracer.png
That is not indicative of our overall UK routing/network performance.
That is an issue between Cogent and Global Crossing, and completely outside of our network/control.
That will happen from time to time between backbone providers…and they usually clear it up after notification, if they are not doing it on purpose.
BURSTNET
Yeah, I’ve got that same route from Poland vetrg: by Cogent… It’s a waste of cash if you are European.
That is an issue between Cogent and Global Crossing, and completely outside of our network/control.
That will happen from time to time between backbone providers…and they usually clear it up after notification, if they are not doing it on purpose.
That is not indicative of our overall UK routing/network performance.
BURSTNET
Hosted with them and the vps was patheticly slow had to be way oversold.
never again
Have you contacted our support dept to see if there was a issue?
Please post your support ticket #(s), so we can look into this for you.
If you never contacted us, that would be unfair that you did not give us a chance to look into the issue for you.
Most of our nodes are not oversold, and we try to keep disk i/o within reasonable performance levels for a low cost budget VPS service.
BURSTNET
I think their business model is this:
* oversell as much as possible
* suspend anyone who uses the VPS much
* end up with hundreds of customers not using any resources
Pings are pretty bad, actually is almost exactly the same I get from Burst US server. I’m in Portugal and I get 134ms from burstnet.eu, 136ms from burst.net and 48ms from UK Linode server (london1.linode.com). So it looks there’s no real benefit in having the servers in UK…
[root@ ~]# traceroute london1.linode.com
traceroute to london1.linode.com (109.74.207.9), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 178-238-132-169.hostnoc.eu (178.238.132.169) 0.947 ms 1.199 ms 1.429 ms
2 vl0203.gwy01.mnuk01.hostnoc.eu (178.238.128.9) 0.291 ms 0.305 ms 0.348 ms
3 xe1-04.gwy01.lnuk01.hostnoc.eu (178.238.128.2) 8.211 ms 8.274 ms 8.314 ms
4 globix-gw-a.lonap.net (193.203.5.95) 8.233 ms * *
5 217.20.44.193 (217.20.44.193) 8.284 ms * *
6 te4-1-dist65-01.lon10.telecity.net (217.20.44.218) 8.808 ms 8.765 ms 8.797 ms
7 212.111.33.234 (212.111.33.234) 8.752 ms 8.853 ms 8.887 ms
8 london1.linode.com (109.74.207.9) 8.594 ms 8.616 ms 8.589 ms
Please post a traceroute if you are seeing otherwise…
BURSTNET
And the servers in the US are at the same price…
Then makes no sense to have the servers in Europe if they have such strange routing..
I have to admit, BurstNETs Europe network is pretty impressive, ~15ms pings from the other side of the country.
Yeah, pretty impressive getting under 50ms from Germany and Central Europe.
42-44ms pings for me.
Not impressed as I’m 30 miles from Manchester in West Yorkshire.
Look like it’s my ISP, over 30ms with it.
Thank you…it is actually rare to see someone that understands it is not always the provider with the issue, but their own ISP has quite a bit to do with it…much appreciated your coming back to clarify! ;-)
BURSTNET
To BURSTNET:
It's a pretty good service for money like that, but I just don't know why it must go by Cogent…
burst.net is full of rapidleechs!
be aware!
Attn. “BurstNet scam, does not provide vps and does not refund money”
I have had a vps with them last year and for some reason I did not continue with that vps and this has been terminated by them 3 months ago, fine.
After getting LEA offer I did order for a new vps, and the money has been gone from my PP, now they told me that we will not give you a new vps, you need to pay last 3 month of your previous termianted vps to continue with a new vps (!!!) Whats a scam (!!!) And then I request them for refund of that new VPS and now they telling that “we cannot provide a refund per our service agreement.” Truly scam behavior. And they no.1 dont want to provide me a new vps, no.2 want to charge me 3 months money for a terminated vps, no.3 they even dont want to refund for the new order.
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Ticket ID: 2542644
Status: OPEN
When Created: 01-21-2011 – 03:12AM
Elapsed Time: 4 days
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Last 4 days I waste nothing just to get reply every 2 days latter from billing department.
Err. Did you cancel the service properly or did you just *not pay the bill* expecting it to be cancelled automatically?
Yes, that is my gut feeling as well, as soon as I read that.
Our entire VPS cancellation process is automated…so I can only assume you did NOT cancel properly.
Update: Checked the ticket…that indeed occurred.
Client did not cancel service on time, was billed next billing period, did not pay, ordered new service, we refused new service delivery and re-purposed his payment towards outstanding debt, as he refused to clear that matter up.
Sorry…You caused your own problem here…and you have no one to blame but yourself.
BURSTNET
@BurstNET ~ How much lie you want to say with customers? I get mail 2 months ago regarding “Cancellation of your VPS and suspension” On the otherhand I didnt continue with the vps due to poor customer support (most likely full 24~38 hours needed to get a support ticket answer!) Im already with solarvps, virpus, hostdime. But none of them are such scam like BurstNET. I did ordered for new vps and now they reply on me ticket “Your payment has been used for you November month’s due bill” (!) Also I found that the old server’s IP has been used by other customers of them, means they also sold my old server to others. So whats happened now!? They charged my new vps’s ordered money just for nothing?! I just lost everything from this scam, gain nothing truly at all. Now I feel bad for them, what such a poor vps provider who just love to scam with 4.46$~ money of mine! Now even when Im saying that I will going to open paypal dispute they told me with a BIG SMILE ~ “If you do open paypal dispute, we will charge you 35$ extra”. So there is no resolution at all and they just simply scam with my money. However, dont worry, if this burst.net admin will become rich enough with my 4.46$~ carry on. But I will think you are a beggar and I just provide this money to overcome your current conditions.
@BurstNET: This not fair, in the same time you didn’t kept the VPS running for him, right? you give it to a new customer, right? if you get paid from the new customer, why do you charge the old one?
And please be easy, thing can go wrong always (you never know if it is from your side or from the client side), just like the bug with control panel that I have had with you, ticket id 2372826, I will write about it in WHT also in the future, since you have great services and small comments from our side as customer can help you(and all other providers) a lot for customer satisfaction.
Lol, I did leave them 6 months ago due to their bad customer support. You even get a answer within 32 hours but I got ticket answer when I was a customer 5 days later and 2nd reply 6 days later. Simply they dont know how to respect customer. Today I again see another bad reputation of burst networks. I suggest you to open wht thread against burst net so they will learn something from it.
I now have a Burstnet box. One support ticket so far, dealt with in 20 minutes today.
I have used Burst.net for some of my projects for over 2 years now and have nothing but good things to say about them. I had the same problems as someone else mentioned when the nearby substation blew and knocked out 1 of my VPS. I emailed them and they came back with an email stating what had happened and I would be setup on a new server. I had backups on another server so just copied all my files back. I was back up and running in 24 hours. Granted it was not my fault or theirs and I was down for 24 hours and a bit of stress but thats all the problems I have had in 2 years.
I use to use Dreamhost, it was problem after problem with them hell on earth!
Hi,
Sorry when burstnet discount PREMIUM VPS PACKAGE #1?
regards
Steve
Will Burst.NET have discounts for Feb2011? Sucks to have JUST missed out on the promotion.
do u have any discounts now ?
I feel for everyone that has so many complaints towards BurstNET, I myself have full rights to complain but yet I don’t because the support I do receive does out weigh the bad service.
I have been a BurstNET client for about 2 years and would say I have had ups and down and I would say mainly on the USA side, I had so many problems with the network or abusive users overloading the box causing my VPS to have issues.
Now I mainly use BurstNET’s UK VPS which I must has been pretty good but has cost me a lot of money due to there servers hard drives failing resulting in re-install and at the time I never really used BurstNET’s backup service which I do now which is saving me money as I have set up a basic installation of CentOS/cPanel and costly software to be pre-install only because of the backup feature enables me to do such a thing.
The only time I have to spend working on the VPS is when it does die is updating the cPanel, any configurations etc and reloading all clients websites back on to the box whic can take around 6-12 hours but this depends mainly on how many websites you are restoring.
Oh yea DO NOT store your backups on the VPS, make sure you either have the VPS linked to another VPS or make a hard copy of the websites to either Backup Service via FTP/SSH or directly to your computer and backup at least 4 times a week.
Not saying I don’t trust BurstNET just don’t know when a failure might occur.
Also to comment on BurstNET support, there is nothing to say as I have had expert support and very professional support reps. There sales team might want to improve some what but apart from that.
My understanding when it comes to BurstNET, if you are polite, understanding and most of all have some patience then BurstNET will help you the best they can. If your rude then don’t expect any special treatment because I know if someone was rude to me, that would be the last thing I give them.
If your clients bitch and complain, simply tell them the problem and that you are dealing with the problem and it may take some time to resolve and say that will pretty much give you the extra time you need when dealing with BurstNET whether you have to wait 20 Minutes or 48 hours.
Anyways I rate BurstNet out of 10
Support: 8
Network: 8
VPSs: 7
Anyway’s, BurstNET I do hope you keep improving your services because as long as it gets better, you will always have me as a client.