Wish everyone a great weekend so far. Over the last week or two, a few people have sent me info on HostRail‘s new Windows VPS line of products. They also currently have special promotion — until 3rd of April (i.e. today). Promo code WINDOWSBUYNOW will get you 15% recurring discount on their Windows VPS, and longer payment cycles also have larger discount. For example up to 40% off if you purchase annually. Their “2 Power Units Server” would be $5.94/month after the discount is applied. Direct order link here.
- 384MB memory
- 60GB storage
- 800GB/month data transfer
- Virtuozzo/Windows 2003/2008
This has also been discussed on LowEndTalk. Servers in Switzerland (test IP: 46.19.136.1). I believe that it is Virtuozzo-powered Windows VPS, which is very different from Hyper-V or Xen HVM powered Windows VPS (such as this CityNetHost and this Thrust::VPS offer). It’s a container based virtualization with shared kernel — yes shared Windows kernel which you can’t update if I remember correctly. So like OpenVZ, it might not run everything you throw at it especially when the program requires dedicated-server like environment.
HostRail’s previous offers have received huge number of responses — both over 500+ comments. HostRail is based in Cyrpus, been in business since 2004. They must have done something right to get that many responses — at least they are very hard to beat price-wise.
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Got a chuckle over this:
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1048424
I’ve been the victim of having our management software go nuts and we’ve been hard pressed to figure out why it’s doing something.
These guys ripped me off. Once they got my early payment on second month, my Site would take 5 monutes to load and they would not even reply to my support tickets. Now the month I never used and paid early they will
not refund my 32 dollars and had to start a paypal dispute, SO BEWARE PEOPLE, They will rip you off too…
So How about this for a good chuckle: (I must also say, HORRIBLE Business practice and they obviously plan on going out of business soon).
To Paraphrase the following, the CEO has made a fuck-up in his budget calculations, so now the customers must PAY for his fuck-ups. All customers received the following e-mail in the past day. If the business owner thinks this is good business practice, he is SADLY mistaken. You can not fuck up your money and then fuck your customers by making them pay more for a service they already purchased at a set price.
On Friday 24th June 2011 our Providers have informed us of a 60% upcoming price
increase that is taking effect from the 28th June 2011, this was an extremely short
notice for us and completely unexpected – as small of a short notice as it was we
had to take action immediately in order to be able to continue providing service to
our clients, i have had meetings with every single HostRail Staff Member as we
needed to take a decision and we have taken our decision which is provided below.
Due to the current economic crisis that is affecting all companies in the planet we
are unable to deal with this 60% price increase using our currently approved budget
for 2011 and we are unable to approve a further budget for 2011 at the current
stage, this means that we will be forced to pass on this 60% price increase to all
clients as of tomorrow evening. Tomorrow evening we will be sending Invoices to
every single customer with the 60% price increase, unfortunately this price increase
will have to be paid by Tuesday morning so we can cover the 60% price increase our
providers are asking.
We have tried all possible alternatives and solutions however the only solution is
to pass this price increase in full to our customers, this is not something i want
to do, this is not something i like to do, this is something that i have fought for
2 days now to try to avoid at all costs however its not on my hands anymore so i am
unable to do something more.
—————————————
IMPORTANT NOTE
For the customers that will not be able to pay this 60% price increase i recommend
that you proceed to the immediate cancellation of your services as we will be
suspending all Services on Tuesday morning that have not paid this price increase. I
should clear that this price increase willl be applied to all of our customers, even
to customers that have ordered their service today.
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I apologize in advance for any inconvenience this may cause however i am unable to
do anything and the people that know me personally know that i have given a large
battle to try to cover up this price increase myself but this was impossible.
Hostrail, you have not only lost me as a customer, but you are going to find out real quick that this is a FAILED business practice you are choosing to use and that you are going to lose any confidence you once had from your customers in your ability to run a business.
Constantinos Coudounaris, grow up and honor your promises you made to your customers, and if you can not do that, close down your business and save what face you have left.
On a side note, I wanted to point out this e-mail came days after sending out e-mails like the following to the customer, still boasting a 65% discount for new customers and the fact that they are working to “Improve” their currently mundane service quality.
Recieved: Thu, June 23, 2011 @ 6:29 pm
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Welcome to our June 2011 Newsletter, we have a couple of things to announce today.
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Upgrades / Service Quality
We’ve been working quite hard over the past weeks in upgrades, we have added
additional hard disks on quite a few servers as well as we have upgraded the RAM on
several servers, in addition we have a couple of new Staff Members that have joined
us to improve our Ticket Response Times as some of you have probably already
noticed.
We are investigating to add stronger DDOS Protection on our Servers in Switzerland
and the US in an effort to mitigate DDOS Attacks within 5 minutes.
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DirectAdmin Price Reduced
We’ve substancially reduced the price of DirectAdmin to $7/month, the price was
previously at $15/month. This was requested by customers a few times so we are happy
we are able to provide this reduced pricing.
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HOSTRAILMAY Promo
A few days ago we extended our HOSTRAILMAY promo for another 500 uses as it was
requested by customers. This promo only applies to new orders however.
(The May Promo is pasted below)
This is a quick announcement that we are are still running our 65% recurring
discount, HOSTRAILMAY, we’ve just added an additional 400 uses for the promo code
HOSTRAILMAY – we expect the promo to run out quite quickly so the quicker you order
the better!
Only thing I can say is, THIS IS TOTAL BULLSHIT!
I suspect Hostrail is about to eat its own head over the next few months based on the above comments from thelinuxblog and similar ones on WHT, interesting exit strategy though.
Cant say I am sorry to read this I was actually getting sick or reading posts on WHT about peoples dissatisfaction with Hostrail, it was only a matter of time and its good news for hosts who took more than 10 minutes to consider a workable business model!
I paid invoice 24hours ago, and they said I have to pay 60% more by tomorrow.
What a jerk, this is the exact reason Greece is going bankrupt, jerks.
Hostrail officially ran…
they ran away~~
http://check-host.net/check-dns?host=hostrail.com ;( One more my VPS ran away. Availablevps, hostrail, breathost… I’m not lucky. 🙂
I just read this: http://hostingcritics.info/hostrail-raises-price-60/183
That thread at web hosting talk is very interesting. I hope everyone checks it out 🙂
Its old news. HostRail is no longer in business.
hostrail.com now redirects to hostingaddicts.com …
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