Via this WHT offer. Mr. Nerd has pushed out some “Affordable Unmanaged Linux VPS”, starting at $4.95/month for “VPS-128” plan. When you actually click through the ordering link it’s actually $14.85/quarter. Here’s the spec:
- 128MB memory
- 5GB storage
- 100GB/month data transfer at 1Mbps
- 1x IPv4, 5x IPv6
- OpenVZ/SolusVM
Servers with PhoenixNAP in Phoenix AZ. Now, at this price with small amount of memory (128MB) and a tiny bandwidth (1Mbps) — you would need to provide premium service to justify it. However their WHT thread did emphasised that they are “completely unmanaged”. Domain might have been registered since 2004, but they have not registered any VPS offer on WHT until August. All their prior offers were shared hosting related, and all were from this year. So effectively Mr. Nerd should be categorized as a new provider.
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At that speed, it would probably make more sense to host your own VPS on a home-dsl connection.
Yup. Five bucks per month is also quite expensive for 128 MB VPS.
Wow, seriously? some of those are really restricting. And, like daniel said, 1mbps? hello, it’s 2011
I suspect it could be someone transitioning out from selling shared hosting to VPS hosting.
I suspect not transitioning but I wont be harsh enough to say what I think the actual cause is but it does seem they used to previously offer Shared & Reseller Hosting.
http://iampayton.com/portfolio/mrnerd/
No data center nowadays will be able to give you such bad connection, even if you ask for it I guess!
they are probably massively overselling. like 300 instances on a single machine.
Uhh, this offer seems pretty screwed up.
My phone with 3g has better connection than this with a dual core cpu at 1,2ghz.
I dont think theres any OpenVZ templates that support ARM.
Yea that’s too bad ;)
I dread to think how much 100GB transfer on 3G would cost you.
3-UK offer 80GB monthly (advertised as unlimited) for £15 monthly.
Mr. Nerd appears to be the budget VPS brand of StableHost.
True. Quote from Stable Host: “Our budget VPS products are managed by our sister company, Mr. Nerd, LLC”
Mr. Nerd is indeed the budget VPS division of Stablehost.
I got a VPS there and i’m very satisfied. Btw, Stablehost is huge they host tens of thousands of domains and their reputation is GREAT (Do a search for Stablehost on WHT). They offer real 24/7 support. I know, I’v used it at 3am. Another BIG plus is that they offer native IPv6 by default (All vpses come with 4 ipv6 ips binded), and they offer Scientific Linux 6 template (No more Centos for me personally).
Thumbs up from me.