Cloud. Storm. Stormy cloud — is that a good thing? Hmm. Anyway. VMStormVPS (with a dark stormy cloud as logo as a tornado as mascot) was launched last month, and David their CIO, notified me via email that they have some budget VPS plans. “F1 Cloud VPS” is $5.97/month, and comes with
- 256MB memory
- 10GB storage on RAID10
- 300GB/month data transfer
- VMWare
Servers in State College, PA in their own leased space and I presume their own servers. Read more about their data center here. VMStorm is the budget VPS brand of Flashpoint Informatics that was only launched in July, according to this tweet from the CEO. Flashpoint itself has been around since 2009.
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what university/college offers colo :o
State College is apparently a college town which I think is more than just a university (I have to google that to find out). Therefore the co-lo space might not be related to the college at all.
Correct, State College is the name of the city. Although Penn State’s located here, it’s still actually a city
Hi ab — thanks for the note. To be clear, there is no college/university association. The town we’re located in is called State College because it’s the home of Penn State University. Most folks know of Penn State more than State College so we occasionally reference that for clarity :). Our space is in a private industrial park and unrelated to any university.
Also wanted to note that we DO own all of the server equipment, network equipment, etc. Level3 is our primary bandwidth provider though we’re multi-homed with others including Windstream communications. All providers are on diverse fiber paths.
Is this the actual data-center: http://www.windstreambusiness.com/data-center-solutions/data-center-locations/state-college
Just wondering…
Hi Mr. k,
Thanks for the comment.
We are not collocated in that facility. Our space is a private facility and has become the only carrier neutral location in the area.
Best,
Dave
can you support custom iso system?
or do you offer win system?
We could also support custom iso images. There are particular requirements regarding hard drive setup in order to allow for easy expansion. Drop me a message if you’re interested!
We do have some windows templates available but the pricing of the windows license puts them above the cut off of lowendbox pricing. Drop us an email if you’re interested in Windows specifics!
do you have any test ip？
Sure, you can ping test / traceroute to 173.189.119.77 and download the speedtest file at https://www.vmstormvps.com/speedtest.php
Do you offer native ipv6?
We’re in the process of rolling IPv6 out on our network as we speak. Realistically it’s probably 1-3 months away from production use.
Please spell Windstream correctly on your datacenter page. You left out the ‘d’. :)
Good catch drmike! Windstream is spelled correctly now. Shoot me an email and we can set you up with a free month as a thanks for the correction!
No paypal
Hi James — thanks for the feedback! We’re actively working to integrate PayPal into our checkout system. ETA is 2-4 weeks.
Best,
Dave
Good offer, and good price.
+1
And now they are accepting PayPal. :-)
BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 5.1.2) System: pa.v-dc.net: GNU/Linux OS: GNU/Linux -- 2.6.32-5-amd64 -- #1 SMP Tue Jun 14 09:42:28 UTC 2011 Machine: x86_64 (unknown) Language: en_US.utf8 (charmap="UTF-8", collate="UTF-8") CPU 0: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 870 @ 2.93GHz (5885.0 bogomips) x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET 15:28:36 up 17:34, 1 user, load average: 0.09, 0.04, 0.01; runlevel 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Benchmark Run: Mon Sep 19 2011 15:28:36 - 15:52:43 1 CPU in system; running 1 parallel copy of tests Dhrystone 2 using register variables 31111598.8 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Double-Precision Whetstone 3822.4 MWIPS (10.0 s, 7 samples) Execl Throughput 5521.1 lps (29.9 s, 2 samples) Pipe Throughput 2604052.6 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Pipe-based Context Switching 488110.3 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Process Creation 18250.5 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples) Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 8316.4 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples) Shell Scripts (16 concurrent) 533.8 lpm (60.1 s, 2 samples) Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 1065.7 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples) System Call Overhead 4349459.5 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) System Benchmarks Partial Index BASELINE RESULT INDEX Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 31111598.8 2665.9 Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 3822.4 695.0 Execl Throughput 43.0 5521.1 1284.0 Pipe Throughput 12440.0 2604052.6 2093.3 Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 488110.3 1220.3 Process Creation 126.0 18250.5 1448.5 Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 8316.4 1961.4 Shell Scripts (16 concurrent) --- 533.8 --- Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 1065.7 1776.2 System Call Overhead 15000.0 4349459.5 2899.6 ======== System Benchmarks Index Score (Partial Only) 1646.5Hi Francisco,
Thanks for the positive feedback! We’re getting ready to send another offer to LEA here in the next few days.
Best,
Dave
I don’t see any prohibition of IRC in the AUP. I’m taking that to mean it is ok.
I don’t see anything either. It’s interesting that it’s their AUP but what they list as not acceptable is three quarters down their AUP page:
https://www.vmstormvps.com/acceptable-use-policy
And they really need to clean up that page. They didn’t copy and paste it too well from where ever they got it from. Lots of artifacts.
Hi All,
Thanks for the feedback.
@ChinnoDog we don’t allow illegal use, based on the laws that govern our corporation and our datacenter location. If the use is legal and it’s not interfering with the use of other clients (it probably won’t), it’s OK.
@drmike unfortunately lawyers haven’t learned to code HTML yet ;). We’ll clean up some of the nasty bits.
Best,
Dave
I think it goes without saying that illegal activities are prohibited. I am only interested in restricted legal uses. I see you do ban BitTorrent, which is perfectly legal.
True, there are legal uses for bit torrent. We disallow some technologies to ensure the availability of the infrastructure. Some technologies (like torrent) create lots and lots of connections which can preclude fair use for other clients.
The bottom line for this AUP and all other AUPs is: if you’re not causing issues, you’re going to fly under the radar. We’re not actively looking for clients to shut down :).
Best,
dave
I got one, it’s prety good, the support is friendly, at least so far.
I send this post to my friend, but the price rised now.