ChicagoVPS goes XEN again … Same offer as in February this year, but the openVZ packages are priced a little lower then last time. ChicagoVPS has been around for a long time, first offer in October of 2010 and perhaps the most featured provider on LEB? I haven’t done any scientific research about it so I might be wrong.
However they have many happy customers and a few not so happy customers, but who hasn’t?
Chris, who e-mailed their latest offer had their yearly Professional OpenVZ price a little to high for the LEB price plan, nothing an email with Chris couldn’t sort out.
Don’t forget that anyone who has service with them also get a free 25 slot mohawk Voice Server.
You can order it here after you picked up one of these packages:
XEN VPS Starter
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OpenVZ packages
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YAY it’s not the 2GB offer again.
They kept sending 2GB offers but we just kept replying “NO” until they sent us this one. (J/K of course. :P)
I thought Chris would never give up haha.
Oh well I might try this as it seems more realistic.
The coupon “2048” still works for the 2GB plan.
Was supposed to be a secret ;-)
Ahh dangit, and I’m the quiet one too.
Ah well, I picked up another one just the other day.
Is there some thing wrong with 2GB, I kind of new to all this, so would appreciate an explanation.
What do you mean?
No IPv6 :(
@Splo0sh: not as of yet. Still waiting on our provider.
Regards,
Chris
They certainly do like to email passwords in plain text. All of them.
they are generally pretty sketchy from my experiences. just do a search for chicago/buffalo vps in the history search and you’ll see how professional chris is…
@Laughing, Im laughing at you. I dont need to hide who I am. Our services speak for themselves. Please go flame someone else.
@jbroome, we already had this conversation and Jeremiah explained to you how it is secure and you are wrong. If you would still like to debate about it email us directly at billing@chicagovps.net
Regards,
Chris
Guys this is such a simple issue. If you are frightened just reset your password once you get your VPS.
Stop making a fuss about something that doesn’t exist.
Simple Solution = Reset your password. End of Story.
I agree with Mike. In fact, all of the vps providers I have dealt with will send you the password via email, you just need to use common sense and change the password.
I was under the impression that it was best practice that they not even store my password, but rather a salted hash. The fact that they can email me my password does put a damper on my trust, and reasaonably so.
I agree in that the hosts are an incredibly unprofessional bunch.
On two separate occasions (both times on Sunday evenings), they have taken my account offline.
The worst part is, they don’t hestitate to take you offline, and remove all of your files so you had better have a backup hosted somewhere else.
I refer you to an exchange with Jeremiah via the ticketing system:
Jeremiah’s response:
Moral of the story, buyer beware.
Sorry Ivan, I’m trying to understand what you are saying here, please clarify for us. Is it that ChicagoVPS deletes your entire data set if they receive a complaint? Or do they just delete the file that is complaint is being made for. Personally, I would be alarmed if they deleted my whole dataset if the complaint is being made to one specific file… please clarify. Thanks
Wait, ColoCrossing == ChicagoVPS? Same staff?
Ivan,
Thanks for your complaint and bringing it to the public light.
1. The complaints we received are in violation of our ToS/AUP that you agreed to.
2. The complaints are from legitimate sources
3. You have lied and continue to lie about the content and downloading it.
It doesn’t matter if someone else did it on your VPS, or if you did it on your VPS, the content is still the same, and you are still responsible for it.
We have a right to suspend the VPS for the violations of our ToS/AUP at anytime and even cancel them if we feel that is how we want to proceed..
There is nothing here to sustain “buyer beware” other than maybe seller beware about you.
Thanks,
Jeremiah
@Jonathan,
ChicagoVPS is not equal to Colocrossing.
While I do work for ColoCrossing, ColoCrossing has no control and/or power in the affairs of New Wave NetConnect, LLC (ChicagoVPS Brand) in any way, shape or form. The only way ColoCrossing has any direct dealings with ChicagoVPS is the suppliers we utilize thanks to ColoCrossing and extending that hand to us, but as our upstream as well.
What happens at ChicagoVPS, stays at ChicagoVPS.
Jeremiah
Risharde: They take the VPS offline, removing all ssh access, all of your websites and all access to your files. Essentially they hold your account hostage.
Kind Regards,
Ivan
Jeremiah, I’ve replied to you further in the thread.
TL;DR: Thanks for your service, good luck with your business, I won’t be renewing my account.
Chris Fabozzi, re-think your customer service.
Ivan,
I actually was the quarterback here. I told him to suspend your account. Also, your account was never deleted, your files are STILL there so please do not lie to make us look bad.
You broke the ToS multiple times after we gave you chance after chance hoping that maybe you were telling the truth.
Good luck in the future.
Regards,
Chris
Not sure what’s going on in here exactly, but they are indeed very unprofessional and not to mention, extremely impolite.
Ivan probably did something wrong, but that isn’t a justification of being a total douche like Jeremiah and Chris are being here. They bring that attitude to customer service as well, no matter if you have done something wrong or not. Asking for help is enough.
“Our services speak for themselves” indeed they do – your customer service is horrible. So horrible it caused me to cancel. It’s a shame because – to be fair – the server was quite stable (and that’s the only part that was NOT unprofessional).
I thought Jeremiah was just one accidentally promoted bad apple on the team, but I didn’t know Chris was aware of his attitude and actually defending him.
And before you accuse me of this: I am NOT Ivan.
And yes, I was their customer once. Unfortunately. I’d definitely go with “buyer beware”.
Kind of reminds me of an old case someone had with EZZI customer service… Perhaps Google it up: “Ezzi rude tech support”
I don’t usually do this, I believe that if you’re happy with the service tell the world, if not, tell the business, but this is not about the core service so:
I opened account in order to make use of the great 2GB offer to finally move my company’s website off my internal server. I was not aware that there was an automated system that’s going to call me on the phone so that I can enter some PIN.
Chrome auto-fill wrote my phone number without “+” or “00” before the country code, and I just moved on, not giving it much thought. But, due to that, the automated call never came in, and now my account is locked and I’m marked as “Fraud”.
But that’s not the best part. They refuse to do anything about it, but insist that I SCAN MY GOVERNMENT ISSUED ID CARD AND MAIL IT TO THEM, in order to resolve the issue, and then when confronted, hide in a frighteningly bureaucratic manner behind “their policy”, as if they’re not a two-men show but some huge org that needs layers of approval to do something.
Mr. Fabozzi also took offence that I consider them to be a relatively new, small business (go figure) and therefore untrustworthy (oddly, he does not object to this part). He also claims he goes through 3-4 cases of this daily, yet he sticks to his guns. I for one, consider this practice abusive, and doubt the legality of it very much.
Overall the tone of conversations, especially initial response by Mr. Shinkle, is rather rude, giving me further reason to doubt their business ethics.
So their offer and servers might be stellar (I’ve used 2GB plan for testing once before and it delivered to my needs) but their attitude and business practice leave a lot to be desired, depending on what kind of stuff irks you.
Caveat emptor.
@Bojan: Standard business practice is to require verifiable proof of identity if there is a hint of fraud. Failure to do so opens the company to liability and might also pierce the corporate veil and open them personally up to liability and criminal charges. It’s also reassuring that they consistently follow their stated policy.
I’m sure your input error and subsequent account locking was frustrating, but ridiculing a company you want to do business with generally doesn’t encourage them to do you a favor and ignore their policy.
While reading your post, I imagined you opening a ticket along the lines of, “My account was locked as fraud because I entered the wrong information in the form. You’re a small, inexperienced company that I can’t trust enough to prove my identity. Ignore your stupid policy and unlock my account, please.”
-Happy Customer
Bojan,
You must really be that naive, or you really do not know how business works. If you really wanted the service its as easy as scanning in your license.
Also my response was very professional, and stated that if you really want the service just send us a a scan if not then I wish you luck with another provider. What is so bad about that?
How big of a company do you think we are? Why make assumptions that you know nothing about? All it does it make you look dumber than you are,yes I just insulted you and do not care because your post is irrelevant and I do not need you $7 when I have thousands of other clients that are much nicer and understanding than you and want to follow RULES set in place.
Regardless if your not fraud, these rules are set in place for a reason for the real scammers. In one month we lost thousands of dollars because we let people like you pass through the fraud check and ended up being fraud. So to ensure that our prices and quality stay at the top, we have these rules and will NOT break them for anyone or any reason.
A simple scan was all that was needed here and you just refused. To me your a scammer, or too arrogant to want to follow rules. Unfortunately neither of those things mesh well with me and will not happen.
Again, I wish you luck with a new provider
Regards,
Chris
Bojan;
To be honest, I’d require the same ID verification at BuyVM; were you using a VPN/Proxy/Corporate ISP that reported your geolocation quite a ways away from your billing address? That’s sufficient enough reason for me to verify someone’s identity. I do request that after scanning they censor out SSNs, account numbers, etc for their own safety (and to help assure any doubts), but I still require the ID.
As far as legality… there’s no law in place that states you must provide ID to a provider. But there is also no law stating that a provider cannot make positive identification a requirement for service; in most cases, the matching geodata from Address, Phone, and ISP is enough. But when you’re billing address is in Sweden, and you’re connecting from a German ISP (example of a case I dealt with this morning), I’m going to need some proof that you are who you claim.
Many companies don’t take fraud prevention seriously… they could care less what name, address, etc you give them so long as you get paid. I say hats off to ChicagoVPS for being one of the ones that actually strives to keep things legit.
As far as ‘hiding behind policy’… whether a company has 2 employees or 2000, established policy is a must. This isn’t so much to protect the company as to protect the clients; for example, why should I waive late fees for one guy when thousands of other clients have to follow the rules? Policy is important, and when you start making exceptions you devalue your own integrity as well as your company’s reputation.
@Manfre: Err.. no.
It was more like: I tried to do this and that but I got a lockout, could you please let me edit the phone number so that your automation system can recognize it OR try to contact me on THE PHONE I INITIALLY DID ENTER (because a human being can infer the phone number correctly and add country code when dialing).
Which was then reacted to with: Scan and send us your ID, no way in hell will we do anything.
Which was formed in a rather rude way, and then it triggered a rude response from me in which I said that I would not give a scan of my ID to a small business half the world away.
I’m still shocked that being a small business is an insult, or somehing to be ashamed off. I’m certainly not ashamed of being in a small business.
Point is we are not small, maybe that is why you lack the understanding of large business rules and ethics of not bending.
The famous saying is, Give someone an inch they take a mile. Same applies here.
Give someone a pass, then everyone will want a pass. I am over this. Its $7, and not worth my time.
Of course you’re relatively small and pretty much young company. Telling us anything else will be lie. Beside that it’s nothing wrong with being relatively new (less than two years is from business perspective still young company) on hosting scene.
I know that you like to brag around about your success, etc.. but your illusions about yourself aren’t necessary true. You’re small business. Period.
Spirit,
Do you know anything about us? Please enlighten me on what you think we are. VPS is only a branch of our business. We have been in hosting far before that, and this is only a fraction of what we are.
You guys all think you have us nailed down, but you dont. You know nothing, and I did not get this sort of attitude for no reason. We are what we say we are, and I have nothing to prove to you and will act any way I want because I know where we are and what it took to get here.
Think what you want, but your highly mistaken.
Of course I know you :) After all you’re the guy which (ab)used LEB to increase own sales in last two years the most as you have the biggest number of “special offers” here. Your spamming LEB inbox must be terrific regarding http://www.lowendbox.com/?s=ChicagoVPS&searchsubmit=Find and as I follow those threads from beginning and as I read your constant self-bragging arrogant responses.. of course I know you a bit.
You’re not so special as you like to believe about yourself, you know. And often you’re just an ordinary web prick who give to hiself bigger credit than truth is. On moments you remind me on some LEB guy from Cyprus and his mails when he was talking about his “big” company.
I will repeat once again… ChicagoVPS is relatively new and small company in hosting business. You don’t like it? I don’t care, but that’s the truth.
The thing is that you can’t stand any criticism. You act like offensive little barking terrier everytime when someone says that you’re wrong. And you don’t miss opportunity to tell us how important and big your company is which is obvious lie. And with those statements you only make buffoon from yourself.
If ChicagoVPS doing well that’s good. Good for you and for your clients. I am ok with that. I am also pretty sure that there’s potential for further growth. However don’t come here just to tell us how big and important you and your company are because you’re not. ChicagoVPS is young hosting company which aggressively use LOWENDBOX to increase sales from beginning and also thanks to that most likely doing well. You should show sometimes some more respect to community used to earn your bread and butter instead acting like an arrogant prick whole time.
Again your wrong. ChicagoVPS is not the name of our business, like I said its only a branch. We have 5 other hosting sites 3 of which are VPS providers. You may even know those other sites, but dont know it is us.
I love getting people to go off like yourself. I have explained it to people more, I act the way I do because I love when the haters come out and try and prove me wrong. I get my jollies off watching and sitting back laughing.
LEB is simply just another market we wanted to get into and will eventually try and take over.
I am done, you will just have to watch and see
Sure thing, maestro.
I don’t see why you get offended if someone calls your business small. Unless you have 50+ employees, you are small, even if you are larger then some/most of the providers here. I guess it’s just a matter of definition.
And you are also relatively new since your initial operations began in 2009 and company formed in 2011 (as stated here: http://www.nwnx.net/). Btw, you might want to fix those testimonials.
Jeremiah looks kinda cude, tho http://www.nwnx.net/The-Team.html
(http://i46.tinypic.com/dqryaf.jpg)
lol Jeremiah is a guy and he is an ass
Guys this is such a simple issue. If you are frightened just reset your password once you get your VPS.
Stop making a fuss about something that doesn’t exist.
Simple Solution = Reset your password. End of Story.
Agreed, no need to make a big issue over this. It doesn’t take but a minute to change your password.
to be honest it’s also a simple issue to fix. A REALLY quick way is to just edit the email template so instead of $ENTERED_PASSWORD it’s just “(hidden)”. Although ideally it would be stored on the server as a one way hash so for example to reset the password they have to generate a random one and not just email you the old one. At the very least I hope the database with those passwords is well protected.
But all that being said, it’s not a huge issue. nor is it restricted to just these guys. If you really want to make an impact, contact the maker of the admin portal all these sites use. If they change it there then all companies that use it will eventually be updated. Really this discussion should go to LET since everyone that uses this management portal is affected by this.
Dumb WHMCS xD
How can I change/hide the password that appears in plain text on my “Product Details” page in the client area? It appears to be the password I initially set for the control panel login, but I have since changed it.
I don’t understand what the big deal with clear text passwords are with VPS accounts.
Is your issue the clear text or that you use that super secret banking password for your VPS accounts too?
I’ve been using their 2 GB from that deal for a couple of months now and works fine for me. Been thinking about getting another.
Hi Chris, I would like to know if the coupon code for $48.00/year (Coupon code1024yr) is only effective for a 1 year period or is this for the lifetime of the plan?
When I entered the code it said recurring discount, so I sure hope it’s for the life of the plan.
@Todd and Tommy, yes it is lifetime
I ordered two chicago VPS’s and two VPS’s at another provider i will not name here and all i can say is from what i can see now the service at Chicago VPS is better, i asked to change a few small things like a reverse dns and both of the times i got a response within an hour or so that it has been set, by Chris himself.
The servers are fast, connection is good and i didnt find any cheaper VPS. What more can you ask for this money ?
Thanks for the comment MF!
Jeremiah
Is the offer for the Mohawk server still there?
Thanks
I’ve been using their 2gb offer for a few months. My only complaint is that they don’t accept Amex.
Manfre,
I am working on this. Chris and I had a mix-up on this. :)
Jeremiah
whoa they are very great.
Always have offer like that.
But in my past experience my vps speed is a bit slow there. So I stop them.
Well, If someone want to fast windows VPS in Europe, you can visit at onedhost.com
Their Windows VPS is awesome.
I have 2gig openvz with then since Nov,2011. They are not that bad as people thought.
[root@~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 12.8698 seconds, 83.4 MB/s
Thanks Inna.
Jeremiah
Are you referring another host on our ad? :P
We have Windows VPS’s as well. It falls under our Xen HVM Package.
Jeremiah
I’d like to apologise to Chris for Judging them before trying , I’m going to get a 2GB Plan off them now and report back :)!
The first thing I saw that it wasn’t there ARIN block..
Not Amazing IO to what I have seen from other providers but Clearly a RAID10 config.
CPU I got
3 x 3392.472 MHz of an E3-1270
Not a bad CPU.
It’s a shame the port’s only giving out 100mbps I guess its neither capped or the nodes only 100mbps?
hi jack, so far they seem to have the highest io throughput i’ve seen, can you tell me the highest you have seen in your vps experiences? Would appreciate such information to have an idea on server performance. Thanks
This IO was from there vz node 2048 promo code.
The XEN node I got moved to was around 80MB/s compared to this.
The server was very fast , I liked the fact they use new CPU’s compared to some of the older ones.
Finally got vps setup. Unfortunately they don’t have ubuntu 12.04 yet but hopefully that will be soon. I (and probable a lot of us) were setup on a new server and I think the I/O speed can attest to that :)
I/O is very impressive. Also all the pings are consistent. another vps provider had really long delays when pinging a couple sites
How did you get all that information? Is there some sort of script? If so, could you refer me to it? Thanks!
It’s based off this one I found in the wiki. I took it and improved it by adding pings and such. Latest version is on github. The way to run this:
Hi, sorry for my ignorance, i know hear about managed and unmanaged but what’s Semi Managed?
from their site: All packages are “Semi Managed” which means we’ll offer help with common tasks and provide suggestions based on our expertise.
Thank jcaleb.
For the Xen Package, can I install Windows Server on it or would you provide one? (no activation necessary). I want a Windows Server as a sandbox
Xen HVM supports windows and those are not discounted, but to answer the question, yes, we install windows server.
I’m liking the performance however the ticket reply was a little slow..
around 8-10 hours but Hey it was $7 who cares you’re probably not going to get that off linode however never tried them.
Ben,
Last night was an off night since I went to bed earlier than normal because of final MBA exams I had today.
Regards,
Chris
thank blogger!
Anyone seen any reviews of their Chicago Xen VPS? A good in depth review like 96mb.com does is what I am interested in.
We have had several done on our OpenVZ and Xen Platforms.
I will have to dig up the links. I believe one of them is posted on the dreadful WHT.
Thanks,
Jeremiah
I only say ChicagoVPS very good, uptime, IO … I’m happy with ChicagoVPS.
Thanks for the comment!
Jeremiah
I get the sense that ChicagoVPS is one of the largest hosts around LEB. They seem to have a ton of customers.
Mike,
Its what we strive for :)
Chicago VPS is amazing. If you need reliable affordable virtual hosting this is the place.
I run a high traffic website, with peak traffic reaching ~11MB/s (91mbit), almost no downtime, and for 7$/month
Can’t be beat.
Zim,
Thanks for your comments :)
Grrr I’m too tempted to get one and ditch my sshvm account. so far I’m ok with sshvm but with the kind of specs for the price of $7, seems so unbeatable.
I would :)
Jeremiah
you should cough up 7 dollars and test them for at least a month, they are more than worth it. ;)
i run 4 websites on CVPS 2GB ovz, the uptime is amazing unfortunately i think the I/O leaves room for improvement but overall still can’t complain for the $ i paid for it.
We are working on that. We know we have some issues there and growing pains to work out.
Thanks for the constructive criticism! :)
Jeremiah
Any test IP and test files?
See the opening response for the ad :)
It is already there.
Thanks,
Jeremiah
Can we change the links?
Hi Chris,
If I go for the monthly and decide to pay-up for the whole year is the annual discount still valid?
Yes.
Thanks,
Jeremiah
And also when I order the VPS box can I specify where the box is host? e.g: Germany or US?
Chicago is a major city in central US in the state of Illinois. There is only one location: Chicago
where i put this coupon code ?
i did not found any place to put the coupon code
Mikel,
It is where you checkout on the left side
Regards,
Chris
I’ve got a question. What if I’m an existing customer using the 2GB OpenVZ for $7/mo deal and want to downgrade to the 1GB OpenVZ for $48/yr deal. How can I do it? When I click Upgrade/Downgrade under My Services on the site, it only gives me Xen VPS’.
Hello,
Please open a ticket
Regards,
Chris
Thanks! Just did!
Hi, sorry to spam again. Do you guys at CVPS offer discounts for XEN VPS Standard if we pay yearly? Just wondering.
Unixbench results for one of my 2GB VPS’s:
BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 4.1-wht.2)
System — Linux serv 2.6.18-308.el5.028stab099.3 #1 SMP Wed Mar 7 15:56:00 MSK 2012 i686
i686 i386 GNU/Linux
/dev/simfs 52428800 625932 51802868 2% /
Start Benchmark Run: Thu Apr 19 17:45:09 MSK 2012
17:45:09 up 6:52, 1 user, load average: 1.04, 1.01, 1.00
End Benchmark Run: Thu Apr 19 17:57:46 MSK 2012
17:57:46 up 7:05, 1 user, load average: 16.69, 7.46, 3.93
INDEX VALUES
TEST BASELINE RESULT INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 376783.7 4257744.0 113.0
Double-Precision Whetstone 83.1 1347.2 162.1
Execl Throughput 188.3 2032.3 107.9
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 2672.0 57527.0 215.3
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1077.0 16260.0 151.0
File Read 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 15382.0 423582.0 275.4
Pipe Throughput 111814.6 392355.4 35.1
Pipe-based Context Switching 15448.6 127127.8 82.3
Process Creation 569.3 6186.6 108.7
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 44.8 386.5 86.3
System Call Overhead 114433.5 399736.5 34.9
=========
FINAL SCORE 104.8
Your benchmarks should not be considered valid since your UnixBench version is way out of date
Sorry about that. New results with the latest version, during general off hours:
BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 5.1.2) System: serv: GNU/Linux OS: GNU/Linux -- 2.6.18-308.el5.028stab099.3 -- #1 SMP Wed Mar 7 15:56:00 MSK 2012 Machine: i686 (i386) Language: en_US.utf8 (charmap="ANSI_X3.4-1968", collate="ANSI_X3.4-1968") CPU 0: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31270 @ 3.40GHz (6785.0 bogomips) Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization CPU 1: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31270 @ 3.40GHz (6784.5 bogomips) Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization CPU 2: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31270 @ 3.40GHz (6784.6 bogomips) Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization CPU 3: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31270 @ 3.40GHz (6784.5 bogomips) Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization 15:32:39 up 16 days, 5:20, 1 user, load average: 0.36, 0.15, 0.04; runleve l 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Benchmark Run: Fri May 11 2012 15:32:39 - 16:01:20 4 CPUs in system; running 1 parallel copy of tests Dhrystone 2 using register variables 20888579.6 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Double-Precision Whetstone 3503.4 MWIPS (10.0 s, 7 samples) Execl Throughput 4068.1 lps (29.9 s, 2 samples) File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 500517.1 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples) File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 141412.4 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples) File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 1275340.3 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples) Pipe Throughput 954659.5 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Pipe-based Context Switching 141925.0 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Process Creation 12810.6 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples) Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 5251.6 lpm (60.1 s, 2 samples) Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 1027.5 lpm (65.2 s, 2 samples) System Call Overhead 725821.5 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) System Benchmarks Index Values BASELINE RESULT INDEX Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 20888579.6 1789.9 Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 3503.4 637.0 Execl Throughput 43.0 4068.1 946.1 File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 3960.0 500517.1 1263.9 File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1655.0 141412.4 854.5 File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 5800.0 1275340.3 2198.9 Pipe Throughput 12440.0 954659.5 767.4 Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 141925.0 354.8 Process Creation 126.0 12810.6 1016.7 Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 5251.6 1238.6 Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 1027.5 1712.4 System Call Overhead 15000.0 725821.5 483.9 ======== System Benchmarks Index Score 973.9 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Benchmark Run: Fri May 11 2012 16:01:20 - 16:30:00 4 CPUs in system; running 4 parallel copies of tests Dhrystone 2 using register variables 54507253.8 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Double-Precision Whetstone 13071.8 MWIPS (10.1 s, 7 samples) Execl Throughput 10725.0 lps (29.7 s, 2 samples) File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 451911.5 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples) File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 125789.9 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples) File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 1233585.4 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples) Pipe Throughput 2610051.2 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Pipe-based Context Switching 720168.0 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Process Creation 32761.7 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples) Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 15923.2 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples) Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 1837.8 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples) System Call Overhead 2233006.8 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) System Benchmarks Index Values BASELINE RESULT INDEX Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 54507253.8 4670.7 Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 13071.8 2376.7 Execl Throughput 43.0 10725.0 2494.2 File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 3960.0 451911.5 1141.2 File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1655.0 125789.9 760.1 File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 5800.0 1233585.4 2126.9 Pipe Throughput 12440.0 2610051.2 2098.1 Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 720168.0 1800.4 Process Creation 126.0 32761.7 2600.1 Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 15923.2 3755.5 Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 1837.8 3063.1 System Call Overhead 15000.0 2233006.8 1488.7 ======== System Benchmarks Index Score 2127.3:( … I’m jealous
BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 5.1.3) System: host: GNU/Linux OS: GNU/Linux -- 2.6.32-308.el5.028stab099.3 -- #1 SMP Wed Mar 7 15:56:00 MSK 2012 Machine: i686 (unknown) Language: en_US.utf8 (charmap="ANSI_X3.4-1968", collate="ANSI_X3.4-1968") CPU 0: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31270 @ 3.40GHz (6785.0 bogomips) Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization CPU 1: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31270 @ 3.40GHz (6784.4 bogomips) Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization CPU 2: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31270 @ 3.40GHz (6784.7 bogomips) Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization CPU 3: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31270 @ 3.40GHz (6784.6 bogomips) Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization 14:27:06 up 21:08, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.63, 1.01; runlevel 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Benchmark Run: Sun May 27 2012 14:27:06 - 14:55:18 4 CPUs in system; running 1 parallel copy of tests Dhrystone 2 using register variables 5030535.4 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Double-Precision Whetstone 1348.2 MWIPS (10.2 s, 7 samples) Execl Throughput 1164.9 lps (29.7 s, 2 samples) File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 113723.7 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples) File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 30383.5 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples) File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 415029.5 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples) Pipe Throughput 351028.9 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Pipe-based Context Switching 86338.8 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Process Creation 3401.4 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples) Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 1327.0 lpm (60.1 s, 2 samples) Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 208.8 lpm (60.2 s, 2 samples) System Call Overhead 277371.7 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) System Benchmarks Index Values BASELINE RESULT INDEX Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 5030535.4 431.1 Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 1348.2 245.1 Execl Throughput 43.0 1164.9 270.9 File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 3960.0 113723.7 287.2 File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1655.0 30383.5 183.6 File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 5800.0 415029.5 715.6 Pipe Throughput 12440.0 351028.9 282.2 Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 86338.8 215.8 Process Creation 126.0 3401.4 270.0 Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 1327.0 313.0 Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 208.8 348.0 System Call Overhead 15000.0 277371.7 184.9 ======== System Benchmarks Index Score 290.3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Benchmark Run: Sun May 27 2012 14:55:18 - 15:27:39 4 CPUs in system; running 4 parallel copies of tests Dhrystone 2 using register variables 7463606.7 lps (10.1 s, 7 samples) Double-Precision Whetstone 5104.8 MWIPS (10.2 s, 7 samples) Execl Throughput 1656.6 lps (29.6 s, 2 samples) File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 138508.4 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples) File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 40405.4 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples) File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 442338.5 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples) Pipe Throughput 491981.9 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Pipe-based Context Switching 179623.6 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Process Creation 3626.9 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples) Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 1757.7 lpm (60.1 s, 2 samples) Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 258.7 lpm (60.3 s, 2 samples) System Call Overhead 444123.3 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) System Benchmarks Index Values BASELINE RESULT INDEX Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 7463606.7 639.6 Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 5104.8 928.1 Execl Throughput 43.0 1656.6 385.3 File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 3960.0 138508.4 349.8 File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1655.0 40405.4 244.1 File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 5800.0 442338.5 762.7 Pipe Throughput 12440.0 491981.9 395.5 Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 179623.6 449.1 Process Creation 126.0 3626.9 287.9 Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 1757.7 414.5 Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 258.7 431.2 System Call Overhead 15000.0 444123.3 296.1 ======== System Benchmarks Index Score 430.3Hello! How long is the setup, after payment?
Hello,
Instant
Any plans for Debian 6.0 image?
Looks like they pulled the older OS’s, Debian 6 is there.
Here is the fill list my Control Panel is pulling:
I’ve been using this VPS since I read review from here (11/01/11). Their support is good, and Chris himself provide the support. Very stable VPS. I would recommend for anyone to buy it. Value for money. Their server up-time also good. I think evidence speaks better :)
Thumb Up to Chris and Team.
I’ve been through many VPS providers featured here on LEB and I’d have to say that Chicago is one of the good guys. The $7/2GB deal is insane, so not sure how they’re pulling that off but you’ll get no complaints from me.
I’d buy another if I had the need.
Thanks Chris and crew!
Good to hear! :)
Jeremiah
VPS 1 – Gentoo 04102012 x86
Fri May 11 06:33:09 Local time zone must be set--see zic manual page 2012
CPU model: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31270 @ 3.40GHz
Number of cores: 4
CPU frequency: 3392.466 MHz
Total amount of ram: 2048 MB
Total amount of swap: 0 MB
System uptime: 06:33:09 up 5 days, 15:05, 1 user, load average: 1.82, 1.64, 1.64
Beginning I/O test: 141 MB/s
Beginning ping tests:
google.com, US
--- google.com ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4002ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 2.188/2.370/2.692/0.194 ms
linode.com, US
--- linode.com ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4001ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 24.309/24.454/24.726/0.248 ms
Rakuten, Japan
--- rakuten.co.jp ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4000ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 160.621/160.644/160.693/0.025 ms
BBC, UK
--- bbc.co.uk ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 3997ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 93.480/93.542/93.591/0.337 ms
Gumtree, Austrailia
--- gumtree.com.au ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4005ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 100.616/100.685/100.847/0.296 ms
Beginning download speed tests:
CacheFly: 11585 KB/sec
Linode, Atlanta GA, US: 7119 KB/sec
Linode, Dallas, TX, US: 6664 KB/sec
Linode, Tokyo, JP: 6773 KB/sec
Linode, London, UK: 7234 KB/sec
Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 3555 KB/sec
Softlayer, Singapore: 2302 KB/sec
Softlayer, Seattle, WA, US: 6628 KB/sec
Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 2788 KB/sec
Softlayer, Washington, DC: 10396 KB/sec
OVH, France: 6940 KB/sec
VPS 2 – Gentoo 04102012 x86
Fri May 11 06:34:41 Local time zone must be set--see zic manual page 2012
CPU model: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31270 @ 3.40GHz
Number of cores: 4
CPU frequency: 3392.482 MHz
Total amount of ram: 2048 MB
Total amount of swap: 0 MB
System uptime: 06:34:41 up 14 days, 23:54, 1 user, load average: 0.64, 0.70, 0.69
Beginning I/O test: 130 MB/s
Beginning ping tests:
google.com, US
--- google.com ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4006ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 2.222/2.798/3.355/0.371 ms
linode.com, US
--- linode.com ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4001ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 27.679/27.808/27.885/0.225 ms
Rakuten, Japan
--- rakuten.co.jp ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 3997ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 160.368/160.515/160.625/0.516 ms
BBC, UK
--- bbc.co.uk ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4001ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 93.174/93.364/93.601/0.305 ms
Gumtree, Austrailia
--- gumtree.com.au ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4002ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 107.094/107.253/107.390/0.114 ms
Beginning download speed tests:
CacheFly: 10853 KB/sec
Linode, Atlanta GA, US: 10014 KB/sec
Linode, Dallas, TX, US: 8610 KB/sec
Linode, Tokyo, JP: 4281 KB/sec
Linode, London, UK: 6969 KB/sec
Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 4123 KB/sec
Softlayer, Singapore: 2011 KB/sec
Softlayer, Seattle, WA, US: 8734 KB/sec
Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 2372 KB/sec
Softlayer, Washington, DC: 9842 KB/sec
OVH, France: 5107 KB/sec
VPS 3 – Ubuntu 11.10
Fri May 11 10:39:20 MSK 2012
CPU model: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31270 @ 3.40GHz
Number of cores: 4
CPU frequency: 3392.472 MHz
Total amount of ram: 2048 MB
Total amount of swap: 0 MB
System uptime: 10:39:20 up 3:30, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.09, 0.13
Beginning I/O test: 151 MB/s
Beginning ping tests:
google.com, US
--- google.com ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4000ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 2.138/2.331/2.548/0.163 ms
linode.com, US
--- linode.com ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4004ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 28.124/28.177/28.224/0.214 ms
Rakuten, Japan
--- rakuten.co.jp ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 3997ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 157.806/158.002/158.261/0.459 ms
BBC, UK
--- bbc.co.uk ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4001ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 93.683/93.870/94.026/0.296 ms
Gumtree, Austrailia
--- gumtree.com.au ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4000ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 100.387/100.527/100.718/0.118 ms
Beginning download speed tests:
CacheFly: 12059 KB/sec
Linode, Atlanta GA, US: 7201 KB/sec
Linode, Dallas, TX, US: 7989 KB/sec
Linode, Tokyo, JP: 3209 KB/sec
Linode, London, UK: 6663 KB/sec
Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 5771 KB/sec
Softlayer, Singapore: 1203 KB/sec
Softlayer, Seattle, WA, US: 6045 KB/sec
Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 1846 KB/sec
Softlayer, Washington, DC: 8940 KB/sec
OVH, France: 5026 KB/sec
^ setup today. All are OpenVZ. Any chance I can get a 2GB Zen for $7? :3
hahaha. No Xen for $7. Sorry.
Are you liking that gentoo template? Pretty custom one I made up.
Thanks,
Jeremiah
“Gumtree, Austrailia
— gumtree.com.au ping statistics —”
This site is in Netherlands. (I get 500ms+ from Au to that site.)
doh, OK thanks I’ll look for something else. I just went through the top sites in alexa for austrailia and that’s the first with a reasonable ping from us.
Updated the script so now it checks whirlpool.net.au which has an australian ip.
Any Xen 1GB promo? :D
That’s a cheap a xen.
What about xen package?
Why no one that review xen package?
Shame MaxMind hates me..
When might IPv6 be available?
I just got an ipv6 tunnel going which was quite the chore (first one I’ve setup in a openvz container). Key things are to enable TUN/TAP interface via the control panel and use http://code.google.com/p/tb-tun/ to setup the tunnel. The delay from being a tunnel isn’t too bad. I’m using tunnelbroker.net and using the chicago endpoint. From the VPS I get a response from the endpoint in around 5msec and can ping ipv6.google.com in like 7msec. Another example is to my server at ovh in france (has native ipv6). ipv4 response is 101msec and ipv6 it’s 103msec.
Todd, how did you get this working!??
I keep trying to run this, 1st on Ubuntu, then Debian 6, and I just get ‘permission denied’ when trying to start the tb_username binary.
~sss/tb_userspace henet 209.51.181.2 any sit
tun_create: Permission denied
Can you give me some hints? which distro are you running??
regards, Stefan
If you need SIT, we have to activate it for you.
Thanks,
Jeremiah
Well, thanks for this, but still doesnt work. :( ‘Permission denied’
Hopefully Todd will give some insight on what he did to get working.
Sorry, I know this shouldnt be a support forum.. shutting up now. :)
Good thing I check on here, I never get any of the replies in email. Think the sending server doesn’t resolve to a valid ip or something. At any rate here’s my exact config (with ip’s removed of course)
Some important things I had to do on there. Sleep for a second after starting tb or else I’ll get interface doesn’t exist. At the bottom I have to remove the ipv6 default route on venet0. I can’t modify /etc/network/interfaces because it gets overwritten on reboot. I then have in my /etc/rc.local: /root/ifup-sit0.sh >/dev/null
This is on ubuntu 10.04. More than likely if you’re getting permission denied it’s either because you need that tun/tap interface enabled or you’re not root. do `sudo su -` to get a full root login if normally login as a regular user.
Hi Todd:
well, I am doing everything you are doing, and its not working.
yes, I am running this binary/commands as root, and TUN/TAP and ‘sit’ device have both been enabled on my OpenVZ container. So there is something else going on that you didnt have.
Thanks for your help and message, tho.
Hello Todd: well, I got a different OpenVZ account tonight , and I was able to make this process work perfectly, I have IPv6 running now.
Thanks for all your efforts.
– stefan
@Todd Eddy
Thanks for that. I had ChicagoVPS enable SIT support in my VPS and I went and used your instructions as a template for my interface profile… I know you said you couldn’t figure it out but I got it. The sleep was probably the key this whole time. Add it to /etc/network/interfaces.tail and it will be included into the main interfaces file on reboot. Replace [Server IPv4] with the one for your tunnel and replace [Client IPv6] the same way. Don’t include the /64 bit.
Note: This is for SIT configurations. I have no idea if this will work for TAP/TUN configurations or if it works the same way.
auto sit0
iface sit0 inet6 manual
pre-up setsid /usr/local/sbin/tb_userspace sit0 [Server IPv4] any sit >/dev/null &
pre-up sleep 1
up ifconfig sit0 up
post-up ifconfig sit0 inet6 add [Client IPv6]
post-up ifconfig sit0 mtu 1480
post-up route -A inet6 add ::/0 dev sit0
post-up route -A inet6 del ::/0 dev venet0
down ifconfig sit0 down
post-down route -A inet6 del ::/0 dev sit0
post-down killall tb_userspace
For my above you do want to add the /64 or /48 to the ipv6 address that is provided by your provider. For me it is /64. If you don’t the server will assume /128.
Been using ChicagoVPS for a few months now, up to around 8 VPSs. Don’t think I could rep enough…
Thanks Michael :)
I ordered a XEN over 12 hours ago and still have no access to it. Opened a ticket and got no reply. Not very happy with them so far. I’m only a couple hours away from filing a paypal dispute.
Woody,
All tickets regarding setup have been answered so I dont know what your talking about. As explained via ticket, we are waiting on a new node to arrive so we can install new orders. We sent 3 more to our data center and stopped installing orders to avoid over subscription.
Regards,
Chris
Any promos for a 1gb or even a 2gb XEN? =)
512mb doesn’t seem to fit me with cPanel and all that caching :(
Libro,
email me directly, and I will see what I can do :) Chris@chicagvps.net
I like their’s product, so far so good.
BE CAREFUL WITH THEM!!!!
After 7 months with ChicagoVPS i have lost my VPS content.
They offer a backup tool (Central Backup) for your VPS (1 backup file, not downloadable), so i decided to use it and reduced my backup scripts.
History of my problem:
1. Make backup
2. In Central Backup appears a green text (Complete), No errors.
3. I worked with VPS and decided to restore backup
4. Restore backup
5. VPS doesn’t start, always offline
I have opened a ticket and they answered:
“The backup itself is corrupted at from the beginning. There is nothing to recover”
“At this point reinstall unfortunately”
Conclusion:
I have lost all my work.
That’s unfortunate that you lost your work. Given your statement “…reduced my backup scripts”, it seems you share as much blame as ChicagoVPS. A single backup is never enough. Always make sure you have multiple copies in different locations to prevent a single failure. It’s also important to verify the integrity of all backups when they are made to avoid the problem you experienced with restoring from a corrupted backup.
Users are the ultimately responsible for keeping VPS content backed up, but if you offer an option (Central Backup) must be updated and working properly. (Probably i am not the first user who has lost the VPS).
Felipe,
Out of the thousands of backups being made, we have only had a handful of clients with your problem. Like said above, backups are not always 100% perfect and things do happen. I am sorry that this happened to you.
Regards,
Chris
ya i also waiting for promo 2gig XEN VPS hosting, try to use the coupon code but not working
Unfortunately, we likely will not discount our Xen 2GB package.
Thanks,
Jeremiah
Jeremiah,
Thanks for your response to my complaint, and let me address it so other customers are aware of how you do business.
1. The complaints we received are in violation of our ToS/AUP that you agreed to.
The complaint was received by ChicagoVPS, and my account was taken offline on a Sunday night prior to any consultation with myself.
After several days of downtime for my customers and my websites, ChicagoVPS reinstates my account I login, search for the infringing files as specified in the DMCA and am completely unsurprised when they are not there. I explain this to Jeremiah, the one who labels his customers liars that the infringing file was not and is not on my account.
2. The complaints are from legitimate sources
Legitimate sources make mistakes and can be incorrect.
3. You have lied and continue to lie about the content and downloading it.
Case in point, you’re a legitimate source representing your company, you call your customers liars. Thanks for demonstrating your professionalism so bluntly.
>We have a right to suspend the VPS for the violations of our ToS/AUP at anytime and even cancel them if we feel that is how we want to proceed..
Yes and given that there were no violations of your ToS/AUP, we could have continued our business relationship, instead, I have the ChicagoVPS team asking me why I’m using so much of my disk quota?
Clearly anyone that uses their disk space is only using it for copyright infringement.
>There is nothing here to sustain “buyer beware” other than maybe seller beware about you.
ChicagoVPS, what happened here is minor issue that could have been resolved easily. I’m shocked at how quick you took down my account and called me a liar.
Good luck running a business while calling your customers liars and taking them offline.
1. I am in the process of moving to another provider
2. I won’t be renewing my services at the end of my billing period.
3. I hope you get a takeaway from this entire experience, I certainly have.
Kind Regards,
Ivan Kruchkoff
hmmmmm Ivan, I read what you said… I have to tell you that you sound rather convincing in what you say. Of course, I’m a customer and would be concerned if this is really what happened. On the other hand, you could just be a liar which means ChicagoVPS is right so its hard for a customer like myself to conclude based on the information since it would be tremendously hard for you to prove your statements.
With all that being said, most websites are community based and if a user upload infringes upon copyrights, the provider should make this information to you the customer so that you can comply by taking it down. Especially since it is very well possible for this to occur more than once due the nature of community based sites. Therefore, if this in fact did occur as you said it did, ChicagoVPS should give the customer (yourself) time to remove the said content thereby complying. I hope this is a learning experience for any incidents that may occur later on (if this actually happened)
Thanks for the info Ivan, I have not taken this into consideration and will forget this even happened once I am done typing this reply.
Multiple chances, multiple complaints.
Good luck in the future. And as how our business it doing…. its doing better than ever, so we must be doing something right :-0
Thanks for further clarification Chris (in subsequent post).
Thank you for the clearance, Chris.
This post again shows your unprofessionalism towards your customers. He makes a valid point and you respond with malice.
This is by far the worst support I have seen for service one is paying for.
I can see everyone currently liking their server on Chicago VPS changing their minds after running into simplest disagreement with Chris or Jeremiah which could be easily resolved by 1-2 emails and much, much friendlier way (I’m looking at you, Risharde ;)
Fortunately, I never got suspended myself but was subject to similar hostile attitude as Ivan here. Glad I’m not their customer anymore. They have indeed fast servers, but those can be found elsewhere.
Hi Chay, I do actually agree with you in the sense that sometimes the responses I see via LEB providers are borderline unprofessional (even sometimes rude) and rest assured that if i am ever the recipient of such responses, I will pack my bags and move to another provider. I have not experienced such responses form chicagovps so let’s just say that I look at both parties as fair as posible considering the limitation of proving allegations brought forth :)
Thanks for your response Risharde! Your attitude is respectable and I would probably act the same way.
I hope you will have a good run with CVPS and that you never have to face similar unreasonable hostility as me and Ivan did.
I am new to VPSs and had recently been struggling to find a good deal to start with. Based on the comments here, I ordered the 1024 deal. So far I am very impressed. It was provided very quickly on a Saturday. My questions about adding ram and converting to yearly where quickly answered, yes you can add more for a small fee, and yes you can convert, they send you a new invoice to pay.
In trying to get started I messed up by installing webmin, when I really wanted Virtualmin. The OS reinstall went well, and the image is reasonably fresh, only a few updates needed. I think I am going to buy a few more. Thanks, LEB and ChicagoVPS.
Hello,
Glad to hear your happy with our services, and if you need anything else just open up a ticket :)
Enjoy!
Chris
This is one of the worst providers I’ve used. 2GB OpenVZ server couldn’t handle an extremely simple setup that runs on a 128MB XEN box with room to spare. It was acting as though the network was dropping, so who knows how poorly they’ve configured them. You’d be better off sticking with one of the other providers on here.
@Nope,
Do you have proof or ticket ID or even Client ID? What your saying does not fit and really makes no sense since non of it is true.
Without verification I would have to say your last statement is null and void.
Thanks,
Chris
Anyone having issues with them? My VPS on their VPS45 node already down more than 5 hours. I’m not able to login to their SolusVM as well :(
Mine has been down off and on since last night. Down right now. Very disappointing.
Ahm… ticket?…
Oh, finally got reply from Chris. They are working on it now. Seems like a DDoS attack.
Also note, VPS’s were only down for a few minutes not 5 hours. Some VPS’s did not have SSH access which is now fixed.
my status is offline and i cant seem to get support on it……and i have barely used my VPS for two weeks..
sorry…i ve got to take that back….chris has excellent support! i hope this continues…
Great to hear! :)
Jeremiah
Considering the VPS’s are unmanaged and are cheap I would have to say they have excellent support as well.
Thanks Josh! :)
Jeremiah
Used them for quite a while and they are simply amazing! Great prices, lightning fast support and an all around good company. Soon will be purchasing another :)
Thanks Shane! :)
Jeremiah
I haven’t been able to access my VPS for 2 months, because I chose an “over secure password” according to Jeremiah. I am footing the bill for this, which isn’t a big deal, because I should have submitted a ticket sooner.
Chicago VPS says I chose a bad password (which their system accepted). I have asked for written password guidelines, but have not received a response. I guess it is my fault for not submitting a ticket earlier, but the root cause (“over secure password”) is stunning.
Regardless, your password will be emailed in plain text (meaning everyone who has access to their database has access to your VPS). And, their ”
There is little we can do about it. I don’t fault you for utilizing strong password(s) but understand provisioning systems generally fault with over secure passwords.” Don’t use it for anything TOO important!
I just use “passwd -d” to get rid of the passwords on my VPS’s (i.e. so there is no password that will work, and the only way to log in is with an ssh public/private key pair). Passwords just aren’t good technology any more.
I would love to remove this comment or at least the last paragraph. Somehow, I screwed up and pasted a whole message into the comment box, and that’s really not fair to ChicagoVPS
So far I’ve had my service for two – three weeks and all I can say is they’re awesome. They perform this business well and the support has been very helpful. I haven’t had a single problem with them that the support hasn’t cleared up for me so personally, I think they’re pretty damn good and will definitely be using them for my future projects as well.
Thanks Chris!
Thanks for the support Don! :)
Jeremiah
I noticed this deal after paying my invoice for June… I don’t suppose there’s a chance I could get the discount for the 512mb Xen? :p
They claim to have 24/7 support, but there is no support phone number. Just an online chat which doesn’t look like it is online all the time… http://i.imgur.com/jzhlw.png
Where can I find the info on the Mohawk Voice Server?
contact their support once you send in the order. They’ll provide you with the link to get the free Mohawk Voice Server
The link is also at the top of the post here
does code 2048 still valid for this xen package?
The coupon code was never valid for Xen only openvz
I’ve had an account with Chicago VPS since last year. I now have three containers running on their servers and have nothing but good things to say about them.
Example. Last month my credit card expired on my PayPal account (oops.) and PayPal started sending Echecks (which take forever to clear payment) to everyone including ChicagoVPS. Long story in short form. My accounts were terminated because the payments didn’t reach them in time (Totally, completely MY FAULT)
But….
I communicated with Jeremiah and he had me up and running in no time flat!
Thanks Jeremiah and ChicagoVPS.
I bought their VPS. At the same moment I check ip, it was in 5 blacklists. I wrote to support and support was 2 days in silence. Even Burst where you take the servers solves such problems faster. I open dispute in Paypal, and what I heard in seller comment there? Ip blasklisted as a result of my actions. What actions?? )) I had not time to do any actions.
Their support is unresponsive, ticket id 581870 can you check @Chris
I just wanted to convey my experience with chicagovps concering multiple failed restores from back up.
I had my restore from back up fail twice. Having to restore 7 domains manually, from scratch. All the while chicagovps knew it was an issue but never told me. When I asked them about it this is what they said to me
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There is no particular reason why we have to tell everyone. Its been a known issue with SolusVM since the 1.9.00 update. It is nothing we cannot manually restore.
If you want to complain and let everyone know, feel free to. There is no reason to threated us here, its out of our control.
I do not keep up on the bugs with SolusVM. Nor should I have to. And yes there IS “a reason why we have to tell everyone”
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Your backups fail and you knew about it and you never told your customers.
That is BAD business. That is being DISHONEST by withholding critical information from your clients.
If you refuse to tell your clients that you back ups fail I will
If you need to restore from backup your backup WILL fail.
I wonder why didn’t they turn the backup feature off if they new it was buggy.
I had a same problem with backup.
When i restored it the server wouldn’t boot.
I thought at some stage they fix it but it looks as it is still here.
Other way the server is ok for last 2-3 months i have it.
I would like to know why with Chicagovps $7 buys 2G openVZ and only 0.5 xen.
As a customer which one i should chose to run Kloxo and few small sites with 2-3 gb of trafic.
You can oversell OVZ, but you can’t oversell Xen without the cooperation of guest kernels.
are there any deals for the 1GB xen?
are there any deals for: Xen Enterprise