Saw this ads on WHT, where Justgotvps.com is selling their low end “Starter Root” VPS at just $4.95/month (or $4.16/month if you prepay for 12 months). The spec:
- 108MB guaranteed / 256MB burstable
- 5GB storage
- 10GB data transfer
- 50% CPU time
OpenVZ is used. The presentation looks like “Justgotwebsite”. Server is with Zanadoo.com in San Diego.
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Their Junior Root package comes in at $6.65/mo too if you prepay for 12 months. An email from their sales dept. lists the standard fare of OSes: centos, debian, ubuntu, …
@abjr — thanks for emailing their sales dept. At 384MB burstable from their Junior Root package, I am afraid that it has way too much memory to qualify as a “low end” box 🙂
well, i had one 128M box there, and upgraded to a 256 later, but after 3 or 4 months the site just went under.
for about two weeks i couldnt access my box any other way except connecting the hypervm (and that only because i had it’s IP somewhere). now they’re totally gone.
anyway, i got what i paid for…few times their disks were full so i decided to help them there – filled my disk space with crap so when the disk got full again i cleaned myself a GB or so until they fixed it.
so in case they come back, i wouldn’t go there again…