Harry, from CloudShards, is back with another exclusive LowEndBox deal. Further savings can be made if purchased on a quarterly, semi-annually or annual contract.
OpenVZ 256MB
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Cloud Shards are an Australian based webhosting company who’ve now been around for about four months. This is the second time that we’ve featured Cloud Shards on LowEndBox. Their last offer was posted back in November but this time round, they’ve improved their pricing and are back with five offers instead of three. Harry informs us that discount applies to other BudgetVPS plans & Standard VPS plans as well. Nodes are equipped with the E3-1270v2/E3-1230v2 CPU, 32GB ECC RAM, Western Digital RE4’s, Hardware RAID10 with BBU and Gigabit Ports. SSD cached servers are using CacheCade with a mix of Intel 520 and Samsung 840 Pro drives (Texas nodes are all Samsung 840 Pro at the moment). Click more to view three other offers.
SSD Cached OpenVZ 256MB
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As we mentioned last time, Cloud Shards are GST registered (Goods and Services Tax (Australia), meaning that Australian customers will have to pay 10% GST. Servers in Buffalo are located in the ColoCrossing datacenter, Dallas servers are located at the Internap facility and Los Angeles based servers are with WebNX. CloudShards have a 7 day, no questions asked, refund policy. As for payment options, they accept PayPal and Payza. Exit TOR, IRC and public VPN/Proxy is not allowed. However anything else that is legal in the USA is allowed. For a full read of their Do’s and Dont’s, you can read their Terms here.
Network Information:
Buffalo, New York –http://ny.lg.cloudshards.net/
Dallas, Texas – http://tx.lg.cloudshards.net/
Los Angeles, Califonia – http://ca.lg.cloudshards.net
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good host
Seems there is problem with coupon, it reports 2.75% discount not 25%. Maybe simple misunderstanding somewhere
This has been fixed, thanks for letting us know :)
Btw, it’s not 25% off though, that would make the VPS cost around $2.60
Sorry for the confusion. I submitted the offer as follows:
– 7.25% on https://www.cloudshards.com/budgetvpshosting.php
– 7.25% on https://www.cloudshards.com/backupvpshosting.php
– 25% on https://www.cloudshards.com/standardvpshosting.php
Any restrictions for the backup servers?
As long as it’s legal in the USA it’s allowed
You can run any program you want on it
Please follow http://www.cloudshards.com/terms.php if clarification is required. No Exit TOR, no IRC, no public proxy/vpn and illegal content.
So we can generally install our own software on the backup server (as long as it is not CPU/IO heavy, of course)? :)
Sure, it’s a VPS. That’s what it’s for. Cloud Shards doesn’t monitor or control what you do. Storage VPS is simply a plan with more storage, less CPU and RAM. No other differences to a normal VPS except specs.
But you say that as if the OP didn’t say CDN isn’t allowed. That sounds like a gray area to me, probably why so many questions. I can’t host the images from my website here?
CDN is allowed. This is simply a mistake in the posting. I have contacted LowEndBox to correct this.
The CDN issue has been corrected in the OP thanks to LowEndBox. Do let us know if you have any further questions and/or problems. We do offer 24/7 Support.
website down? Do you allowed IRC inside?
IRC isn’t allowed. Where are located? It works fine here.
Just curious but why is IRC not allowed? I need a backup plan but would like to have a irc bouncer as well.
Hi Jon,
I’m the lead tech, also an avid IRC user. However, the issue is that our DCs are the ones restricting IRC usage – we don’t really particularly care to restrict it, for we ourselves are users.
Which location are you interested in? I believe the rules vary a bit.
Do you offer custom package?
Sure, just leave us a pre-sales ticket with what you want and we’ll get back to you with an offer. :)
Yes, please submit a ticket to sales and we will work something out with you :)
Just to check: Tor exit nodes are not allowed, but running a hidden service is allowed?
Exit TOR is not allowed. Otherwise, anything that is not in the exclusion list, isn’t illegal and doesn’t abuse any services is fine.
If you have further questions or queries, please contact sales @ http://www.cloudshards.com/contact.php. Thanks for the interest.
We have had a VPS from these guys since their first listing. Pingdom is showing 99.97% in the last month, better than URPad’s 80%. Thanks!
That most likely is due to the 8 minutes or so of downtime Colocrossing’s switch replacement caused us last month.
Regardless, we’re glad to hear that you’re happy with the service.
So, no VPN allowed on this VPS? Unfortunately I search for VPS that I can run OpenVPN on it.
VPN for private usage is allowed. AS long as it is not a public service. Thanks for your interest!
Thanks for all the interest so far. We have just restocked since being sold out. Enjoy!
Cloud Shards is excellent. :)