Prgmr.com has been around offering Linux and NetBSD Xen VPS for a while but last time I checked they had temporarily suspended new sign ups. Good news is — they are back! You can now sign up to their Xen VPS offerings, including their low-end $5/month VPS in Herakles DC in Sacramento.
- 64MB memory
10GB5GB storage- 20GB monthly transfer
- Debian 3/4, Ubuntu 7.04, CentOS 4/5, FedoraCore, Slackware, NetBSD
Currently they are offering a time limited special — first month is free, because “prgmr.com is still something of a mess”.
Update: Prgmr.com is now offering 5GB instead of 10GB of storage because of mirroring. Doing RAID 1 is a Good ThingTM — you get 2x the read speed, but most importantly, a failed drive does not take hours (or days!) of downtime.
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The Founder at LowEndBox
The original owner of LowEndBox known as LowEndAdmin or LEA for short founded LowEndBox in 2008 and created the concept of hosting applications on low resource Low End Boxes. After creating the roots of the community that we know today, LEA stepped aside and allowed others to carry the torch forward.
Latest posts by LEA (see all)
- 5 Reasons Why You Want a Low End Box - May 26, 2021
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From their website:
Please Note, currently I am only installing CentOS 5.1 and Debian 4.0 distributions.
I’ve been using prgmr for about 3 weeks now and am impressed with the service, please note he has changed the plans around again.
Also one other thing, it is now hosted at HE.net in
their Fremont-2 Datacenter.
The first month free deal is over… and I’ve reduced disk and transfer further. However, for $6/month, you can get 128M ram and 3GB disk, which I believe is a much better deal, even with the reduced disk and transfer. 128M is a lot more ram than 64M.
Yes, at the moment, I’ll only install CentOS5 or Debian4. I do use PyGRUB so if you want to muck with it, you can install something else. In fact, in the PyGrub menu for the Debian image, I have a NetBSD-CURRENT netinstall kernel.
are you able to setup this account and also setup a complete control panel free, for hosting websites. Cheers, Tommy
php mysql would be great.. cheers
512MB Xen VPS… this is the first VPS provider in my life
======================================================================== BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 5.1.3) System: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xen.prgmr.com: GNU/Linux OS: GNU/Linux -- 2.6.32-22-generic-pae -- #33-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 28 14:57:29 UTC 2010 Machine: i686 (unknown) Language: en_US.utf8 (charmap="ANSI_X3.4-1968", collate="ANSI_X3.4-1968") CPU 0: AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 6128 (4000.3 bogomips) Hyper-Threading, MMX, AMD MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSCALL/SYSRET 09:28:00 up 9:59, 1 user, load average: 0.21, 0.15, 0.09; runlevel 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Benchmark Run: Fri Dec 16 2011 09:28:01 - 09:55:55 1 CPU in system; running 1 parallel copy of tests Dhrystone 2 using register variables 6866146.8 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Double-Precision Whetstone 1106.4 MWIPS (8.9 s, 7 samples) Execl Throughput 1158.3 lps (29.9 s, 2 samples) File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 216521.7 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples) File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 64313.9 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples) File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 484847.9 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples) Pipe Throughput 415095.2 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Pipe-based Context Switching 39523.2 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Process Creation 1919.4 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples) Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 2157.3 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples) Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 249.4 lpm (60.1 s, 2 samples) System Call Overhead 496968.9 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) System Benchmarks Index Values BASELINE RESULT INDEX Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 6866146.8 588.4 Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 1106.4 201.2 Execl Throughput 43.0 1158.3 269.4 File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 3960.0 216521.7 546.8 File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1655.0 64313.9 388.6 File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 5800.0 484847.9 835.9 Pipe Throughput 12440.0 415095.2 333.7 Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 39523.2 98.8 Process Creation 126.0 1919.4 152.3 Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 2157.3 508.8 Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 249.4 415.7 System Call Overhead 15000.0 496968.9 331.3 ======== System Benchmarks Index Score 334.9