Via this offer from WHT. Enotch Networks, part of NY based Enotch Technologies, has now introduced a few cheap OpenVZ based virtual servers. Starting from $5.95/month you get
- 512MB guaranteed/1024MB burstable memory
- 20GB storage
- 2000GB/month data transfer
- OpenVZ
Servers are in New York. Very cheap (Cogent) traffic. The cheapest plan is actually not listed on their plan page, but once you head down to the cart you’ll see it there.
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This is a really good offer, I’m looking for a 512 MB VPS to run tomcat lately. Are Enotch Networks any good? They reliable?
Nodes oversold?
Does they have only monthly prepaid? I didnt find more
It says “Get our Hades plan with 512 Dedicated Ram burstable to 1GB for 5.95 – First Month Only. Use coupon code ‘Take5Off’.” — So, I assume this is one month only.
The price is tempting, but the attitude of their customer service rep and their level of tech knowledge seem a bit scary…
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=887375
Trying this service out and it seems to be a good deal. However one day after setting things up, it rebooted on me… my other VPS on Slicehost has been up for 614 days. Also the admin page for the VPS is really slow sometimes.
A great pipe for people on the East Coast, though.
Re: The WHT thread. I’m not going to read through all 21 pages but with comments like “I’ve lost $500 in 24 hours!” it really sounds like the “clients” (and I have to wonder if many of them were actually clients) are the ones who don’t have a clue. On page 10 of that thread, the tech explains what the procedure is and they were updating on twitter as they went.
And who the heck makes $500 a day on a website but doesn’t keep a backup?
LEB, how about an article on making backups with a low end VPS without a control panel?
Yeah, I would second drmike.
Seems like they had a serious meltdown, which equals pissed off customers. After a shaky start a few days ago (slow account admin site, early server reboot, choppy terminal connection) everything seems to be coming together. For the price, I really can’t complain, getting 512/1024 burstable for $6 a month. Plus, as I mentioned before, you can’t beat the speed if you’re on the East Coast.
Of course they may have had their backup servers on publicly accessible IP addresses. I know I did when I first started out.
And I have to admit that I reboot my servers once a month. *shrug* Personal preference and rules of the datacenter. Should be checking for kernel updates anyway.
I’m glad it’s working out for you, Colin.
they have added annually pay – $50,95
less then bust.net – $59,5 for similar plan
The performance of Burst.net is pretty poor. It seems that Enotch is much faster.
Personally I’ll take the ‘reviews’ (or most of the time, ‘whinges’) on WHT with a grain of salt. If you are looking out for a NY based VPS it’s certainly at a very good price. After the boxvps incident though I am very hesitant to prepay for an entire year unless it has out standing reviews.
I have already made one month payment to give Enotch a try.
gomobi, have you more comments about Enotch?
I am a little bit disappointed about the UnixBench score of Enotch (around 40 for Hades VPS).
But it’s not a big surprise for this kind low price VPS.
gomobi can you post the bench? ive ordered one, only going to be using it for backups & a vpn so not that concerned but would still be nice to see where the bottlenecks are
Actually, I got my box so… my results [hades]
BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 4.1-wht.2) System -- Linux *.*.* 2.6.18-128.2.1.el5.028stab064.8 #1 SMP Fri Nov 6 12:26:59 MSK 2009 i686 GNU/Linux /dev/simfs 20480000 1534564 18945436 8% / Start Benchmark Run: Sat Jan 30 08:28:26 MSK 2010 08:28:26 up 1:14, 1 user, load average: 0.07, 0.02, 0.13 End Benchmark Run: Sat Jan 30 08:44:36 MSK 2010 08:44:36 up 1:30, 1 user, load average: 16.74, 6.45, 3.06 INDEX VALUES TEST BASELINE RESULT INDEX Dhrystone 2 using register variables 376783.7 14876615.5 394.8 Double-Precision Whetstone 83.1 1004.9 120.9 Execl Throughput 188.3 5288.9 280.9 File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 2672.0 130055.0 486.7 File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1077.0 50262.0 466.7 File Read 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 15382.0 999172.0 649.6 Pipe-based Context Switching 15448.6 329769.3 213.5 Pipe Throughput 111814.6 2182333.6 195.2 Process Creation 569.3 14766.9 259.4 Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 44.8 1311.6 292.8 System Call Overhead 114433.5 1797335.3 157.1 ========= FINAL SCORE 284.4Not too shabby, especially at that price.
Strange… I don’t understand why my score is much much lower than yours.
BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 4.1-wht.2) System -- Linux server.zebrababe.com 2.6.18-128.2.1.el5.028stab064.8 #1 SMP Fri Nov 6 12:26:59 MSK 2009 i686 GNU/Linux /dev/simfs 20480000 554200 19925800 3% / Start Benchmark Run: Sat Jan 30 11:17:00 MSK 2010 11:17:00 up 1 day, 11:36, 1 user, load average: 0.27, 0.06, 0.02 End Benchmark Run: Sat Jan 30 11:37:40 MSK 2010 11:37:40 up 1 day, 11:57, 1 user, load average: 16.71, 6.68, 3.27 INDEX VALUES TEST BASELINE RESULT INDEX Dhrystone 2 using register variables 376783.7 2395081.8 63.6 Double-Precision Whetstone 83.1 481.9 58.0 Execl Throughput 188.3 712.4 37.8 File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 2672.0 54692.0 204.7 File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1077.0 13181.0 122.4 File Read 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 15382.0 264968.0 172.3 Pipe Throughput 111814.6 433504.3 38.8 Pipe-based Context Switching 15448.6 73475.7 47.6 Process Creation 569.3 1662.2 29.2 Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 44.8 174.9 39.0 System Call Overhead 114433.5 357032.4 31.2 ========= FINAL SCORE 60.5If I had a UnixBench score as Scotty, I would be very happy to stay with Enotch. But now I prefer Virpus with 1$/m higher price for a double score
BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 4.1-wht.2) System -- Linux vsxvps 2.6.18-128.2.1.el5.028stab064.7 #1 SMP Wed Aug 26 15:47:1 7 MSD 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux /dev/simfs 26214400 4450524 21763876 17% / Start Benchmark Run: Sat Jan 30 12:01:28 MSK 2010 12:01:28 up 1 day, 12:51, 1 user, load average: 0.05, 0.01, 0.00 End Benchmark Run: Sat Jan 30 12:13:44 MSK 2010 12:13:44 up 1 day, 13:03, 1 user, load average: 15.56, 6.28, 2.81 INDEX VALUES TEST BASELINE RESULT INDEX Dhrystone 2 using register variables 376783.7 5214621.9 138.4 Double-Precision Whetstone 83.1 1007.0 121.2 Execl Throughput 188.3 2681.1 142.4 File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 2672.0 62963.0 235.6 File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1077.0 22432.0 208.3 File Read 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 15382.0 476827.0 310.0 Pipe-based Context Switching 15448.6 192459.3 124.6 Pipe Throughput 111814.6 695744.3 62.2 Process Creation 569.3 6703.9 117.8 Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 44.8 392.9 87.7 System Call Overhead 114433.5 1031036.1 90.1 ========= FINAL SCORE 134.6Strange indeed; some variation sure, that much…
Not overly impressed with the ticket support, opened one 8 hours ago to get tun enabled, response in 3 tun not actually enabled and no further response from support.
Can’t control the vps via the cp either, it’s teh borked (was working).
Unfortunately, this is only for the first month, it’s 10.95 monthly after that….
Z – actually it’s not, read the wht thread; price is going up 1st of March though (to 10.95).
Yeah just saw it, guess their cart wasn’t clear enough.
In fact, I also submitted support ticket to enable TUN and the my problem was solved in a few hours.
Maybe it was slower for Scotty because of weekend
Well in all honesty it was enabled I just wasn’t advised I’d have to create the device myself; every other vps I have has done this for me, I just assumed (oops!) wrongly that I COULDN’T create it; I’m new to this openvz thing (xen background).
Could have been more clearly communicated, possibly just bad timing. Anyway, network speeds rock, box itself feels quite snappy, only other disappointment was lack of a debian 5 minimal template but I can live with a bit of housekeeping.
My Enotch-[hades]
BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 4.1-wht.2) System -- Linux 2.6.18-128.2.1.el5.028stab064.8 #1 SMP Fri Nov 6 12:26:59 MSK 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux /dev/simfs 20480000 606228 19873772 3% / Start Benchmark Run: Tue Feb 2 11:06:18 11:06:18 up 7:36, 2 users, load average: 0.72, 0.55, 0.25 End Benchmark Run: Tue Feb 2 11:41:49 11:41:49 up 8:11, 1 user, load average: 17.88, 6.23, 3.20 INDEX VALUES TEST BASELINE RESULT INDEX Dhrystone 2 using register variables 376783.7 15616633.7 414.5 Double-Precision Whetstone 83.1 1266.4 152.4 Execl Throughput 188.3 4343.2 230.7 File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 2672.0 190246.0 712.0 File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1077.0 65488.0 608.1 File Read 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 15382.0 1112855.0 723.5 Pipe-based Context Switching 15448.6 243444.8 157.6 Pipe Throughput 111814.6 2461296.6 220.1 Process Creation 569.3 12340.4 216.8 Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 44.8 784.7 175.2 System Call Overhead 114433.5 2052008.7 179.3 ========= FINAL SCORE 286.7It seems I had a bad luck to get much lower UnixBench score than Scotty and Bob.
Maybe there is someone using too much resources on the server that host my VPS.
As the burstable RAM I can use decreases from 1GB to 600M now…
Just for fun.
I run UnixBench 4.1 on notebook with Intel Celeron 2.16 GHz, 1GB mem, SATA 2.5″ disk
Got 150
( GNOME was runnning, I guess it’s not typical for web server :-) )
Hmm.. is it just me or are they extremely slow most of the time ?
When I do a yum update (in centos) its goes into “sleep” mode.. its soooooooooo slow. Weird.
But their support is somehow fast and friendly (if you get Matt that is.. )
Gomobi – I had the same issue with the burst, raise a ticket; I didn’t get an explanation but they did fix it.
And they suffer from really bad disk performance / low priority.. But I knew there would be a catch with that pricetag :)
plan on cancelling mines. I just notice my ram went to 512mb so there’s no burst again.
david did you open the support ticket with them?
I did open the support ticket and they reset the memory limit for me.
i’m very happy to use Enotch VPS. Hope in future they give us good service.
hello
orderd the hades vps 2 days ago payed it instantly
but still Pending….
i wonder whats wrong
Hi, there.
Just see this post before buy from Enotch : http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/enotch-networks-4-47-512mb-openvz-vps/#comment-6910
Because you should first know the truth, then buy the service from them.
I can not recommend Enotch to anyone.
The quality of the VPS is total crap compared to Slicehost, Linode and yisp.nl. Adding support tickets is cumbersome (root password required? a CAPTCHA?), support is slow in replying.