Via this WHT offer. We have previously covered TOCICI‘s VPS product. It looks like they have completely revamped their virtual server page, and is now hosting on its own site — BuildYourVPS.com. The model has also changed. Instead of listing out plans, it let you mix ‘n’ match options such as bandwidth, RAM, disk and type of IP connection to come out a final price. So if you choose the cheapest options…
- 16MB burstable memory
- 0.5GB storage
- 1GB/month data transfer
- Nginx Accelerated Shared IP
And it would come out to only $0.75/month! The servers are in Portland OR, and it uses OpenVZ (no control panel AFAIK).
What you can use it for is another interesting question. 16MB burstable might mean you can’t even system level utilities such as apt-get to install/update software. You can probably burn through 1GB of data transfer from just the “noise” on the line. 500MB of disk space is barely enough for the base OS install. Glorified shell account with root access? You don’t even own a public IP.
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Thanks everyone for the positive and honest feedback. Our primary focus has always been to provide stable, fast, secure and predictable VPS hosting services, that are backed by prompt, transparent and friendly communications. I’m very happy to see our internal business processes & goals so accurately reflected regularly in feedback.
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Its good for websites, but not for minecraft. I have a minecraft server with 4 GB of RAM and 45 plugins, with 500 MB RAM free its lagging a lot. We have 50 players connected and I get 5 tps. Definitely not worth it for servers over 20 players
I have to point out that I chose the dedicated server package with Centos 5 64 bit. Its coming to around 46 dlls a month
3.5 years after the last post, I have a review.
This company is apparently “running” completely unattended. I purchased a VPS through buildyourvps.com (owned and operated by TOCICI) and it was “set up” on a node that was completely down – unroutable – not just my VPS but the entire node.
Two support requests and a request for refund have gone unanswered. I am disputing the transaction. I do not recommend TOCICI. RamNode Seattle has better ping times from Portland and far better features anyway.