One of the LowEndBox “Hien” forwarded me an email from 123Systems that was intended for existing subscribers. They are restocking some old offers including some cheap annual billing deals.
- Linux-128-Yearly
- 128MB memory
- 5GB storage
- 250GB/month data transfer
- $10/year — Direct signup link
Throw in $5 more and you can get a plan that’s much more useful with burstable memory.
- Linux-192-Yearly
- 192MB guaranteed/384MB burstable memory
- 10GB storage
- 500GB/month data transfer
- $15/year — Direct signup link
For their OpenVZ VPS plans with 512MB memory or more, you can also use coupon code STOCK0 to get 40% off recurring discount when you pay annually. For example 512MB OpenVZ plan would be $43.20/year after the discount.
Servers with Limestone Networks in Dallas TX I believe. 123Systems has been in business for almost 2 years and have lots of offers previously listed here.
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For signup instructions on 123Systems.Net I would HIGHLY recommend you read this thread: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1107422
Welcome to 123Systems, we will have no functional nodes, 1x WHMCS license, some photos of a random data center we call ours, and will ignore all tickets after you have paid. Should you encounter any problems Andrew will be more than obliging to help under 1 of 10 different alter-egos in WHMCS. If there’s anything else you need help with please don’t hesitate to open a ticket, we will ensure it is closed without a response!”
LOL, I saw that thread on WHT and while I was reading LEA’s post, I was thinking what if someone posts that URL from WHT and there you go.
I agreed with you back in November/beginning of December. But since then I have had almost 100% uptime and no other problems. I was even so pleased that my box was up and running good I bought a second one (the $15/y in Dallas). It is also pretty darn good.
LOL. I have just paid for my second month billing, and I regret my hasty decision. Today my VPS is totally off! :(
What node are you on?
My node is VZ70DLTX. I have to wait for more than 12 hours to have it fixed, and it’s working now. It’s better than no maintenance at all, but I have to rethink to use this service if I want to use this vps for a critical business. I think I want to give a try for another month.
A critical business must not be hosted in a $10 per year VPS ¬_¬
yups, I hosted my business on linode :) cheap vps for backing up and another small project.
That’s true. I should look for another more reliable vps. At this time when I was writing this reply, I was also checking my node. And, guess what, it’s down again!
And it’s not 10 $ per year that I chose. It’s 3 $ per month plan. And it sucks. >.<
i have vps from them…
really good services
i submitted only one ticket but they responded within 4 hrs .. i am from India.
Seriously if anyone paying $10/yr shouldn’t complain much. There is always the option to dispute via Paypal.
Occasional downtime on certain nodes but otherwise pretty decent for personal proxy and some very light webserver/sql load. I’m on the 256/512M plans not 128 though.
I agree: you want to pay almost nothing, you get what you pay for…
I disagree. If you cannot deliver what you’re offering, simply don’t offer it.
+1
No, PayPal’s dispute rules for intangibles mean that unless you get someone who doesn’t know what they’re doing you’re not getting your money back that way.
I have 1 chicago VPS with good uptime & performance, 3x $15/year Dallas for testing & web proxy and a $10/year Dallas for my dns.
I had a $10/month Dallas, but unfortunately the CPU power & I/O cannot cope with the beefy RAM, so no matter how I tweak it, the performance is not as expected, so I just dropped it and I just stick to the low end packages.
Likewise. I’ve been quite happy with the performance of my two VMs in Chicago. Then again, they’re smaller VMs, and I’m not trying to run Minecraft or mine CPU bitcoins or something intensive like that, but, still… good network, good uptime, good price. Dallas might be a very different experience, I dunno…
Out of stock already….
I’ve had a $10 VPS from 123systems for nearly a year now and the service has been mediocre at best. I/O is fast at times but horrible during some hours. Tickets are closed with no response on a regular basis and support is about as rude as it gets.
The only thing that makes this worth keeping is the price and datacenter locations. It’s hard to find a VPS located in Dallas (or most anywhere else, for that matter) near this price.
no test ip?
If you review the post, this isn’t an official offer made by 123systems, it’s one that was forwarded to LowEndAdmin by a current clients of theirs.
Please give these a try:
http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/123systems-4-95-512mb-openvz-vps-in-dallas/#comment-36892
64.31.59.3
64.31.25.3
74.63.233.3
208.115.198.3
http://64.31.59.3/100mb.test
Why? I can`t even ping any of the address..
Bought 123systems 17/10/2011.
Nothing but downtime it was up for the first 10 days that i had it.
then:
I haven’t reboot it. I just left it.
I did pay for an extra 128MB which was like $5.95
[root@server ~]# free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 256 53 202 0 0 0 -/+ buffers/cache: 53 202 Swap: 0 0 0 [root@server ~]# [root@server ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync 16384+0 records in 16384+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 79.039 seconds, 13.6 MB/s [root@server ~]#Speedy I/O
Same thing happened to our VM. It was constantly rebooted without explanation.
I just leave it now.. waste of $16
Exactly. Yes, you get what you pay for, but you should at least get an explanation for $16, not be ignored…
Network sides nice though. 1gbps port :)!
skip 123 as will your money
i bought a vps from them for my blog, it works very well
so i decide continue using it and to buy another for my friends :]
We got a VPS from 123systems just to use for backups of backup nameservers (2nd layer of backups), and they were great until they insisted that we pre-pay for a year for a multiple month discount. After that, they (I actually think it’s only one guy named” Chris”) became awful. Trying to scam people I guess…It’s a shame considering how great they were prior to that. Always received a response within 5 minutes of opening a ticket, very polite staff, willing to help out in any situation, etc.
To elaborate:
We had a filesystem issue where our disk quota unexpectedly jumped to zero, and after opening up a ticket it was randomly closed 8 hours later without any response. Upon inquiring, we received this reply word for word: “This has been corrected for quite some time, you simply had to go check.” That’s not very good customer service…in addition, the problem seemed to have been corrected at least 5 hours after we opened the ticket. Now of course we inquired about this, and once again the ticket was simply closed without a response.
We ignored it, as this isn’t a critical VPS, and moved on. Well I decided to ask again about 2 months later. Just like before, they closed our ticket a few hours later and did not respond. At the same time, I also opened a ticket after noticing that our VPS appeared to be rebooting about every 10 days. Chris M (the same person who replies to every single ticket) replied: “It appears the container is online now, if you have any further problems then let us know. In the future try to open tickets within 24 hours of the incident.” Again, pretty terrible customer service…the current status of the ticket is “Postponed.” Not quite sure what that means…
Already moved our business elsewhere. We wouldn’t have put up with this had it been something we actually thought we would need.
Yes, you can’t expect much for such low prices, but it’s still money wasted if you are only using it for non-critical purposes like we were. Glad we didn’t spend any more money on it then we did. In addition, these people (or person) are/is clearly just a scam. I really don’t want to see people waste their money on scams, whether it’s $10 or $1000.
I’ve always questioned their attempts at a $10/y VPS on a 100% rented platform. The VM’s must be sold simply as float for the month and not as something to actually make a profit on.
Mark,
It’s probably RAID 1 config with 500 VM’s / node.. Poor attempt of “Budget VPS’s”
They need to take a page out of BuyVM’s / Hostigation’s book!
at 9MB/sec it sure comes off as that…
I doubt you could pull at a full 100mbit/sec w/o blowing out the “RAID”
Well I’m shocked if they don’t even have S/W RAID :facepalm:
Try w/o the /dev/null since it’s going to memory with that :P
AMAZING SPEEEEEEEEED
the reboot issue has stopped for me.
Did you initiate the reboots on Jan 15 and February 17? I am assuming no because we signed up on December 24th and have every reboot you do, plus extras. Isn’t that still a problem?
http://screensnapr.com/e/8K8wq7.jpg
Is what i’ve done with it..
This is a waste of time and money, if pay this guy he wont reply a single ticket. all i need this guy to do install the addon that i paid for, they wont even take a look at the ticket even after 48hrs. PATHETIC
do install the addon that i paid for.
I got the extra 128MB ram after approx 36 hours.
[root@server ~]# uptime
16:51:11 up 23 min, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
[root@server ~]#
YAY Mine’s just been rebooted again!
They suck. If you order something with add-ons you have to log a ticket to have the add-ons applied. That is if he tickets do not misteriously dissapear. The speed at times is very back. You type a letter and it takes 3 seconds to appear on screen. Very frustrating.
YAi! worst results ever
None of the inquiries was answered. Had AmEx to cancel the transaction. They are that bad.
I have had a VPS with them for a year now. So far I have liked them for the cost but tickets take a long time to get fixed if its support/technical related. But it looks like either speed stepping or they have been taking away cpu core resources by lowering the clock speed.
===============================================
CPU model : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5620 @ 2.40GHz
Number of cores : 2
CPU frequency : 1200.042 MHz
Total amount of ram : 1088 MB
Total amount of swap : 0 MB
System uptime : 3 days, 23:38,
Download speed : (63.2MB/s)
I/O speed : 93.2MB/s
===============================================
Does anyone know why the model doesn’t match the clock rate?
I have some useless boxes which, checked from my own server, are down for days.
Not sure what’s going on with them.
123systems.net is thief and liar.
I have a vps from them .i don’t work with it but after 5 day say :
Exploit blacklisting on your IP address .
f-u-c-k it
Me too. Not sure if it’s VPS’ config that leaked the exploit or something wrong with the provider?
It’s the first time I got this kind of suspension.
BAD experience with 123systems.net
i buy 123systems.net Linux-192-Yearly plan few month ago
and i just put my website to the vps few days ago
3 days ago i got an email, they suspended my vps
This is a notification that your service has now been suspended. The details of this suspension are below:
Quote:
Product/Service: Linux-192-Yearly
Domain: 123
Amount: $15.00 USD
Due Date: 14/01/2013
Suspension Reason: Malware domain reported to be hosted on your account:
Please contact us as soon as possible to get your service reactivated.
and then i post ticket to them, they CLOSE MY TICKET AND HAVE NO ANY RESPONSE
Quote:
please re-enable my vps let me remove the website.
i have other website on the vps, i submit ticket and have no response.
i promise fix the problem in 10 hours after you re-enable my vps, and promise it would not happen again.
thank you.
now , i just want to get my website data
but they did not reply me about that, just close my ticket
BTW: my website is NOT software download related website, just my blog.
Sad situation
But here surely you won’t get any help.
So, try to spam them with enough tickets…
i have 3 vps with them. so far so good.
support also fast enough for a very cheap vps.
My review about them:
http://www.96mb.com/96mb-low-end-vps-review-part-49-123-systems-192mb-yearly/
I guess I do not need to go around and dig out how many bad reviews there is for them, and I am not saying they are perfect, however for what I have paid (15USD a year), I think it served well as a backup box.
I know this isn’t 123systems tech support, but a bit of public exposure sometimes does wonders.
Does anyone have any idea of how long it normally takes for the add-ons to be applied to the VPS? I was expecting 48-72 hours but right now I’ve been waiting for almost two weeks after paying (obviously).
I was reasonably happy with my 192MB special, after all for USD15 a year it worked and the uptime wasn’t that bad. But the complete lack of any tech support is annoying.
And yeah…if you start a support ticket with them, you’ll pretty much be talking to yourself.
Also, I guess a Paypal dispute won’t do much good as those aren’t tangible goods, am I right?
Sorry for the off-topic post, I know those are annoying.
anyone tried it with openvpn access server?
I just will use it with another person is it good for me?
No.
openvpn access server error:
iptables service not started because of error (SVC_RUN_EXCEPT)
Thanks for telling me
this is TUN/TAP problem I think
TUN/TAP may be enabled. Some kernel modules missed.
Well i have to say that 123systems has defiantly gone down hill since i joined them a year ago.. One vps has been of line for over a week now and every support ticket has mysteriously vanished from their support system. Have even emailed Andrew direct and he has not replied to to two emails.. Wish i had not renewed with them a couple of weeks ago.
No Support! My ticket are removed without answer. Questions are ignored more than 10 days.
Try again.
And again.
And again.
:)
I’m tired already, no chance.
Total disappointment.
After their last “OUTAGE” which they had.
Said that there will be a temp server for all affected clients.
Waited one month and gave up.
TOTAL DISAPPOINTMENT….
Will NEVER deal with 123systems EVER AGAIN.
> ANGRY <
beware of 123systems
they directly shutting down vps without any warnings
Now they are sending invoice for canclled service
Lowcost but this a bulls*it vps…
if unfortunately you have a DDos attack your server is nullrouted for 24 hours…
Iptables modules are disabled… so you can’t secure your self
and support is very very slow… you can get your vps after 1 week if you make a new command… 1 to 2 days to get a response if you ask the support… for 5 tickets >> 0 resolved…
pannel disabled for a time 0 exploit… a big bullsh*t hoster ! as custumer am very disappointed.
Been with them for 3 years now. Had a few outages but not much to speak of until now. Server went down in the beginning of July with no explanation. Filed a ticket and eventually got a reply they are moving the container to their other data center and that I will receive a mail with a new IP-address. Now it’s 4 weeks later and August since server went down and no mail in sight. But they dare to send an invoice and expect me to pay for no service at all. I’m afraid I will take my business elsewhere.