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123Systems - $10/Year 128MB OpenVZ VPS in Dallas

123Systems 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/yearDirect 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/yearDirect 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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  1. 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!”

    January 4, 2012 @ 7:56 am | Reply
    • 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.

      January 4, 2012 @ 3:09 pm | Reply
    • Legendlink:

      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.

      January 4, 2012 @ 8:38 pm | Reply
    • Widio:

      LOL. I have just paid for my second month billing, and I regret my hasty decision. Today my VPS is totally off! :(

      February 24, 2012 @ 3:18 am | Reply
      • Jack:

        What node are you on?

        February 24, 2012 @ 3:20 am | Reply
        • Widio:

          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.

          February 25, 2012 @ 1:30 pm | Reply
      • A critical business must not be hosted in a $10 per year VPS ¬_¬

        February 25, 2012 @ 3:23 pm | Reply
        • tommy:

          yups, I hosted my business on linode :) cheap vps for backing up and another small project.

          February 25, 2012 @ 3:59 pm | Reply
        • Widio:

          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!

          February 25, 2012 @ 10:16 pm | Reply
        • Widio:

          And it’s not 10 $ per year that I chose. It’s 3 $ per month plan. And it sucks. >.<

          February 28, 2012 @ 2:55 am | Reply
  2. lookingbad:

    i have vps from them…
    really good services
    i submitted only one ticket but they responded within 4 hrs .. i am from India.

    January 4, 2012 @ 3:49 pm | Reply
  3. Arthur:

    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.

    January 4, 2012 @ 4:40 pm | Reply
    • Bob:

      I agree: you want to pay almost nothing, you get what you pay for…

      January 4, 2012 @ 4:45 pm | Reply
      • Freek:

        I disagree. If you cannot deliver what you’re offering, simply don’t offer it.

        January 4, 2012 @ 10:22 pm | Reply
    • lbft:

      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.

      January 4, 2012 @ 4:56 pm | Reply
  4. 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.

    January 4, 2012 @ 8:54 pm | Reply
    • snape:

      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…

      January 4, 2012 @ 9:09 pm | Reply
  5. Lidador:

    Out of stock already….

    January 5, 2012 @ 1:58 am | Reply
  6. Mike Hat:

    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.

    January 5, 2012 @ 10:17 am | Reply
  7. no test ip?

    January 6, 2012 @ 1:27 pm | Reply
  8. Jack:

    Bought 123systems 17/10/2011.

    Nothing but downtime it was up for the first 10 days that i had it.

    then:

    [root@server ~]# last | grep reboot
    reboot   system boot  2.6.18-274.7.1.e Wed Jan  4 00:59         (11+12:10)
    reboot   system boot  2.6.18-274.7.1.e Thu Dec 29 17:47         (16+19:22)
    reboot   system boot  2.6.18-274.7.1.e Tue Dec 27 22:14         (1+19:14)
    reboot   system boot  2.6.18-274.7.1.e Mon Dec 26 04:31         (1+17:27)
    reboot   system boot  2.6.18-274.3.1.e Wed Nov 23 02:34         (33+06:19)
    reboot   system boot  2.6.18-274.3.1.e Thu Nov 17 10:19         (38+22:34)
    reboot   system boot  2.6.18-274.3.1.e Mon Nov  7 06:58         (49+01:55)
    reboot   system boot  2.6.18-238.12.1. Sat Oct 29 05:07         (58+04:47)
    reboot   system boot  2.6.18-238.12.1. Thu Oct 27 05:29         (1+23:37)
    reboot   system boot  2.6.18-238.12.1. Thu Oct 27 05:29         (1+23:37)
    [root@server ~]# uptime
     13:12:24 up 11 days,  7:16,  1 user,  load average: 0.10, 0.07, 0.02
    [root@server ~]#
    

    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

    January 15, 2012 @ 10:20 am | Reply
    • Same thing happened to our VM. It was constantly rebooted without explanation.

      February 24, 2012 @ 2:15 am | Reply
      • Jack:

        I just leave it now.. waste of $16

        February 24, 2012 @ 2:51 am | Reply
        • Exactly. Yes, you get what you pay for, but you should at least get an explanation for $16, not be ignored…

          February 24, 2012 @ 2:53 am | Reply
  9. Jack:
    [root@server ~]# wget -O /dev/null cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
    --2012-01-15 13:20:51--  http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
    Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net... 205.234.175.175
    Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net|205.234.175.175|:80... connected.
    HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
    Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
    Saving to: `/dev/null'
    
    100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 31.4M/s   in 3.4s
    
    2012-01-15 13:20:59 (29.1 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]
    
    [root@server ~]#
    

    Network sides nice though. 1gbps port :)!

    January 15, 2012 @ 10:21 am | Reply
  10. skip 123 as will your money

    January 16, 2012 @ 12:34 am | Reply
  11. 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 :]

    February 2, 2012 @ 6:56 am | Reply
  12. 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.

    February 24, 2012 @ 2:14 am | Reply
    • 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.

      February 24, 2012 @ 2:56 am | Reply
      • Jack:

        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!

        February 24, 2012 @ 2:57 am | Reply
        • 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”

          February 24, 2012 @ 3:02 am | Reply
        • Jack:

          Well I’m shocked if they don’t even have S/W RAID :facepalm:

          [root@server ~]# wget -O /dev/null cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
          --2012-02-24 06:03:40--  http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
          Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net... 205.234.175.175
          Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net|205.234.175.175|:80... connected.
          HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
          Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
          Saving to: `/dev/null'
          
          100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 35.2M/s   in 2.8s
          
          2012-02-24 06:03:44 (35.2 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]
          
          [root@server ~]#
          
          February 24, 2012 @ 3:03 am | Reply
        • Try w/o the /dev/null since it’s going to memory with that :P

          February 24, 2012 @ 3:05 am | Reply
        • Jack:
          
          [root@server ~]# wget cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
          --2012-02-24 06:06:55--  http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
          Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net... 205.234.175.175
          Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net|205.234.175.175|:80... connected.
          HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
          Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
          Saving to: `100mb.test'
          
          100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 20.5M/s   in 5.5s
          
          2012-02-24 06:07:00 (18.2 MB/s) - `100mb.test' saved [104857600/104857600]
          
          [root@server ~]#
          
          February 24, 2012 @ 3:07 am | Reply
  13. Jack:
     [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, 116.748 seconds, 9.2 MB/s
    [root@server ~]#
    

    AMAZING SPEEEEEEEEED

     [root@server ~]# last | grep reboot
    reboot   system boot  2.6.18-274.7.1.e Fri Feb 17 04:21         (7+01:34)
    reboot   system boot  2.6.18-274.7.1.e Sun Jan 15 23:02         (39+06:54)
    reboot   system boot  2.6.18-274.7.1.e Wed Jan  4 00:59         (51+04:57)
    reboot   system boot  2.6.18-274.7.1.e Thu Dec 29 17:47         (56+12:08)
    reboot   system boot  2.6.18-274.7.1.e Tue Dec 27 22:14         (1+19:14)
    reboot   system boot  2.6.18-274.7.1.e Mon Dec 26 04:31         (1+17:27)
    reboot   system boot  2.6.18-274.3.1.e Wed Nov 23 02:34         (33+06:19)
    reboot   system boot  2.6.18-274.3.1.e Thu Nov 17 10:19         (38+22:34)
    reboot   system boot  2.6.18-274.3.1.e Mon Nov  7 06:58         (49+01:55)
    reboot   system boot  2.6.18-238.12.1. Sat Oct 29 05:07         (58+04:47)
    reboot   system boot  2.6.18-238.12.1. Thu Oct 27 05:29         (1+23:37)
    reboot   system boot  2.6.18-238.12.1. Thu Oct 27 05:29         (1+23:37)
    [root@server ~]#
    

    the reboot issue has stopped for me.

    February 24, 2012 @ 2:56 am | Reply
    • 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?

      February 24, 2012 @ 3:03 am | Reply
  14. Jack:

    http://screensnapr.com/e/8K8wq7.jpg

    Is what i’ve done with it..

    February 24, 2012 @ 3:08 am | Reply
  15. 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

    February 29, 2012 @ 5:43 pm | Reply
    • Jack:

      do install the addon that i paid for.

      I got the extra 128MB ram after approx 36 hours.

      February 29, 2012 @ 5:45 pm | Reply
  16. Jack:

    [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!

    February 29, 2012 @ 6:45 pm | Reply
  17. Joe Dimaggio:

    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.

    March 1, 2012 @ 6:17 pm | Reply
  18. YAi! worst results ever

    $ ./ioping .
    4096 bytes from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=1 time=2649.9 ms
    4096 bytes from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=2 time=1405.9 ms
    4096 bytes from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=3 time=6874.7 ms
    4096 bytes from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=4 time=457.2 ms
    4096 bytes from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=5 time=99.0 ms
    4096 bytes from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=6 time=462.9 ms
    4096 bytes from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=7 time=2490.7 ms
    4096 bytes from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=8 time=5438.0 ms
    4096 bytes from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=9 time=300.2 ms
    4096 bytes from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=10 time=2148.7 ms
    4096 bytes from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=11 time=1461.9 ms
    
    --- . (simfs /dev/simfs) ioping statistics ---
    11 requests completed in 34367.5 ms, 0 iops, 0.0 mb/s
    min/avg/max/mdev = 99.0/2162.6/6874.7/2086.0 ms
    
    March 2, 2012 @ 9:22 pm | Reply
  19. Joe Dimaggio:

    None of the inquiries was answered. Had AmEx to cancel the transaction. They are that bad.

    March 4, 2012 @ 9:55 pm | Reply
  20. Firefoxdude:

    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?

    March 19, 2012 @ 11:28 pm | Reply
  21. tinyray:

    I have some useless boxes which, checked from my own server, are down for days.
    Not sure what’s going on with them.

    March 26, 2012 @ 2:55 pm | Reply
  22. donsaeed:

    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

    March 30, 2012 @ 6:42 pm | Reply
    • KhuongComputer:

      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.

      April 11, 2012 @ 7:27 pm | Reply
  23. 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.

    May 19, 2012 @ 2:44 am | Reply
    • Yomero:

      Sad situation
      But here surely you won’t get any help.
      So, try to spam them with enough tickets…

      May 19, 2012 @ 5:24 am | Reply
  24. arsipen:

    i have 3 vps with them. so far so good.
    support also fast enough for a very cheap vps.

    May 31, 2012 @ 11:42 pm | Reply
  25. 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.

    June 3, 2012 @ 12:08 am | Reply
  26. MM:

    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.

    June 16, 2012 @ 3:22 pm | Reply
  27. rami:

    anyone tried it with openvpn access server?
    I just will use it with another person is it good for me?

    July 3, 2012 @ 12:07 am | Reply
    • Spec:

      No.
      openvpn access server error:
      iptables service not started because of error (SVC_RUN_EXCEPT)

      July 16, 2012 @ 8:37 am | Reply
      • rami:

        Thanks for telling me
        this is TUN/TAP problem I think

        July 16, 2012 @ 1:06 pm | Reply
        • Spec:

          TUN/TAP may be enabled. Some kernel modules missed.

          July 16, 2012 @ 4:47 pm | Reply
  28. Alan:

    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.

    July 4, 2012 @ 10:07 am | Reply
  29. Spec:

    No Support! My ticket are removed without answer. Questions are ignored more than 10 days.

    July 16, 2012 @ 8:34 am | Reply
    • Yomero:

      Try again.
      And again.
      And again.

      July 16, 2012 @ 1:47 pm | Reply
      • Spec:

        :)
        I’m tired already, no chance.

        July 16, 2012 @ 4:46 pm | Reply
  30. Darence:

    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 <

    September 23, 2012 @ 2:21 pm | Reply
  31. beware of 123systems
    they directly shutting down vps without any warnings

    October 7, 2012 @ 3:34 pm | Reply
  32. Now they are sending invoice for canclled service

    October 28, 2012 @ 8:16 pm | Reply
  33. scorpus:

    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.

    June 21, 2013 @ 8:21 am | Reply
  34. gobbo:

    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.

    August 8, 2013 @ 9:36 pm | Reply

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