Russell from AlienVPS emailed me their “Fail sale”, which can also be found on this WHT offer. Quite a few low end packages there. For example,
- OpenVZ Abduction — $14/year
- 190MB memory/220MB vswap
- 19GB storage
- 190GB/month data transfer on 25Mbps
- Order Las Vegas, Order New York
- Xen Abduction — $24/year
- 190MB memory/220MB swap
- 9GB storage
- 190GB/month data transfer on 25Mbps
- Order Las Vegas, Order New York
- Warp 1 — $4/month
- 512MB memory/512MB vswap
- 20GB storage
- 500GB/month data transfer on 50Mbps
- Order Las Vegas, Order New York
Use promo code low. That’s $5/year cheaper than their previous OpenVZ Abduction and Xen Abduction offers. Personally I have a $19/year 190MB OpenVZ VPS (which doesn’t even have vswap) with them in Las Vegas. The connectivity was a bit flaky a week or two ago but it has been quite stable since they upgraded their network.
Las Vegas test IP: 208.93.153.101. New York test IP: 199.167.194.101. Payment with credit card or your PayPal account. AlienVPS/AlienLayer is part of webRulon which has been around since 2006.
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raid server?
yes RAID 10.. but then again, it doesn’t matter in my case.. there is no IO going on inside my VPS.. it’s either the other VMs or the network lag that is paralyzing mine.
just typing inside a shell is frustratingly slow.. without even executing something
stay away from it.. it’s really a waste of time and money.
Hi Luc, I am sorry that you have had issues with your VPS. I do see that you have put in cancellation for your VPS. I wish that you would of contacted us sooner and told us that you were having issues. We have never received any support tickets or correspondence from you. We have over 25 different VPS nodes so we could of moved you to a different node or done other troubleshooting on your VPS if you were having performance issues.
I had the smallest web sites one can have. I erased everything and now have an usable empty server with no application. It’s so saturated that just doing directory browsing in a shell is a pain. Ever heard about monitoring tools? instead of switching me over while I continue wasting money on something that never worked.
At first, I thought it was hitting a normal spike, but it turned out to be like that everyday.
We have plenty of monitoring tools in place. There are many reasons your VPS could of been running slow that would not show up on our monitoring. If we don’t know that you are having an issue how are we supposed to fix?
If you are looking to resolve specific issues regarding your VPS instead of complaining about it in a public forum you might want to consider submitting a support ticket.
I usually open a ticket when something good goes wrong. When something bad goes wrong, I prefer noticing someone else before they get caught like I did.
I do have to admit that I’m currently very frustrated in general with web hosting companies. I think that you’re right about your point, I should have opened a ticket. I monitored the last 3 days and haven’t observed a problem with it. My past bad experiences are coming to my mind every time I see a problem and probably over-reacted because of this
so if you’re reading this, you should make a decision by yourself and try it if it suits you.
I apologize if my posts were rude or aggressive.
Russell, that answer was a bit disingenuous… there is someone on WHT who has been posting about this issue incessantly as I’m sure you know, and LEA and I also both encountered it and discussed it upthread. Your network is very fast most of the time, but periodically gets wedged and encounters massive packet loss. I’m not running any sort of monitoring tools other than leaving an ssh window open and typing into it now and then, but if you’re paying any attention to network ops at all, then you must know more about this than we mere onlookers do.
This is true, I used to have a vps with them (@vegas) and canceled it because of network issue, packet lost almost at the same hour everyday, this network issue was really obvious for me because i use the vps for openvpn.
This has not been an issue since we’ve upgraded our network in the beginning of October. If anyone is still having a network issue please contact us as we heavily monitor our network and have not seen this massive packet loss for quite some time now..unless there is a large DDOS which is normally filtered out after a few minutes.
Russell, please see the comments of myself and others including this one, from Oct 25:
http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/alienvps-14year-190mb-openvz-vps-in-las-vegas-or-new-york/#comment-51176
Paul, this was due to a DDOS attack and reported on the AlienLayer announcements page:
http://www.alienlayer.com/clients/announcements.php?id=9
Can’t read it as the bar you have along the bottom takes over the screen and there’s no way to dismiss it.
At least put a close X in there to get rid of it.
My bad, I do apologize.
I encourage any reader to skip my current comments as I didn’t even contact technical support and I should have did that in the first place instead of being vocal on this site.
LV9 openvz
Vegas node is down again..
My lv9 vps is still up (37 days now), though I haven’t been monitoring its network connectivity. I do notice that its connection speed varies widely, but it’s always been higher than advertised.
lv9 is also up for me. 38 days uptime now.
https://vps.alienvps.com:5353/ is down now, doesn’t look too good.
Hi Mike, it is not down you are trying to access using https from the non-ssl port (5353).
For SSL access please visit: https://vps.alienvps.com:5656/
FYI – We will be getting a signed certificate for the VPS control panel this week.
NY6 seems to be down or unreachable.
Well I guess the node was ok. My VPS was down (I have no idea why) but I was able to boot it through the control panel. I would have expected it to autoreboot if it had crashed. It looks like it shut down on November 20 and there were a lot of failed ssh login attempts (I guess that is normal) up til then. I wonder if openssh can lock out IP’s after a few failed password guesses.
Meanwhile, LV9’s disk now seems to be full. I’m using about 12gb of the 19gb alotted, but am getting out-of-space errors.
My support ticket for the above was answered in 6 minutes–apparently a system process had gotten out of control. It’s fixed now.
Hello,The disk on this server is still hiavng problem fsck has not fixed the issue. The disk read speed is very low due to which we are not even able to rsync the data from this node to a new node. We are in process of restoring all the vps on new node from Sun 18th backup. If any client has any issue with data, they can contact us.Regards,SAM R