Daniel from AvailableVPS emailed me yesterday (and chased up again today) about their special offer to LowEndBox readers. Here are the deals:
- 128MB guaranteed/512MB burstable memory
- 15GB storage
- 1000GB/month data transfer on 20Mbps
- OpenVZ/SolusVM
- $14/Year (Order Link)
- 256MB guaranteed/512MB burstable memory
- 25GB storage
- 1000GB/month data transfer on 50Mbps
- OpenVZ/SolusVM
- $30/Year (Order Link)
I know the first offer when you click through it actually says $12/year but 14 bucks is what I got in the email so I’ll stick that — just in case it is changed later. German servers with Hetzner, and according to previous post they are a sub-company of SetupLink. Domain registered for 3 months. Israeli operation.
UPDATES: As some might have voiced out in the comments, Available VPS might not have actual servers when they take your orders. The practise here seems to be getting all the pre-orders in first (which is never spelt out in the order form), before AvailableVPS order a dedicated server. IMHO in theory it is not too bad if the turn around is short, i.e. getting all the orders in, placing an order for dedicated server, getting everyone deployed in under 24 hours. However this can appear to be deceitful as most people would assume the provider already have the servers ready before taking orders. There is also no guarantee on the definite timeline when the order will be fulfilled — if ever at all.
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What is the different between guaranted and burst memory ?
Is burst memory as the totally memory that I will get ?
nice.
Seem like a lot providers inspired to offer yearly package at low price now..
how to test
test ip & test files?
I just signed up one VPS with them for a trial. It was USD$12/year. I get my VPS information instantly after the payment.
Is IPv6 available on this one?
Any test ip?
@LowEndAdmin – Is it 128MB guaranteed/512MB burstable memory or 128MB guaranteed/256MB burstable memory?
@Sei Kan – wait your review
@vRozenSch00n — 512MB burstable. See the plans at the bottom of their home page.
Lea, you got it all wrong, read there website it should be MB, not Mbps!!!
You get 200Mbps DEDICATED for 10c per day!!!
NOT!
@Tom — ha. I think I read their website wrong because 20MB network port just does not make sense to me :) It is talking about the size (megabytes) or throughput/bandwidth (megabits per second)?!
Sarcasm from my end :), clearly the owner has problems not only with English (if you see he’s replies), but also problems with simple math. That’s why even deal with this host, no matter how good the offer would be.
about the network port i will explane our server has 1GBPS we give to every vps small 128mb 20mbits that you can use 24/7 its limited you cant go more then that vps 256mb has 50mbits same 24/7 you can sue 50 mbits!!
this about that you can sell shoutcast servers :)
and i fixed the price to 14$ sorry well who order befoure now won 3$ :P
Can it be enabled tun/tap ?
Does it enough memory if I install kloxo ?
tun/tap yes
about kloxo i will check now in ther website its say min “At least 256 MB of RAM”
so you need vps256 (30/year)
@AvailableVPS admin, does it not enough with burst memory 512 MB ?
@ Beny you can use it but server will be on load you really want it? if you will do it dont open ticket and say that server going slow and other things
@Beny – My Kloxo only consume around 59MB-200MB, with tinydns, Apache, mod_php, perl, MySql, qmail with spamassassin. It serves 1 site with MySql and more than 10 low traffic sites using Sqlite2. If you use lighttpd, then it will reduce the memory consumption.
Kloxo runs well with 32bit OS, while the 64bit OS might need several manual tweaking and recompiling.
@vRozenSch00n, thank you very much, I will try it then.
We ordering new dedicated server now will be in 24h be aware that the coreect server have 5 slots avilable then who will order will need to wait manuly activation on new server
Hi, i’ve tried to push an order through the 14$ offer but ended at this page (https://clients.availablevps.com/index.php?cmd=cart) after entered my infos but before my credit card number.
I got no mails and my account is not active.
Thank you.
–Andrea
we got new server :)
also i got now email from softaculous about ther new vps panel http://www.virtualizor.com/
wanted to ask if clients will want this panel or solusvm?
Let’s share a bit about the VPS I got.
Speed Test:
Not bad :)
Let’s check the CPU:
Ops, it was only 753.427 MHz. Not sure how it performing. Let me post the benchmark result later.
well you get just 25% of one core or you expect for this price get 100% 1 core?
@AvailableAdmin Yes, I’m understood. I’m not complaining :)
also im wrong 25% its on 128mb, 256mb has 50% so if im right your vps 256mb becouse 50mbits internet conection
i got this email:
A vulnerability has been found in the Linux kernel, which unfortunately is just about every system running 64-bit Linux.
This vulnerability was introduced into the linux kernel in April 2008, and so essentially every distribution is affected, including RHEL (CentOS).
For the full story, follow these links:
http://blog.ksplice.com/2010/09/cve-2010-3081/
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-3081
How to protect yourself
We suggest you upgrade your system kernels as soon as possible, putting a higher priority on shared hosting servers is advised.
Most systems will simply upgrade via yum, however your datacentre may have a local yum repository, so the new kernels may not be available yet (This has been reported by a few users already). We suggest you add a standard CentOS mirror to your yum configuration file to overcome this situation.
OpenVZ have a patched kernel available in there yum repository (2.6.18-194.8.1.el5.028stab070.5) so a yum update should allow you to install the new kernel, if not, the kernel is available for download here: http://wiki.openvz.org/Download/kernel/rhel5/028stab070.5
CentOS also have a new kernel release that patches the vulnerability in the standard and Xen kernels (2.6.18-194.11.4.el5), which is available via yum also.
Please do not submit tickets about kernel upgrades. Use this following forum thread for help http://forum.soluslabs.com/showthread.php/1898-Please-Read!!-Linux-Kernel-Vulnerability
Regards
Soluslabs Ltd
So we will do update then restart to the servers today at GMT +2 00:00 night we also emalied all clients
@Tom. No offense, But your English is just as bad. I suggest you look at your self, before judging others.
Anyway, I ordered the $14 plan, and so far it’s stable and fast, I’m a happy customer.
To be fair Maller, Tom isn’t trying to project a professional image.
I don’t mind people who aren’t native English speakers having dodgy grammar or spelling, as long as I can understand what they’re trying to say.
I do wish more companies would get someone to check over their T&C though, some are painful to read, and really not clear about some things.
Some people are asking why we sell 20mbits or 50 mbits. This 20mbits and 50mbits is a dedicated line to your vps. The server has a 1GBPS line. we are carefully allocating this bandwidth to each client to keep the line from getting oversold.
Also, AvailableVPS works closely with hosting companies in the USA. As a result, we can provide English support to all of our clients. If you open a support ticket, or contact us on live chat – you will talk with our english speaking support staff.
thanks,
Dani
Is the 20mbit a hard limit, or is it the minimum you’re allocated? Can a VPS burst to gbit assuming the others aren’t using it?
looking at Sei Kan’s wget test it looks like it’s burstable.
Your website confuses me a little. There seems to be confusion between bit and byte, b and B, eg:
50MB dedicated – that’s megaByte, but there’s no way you’re doing 50MB dedicated for $5/month.
Also on another package you offer 500MB connections. I doubt you have a 10gbit server with only two VPS on it. :)
It’s more likely that it’s 50mbit dedicated (which is still very nice considering the cost).
You also offer daily payments. What is the minimum contract time on these packages? Could I pay 50c and try one of your servers out for a day?
Plan I-IIII – where are these servers located?
ok lets start :)
vps128 has limit 20mbits vps256 has 50 mbits
i know that its need to be fixed its mbits not MB also the packge you saw for 500MB its 500 mbits this wean the server has 1GBPS so tis mean as its say ther 2 clients per server
daily and weekly not have contracrt but you have to add 5$ credit as its say on website in big red letters
Plan I-IIII same in germany but another server they dont limited to mbits you get shared 100mbits for all clients on server the server has 100mbits dedicated
Sei Kan’s was order vps256 you can do upgraed in panel and get this if you use 128 :)
forgot to tell that plan II have also in NL
How did Sei Kan manage a wget at 55MB/sec if it’s hard limited to 50mbit/second? 55MB/sec is over 400mbit/sec.
Here is a clarification:
20mbit (2560 kb/s) 50mbit (6400 kb/s)
the line is limited, but can still fluctuate by small amounts +-5mbits
this is 2 pictures from solusvm:
http://tinyurl.com/2une6h2
http://tinyurl.com/32fxfgb
we limit this in solusvm
Sorry, you’re still wrong. 2560kb/s (kilobits/second) is 2.5mbit/second (megabits/second) and your quoted numbers for 50mbit is way off too. 20mbit is 20480kb/s.
Even if it fluctuates by 5mbit either way, it doesn’t explain Sei Kan’s 400mbit+ wget.
Maller, I’m not offended, I perfectly understand that, that’s why I’m not running a hosting business and not offering my services to English speaking customers!
I should clarify: I’m not nit-picking for the sake of it. I’m considering becoming a customer but right now all I see is a confusing website, a company run by someone who doesn’t know the difference between bits and bytes, and customer testimony (Sei Kan’s wget) that doesn’t tally with what the owner of the company says.
I’m not interested in fixed 20mbit or 50mbit, but if it’s burstable like Sei Kan says, that’s fine. If it’s not, how did he get that wget speed?
solusvm has bug in limitation look: http://forum.soluslabs.com/showthread.php/1368-Limit-network-bug
about sei kan’s I did not notice that its 55MB O_0 was thinking Mbits
Gary, well if its what you see good for you “a company run by someone who doesn’t know the difference between bits and bytes”
Well i will tell you few words about me, im in hosting from 13 years old today im 19 years old, im not some noob that dont know anything i was owner of big company in israel for 3 years but after that i closed becosue problem with israel clients that pay few dollars and want get all the world.
so i hope this answerd the 350k speed that sei got
I think you want too much for the price you pay, you dont want limit of port? for this price? you want 1GBPS? or 100Mbits? port no one will do this for you for this price unless he oversell
also some clients say that my price not nake sense that im overselling well im not 1 reason i dont do this for money! im doing this becosue i like this
Why does it matter from your point of view what speed a VPS can burst to if there is a monthly transfer limit?
Once your 1TB/month is used up, your VPS gets suspended whether that’s on the first day or the 30th day of the month.
Moving on from that, I see no reason why a VPS shouldn’t be able to burst to the full capacity of the connection, assuming none of the other VPS are using it.
I’m sure most providers do a certain amount of overselling, that’s fine with me. Not many people use the full capacity of their VPS 24/7. As long as it’s possible for me to use what I’ve paid for (in this case 128MB ram, 15GB drivespace and 1TB transfer) that’s fine with me. I can’t imagine how you can give 1TB of bandwidth a month for a little over $1, but maybe you know something I don’t.
I think I’m going to give it a try anyway. I’m sure I’ll be able to find a use for it, and it’s cheap enough that if it ends up to be awful I won’t lose any sleep over it. :)
i will explane you again image this ok
you buy vps with ni limit of speed but you not only one on the server right? so some one buy vps like you and use it for shoutcast or what every all the line for few minuts so if 1GBPS used all other vps servers are stuck right? in this case you open ticket and cry why the server slow or not working and if you do research oin WHT forum some times you see ppl open posts and say the server wasent down but the line wasnt working some times this happen becosue the reason i provided you here
Im sorry for my bad english here i writed this fast and didnt check for fix it but you will understand the catch and dont tell me that im wrong becouse i think now you will say im right
I understand why you’d ensure people get a minimum speed, but not why you’d impose an artificial maximum. I have several VPS where I can burst to 1gbps. Most virtualisation technologies ensure that no one VM can monopolise the host’s resources.
Lol you’ve got some wrong attitude going on “AvailableVPS admin”. See you in the dead pool in a few months.
I’m not sure if it’s a bad attitude, more a problem in translation. He’s at least willing to discuss these things with customers. :)
Better than a lot of VPS providers who have offers posted here but never actually pop in to speak to us, don’t answer support tickets etc…
I was not trying to give a bad attitude. I apologize if it seemed this way. We have had many clients abuse our generous offers, and we are just trying to explain that we must limit each vps to stop from overselling
@TOM:
“English speaking customers” doesn’t mean native English speakers.
So excuse us, if a person isn’t native English speaker, like some of his potential clients (LEB readers), doesn’t mean he can’t make offers here and doing business.
Remember RackVM and Ben Harper’s beautiful speech?
@GARY:
Let’s say, your box has 1gbps link, and you have 100 clients with no restriction.
If some client constantly abuses this box with some high traffic app, others may be in trouble.
That’s why Daniel gives everyone 20mbps guaranteed, but not burstable.
I assume Daniel’s boxes have 1gbps speed, and average of 50 clients in a box, so that makes the “20mbps” clear.
@PASCAL:
That was offensive, why so serious? :)
It’s a bad language IMAO.
@DANIEL (avaliablevps):
How can you guarantee the “1000GB/month data transfer”?
Sounds strange for me.
with 1GBPS link we have a large Bandwidth package from our datacenter.
I do this because servers are my life, :) money is not the problem here.
We can pay for more bw if need
I understand the concept of it, simplyfast, I’d just rather it was burstable. 20mbps is fine for what I’m going to use it for, I’d just have bought a few more if it were burstable. The virtualisation technology should ensure everyone gets their 20mbit as a minimum, even if someone else wants to use all the rest of the unused bandwidth available to the server.
If there are 50 clients on a box, and 49 of them are using 10mbit between them currently, the other customer should be able to burst to the full potential of the box. It’s not a problem for me, I’ll just keep my VPS where I need good speed with other providers.
@GARY:
“The virtualisation technology should ensure everyone gets their 20mbit as a minimum, even if someone else wants to use all the rest of the unused bandwidth available to the server.” – EXACTLY!
“If there are 50 clients on a box, and 49 of them are using 10mbit between them currently, the other customer should be able to burst to the full potential of the box” – You’re right, but what if “the other customer” doing this all the time?
I’ve also said “may” have troubles.
Daniel’s method guarantees you a “quiеt” neighbors.
Can someone please post any review?
I dont understand why you talking about 20mbits only? you have biger packge that you get 50mbits
I’ve been a customer for around an hour now, so it’s a little early for me to be reviewing them. Slight hiccup in the setup, but it was fixed very quickly. If all support tickets are sorted this quickly I’ll be a happy customer. Hopefully I won’t have to open any, but things go wrong with any host. How quickly they sort the problems is what matters.
To your previous point, if the 1 customer out of 50 does this all the time the virtualisation tech should start to throttle them, the same as it would with CPU usage or drive IO. Maybe a rolling window of an average of 20mbit. Use an average of more than 20mbit for an hour, and you’re throttled back to 20mbit or less for the rest of the 1 hour window.
So in an hour you can do, in theory, 421GB with a gbit port. Averaging 20mbit for an hour would give you 9GB. You could burst to full speed and use your 9GB in a few minutes, then be forced down to a normal speed, until the hour has rolled past.
On another VPS I burst to 200mbit/sec for a few times a day, but in the last 6 months I’ve used between 87GB and 119GB of transfer per month. I average around 0.3mbit/s on that box – it sits idle for most of the day – but the ability to burst to a few hundred mbit/sec is what made me choose that box for that job.
On this VPS I could average 10x that speed, but I wouldn’t be able to burst to 200mbit+ so it’s no good for that purpose.
I’m looking for another box to replace it though, since I use a quarter of the monthly transfer, 5% of the allotted ram and a third of the hard drive space I’m paying for. I got it half price for the first year, but when faced with the full yearly price, it’s nowhere near the bargain it was a year ago. The VPS market has become a lot more competitive.
Seem like a lot of disccusion going on when I’m sleeping.
FYI, I’m ordered 128MB package and I guess AvailaleVPS has fixed my download speed. The latest speed like as below:
wget -O /dev/null http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
–2010-09-24 06:14:34– 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 2.28M/s in 41s
2010-09-24 06:15:15 (2.43 MB/s) – `/dev/null’ saved [104857600/104857600]
If anyone are interested, here is the benchmark report for my 128MB VPS under Debian 5 x86.
========================================================================
BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 5.1.2)
System: availablevps: GNU/Linux
OS: GNU/Linux — 2.6.18-194.8.1.el5.028stab070.4 — #1 SMP Tue Aug 17 19:11:52 MSD 2010
Machine: i686 (unknown)
Language: en_US.utf8 (charmap=”ANSI_X3.4-1968″, collate=”ANSI_X3.4-1968″)
CPU 0: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6000+ (2009.1 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, AMD MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, AMD virtualization, SYSCALL/SYSRET
22:23:37 up 10:30, 1 user, load average: 0.38, 0.15, 0.05; runlevel 2
————————————————————————
Benchmark Run: Thu Sep 23 2010 22:23:37 – 22:56:40
1 CPU in system; running 1 parallel copy of tests
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 1103165.4 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Double-Precision Whetstone 1089.1 MWIPS (8.0 s, 7 samples)
Execl Throughput 327.7 lps (29.6 s, 2 samples)
Pipe Throughput 65773.1 lps (10.2 s, 7 samples)
Pipe-based Context Switching 17411.7 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Process Creation 698.8 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 558.3 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (16 concurrent) 43.6 lpm (60.6 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 84.5 lpm (60.3 s, 2 samples)
System Call Overhead 119735.2 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
System Benchmarks Partial Index BASELINE RESULT INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 1103165.4 94.5
Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 1089.1 198.0
Execl Throughput 43.0 327.7 76.2
Pipe Throughput 12440.0 65773.1 52.9
Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 17411.7 43.5
Process Creation 126.0 698.8 55.5
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 558.3 131.7
Shell Scripts (16 concurrent) — 43.6 —
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 84.5 140.8
System Call Overhead 15000.0 119735.2 79.8
========
System Benchmarks Index Score (Partial Only) 86.4
From the result, I guess it’s best to use it as my file backup mirror. :D
we have 4 slots avilable on this node yesterday we filled up 1 node and this is the other one :)
Im asking now the readers here are you intersting in this offer? i mean keep it or no?
i just went on link to order but i didnt find it, is it over?
Looks like the 128MB ones are sold out.
no we have 2 slots of 128 or 256 hurry up as we have just 2 ip’s left on the server
if we will get min 10 ppl that will want this again we will add one more node
how can i order the link isnt working neither the live chat is
its working now check i update the avilable vps
https://clients.availablevps.com/?cmd=cart&action=add&id=57
Any plans for XEN in near future? Really want to try this host out bcoz of dedicated port
@ Asim, If we will have pre-orders for Xen we will do.
now we get servers in NL and in few days will be in Italy servers :)
Also about this packges in this post we doing this on regular base now thats mean we order new server and keep this :) so if some one want can order now and will be placed as the first server available.
We still have 2 slots available.
I’ve ordered the 256, the status is still fraud, I can’t make payment.
@ Beny open ticket for check this
How can I preorder when something is still not in your basket? If there is a waiting list, sure I want in
@ Asim wean we get server full we change it to preorder then after we get 10 clients that order and pay alredy we order the server
this is just for help us in get moeny for server and ip’s :)
Ok, where are you XEN packages then? may I have a look?
@ Asim we dont have yet we going to do packges this saterday
we have some ppl that do order and not pay
who will do order and not pay in 10 min the order will be removed!
If someone orders, and does not pay in 10 minutes, that order will be removed?
Pay for what? You don’t have server.
Aren’t people supposed to wait for the server-ready, then pay for it?
Or you just want to collect the money first and pay for dedicated server and then
provision the vps? If that’s the case, what a business!
> Aren’t people supposed to wait for the server-ready, then pay for it?
Nope.
1) Order
2) Pay
3) Wait 0-12 hours (I dunno how fast they provision)
4) Get the VPS
@john
When buying stuff on eBay, do you also wait until the other person ships you an item, and only then pay?
we still ahs 2 slots avilable and as this say same like in eaby if you didnt pay you didnt count in clients that wait
i dont need collect money i have money, im doing this becouse i dont want empty server
You don’t get it, do you.
they don’t have Xen server yet, yet he wants you to order first.
do you order on ebay without looking at product picture at least?
This is not donation! you may order milk thru your supermarket via phone,
when they deliver, what if it’s one day left from expiration date?
Is that normal practice to you?
@ John,
i was talking about openvz same pakcge as here for pre order not xen i told that xen packges we will work on them on saterday that its today by my location time
so dont talk about what you dont know. you dont want to order dont order
@RM:
Wrong mate!
When you order with ebay, seller always have his goods in stock.
In this case Daniel himself doesn’t have it yet.
But the good point is, Daniel shares it with us :)
@Daniel:
You’ve filled one box in two days :)
There is no doubt you should order more boxes.
I just bought one. I am a vps Newbie. :) good luck
@ simplyfast
its 2 boxs in 2 days :) but as i say i dot do for money so i will keep order :) jsut today hetzner will not give me server just on monday so i alredy order
It’s a fairly sensible way to do it really. Rather than run at a loss and hoping he gets customers, he makes sure the boxes are paying for themselves before he orders them. That way the business doesn’t collapse in 3 months because a server’s income only covers a quarter of its costs.
Playing devil’s advocate, it could also be one big ponzi scheme. Not saying AVPS are up to anything like that, of course. :)
@ Gary thanks to explane them some one here was told that i will be in dead poll in few months so as he can see i dont do like regular companeis that buy server and hope get clients in this case you really 80% will be in dead poll
this why im not in dead poll becosue i do this diffrent i alredy have exprince as i told i was owner of company in israel for 3 years so i know how this is going and i dont get it what you care if i have server befoure or after you pay? alot companies do setup time 24h not everyone do instant
Yeah, that’s a good point. A lot of resellers of dedicated servers don’t have the boxes in stock, they take your payment then order it from the datacentre. This isn’t all that different.
I guess a lot of people are wary of paying a year up front, but it’s the equivalent of 2 or 3 months with any other provider. I took a chance in ordering, knowing that I might not get the full year out of this VPS, and knowing that if I lose $14 I’m not going to be too bothered about it.
I’d rather a VPS provider was covering his costs than hoping to break even next month or the month after.
@ Gary i cant say what will be tomorow or in secound after i write this as you too but with my expirince you will get your full year in my company 99%
But again as i sad no one can know what will happen in future
Of course, anything could happen. As long as you’re running a sustainable business I have faith.
You reply to tickets quickly, you’re active on here and you upgraded the kernels when the exploit was found. So far, so good!
@ Gary i jsut want to say that if everyone that buy vps will recommand to freinds people etc it will help us too to stay i dont say that we will not but more clients will helps every time :)
we get on tickets like “support so qucikly i will defently tell to people” and other things and its good also we get smile on face :P
Where are you getting dedicated bandwidth at Heztner?
They write it on their site that each node only gets 5TB on a 100mbit port and 10TB on a 1Gbit port. I get the feeling that the reason you’re port locking is not to ‘garauntee’ anything, but because you know that Hetzner will cap your port to 10Mbit once you burn through that 5TB – 10TB/m.
I highly doubt you’ll be buying more BW on those once you run out since it costs around 5EUR/m per extra 1TB.
Just ordered one about an hour ago. SETUP IS NOT INSTANTANEOUS. I am still waiting for the server to be set up.
Here is the e-mail from them about my server:
Available VPS Support
reply-to Available VPS Support
to rabby.eu@gmail.com
date Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 10:43 PM
subject Re: [Ticket #255803] when will my server be ready?
mailed-by server4.availablevps.com
we just ran out of this package an hour ago. We will forward this to the sales department by tomorrow morning and have this resolved.
We have new location with vps for 7$ per month https://clients.availablevps.com/?cmd=cart&action=add&id=74
packge:
VPS 512MB
» 50 GB Diskspace
» 1TB Bandwidth
» 512 MB Guaranteed Ram
» 768 MB Burst RAM
» 1 IP’s
» Full Root Access
» 70MB Network Port (yours you can do with 70mbits what you want the server has 1GBPS)
» FREE Setup!
DirectAdmin can be order for 8$/mo only in NL location for now!
Server: 2X Dual-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2218 HE Min 8GB RAM
When I asked them to refund my monies this is what they told me:
“we not accept refounds read our tos and you was come from lowendbox.com its say ther in blog that we out of vps and your vps will be instaleed in monday this is tomorow. please close paypal case
– Daniel
Administrator of AvailableVPS”
WOW – I am afraid that you are the first host to connect the VPS node with 10GigE ;)
@ KLIKLI
We just geting good price so for 15$ for upgrade the server to 1GBPS i will not stay on 100mbits becouse 100mbits its low after 3-4 vps you alredy feel the line start to be on load
@ Devils Advocate
Dont worry about BW if we need we buy more
@ Rabby
I hope now you see here that its was writed by me we out of space in Germany but we got yesterday node in NL and its taking order from the time i post here the small packge for 7$/mo
I paid for the 128MB deal and you told me that you do not have any slot for after I paid for it. If you didn’t have server available why did you took my order and the payment? It is just logical that if you cannot provide me with a server then should be returning my monies.
Why you are giving all the jazz about TOS, Sales department etc. Let’s face it is one man’s operation with few dedicated servers. You are the admin, sales, technical support person.
Would you please return my monies? I do not want to make any fuss with you, it is not worth the time and effort. Thank you!
Pretty sure a TOS saying they don’t do refunds wouldn’t stand up against consumer law, if it were put to the test.
@ Rabby – if you’d read this thread you’d know that he was waiting to fill a server before deploying it.
@ Rabby its not true its not one man this is just i was available to answer your ticket not say that jsut me operate this
and yes i was post here that we out of slot befoure you order! so lets say you didnt read and you know that you are now mad at me or something here but its not by my hand to give you soemthing i dont have and every payment are final
in case that you want the server to be befoure you order alot times this companies ending in dead poll read all posts here and you will understand why im saying this,
some times ppl want too much you get here low price good support (not im saying the clients here) but sorry if we will order server befoure the clients pay we can end in dead poll very fast
AvailableVPS this really isn’t nice from you. Giving him back his money if you can’t provide him service which he ordered would be best solution. As Rabby said, it’s not worth to have all this fuss for few bucks which you took without being able to give him what he ordered.
@ Spirit as i sad in this post we dont give refounds and i got around 20 order in pending no one saying word its his problem he didnt read here
and who say i cant provide? he will get his vps tomorow!
…beside that with such unresponsible approach you can end in dead pool sooner or later anyway. You would made way better impression with refund and short apology. (take this as hint)
So it’s his problem because he didn’t go through whole chit-chat conversation on some third party site? Are you kidding?
I have to agree, if the customer decides he doesn’t want the service before it’s been provisioned there should be no problem refunding him.
It’d have been nice if he’d read the thread and understood the situation before paying, but being reasonable and giving him a refund voluntarily is better than him kicking up a fuss and initiating a paypal chargeback.
@ Spirit yes and also didnt read TOS as its sad no refounds
and i would like to end this subject here
I don’t see anywhere in initial post that you taking PRE-ORDERS… and expecting from potential customers to go carefully through 100 “chit chat” posts here befoe they order service is really unprofessional.
@ Gary if i will start to do this with every one so i will not move from the place im now i mean no new servers etc becoseu everyone can ask now refound sorry but no.
Low End Box admin, I suggesting you to add to initial post warning to potential customers that this guy actually don’t have server for new orders but taking pre-orders.
@ Spirit i have to agree this is good idea but admin will need to remove tomorow wean i will get server :)
Naaah, it would be good to have such warning here permanently just to let people to know what they deal with.
@ Spirit its not big deal to wait 24h for vps as i sad here alot companies do setup in 24h
so please stop trying to get me like a jerk
other companies not telling you if they have server or not im trying to share and its bad so i will stop and will stop answer here if this will countine like this
@ AVPS Admin – the bit in your T&C that says no refunds is most likely illegal in this context. In the UK, distance selling regulations give you a 7 days cooling off period in which the customer can cancel for a full refund for any reason whatsoever. I’d imagine most countries have similar legislation.
Having that clause in your T&C is meaningless, it doesn’t supercede law just because the customer agreed to the contract. Paypal will most likely side with the customer in this, so you’d be saving yourself hassle and bad publicity by refunding them.
@ Spirit – why not just be patient for a few days and get your VPS?
There is lots of provider giving budget deal in this site. If any provider out of stock they don’t take any further order. So, you are saying I should have read all the post in this site before I should have placed the order. With you malevolent attitude, I am not feeling good doing any business with you. So, your business model is, take order, collect payment, then buy a dedicated server and then allocate vps to the customer. I mean, you can take peoples monies today, not even decide to give them any server at all and show the customers your TOS –“no refund”.
– I ask to Lowendbox’s adimn, why did you post his offer in your website – this person has some nasty attitude, bad business model and say the least is a crook. He is abusing and exploiting lowendbox’s readers. I will defiantly will escalate this to paypal claim.
I totally agree with Spirit: AvailableVPS admin’s behavior is VERY unprofessional.
@AvailableVPS admin: You should advise in YOUR WEBSITE that You’re selling something that You currently don’t have AND set stock to ZERO !
AvailableVPS admin you don’t need me to make such impression and look like a jerk.. Your acts and immature, unresponsible behaviour speaks for itself. As I said with quick refund and short apology you would make way better impression, but well… you will learn one day I hope.
@ Rabby i did this becosue alot here want this and some of them contact me
@ Gary well im not from UK and not run ther the company…
@Gary – it’s not me who ordered VPS, Rabby did. I just expressed my opinion regarding all this what I saw.
Very true Spirit, I got confused.
@ AVPS Admin – I know you’re not from the UK and you don’t run the company there, but like I said, most places have similar laws to protect consumers.
@ Rabby can you explane to me why you not trying to contact us by ticket and do this here in public? you jsut ask refound i answered you no refounds you will get the server in monday thats its tomorow and after this you starting post here oh i forgot you open paypal case befoure we answerd you in ticket for refound
Becouse for me its stinky looks like you did this to give me bad name
for me its stinky becosue you the only one that do this problem here. and spirit dont want to say im to suspecuse but looks like your frined or soemthing anyway
do what in your mind if you want open move the case to paypal
just want to share with everyone herehow its looks from my side
i ahve 20 orders from friday after out of stock and no one do this everyone waiting even not open tickets
AvailableVPS stop assuming things. I don’t know anyone from here and I highly doubt that anyone from my little contry post here. Beside that I am old enough to know what’s right and what’s wrong and that’s main reason why I posted here in the first place.
Imho you made with your immature approach business mistake which might cost you few potential customers, but well… you had a chance to do the right thing but you didn’t. Good luck – you will need it in future with such business model.
Oh, Sorry , YOU ARE BIG LIAR TOO. Before I opened a dispute with paypal, I opened up a ticket with you. You replied that you do not have any slot and will refer this to your sales dept. After receiving this reply I opened up a dispute with paypal. After I filed a dispute with paypal and opening another ticket with your sales for refund, you replied that you will have a server on Monday.
I would love to have Sprit as my friend ..but I don’t know him personally.
You are really a nasty man. People working in McDonalds have better attitude than yours. Which country are you from? You mentioned you did business in Israel. Is this the way you do business and treat people in that country.
I am posting everything in here so that other people can see what kind of person you are. YOU ARE RUDE, NASTY AND A CROOK.
I don’t have to give you ‘bad name’– you are genuinely a bad person and running a crooked business. You are make fool out of lowendbox’s readers.
I am sorry that I placed an order with you and now have to argue with you. If you want to steal 14 bucks, so be it, I am not going loss sleep over it. And please do not communicate with me via e-mail with your nasty attitude. Thank you!
From the UK User Agreement for PayPal Service
13.3 What type of payments are eligible for re-imbursement under PayPal Buyer Protection?
PayPal Buyer Protection only applies to PayPal payments for certain tangible, physical goods that can be posted. Payments for the following are not eligible for re-imbursement under PayPal Buyer Protection:
intangible items
services
Not the full list of exceptions, VPS’s will be in the exceptions.
Probably the same for all countries and apply to any VPS bought with Paypal.
@Keith: when RackVM disappeared the people that paid via Paypal and asked for a refund for item not received has been refunded.
we apologize that you guys experienced a problem last night with your vps activation. We are not liars, we have been getting so many orders that we reached our stock limit last night. All orders taken this weekend will be activated on monday. We will have a new server ready to take these orders. we are sorry for the inconvenience. please read what i wrote before.
@ Rabby: We answered your ticket saying your vps would be activated today. However, you opened a claim – so we were instructed by paypal to withhold your vps.
@Dr Falken This won’t be an item not received on Monday.
@ Keith – It’s still against UK DSRs, so quoting UK Paypal rules doesn’t matter. A Paypal rule doesn’t trump law. Likewise, other countries will have similar legislation.
I think Rabby should just be patient. The AVPS site does state instant setup, but when the owner has no server in stock there’s not much he can do. It’s Sunday, after all.
Nice level of professionalism here. [/e-sarcasm]
I would have grabbed one of these in a second, but this guy’s English skills and professionalism is pathetic. Makes me think this is another kiddy-host that’ll be in the dead pool sometime next month.
@Gary DSR’s come from the European Union, all European Union countries should have similar laws. Myself I wouldn’t expect to get far with a legal claim relying on the DSR’s only for anything bought outside the European Union.
Nag your bank/cc company enough and they’ll issue a chargeback, Keith.
“@ Rabby: We answered your ticket saying your vps would be activated today. However, you opened a claim – so we were instructed by paypal to withhold your vps.”
@AvailableVPS admin
Please don’t bother with it. After all this, I would not feel comfortable doing anything with your service. I will file a claim with paypal after October 2nd, If I get a refund that will be welcoming — if not, well, I will consider myself as a victim of a rip off, not going to lose sleep over it.
@Rabby: Look at your Paypal account and see if a subscription has also been set up.If one has cancel it otherwise you could be paying again next year. There’s one on my Paypal account.
@Gary: Chargebacks – no practical experience of them with over 2000 items sold on eBay as a business seller. A subject I’m happy avoiding.
Lol when I said in comment #45 this guy had a bad attitude I was said to be offensive. Guess I was right after all ;)
@Keith Thanks!
I have canceled the subscription.
@PASCAL:
Maybe you was…
I think this guy have some difficulties to explain himself.
But come on, give him a chance :)
Can the 128MB guaranteed/512MB burstable memory option run an actual GUI?
ok we got new server and all who ordered and wait now got the vps
we have 3 slots available for vps256
vps128 no more promo if some one want he can order from website at regular price 20 slots available for now same vps256 after 3 slots of promo here
In less than an hour…..
Either you guys are crazy poor or super stingy or just plain stupid. This VPS is for 14/year…14 freaking dollars, and you’re filling charge-backs and what not. Poor people = stay off the internet; get a JOB.
Common, give availablevps a sporting chance. The guy’s 19, starting out a business. Do you think he’s gonna buy 10 dedi’s come here? heck no. This is lowendbox aka poor man’s fantasy aka sheila landru aka chanice tayloer… ok I went off a little there (from House Party 2). And yeah, he can’t speak english very well…..and i presume you’ll went to Oxford right? or Yale perhaps? You probably have to tfd words like obfuscate, ameliorate and depend on your browser for spell check.
you get what you pay for, stop being nasty to the kid….
@ available: man… alteast BUY the shit before you sell it… ROFL.
Filing a chargeback has nothing to do with being poor. Habitually throwing away money will lead to you becoming poor though, so why do it?
Well, the machine seems enought reactive but when I ask to the admin if is possible to enable the iptables “recent” rule (a kernel module) he said to me that software assistance isn’t include and that I should look iptables in the box.
Not a very good answer, indeed.
The brand should be “NotAvailableVPS” lol..
This company SCAM or NO? please say me answer for this question.
This company is not a scam. I was worried at first, but they quickly activated my vps on monday as promised. The vps control panel is really awesome too. Overall I am very happy with the support and service.
we are not a scam, we quickly resolved all of our issues over the past weekend. We had trouble keeping up with the high quantity of orders.
I received my VPS so I can say that’s not a scam.
You be the judge:
they collect the money first and then go out buy dedi. server and provision to you.
if he doesn’t collect enough money to buy dedi. server, you have to wait till the pot is filled.
It’s not a scam as long as he delivers, but other providers already have servers and put ad here.
It’s like a supermarket, take order/money first, and then delivers the goods, when? nobody knows.
@ chachiri
why you wean nobody knows max waiting time its 24h and it was happen 1 time becosue was saterday we alredy have servers in NL and miami and now starting to ad!
New location USA miami!
server:
2x Intel Quad Core L5320 16GB RAM 1GBPS line
Any order link for the discounted VPS in Miami?
well i sended email for new offer to admin here but he didnt post yet for now if you wan t order from website from 3 months and get 4nd month free
You can post the details and link over on the forum:
http://www.lowendtalk.com/forum/low-end-deals
http://www.lowendtalk.com/topic/available-vps-lowendbox-miami-nl-offer?replies=1#post-798
I just filed a claim with Paypal.
The guy pays for his dedicated server monthly but customers from Lowendbox have to pay for yearly plan. All you know he can stop paying for his dedicated server in 2 months and his servers goes offline. Customer can not file any dispute with paypal after 45 days.
He buys dedicated for $54- 120$/ month. Takes monies from 25 customers make $350 dollars at one time and then stop paying his provider in 2nd month — so his investment $54-120$ — profit $230 -296 / per server.
Rabby, how do you know that the host you are paying for, has his hardware on monthly rent or own it?
LOL
Rabby you makes no sense
AvailableVPS have stopped nor terminate your VPS
But you simply claims he *can* stop paying for his server after 2 months
You have no proof that he *did* stopped your VPS
For example, say if you’ve paid “Company ABC” for a year of “Premium Membership”, you can still claims that he *can* close his company – without proof.
Sorry for my bad English :(
This is the risk you take when you prepay. Any company can do this to you. If you have a reason to think he’s likely to do this, feel free to say why. I have one, it’s performing fine. There’s a possibility that what you’ve suggested will happen, but that’s why the sensible among us keep regular backups. ;)
Fist of all, this is not a ‘company’ to say. This is an one man operation. Not officially incorporated, does any body know their mailing address?? No provider in Lowendbox offers and takes monies knowingly that they can not provide the VPS.
The guy has some attitude problem. He was giving me his sales department, TOS etc B.S. when I asked my money back. I placed my order, paid his bill – if he could not give me the VPS, then he should be giving my money back. After filing dispute with Paypal and opening few tickets with him, he tells me that he will buy his sever in few days and then will set up the VPS.
If he didn’t have the server, he shouldn’t have taken my payment.
Sounds very scammy to me if you’re selling an hypotethical server.
But if he can keep everybody happy with an offer this cheap then I guess it works.
He was pretty up front about it. He was taking pre-orders, and when he had enough to populate a server, he ordered the server. Plenty of places take orders then order the server from the datacentre.
Paypal denied my claim, saying – ‘the item purchased was virtual or intangible’ and they can not do a dick about it. It seems buyers have not protection when they buy hosting services using PayPal.
I have already filed a Complaint with The Federal Trade Commission against PayPal. It does not seems like anything will happen there.
It is disgusting what Paypal is doing. We are paying this crooks and paypal is helping them to do this.
What if this guy shuts down his server tomorrow … people who paid via paypal will not be able to do a thing about it. It really sucks.
Paypal denied my claim, saying – ‘the item purchased was virtual or intangible’ and they can not do anything about it. It seems buyers have not protection when they buy hosting services using PayPal.
I have already filed a Complaint with The Federal Trade Commission against PayPal. It does not seems like anything will happen there.
It is disgusting what Paypal is doing. We are paying this crooks and paypal is helping them to do this.
What if this guy shuts down his server tomorrow … people who paid via paypal will not be able to a thing about it.
And that’s the risk you take with any hosting provider when paying via paypal. There’s no evidence that AVPS are crooks though, so I’d be careful who you accuse.
AvailableVPS is a crook. Running a crooked business.
And you say this because…?
Maybe you’re right, and you know something I don’t. If you do, you should share it.
Otherwise it just looks like you’re a competitor or someone he kicked for TOS violations.
He or she explained at some length further up in the comments. You’ve been responding to them. Gotta admit I’s surprised that you’re forgetting that.
Nowhere does he prove AVPS are crooks. He doesn’t like their method of provisioning, which they’d been up front about, and which is no different to a lot of providers.
OVH will take your money even though there are no servers available, and make you wait for them. Sure, OVH are a more reliable bunch than a one-man show, but it doesn’t mean AVPS are crooks.
Bottom line is we’ve got nothing but a few maybes and one guy’s suspicions. So far I don’t see anyone posting here reporting having been ripped off by them. Maybe in future we will, but right now I know of no evidence that proves AVPS are crooked.
He either has evidence and should share it, or he doesn’t and should quit libelling AVPS.
This deal is probably no longer available but in case anyone is wondering how they did, my VPS is now offline and I cannot get it to boot from the control panel. Their site is unreachable. There doesn’t appear to be a DNS entry for it anymore.
You may notice that it has been just over 45 days so the window to dispute the transaction through PayPal has now closed.
Coincidence?
Remember, pay with your credit card, kids.
Mine’s still running, it was down and rebooted last night.
I can access the control panel.
You’d lose a Paypal dispute even if.in the time limit, It’s an intangible item which is in the exceptions.
First of all, I’ve reversed many PayPal transactions from hosts that I’ve found on this site who shut down overnight with no notice. The only way it won’t work because it’s deemed intangible is when the vendor themselves contest your refund request with that reason. Any vendor that would do that after ceasing to provide you service is clearly crooked.
That being said, this scenario is the entire reason I say “pay with your credit card”. You can use funds from your bank account, funds received from other ppl or your credit card when you use PayPal. If you use either of the first two, the transaction is at the mercy of PayPal’s discretion. If you use your credit card, PayPal can deny your claim but then you can just call your bank and they fix it because credit card company policies are less draconian than PayPal.
That’s right. PayPal is worse than the credit card companies who congress (that group that can’t agree upon anything) recently took it upon themselves to legislate against their practices.
So, to recap, pay with your credit card.
You know it was first downtime in our company that wasnt by us it was from hetzner DC and you alredy say that we run away?
Belive me that now i dont want your any more as my client… i hope you will open ticket and say who your are and i will cancel your service in the end of the billing time
My VPS is still up and have no problem to access their website as well.
Which node are you?
I don’t know what node I’m on. My server is reachable again as is their website but I was down for an entire business day with no warning and no explanation.
Yesterday neither host nor dig were returning any data for their domain.
Edited by LowEndAdmin: Blah blah blah
If you pay for something you expect it to work. Why you’re not banned from this site with your shitty attitude is beyond me.
I guess Gary doesn;t pay taxes then. ;)
Gotta admit that I’m rather surprised that LEA is allowing LB’s racism to continue. I for one didn’t enjoy the rather distasteful hatecrime comments that have been directed towards me by LB.
There is quite a difference between racism and sectarianism..
You’ve lost me with the taxes comment. :)
Seriously? If you pay taxes to the government, you expect them to work. Most folks feel government doesn’t really do anything….
OK, it;s a stretch. Had a guy behind me at the mall screaming into his phone for nearly an hour about place settings. Lovely evening.
Difference is, you can vote with your money with commercial entities. Doesn’t work as advertised? Change to someone else!
Sometimes you wish it is as easy with governments :P
By the way all here talk that we are not registerd company so just for the record from 1/12/2010 we will be registerd LLC under “Setup Link” in USA
also i want to say alot here think we run away well jsut check our website we started sell vps in germany today we sell in germany, miami, NL, dallas, luxembourg, france
we also selling dedicated servers from singlehop
after all this locations i dont think i want to run away becouse im doing money every month… so stop every time that we got some problem say we run away
Where can I found your luxemburg VPS offer?
We will add them soon on website we just got dedicated server ther
Still interested in your luxemburg vps plans. Do you provide them actually?
contact with us by ticket in website and we will informate you about this
I ordered package 3 from Germany, paid 25$ for the month, but I got package 1?! Cheating! Please, I sent a ticket already today. Fix that.
They turned off my VPS and moved my VPS to setuplink (as they said). And no answer (from availablevps and setuplink too).
They send “We are handling with alot tickets :(. We will get back to you within 24-48 hours.” So sad…
Yeah, they said they were moving them all to setuplink, but I’ve heard nothing since. That was 5 weeks ago.
Having exactly the same situation as you guys. :S
They have a really nice website, but the services are terrible. I didnt get to order from AvailableVPS, but I did order from setuplink, 3 VPS, in Luxemburg, Germany, and Dallas, and even paid for a year.
As of this morning none of them work, they do not reply to support tickets anymore, etc.
=(