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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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. 😀
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