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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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 $14 I’m not going to be too bothered about it.
I’d rather a VPS provider was covering his costs than hoping to break even next month or the month after.
@ Gary i cant say what will be tomorow or in secound after i write this as you too but with my expirince you will get your full year in my company 99%
But again as i sad no one can know what will happen in future
Of course, anything could happen. As long as you’re running a sustainable business I have faith.
You reply to tickets quickly, you’re active on here and you upgraded the kernels when the exploit was found. So far, so good!
@ Gary i jsut want to say that if everyone that buy vps will recommand to freinds people etc it will help us too to stay i dont say that we will not but more clients will helps every time 🙂
we get on tickets like “support so qucikly i will defently tell to people” and other things and its good also we get smile on face 😛
Where are you getting dedicated bandwidth at Heztner?
They write it on their site that each node only gets 5TB on a 100mbit port and 10TB on a 1Gbit port. I get the feeling that the reason you’re port locking is not to ‘garauntee’ anything, but because you know that Hetzner will cap your port to 10Mbit once you burn through that 5TB – 10TB/m.
I highly doubt you’ll be buying more BW on those once you run out since it costs around 5EUR/m per extra 1TB.
Just ordered one about an hour ago. SETUP IS NOT INSTANTANEOUS. I am still waiting for the server to be set up.
Here is the e-mail from them about my server:
Available VPS Support
reply-to Available VPS Support
to rabby.eu@gmail.com
date Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 10:43 PM
subject Re: [Ticket #255803] when will my server be ready?
mailed-by server4.availablevps.com
we just ran out of this package an hour ago. We will forward this to the sales department by tomorrow morning and have this resolved.
We have new location with vps for 7$ 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.