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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@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. 🙂