If you guys haven’t figured me out yet, I love unique locations. The less common they are, the more I want to introduce you to it. BalkanVPS is a newcomer here, they only signed up on LowEndTalk last month and posted their first offer in these parts on January 01. According to their representative on LowEndTalk they operate their own datacenter and ASN (AS57891). Their focus has been internet service and IPTV until they recently decided to get in on this VPS thing.
The Offer:
- 1 CPU Core
- 10 GB HDD
- 512 MB RAM
- 1 Gbit/s Unmetered Port (Shared)
- KVM Virtualisation
- $5.00 per month
- Order here!
The Network:
Location: Kosovo
Test IPs: 185.75.56.65, 84.22.50.247
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These are RAID 10.
I hope it would be better, but currently their panel doesn’t allow reinstallations, VNC and SPICE are not working and OS templates are outdated. But the VPS itself works.
Hey!
We are always happy to help you as our customer. If you need a re installation or anything else you can always contact us and we will be very happy to reinstall it for you be it whatever Operating System you desire including any ISO you send us – if it’s possible we will install it for you! As for VNC yes at the moment we have only started out offering VPS servers however our java based VNC access is functioning (you must have Java installed on your computer in order to use it!) We have only the templates our customers want – if you would like a different template there is no problem to contact us and we will do our best to provide you with it! 🙂 Have a nice day and thank you for your feedback!
>our java based VNC access is functioning
I’m afraid it’s still not.
Hello,
None of our clients have reported any issues with it, please contact our support department.
Thank you
What is the DMCA policy here? I cant find it.
Do they comply with DMCA takedowns or allow the client to deal with it as he prefers (including ignoring)?
DMCA American laws, not applicable to other countries,exactly if outside European Union,isn’t?
My guess is that most of the stuff the DMCA would complain about would be illegal to host in Kosovo also. So, I guess it depends on if the host doesn’t mind your illegal content or not, because, no, they wouldn’t be obligated to enforce DMCA crap.
Guess Serbian not follow everything coming from US. Albanian side may follow because they actively helps push Albanians into Kosovo.
Will be interesting to try out if they starts accept PayPal 🙂
And please accept credit cards. Check out heidelpay (http://www.heidelpay.de/). I am really interested to have VPS with you!
Hey,
I am interested in that location, but my ip location tool shows me serbia .. I a little bit confused :S
Hello,
The Republic of Kosovo is a partially recognised country. RIPE only accepts countries with full UN-recognistion which Kosovo is not. It is depending on your political view if it is still a part of Serbia however RIPE allocated us with Serbia ips.
Thank you for your interest!
Is payment via bitcoin possible
Interesting to see this unique location getting listed here 🙂
I will probably try them out as soon as they offer Paypal, location looks cool 🙂
Any ipv6 there?
Can I pay with Bitcoins?
Hello,
For sure!
So I wanted to try but I’m a noob and I have no idea how to setup a machine, I mean I bought VPS before but it was all set-up and I have no idea if I need to buy a domain or what! Thanks in advance
All depends on what your trying to do, are you wanting to host a website for yourself, multiple websites for customers a voice server etc etc
I just need to use as a headless server to run a plex server and even maybe as a torrent downloader! Only for legal thing obv 😉
OK plenty of guides:
https://www.tech-knowhow.com/2015/07/howto-install-plex-media-server-on-ubuntu-server/
https://elijahpaul.co.uk/script-install-for-transmission-2-83-seedbox-on-centos-6-5/
Both guides would help (note two differnt os guides but its just to give you an idea of what can be done)
My problem it’s prior, here http://i.imgur.com/snOEHRg.png what I need to put? Do I need to buy a domain? And then here http://i.imgur.com/P31LMjC.png what else?
I have a VPS with windows installed and obviously I used Linux to install it etc, but the only problem it’s right there at the beginning!
Sorry for all my question, Thanks for all
@Jackson – You can add random data into all fields. No need have or buy domain.
This is an interesting offer, I’m on the fence about purchasing, I’ve just got a few questions.
1. You only accept bitcoin, does this mean that the privacy model of your client registration system matches that of your payment model(bitcoin, meaning do you reuire accurate information and is your whmcs maxmind fully enabled and ready to block purchases from “suspicious users”? I ask because I value my privacy.
2. You advertise unlimited transfer and we all know that doesn’t mean unlimited, obviously, but what would a customer have to do in order to cause you to issue them a warning, turn off their VPS, or suspend their account? One usage scenario that I have in mind for this server is as a “file box” (seedbox/file server), large amounts of data going to users on a daily basis, would that be a problem?
3. What is your refund policy?
This is an interesting offer, I’m on the fence about purchasing, I’ve just got a few questions.
1. You only accept bitcoin, does this mean that the privacy model of your client registration system matches that of your payment model(bitcoin, meaning do you reuire accurate information and is your whmcs maxmind fully enabled and ready to block purchases from “suspicious users”? I ask because I value my privacy.
2. You advertise unlimited transfer and we all know that doesn’t mean unlimited, obviously, but what would a customer have to do in order to cause you to issue them a warning, turn off their VPS, or suspend their account? One usage scenario that I have in mind for this server is as a “file box” (seedbox/file server), large amounts of data going to users on a daily basis, would that be a problem?
3. What is your refund policy?
I’m interested also to know this! I hope that someone will answer our question!
Hello,
1. We never disclose information of our clients to third parties.
2. Unmetered means unmetered. No question about it. The only issue is if a customer abuses cores, then we will terminate you or if abuse our network by sending spam.
3. We refund anyone who is unhappy.
Thanks,
BalkanVPS
There’s a PayPal logo on your front page, but the check out only acceps bitcoins.
Do you consider adding a more convinient checkout method? Paypal, or at least 2checkout or fastspring?
Is there no possibility for Kosovo, it that why?
Hello we are adding PayPal very soon!
I sent email about a week ago w/ a sales question and never got a response, go with albahost instead
Hello,
Please contact us via support ticket.
Thank you,
BalkanVPS
Still no PayPal option?
Do you offer IPv6?
Is this offer not available now?
by the way, you can try https://www.secupay.com/ to active credit card funktion.