BHost - £3.77 512MB OpenVZ VPS in UK

Jun 23, 2011 @ 9:04 am

People have been complaining about lack of interest in good UK providers. Still burnt by the RackVM incident? Anyway here we go — it’s another UK VPS provider worth mentioning. Nicholas from BHost emailed me their June promo code for LowEndBox readers. LOWENDBOXJUNEJULY will get you 23% off — just 1% short from their previous offer in April. If you sign up annual payment, they will also throw in a free .com, .net, .org or a .uk domain as part of the package (like last time). You will need to open a ticket to request the free domain. Their “Bronze” plan would be £3.77/month (~USD$6.04) after the discount. That’s excluding VAT so for UK/EU users you will need to add your VAT into the final price. It comes with

512MB guaranteed/1024MB burstable memory
20GB storage
1000GB/month data transfer
OpenVZ

Servers with RapidSwitch in UK. They are an UK registered company since 2002. Good reviews so far here at LowEndBox, which you can check from previous posts. They have been nominated in the current poll although no votes so far.

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5 Comments

Felix Yan:
Any test IP?
June 23, 2011 @ 4:42 pm | Reply
- Nick @ BHost:
  Yes, please visit http://test.BHost.net for a full set of test options
  June 23, 2011 @ 10:49 pm | Reply

Bob Newbie:

[root@server /]# free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          1024        163        860          0          0          0
-/+ buffers/cache:        163        860
Swap:            0          0          0

[root@server /]# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 26
model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           E5504  @ 2.00GHz
stepping        : 5
cpu MHz         : 1995.048
cache size      : 4096 KB
physical id     : 1
siblings        : 4
core id         : 0
cpu cores       : 4
apicid          : 16
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 11
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall rdtscp lm constant_tsc nonstop_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt lahf_lm
bogomips        : 3990.09
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: [8]

[root@server /]# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 32.9368 seconds, 32.6 MB/s

[root@server /]# wget http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
--2011-06-25 13:13:52--  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: `100mb.test'

100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 9.61M/s   in 10s

2011-06-25 13:14:02 (9.63 MB/s) - `100mb.test' saved [104857600/104857600]

[root@server /]# tracert www.google.co.uk
traceroute to www.google.co.uk (209.85.147.99), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
 1  vps06.bhost.net (78.129.251.250)  0.055 ms  0.032 ms  0.015 ms
 2  87.117.211.173 (87.117.211.173)  0.534 ms  0.543 ms  0.624 ms
 3  62-233-127-210.as20860.net (62.233.127.210)  0.441 ms  0.455 ms  0.569 ms
 4  62-233-127-173.as20860.net (62.233.127.173)  1.115 ms  1.169 ms  1.229 ms
 5  62-233-127-194.as20860.net (62.233.127.194)  3.866 ms  3.876 ms  3.873 ms
 6  64.233.175.27 (64.233.175.27)  1.315 ms  1.341 ms  1.387 ms
 7  209.85.253.94 (209.85.253.94)  1.755 ms  1.638 ms  1.627 ms
 8  72.14.232.134 (72.14.232.134)  10.123 ms  7.449 ms  7.454 ms
 9  72.14.236.191 (72.14.236.191)  7.359 ms  7.201 ms  7.179 ms
10  216.239.46.253 (216.239.46.253)  16.484 ms 216.239.46.117 (216.239.46.117)  15.744 ms 216.239.46.253 (216.239.46.253)  16.474 ms
11  bru01m01-in-f99.1e100.net (209.85.147.99)  7.452 ms  7.468 ms  7.436 ms

June 25, 2011 @ 12:17 pm | Reply

user:
Have a bronze package from them since Feb/March
(also have a $15 Buyvm package)
overall, I like it. Little to no downtime, no problems with the CPU/ram usage
Running Redmine on it. Redmine sucks too much ram with the default ruby/rails package, thinking of using a low-mem version.
and of course, BBC iPlayer and spotify
June 25, 2011 @ 2:46 pm | Reply
Akvavit:
Just signed up for the Bronze pack, to test it out – I reckon it’s quite easy to upgrade if need be?
But so far everything in the setup worked smooth, great stuff!
July 21, 2011 @ 11:44 pm | Reply