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BHost - £3.77 512MB OpenVZ VPS in UK

BHost 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

  1. Any test IP?

    June 23, 2011 @ 4:42 pm | Reply
  2. 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]

    x4

    [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
  3. 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
  4. 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

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