Timothy from Dinix LLC emailed me a few days ago about some new VPS packages they are about to launch — BlazeVPS. While I have received the details and am still waiting for the “okay” to post, the deals appears on WHT first. Not really “low end box exclusive” as stated in the email exchange but, well, at least the offer is now in the open. Annual payment only, starting from $10/year with the following spec
- 128MB memory
- 25GB storage
- 1000GB/month data transfer on 1Gbps port
- OpenVZ/SolusVM
Available locations are Chicago IL, Orlando FL, Phoenix AZ and London UK. There are other packages — $25/year for 256MB, $45/year for 512MB, etc.
Too good to be true? Without last week’s RackVM £6/year offer I would say yes. However many have their RackVM low end VPS delivered and are pretty happy with what they’ve got. RackVM’s domain was only registered in April so not much historical record either, but so far they’ve done pretty well.
BlazeVPS.com on the other hand was registered merely 2 days ago, from a company that still does not have its own website. Can’t seem to be able to find the LLC records in Arizona or Tennessee (but I am not in US so might be using the wrong tools). Andrew from 123Systems also picked some issues on page 3 of the WHT thread — worthwhile to have read.
I guess we’ll just have to wait for more reports to come in.
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I signed up to try it out after it was posted on wht, for $10/year. It hasn’t been setup yet, but they said they’ll set it up within 24 hours. We’ll see :)
looks like the sites down.
And their website is down……
Actually, looks like their DNS is dead. Could be their whole “network”, I suppose. Not terribly encouraging.
mabye there vps running ther DNS server wasn’t paid for ;)
Read the post on WHT. They claim its because of Paypal their DNS/Website is not working.
Well, PayPal do have a long and well-documented history of arbitrarily taking down websites and nameservers, you know. Sounds totally plausible to me.
Sorry, that was funnier before the site stripped the sarcasm and close-sarcasm tags. Doh.
so paypal is the evil google. that explains alot :D
*joke*
Yeah.. this deal seems kinda fishy!!
I’ve got to say, I was trying to retain from posting in that thread but i had to considering what was stated by Dinix, If you’ll look at most of the replies that i made i have pointed out critical flaws in their statements.
EG: Private BGP on a /29 & /28 , The GigeVPS IP, The Transit IP’s.
Not to mention the site is currently down due to ‘paypal issues?’ does anyone really believe that? While i do not go around bashing new host’s this one seemed fishy from the beginning hence the reason i posted.
I would rather not see a ton of WHT users fall into a death trap which apparently a few already have done.
Not to mention Jacob @ GigeVPS has stated that Dinix is not affiliated with them what so ever and he has no clue why he provided their IP address.
Please take this posting down.
This VPS provider can’t give any test IPs, and when asked for test IPs he gave random IPs located in the datacenters he claims to colo in, not the IPs of his own servers.
It appears blaze VPS is back up, for how long I don’t know.
Just for future reference and Google posterity, the same people behing BlazeVPS and Dinix are also behind http://www.ikonbill.com/ , a newly-registered domain that looks set to be involved in some further suspicious activity in the near future.
Hey there,
The rep. for hostdime on WHT posted on their thread confirming they have no equipment with them. There is a sales ticket pending with them so it seems they were simply collecting funds to pay for things. They were posting dedicated servers for sale from HostDime earlier in the week, but it seems they weren’t even a paying customer yet.
Andrew and I were taking bets last night and I pointed out a lot of my findings, namely the testing IP’s pointing to gigeVPS amongst a few others like rapidswitch. The only subnets they had listed with ARIN to prove their massive BGP network was a /29 and a /27 from colocrossing. If they run this amazing BGP setup, why don’t they have allocations?
Anyone doing the math on their operating costs would see that they would last a few months at best, barely get off the ground at worst. They need 8 VM’s just to cover a single quad core w/ 4GB RAM at HostDime, + some IP’s so a few more orders for a SINGLE month.
I dunno, in the end I won a virtual cookie from Andrew so it all works out :P
Francisco
@Fran
The cookie was full of Malware, Enjoy~
On a side note they have reopened sales which means yes, More users get to fall into this lovely trap. They posted sales before having the gear to deploy VE’s on which says a lot, I assume they posted the sales just to scrounge up enough change to get a Server to deploy them on. Which is quite ridiculous considering they stated they were financially stable (Go figure?)
This is a very interesting company/scam.
*sigh*
Brb, running CanadaHC.exe :(
Either way, there is at least 1 report on WHT of the owner personally hounding down a few users to try to sell them colocation services. He opened tickets with them on their own billing system and started hounding them.
Fran
I pity the poor bastards who are getting – maybe, we’ll have to wait and see – VPSes (grossly oversold, natch) on what would have to be basically vanilla, unconfigured, un-tweaked, un-secured, un-optimized host nodes. Okay, we’ve all thrown boxes into production ten minutes after getting them provisioned; emergencies happen. But basing your business strategy around that? They can’t even keep their own sites up or deploy redundant DNS, I shudder to think what their degree of technical ability, if any, is.
So if they order nodes today, the 28th, their second bill will come due on, what, August 27th? August 28th? August 31st? September 1st? (Depending on how the upstreams handle billing periods.) Allowing a grace period of between 1 and 7 days, I anticipate them disappearing back under the rock they crawled out from under somewhere between August 28th and September 8th, 2010.
For anyone interested in reading what fran is talking about here’s the link. However it appears Dinix was not the only one doing it (But they are just as guilty)
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showpost.php?p=6812262&postcount=15
Thanks to Andrew and Francisco for chipping in.
@skomes — the post will stay but I’ve put a notice at top. Having a warning there is probably better than having nothing at all.
Am I the only one who, as I read through the slightly illiterate posts by “Dinix” over on WHT, imagine him sounding just like Roman Bellic? “Cousin, it is your cousin! All servers are being setup, including any servers. Bursting will depend on which plan you choose. All machines are RAID-10. We use RAID-5 on our servers. Cousin, let’s go rip off a bunch of geeks and buy some hookers! Ah, American titties!”
For what it’s worth the WHT mods are still checking into them it seems.
They’ve closed the thread at this point, not sure what that means but it can’t be anything good.
Fran
For what it’s worth, the vps I ordered has been setup and it’s working. It’s at the Phoenix, AZ location. It’s got 128MB guaranteed RAM and 256MB burstable RAM. I posted some more info at wht.
I put up a test file, if you want to check it:
http://174.138.163.211/100mb.test
I’ll leave it up for a little while, if I can stay under my bandwidth quota.
It’s too early to tell what will happen in the long run. But it’s working for now.
“1000GB/month data transfer on 1Gbps port”
I tested david’s link and to Europe it’s barely 500KB to 1.3MB after 20sek, I’m sure this will be cocked up once people deploy some of there websites. So if you have at least some Euro visitors, don’t even bother.
PS: forgot to say I’m at 2MB full broadband.
@David tried your link and the speed definitely seems good.
Also the Phoenix Location reminds me that they might have got their server from Codero. They just had an offer running for the same.
I tried to post these test results earlier, but they didn’t show up. Maybe it’s too many links. Here’s one more try.
This is from a Linode VPS in Fremont, CA:
This is from a Thrust::VPS in Los Angeles, CA:
This is from a RackVM VPS in the UK:
A whois on the VPS IP shows this:
This is a RackVM VPS in OVH (France)
This is a VPS in Oak Tower.
Tested David’s test file from my VPS in De. (Hetzner)
Sorry about my code – How is the little black box done?
I’ve got 59 hits on the test file so far. I’m running nginx on the vps.
Here are the Unix Bench results. Keep in mind the box probably isn’t loaded full of customers yet.
======================================================================== BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 5.1.2) System: mega.kilovox.com: GNU/Linux OS: GNU/Linux -- 2.6.18-194.8.1.el5.028stab070.2 -- #1 SMP Tue Jul 6 14:55:39 MSD 2010 Machine: i686 (i386) Language: en_US.utf8 (charmap="UTF-8", collate="UTF-8") CPU 0: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5506 @ 2.13GHz (4266.9 bogomips) Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization CPU 1: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5506 @ 2.13GHz (4266.9 bogomips) Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization CPU 2: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5506 @ 2.13GHz (4266.8 bogomips) Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization CPU 3: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5506 @ 2.13GHz (4266.8 bogomips) Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization 14:54:30 up 29 min, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00; runlevel ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Benchmark Run: Thu Jul 29 2010 14:54:30 - 15:22:27 4 CPUs in system; running 1 parallel copy of tests Dhrystone 2 using register variables 9946168.8 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Double-Precision Whetstone 1933.8 MWIPS (10.2 s, 7 samples) Execl Throughput 3340.0 lps (29.9 s, 2 samples) File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 441941.0 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples) File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 120365.1 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples) File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 1135820.1 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples) Pipe Throughput 757770.7 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Pipe-based Context Switching 240689.9 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Process Creation 12934.9 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples) Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 4606.8 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples) Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 1559.6 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples) System Call Overhead 582282.7 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) System Benchmarks Index Values BASELINE RESULT INDEX Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 9946168.8 852.3 Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 1933.8 351.6 Execl Throughput 43.0 3340.0 776.8 File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 3960.0 441941.0 1116.0 File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1655.0 120365.1 727.3 File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 5800.0 1135820.1 1958.3 Pipe Throughput 12440.0 757770.7 609.1 Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 240689.9 601.7 Process Creation 126.0 12934.9 1026.6 Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 4606.8 1086.5 Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 1559.6 2599.3 System Call Overhead 15000.0 582282.7 388.2 ======== System Benchmarks Index Score 855.0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Benchmark Run: Thu Jul 29 2010 15:22:27 - 15:50:51 4 CPUs in system; running 4 parallel copies of tests Dhrystone 2 using register variables 39191615.4 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Double-Precision Whetstone 7703.5 MWIPS (10.2 s, 7 samples) Execl Throughput 13729.2 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples) File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 346902.4 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples) File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 98403.2 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples) File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 799684.7 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples) Pipe Throughput 3004624.7 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Pipe-based Context Switching 952663.5 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Process Creation 29681.6 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples) Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 11995.3 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples) Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 1848.2 lpm (60.1 s, 2 samples) System Call Overhead 1919497.6 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) System Benchmarks Index Values BASELINE RESULT INDEX Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 39191615.4 3358.3 Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 7703.5 1400.6 Execl Throughput 43.0 13729.2 3192.8 File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 3960.0 346902.4 876.0 File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1655.0 98403.2 594.6 File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 5800.0 799684.7 1378.8 Pipe Throughput 12440.0 3004624.7 2415.3 Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 952663.5 2381.7 Process Creation 126.0 29681.6 2355.7 Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 11995.3 2829.1 Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 1848.2 3080.3 System Call Overhead 15000.0 1919497.6 1279.7 ======== System Benchmarks Index Score 1852.2Here’s user_beancounters:
# cat /proc/user_beancounters Version: 2.5 uid resource held maxheld barrier limit failcnt 105: kmemsize 2202030 2591535 2147483646 2147483646 0 lockedpages 0 0 999999 999999 0 privvmpages 5061 8078 65536 65536 0 shmpages 1282 1298 32768 32768 0 dummy 0 0 0 0 0 numproc 17 18 999999 999999 0 physpages 2286 2357 0 2147483647 0 vmguarpages 0 0 32768 2147483647 0 oomguarpages 2286 2357 32768 2147483647 0 numtcpsock 4 7 7999992 7999992 0 numflock 3 5 999999 999999 0 numpty 2 2 500000 500000 0 numsiginfo 0 5 999999 999999 0 tcpsndbuf 93208 8940640 214748160 396774400 0 tcprcvbuf 65536 0 214748160 396774400 0 othersockbuf 11640 22352 214748160 396774400 0 dgramrcvbuf 0 8472 214748160 396774400 0 numothersock 15 17 7999992 7999992 0 dcachesize 0 0 2147483646 2147483646 0 numfile 544 565 23999976 23999976 0 dummy 0 0 0 0 0 dummy 0 0 0 0 0 dummy 0 0 0 0 0 numiptent 30 30 999999 999999 0Free Memory:
# free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 256 19 236 0 0 0 -/+ buffers/cache: 19 236 Swap: 0 0 0Disk space:
When the VPS was first deployed, the burstable RAM was set to 158MB, and I had trouble running yum update until I disabled the fastestmirrors plugin. They upgraded the burstable RAM to 256MB as a courtesy. The regular plan may still be 158MB burstable RAM (not sure).
@David – What are you using this VPS for? Customers?
@Jackk, right now I’m just testing it, and I’ve got the link to the test file up. Eventually I hope to use it as an extra backup server. This is just for personal stuff. I don’t have any customers.
My main VPS right now is with Linode.
@Jackk
By not loaded with customers, I think he means that BlazeVPS has not fully loaded the server with VPS Clients.
@Thomas – Ah – That would make more sense. LOL – Thanks for clearing that up.
Right, that’s what I meant. The server is probably not under heavy load yet with lots of VPS clients setup on it. Perhaps in a few weeks or a month, if it’s still up, the results will be different.
Support via email has been quick and responsive for me so far. They were able to enable the TUN adapter on my VPS.
@David – How did you place your results in the black code box earlier?
@Jackk, I didn’t, I think LEA must be cleaning it up and inserting the codes manually for the code box. If I knew of a way to do it, I would.
Ah – Thanks for the info though.
I’d like to invite everyone to give us a chance to service you. If you are not completely happy with your service within 7 Days, we will process your refund with no questions asked.
We are that confident that you will enjoy our service that we invite you to signup and give us a try. All of our servers feature RAID 10 configurations with Quad Dual Xeon’s with locations available in Chicago, London, Phoenix, and Orlando. We are here to provide you with outstanding customer service at rock bottom prices.
BlazeVPS is a new company however, we are here to service our customers and provide you top of the line service.
Do you accept paypal payment?
I’ve had 801 hits on my test file now, so far.
http://174.138.163.211/100mb.test
714 of them are from the same IP address from Spacerich/Hetzner. It looks like they’re putting it through a good test (for the last 12 hours and continuing). :)
I’ve got 80 GB of transfer used now.
Here’s a screenshot of the Traffic graph for the last 12 hours.
http://a.imageshack.us/img705/9492/b…ffic073010.png
The VPS is still running fine.
# uptime
19:59:51 up 1 day, 2:02, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Sorry, the Traffic graph is here:
http://a.imageshack.us/img705/9492/blazevpstraffic073010.png
Once BlazeVPS gains the trust of the “population” I’m sure their offer will be over….
Well.. im a sucker.. so I signed up.. this will be my 30th low end box (thats what it feels like!)
so far I cant tell the difference between this and any other low end box.. got activated in phoenix.
i’ll let people know if it starts to suck or vanishes or something.
from my server US
Thanks to everyone who helped test out the bandwidth. I’ve used around 800GB of transfer so far now, so I’ve removed the test files. Hopefully anybody that wanted to test it got a chance.
Here are graphs for the last 4 hours:
http://a.imageshack.us/img710/3623/blazevpstraffic080110.png
It was transferring around 30 MB/sec (240 mbps). At times during the testing it got up to 40 MB/sec (320 mbps).
The 100MB test file got 11,899 hits, and a larger 5GB test file I put up for somebody that wanted it got 223 hits. Obviously not all of them completed the transfer all the way through.
I also ran some disk tests today.
A “dd” with an if=/dev/zero writing a ~5GB file got 83.9 MB/s, and a file copy (read/write) of a ~5GB file got 39.1 MB/s.
David,
That doesn’t really sound like a hardware raid10 at all.
With the speeds you’re mentioning, it sounds like a single drive, but I could be wrong.
Francisco
Francisco: That sounds fairly decent for a RAID array seeing a lot of disk i/o, as you’d expect for a VPS node with a high number of VMs running. A single-file read or read/write operation isn’t really a great way to test disk i/o performance, IMO.
@Francisco, I know, there’s no way to know for sure, though. They did say they’re using SATA drives, and it’s possible they are under heavy use by other nodes on the same server. For comparison, on my Linode and Thrust::VPS (both of which use RAID 10) I typically get anywhere from 150-350 MB/s. And on a dedicated server I used to have that had a single SATA drive, I got 73 MB/s.
While the /20 for David’s IP belongs to SECUREDSERVERS, each individual /24 within that range points to CWIE LLC, a.k.a. Cavecreek, which provides colo in Phoenix.
Can anyone from Blaze VPS please issue TOS and AUP to enable me to make a decision about whether or not to take an account, as without this information I am stuck
Kind regards
Dorian
@Dorian
The lack of those two documents and the vague, inaccurate answers from the owner on WHT makes me extremely vary of this deal, but for $10/year .. it just might be worth it.
@user I wouldn’t mind taking a risk for $10 and was even considering more but as you say the lack those 2 very important documents basically make anything you do on their servers outside TOS and AUP so just putting something on a server could make you liable to hefty charges, that’s the risk I cant take (if that makes sense?) it would be like taking a job without knowing what your pay will be and what hours you should work
@Dorian,
I dont think they can legally prosecute since you never agreed to a TOS or AUP, at most they would just cancel your service. I’m more worried about privacy, security of my data on the server, and whether or not hes just scamming money and information. $10 I can live without, my personal information in the hands of a scammer is a different story
@User
Why in the world would you put any data in someone new and you aren’t trusting at all? If your data is at all important, then throw a few bucks more into your pot and you’ll get something from even a trust worthy company.
SUPPOSIDLY there is someone on WHT with damning evidence towards them, but there is nothing coming out to the public yet.
Francisco
^ -> http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showpost.php?p=6937407&postcount=139
(About the evidence frantido is talking about)
The owner only replies to the thread when ‘presales’ questions come up. He doesn’t reply to answer legitimacy questions (Which have been asked numerous times). While they have been providing support/setups etc. They way they went about it in the beginning (selling before having the gear to set the product up on) was far beyond fraudulent the way they started off is just bad business ethics.
Take it for what it’s worth but ‘Dinix’ has been disabled on WHT so he can’t post anymore. When the admins asked him a lot of questions he started to go quiet it seems.
Fran
Thanks for that Fran, that was the thing that was bugging me the most, the inability to answer peoples basic questions, I’m just a VPS newbie and some of the stories I see on here and WHT make me cringe.
Dorian
All of the VPSs at the Orlando location have been down for 12 hours now, and no one is sure what’s going on. BlazeVPS has been answering support tickets/emails saying that they’re working on it and will be giving something to make up for the down time, but it seems pretty bad.
My problem is that when I pay someone else to do something I expect them to be reasonably professional in the way they do things, I don’t look to see has the most customers or the shiniest office block, just a good approach in the way they do business with you.
It does look as though the hosting market whether it be VPS shared or dedicated is bursting at the seams with cowboys and scammer’s
Dorian
Have a UK based 128 MB VPS, is offline but the VPS Control Panel is up.
Seems it was a $10,- a week VPS because that’s how long it lasted.
Oh well, it may have been too good to be true. The search for a cheap, reliable VPS with the highest specs continues!
Peter: Are you sure yours is actually in the UK? I only ask because I had ordered one in the Chicago location but got one in Orlando instead.
I’d love to see what the IP is. Supposedly they had a RAID card fail in Orlando, but we’ll see.
Francisco
Taylor:
I don’t know for sure, because I got the following ticket reply:
“We are having problems with our Orlando node and I can move you to PHX free of charge and upgrade your package
Please let me know”
Orlando? PHX? no UK? :P I got “transferred” and upgraded (256 MB, 45 GB, 3 TB, instead of 128/25/1), but it’s a complete new VPS. Not that I had any data on it yet, but still.
So thing are working, have to say that the service isn’t that bad at all for a couple of cents a month (when it stays online all year).
Sounds like their nodes are being taken offline for some sort of reason.
Orlando is indeed off-line…accounts will be moved to Jacksonville, FL (at least mine will)
Phoenix is still active.
hi i ordered the 128MB for testing it was working fine with webmin control panel. only for $10/yr… its gr88
i wish their BZ-8010TB plan to be around 50-60$ i would really take a couple of servers from their all nodes.
As a heads up to everyone, hostdime has confirmed publicly that they did *not* pay their bills and were suspended because of it. Please don’t take any other lies about the Orlando VM’s.
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showpost.php?p=6947356&postcount=15
Take it for what it’s worth…
Looks like Secured Servers is more forgiving?
Or they paid it with another method/paypal.
Hostdime did state ‘ex-client’, meaning it sounds like they made no intention to correct the issue.
Francisco
Did anyone else get a full refund through 2Checkout/Paypal? I did, and got an email requesting that I pay through Google Checkout instead and that they are having trouble with 2checkout/Paypal.
My VPS is still running, but now I have an unpaid invoice for $10 through Google checkout. I mean, I’m willing to pay it because I’ve been happy with my purchase (I’ve probably already got $10’s usage out of it), but I’m just wondering what’s up with this.
dump em already ffs,
they have troubles with:
-hostdime (who have said they didn’t have a server til after thread, plus no raid issues)
-2checkout
-paypal
-gcheckout
-every other provider under the sun
Im not really recommending anyone sign up.. but I was provisioned with a phoenix vps quickly after I ordered
it (almost 2 weeks ago) and its been rock solid and just as good as any other VPS i’ve had.
i to got the refund via 2Checkout/Paypal 2 days back.
i can state that their servers are working fine only problem with the payment process.
most of the people and i want to pay via paypal.
company asked me to pay by googlecheckout or authorize.net
and they also said that the offer will end on 20th aug..
@santosh: were do you have your VPS? The one I have in Phoenix is running since day 1, the others not :-(
Location: AZ, Phoenix
Status: Online
running CP webmin
Anybody has a VPS with them that is NOT located in Phoenix, AZ, and that is realy working?
I have 2 vps on this Host company, they in Phoenix, AZ, But I want in London.
@AlexuSSS – Have you asked to be moved to London?
Francisco
Well, they seem to have update their page. And it seems that the super promotion has ended.
@David – What I find interesting is that all of the plans got a serious resizing, no more 8 – 10TB of bandwidth included. I’m curious if this is retroactive on everyone or just new signups – care to take a gander at your stats?
Francisco
@David — also I think you have failed to mention that you are the on designing their new website? It says
at the bottom of the page. What’s your affiliation with them?
@LowEndAdmin I have no affiliation with them. My designing a site template for them was merely an act of kindness. I finally got my VPS set up by them after them missing my order once. After that, everything went smoothly. Then I passed it on to my friend, from that point he ordered a package. And he was set up (in less time than myself (which irked me a little)). He then went on to say “dude, their sites sucks man. It’s pitiful.”
I, being the eccentric designer that I am, decided to throw a template at them to help them out. My reasoning was, I’m not going to use a service that has a landing page that was created by TextEdit’s rich text feature.
@Francisco From what I can tell, they’re going to honor all orders placed under the past promotion. Then, from this point, they will go under these rates.
Not sure how they will honor them. Ordered 4 VPSes from them, all in different locations. Got Phoenix (still running), got one in Florida. This one was up for about a day and then down. Got a refund (as everyone using 2Checkout). And since then they promised to get the 2 others (new one in Florida and the one in Chicago) up-and-running. And they didn’t. We had a large discussion on it. Filled a dispute with Google CheckOut as they postphoned the refund all the time. And suddently large part of the ticket with the discussion is gone…oops we had to do a restore.
Pointed them to it and only asked if I had AIM. The simply don’t do the refund, don’t setup the 2 other VPSes and ignore the request from Google CheckOut.
I ordered one in UK.
Its in pending state for 30hours now.
I’m also a bit confused about the broken DNS :
nslookup -query=ns blazevps.com
blazevps.com nameserver = ns6.dinixhost.com
blazevps.com nameserver = ns5.dinixhost.com
nslookup ns5.dinixhost.com
*** ns5.dinixhost.com Non-existent domain
nslookup ns6.dinixhost.com
*** ns6.dinixhost.com Non-existent domain
Hmm, it’s indeed broken – http://www.intodns.com/blazevps.com. Assume they last updated 19/Aug, there are 35 more days before the domain goes unresolved, unless they fix it before the SOA expiry.
Be very, very wary of “hosts” who don’t have a clue about DNS. As seems to be the case with BlazeVPS, they often don’t have a clue about anything else, either…
Just an update on these guys.. Its too bad they werent just honest in the first place :) because
their server in phoenix is fairly good.
20:34:57 up 29 days, 21:11, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Hope it sticks around
20:40:54 up 29 days, 23:10, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
But the 2 others I ordered from them are not running at all. The only in Orlando was up for maybe 1 days and since then nothing anymore. The one that was ordered in Chicago well never received anything about it.
A refund request is simply not honnored. It’s now even going via Google CheckOut. Still they are “trying” to sell me another VPS in Jacksonville, while I ordered Orlando. Wonder how long it will be before I get my $20 back. I know it’s just $20, but from a principes point of view I want it back.
Ya its too bad they were not honest about the other locations.
If they are willing to put the VPS you ordered in Orlando on a Jacksonville server, I would take that because
Orlando is gone and is probably not coming back.
@Joe Merit: after about a month that’s all they can do? In a support ticket they already told me that they were going to do that on Aug .., then it was a week later then nothing….the ticket I have with them is full of lies about the setup of the VPSes. There is still the Chicago VPS and there was even at first an order for Seatlle. Also for these a lot of promises (with dates) and none kept.
Good luck with that, I just suggested it as at least you would
be getting something for your money.. but maybe Jacksonville
doesn’t even exist.
I’m not defending them, was just reporting in that phoenix
was still fine.
Orlando didn’t get paid for, even at first. Their payment got retracted is what word on the street is, hense the sudden ditch. I’m not sure what DC’s are in Jacksonville, but if they don’t have SEA/CHI/UK online, I doubt they’ll get Jacksonville open either.
I’m glad Phoenix is still online, but for how long? who knows…
Francisco
For anyone who is considering a RackVM VPS as mentioned here. AVOID RACKVM LIKE THE PLAGUE. They are straight up con artists – they don’t even make an effort to hide it. Do a search here or on WHT and you’ll find pages and pages of people who have been scammed.
As if BlazeVPS is so much better….ordered 3 VPSes from them at the end of July. 1 is running. Rest not. Have already for a couple of weeks now a dispute open via Google CheckOut, only thing they do is pass on the info to BlazeVPS, who then tells them (after 4-5 days) that I refuse a refund and that they are willing to deliver parts and refund some. But they simply don’t/can’t deliver not refund apparently :-(
@Anon, I don’t know what your problem is with RackVM, but I’ve had a VM with them in the UK for a few months now and it’s been great!
@Hughesey — still up?
For what it’s worth my Phoenix VPS has been running strong since beginning of Aug.
Just received a full refund from Google Checkout and as reason they gave “We no longer allow DinixLlc to process orders using Google Checkout”
Currently also Phoenix Node 3 is unreachable ?!
My phoenix vps is still up but its having problems, all the programs on my server dont think
there is any diskspace left. strangely enough I can wget anything and it doesn’t mind writing
to the disk.
I think its safe to say that this vps is on its last legs.. cant write files, files disapearing,
and the control panel doesnt work :(
Have you logged a ticket?
No the billing/support system doesn’t let me login, doesn’t say bad password, just doesn’t do anything. sure looks like nobody is home and
its about to just give out any day.
My advise is get what data you can out and look at something else. At this point most people have seen pretty close to what they put into it in returned service so it isn’t too hurting.
Francisco
I’m able to login to the billing control panel, but it won’t let me get past the captcha to submit a ticket. I’m also not able to access the SolusVM control panel, and the disk space has had some issues the past few days.
A few moments ago it was reporting this:
# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/simfs 1.3G 771M 0 100% /
none 128M 4.0K 128M 1% /dev
And now it’s reporting this (from 1.3G size to 21G size):
# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/simfs 21G 771M 0 100% /
none 128M 4.0K 128M 1% /dev
And this is on a plan with 25GB disk space. But the VPS itself is up, and it seems to continue to let me write to the disk for the time being.
# uptime
12:17:27 up 47 days, 18:19, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
I don’t count on this vps for anything. It was mostly a curiosity due to the low price. I emailed dinix about SolusVM and the disk space a few hours ago, so I’ll see if he responds.
I can explain why you can’t login.
It’s quite likely that the billing server is on the same box, which means there isn’t enough space to create your session files.
You won’t be able to login/etc until you clear out more space. At this point it seems he’s going to be in a nasty catch 22 unless he gets more space or ‘oops’ a server. If there is no space, he can’t send invoices, but if he can’t send invoices, he can’t collect new cash/payments/etc.
Fran
Hello, My VPS on Ph Node 3 is still running
df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/simfs 25G 2.5G 23G 10% /
tmpfs 79M 0 79M 0% /lib/init/rw
tmpfs 79M 0 79M 0% /dev/shm
But ControlPanel is also not reachable from here.
@Francisco (BuyVM)
I think you shouldn’t throw bricks when you live in a glass house.
Seems someone reads this or someone actually got through to them, things are fine now
and now there is space available again which means things (like the control panel) actually
work again.
@blue – there’s a pretty big difference between how we run our things and how blaze has been. :P
@Joe – excellent, how about your billing access?
Francisco
I spoke too soon.. there was HDD space available and things were working and
then an hour later it all got up and disappeared.
an hour ago:
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/simfs 26214400 580560 14788756 4% /
now:
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/simfs 22476272 580572 0 100% /
Dinix emailed me back and said “We are waiting on fixing it.” At the moment, the disk space looks like it’s back to normal and I can login to SolusVM again.
# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/simfs 25G 771M 14G 6% /
none 128M 4.0K 128M 1% /dev
Node just died… I wonder if thats the end for Blaze
yep
Their website is not resolving — their NS are down. It only happens in the last couple of hours though. We’ll see whether they get resurrected.
My BlazeVPS in Phoenix, AZ has been down more than 3 hours now, and I’m not able to access SolusVM or the blazevps website, either. It’s been exactly 2 months. I was able to contact Dinix through the gmail address on the dinixhost whois, and he said they are working on restoring it.
what did he say the problem is? Seems like it’s the beginning of the end
@Lucas, he didn’t say what the problem was. There was still continuing disk space issues last time I checked while it was still up, though. It is interesting that it went down exactly 2 months after my order. I have a ping test that runs every minute, and it went down on Sept. 27, 2010 at 21:00 UTC.
$10 for 2 months, not so cheap, hehe
@Pineapple, it’s been a learning experience. :)
I was about to get a VPS from them until I read this thread a few weeks ago, the stuff in July scared the crap out of me :( I’ve got several BuyVM VPSes right now and they’re working really good – I host all my main stuff on them (DB, email, etc). Very glad I didn’t choose BlazeVPS.
I will try to get my money back if its not back up in 48hrs, I’ve had luck getting money refunded by google before when yearly prepaid services disappear after a few months.
The company is fraudulent. I just called Visa to have the charge reversed. Their website disappeared, the phone number on record from the dns (also the same number they filed with visa) has been disconnected… they basically took our money and ran
That phone number has always been fake. Not that it makes a big difference.
Interesting… Hosted on HostGator now?
> blazevps.com
Non-authoritative answer:
blazevps.com
primary name server = ns1071.hostgator.com
responsible mail addr = root.gator536.hostgator.com
serial = 2010092901
refresh = 86400 (1 day)
retry = 7200 (2 hours)
expire = 3600000 (41 days 16 hours)
default TTL = 86400 (1 day)
Yup. And showing an empty page. Possibly another one to be added to deadpool this month?
мать его за ногу!!! Dinix is idiot!!! I’ll find him and tear him ass!
I have his personal info and I’ll leak it if this isn’t resolved. :)
@pin What good will that do?
Ohh… i paid him the amount $10 x 4 vps but the amount was reurned by c2c. due to some problem i mailed c2c i came to know verification and some problem was there….
i asked blazevps to provide the Regno. of the company but he didn’t..
i used his service for 2months with out a cent….
i though to pay him via alertpay ….think i was lucky thank god i haven’t paid him ….
thanks .
i would ask LOWENDBOX to check the Company and then provide the deals…..
PLzz….
Admin of LOWENDBOX please check company before write his deal to blog. And please do list of SCAM company.
Check how? It’s easy to say but this is low end vps community with plenty new companies. Some aren’t even companies, but what rest of people around have to do with this?
Same datas available to lowendadmin are also available to you, so don’t be lazy excpecting that other people will do research for you. Check company before your order by yourself!
In my opinion LEA did a good job in providing readers pretty informative details on all entries, for example – DNS redundancy, company records with the legistration authority, comments in WHT, etc etc. Besides, it is your money hence it is your responsibility in deciding whether to trust the company or entity.
@AlexuSSS — the notice at the very top of the post was pretty much there at the beginning. I’ll try to put out warnings if I can find it, but unfortunately, as Spirit said, I have about the same amount the info as you do.
It is great to see the community coming together to find early hints on whether the company is sustainable though.
@AlexuSSS: not sure why you’re putting the responsibility on LEA for this. LEA posts what he gets/finds. If you want to use the posted offer, and you want to know more about the company that is being posted, then do some research.
Hello,
This game is over.
Google refunded in minutes and there Upstream said contracts ended Monday 27.09.2010.
klam, how did you go about getting the google refund?
Login to google checkout and get the order# from the blazevps transaction, and then
go into the help section and find the claim form. File a claim!
Claim form is here:
http://checkout.google.com/support/bin/request.py?contact_type=claimb
Google wrote back and said “we don’t allow Blaze to use Google Checkout” but they won’t refund my money, I’m to chase it down with my Credit Card company.
nuf said!
DRG
As of today we have acquired the BlazeVPS assets. If you were a BlazeVPS customer please can I ask you to email me at rghf@blazevps.com
Thanks
Could you explain in what that would help? We will get the requested refunds from you? Or …?
We have an email we are sending out to customers. There are details in there of what we might be able to do
Then I’ll await that email to see what you can do…
@ Rus,Can I ask something that might sound silly, but what exactly did you aquire? I was under the impression that Blaze did not own any hardware and that they purely leased a server that they did not pay for….
We have a list of customers and the domainname so in essences assests and goodwill. No physical items however
Ah OK thanks I was confused, sorry if the question sounded silly
The site is taking time to load, and when it loads, I got an error that “The site is potentially malicious”.