Justin, from BlueVM, has sent in three special offers available in six locations across the United States. BlueVM also has servers in Zurich, Switzerland but that location is not included in this offer. BlueVM Communications LLC are based in Colorado and are dedicated to offering “low cost, high quality Virtual Private Servers (VPS)”. Their hardware consists of primarily Intel E3-1240 servers (@ 3.4GHz) with 32 GB of RAM and 4 x 1 or 2 TB RAID10 Hard Drives. We have featured BlueVM numerous times since early 2012. As you may have read on our forum, BlueVM have developed their own control panel called Feathur. A review of their service (which includes Feathur screenshots & serverbear link) can be found here. If you sign up, let us know how you get on.
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BlueVM accept PayPal Bitcoin (via BitPay). Due to abuse of their previous refund policy, they no longer offer refunds on their services except in special cases. They provide a 99.99% uptime guarantee and provide service credits if they fail to meet this. According to their website, they undersell (typically they leave 500GB of HDD space free and 2-4GB of ram free). For more information, have a read of their Terms of Service.
Network Information
Buffalo, New York
Test IPv4: s1.ny.bluevm.com
Test File: http://s1.ny.bluevm.com/100mb.test
Los Angeles, California
Test IPv4: s1.ca.bluevm.com
Test File: http://s1.ca.bluevm.com/100mb.test
Atlanta, Georgia
Test IPv4: s1.atl.bluevm.com
Test File: http://s1.atl.bluevm.com/100mb.test
Dallas, Texas
Test IPv4: s1.tx.bluevm.com
Test File: http://s1.tx.bluevm.com/100mb.test
Chicago, Illinois
Test IPv4: s1.il.bluevm.com
Test File: http://s1.il.bluevm.com/100mb.test
Piscataway, New Jersey
Test IPv4: s1.nj.bluevm.com
Test File: http://s1.nj.bluevm.com/100mb.test
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Hurting for money, eh?
This post was submitted to LEB’s help desk a month and a half ago… The special has been on our specials page awaiting this post since the 1st of the month.
I will not purchase from you.First of all you have to applogize heyman company and promise every that you never do such scam again.
I discussed this matter on the LET thread and I spoke with Heymman and resolved the situation.
After they went public about the money that BlueVM owes them, BlueVM quickly changed their mind and paid their bill. Hopefully, its not something that happens too often.
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@Justin
Would you add the Zurich offer too?
We’re unfortunately out of IP space in Zurich at this time otherwise we would…
how they make profit for this price if they dont overselling?
will try grab one tomorrow
This is bothering me that your tags aren’t matching for bluevm.
otherwise got one, we’ll see how it goes.
I have been a BlueVM customer since last year, and I just got another VPS, too. (the BLUE2 plan)
Despite an issue I had regarding the network a few months ago (which was promptly fixed up by support) everything has and is working well. Would recommend.
Need to update the screenshot!
Yeah! that is true…
Ordered one last night, and tried it today. The Feathur looks simple. I started SSH service, but cannot ssh to it via Putty. Just opened the ticket, and see what I will get back.
If you do not already have a response to your ticket feel free to give it to me here and I’ll gladly take a look.
Thanks! It’s actually fixed. I had to reset the root password via feathur.
Glad to hear it… let us know if you need anything else!
What I ordered is CA box, but based on IP, it’s NY one. I open the ticket 3 hours ago, but have not heard back yet. I would appreciate it if you can take a look at it. ticket#: 805836.
I’ve looked into your ticket. Long story short: Your VPS is in CA.
Got it. I really appreciate it. For those who are still thinking, I suggest to give it a shoot. The price is unbeatable and the performance is as good as what it states so far.
Thanks again!
Can someone post speedtest results? I would like to compare to my current vps provider as well as the Atlanta BlueVM server I am currently on.
Thank you!
I figured I’d give you two speed tests from two different methods:
CacheFly:
Buffalo: 81.0 MB/s (648.0 Mbps)
New Jersey: 87.3 MB/s (698.4 Mbps)
Atlanta: 79.2 MB/s (633.6 Mbps)
Dallas: 111.0 MB/s (888.0 Mbps)
Los Angeles: 100.0 MB/s (800.0 Mbps)
Chicago, Illinois: 79.4 MB/s (635.2 Mbps)
SpeedTest.Net:
Buffalo: http://www.speedtest.net/result/3311649581.png
New Jersey: http://www.speedtest.net/result/3311653138.png
Atlanta: http://www.speedtest.net/result/3311665145.png
Dallas: http://www.speedtest.net/result/3311667774.png
Los Angeles: http://www.speedtest.net/result/3311669847.png
Chicago, Illinois: http://www.speedtest.net/result/3311673828.png
these are optimistic to say the least. are they from w/in the datacenter? the one I got in NY had a hard time making 0.5MB – to a known server elsewhere, and has been down much the time since I got it. Never once exceeded 2MB.
Picked one up for myself last night, it’s a solid server. I wanted to take a moment and thank Jordan from support — he was helpful and helped me with an issue that turned out to be my fault. Thanks guys!
All Servers Hosted in Different DC’s through CC (ColoCrossing) ??
I tested all of the download links and get the best result from the Buffalo link. It was about 650KB/s (because my connection speed is 6Mbps). So I went ahead and ordered the Buffalo server.
The actual speed on the Buffalo server I ordered was ridiculously slow, it was only 30 to 35 KB/s, sometimes it even dropped to 10KB/s. Yes I could rarely see it went up to 78KB/s and only lasted for a few seconds. That was 1/20 compared to the test link at most time. I tested it by uploading a large file and download it using the browser. I don’t think this is acceptable. This is totally different from the test link and I think they are cheating. I have contacted the support yesterday and they said they will investigate it but still got no any further response from them.
If you happen to have a ticket number I’ll gladly take a look and see if we can help resolve your issue.
My ticket ID is 532314.
One of your support staff replied, said that he were unable to reproduce the issue.
However, this issue can never be reproduced from your side. It can only be reproduced from my side. The issue is NOT slow downloading files TO the VM, the issue is when downloading FROM the Buffalo test link TO my computer, it downloads at a very fast speed (around 600KB/s to 650KB/s), but the actual speed that download FROM the Buffalo VM TO my computer is ultimately slow – 30KB/s, and today it’s even slower – around 22KB/s.
I don’t know how you are going to solve the issue, but I feel rather angry because this is not a slightly difference between the test link and the actual VM I order, but a huge difference that huge enough for me to ask for a refund.
Took a look at your ticket again… perhaps we can try a different location that is closer to you geographically and should have better peering.
Thank you for following up the issue. I really would like to choose a better location if it improves, but I’m afraid the connection speed from your other servers to my location is much worse. I have taken screenshots of downloading the test files from all of the locations. I’ll update my ticket with the screenshots. Here’s the brief result:
Atlanta: 13.6KB/s
Buffalo: 518KB/s
Chicago: 6.9KB/s
Dallas: 11.0KB/s
LA: 6.4KB/s
Piscataway: 24.0 KB/s
According to the results, I don’t think I would be interested in changing a location since these locations are worse even downloading from the test link.
I currently have three other VPSes hosted in Buffalo, Forsyth and Henderson by three other different companies, but none of them has a poor transfer rate to my location like this. I can get an average of about 300KB/s to 450KB/s transfer rate when downloading files from those servers. When I tested your Buffalo test file and saw it held at the 650KB/s transfer rate, I was convinced by the speed, that’s why I didn’t hesitate to order your Buffalo VPS. So I would like to cancel my service and ask for a refund.
Thank you.
I’ll update the ticket with the same content in this reply and with my screenshots for your company.
You really should not close the ticket when my problem is still not solved. You only said that you can try a different location. I thought you were making a suggestion but I didn’t even answer whether I will or will not accept your suggestion, and you closed my ticket yourself. I replied the ticket to reopen the issue. I still got no further response but I saw you replied others’ question here so I assume you already know my issue is still open but maybe you or your company didn’t care enough to solve the issue.
What your company did made me feel uncomfortable. I paid my order but I didn’t get the same product as you advertised, so I’ll make a request to cancel my account now, and wait for your full refund. I will not accept any other suggestions. I’ll wait an additional 24 hours for you to refund, and if I don’t receive a positive response in the next 24 hours, I’ll file a charge back immediately.
I hate to be a pain, but our log shows that the ticket hasn’t been closed: http://pbrd.co/1nLhlpB
I’ve replied to your ticket again with response… I’d prefer to try and help you resolve the issue… please keep me updated on the ticket.
Regarding the ticket status, sorry about that misunderstanding. I saw the message “There are no known issues at this time” in my client area, and my ticket was right below it and showing an “answered” status. That message was misleading and made me think my ticket has been removed from the open ticket list. I saw this message and status again after you replied me again, so I finally know that it was a misunderstanding. Sorry about that.
Back to the topic, what I want is really simple. If I can’t get the similar download speed from my VM as your test link, this product/service is not what I was ordering. I want a refund. There is such a huge download speed difference between your test link and the actual VM, I can hardly believe your company this time, and the actual speed is so horrible that making the VM impossible to utilize at all.
Can you accept buying a VM with 25GB disk space that you wanted to host your own files for backup use but it can only transfer at a 30KB/s transfer rate to your computer, but during your pre-sales test it gave your a 600-650KB/s impression? NO, ABSOLUTELY NO. That’s all. Refund and let’s try to end our first deal with a smile. I don’t want to be angry, but ignoring my refund request and still asking if I need anything else is pushing me angry. It’s not necessary to do that. Please understand I’ve already made the decision, please refund.
It turns out BlueVM is a scam. You canceled my service, but you didn’t refund. Does your company make money in this way all the time?
Do you have any discounts in Europe servers?
Unfortunately we’re out of IP space in Europe at the moment. You’re welcome to submit a ticket around the 1st of the month to see if we’ve processed any cancellations or if we’ve gotten any new IP space.
lol over over sold
I do have a little box with BlueVM and no problems so far. I am very happy!
Glad to hear it, feel free to submit a ticket if you have any issues…
how about disk i/o? are these ssd-cached offers?
These are SSD Cached offers. I did a quick DD on a few servers:
root@s21:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync; unlink test
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 3.40251 s, 316 MB/s
[root@s3 ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync; unlink test
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 4.79841 seconds, 224 MB/s
root@ny7:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync; unlink test
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 3.47513 s, 309 MB/s
root@s1tx:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync; unlink test
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 6.16399 s, 174 MB/s
Fast speed even from kenya… its a good vps service. I am a happy coustumer.
Glad to hear it, let us know if you need anything…
Just ordered one !! So far so good…..
[root@server ~]# wget freevps.us/downloads/bench.sh -O – -o /dev/null|bash
CPU model : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1240 v3 @ 3.40GHz
Number of cores : 4
CPU frequency : 3400.142 MHz
Total amount of ram : 2048 MB
Total amount of swap : 2048 MB
System uptime : 46 min,
Download speed from CacheFly: 66.6MB/s
Download speed from Coloat, Atlanta GA: 47.0MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Dallas, TX: 65.4MB/s
Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 9.10MB/s
Download speed from i3d.net, Rotterdam, NL: 8.72MB/s
Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 9.77MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Singapore: 5.53MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Seattle, WA: 24.5MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 26.8MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Washington, DC: 34.1MB/s
I/O speed : 214 MB/s
Are these offers available out of Dallas? I did not see them listed.
They are, but we’re limited on space there at the moment. If you open a ticket I’ll see to getting you one…
I have opened a ticked at 5:00 pm. I still have not received a response now 4 1/2 hours later. Curious as your site shows you have 24 hour support. Is this true? Are response times always this slow ?
Billing/Sales hours are 9 AM to 5 PM MST.
I am a BlueVM customer since last year. Ever since I was moved to another location, 19 out of 20 times I cannot connect with the VPS. Sometimes it take sup to 20-30 attempts to do so, sometimes it simply does not connect. This morning, I got into password prompt, entered password, 10 minutes later I am still waiting to get in. Another session window opened times out. This is BlueVM.
I’d love to take a look… do you happen to have a ticket number I can reference? Also some information about where you are connecting from vs the VPS location would help…
It was #612215 and #449816.
Last I received reply there was a problem with the node, and that it was resolved, after that I have NOT had problems trying to connect at random intervals.
What it quite bothersome, though, is that every time I log in I get a message there were hundreds or thousands of failed login attempts since my last login. This is a new IP so I do not think somebody would be just trying random IPs, and the samething was happening with old IP. I do not run anything besides youtube download script with no server mods and OS is basically fresh install. So I do not think there would be exploit. Can you look into that please? Thank you.
Please reply to ticket #522225
It appears another technician responded to your ticket about 7 hours ago…
It appears another technician responded to your ticket about 7 hours ago…
I have a couple of BlueVM VPS, there has been a couple of glitches over the last year (one was just billing) but it was all quickly fixed. I would recommend them.
hi :) really great price for the service. im pay with your paypal subscribe method, can i know when the offer expired. is my next bill will charge with new price or still with this great price? thanks
Thanks to these wonderful NEW offers my good deal from 2012 came to a crashing halt.
Since this is a long story, I’ll sum up at the start and say that when I finally needed my control panel it didn’t work at all, and instead of being able to reload my OS, I was abruptly given a new IP elsewhere, and only half the RAM of my original deal – which is still not quite as good as their most recent offers.
I’ll qualify this by stating my appreciation for Justin’s efforts to “make things right”. I got a VPS from Blue VM that’s been running greta since Oct 2012. I originally intended to get one in CHI and one in LA because their offers at the time looked so good – and they included DOUBLE the RAN of their standard plans. Well on invoice #6271 I had their BLUE3 256/512 and the “special” per my understnading, included 512M guarenteed RAM. Not since I finally needed to use the control panel when my server choked on an upgrade -when I finally did finds the link for the control panel, nothing on it worked, though it did last year. Justin did tar my entire machine, but gave it a web address without even a password, this would have been OK but it was hell trying to get a response from anyone to take it down one I’d received it, and there was no way to get the machine running at all.
All I wanted was my original VPS, and the knowledge that I could completely erase and restore it from the provided images.
Not true in this case.
hey a few typoes – sorry – the gist is clear.
to clean up the obvious erors in the comment I hope you did not post yet:
“… (corrected)
I got a VPS from Blue VM that’s been running great since Oct 2012. I originally intended to get one in CHI and one in LA because their offers at the time looked so good – and they included DOUBLE the RAN of their standard plans.
I was lucky to get one that wasn’t DOA that matched my order, having got past that part
on invoice #6271 I had their BLUE3 and “double” RAM at that time gave me 512 until yesterday!
When I recently needed to use the control panel nothing on it worked, though it did last year. Justin did tar my entire machine, but gave the tarball a web address without even a password, This would have been OK but it was hell trying to get a response from anyone to take it down once I’d received it, and there was no way to get the machine running at all, because the control panel still did not work and nobody there bothered to reboot or proeperly migrate it.
All I wanted was my original VPS, and the knowledge that I could completely erase and restore it from the provided images.
Not true in this case. I didn’t find I had a new IP address until I logged in to Feathur. The other machine in that panel btw, has not been performing reliably enough for me to trust, and has been inaccessible ablout half of the time, sometimes with a “no route to host” when I try to ssh.
I repeatedly asked for my old VPS so I could erase and reintall myself, what I got was a VPS with half the RAM and an OS I never use on an IP from Chicago VPS.
– David
IndyRadio
I made the further mistake of ordering one of their annual specials at the NY locations – it has almost no connectivity and about half of the time that I’ce tried ssh it responds with “no route to host”. With this giy “Jeff Fihrman as their support, I don’t see much of a future for this company unless they’re in a hurry to quickly build a long list of customers and then sell.
When I tried rebuilding it, the indicator spun for about an hour, and my ticket was ignored until I yelled on their IRC. I ‘ve asked for a refund on the NY acc’t and instead of a response from billing, got a long tirade from this Jeff Fuhrman who has time to chew out a customer, but apparently no time to solve trouble requests. This operation is in sad shape. I absolutely would never recommend them.
just for info, i buy their BLUE3 OpenVZ 3.99usd/m NY server. my location in singapore and the connection are pretty good. got almost 95% my internet speed when downloaded something from the server to my pc. and never having any problem till now :)
I have cancelled both of my VMs with this company. They are worse than useless.
It turns out BlueVM is a scam. You canceled my service, but you didn’t refund. Does your company make money in this way all the time?
As per our TOS we do not offer refunds. We aren’t trying to scam anyone and we offered to work with you to try different locations and servers (the offer is still open).
Then tell me how do I use the poor server at 30KB/s download speed? And after I requested to cancel my account, I can no longer connect to your server. That’s funny, you always say you are going to solve my problem but you actually did nothing.
Let me tell you what you have done if you don’t know what you were doing:
1. You took my money.
2. You gave a different product that totally different from the one you offered before I paying.
3. You then blocked or canceled my access to your servers. I only accessed your server for 2 days to find out it was not the same product I was ordering. And the product then returned.
4. You told me you don’t refund.
After all this you still want me to trust you? NO WAY SCAMEER. I already raised a dispute on PayPal, and I’ll certainly raise it to a PayPal claim. I’ve also contacted my bank for preparing a charge back. If you still pretend you would like to solve my problem after you have blocked my access to your VM, you are not just a scammer but also a troller. You and your company solves problems in such a unprofessional way. This is the worst service I’ve ever seen.
When I made the mistake of “working with them”, I originally wanted 2 VMs. One could not be made to work, and the made the mistake of cancelling the wrong one twice. It was a full month before I had stable service on one VM, and at the end of the affair, they posted a tar of my entire server on a public URL, with now password, denied me access to my original machine, and “provisioned me a new machine” with half the RAM of my original order. I have the entire process saved in email. It is a serious waste of time to avoid if you have reall need for a VPS. I don’t know if you’d call it a scam, but they do play quite a shell game moving their IPs around between different cities and the final one they assigned was from Chicago VPS.
is torrent for private use allowed here or not?
If you guys are looking for a review on BlueVM’s performance , I have a reveiw here with bandwidth , HDD test etc http://vpstip.com/bluevm-vps-review/
I don’t have your service yet.
How much are your additional ips?
BlueVM may not be perfect but for what you pay you definitely get more than what you pay for. My VPS has solid uptime, and I just LOVE the feathur control panel. The feathur control panel is really elegant and works amazingly well. Kudos to Justin and co.
Two words: Packet loss.
85+% for most of today, and it’s been horrible all week. I (unfortunately) signed up for a yearly plan and they do not offer pro-rated refunds. Buyer beware.
bluevp vps working good for now with the great price. and thanks for the new coupon. :)
I am on Blue4 (CA) plan over about 6month.
Here is my bench..
lax@lax:~$ dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync; unlink test
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 53.6141 s, 20.0 MB/s
lax@lax:~$ bash bench.sh
CPU model : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1240 v3 @ 3.40GHz
Number of cores : 7
CPU frequency : 1748.434 MHz
Total amount of ram : 2048 MB
Total amount of swap : 2048 MB
System uptime : 66 days, 20:49,
Download speed : (37.1MB/s)
I/O speed : 28.8MB/s
Ordered a VM about 30hrs ago, does it normally take this long to get a new VM built?
most places seem to do it in 10-15 mins if not instant.
Is the special price of $15 per year Blue2 for a year only or a permanent price?
If you like to throw your money away, I suggest buying Bitcoins instead.
But if you want to get a broken VPS with no IP and slow response times, these guys are great with that.
At least ChicagoVPS gave me a working server. At least every host I’ve ever been with got me started with a working server within the 5 days. THAT’S 120 HOURS AND COUNTING BY THE WAY.
i have 3 bluevm vps. 1 blue3/50gb buffalo NY, and 2 blue4/100gb dallas. never get any real problem for now, just slow respond sometimes :)
1Gbps port speed? seriously?
http://www.speedtest.net/result/3342678200.png
http://serverbear.com/benchmark/2014/03/04/GjA37hn6x4Z6EUoF
benchmark BLUE3
The network speeds are so so so so so slow
lol what did you expect with there new offers these servers will be overloaded to death
Hey there BlueVM I am really interested in this good offer for 15 $ for a year plan, however I was wondering if you have a free space at your European server since I would like to have my vps in Europe cause its closer to me. If you have please let me know so I can purchase it. Thanks for the good deal!
Their support is amazingly slow. I have had a ticket 457287 open for days now with no resolution.
I have resolved this ticket, please let us know if you need anything else.
Hello there! What about my question about the European vps? Thanks mate!
I have nothing but bad things to say about their service, and I just started using them a few weeks ago.
My server always got restarted, and I haven’t installed or done anything. The longest uptime is 1.5 days. I don’t know whats wrong with the server, but usually at certain time of the day the server will start going slow and hang, and there’s nothing you can do about it. Even tried restarting it or kill it via openVZ, but nope, no cant do. Put out a support ticket and they just restart the server, and it happens all over again the next day. If you see their twitter, there’s nothing but restart tweet.
I guess you get what you paid for.
I have two KVM virtual machines with BlueVM, running low-volume email servers. Those two required several reboots in the first few days, but have now been completely stable for a month.
Yesterday I ordered an OpenVZ VPS from BlueVM to experiment with some VPN software. PPTP worked well, but IPSEC requires a kernel module that didn’t exist. I contacted support, expecting them to tell me that it just wouldn’t be possible for me to run IPSEC in my VPS. A few minutes later a technician contacted me to tell me he had moved my container to a “testing” version of OpenVZ that is supposed to permit IPSEC, and that he’d love to hear whether I could get it working. Sure enough, I was able install racoon and xl2tpd in Debian and connect to my VPS using the built-in Mac OS X IPSEC client.
Considering how little I’m paying for these servers, I’m extremely happy with the service and support I’m getting from BlueVM, and am happy to recommend them to others.
It was asked before but no response.
Do you allow torrent for personal usage?
BlueVM Network Status
as of Thursday, March 20, 2014, 02:58:08 UTC
BlueVM
Buffalo, New York Online
Atlanta, Georgia Online
Los Angeles, California Online
Chicago, Illinois Online
Dallas, Texas Online <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
Piscataway, New Jersey Online
Zurich, Switzerland Online
However.. In the 'client area' you get told three nodes are hosed because they don't test before using production nodes are guinepigs :(
S7, 8 and 9 in Texas
3/19/2014
We have to reboot S7, S8 and S9 in Texas because of a driver update. It should be up again shortly.
BLUE2 OpenVZ package openvpn do you agree ?
I want to buy BLUE4 OpenVZ.