Francisco @ Frantech pointed me out to this WHT offer here. We did profiled Frantech quite a while ago and only until recently they still did not have a proper website. Looks like things are changing. While Frantech.ca has moved to VMWare hosting with higher price virtual servers, they are also branching out a new division, BuyVM, to offer OpenVZ servers on the low end. For $5.95/month you get
- 512MB memory
- 50GB storage
- 2000GB/month data transfer
- OpenVZ/SolusVM
And it is not a BurstNET reseller! The servers are in fact in Fremont CA with HE.net (I’ve got 2 VM there in the same DC and they are great). Good West Coast location for Asia/Australia users.
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I also have problem with my vps, it keeps offline, no customer service reply yet. I guess there are power off from the central server? Hope it will resolve soon.
@LEB
I purchased the domain off Andrew, him and I are pretty good friends these days. He had the domain for sale on WHT a while back.
@Calvin
We have a single node offline that we’re finalizing a FSCK on. It keeps throwing up in the middle of it so it’s acting up 🙁 I’ve been able to get access to the data finally so worst case we’ll extract VM’s.
You can request a credit and we’ll give you one since we know this has been quite the headache.
Thanks again,
Francisco
Hi fransisco, I have submitted ticket support a day ago but no support has replied me yet. Could I just ask a refund or you just switch my account into the working node? I dont have anything installed in the vps yet, so it’s not really problem for me because I just wanted to test propagation and such.
I cant wait till my vps is online again
Hey there,
This node is back online as of a few hours ago. In the end we let the FSCK run for over 9 hours after trying the other 2 times. It didn’t complete fully so we simply pulled as much data as we could and setup a new node.
Please let us know if you have a VM that’s acting up. If you can, you should reinstall your VM.
If you have any issues you can either do a ticket or email me at deltaanime@gmail.com
Thanks again for your patience,
Francisco
yes it works again, thanks fransisco!
Hey there,
You’re most welcome. Again, thank you for being patient.
I’m going to catch some sleep since it’s almost 3AM 😉 If you email me, please give me a bit to get back to you.
Thanks,
Francisco
seems like it’s down again, maintenance from data center?
Hi Calvin,
We reported a popped breaker this morning and brought everyone online within the hour. If you’re still down check your solus but at this point it the issue has been resolved, as well as the reason the power issue happened.
Thanks!
Francisco
Hey Francisco,
Disk I/O on BuyVM servers has become very slow. Saving a file with a single word written takes 5-10 seconds. I dont know if its due to too many VPS on nodes or some disk issue. I am pretty satisfied with RAM on BuyVM but like with many VPS providers, disk I/O is becoming a huge bottleneck.
regards,
JP
Hi JP,
What node are you on? I’m going to take a wild guess at node01?
That’s the only node we’ve had complaints of any sort of performance issues on and that is heavily on the fact of our busy our solus page has been. Since it’s on a shared node, mysql has been getting quite busy on there 🙁 We’ll be separating it sometime tonight it looks like, though.
Let me know or send me an email at admin@frantech.ca and I’ll look into it 🙂 Our first 5 nodes, btw, are getting rebalanced into ‘plan specific’ nodes to better allocate resources.
Francisco
My VPS is down since today morning. I guess this is due to the upgrades? Hoping things will be better after the upgrade (I did get 27 days uptime before today though :).
My mistake! Francisco is right, I think I somehow missed my payment.
Be sure to check that your invoice got paid 😉
The only people down right now are those with dues.
we will be upgrading our mailserver this weekend to deal with our billing panel not sending invoices properly.
Solus was upgraded earlier this week to improve performance.
Thanks!
Francisco
Thanks Francisco. Yes, I think I missed my payment.
It seems node03 down again? :/
Much worse :/
All of Fremont #1 had a power outage just now.
We’re getting everything online and a tech is helping as they can, but FMT 1 is a big location so they’re busy as hell helping everyone.
Francisco
looks like it’s recovered already. anyway, thanks for the quick response.
I use this for a small game that doesn’t really take up much memory. It’s pretty terrible for some odd reason and it’s pretty laggy compared to a worst vps that other people use.
[IMG]http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c79/Kunaininja/benchmarkvps.png[/IMG]
this is my score for 512m plan
I think it might have something to do with the server, requesting a change at the moment.
Anyways, throwing it out there.
Hi Kevin,
Go ahead with the ticket and we’ll see if there was any errors in your provision 🙂
Thanks,
Francisco
I hope they are not overselling their servers
You experience bad performance and another customer experience the node runs out of space?
Hard disk full on buyvm node07?
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1020396
The probably just shuffle customers around to different nodes when they complaint
Not quite 🙂
That node had a power issue the day before but never ran a FSCK. We had to reboot the node to FSCK it and correct it (hense why it went ‘read only’).
As you can see later on the client is fine and was even offered a credit for the issue.
Francisco
Francisco Dias you have any new news on the availability on all VPS from $ 15 ‘year? No because it is a long time that says “Out of Stock” …
Thanks in advance
Well i waited for like 3-4 weeks just to get a slot in FRANTECH what’s up with that? It’s been like this for like 2 years? You guys need to step your game up, just sayin….
I apologize about that, but we’ve been spending our time focusing on improving all of our nodes performance before we rolled out another batch of stock.
If you’ve decided to move onwards to another host I wish you the best of times with them 🙂
Francisco