For those who are not following the great BuyVM build out thread on LowEndTalk, here is the announcement from Fran:
Stock has been announced! August 3rd, 1PM, GMT -7 🙂
That’s less than 10 hours to go! Lock your browser to BuyVM or the excellent DoesBuyVMHaveStock.com and wait for the ponies to appear. Francisco also emailed me that “for the rest of the summer we’ll have 300 128MB’s available per week as well as whatever other inventory we’ll have”. 4 weeks until the end of summer that means around 1,200 $15/year 128MB OpenVZ VPS will be made available at BuyVM. Ordering link here.
- 128MB guaranteed/256MB burstable memory
- 15GB storage
- 500GB/month data transfer
- OpenVZ/SolusVM
Other under-$7 low end plans:
- 256MB/512MB memory, 30GB storage, 1000GB/month data — $3.50/month. [Sign up link]
- 512MB/1024MB memory, 50GB storage, 2000GB/month data — $5.95/month. [Sign up link]
Let the wait begin! /me going back to work
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We’ve reloading some stock 🙂
It’s not a lot, but we got a lot more coming next week.
Francisco
anyone having the speed issue? I have reloaded the os but when I logged into SSH and enter my password, it takes almost a minute or so to login. It wasn’t like that before… 🙁
Ping your vps IP? I found all my boxes good as always.
I’m in node39…
Stilling waiting for UK VPN =).
Hi Fran, when I register to frantech solutions website, I receive an email stating that my account is in “pending” status, so does this means I can’t buy VPS yet?
You should be able to just place an order 🙂
If not lemme know!
Francisco
Out of stock for $15/year plan 🙁
pinoy? lol
you have to wait for them to verify your registration. afterwards you can already buy
opo hehehe 🙂
can I run java vm on the 512mb machine?
Hi Dave,
That’s just fine, but be considerate of burst. You have 512MB so you can use a little of the burst, but if you go set your -xmX to 1024 you may end up getting the raw end of Aldryic 😛 We’ve had quite a few people do this then complain when they can’t login to their VPS due to lack of RAM.
Francisco
May i know when openvz 128MB will be available again, Fran?
when it’s on, it takes about 40 min. to do simple yum update.
probably it’s time to be apart.
So, do you submitted a ticket? lol…
Yup, they said nothing wrong with it, so it’s my fault.
this morning I/O shows 27MB/sec and took 22 minutes to do yum update, progress isn’t it?
As Yomero stated, just send in a ticket, it could be any number of funk ups for us to check out 🙂
As you can see, such things aren’t common or we’d have this page flooded with it.
Thanks!
Francisco
Weren’t you running your own local repository for a while, too?
I have 4 vps and today they posted this on my client area.
I don’t know what the heck they meant by approval.
Notice: Your account has not been approved, and cannot place orders. Please submit a Support Ticket to the Billing Department to have your account reviewed for approval.
Log a ticket and we’ll check it out 🙂
Francisco
already did, but no answer yet.
Got 1 single VPS and just received this email from buyvm. I logon to my control panel, the usage is 0 out of 500GB. When I try to open a support ticket, I’m getting my account is not approved.
Any idea what’s going on?
“We are sending you this email because you have exceeded more than 90% of your bandwidth allocation on the virtual server listed below:”
Your virtual server may be suspended if it exceeds your limit.
Email sent on September 20, 2011, 7:41 pm
Please contact support to discuss this issue further.
Reply to my support ticket
Same for me – I guess it has been sent to all customers…
(I was very surprised, wow my little site used almost 500GB? lol)
I franned it real good as I said on twitter.
We were rebuilding how bandwidth was being calculated since the original code was doing around 60,000 queries every 15 minutes for us without any sort of IPv6 accounting to top it off. While replacing the code there was some confusion on if the stats were stored in KiloBytes or Bytes. I tried to write a script to covert one to the other but things were just so buggered that we ended up simply wiping the results.
Doing a roll back would have worked as well but in the end we decided it was simply easier less of a headache to clear the slate to give us a better checking point. Stats are populating and we’re debugging any last quirks. The new code is MUCH faster and far less abusive of our bulked out SQL server.
We’ve added some viewable IN/OUT stats for IP’s in the ‘IP Addresses’ page as well.
Either way, enjoy the reset, your stats will reset again on the 1st as they normally would!
Francsico
I need to stop posting on forums at 5:40 AM, I type like i’m on AOL or something.
Francisco
When are the new stocks coming?
@Francisco: I wonder when this gonna be restocked 😐
I have same question…
We’re looking at October 15th 🙂
Francisco
Make sure you have enough stocks Fran. I am going to take leave from work on that day so I have a chance to grab one 😛
Is the 15th still the date for new stock? I need to pick up a few more. Thanks!
Francisco put out the word that KVM (except Storage) plans will be restocked/released on Saturday October 15th at 1PM PDT and 10PM PDT.
how about the regular 15/yr vps?
The whole OpenVZ lineup is getting loaded up too 🙂
I’ve sent an email to LEA for the latest listing, we’ll see if he’s interested in posting it again 🙂
Francisco
There is a routing issue with BuyVM and gblx.net
Is there a reason that anonymizer.com is not reachable via BuyVM? (Using it as a proxy/tunnel)