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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$18k in additional income over summer period, congrats to BuyVM 🙂
Between that and the other inventory it’s going to be a very good christmas 😉
We got a bunch of KVM stuff underway too, just gotta finish the boxes.
Francisco
Waiting for KVM which has been delayed until {insert ETA by Francisco here} 🙁
Yep, so do I.
And it’s weird as they said that there would be storage plans too…
Vote for KVM
1,200 $15/year 128MB OpenVZ VPS 🙂
…at an undisclosed location!
They’re in San Jose @ Coresite.
Eh… Isn’t San Jose a capital of Costa Rica?
Hmm. Spot the difference. San Jose and San José.
There located in Mr Dias house on his 1mbit upstream
Lol, San jose is a city in california near fremont and silicon Valley.
Remember you need to pre-register and have an authorised account to be able to place an order!
Thanks for the reminder! I almost missed this chance.
Hello, how do I pre-register? Thanks in advance 🙂
Open a ticket. If you’re not a present customer, open a pre-sales ticket.
Register here: https://my.frantech.ca/register.php
Once you registered and they are ready to take orders, all you have to enter is the payment information — ensures you faster order process. 🙂
Thank you all for your replies. I have registered and opened a support ticket to active my account 🙂
Wow I almost forgot about that thanks.
That’s a lot of IP space!
@James FranTech have 16000+ IPv4 from ARIN, so not a problem for them to create 1000s of $15/year deals.
These kind of deals wont be for everyone to offer – Even Hetzner are charging a monthly fee per IP subnet now.
Lucky them. I had to get on my hands and knees just to get a /23.
Well… we won’t mention what Francisco went through to get our ranges :3
your server down completely..
Hey, nordicvps, would you look at your server?
they are all down.
@John Yes We are aware of the problem, status is available here: http://twitter.com/nordicvps
out of stock 🙁
You have to wait for more stocks to be released in 8 hours time from now. 🙂
http://buyvmcountdown.cedricd.org/
What kernel version runs on the OpenVZ boxes? – I’m something of an xtables_addons fan 😉
2.6.32-238.12.1.el5.pony6-1 on mine
If the iptables module is virtualized we can load it with minimal issue 🙂
We’re keeping an eye on the .32 branch, waiting on them to address some annoying bugs first.
Francisco
Gotta say, all this ‘out-of-stock’, ‘coming soon!’, ‘stock is announced!’ is very clever carrot-and-stick marketing…. 😉
True, but the reality is demand > supply for BuyVM..
Yeah – very Apple!
Actually Apple’s strategy is pretty much secrecy. You don’t get much pre-announcement until the day when Mr. Jobs walked on the stage.
Recently Apple has also branched out into another strategy called “patent trolls”. Hopefully we don’t see that in the VPS market 🙂
“People typically want what they don’t have, and they want what they can’t have even more. Limiting numbers influences people into placing more value on objects, services or memberships, boosting sales and creating social demand.”
– http://menwithpens.ca/scarcity-screwup/
Totally agree 😐
1200 Stock ? ：）
Are they that good? 123systems has chicago 256MB VPS for $20/y.
Why all this buzz for them? Sorry I’m not very up to date these days with deals
Do you get support for $20/yr? No. Buy at BuyVM you DO get support
It allow IRC 🙂
*sigh* Announced the day after I’ve paid all my bills.
Oh well. 🙁
Unfortunately it looks like they won’t approve my account because my IP address is too far away from my physical location!
Oh well, perhaps I have too many VPSs already.
Will;
Did you provide us with a billing address, and happen to be living elsewhere? The only accounts I’ve turned down today due to location discrepancies were fairly blatant… like registered with a UK address, but signed up from Malaysia, for example.
You actually just solved it for me, thanks Aldryic!
Aah, glad I could help, let us know if we can do anything further. Enjoy the stock when it hits ^_^
Wow! That fast, all are out of stock?
Looks like all are sold out in 1 hour. 🙁
Well,
Am from Jordan/Middle east and pay from PayPal as a verified account, i did sign with them now and waiting my account to be approved, should we pay through PayPal or by Visa?
Regards!
Whats your policy on torrents?
Share your plunder with the staff
HAH.
Alas this is actually the policy around #frantech >_>
Torrents are generally fine, be considerate of your neighbors and don’t load up 30 at a time ripping full speed.
Francisco
my account now approved! fast support and nice guys there.
Waiting the out-stock to order!
I hope they won’t put those 1,200 on a single node >_>
of course they will
Why would we?
We’ve stated many times we do 130 per node 😛 We have a crap load of new gear we racked up. Some of it went to improve older nodes, lots of it went to new buggers.
Don’t take us for vizapi/nordic/w2servers/dollarvps/etc, we made the ‘super budget’ market, and we do it well 🙂
Francisco
Hey now – be nice to Dollarvps, i have a server with them and have never had a problem – server , support or otherwise….
This Will probably be the first time I will pay for a server 1 year in advance 🙂
Pure trust in this company.
Thank you 🙂
Francisco
How long I must wait for approval request? Can I pay the VPS by Paypal?
Thanks.
I’m waiting for approval too, please be quick 😐
Paypal and direct credit cards are accepted 🙂
Aldryic is plowing through requests.
Francisco
Thanks, Frans. 🙂
This is just an FYI to everyone that if you don’t have an approved account within the next 45 minutes that you’ll likely have to wait for things to slow down a bit before approvals get done next.
Francisco
20 mints for the boxes! xD…
I think this is gonna be the largest sales DDOS attack i have seen! 😀
The server at my.frantech.ca is taking too long to respond.
I think you’re right!
Get your F5 keys ready, boys!
Eh, I broke it.
Sorry guys!
Dam! The connection has timed out…
anyone verified please???
https://my.frantech.ca/cart.php?a=add&pid=67
same here
Down for Maintenance
Quit DDoSing the box, guys 🙁 Stock is coming, be prepared 😛
I actually laughed at that one
LOL this is going to be fun watching the mad dash.
I hope all you a-holes won’t spend your next week running dd and wget tests and raping the host node ruining service for the rest of us on the node.
the site doesnt load
No joy yet!
epic fail
Epic DDoS. 🙂
from twitter
just do service http restart
Service scan
HTTP – 80 Error: TimedOut
xD!!
At 2011-08-04 01:07:01, it reported 300 128MBs being released 🙂 be prepared
http://doesbuyvmhavestock.com/
Make that 282 now
cedric must have ordered 18 vps. lol
282 … 128MB’s left
still cant get to order mine
Same here :-/
can someone answer my questions?
Where are your questions? If you’re referring to the single question of whether they are “good”, that is a very subjective term. What you consider “good”?
I don’t understand all this for this offer when there are others that offer the same or similar. Do they have exceptional support and performance?
Most of the other offers have deadpooled or will deadpool is the difference 🙂
Our performance is pretty good and our community is just awesome.
Francisco
Lots of other providers with similar offers:
spotvps.com
alienvps.com
securedragon.net
and many more..
BuyVM is just hyped up and they allow IRC and other stuff most providers disapprove.
Amazing people stay up all night to order 🙂
it’s not correct. many offer same and more cheaper
@Daniel if you dont like it, dont buy from BuyVM 🙂
And I have a VPS with some of them too. Some are good, some aren’t. People say BuyVM is good.
Most of the offers in this price range have gone to the deadpool pretty soon, and BuyVM has been around for quite some time.
Also, I love carrots.
Heh heh heh, it is a matter of trust and mutual respect, bro. Price, service or support does not matter anymore.
I have been awake for the last three hours for nothing 🙁 cant order a single one. Cant login to WHMCS. Fran should start taking order via email or something 😛
Yea i think it’s must be now via email…
+1 vote for email.
their site is totally screwed up, it shows ngix.
This was tweeted on Frantech’s twitter. Looks like they are switching from apache to nginx.
They shutdown all the connection to them webserver :-s…
For a web hosting company they seem rather poor at keeping their website up. :p
I think they’ve been null routed >_>
I think they null routed China and other countries from accessing BuyVM
Quote: “Get ordering! 😉 the site load issue is because there’s half of China trying to order stock right now.”
How many billing panels get 200 connections/second out there? I highly doubt even burstnet gets that 🙂
Give us a break, each sales rush seems to get uglier and uglier.
Francisco
Maybe it’s time to split the 128s off into their own ordering system?
I have a sinking feeling I lost my chance.
I screwed up and erased my Account Password in my clipboard.
There goes my chance.
i am totally frustrated…. not even loading