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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Snagged a 512MB!
Good for you!
Can you share some benchmark for your VPS? What CPU? Disk speed?
Waiting for provisioning at the moment I’m afraid — I certainly don’t blame them, their sales system barely came back from the grave after all
not set up yet
@Adam wait for some time before requesting benchmarks etc, for specs visit buyvm.net
I am sure almost everyone would be benchmarking their VPS right now so it will give false results
Cant reset my password… Looks like I will never get my VPS now 🙁
look like easy now.
snag quickly…, only 129 left
I now have 32 LEBs.
Now that I got my OpenVZ yearly, I am anxiously waiting for the KVM yearly plan offerings
An error occured, please open a support ticket # 🙁
So, fu*** it.
You can only order if your an existing customer 🙁
not quite, we just required pre-approved accounts so log a ticket and it can get fixed up.
Spo0lsh, log a ticket, we’ll fix you up.
Same goes for everyone else getting blocked at some point!
Francisco
I did,
No, thanks.
C u
I logged a ticket, it got deleted.
Maybe a message saying this would be a good idea!
I tried so many different things trying to get though.
Got 2 128s and 2 256s (even though I ordered an extra 256 on accident…). This is going to be fun :D.
impressive,
what a great business !!!
Ordered and paid one. Now let’s see when it gets provisioned.
Waiting to be approved, Hope its quick
waiting for approval for 2 hr now….
Servers location?
San Jose, California with Coresite 🙂
Francisco
Any plans for Europe? I am looking for a EU VPS
Thanks
Waiting for approval (ticket 862370), I wish I had done this before 🙁
Francisco, I created an account and submited the approval request and it was apperently deleted because I couldn’t log in and the ticket was gone, then I created another, submitted the request and now I can’t log in again, also the ticket is not fontd on the system. Any reason?
Having the same issue.
Just got my provisioning email!
benchmark pls 🙂
You can check around geekbench’s browse page for ‘pony’ and find our kernels 🙂
The L5420 results will be better by a fair bit since they have been upgraded to 5520’s. Keep an eye out for ‘pony6’ namely.
Francisco
cheers
Don’t want to do a dd if/of because not sure if anyone else is doing it, but..
Thoroughly amazed.
# buyVM
#123systems
Should be the reason people got crazy with buyVM
looks good. comparable result to the stock I got last season from buyvm, which are 237 MB/s DD (after they moved to new dc)
🙁 I am still waiting for approval… (and the yearly plan is near ‘out of stock’) I hope i still could have one. I need it.
and, for future references, hostitek in LA,
All 128mb plans.
you’re lucky, I live in L.A and have their L.A server, I got less than 10m/s IO.
Yes !!! Finally 1x 128, 1×256 2×512, 1×1024 and 1×2048. All the waiting this worth while is fully worth it.
what is your plan to make use of all those vps? lol
only 6 boxes, right. I think most of people here have much more than that.
6 boxes is enough for the first stage.. for sure it will not be the last purchase from buyvm
clustered webservers, seperate database servers and a remote desktop. lol ..
People are strange 🙂
My account needs approval, waited for about 3 hours… Ticket #331802
Wonder if my account will be approved before stock runs out.
Doesn’t look like it will. #417593
Ticket 812765
Sigh, Your account has not been approved…what a pity
Got a ticket ID?
Francisco
Welcome back LowEndBox xD, Kewl servers here…
Just receive my new box and seems that it’s works well with me..
you’re doing a 1K blocksize which will be slower on mechanical drives. 🙂
If you do bs=64k count=16k you should see in the 180 – 200MB/sec+
Francisco
Francisco – Mine is Ticket ID: 525904
Thanks, we’ll get to that quick 🙂
Francisco
I wish I known earlier that we needed to get approval first…spent twenty minutes refreshing and thought I hit the jackpot when I finally got through….only to find out that I need to submit a ticket for approval….smh
There is no stock anymore? amazing.
We’ll be reloading 260 – 300 of the 128’s per week and the other plans will continue to load till we’re sold out.
🙂
Francisco
BuyVM (one of the 128er boxes bought today):
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I guess this should kinda show why people like BuyVM boxes very much
YardVPS was absolute garbage when I used them – I’d rather be without a VPS at all than to ever have to use them again. BuyVM is on a different planet in comparison.
Francisco – I just try checking my account and now it’s saying that I’m no longer registered??
Are you sure? come by IRC and drop me your email/ticket ID in a PM and we’ll look after it 🙂
Francisco
Just left PM with Aldryic….
I went back to my email and clicked on the link for the ticket I created and now it says it’s not found!!!????
I had that very same issue twice (#577834 and #862370).
Did you send them a PM??
I’ll try to register again, if this time I get the same result I’ll pm them. Thanks!
I was accepted but to late for any 128s. Again I missed out!
We’ll have more next week 😉
Having your account setup early means you’ll get at the front of the line.
Francisco
Ticket ID: 243740
Status: Pending…
woke up here in Asia with only 1 128MB left. Decided to go with the 256MB as I already have one 128MB and I really need the additional space. Plus I am already allergic to yearly deals due to the W2 scam. But if there will be additional 128MB stock by next week maybe I’ll get one 128MB plan too.
You can never have too many buyvm vps’
Comeon, don’t group us with W2Scammers 🙂
Francisco
No offence meant. Just in general. As they say once bitten, twice shy.
Wait for the “account approved” five hours, after submission of the Ticket.
Only five hours?? LOL…at least your account is still intact…
You’re in a queue with other people, be patient
and it’s out of stock already??? d*mn…
Breathe *breathe* breathe…
🙁 to my surprise, I received a reply telling me that my details aren’t are not fully accurate, when i fact it is the same as what is in my paypal billing, and other legal documents i have. I really can’t think how the billing department reviews billing details…
Reply and ask to prove yourself
Thanks. I did it upon receiving the said reply. I am willing to send them documents as well if they tend to.
All: The account approval thing has been in the TOS for a while now, you do read the TOS when looking at providers… right?
128M plan is out of stock now 🙁
oh 🙁
How can you live without?
Managed to snag one after watching all sorts of madness go on in Francisco’s IRC channel. I even ended up getting kicked out a few times for trolling with “OMG GUYS the billing system is DOWN!!!111” every few minutes. All in all, a good time. 🙂
The VPS was provisioned about 2 hours after I ordered and is screaming fast thus far:
They offer a neat template in SolusVM with Xwindows, but it doesn’t really work with the 128MB VPS – runs out of memory pretty much instantly.
If you give it a bit it should be closer to 200MB/sec after things settle in some.
Let me know if there’s anything I can help with 🙂
Francisco
How sad.. it out of stock again…
How a pity… T_T
Yeah, let’s get drunk bro :S
We’ll have more 128’s on Monday 🙂
We’ll have another 260 minimum.
Francisco
Hey, can you guys please take a look at ticket #316586?
If this is an account pre-auth it’ll be done soon 🙂
I sent the guys to bed for a bit and I’ve been busy working on our KVM offerings.
Francisco
How about working on your rDNS offerings?
rDNS has been fixed up you troll 😀
Francisco
rdns2.frantech.ca ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
rdns1.frantech.ca ;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available
12 hours of patience waiting for approval 🙂
Sorry for that, you guys overwhelmed me yesterday 😛 Over 400 new accounts approved since sales opened, and I’ve got another ~250 or so I’m going through now.