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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Hi
please approve my account. ticket # 789421
Next week, wait till next week… :p
Firstly,
Kudos to Fran, Aldryic and all the other staff.
Setup was prompt and the server has been great (128 mb):
And:
i don’t have time to read all the comments. I didn’t see stock at GMT-7 1 PM. And today that i woke up all 128 plans are sold 😀 when are comming the next ones?
260 minimum on Monday 🙂
Francisco
hello
i registered my account yesterday, and still waiting for approval. ticket # 789421
We hear ya, bro 😀
should be crazy again.
I have a lot of lebs not used yet but eager of getting more , 🙂
Hope most of people here take the chance.
Well I missed out! Managed to get to the order page twice, but never managed to complete…. Oh well will try again next week!
M
Or week later 😀
Francisco… do you have direct admin for these vps? how much extra for that? any SLA u got?
I’d love DA as well.
Sorry, but we got out of the licensing side 😛 We do have SLA though.. if you have any significant unannounced downtime (say, more than 5-10 minutes total within 24h), just open a ticket to the Billing department, and I’ll make sure you’re credited for it!
Just to clarify guys, the biggest holdup on account approvals is stuff like using VPNs/Proxies (please don’t), or your actual locating being a good deal off from the address you listed. If you already know there’s going to be a mismatch, just include some details in with your account request, and that’ll help speed the process greatly.
For example… your billing address is in the UK, but you’re on vacation in Germany? Just let us know in your ticket, and provide your current physical address as well so I can keep Maxmind from automatically blocking your orders 😛
We apologize for the inconvenience due to this, but sadly our popularity has made us a target for plenty of scammers, fraud artists, etc. Since client security has been one of our primary goals from the get-go, we try to be a bit more strict/legitimate on details. Especially from when we were in the MMO market… having accurate details on folks prevented a TON of “stolen identity” issues.
I’m getting through about 40-60 new accounts an hour… at current I still have about 260 left to review, so if you already have a request in I should have your account done by noon. Thanks for the patience, guys ^_^
(heh, to clarify, that’s noon my time, currently GMT-5)
I thought VPNs/Proxies were allowed?
I think he meant people who are buying through VPNs/Proxies is preferably not recommended… Requires manual verification of addresses etc…
Maxmind won’t let you order if you will be behind VPNs/Proxies as your location will be different then your billing adress.
That’s correct. Because of this, and the potential fraud issues, we request that signups and orders be placed without the use of a VPN/Proxy service.
I’m on vacations, but explained that in approval ticket. I hope it will be fine.
Waiting for approve account about 13 hours.Because of this,miss the 128/256 VPS.What a pity.
Ticket #837179
Same here… Guess this won’t be my first time trying BuyVM… Again! 🙁
Humm.. Apparently not only I didn’t get my account approved, but also got my account deleted. How nice… At least I could have received a courtesy email? Guess that if I didn’t check this thread I would have never found out why so… After registering I decided to take a look @ LEB (like I usually do on a daily basis) and found out you can’t have a billing address and be in another country, which is my case. At least there could be a note stating so when you register an account, would have made things way easier… Or at least I could have been warned about the fact instead of just getting deleted plain and simple.
You can’t just buy a BuyVM account if you happen to be in a different country?
WBR
Did you open a ticket by chance?
No accounts should be getting deleted unless there is some cleanup cron Aldryic added.
If you got a ticket let me know 🙂
Francisco
It used to be #757874 😉
I listed my ticket (525904) and still have not received an answer. I also sent a PM via IRC as suggested and also did not hear back from that. Also, my account was deleted about an hour after I created the ticket. I’m beginning to think that you guys just don’t like me….:(
Chris as in “Chris Thompson”? right?
Do try again and it should work
No, not Chris Thompson…..
Oh sorry. Well try going to their IRC channel and ask there. Create a support ticket AGAIN and contact them via twitter if you are using twitter that is http://www.twitter.com/FrantechCA
How can you tell that your accounts are deleted? In WHMCS, if you mark an account as closed, it will not let you do forget-password OR let you login.
Humm.. In my case if I try to login/recover lost password it just says “No client account was found with the email address you entered”. That’s how I know 🙂 🙁
Yes, that the same message it will throw IF your account is marked as closed (since you do not have a service) OR if your account does not exist.
So when Fran says they are not deleting accounts, I have the only logical explanation as these accounts being marked as “closed” within WHMCS (the billing system)
Well, I don’t know if it was closed or deleted but it’s pretty much the same thing, isn’t it? Would think that the system will email you if the account gets closed. I know that it does when a ticket gets closed. But in my case I received no email whatsoever. Anyway, I re-created the account and submitted a new ticket (#615613). Let’s see what happens with this go around.
Just tell me what do I do… Do I register a new accout, is that it? Been waiting but no reply regarding accounts getting deleted…
WBR
I would just go ahead and recreate the account (like I did).
More are on the way, Aldryic had to help with provisioning yesterday so he couldn’t get all of the accounts done up.
Francisco
I keep getting this erorr when ordering:
We’re sorry, due to outstanding invoices in your account, you are unable to place an order at this time. If you need assistance, please open a ticket to the Billing Department.
I had an account with you long time ago, and I had it for like 2 months, and then it was cancelled.
Not sure why it says there are invoices. can you take a look?
Ticket #316586
Great offer and great work! 🙂 Don’t give up! 🙂
Thanks BuyVM, I’ve got my VPS now 🙂 I’ll be testing it out and giving out a review soon.
Hi I’ve opened a ticket for account approval since last night and still have not received a reply. My ticket number is #134673. It has been about 12 hours already, is anything wrong with my ticket?
thanks
No, nothing wrong with the ticket, I’ve just literally had over 500 new accounts to go through. Still got about 140 or so left, so you should get your reply today 😛
Thanks for the info, looking forward to getting service from you guys 🙂
Thank Aldryic . My account is approved 😀
Just ordered the 256mb plan but the plan’s status is still pending. Guess I’ll wait a while, you guys must be busy with orders lol.
Any reason why my account was deleted?? I had submitted a ticket (#525904) with it and now both account and ticket number does not show up. Another reader had the same issue – twice. Please let me/us know what we did wrong. Thanks!
The 256MB stock will run out before I will be able to make a purchase 🙁
🙁
At least you already have an account, I’m not even there yet 😉
Just so that it gets more visibility I have recreated another account and have submitted another ticket (#615613). Now the waiting begins – again.
Hey, whatever happened to “Do not use LowEndBox for support issues”? 😉
That rule apparently does not apply to BuyVM 😉
Doesn’t stop folks anyway.
ETA on KVM storage plans and KVM yearly offer?
Wonder how much the yearly KVM may be….
We have a $25/y 128MB KVM coming on by Monday it looks like and the storage plans will be like $70/y for a 128MB with 250G space.
Francisco
Cool. Monday at what time the stock will be released? or you planning to do random so that billing system doesn’t overload?
Please announce the exact time.. 🙂
Francisco the 128MB kvm yearly, will have the same specs you currently have on index2.php (128mb, 30gb, 1000gb, 1 cpu) or will they be different?
How many KVM are you releasing? Also, I’ve sent a IRC PM to Aldryic. Any chance of getting a reply from him?
They should be the same as the OVZ, just $25/y and KVM based 🙂
We’ll know this weekend how much is going out.
He’s likely busy with dinner and such so give him a bit, sorry about that 🙁
Francisco
Less density I guess?
Uhh, my account no longer exists?
Got a 128MB BuyVM yesterday.. performance to Australia is mediocre:
curl http://[myvps]/100mb.test > /dev/null
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 100M 100 100M 0 0 354k 0 0:04:48 0:04:48 –:–:– 422k
and buyvm 100mb test file from the same location
curl http://buyvm.net/100mb.test > /dev/null
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 100M 100 100M 0 0 361k 0 0:04:43 0:04:43 –:–:– 265k
(This is off a University line)
I can pull respectable speeds from other hosts on HE from the same connection
Ticket #164413
I love the way how they put the box on different nodes for multiple orders 🙂
thanks
Hi,
any problem with my ticket #723836?
I’m just wondering how can I be approved without an actual order. I think for fraud check you will also need either paypal info or credit card, is it so?
Alright folks, as a reminder, please provide -accurate- contact information, as this is a requirement of our Terms of Service 😛
For those of you asking where your accounts went; If you signed up with something like this: http://i.imgur.com/6TAwS.png , then yes, your account was deleted. If your account looked incredibly fraudulent (ie- Illinois address, Serbian name, connecting from a residential Chinese ISP) and you gave no explanation for the discrepancy, then it’s possible that the account was removed. Priority is being given to those who follow instructions the first time around, so please use accurate information when registering 😛
So just because I live in China at the moment and I wish to use my home address back in my home country as a billing address that means my information is not accurate? Quite the contrary, it’s as accurate as it can be. And besides here, where are those instructions to follow? IMO, if you guys wish to be this strict then you should make it very clear when someone is registering. It’s like I said, if it wasn’t for this thread I would have no idea why my account got deleted as I didn’t receive any explanation at all…
Thanks for the info
So, you didn’t read the Terms of Service then, like you were instructed to when you signed up? You wouldn’t even have to read far, it’s right there in the tl;dr section we provided 😛 – http://i.imgur.com/lrVaa.png
Actually I didn’t because it’s BuyVM we are talking about – I ALWAYS read the TOS, but since I thought BuyVM had no “hidden terms” or weird requests, this time I didn’t -, so you are right about that 🙂
Anyway, my information is accurate and 100% true so I don’t understand what exactly you expect me to fill in the forms then. I just happen to be out of my home country, that’s all. Anyway, my point is that none of that stuff (that you must say in the ticket that you have to open to have your account activated that you are not in your home country and what not) is displayed after you complete the registration nor is it in the TOS?
No, we understand that people travel. However, the TOS does request your current address, not whichever address you please 😛
And no, the TOS says nothing about registering from another country and then explaining the discrepancy. This is just a courtesy request to expedite having your account approved.
The bottom line is, you may think it’s unfair that we found your registration suspicious. But I would certainly be very unhappy to learn that someone in another country used my name, address, etc to signup and claimed to be “me, but just travelling”; and we’ve had so much positive feedback that we actually care about protecting our clients and not just accepting any dollar thrown at us that we feel we made the right choice in prioritizing safety over just making a buck.
I for one have no problem with these conditions, and did find that BuyVM taking the extra steps to help prevent more fraud in the world is an awesome precedent! It makes me feel safer giving my money to them.
So +1 for Aldryic and all of the BuyVM staff for providing us with a Quality VPS Host and support!
Sure I understand, I just think you guys should make it veeeeery clear regarding that fact after registering (humm something like the warning that shows up saying that you must open a ticket requesting that your account is activated). It’s just that I can’t use my “current” address as my credit card is from my home country and thus uses my home address… So using my current address would create a discrepancy at a later stage too, I suppose.
All this made me miss the stock for both the 128 and the 256 plans 🙁 Guess this won’t be my first time trying BuyVM… Again! 🙁 *sight*
heres mine #869414
all plans are 1Gbbs uplink speed??
Shared gigabit, yes
Arggg you guys took all the 256! lol. I had to get my account approved, but now I am ready for when they come back in stock 😉
We’re adding more on Monday hopefully 🙂 We’re just finalizing the nodes at this point.
Francisco
I hope you finalized the KVM yearly offer as well. I am eyeing on that one 😉
128MB, $25/y, we’ll have 40 on monday then 20 per week for 3 weeks 😛
Francisco
What are the specs of the 128MB VPS?
Same as our OVZ, just $25/y instead of $15/y and it’s KVM based 🙂
Francisco
So all 40 will be at 1pm or some other time?
Instead of activating me they deleted my support account =/
Want my SS# as well to prove who i am? lol
Were your details really really screwed up? The only time Aldryic deleted anyone is if your details were way off 😛
If you get me a ticket ID i’ll check it out 🙂
Francisco
That’s not true. Mine was deleted with the same information I had re-register with the second time around. I finally got an email telling me that I can’t use PO Box for my address after I opened the required Billing ticket.
Thanks Francisco. Here is my ticket #931692
Don’t waste you’r time waiting here for stock, secure dragon has 14 year plan and its in stock.
What an unobjective comment….
We’ve released some KVM trials!
You can snag one at https://my.frantech.ca/cart.php?gid=20 – One per person, please submit your findings/input/comments/haterrzzzzz in a ticket
These will last till Monday morning.
Thanks!
Francisco
Even your trials are out of stock! 😀
-1 Available >_<
So are you releasing the storage plans on monday as well?
Nope, but we’re getting quite close 😉 We hope to have them by mid week at the latest.
Francisco
http://browse.geekbench.ca/geekbench2/view?id=457814
Met some problems installing ubuntu (not booting for me), this result is from Debian 6 x86 instead.
@Yang
Thanks for sharing, looks like it have low values for Disk/Stream Performance
Can you test the disk performance? dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=8k count=1280k conv=fdatasync
Sorry, it should be: dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
Not bad IMO:
dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync && rm test
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 7.95231 s, 135 MB/s.
@Yang
It is Perfect 🙂
I guess it should be higher with Virtio enabled 🙂
Any plan on adding a few more?
Of the 128’s?
We’re adding 260, minimum, every week till the end of summer 🙂
The next batch is being split into 130 at 1PM and then another 130 at 10PM to better service our Asia/Pacific clients.
Francisco
Are 256’s going to be restocked next week?
Thats good two chances to get them.
Any word on activation? Wanna order already =/
Ticket #931692
You’re in queue
That horse running across the screen needs something like a shooting gallery to help pass the time. 🙂
i tryed it before. didn’t work 🙁 i was sure it was a game.
Awww well.
@Fancisco Are those 128MB, $25/yr KVM capable of running windows 2003? can you confirm me that plz
Um….
It would install but it’d have nothing left over, you’d be page filing right away.
We highly recommend you get the 256MB at minimum for Windows 2003.
Francisco
All of KVM plan will be sell at 1PM? or you divided by 2?
Thanks.
It’ll be divided by two
A cPanel DNSONLY template has been created and is propagating to the nodes. It uses 3G space and 70MB RAM when booted, making those 128MB boxes perfect for clusters 😉
Francisco
May i know when BuyVM-256MB will be available again. My account was approved after BuyVM-256MB out of stock. 🙁
We’ll have some on Monday 🙂
Francisco
How long does it usually take for an account to be approved? I registered yesterday and still nothing…
Aldryic took the weekend for himself so he’ll approve things as he can 🙂
Francisco
3-4 days
Not quite 🙂 Aldryic processed through like 400 – 500 requests in a couple days as well as handled any fraud/etc.
It’s a lot of work to check everything but we’re proud to state we’ve had 0 fraud payments/orders.
Francisco
Sounds like a lot of hardwork. Should give Aldryic a ride on your Beemer 🙂
Awesome!
But it’s also true that a few legit customers got flagged as fraud, but that’s part of the process I guess…
Anyway, it’s unlikely I’ll get my account approved before the new stock comes so maybe some other week 😛
So what time exactly the 128mb VPS will be available? GMT -7? 🙂
1 PM on Monday
GMT -7 right? Because Aldryic once mention about GMT -5 on previous comment.
Half on 1pm and half on 10pm (all times GMT-7)
Here is a little page that cedr created to help understand the time http://frantechtime.cedricd.org/
Thanks Asim! So it would be 3AM at my place (_ _ ‘)
no problem mate
Sorry for the confusion, GMT-5 is my local timezone. Any announcements pertaining to Frantech/BuyVM can be considered Pacific time, currently GMT-7
Any ETA for storage plans?
Thx 🙂
Lucky BuyVM moved out of HE.net.
Looks like it’s down at the moment (with one of my main server @ Linode in it, arghhhhhh).
Yes we were affected by the power failure. Damn!
HAH.
Sorry Nordic, I mean no disrespect but I knew HE would find a way to have another power outage before the summer was gone. I was taking bets when I was in San Jose handling our move.
You should snag a KVM plan, LEA 😉
Francisco
I was going to make a comment about it being California, the home of 5 million air conditioners in the middle of summer but their temperature is only 78 right now.
yeah,,, my main site + billing in linode too.. -___-“
Is it down or did they finally get it queued to boot?
Francisco
[twitter id=”henet”]Approx 6:15am PDT FMT1 UPS breaker tripped, reset and power restored.[/twitter] 😛
http://status.linode.com/
again? phew.. let me to know if your KVM already deployed. 😛
OH, nordic is about to move… what a “surprise” to… CoreSite San Jose Data Center 🙂
lol
I think Nordic should be a little bit more creative than just copying what BuyVM did.
Find another DC Nordic! I think Burst.net Los Angeles would be more your style.
Nordic is with egihosting like us so egi only has the two locations. As far as I know egi isn’t selling service in FMT anymore.
Francisco
We have been with EGI FMT01 for a very long time now, We went with EGI after have been other hosts in San Jose/LA area.
We did though select to provide a $15/year.
We like the competition, without it, business will be boring. 🙂
We like the competition as well. Their failures make us look that much better ^_^
We got sent a copy of the RFO HE sent out over the whole power thing. It looks like they’re going to be replacing their whole power system in the next few months from the ground up. A lot of people are thinking it’s going to take more like a year at this point, but it does mean there’s going to be at least 1 more power outage in the foreseeable future.
Francisco
DNS.HE.NET was down too! 🙁
Well hopefully Aldryic will sort out these pending approvals before the rush on monday…I know u guys have a lot of work these days…
Well i managed to snag a 256 VM very late on the 3rd, sat in a tent, with only my phone and a GPRS signal. Really glad i had set up my account and got it approved the week before i went away!
Hey Fran, whats going on? My account is active, I am not a defaulter and there are no pending invoices. I recently placed an order last week which was approved and is active but suddenly I start seeing this (it was not there an hour ago)
“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.”
Phew! I got hold of Fran now, he is getting it fixed. For a moment I thought I will miss on my KVM tomorrow 😛
I have not moved yet. Should I request for an approval again?