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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Does anyone know the ‘Offloaded MySQL hosting’ service at buyVM?
OK, got the answers
Will those of us waiting in queue be approved in time to get a vps?
I hope for an update in that department too…3 days and counting…
Hey folks, sorry for the delays over the weekend, I needed a day off <_<
About 150 approvals left to go through… so if you already have a request in, you'll be answered in time for stock today!
THX Aldryic…just got approved and my 512MB VPS is on it’s way. Hope u guys will last a long time!
We’re not going anywhere 🙂
Thanks for the order!
Francisco
all of links in post are not working any more..not sure if it is for me only or for every one?
btw, im also waiting the approval of account since thursday
I was going to order another BuyVM VPS but:
No internal IPs on Coresite, so NO free internal traffic.
🙁
Like forever? Or just until they get it set up again?
You know, just because everything except the quality of service is mirrored between our companies doesn’t mean you have to emulate our bugs and troubleshooting, too :3
Awww… C’mon you two! Get a room! 😛
Oh, but it’s so much more fun and daring in public :3
@Aldryic I’m sorry if my appearance disfigure you but I am just curious.
Albert;
Whoever told you we were going to stop offering VLAN lied to you 😛
Francisco is still working out a few bugs since the move, but we have no plans on doing away with the VLAN/internal traffic system.
We cannot offer internal IP addresses at this time as the script is currently broken resulting in the internal ip getting assigned as the main ip and preventing outbound networking.
—
Anthony, Frantech Support
I finally ordered the VPS. If within a month VLAN doesn’t work, will you refund me proportionally if I ask for a refund?
Albert;
If we don’t have a VLAN fix in place within a month, I will refund you completely 😛
Hey Aldryic, it’s getting close. What about ticket #280725?
128MB’s have been posted! As well as our KVM offerings!
We’ll have more KVM stock as the day goes on so buy as you need/want! We’ll have a 2nd round of 128MB’s (both OVZ/KVM) around 10PM PST!
Francisco
Hello Francisco,
I have registered and approved days before, but why now I cant order a VPS? When I click the check out button it says “MaxMind has deemed your order to be potentially high risk and therefore it has been held for manual review.”
I raised a support ticket to Billing dept. #579511.
Please help, I waited for this 128MB so long 🙁
Thanks
Nano;
Like I explained in the ticket reply when your account was authorized:
“As we use Maxmind for automated fraud protection on orders, please be aware that some countries’ ISPs do not correctly report GeoIP records for their ranges, and as such your order may be automatically marked as fraud. Some example countries that may do this are: Malaysia, Indonesia, Viet Nam, Korea, China, South Africa, and certain Australian ISPs. If your order is marked as fraud, please do not be concerned, the product is still held in reserve for you. Simply reply to this ticket, or open a new one, informing us of the error and we will get it fixed ASAP for you.”
So no worries, your order is still being held for you, and Anthony or I will be getting to it shortly. 😛
Thanks Aldryic! I am relieved to hear that 🙂
Now I’ll sleep again because it is 4 am here Zzzz
Wow…KVM’s OOS…
More tonight 😉
Francisco
So, OpenVZ-256MB will not be stocked today?
It will be later today 🙂
Francisco
Great !
Thanks, Francisco,
For those that are bean counter types….the 512M annual plan is actually a better deal than the 128M…(:
which 512MB? OpenVZ or the KVM?
OpenVZ…I didn’t check on the KVM…hmmm…..hold on…be right back (:
Nope…only the OpenVZ is a better deal…
It’s almost the same for KVM (lower by $0.04)…
Ok…it’s technically a better deal for KVM too (lower by $0.04)…
@Chris,
Not really, unless it has 4 cores 🙂
I am not sure what to do with that much storage space but the databases grow then 2core-plan should be a problem for the database server.
got myself 256mb kvm but there is no windows 2003 iso!!!!!
On ordering form of the KVMs “Please review KVM Limitations BEFORE Purchasing!” and here are the limitations link http://wiki.frantech.ca/index.php/KVM
You should have read before ordering
for windows OS, we need 512mb or more.
We’re editing it now 🙂 give us a few minutes.
Francisco
” windows has been enabled for 256, if it runs slow, I dont care, yell at fran for making me enable it.”
haha, so its enabled on 256MB KVMs too
then you may cry a river because of a number of add-ons for running what Bill called .net pages 🙂
Then my 256mb kvm is worth the money. without windows its the same as openvz for me.
128’s and 512’s are currently in stock. 68 (Oops 66 now) and 142 respectively. No 256’s.
And they moved the horsy to the top of the screen:
http://www.doesbuyvmhavestock.com/
Just saw Fran’s comment up there. Wasn’t there when I scanned this thread. The cache here at the library must be acting up.
Sorry about that.
You working off the eeePC now? Hope you enjoy it!
No, afraid not. It worked one time Monday at Panera Bread but hasn’t booted since then. Sitting beside me here charging while I’m on the library terminal.
It’s running now. Hopefully that’s a good sign.
If I buy the higher plan than plan that I bought a week ago, can I cancel my old plan and get refund?
Thanks
You can just upgrade and pay the difference 🙂
Francisco
Can I upgrade to 256 KVM plan? Must I order as usual or only send the ticket? Thanks
I thought I saw a no upgrade clause when I was checking out….
@Fran: Not for the 128MB plan correct?
For those of you who are looking for some last minute review to help you on a go/no-go decision on BuyVM, here is a review that was done a few minutes’ ago:
http://www.96mb.com/96mb-low-end-vps-review-part-xviii-last-minute-review-of-buyvm/
Basically the box remains pretty solid, and other than inconsistent I/O and not so great connection to Europe, it is a pretty good box in general.
And if you are interested in my original review that was done a few months ago, here it is:
http://www.96mb.com/96mb-low-end-vps-review-part-iii-buyvm/
I was getting an error msg saying there was a problem to place the order…
I was able to order from here: https://my.frantech.ca/cart.php?a=confproduct&i=1
Open an account at https://my.frantech.ca/register.php
nope, after registration I got the following msg:
Your account has not been approved
http://wwwserver.org/s/84022f9f192a5b02e888de7a9b05d38b121998bd.png
(A nice, helpful graphic posted by an IRC regular – enjoy!)
LOL, good one
i installed windows 2003 r2 disk 1, but there is no network card. its showing yellow mark on Ethernet controller from device manager. i tried to get driver from disk but still no driver found. Anyone manager to get network connection up on kvm? i see two iso disk to mount on cp. http://screensnapr.com/e/mpnjAN.png
what is the disk 2 for?
You are getting the KVM one?
I’m getting error while access the SSH, cannot ping the VPS too
@Francisco
please take a look at my ticket #242518
sorry about I’m post here..
but it happen to 128MB openvz plan that i just received..
Try their IRC channel, since their tickets could take days to get a response…also, did you try to use the emergency console in SolusVM? Does it show as online?
Support tickets are answered in the order they are received from Monday – Friday 8:00am to 5:00pm PDT.
Yes I have the same problem,
but it works now. I guess yours too 😉
It should be better now 🙂
If your IP started with 209.* there was an error on my part when I was configuring them on our router.
The subnets are all good now.
Francisco
@NanoG6
yeah it work now..
can you use wget command ?
Yes I’m able to wget test file;
wget http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
100%[===============================>] 104,857,600 37.8M/s in 2.6s
wget http://download.thinkbroadband.com/100MB.zip
100%[===============================>] 104,857,600 6.29M/s in 37s
Fran, sorry to make your server a lil’ bit busy by doing such ‘initial test’ 😀
BTW, it seems like default nameservers are not functional normally. It is unable to resolve any domain.
So I have to change to another nameserver.
Yeah..
it fine after change the DNS..
I hope fran can solve this out asap..
Fran can u check my ticket #695767 , i am stuck.. no internet connection.
Try again.
If your IP started with 209 it should be OK now.
Francisco
@Fran: my ip starts with 205… but the problem is this: http://screensnapr.com/e/mP8lpQ.png
i dont have ethernet adapter… can’t even find the driver on disk… as a result no internet connection.
Did you swap to the e1000 driver? If you delete the device it should be able to find the driver on the Windows CD.
If not, i’m going to see if intel has an e1000 driver ISO.
Francisco
All sounds great, except that it seems every new batch comes at the same time of day, which is 4AM my time. Right about the hardest time of day for one to be awake.
we have stock up right now if you’re after a 128 🙂
We released stock to better suit asia/pacific timezones.
Francisco
Cool! But I’m actually after a 256 plan. When exactly are those coming up, Francisco?
Thanks.
errr…I just noticed the comment bellow… Now I feel silly 🙁
Sorry
stay tuned, they will release the OVN256mb soon,
sorry, please read, OVZ256mb. I feel so asleep.
Yes, I did get one yesterday, right after posting here:)
hi,Fran,please approve my ticket#268910 ,thanks indeed:P
Will you be releasing any OpenVZ-256MB package soon?
maybe later today or early tomorrow, I hope so 🙂
Hi,
Just to say buyvm have stock at the moment! 🙂 I managed to get a 128Mb system.
M
Just reinstalled the OS on OpenVZ using the minimal Ubuntu 10.04 image (since I had the same one with NordicVPS)…but the image is not minimal…it even has Apache running…any chance for a true barbone image?
apt-get purge will do that for you.
Don’t know why, but even if I do apt-get purge (say) apache2, the apache2 service is still running and all files related to apache is still remains. Ubuntu 10.04, 11.04, Debian, all the same.
So now I use yum on CentOS.
These are official images from OpenVZ.
We plan to get some strip down going on soon enough 🙂 Just let us get caught up with sales.
Francisco
Same thing happens to me…can’t purge that stuff…please FIX THIS!
stop daemon, remove it with update-rc.d, then apt-get remove –purge
Well what other crap do they put in it…even figured out now sendmail is running…dont call it minimal with all that crap in it. Can’t I get a really minimal image like NordicVPS has…I dont use Apache2 or sendmail…the server is really nice, but this right now kind bugged me…not everyone runs apache…
I hope we get a clean image…minimal my a**…
apache2ctl stop
apt-get remove –purge apache2*
/etc/init.d/sendmail stop
apt-get remove –purge sendmail*
Yea, I can see how issuing those commands on a new VPS as the systems admin of the box is sooooo annoying.
@Raj: Agreed. Although annoying, you should have the basic skills to strip down the system. You can also use a minimizer script made by a community member to strip down your *Debian 6* install: https://github.com/maxexcloo/Minimal
Very handy script, thanks for sharing
Indeed, thanks cd.
Seems like I’m gonna try back to Debian.
My 128MB (burst 256) stripped CentOS 5 + Lighty + MySQL + PHP = ~50MB free memory after reboot 🙁
Thats handy…wish we could find the same thing for Ubuntu Server…well Debian it is till they update the images at BuyVM…
Tried that allready…stopped the services and the removed them. After server restart both are still up and running…can someone please give detailed instructions on how to remove them…
Does anyone notify that Fran has been asking his vps hunters to relax so long? 🙂
buyMV stocks are back up, 🙂
Is centos available on kvms or it is for windows only?
centos is available in 256mb kvm, which also include windows 2003. check the wiki. http://wiki.frantech.ca/index.php/KVM
Lots of templates available 🙂
I’m working on an ISO loading system to handle this.
Francisco
I really did not appreciate the fact that I had to wait for account approval for almost 24 hours and ended up finding out that you guys ended up changing your mind about the approval process and I was unable to get the 128mb vps since anyone can now sign up.. what happened to first come first serve? It was not stated anywhere on top or on the website that I had to pre-register and get approved in order to get a VPS.. I found that out when I went to the IRC channel.. Initially I saw 70+? and now there is no 128mb vps left. not cool man.. definitely not cool.
Hi David,
It’s mentioned in our TOS which you checked that you accepted and read 🙂 In the end we decided the new system wasn’t working well for a lot of people and we slimmed it back for the time being.
We spent a fair bit of time with many of our clients working on how best to make the billing go quickly since it’s what takes the longest. It seems we assumed users would actually read the TOS, though, and it just turned into a big mess and a lot of angry people. We did our best with it but it just didn’t work in the grand scale as well as we’d like.
We have more 128’s coming on Monday so if you’re still interested we’ll have 260 then.
Francisco
got a vps from buyvm, got banned, got angry and got refund. those guys are not friendly. that’s all i can say. if you don’t believe, ignore me.
Would like to here buyvm’s side of the story. Fran and co are THE MOST FRIENDLIEST people in the hosting industry!
Hi,
He likely refused to provide accurate account details when he signed up. We’ve had a few people that signed up and insisted on using either proxies or simply lying about their address (we aren’t going to rob your house or something, we just need it for fraud monitoring). We had at least one fellow that was connecting from Saudi Arabia but insisting on providing us with an England based address/billing information and kept claiming we were lying about where he was connecting from. In the end Aldryic removed his account and marked him as a fraud risk.
We can’t win them all, though if the user in question has a ticket I can give it a look over.
Francisco
Actually I’m not who you guessed to be, and it’s not exactly “banned” but “shut down”. It’s all past and I’ve quarreled abt that enough in a ticket. Just to say, if you didn’t over-use ur CPU, ur memory OR ur bandwidth, they still have their ways to call you an abuser and shut your box down, and if you say “I didn’t violate your TOS” which is true, they’ll ADD a line in their TOS so that you do.
users can use allt he BW they pay for, same with space.
CPU’s aren’t guaranteed nor do we guarantee our Mhz. If you, say, go start up a bitcoin miner or run some hellishly ugly java app, then we’ll protect our other users on the node first before a single user.
It’s not unreasonable and i’m sure if you provide me a ticket ID we’ll see something very similar.
Francisco
Again, I didn’t over-use either my CPU, my memory OR my bandwidth. After the refund my account was deleted and I put all your mails into trash bin. It’s some weird network connection thing, and again, I didn’t abuse but was called so. It’s neither a miner nor a java app, but commonly used uTorrent client for linux that you called “abusing”. I don’t wanna quarrel with you any more because I’ve had enough. Just here to be a reminder for who wanna buy their box.
For those other guys, I AM from China, and there’s a saying for guys like you: 50 Cent Party
Lol are you from China?
別生氣，小肚。
我們所有的家庭在這裡。
Don’t be angry XiaoDu. We are all family here.
What a suprise…purchased a new 512MB box at BuyVM not 2 days ago and I was planing not to renew my 128MB box in Germany (NordicVPS) when I got the mail today that Nordic will not be renewing my plan alltogether since they are terminating the whole 128MB plan.
Glad those guys only got 15$ from me a year ago…talk about reliable service…well one customer less for them, maybe they will now stop spamming me with offers…that would be a win.
They sent out this notice to all 128MB customers? can you share the email text?
When NordicVPS started their $15/year Fremont service back up after their really, really long outage, it had that note in the email that they wouldn’t be allowing renewals after the year was up. I didn’t bother with it again after that.
I did, however, renew my $15/year BuyVM VPS last month, after my first year of service.
Hmm I guess I missed that…well what is done is done…BuyVM it is now…
Yeah same as David, I didn’t bother with re-setup of this nordic vps either. It isn’t worth to bother with setup, etc.. knowing that it’s only temporal. I am not sure if I logged into it even once after their months long downtime. It’s simple no wort to bother with.
My Fremont vps from Nordic has been useful for testing my version of Lowendscript, especially as the OS is reinstalled frequently.
Fran?
I have been going over the OpenVZ repo trying to find the Ubuntu 10.04 minimal image NordicVPS were using…I think I have found it:
http://wiki.openvz.org/Download/template/precreated
Its the last image on the far end of the page (83 MB in size), its a slim community minimal image that has only ssh running
Could it be added so we can all enjoy a slim Ubuntu Server system?
Any news on this? It’s on the OpenVZ repos, but community made…I hope u will include it in the distro chooser…
I have two 128MB VPS with buyVM now, one with US IP address, one with Canada IP address. Even both are located on the same node, I have some kind of noticeable difference between these two hosts on ping results.
The US ip seems to be more instable than the Canada ip, regarding to the latency(60~80ms slower, averaging 390ms to China on the US ip) and the packet loss(10% more, averaging 16% on the US ip).
Just wondering whether this is normal? Is there anything I can do, or the buyVM team can do?
It’s possible that the US IPs only use the HE link.
The US ip’s are HE only so they get pretty lame latency 🙁
We’re working on a solution for the canadian ip’s to get on hulu and such 🙂
Francisco
Thanks, this sounds like a great thing to expect!
Is there any news about the Canada IP being able to work around the Hulu restriction? The US IP seems pretty shabby these days… 🙁
http://wiki.frantech.ca/index.php/US_VPN
I got warning from websites like Hulu and Spotify mentioning my not being U.S. then I realized I’m using my buyvm to tunnel the traffic, it will be great if you can work something out on this. 🙂
The vps I buy came with canada ip, if I buy another will it be US ip or is it random?
You will get one from Frantech’s IP blocks by default, the HE IPs are available on request.
this is a noob questions what does HE mean?
Hurricane Electric, a large datacenter/bandwidth provider. The US ips are from HE.
@dmmcintyre3: you mean coresite IP now since they are no longer with HE?
They are the HE IPs, and only use the HE bandwidth.
Speeds seem rather lacking to me (at least from anywhere other than CacheFly):
You can log a ticket and we’ll look into it 🙂 At this point we’re looking at getting our routes/announecments fully cut from HE as they keep jerking things around.
Done. Hopefully it can be resolved as the same tests look even worse now.
This is just an update for people of the changes we’ve been making to stallion (our fully stand in replacement for solus).
Stallion has already supporting much of our VPS management, just it’s still wrapped in the solusVM templates. At this point we’ve added the following additions to help:
– Your Internal LAN IP is listed everywhere as you manage your VPS
– The IPv6 gateway is now listed in the IP Address listing page while on a KVM VPS
– Your Internal LAN IP is displayed on the IP Address listing page as well
– LAN IP’s are now fully static and will be placed back on when you reinstall
As you can see, the LAN IP system is nearly done, we’re rolling out the mass updates to all nodes in the next few hours.
We’re currently working on another new feature which allows ‘streaming ISOs from a URL’, meaning users can custom install any ISO that is web accessible on their KVM based VPS without requesting support/us to host the ISO.
Thanks!
Francisco
I think I’m in love…
–2011-08-13 22:53:46– http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net… 205.234.175.175
Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net|205.234.175.175|:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK
Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: â/dev/nullâ
100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 33.9M/s in 3.0s
lol thats some quick downloading ay
Any updates on EU servers fran?
Thanks.
Storage plans have been announced for tomorrow! 🙂
We will have limited stock of them so if you’re interested be sure to snag one up.
http://www.doesbuyvmhavestock.com/
All other plans are loading up with stock tomorrow! 128MB KVM’s will be split to 10 per sale period (10 at 1PM, 10 at 10PM).
Francisco
I should add, for the OpenVZ plans there will be 130 per sales period 😉
Francisco
KVM 256 ?
They’re in stock 🙂
Francisco
Hello,
I got maxmind error. Ticket 346381
Just grabbed a kvm 128MB 😛 wish it was europe though, really want buyvm to be there.