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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Just got my self a KVM 256 😀
must be really fast to get KVM128
We’ll have more tonight 🙂
Francisco
Does anyone get more than 2MB/sec upload from their OVZ128?
We have some network work planned sometime tonight 🙂 there will be no downtime over it as I can just cut it over slowly.
Thanks,
Francisco
No, I don’t get more than that — but my location is Eastern Europe which is quite a ways from their DC… I usually average 400-600kB/s upload from the VPS… but keep in mind ping is around 240ms… For $15 I can’t complain too much!
I max out my 16mbps line, from Portugal.
2MB/s isn’t fast enough?
People in Asia; HK, Sing, JP and KR can load data from my buyVM boxes in San Jose at 2.7MB/s – 4.1MB/s.
Regarding network connection speed, 123systems is amazing; all my 123systems boxes in Dallas perform at 3.2MB/s – 6.2MB/s to Asia connections. The only issue with 123systems is the IO speed which is always kept at 45MB/s-67MB/s. However, that is so good for a LEB of $15/year and 2vCore.
I am totally satisfied with buyVM and 123systems.
Aww, missed all of it.
More on the way
😀
Francisco
Of course, but when?
supposed to be 16min. ago, but might have network problem to solve first.
Hey Anthony please check my ticket and activate by OVZ128M please!
Congratulations for keeping a stable service, Francisco.
I have applied 128MB from BuyVM.net and get the invoice paid.
However it was still pending. after submitting a ticket and refilling all missed contact, it is STILL pending for almost 24 hours. Waiting sucks.
Why wouldn’t they activate it and send a reminder ticket and request missed contact?
I have bought from Directspace, 123systems, things are almost set up immediately
But BuyVM, I am sorry, you let me wait.
So, not every host do instant activation, if you need your instance NOW you must go to other place.
There are several reasons to not activate instantly I think.
I guess so because they have not stated “instant activate”
I will live with that. I have just tooooooooooo eager to test my lovely BuyVM out.
Sorry BuyVM
Sorry about the delay 🙂
Anthony spent 8 hours or so hauling through sales/tickets/etc so I sent him to bed before the next 128MB sales round was supposed to start.
On another note, network speeds should be fixed for users downloading and hopefully uploading too. Our new router is in the final stages of configuring as well.
Thanks,
Francisco
Up and running. Very smooth and nice VPS!
Me too, up and runnning :p
Lets hope latency to australia/asia gets back to normal 185 ping then
because I bought buyvm for a few reasons and 250 ping is not one of those reasons lol
You guys need a newsletter for stock announcements.
We have a mailing list? 🙂
Francisco
*cough* Maybe adding a note and a link to the front page of buyvm.net would be helpful? At least I don’t see it right off.
🙂
open a ticket about preorder and you will know 😉
Never saw any link to a mailing list anywhere.
Fransico, any news regarding next re-stock?
I am looking forward for a KVM monthly plan restock!
Storage is going to be filling reserve orders as we can starting today and KVM stock is going up as well.
I doubt we’ll have enough storage stock, but we’ll be going from oldest reserve to latest, sorry to those that were waiting!
KVM stock will last a while, but snag what you can 🙂
Thanks,
Francisco
Wow, thats good news 🙂
That’s good news!
I am ready for a KVM. Any ETA Francisco?
Likely 1PM as always 🙂
Just a heads up, stock can take upwards of 24 hours to provision. We’ve had some people order then cancel instantly all upset because it isn’t instant setup.
Francisco
So bad I am in Hong Kong which is GMT+8..
I might needa set my alarm clock to snag my KVM
Just another question, can I just open a ticket and make a pre-order?
Grabbed two KVMs, one 128MB for debian and one 512MB for w2k3
Both running great and almost instant setup after payment!
I also decided to grab another VPS. This time, a brand new KVM-256. 🙂
Waiting to get it activated!
Just a heads up to everyone:
– Private VLAN ip’s have been bound to all servers and anyone with multi assigns have been cleaned up. These IP’s are STATIC! You can see your IP by either issuing ‘ifconfig’ or by logging into solus/stallion and seeing on the left hand side of the VM page, or the IP addresses page.
KVM is still pending VLAN ip’s, we’re working quickly 🙂
Thanks,
Francisco
Sorry if I’m asking stupid question, but what is the VLAN IP for? 😀
Example of use?
If you have 2 VPS with Fran, then you can copy data between your servers without using the monthly bandwidth that you have assigned.
Better example, one server is your database, the other your webserver. You are saving traffic.
Also, probably using the internal network is faster than going via your external IP.
VLAN may be not a real LAN,
I tried to load a file of size 1592253858 between two boxes. The loading speed was 8M/s with the connection using LAN IP and 13M/s with the connection using internet IP. I also tried with mysql server and got a similar result. However, VLAN may help with data backup.
tinyray: I saw ~7MB/s on average (between 4MB/s and 11MB/s) for ~5GB over VLAN.
@Perl,
It seems they are using the same routing infrastructure for both the networks.
Ah yes I see.. it’s about bandwidth counting. Make sense.
But I doubt we’ll get better speed using VLAN IP, since it’s still route to the same hop 😕
Yes, is the same location, but probably that router has less load than the router to Internet
Amazing,
Thanks, buyVM,
Internal traffic is routed through the public IP and is being counted on SolusVM panel 🙁
In my case, server A relays a stream from server B using private IP.
On server B, the client list shows server A using public IP.
Traffic is counted in both servers.
Hmmm, so, there is absolutely no gain, LOL
It doesn’t count right now but we’re issuing a full fix for the routing later today.
The LAN should do higher than 100Mbit 🙂 If you’re getting less just log a ticket or let me know so I can track it down.
Francisco
I think there should be a routing problem. Do not need to have two different boxes for testing the case; I just used one box with self-connections using vLan and internet IPs, the data loading speeds of these connections are very similar.
I’m just throwing this out there … If anyone who snagged a BuyVM 500GB storage plan feels like parting with it, let me know 🙂
Hi Fran!
Haven’t been able to grab a storage plan last time, is it possible to know when you’ll release more?
Anyway, is there a way to get on some kind of queue to automatically get one once released?
Thanks 🙂
We’ll have a few more 😉
Great 🙂
Will that be announced somewhere?
Mailing list?
Thx
The KVM list & twitter 🙂
Francisco
Ok, cool.
Hello everyone,
Our new router is prepping a cut over later today. I apologize about the short notice but it was the ideal time for us to get everything done with the smallest ‘blip’ window possible.
At this point our current router & line is rimming out at around 800mbit outbound, not good on our single gbit to the whole setup 🙂 Our new router has an additional gbit of throughput which means users should see their upload speed issues addressed as well as download speeds staying very high the majority of the time (pretty much cachefly being the slow end of the pull).
We expect the whole thing to be about a minute or so to cut over, hopefully less since we don’t take full routing tables from our upstream (just a default route).
A VIRTIO drop down option has been added to our storage plans so be sure to swap over to it if you’re on linux, the performance improvement is frantastic. We’re still likely to hold a maintenance tonight on the storage array to see if we can address where the performance degrade is happening.
Thanks for your patience 🙂
Francisco
Thats the reason I love BuyVM/Frantech, though there may be issues BUT they always fix their pony to get it right ASAP 🙂
Good job Francisco, virtio has shown performance improvements even though I never had to reinstall OS
Some people won’t need to reinstall – namely debian/ubuntu people 🙂
virtio helped a lot and we’re working to push support for it to our regular KVM nodes sometime today 🙂
The storage array is about where I think we can get it. I’m able to push 50 – 70MB/sec dd’s inside the VM’s and others report around 40 – 50MB/sec. I think at this point we’re just being held back by the fact the CPU’s aren’t brand spanking new. I’m sure if we replaced the board/CPU with a xeon E3 setup it’d get full blast.
Either way, considering things have a speed cap this will mean people can still easily max out their line before any IO limits. We have already had some people ride full 100mbit in pulling initial commits from backup servers/etc.
Thanks for for riding the pony,
Francisco
Funny, buyvm, all the vps is down.
Poorly announced router maintenance, hold on tight
I think mine is down 🙁
Any problems?
Pinging 209.x.x.x with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Ping statistics for 209.x.x.x:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),
i hope they send email notifications with the announcements
not funny, they are down for maintenance it just didn’t go as smoothly as hoped i guess judging by it taking longer and coming back and down again ;P vps are all up ;P
I apologize about that, the router cut didn’t go as smoothly as we would have liked. While we had tested everything to a T, for some reason the 2nd gbit from our upstream didn’t come up.
The new router is in place and the upgraded link to the switches is in place so we’re benifiting either way. Once I debug the extra gbit port we’ll be able to add it without issue.
Thanks!
Francisco
i thought that buyvm adding stock each monday this month
We’ve restocked 🙂
Francisco
But you haven’t restocked storage plans.
We’ll have a few of these but very very limited.
I’m working with Anthony on the plan designations for it 🙂
Francisco
But no kvm 256
No more announcements to mailing list?! I wish I will not be that late:(
I forgot to hit the lists today, i’ll get on that 🙂
Francisco
two weeks ago it was the first time i’ve heard about something called VPS and since then i have tried a lot of cheap openvz, xen and vsphere providers but this one is just outstanding. i have bought openvz 512 and it’s just perfect for my needs. centos 6 and pptp works with mppe, vps was up in a few minutes. thank you guys!
Thanks for the kind words 🙂 We do our best!
Francisco
Keep up with the good work Francisco.
Hopefully there will be plans in the LA soon.
(SJ is a good location but a 2nd site is always welcomed)
Fran: any eta for storage plans?
Thanks 🙂
Were there any restock between :05 ~ :10 on KVM128? My cron job told me so but when I just checked (ummmm about :28 sorry) there were no more stock. I just want to make sure it worked properly.
There was some at 1PM yesterday but it didn’t last very long 🙂
Francisco
I’ve committed our new “OS Reinstall” pages for OpenVZ based VPS’s 🙂
We’ve also added about 50 – 60 new templates too 😉
Francisco
Screenshot? 🙂
http://i.imgur.com/7v1Im.png
It isn’t changed lots, but we’ve added categories as you can see to help organize templates properly.
Francisco
It looks way more organized that way.
Thanks 🙂
Francisco
NICE.. thanks Fran 😉
Thanks for opening up 64 bit templates for my 128mb openvz. But is it true that openzv is not efficient for 64 bit os?
It’s not perfect in a lot of things and can cause 2x RAM usage. We always recommend people use 32bit when possible.
Francisco
I’m looking at the 32bit Debian 6 template myself. I was told by a *cough* certain competitor that Debain 6 was only going to be 64 bit.
Hmmmm…..
They need to consider selling the crack they’re smoking instead of VPS’s then, they’d do much better at that 🙂
Debian has to be one of the most portable versions of Linux that expecting it to be ’64bit only’ is retarded.
Francisco
Hi Francisco,
any new inventory?
I’m already a customer – but need a new VPS.
PHT
Hi Peter,
We got more on the way, just waiting on some RMA’s to come back 🙂
Francisco
Tried to establish an internal iptable rule to establish the US_VPN by following this instruction, http://wiki.frantech.ca/index.php/US_VPN, unfortunately, I could not make it happy by myself.
This instruction seems pretty straight forward, and just need one rule appended to the existing iptables, but no matter what i do(restart vpn, flush iptables then redo the adding, etc.), seems i just can’t get it done right… it’s always the CA IP, and still being blocked by HULU… has anyone successfully done this? Suggestions please!
Hi Jy,
Make sure you don’t have another SNAT rule in place.
I recommend you do:
iptables -F -t nat
Then apply the SNAT rule from the VPN 🙂
Francisco
Thanks, it worked!
Be sure to save your iptables entries 🙂
We plan to get it supporting UK content very soon.
Francisco
Aww, I missed today’s stock. Any plans to have more 512mb openvz in the near future?
Buyvm’s staff Aldryic C’boäs shut down all of my vps just because i asked him to move my vps to a faster node. all of my data is gone and he said, “Allow me to be perfectly blunt. Your childish threats have decided the outcome of this case. You may try and spread whatever bad publicity you wish, I can promise we’ve had worse thrown at us by better people, and still walked away without a scratch.”
this is very bad
my clients are blaming why their sites are down, we are losing $300 per hour. Aldryic C’boäs said i used the same paypal account to purcahse vps from buyvm and said it’s Unauthorized Payments, even paypal didn’t say that.
i’m buyvm’s old customer since they started their business. see how they treat their customers?
If you are loosing $300/hour I am pretty sure you already have a solid backup plan that allows you to quickly deploy new boxes elsewhere and migrate your clients across. All the best with that 🙂
As it’s out of character of BuyVM to treat customers this way (I am getting very good service so far, and so are many others), I am sure Fran/Aldryic have an interesting story to tell 🙂
Hi Frank,
From what i’m hearing from Aldryic, there is 3 – 4 people paying from the same account and this is seen as a fraud risk.
He’ll be posting on here or talking to you in ticket shortly 🙂
@LEA – Thanks 🙂
Francisco
To clarify – yup.
I’ve got four accounts. One with a California address, one with a UK address, two with CN addresses. All four being accessed by a CN ISP, and being paid from the same CN-named PayPal account. Rest assured, we’re taking all possible precautions to make sure the PayPal account owner will not lose their money. All services involved are currently suspending while this investigation is taking place.
As these jokers have already cost me ~5 hours today in audits and handling, I’ll just leave it at that for now so I can try and get this all resolved before morning 😛
LowEndAdmin, thanks for your reply. yes, you are correct, I have a backup plan but some database files are not the newest.
buyvm staff member Aldryic C’boas just wanted to make me lose more money, if they want to investigate these issues, they can simply send an email to my paypal email address and asked if i authrozied those payment.
what a shame to trust this company for nearly one year, and i even recommended them to my friends, and i regret very much.
California address, one with a UK address. they are just my clients, they can’t bother to pay buyvm monthly then they asked me to help them pay. if you check the payment history, none of them have problems,
and i’m a genuine buyer. why buyvm’s guy Aldryic C’boas treated me this way, if you think i’m doing wrong, why not warn me before i put so many sites on my vps? i’ve ordered more than 10 vps from them, see what a disaster it would be, i’m in deep trouble while Aldryic C’boas is smiling. anyone help?
everyone, just wake up,
Imagine, one day, your friend asked you to help him pay the vps invoice from buyvm, then suddenly your friend’s vps is closed and all website data is gone.
How angry your friend will be?
Did you inform BuyVM before you pay for your friend’s invoice?
Let me paraphrase it, did you tell BuyVM that you are helping your friend to pay their invoice?
I have had an experience where I was asked to pay for a friend’s invoice. Before I do it, I inform the provider to ask for this possibility and not marked the payment as a fraud transaction. The provider then asked me to hand them a copy of my friend’s ID to match my friend’s account info, and I have to agree that if my friend breach their TOS, it is me who has to bear the responsibility.
Cheers
It turned out ugly, when my friend took my kindness for granted and breached the provider’s TOS by sending unsolicited bulk e-mail. The IP assigned to my friend was listed at several blocklisting sites, and I was charged with the cleaning-up cost which is far more higher than the VPS itself. 🙁
Imagine one day, a fraudster comes to buy 10 VPS to “the company where I work”… how angry the owner will be?
So, is your side of the story, Aldric exposed his side too, and your problem will be solved before morning.
PS: Aldric is smiling? LOL, do you think all the people is plotting against you? So funny.
Hi Aldryic C’boäs,
My hosting service provider just sent you a message, please check that ticket and proceed. I paid google a lot for adwords and i have to feed my family by running some websites. so please reactivate my vps once you got up. Hopefully it will be just a misunderstanding. no fraudsters, no scams, no pain, no troubles.
I feed my family by working for a living :3
As a follow-up to anyone that was curious: all services were transferred to the person that actually paid for them, who has assured me there would be no more public temper tantrums from his clients. The guy was very polite, and once I explained the nuances and reasons behind our Terms of Service he was more than happy to get everything taken care of. I wish him luck with his reselling, and look forward to our future interactions.