Chris, from ChicagoVPS, is back with three offers for the LowEndBox community! These offers are all available in six locations across the USA! This time, Chris sent us SSD-cached offers, including two annual deals. ChicagoVPS is using host nodes with dual CPUs and Intel 520 SSDs for caching. Orders will be set up instantly, so you can get started right after ordering! Customers have been quite positive about ChicagoVPS lately. If you sign up, or are already a customer, feel free to leave a review in the comments.
The offers
128MB SSD-Cached
| 1GB SSD-Cached
| 2GB SSD-Cached
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ChicagoVPS accepts payments via major Credit Cards, by personal check, cashier’s check, PayPal, electronic check, or money order. Their refunds policy states that “Refunds are subject to approval by ChicagoVPS on a case by case basis”. ChicagoVPS guarantees a 99.9% uptime with all services. Free central backups, free automated weekly node backups and free DNS hosting are all included. For more information, take a look at their Terms of Service.
Network Information
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Test IPv4: 198.23.128.127
Buffalo, NY, USA
Test IPv4: 75.127.3.3
Chicago, IL, USA
Test IPv4: 206.217.137.110
Atlanta, GA, USA
Test IPv4: 198.46.150.130
New Jersey, NJ, USA
Test IPv4: 199.188.100.34
Dallas, TX, USA
Test IPv4: 172.245.57.2
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hello,Chris, could you offer some cheap ssd vpses ?
i hate SSD-Cached !
Hi,
We currently have 2 “Pure SSD VPS” specials at: https://billing.chicagovps.net/cart.php?gid=31
Please let us know if you have any additional questions. We appreciate the opportunity!
严重不建议买，严重不建议转推荐。我买过之后，被恶心了两次——之前paypal用的是subscribe，用了半年对方就因为dns的问题，关闭了我的vps，强制要求我重新付费激活，最后我关闭了账户。但是忘了删除paypal的付费，后来一年之后paypal自动付费了，我联系chicagovps之后，他们根本不理我，最后我只好信用卡chargeback，到现在还没结论呢。。。
English:
paypal subscription problem is your own problem because WHMCS might automatically redirect you to paypal subscribe by default but you can always cancel it yourself. VPSes from them are always with lowend price if you don’t care about your pocket, they don’t care. If you had any problem with the DNS you memtioned, you have to explain more so people know what was going on.
Chinese:
paypal subscription是你自己的问题WHMCS系统可能会自动给你导向到自动订阅，但是paypal的设置和检查是你自己的责任，你随时都可以取消订阅也不会影响服务。 他家vps已经很廉价了如果你不在乎你的钱，他们也不会在乎。另外就是DNS如果有问题，你应该具体说明，单纯说有问题谁也不知道是什么问题。
-VPSMATE
no problem now.
Was looking something similar “512for15” from bluevm. First one is even not offer.
Me too
Happy customer here. Got one 3yrs/$60 2G OpenVZ plan from their last great sale. Decent performance and good ticket response speed.
Really you paid for 3 years? Even it’s a good price, I would not pay for that long. Yearly is already too long for me. Who knows what gonna happen to the company next year if they bankruptcy?
yep, 3 yrs… well, I bet you won’t be disappeared so quickly… :P
Sorry, typo. “You” should be “they”. They won’t be gone so quickly. :)
or US?
$60? Who is gonna go out of business just to steal your $60? And if they do – its still just $60.
Jerry,
Thanks for the kind words. New Wave NetConnect, LLC, the parent company of ChicagoVPS has been here for 5 years and to this day we are still growing steadily on a daily basis. We are here for the long haul! :)
Please let us know if there is anything we can do for you! Have a great weekend ahead.
Thanks
Can vouch for Chris and ChicagoVPS too. Got a 1-year deal six months ago and the server is working great. I’ve had a handful of performance issues, but they’re all short-lived and when tickets are opened they’re responded too very quickly. Let’s be honest, you get what you pay for. And I’d argue that especially with the 1-year plan, you’re getting approximately 400% more than you pay for ;-)
Colin,
Thanks for your trust and loyalty, we appreciate you!
2TB bandwidth is it per month ?
That is correct.
Thanks!
no IPv6? ….
bump… same question
ipv6?
Hi,
At the moment we do not, as soon as our datacenter adds the proper support for IPv6 we will be offering IPv6 to our clients at no added cost.
Thanks
Anyone considering this company should be forewarned. Read previous reviews and numerous problems pop up. I purchased a yearly plan and eventually gave up on using the machine due to on-going issues with support, always “about to be resolved.” Would suggest finding a better host.
Hi Tb1991,
Do you have a ticket ID so I can investigate your claim?
Thanks
I couldn’t agree more! Please read my comments under the previous ChicagoVPS offer page.
Although uptime hasn’t been an issue, their support times of 4 days for a simple billing issue (cancelling an accidental PayPal payment) is absolutely terrible. When I asked as to the reason for their delays and put forward my concerns all I got was single-line replies from Adam Ng that did nothing to address them at all. It’s like they just don’t care once you’ve signed up to yearly+ plan.
I most certainly won’t be taking out more services with these guys in a hurry…
Hi,
I’m sorry to hear about your experience with the billing department.
Do you have a ticket ID so I can investigate your claim? Thanks for your time.
As much as I’d like to endorse ChicagoVPS, I can’t.
The systems themselves are awesome…WHEN THEY’RE UP. However, I’ve had no luck keeping my VPS up. It’s a bare lamp stack running 4 no traffic Laravel sites and it goes down about once a week. I always get a “We’re working on it”, or “We’re aware of an issue on xyz rack/node and will be testing it [at a later date]” excuse, but no follow up or further explanation. It was recommended that I try switching to a different rack, so I did (meaning I had to go out and update all my dns records…not too terribly difficult, but annoying). Then when I still had issues, a friend recommended I switch data centers, so I did that yesterday (again switching all the dns records) only to wake up to another Pingdom alert letting me know that my system is offline AGAIN!
So, to keep from flaming ChicagoVPS, I’ll give them a chance to earn their reputation back by posting my Pingdom uptime reports at http://tagping.com/pingdom/ . If you can’t reach the site, it means the server is down. If you can, you’ll see that over the past 6 months I’ve averaged about an 85.5% uptime (unacceptable even for a personal development/test server). Hopefully that number will go up soon.
Here are a few of the ticket numbers if you’d like to further investigate:
3/18 – #YQD-361630
3/16 – #PYD-425695
3/10 – #SVI-984399
1/30 – #FDK-876647
1/17 – #CLW-083913
1/9 – #JAR-941749
1/9 – #LSP-829493
Later,
Daniel
Yes – Ticket #POI-164250
I have to agree with Daniel here. WHEN services are up, they’re astounding. However, I’ve seen more than one incident where servers have been left down for an hour + with ZERO acknowledgement or response to the issue.
If you need help with your server, you’ll want to go elsewhere. These guys really take forever to work things out.
Wanted to give an update. Since the time of my last post, ChicagoVPS tweaked a few things and now my system seems to be stable and always available. Please take a look at the updated Pingdom charts at http://tagping.com/pingdom/ and see for yourself. I’ll continue to update them every month or so for anyone interested in these deals.
I’d like to give an update too. After providing my ticket number 9 days ago at their request, surprise surprise, I’ve heard absolutely nothing from as of yet.
And of course I don’t see any reply from them in a month…Good thing for the reviews else I would have made the mistake of picking Chicago VPS also!
They have good performance on boxes speed wise, but be prepared for 15% packet loss one hop out of ColoCrossing.
Hi NotEven!
We do not have any packet loss on our network, and anyone that pings our test IP’s can confirm that. Are you sure its not ICMP rate limiting causing packet loss on your server? If you installed a firewall (like CSF) on your server, I know that CSF by default enables ICMP rate limiting which therefore makes it seem like there is packet loss on the server.
Thanks
I don’t usually, but taking a moment to comment since happy customer never post. :)I have to say I’ve had a few machines with these guys starting around fall/winter 2012. The performance on the boxes has been good, and while I’ve only had 2 tickets in with them in that time, the response time has been good. Just sayin’.
Thanks for the comment, I do find that lots of people may have bad experiences with a company, but it is people like you that get into a negative thread to talk about your positive experience that shows how good a company might be. Or how they try and fix problems, that customers might be experiencing.
Cam,
Glad to hear it, we sincerely appreciate your loyalty. Please feel free to let us know if there is anything that we can help you with.
Thanks
any testfiles on Buffalo, Chicago and New Jersey locations, please? ;-)
I’m an existing customer in good standing and I’m already waiting for 7 hours the the activation. I can’t even open a support ticket because I wasn’t assigned an IP address yet.
24 hours and counting.
Pechspilz,
All of our VPS are instantly setup. It is possible that you ordered with an invalid host name.
Open a support ticket please and we’ll get you taken care of. You don’t need an active service or IP to open one. Just put “N/A” in the main IP field when it asks you for one when opening a ticket.
Thanks
Thanks, will do!
128MB for $12??? CVPS seem to be going backwards!!! 128MB plans can be picked up for $5/yr these days and CVPS even advertise 256MB for $12 on LEB!
How much is additional ip address and would cpanel license still the same price for current user
Hi!
Additional IPs are $1.50/month, we offer discounts if purchased in bulk – open a sales ticket if that is something you would be interested in.
cPanel/WHM VPS licenses are $12/month.
Thanks for the interest!
Awesome deal, although I would personally prefer pure SSD, brought 6 today!
Diego,
We appreciate your continued business and loyalty. Please feel free to let us know if there is anything that we can do for you :)
I let my ChicagoVPS 2Gb OpenVZ $7 per month subscription lapse last week. Have had it for over 2 years. Everything was fine until the data loss. The service after that has been noticeably sub-standard. I don’t run much on the VPS, just a handful of tiny webapps mostly for me to use on an ad-hoc basis, and a destination for Cpanel backups.
Several times, after a few weeks of not touching the box I find my webapps to be down. It turns out my VPS was off. I didn’t turn it off, and there’s been no mention from Chiacago VPS of why it was shut down. With ad-hoc apps with minimal use, it’s a little frustrating having to log into a control panel, start the box up each time, just to use a JavaScript bookmarklet that points to a webapp on this VPS.
I don’t know whether it is Chicago VPS policy to turn off VPS not actively serving requests all the time, or whether it’s a problem with the underlying hardware that necessitates a reboot every once in a while. Neither of those are accommodating of low infrequent use of a VPS. And so at that point $7 a month for an OpenVZ VPS that is unavailable more often than it is available is not a worthwhile option at this point, and certainly doesn’t inspire confidence to use it for any websites beyond sole-use.
Been using CVPS for over a year with couple of websites posted there, personally never been disappointed. Great uptime
Et,
That is what we strive for, thanks for the kind words :)
How much extra are IPv4 per month?
How much extra are IPv6 per month?
ZNC allowed?
EGGDROP bot allowed?
VPN allowed?
PROXY allowed? (private only)
Thanks in advance.
mr: Do you even read the Terms of Service, or AUP?
The questions to most of your answers are in there, quit being lazy
Mr,
Additional IPs are $1.50/month, we offer discounts if purchased in bulk – open a sales ticket if that is something you would be interested in.
ZNC, EGGDROP, VPN, IRC, and proxy are allowed. Please let us know if you have any additional questions.
Thanks
Thanks for the reply :)
When does these offer expire?
What price, there are 12 months in the 2 GB version?
Why is there no Debian 7
I have been with ChicagoVPS for more than 3 years now. Never disapointed. Issues are resolved quickly when I have them ( which is not often ) . I can vouch for Luc from support/billing . He his always responding well to all my tickets over the years ( beeing rdns, migration, billing questions, etc… )
I think people need to learn how to speak with support and need to understand that you are not the only problem they have. Good explanation in a ticket and not always being defensive will get you nicer support anywhere. I come from the hosting industrie so I know how it is.
I just renewed for another long period all my vps with them. Couldn’t be more happy ( well ipv6 will be nice ;) ) .
There are issues with support. Completely ignoring tickets and issues, rather lame responses, not actually following through.
I come from the hosting industry as well, have been working in it for the past 12 years. While your specific issues may be resolved quickly, you can’t just simply discount the issues others are having with at least one representative from support.
The problem is, simply put, that they ignore glaringly obvious problems for hours on end (such as services nd servers being down due to hardware issues), and when that one specific member from support comes in, he gives generic one line responses and then just ignores the ticket
If the price after the 12 months, or it remains the same??
It is a recurring price
I have been doing business with them for quite a while and everything runs fine. I am currently reselling their VPS for the Dominican Republic market. No downtime.
Dios te proteja!
Hi, what price applies after 12 months or remain the same?
@Dieter: siehe zweite Seite des Bestellvorgang, da steht ‘total recurring’ wobei recurring eben wiederkehrend bedeutet – der Preis gilt also dauerhaft ;-)
No Ubuntu 12.04 ??
The problem I see with ChicagoVPS, is that you can’t just build and destroy a box with the finesse of something like DigitalOcean. If you rebuild a box, certainly the OpenVZ ones, the password supplied doesn’t work, and you have the email them for a new root password.
Have complained about this months ago, but nothing doing.
Having said that, I do find them quick to reply to my emails.
If considering the 128MB option, go with this instead: https://billing.chicagovps.net/cart.php?a=confproduct&i=0
its the same, just 256MB instead of 128, same price.
Once again, ChicagoVPS shows that they have NO clue what they’re doing.
Since 0245, CST, server has been down. Chicago? No response.
Tickets opened, just left unanswered
Better than TWO HOURS later, nothing. Nada, zip.
These people could care less about anything but money. Professional organization? Hardly. Responses to tickets? Not a CHANCE
Adding to this, the fact that they refuse to put into place proper management for their VPS’, these guys are just clueless. Completely and utterly clueless
So, I figured I’d give these guys a fair shake, after my prior experiences this past month or so. Unfortunately, these incompetents just can’t handle business in an appropriate fashion. It started out shaky, and just never ended up good at all.
Problem #1: Incompetent support
24+ hours after this incident (read previous comments), server has been up and down, up and down, up and down, and these idiots are just clueless. NO idea what the problem is, but every ‘down’ time costs hours upon hours of time.
This isn’t the first time with these people either, it’s more like the second, or third, in a month
Problem #2: Spammy IP’s
Immediately after purchasing the servers, having IP’s released, they are listed in RBLs, both public and private. Outlook.com, gmail, etc… These people don’t bother to clean anything, just release it.
I’ve been in this industry since 2002, and believe me I’ve seen a LOT of bad apples in my day. These people are the bottom of that barrel though, the worst of the worst
How much core processor if I buy SAVEBIG $30/year?
my vm along with whole node seems to be down. even their billing area is shaky as of now. Don’t know what’s going on though. i raised a ticket. lets see how they handle this
Totally agree, ChicagoVPS is awesome, when it is up.
My VPS at ChicagoVPS got rebooted 3 times in 2 weeks.
First time I did not ask. Second time that week, I filed a ticket, got response that a ram stick has been swapped, 3rd time in the two weeks, they claim a kernel panic and is fixed.
I am giving ChicagoVPS one more chance, if they still can not keep my VPS up, I’ll update here and move out without hesitation.
Update, just got another reboot.
Moving out.
STAY AWAY FROM CHICAGOVPS!!!
How many CPU core assigned per server and What is the CPU speed?
Got a good price last February with SSD vps… So far it’s working good, ticket response is also good. Spending 30 bucks for a year to such this thing, i think it’s worth the price. Hopefully this company will run for the upcoming days or even decade :p so i ( or we ) can get cheap vps with good specs
as i use it personally for “trying thing” purpose. I think it’s good. If you wanna use it as a web server or game server or whatever is that, can’t recommend it
What happens to your data at Chicago VPS and you ask them to unsuspend an account that has been Paid?
They close tickets, and they have a laugh at your expense.
Read this response from the support team to my ticket.
* * *
Have you made any progress in the last eight hours?
Server still shows as suspended, and no ssh access to data is available?
Can you escalate the ticket?
——-
Hello
We are assigning your ticket to concern department.
Thanks,
—————
Tyler Everett
ChicagoVPS Support Tech
Think twice before you go this route, My customers are loving me right now asking when their websites will be back on-line.
Will Chicago VPS come through or not?
TWICE in the past 48 hours, an hour of downtime for VPS. Response from these guys? Yeah, nobody’s home.
DO NOT trust these people with your data, whatsoever!!!
Speed test files / looking glass?
Credit card issues, Wiping out customers data, poor customer service, and overloaded slow vps.
Try anyone else it isn’t worth the time, I should have listened to the hundreds of complaints about Chicago VPS, I wouldn’t do business with them again and I can only suggest you find anyone else, it isn’t even worth the risk.
I’ve had about 20 VPSs with CVPS and only ever had an issue with one of them. I’ve been here numerous times to see what everyone else says and I’m still surprised at the negativity. CVPS has always been a person who knocks prices down for other competitors.
I’ve currently have 2 VPSs with them and still satisfied paying for the yearly plans.
This is for the people that have been talking about ChicagoVPS, I have a 2GB with them for almost a year. Here is the uprecords result to put things in actual terms
# Uptime | System Boot up
—————————-+—————————————————
1 63 days, 01:44:48 | Linux 2.6.32-042stab076. Mon Jan 20 16:02:40 2014
2 33 days, 22:41:44 | Linux 2.6.32-042stab076. Tue Dec 17 17:20:52 2013
3 25 days, 06:35:55 | Linux 2.6.32-042stab076. Thu Nov 14 01:52:14 2013
4 23 days, 22:47:39 | Linux 2.6.32-042stab076. Mon Oct 14 21:50:16 2013
5 21 days, 04:53:03 | Linux 2.6.32-042stab076. Sun Sep 22 20:16:49 2013
-> 6 18 days, 01:48:12 | Linux 2.6.32-042stab076. Mon Apr 7 20:01:40 2014
7 11 days, 21:10:48 | Linux 2.6.32-042stab076. Sat Sep 7 02:06:54 2013
8 9 days, 02:26:13 | Linux 2.6.32-042stab076. Mon Mar 24 18:28:45 2014
9 5 days, 19:12:46 | Linux 2.6.32-042stab076. Mon Dec 9 08:28:11 2013
10 5 days, 07:05:02 | Linux 2.6.32-042stab076. Sun Sep 1 19:01:50 2013
—————————-+—————————————————
1up in 3 days, 03:04:52 | at Tue Apr 29 00:54:43 2014
no1 in 44 days, 23:56:37 | at Mon Jun 9 21:46:28 2014
up 238 days, 15:18:43 | since Thu Aug 29 18:14:19 2013
down 0 days, 12:16:50 | since Thu Aug 29 18:14:19 2013
%up 99.786 | since Thu Aug 29 18:14:19 2013
Yes, I’ve had slow responses to some tickets, but we both know systems are out, so what can I expect them to say?
Unit is great, excellent connectivity worldwide to many other tested locations.
Happy. Very Happy @ $30/yr for 2Gb RAM, 50GB HD, and 99.786% uptime.
Most of you complainers have no clue what truely BAD service is.
I logged a ticket last night (Friday night) at 11:44pm and received a response back in 13 minutes and issue was resolved.
For a $25 a year plan, that seems pretty fast for me.
do u allow irc?just a private server.
I’ve had good luck with ChicagoVPS. Surprisingly, their nodes do not seem oversold. They’re quick with great bandwidth. It’s a lot of value.
Hi Chris, does the above price still valid until now?
I tried to order a 2GB SSD-Cached, but it said the coupon has expired..!
Hey cris,
My VPS getting down almost 1 week!! & i already sent many tickets but still i have lack respond please stay away from this hosting for a while.