When Chris from ChicagoVPS sent me this offer — “first time ever” — he is trying to emphasis on the significance of price break through, for ChicagoVPS at least. However it is not the first time a VPS with 2GB memory was offered at low end box price. Last time 2GB VPS was offered, the said provider ended up being very close to the dead pool just 2 months down the track. ChicagoVPS would fare better I am sure, judging from their track records, but indeed it is somewhere I consider a dangerous territory at the brink of super-over-selling. Anyway. Here are the deals:
- Enterprise — Sign up link
- 2048MB memory
- 50GB storage
- 2000GB/month data transfer
- OpenVZ/SolusVM
- $7/month with coupon code 2048
- Professional — Sign up link
- 1024MB memory
- 30GB storage
- 1500GB/month data transfer
- OpenVZ/SolusVM
- $5.50/month with coupon code 1024
Servers in Chicago IL with ColoCrossing. How does it work I wonder, but I guess it all got to do with human psychology. Would you pay just $1.50/month more (27% more) to get double the memory at Two-Gigabytes?! Sure, why not?! Despite that bootstrapping from a low-end-script to run a dozen or so PHP sites would probably use 200MB RAM max. But I guess “PHP sites” are far from the only applications for VPS, 2GB memory would find its applications when you load up monsters such as Minecraft and other bloated software requiring JavaVM…
Anyway. Great offer for those who need it. Chris/Jeremiah have also been providing good support at ChicagoVPS.
Update: Some FAQs in the comments:
- Testing files and ping/traceroute that.
- Links to AUP and ToS
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The disk io looks worse and worse,I just bought yesterday,the iso was about 75MB/s yesterday.I’m on node 20
“yum update” is a nightmare..
download speed is fast 8MB/s
but it takes >5 minutes for the VPS to resolve the dependency….
i am still waiting for it to finish (5/160)
it takes one minute for one update, ouch.
I hopes not all people is running some benchmark all at once..
Disk IO is 38MB/s btw.
Same node 20 here.
yum update completed in 30 minutes finally. It got speeded up.
You might want to check what mirrors your OS template uses. I know that for instance the Debian 6 template uses German mirrors.
Um… as i mentioned the download speed is OKAY (@8.1MB/s)
The bottleneck is at the installing part. In my previous VPS @DS, yum update finished within 5 minutes (same amount of packages)
mem_alloc error! with java 1G Ram argument. My VPS is running NOTHING else. Any idea?
However, minecraft is running fine, just the mem_alloc error occur.
Mem_alloc error basically means there’s not enough memory to run whatever your trying to run. So either your using it all or someone else is using the RAM you paid for, IE Overselling 😛
Not overselling,
I just checked and every node has a large amount of memory free.
Thanks for the suggestions though.
Regards,
Chris
Hopefully, becoz I did not get this error in another 2G VPS.
Having burstram or not might be the difference. I use the same config in both scenarios.
1 – java is crap
2 – minecraft server is crap
3 – minecraft in general’s coding is crap
you’re probably trying to allocate 300gb of ram or something equally inane, before it drops down.
you try using -Xms -Xmx?
Both 1G.
Thing is getting better. It seems that many enthusiasts have stopped “ff”ing the server.
Typo: “dd”
Don’t admit to the type. Claim you were inventing a new expletive specific to I/O subsystems.
I love chicagovps been using them for 6 months now have only had one issue in six months
I have used volumdrive and virpus witch both kill all java every 10 min so i moved to Chicago vps and would not leave unless they started to do the same
I run 3 vps with them on the Professional package i run about 870 mb ram steady with no issue 24/7
Java VMs handle memory with all the grace of a kitchen strainer handling water. Add tomcat and 2GB without swap will run out pretty quickly. So you can’t really blame them for killing off processes that ruin the fun for the rest of us.
yeah, thanks to their great work, my boxes all work well so far, very good connections to EU.
Its a great offer. I’ve been at programming, network administration long before Windows 95 hit the shelf and long before most people ever heard of the Interweb. I can spot a deal from a mile away. The offer is great. They are attentive to tickets raised. 2GB for 7/Mo with high-speed throughput. AWESOME! What is there to complain about. When it come to running Java applications one has to know how to set your memory limits. If you are even going to touch Java, 2GB is probably best. Its only $7/mo. with the promo. A WHOLE 1.5 more than the 1GB. Otherwise, better RTM regarding memory allocation. Also, if you are a super noob and dont know how to kill processes, running another Java process will probably throw memory related exceptions because the other instances are hogging memory. So learning to set Java memory restraints, learning to use ps -aux, learning to use the kill command might all be helpful. 🙂
IO just keeps getting worse & worse
way oversold
Way undersold.
46MB is perfectly acceptable
Here’s what I”m getting today on node 16, minutes after you posted yours…
While the dd result is decent, small file reads are pretty bad:
dd isn’t a good benchmark for any application’s performance anyway, unless your application’s main task is reading a large block of data raw from a block device.
I agree. And I don’t know why I even participate in posting this benchmark…
The best benchmark is to just test the applications you use, unless the application you’re using a VPS for is to run dd tests 😉
Your are wrong. It is very good benchmark for dd application performance.
That is covered by “unless your application’s main task is reading a large block of data raw from a block device”…
Hello,
Just wanted to let everyone know about our Facebook page, and we pick a random person every month for a free 2GB VPS for one month. This drawing happens once a month, and you can win more than once!
See you there!
Regards,
Chris
So anyone running some java close to 2gb? how’s the I/O right now?
Only 1GB max, but here’s vzfree for memory usage:
Total Used Free Kernel: 2048.00M 3.91M 2044.09M Allocate: 2048.00M 915.50M 1132.50M (2048M Guaranteed) Commit: 2048.00M 372.80M 1675.20M (40.3% of Allocated) Swap: 0.00M (0.0% of Committed)Maybe I’ll make a 512MB tmpfs partition and see.
IO seems fine, but I haven’t installed any kind of benchmarking tools. Seems more responsive than the AWS node I’m running with an EBS volume RAID array (yes, you read that right).
Hmm, I’m running into fork errors already. Only allocated around 300 meg. Not sure if the app has gone haywire of the VM can’t allocate any memory
How much memory and how many file descriptors is each process using? You could be running into a number-of-processes limit rather than a memory allocation one. Is anything in /proc/userbeancounters near to a limit at the time the forks start failing? Also check the process level limits set by ulimit (see http://ss64.com/bash/ulimit.html) – it may be that your process has too many files open (“too many” being defined by the lesser of what OpenVZ has set and what the relevant ulimit is set to) so new file descriptors for stdin/out/err can’t be created for the new process.
Strangely it’s a brand new instance running java. That’s it really. cant actually do anything at the moment due to a fork error.
I was on that train at volumedrive, yeah fork errors will not let you start higher memory apps because node cant’ find any ram at all. Complete overselling beyond openvz limits, thanks guess i’ll be passing thing crap.
Yeah I’ve decided to just go for a refund. Fork errors off the bat isn’t worth the hassle. I’ll go back to the dedicateds for now.
I do get the impression this is more a software/configuration error than a resource error.
Some of you guys should consider checking out kimsufi and some of their deals. That’s like $20 for a dedicated box a month
Tom,
We do not offer crap, Miles is completely wrong and did not even really give us a chance to try and fix the problem as the node isn’t oversold really at all.
In the ticket he opened I explained that I checked the node myself and had more than enough memory to go around so saying we oversold the machine is really wrong and you should not make accusations without actually being a client and testing it out for yourself. If you read the whole thread and reviewed the benchmarks you will see that our service is better than what most $7 offers give you.
Regards,
Chris
Woah, easy Chris I wasn’t suggesting your node was oversold at all.
As I mentioned I suspected it was a configuration error and I really only wanted to try the service [after all the good comments] but I didn’t really want to wait more than a few hours for you guys to fix it. I’m sure you would have sorted it.
This was nothing more than personal choice. Admittedly if it worked when I received it I wouldn’t have cancelled but my intention was only to have a play.
Total Used Free Kernel: 2048.00M 6.95M 2041.05M Allocate: 2048.00M 1923.24M 124.76M (2048M Guaranteed) Commit: 2048.00M 1385.88M 662.12M (71.7% of Allocated) Swap: 26.05M (1.9% of Committed)A little swap usage right now.
me too as well
Total Used Free Kernel: 2048.00M 2.01M 2045.99M Allocate: 2048.00M 17.52M 2030.48M (2048M Guaranteed) Commit: 2048.00M 12.23M 2035.77M (58.3% of Allocated) Swap: 2.70M (26.4% of Committed)damn, that latency is pretty bad. 🙁
Heres mine, although not as bad as yours, its still pretty erratic.
The mine is starting to degrade too.
About 50MB/s in dd, but ioping is very bad.
Same here, mediocre sequential IO speed and not-so-good random seek response.
But, for a $7/month VPS with the 2GB you got, it is not crap service already. When you match this up with Directspace $7/month which you got half the RAM and more than double of down time, this price sounds reasonable.
its getting better, ioping is getting fast again. Definitely a great vps 🙂
Just to inform, after almost one month…
Getting sluggish again u_u
You can keep posting these, and i hate to tell you, the more you do, the less i almost care. It also does not help with node abusers that i am personally working on removing.
Thanks,
Jeremiah
it’s a great offer tho…
keep on with it,
i just hope there are not too much oversell or something…
seems that they are out of stock.. can you please put up more 2gb servers ?
Supposing I start with the 1Gb plan to try out the service first. Then when I am confident, can I upgrade to the 2Gb plan for 7usd?
Offers like this are generally “new services only”, so I would suggest going for the 2Gb if you might need it and dropping the service altogether if you are not happy with the performance. If it takes you two months to get it tested and end up canceling you are only out an extra $3.
Any chance of adding more stock to this offer? Tried to order, but it shows out of stock.
Any idea when you will be back in stock?
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Regards,
Chris
Out of stock? Damn! I *just* went to finally buy this, and it’s out of stock :(.
Back in stock just as the promo code expires… sneaky sneaky.
Good thing I didn’t manage to buy anything from them. If this is the way they do their business, it does not augur well for a serious long-term relationship.
Agree,
Why would this in anyway make you think we are a bad business? Our sales run for one month. We were posted on the first, and then the coupon expired on the first, as we have sent another sale to be posted. There is nothing sneaky we are trying to do its just how it works. If in some way you think otherwise please explain so I can maybe make it betters o others do not think this.
Regards,
CHris
Running a special for a month is totally meaningless and arbitrary if you are ‘out of stock’ for most of it.
If you run a special for a month, you should at least make an effort to let people buy it for that month, otherwise what is the point.
I would assume “while stocks last” is always the assumption on sales, no? If so, I can’t see why you should demand a provider to always honour the price.
Adam,
The sale was up the whole month minus 4 days at the end of the month. Based on the amount of orders, I think its pretty impressive the efforts we gave to make sure the sale was up as long as possible. A lot had to be done to make sure it worked out that way and to say we did not give it any effort to have it up for a full month is false.
Regards,
Chris
Honestly, I found nothing wrong with this sales and actually the stocks DO last very long already, viewing the insane price of this plan. Stock still last at the tenth day of this campaign so I doubted if there is anything “sneaky”.
It is only unfortunately for you to find out this offer at a very late time.
@Aree you can’t blame them for raising the prices. I’m sure they filled the machines they wanted to fill.
They aren’t even raising prices, just ending the special offer.
Most special offers are on a “while stocks last” basis so this is hardly unusual.
Beside that they said (read above posts from 1st and 2nd September) that this is promo which they will run around one month. I don’t see anything “sneaky” here.
My sincere apologies. Now I see what I have misunderstood. I wish Chicagovps all the best and may your business be good for a long time to come.
Anyone interested in DirectAdmin we now support it 🙂
Thanks,
Chris
Chris,
When will this plan be restocked?
This specific offer won’t restart. IIRC they’ve had other, slightly different, offers on since.
Is this offer expired ? 🙁
Does anyone check this offer. I mean the promo code 2048 works again. The enterprise plan 2G is just $7/month.
Please check,
Yes Jeremiah has just reactivated this offer again. Will re-post this later today…
Finally, was waiting for this offer to be back.
Whats the port speed? Cannot find in the offer or on any other offer page on the website.
regards,
JP
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Q: Whats the port speed? Cannot find in the offer or on any other offer page on the website.
regards,
JP
Is there any way to set up the server without having to supply a domain? I don’t have one in mind to use for it and will just access it by IP, but there doesn’t seem to be an option for that.
bleh, replied in the wrong thread.
Jeremiah and Chris have been nothing but fantastic for their servers. Great product and very friendly people to work with! I’ve been using their Enterprise Box for the last three months and have had zero issues. ChicagoVPS is definitely my first stop when getting a new VPS server…about to get me a second one, just for the fun of it. Highly recommended products and company.
So.. Is the $7 forever or just the first month?
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