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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Aaaah, crazy offer! Probably thanks to the recent drop of ram price? Or simply massive overselling? I’m sure quite a few will not have their monster 2gb box fully filled.
I would love to try this but I’m not too sure how fast it will be…
Anyone willing to let me benchmark/write a review?
I/O:
Network:
Hi,
This I/O looks a little low =( at least HDD wise. Back to the fixing and drawing boards here to boost this up.
Thanks,
Jeremiah
if you find such an IO slow then I would go chicagoVPS, 🙂
Please let me know the #cpucores for 2048mb plan.
Thanks
Thanks for looking into the I/O. 🙂
@tinyray: This x4
You should really test the outgoing bandwidth as well as or instead of the incoming (though that relies on you having a fast link elsewhere to test it with), as most hosts incoming bandwidth is significantly less close to saturated than the outgoing. One VPS I have can pull 10Mbyte/sec inwards every time, but it is rare I see rates much over 1Mbyte/sec outwards.
From my $15/year BuyVM VPS in San Jose:
@Kuro: Thanks. Looks impressive.
Hello all,
No reason to be skeptical here, we deployed a new node that is ready to take on the orders, it is completely empty so it would be hard to get a real benchmark; however I can say that we are not going to be super overselling and for sure not going out of business.
Regards,
Chris
Didn’t you scare a few of your clients off when you were half dead?
@Daniel — not too sure what you are saying here, as ChicagoVPS has never been in the state of “half dead”. Did you mean that a 2GB offer at this price would scare potential clients off when another provider (ipap.co in this case) is half dead?
I’m refering to the point where they were listed as Half-dead in a Dead Pool, or was it at LeT they were listed as dead by a customer, or am I totally confusing ChicagoVPS for another company?
Yeh, I’ve been confusing ChicagoVPS and NordicVPS together for a long time it appears, so better just to ignore my comment.
I don’t care how much RAM may have dropped, these prices are ridiculous for that amount of RAM. Lets see if there still here for next months offer.
We have been around for quite some time, and pretty sure were going no where 🙂
How many cpu cores for the Enterprise plan?
Thanks,
“Going nowhere” sounds pessimistic, how about “not going anywhere” instead 🙂
More to the topic: what is the status regarding IPv6?
IRC allowed?
No IPv6 yet, IRC is allowed.
I don’t think its ridiculous, its just a bargain deal 🙂
Hey,
Were still here 🙂
THe link http://www.chicagovps.com/ is not working
yeah, the link seem down from here too.
Same here…
Sorry my mistake. It should have been ChicagoVPS.net.
I see, thanks.
That’s because it’s chicagovps.net not .com
@Daniel since when were we ever half dead, stop bringing bad publicity to us on every post you make.
Regards,
Chris
just ignore him, he’s just here to spam his namelink
Really? Proove that I spam every post.
The above post bring nothing useful to the thread. Looks like spam to me.
And yet when Lowendstock spams their link, it acceptable to you guys.
Hmmmm…
A lot of providers put their link in this blog. As well as others who are not even related to hosting. Why single out lowendstock? at least it is related and for some people they are doing a service to our community
But yet when you think Daniel is spaming his link instead of making an honest comment, you raise it as an issue.
Daniel helps out a lot more here on this blog than Lowendstock does. LES is just here to spam his link.
I’ve asked this before. Please point at a single comment that LES that has had any value what so ever.
Maybe to others, but I hate lowendstock with a passion and their useless pile of crpa.
What about to stop with this irrelevant offtopic crap in ChicagoVPS offer? And continue at some other place, LET as example.. if there’s a need already.
(not targeted anyone individually but some you people don’t know to end with this while most of us don’t care)
Thank you;
Well said Spirit, well said. You are a great man 🙂
@drmike Thanks for the kind words, but the comments accusing me of spamming don’t bother me,
There’s at least 2 other providers that have commented here with their name linking to their website, maybe more, but I didn’t think it was worth wasting my time to check every comment.
As said above, I made a mistake of confusing some of NordicVPS /issues/ with ChicagoVPS, that is my fault, and shouldn’t posted my comment without verifying first. But at least I have admitted to my mistakes.
I hope this concludes this some sort of an argument, an end to it was long overdue.
like he does on every bloody post
Sorry about that, LEA posted the wrong link 😐
You’re probably confusing me with Daniel Meah (FirstNetServ), I don’t remember posting negative comments on every one of your offers
Certainly not me. I have nothing against ChicagoVPS.
I keep hoping you’ll do some xen offers. I love my xen box through chicagovps, but it could use some more ram 😉
Draggy,
That should be shortly. I dont even get a chance to post Xen anymore on here, just because i have so much back order for Xen that I sell it out pretty quick.
Thanks,
Jeremiah
Will you support Debian 6 for Xen boxes?
I just bought this VPS (2GB), it was really fast i just paid and my VPS is UP.
How can i deeply test?
I just leaved myresellerhost.info because they just lost my VM without backup, then i asked to build it again and it’s taking more then one week. I hope this doesn’t happen on chigacovps.net.
Regards,
Bogô
LOOOOL myoversellerhost n_n Spam, sorry
am i dreaming? lots of 2048’s for 5€ and it was up instantly
just realized i got 40GB instead of 50GB!
Same here!!
Same here!! and no swap!
There is no swap. WYSIWYG.
I will make sure everyone gets the 10GB added on.
Regards,
Chris
fixed. thanks
Someone can share a geekbench? 😛
out of stock or the promo code is expired,
Works for me 🙂
Did you check the professional plan, it still charges twice, “$143.04 USD Annually”
Still getting 40GB
What kind of CPU and how many cores (Enterprise)? I may just get one for personal development uses.
Terii,
One professional you should have access to two of our E5620 CPU’s Cores. We run both E5620’s on our build outs, so they are really fast 🙂
Thanks,
Jeremiah
Hi, Jeremiah Shinkle,
What exactly the number of cpu cores the enterprise plan (2048MB) has?
any chance for DA in forseeable future?
Hi,
No DA in the future that i see unless more people actually start asking us for it.
Thanks,
Jeremiah
Do you have a test IP to check against?
Hi,
You can use: demo-ovz.chicagovps.net
Thanks,
Jeremiah
interesting
When is this offer expire?
Hi,
I am pretty sure Chris told me I have to run this until our next promo (even though I am not ready for this one).
Thanks,
Jeremiah
And again, TOS references AUP, but the actual AUP is nowhere to be found!!!
WTF, can’t you get your stuff together before posting offers.
“ChicagoVPS strictly enforces compliance with its Acceptable Use Policy which may be
found on the ChicagoVPS Website located at http://www.chicagovps.net. The terms of the
Acceptable Use Policy are incorporated into this agreement as though they were fully set
forth at length herein. You agree to maintain your website in full compliance with the terms
of the Acceptable Use Policy. Failure to so comply is cause for immediate suspension and
termination under paragraph (8) herein. ChicagoVPS reserves the right to refuse to provide
service to anyone at their sole option.”
How can you people even buy this, TOS for it references a document “as though they were fully set
forth at length herein”, which you haven’t actually seen or it may not even exist yet.
RM,
Please calm down, it is there http://chicagovps.net/downloads/
We are a very professional company, and do everything we can to ensure everyone has a great hosting experience.
Regards,
Chris
Your Terms of Service is linked to at the bottom left of your site. Maybe also linking to the AUP would be a good idea as well?
I’ve got screaming kids by me again tonight. Someone else is going to have to review those docs for anything interesting.
This is my point exactly, AUP is not linked from the website, and neither the download folder is linked.
Ill make sure to get that done just for you 😀
Regards,
Chris
@Chris
> Ill make sure to get that done just for you 😀
Don’t contradict yourself, either you are a “very professional company”, or you make fun of people requesting essential contractual documents when doing business with you.
Chris, thank you for making a legally required document available so that folks can access it like they should.
May I suggest when folks point out issue with your site and/or service, they get dealt with? Not looking too professional here. You’re not another YardVPS who flat out lies to folks and pays no attention to people whyen they raise issues, are you? Kind of dropped down to that level right now.
@rm and drmike,
I was being sincere so I don’t see why you think Im mocking either of you? I will have this done sometime today.
Just because I put a smiley face after a comment does not mean I’m joking in any sense, I meant it and agree that it should be on the main page where people can access it.
Regards,
Chris
Good deal.
Waiting for provision now 😀
Scott,
I gotcha in line here working on getting everyone provisioned.
Thanks!
Jeremiah
Why the price is huge different at the site? I try to visit, and seeing that Enterprise is $24.95/month, and NOT $7/month. Is the offer expired or something bad happen? Let me know.
Did you use the link provided in the OP? It will show $24.95 on the first page, but once you get past the first page, it should show the $7/mo price.
Thank’s for the info. But, seems this promotion is only apply for monthly bill, since when I try to pick the advanced term of payment, the promotion code is useless. Any idea or maybe we need to manually email for 3 or 6 months payment bill? Chris? Jeremiah?
Email me directly at Chris@chicagovps.net and I will take care of you.
Regards,
Chris
I’m currently a customer on the openvz professional plan, is it possible for me to upgrade to this plan?
Joseph,
We do not allow existing customers to migrate to the new special. Sorry =(
Jeremiah
just order a new plan and terminate the other.
Price is very cheap!
Very cheap deal for so many resources. It’ll be interesting to see if it’s sustainable!
Wow, this price is so good we just ordered one 🙂
Hello everyone!
For anyone that has already ordered, our install process today is not instant. We are doing everything manually since so many orders were coming in simultaneously and causing issues.
Thanks for your patience!
Regards,
Chris
Hi Chris, is it possible to make advanced payment, like 3 or 6 months? Just wondering is it could be done. Meanwhile, I just ordering the Enterprise service. Thank you.
Hi,
Please put in a ticket and we can worth with you on advance payment.
Thanks,
Jeremiah
Hello,
Everyone has been successfully installed after the flood of orders and installs are not back to instant.
Thanks everyone for the support and patience!
Regards,
Chris
Amazing prices! Just put my order in !
Going to order one right now
How much of those RAM allocations are guaranteed and how much is “burstable up to”? The main website doesn’t say either.
I got this
Yeah already using 424MB for Gameserver 😀
runs pretty stable
You usually see the maximum allocation in the output of the free command. I tend to judge OpenVZ VMs by the guarantee RAM. If yuo don’t use more than that amount you are (if I understand correctly) safe from your processes being killed by the OOM killer if the host runs low on RAM+swap (i.e. if everyone’s VMs suddenly start using a chunk more than their garanteed quota at the same time).
That isn’t to say burstable RAM allocation isn’t useful, but I try make sure that my mahcines stay within the garanteed amount generally and only use the burstable quota, if they use it at all, in bursts – but it isn’t possible to monitor this without knowing where the garanteed amount stops and the burstable amount starts.
There is no burst on any of our packages.
Regards,
Chris
Really? That makes this offer even shinier. I might have to take two!
You might want to explicitly state that somewhere (I know you say that “we do not over subscribe any of our nodes” but many cheap hosts say that while apparently not considering a bit (sometimes a lot) of RAM over-selling via burstable allocation to be over-subscription) as it differentiate you from a lot of hosts.
Running a 1GB box from them for about 4 months. Still satisfied.
Just ordered a new 2GB box and got the details instantly.
Hope Chris will not disappoint me.
=( Forgots about the poor CNO here. *instant sad face* He may be the paper pusher and sweet deal talker, but I am the one here that stays up and baby’s these guys and make all the magic happen. lol.
Jeremiah
😛 lolz
Wish you together do a great business.
Thanks 🙂
Jeremiah
Cool Babar vai, Them I’ll order one too 🙂
I think the interesting this here is that the XEN packages are exactly the same price as the OpenVZ packages the OpenVZ are not offered with burst,.. maybe its just me but that certainly builds a point of trust initially, but 2GB for $7 sweet jebus how can their be any profit in that unless its an initial hit to increase customer base numbers.
Definitely an offer worth checking out imo!
Out of interest:
how long is this offer open for ?
is there a limit per customer ?
Is there a limit overall, e.g. 30 uses only?
I’m sure the offer is based on the experience of 1gb openvz customers, because most people will be just running some apache or nginx setup with up to 300MB of ram on this servers and a lot of ram will not be used.
Also someone share cat /proc/user_beancounters, is it the same as 1GB servers?
root@s6:~# cat /proc/user_beancounters Version: 2.5 uid resource held maxheld barrier limit failcnt 915: kmemsize 761989 1228314 2147483646 2147483646 0 lockedpages 0 0 999999 999999 0 privvmpages 10136 14019 524288 524288 0 shmpages 640 656 524288 524288 0 dummy 0 0 0 0 0 numproc 9 13 999999 999999 0 physpages 1407 5327 0 2147483647 0 vmguarpages 0 0 524288 2147483647 0 oomguarpages 1407 5327 524288 2147483647 0 numtcpsock 2 3 7999992 7999992 0 numflock 1 2 999999 999999 0 numpty 1 1 500000 500000 0 numsiginfo 0 2 999999 999999 0 tcpsndbuf 35008 52512 214748160 396774400 0 tcprcvbuf 32768 1825808 214748160 396774400 0 othersockbuf 2328 19784 214748160 396774400 0 dgramrcvbuf 0 8472 214748160 396774400 0 numothersock 2 5 7999992 7999992 0 dcachesize 0 0 2147483646 2147483646 0 numfile 210 314 23999976 23999976 0 dummy 0 0 0 0 0 dummy 0 0 0 0 0 dummy 0 0 0 0 0 numiptent 4 4 999999 999999 0Hi,
It is unlimited use, no limit per customer, and the offer is good for until the next offer is put up by LEA in generally a month or so.
Thanks,
Jeremiah
Sounds more like one of those “too good to be true offers!”, I’d rather invest my money elsewhere because I tend to never trust a provider that says they will be around for a long time especially when only being in business for one year.
Well, lets say I order using the coupon code, so I only have to pay $7 for this month. But then how much do I have to pay for the next month? Still $7 or $24?
Sorry if this is a noob question. I’m still new with this vps things.
Stil $7. Have 5 with them.
@Willy,
$7 is what you pay for the VPS each month.
Could you please run the command: cat /proc/cpuinfo
Thanks,
Ill save you some time 🙂
We run Dual E5620 @ 2.4GHz on all our new builds ( this last node is the 3rd one we have ).
Regards,
Chris
Thanks, Chris 🙂
Really hoping you did DA but seen you don’t 🙁
Does anyone got an 2048mb plan please let me know the number of cpucores?
I got 4 cores of an E5620 @ 2.4GHz on mine
@Kuro,
Thanks for providing exactly the information I need.
Is VPS19 this new one? It seems like someone forget to enable iptables module 😛 Should we expect reboot soon? 🙂
same.
Jeremiah will be working on this shortly.
Regards,
Chris
Just signed up for a 2GB plan. Waiting for activation..
C:\temp>wget http://demo-ovz.chicagovps.net/150MB.zip
--21:45:21-- http://demo-ovz.chicagovps.net/150MB.zip
=> `150MB.zip.1'
Resolving demo-ovz.chicagovps.net... done.
Connecting to demo-ovz.chicagovps.net[206.217.137.110]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 153,600,000 [application/zip]
100%[====================================>] 153,600,000 1.32M/s ETA 00:00
21:47:13 (1.32 MB/s) - `150MB.zip.1' saved [153600000/153600000]
C:\temp>ping demo-ovz.chicagovps.net
Skickar signaler till demo-ovz.chicagovps.net [206.217.137.110] med 32 byte data
:
Svar från 206.217.137.110: byte=32 tid=151ms TTL=51
Svar från 206.217.137.110: byte=32 tid=152ms TTL=51
Svar från 206.217.137.110: byte=32 tid=138ms TTL=51
Svar från 206.217.137.110: byte=32 tid=140ms TTL=51
Ping-statistik för 206.217.137.110:
Paket: Skickade = 4, mottagna = 4, Förlorade = 0 (0 %),
Ungefärligt överföringstid i millisekunder:
Lägsta = 138 ms, Högsta = 152 ms, Medel = 145 ms
C:\temp>
From europe. should work as a sweet vanilla minecraft server for the new update…
Anyone running a minecraft server there now ?
Im not sure about any of the people taking advantage of this sale, but I know we have quite a few MineCraft servers hosted on our network, we actually have a special template made for MineCraft Users 🙂
Regards,
Chris
@Chris,
Do you have vLAN for your boxes?
@C, impossible,
Want to tell me why?
CPUs are just fine but RAM
The ping is possible, my UK friend gets 90ms to a VPS in SC, and my VPS there gets 40ms to that test IP.
Any chance of Cent6 or SciLi6 templates? Not a major deal but just wondering..