So we have a “holiday offer,” where we would typically open with “Chris from ChicagoVPS” we are pretty confident that it’s “Kevin from ChicagoVPS” with this being their first SSD based VPS offer on LowEndBox. It’s simply to coincidental that it comes just weeks after Kevin left FTN and started working at ChicagoVPS that we are now seeing SSD based offers from them. In addition to the doubling of Disk Space and IPv4 addresses on their Enterprise Holdiay Promo and Professional plans there’s also a $12/Year 256MB OpenVZ included.
Overall this would be the most variety we have seen across ChicagoVPS’s offers in a long time, surely Chris must feel like he’s #winning again after the early November drama.
Enterprise Holiday Promo
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| Basic Yearly VPS
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ChicagVPS is also offering $10/Month cPanel licenses as an addon option for any “Professional and Enterprise” plans. Over the past month they have also implemented weekly offsite backups for their services, and in addition to this you can create your own VPS backup inside SolusVM. Finally there’s a free 25 slot Mohawk and free VPS monitoring with any offer.
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Nice overcommited bandwidth you have their…
We have high bandwidth commitments from our upstream providers and have a lot of premium bandwidth available 🙂
Thanks for your comment.
ssl cert for billing is expired
Nice offer
good offer.
Nice offer, sorry that im already saturated with plenty of idle VMs
Hehe.. Same with me 😀
I don’t know what should I do with my idle vm’s
You can donate them to my school kids in L.A…:)
Give them to me?
Kasi ke saya aja bos.
Ordered this one overall its good but sometimes lilbit laggy but its ok
Congrats! Pushing the envelope to a new level!
Thanks! We do our best.
I’ve read LEB for quite a while now (back when LowEndAdmin ran the show) and this is my first low-end VPS. I picked the Basic Yearly VPS.
It’s a bit laggy. I’ve had worse, however. But so far, it’s working well for me.
I do agree that their SSL certificate was expired, and downloading from http://ftp.debian.org is really slow (but that’s due to the fact that it is in the Netherlands), which gives me an idea of how foreign users will see things. Changing to http://ftp.ca.debian.org, it’s a lot faster.
This would be best if it was about $8/year. At least they use SolusVM.
Tux,
Unfortunately downloading from a remote server is not a true test of the network, as it could be the remote server (Debian’s NL servers) which are busy or saturated, etc that may be causing the slowness.
Generally, our servers provide excellent speed and performance to and from any area/country, however there is a reason why we offer 3 locations with our VPS offers (Buffalo, Chicago, or Los Angeles).
Select Chicago if your main audience is the US – this will provide decent latency and speed to all of USA. Select Buffalo if your main audience is east coast USA and/or Europe, we have added Telia in our bandwidth mix to provide excellent latency to/from Europe. Select Los Angeles if your main audience is Oceania or Asia – provides very good latency/speed to that area as well as west coast US.
Hope this helps, if you are currently experiencing any issues with your VPS please open a support ticket and a member of our technical support staff would be happy to help =)
Thanks,
Kevin
“This Connection is Untrusted
You have asked Firefox to connect securely to billing.chicagovps.net, but we can’t confirm that your connection is secure.”
This has been fixed, please clear your cookies/cache and try again.
Thanks!
Kevin
Fixed.
Working fine now. 🙂
been a customer for over a month on the yearly vps plans a while back.
Review:
Speed (Network/IO): 9.5/10
Ticket Responses: 8/10
Hardware Quality: 8/10
You get exactly what you buy. Nothing less.
Thanks Curtis, I hope you had a fantastic Christmas! I’m glad to hear that you are satisfied with our services, however I would like to ensure that you feel that you are getting MORE than what you pay for as our continuous goal is to provide unmatched quality with our services at affordable prices. Please get in touch with your suggestions by emailing us at support@chicagovps.net – we welcome any suggestions you may have and always have an open ear. =)
Thanks!
The black friday deal, the hard drive isn’t SSD right? If not I might open a ticket about getting SSD.
Nope it wasn’t SSD. We just recently launched these SSD VPS plans to the public and this is our first promotion on them.
Any chances of seeing a XEN offer?
Can the thanksgiving 128 deal be upgraded to the 256 since it’s the same price?
@Chris Fabozzi
This is a limited time promotion available for new orders only.
Wow, I had absolutely no idea about the “November drama” before reading this post! Being their ex. customer and knowing how they treat people (including customers) in general: Chris and Jeremiah truly got what was coming to them for a long time. I didn’t know they hit someone’s nerve worse than mine, I just simply moved to better host.
But since I’m so nice: The first promo isn’t bad. Some more bandwidth would be nice, even if just 1TB. Even though 2GB of RAM compensates it nicely. The VPS uptimes are fair enough.
This. I had to take the issue to my bank to get a chargeback filed just to get my money back. At least it worked.
Butt hurt much?
I’ve spent the past few weeks looking for a new VPS provider. In fact, I’m looking for multiple providers just so that i dont put all my eggs into one basket. I keep coming back to chicagovps but then I see the posts from Chris who seems to be rude and ruthless when it comes to taking jabs at other people.
It’s sad because I would really consider them since they offer services in Chicago (what I really want), but I’m not giving them a single penny for the reasons I’ve listed above.
Sam, since when have I ever taken a jab at a customer?
Please explain and I would be happy to sit in the corner with a dunce hat 🙂
Anything negative I have ever said has been towards another provider when they either: A. deserved it of B. said something in the first place.
He wasn’t talking about customers, he was talking about people in general. One doesn’t have to browse through LowEndTalk for long to see what he’s talking about. And on the November post mentioned on the offer post you even admitted being a jerk.
But since you brought it up, here is a good example of highly “professional” customer service: http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/chicagovps-6-45-512mb-xen-vps-in-chicago/
(I’m none of those commentors, but feel free to think whatever you want)
I’ve actually found ChicagoVPS’s staff to be far more professional than some of the super highly rated LEB/LET hosts (you know, the ones who run their unincorporated businesses out of a run down multi-family hillbilly rental unit not an office). Here’s a perfect example of what an unprofessional host acts like to their customers http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/hostigation-30year-512mb-openvz-vps-in-los-angeles/
I never said “customer” and you admitted to being negative towards others. Look at your other thread (seeking web designer) where others are attempting to derail you. You think a well respected host would have garnered that much hatred?
Moving on, I wish your company the best; I wouldnt want to give a company such as yours any money knowing how you conduct business.
Alright Sam, obviously you have no back bone and let people walk over you. Anyway, good luck in the future.
I didn’t know that in order to have “back bone” [sic] you need to be full of psychopathic hatred/anger and insult everyone who disagree with you (like doing above). Well, it’s nice to learn something new every day.
Hi Sam! I assume you mean server stability with “putting all my eggs into one basket” 🙂 I’m not familiar with Chicago VPS services but I swear they can’t be that special.
I’ve had good, stable experience on these hosts:
LEB users favorite and my VPS there has 230 days of uptime at this writing!
Feels really smooth, just registered recently. They are also commonly the top provider on the LEB polls.
You might also want to read Top LEB providers posts. Hosts like Hostigation and BuyVM are commonly mentioned. For myself, the problem most commonly is my software and if I’m allowed to run on the server.
Doh, I fail at using HTML tags!! Tried to link to EDIS, Prometeus and LEB top providers post :/
Can you offer Ubuntu 12.04 LTS x86 template? Or, better yet, Debian 7 Beta?
Hi Ryan,
We offer Ubuntu 12.04 on all SSD VPS plans, and all Buffalo & Los Angeles locations.
Chicago SATA based VPS’s will support 12.04 by Q1 of 2013 after we finish upgrading the nodes to RHEL6 which support it.
NOTE: It may not offer 12.04 in the order form, just order with any OS, and after your order you will be able to reinstall to 12.04 via our VPS control panel (SolusVM).
Thanks!
Kevin
Yeah, I’ve noticed it’s missing from order form and assumed you don’t offer it. Thanks for clarification!
Yeah, this is the only downside currently, I’m stuck on Ubuntu 11.10 and would rather upgrade but the OpenVZ templates are all quite old.
As mentioned above the only location that doesn’t support 12.04 right now is Chicago (SATA VPS), its unfortunately not as easy as pressing a button to “upgrade” 60+ nodes from RHEL5 kernels to RHEL6. It’s a manual process and requires us to migrate every single container to new nodes. We are doing our best.
Again let me restate that Buffalo and Los Angeles locations are RHEL6/2.6.32 kernels and fully support 12.04.
Thank you for your patience.
what kind server type use, this dedicated core or share and limit port speed/client ?
We use a mix of Intel Ivybridge (v2) E3-1240 / E3-1270 processors within our VPS nodes.
Thanks
the offer price is only for 1 month? when the month expires what you will get charged?
Covis,
This is *not* a first month type of deal, its recurring. The price is guaranteed to be locked in for the life of your VPS account, as long as you don’t cancel the service, the recurring price will not change or increase. 🙂
Thanks!
Kevin
I am new here, is ChicagoVPS reliable? thanks all
I’ve had this vps for over a month, it’s just sits there idle.
$ uptime
22:09:29 up 8 days, 4:58, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
I didn’t even know the vps went down…
Be sure to pay with PayPal if you want to try them out. They don’t offer refunds no matter how bad the service is. Lucky for me, I have a bank who thinks otherwise.
What happens when you exceed your monthly bandwidth? I couldn’t find that in the TOS.
SolusVM would auto suspended you, I believe they are also running that.
Hi,
Your VPS will simply be suspended automatically to prevent overage fees, you will also be sent a notification when you are approaching near your bandwidth quota for the month.
We also sell additional bandwidth which may be purchased at anytime should you ever need it.
Thanks,
Kevin
what is the different between SSD and not SSD?
Great question, SSD VPS are perfect for those who are looking to host disk intensive applications such as large MySQL databases, this provides very high IOPS and Disk Performance as the VPS’s will be hosted on SSD’s in RAID-10.
Lost all of my data in the November crash. I had two VPS’s — That hurt. I think they did well keeping customers updated via email, however.
Hi Tom,
I completely understand where you are coming from and how you feel, unfortunately there is nothing we can do to undo the past, it is what it is, we have to move on and be positive as we definitely won’t get anywhere in life if we continue to dread about the past.
We have acknowledged our mistakes and we have turned the unfortunate incident into something positive that will benefit all existing/future customers – as you can see we now offer FREE backups to our customers and take weekly offsite backups of our VPS nodes as a precaution, all at no added cost to our customers.
We understand that actions speak louder than words, and we look forward to restoring your trust and faith in ChicagoVPS throughout the coming weeks/months. If there is anything we can do for you, I am more than happy to personally work with you either via email, ticket, or phone.
Sincerely,
Kevin
I also lost all my data in this crash but I learned from my mistakes and implemented many backup proceedures. Prior to the crash I had everything backed up local with a bash script, since then I’ve added backups to dropbox weekly, all post mirrored to tumblr and a PowerShell script on my local machine that basically rsync’s with my servers. If you want more details you can find a post about them here. http://mattblogsit.com/windows/backup-linux-using-powershell
Shame that SRCDS crashes/stops, perhaps it’s terminated due to oversold ram? I’m not sure.
http://forums.srcds.com/viewtopic/18788
As it can’t/won’t run SRCDS properly, my chicagoVPS is mostly just idle 🙁
Hello,
Please make a ticket and I can see what is wrong with your VPS. We have a lot of clients running SRCDS servers.
Hmm, I went ahead and made one, included all the relevant info I could think of.
I love Chicago VPS. I’ve been with them for a year now and never had a problem. They had one DDOS on some of their servers this year, but I was not affected. The only reason I knew about it was because of the great customer communication. They sent out almost daily updates of the recovery process.
I have also opened a couple of tickets with them. They were always answered within 4 hours. Heck, I even managed to get them to honor this current deal because I had basically the same package but only 50GB HDD. They upped me for free to 100 to match this deal. Great company and Chris seems to be on top of things. Never had any issues with him and he seems to be the main guy that handles support tickets. I will likely go to them in the future and will definitely recommend them to colleagues. Thanks CVPS!
Thanks Barrett! We are not perfect, but our entire team is united and committed, nothing will stop us from doing what we love 😀
Have a good one!
Kevin
OK, for the lately positive reviews, the November drama, and Kevin’s joining in, I decided to take an Enterprise Holiday Promo in Chicago.
Setup was nicely instant after sign up.
Benchmarking results seem nice, in fact is better than several of my LEBs with similar specs.
System Benchmarks Index Values BASELINE RESULT INDEX Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 72855564.1 6243.0 Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 12360.6 2247.4 Execl Throughput 43.0 26187.8 6090.2 File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 3960.0 1143470.0 2887.6 File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1655.0 312186.3 1886.3 File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 5800.0 3391198.9 5846.9 Pipe Throughput 12440.0 7610621.2 6117.9 Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 1290392.9 3226.0 Process Creation 126.0 56445.1 4479.8 Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 26129.9 6162.7 Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 3584.7 5974.5 System Call Overhead 15000.0 7408084.7 4938.7 ======== System Benchmarks Index Score 4332.6Hi DalComp, thanks for sharing the benchmarks, they definitely look awesome 😉
Welcome aboard, and enjoy the VPS.
Oh, in SolusVM bandwidth is 1.95 TB and not the whole 2TB.
I don’t really mind actually, just FYI.
Understood, feel free to open a ticket and we’ll get that corrected pronto.
Sounds like what happened here is the tech who setup the packages put in 2000GB bandwidth (2TB is actually 2048GB) – not a big deal, I’ll be sure the plans get updated in SolusVM to reflect a full and complete 2TB bandwidth :p
Thanks!
Kevin
I actually did that, just wanting to test the response time.
And it took about 6 hours to fix.
Not bad for a medium priority. 🙂
I actually did that, just wanting to test the response time.
And it took about 6 hours to fix.
Not bad for a medium priority. 🙂
thanks for sharing
Can I get upgraded to Enterprise Holiday Promo and still pay 5 usd? <3<3<3
Can I get upgrade to Enterprise Holiday Promo and still pay 5 usd for current plan I have? Sorry if I had already posted it.
can we request after buy place my vps at node use E3-1270
I don’t see how this is a big deal, since E3-1240v2 and E3-1270v2’s are very similar in terms of performance, however after you order if you happen to be provisioned on an E3-1240v2 node and wish to be setup on a 1270, just open a ticket.
Thanks!
Hi Kevin,
Is there any chance to get ssd cached plans with larger storage space instead of ssd plans? I use one of them with another provider and experienced very good io performance.
If purchase two Basic Yearly VPS from same location, can request it to be deployed to two different node? Thank you.
Yes, we have plenty of nodes available in each location!
possible to upgrade a la vps 2gb yearly to a ssd still yearly though?
Hi Curtis,
Please email sales@chicagovps.net or open a ticket to sales and we’ll be happy to work with you on this.
Thanks,
Kevin
From a few post above
“This is a limited time promotion available for new orders only.”
The yearly deal looks great, but the bandwidth allotment is pretty light. If it were 250GB+ I would hop on it. 500GB sounds perfect 🙂 .
Possible to get openvpn service in any of vps promotions?
Openvpn works fine for me. You can enable tun device via SolusVM.
Hi Enmanuel,
Yes, we have plenty of clients running OpenVPN on our VPS. If you have any further questions, please let us know!
Thanks,
Kevin
Recurring or first month only?
Great offer guys! When everyone is asking “How do they do it” and you aren’t in the dead pool, you’re obviously doing something right.
Overselling is cool. Everyone does it ;).
I will say i have put a minecraft server on their 2048 vps’s before. Everything went great even under the high load minecraft can cause on a server. So far ChicagoVPS has been a great and reliable host.
Enterprise Holiday Promo
Thanks! We appreciate the opportunity.
Being ssd, why most of the dd tests are under 250mb/s?
Enterprise Holiday Promo is not SSD, if you’re referring to my test.
Sorry. My bad.
I wish you did offers as good as these with your Xen plans. Great offer though, ChicagoVPS are amazing. 🙂
Thank you!
Hello,
Currently I own a 2gb vps on Letbox – But they gave me a “Abuse Alert” because it used average 117% cpu. Is this something you will terminate if I choose to get a vps here? My server uses lots of cpu.
Wish they terminate you from Letbox and chicagovps will terminate your kind.
We don’t terminate any and we really not like to do, we just give him a warning to fix this 🙂
They have really high cpu usage limit and great performance, so if you want to run a minecraft server this is the place to go to! Thank you, chicagovps!
I’m kicking myself for missing out on the holiday promo. I have had an openvz before with them and currently have a xen. The only way I could be happier is if I could get in on an offer similar to the holiday one.
They have excellent service despite all of the troll hate that sometimes happens in these comments. I actually commend Jeremiah and the others for sticking up for their products and service.
Thanks Ben. The offers outlined in this listing are still available! =)
Got this new SSD one, has 12.04 LTS in the templates on SolusVM, haven’t tried it out though.
Here are the benchies for the:
-SSD 2GB Chicago: http://serverbear.com/benchmark/2012/12/28/fXCm0nxd1i8PWoHD
-Regular 2GB Chicago: http://serverbear.com/benchmark/2012/12/28/zHEKNL3lrNBA7p5B
-Regular 2GB Buffalo: http://serverbear.com/benchmark/2012/12/28/mWZiDhR39Lp8iGO4
Really happy with overall experience with CVPS, never had any issues.
Are the following allowed? (For personal use)
1- VNC Server
2- Squid Server
3- VPN Server
Yes
John,
All of the purposes you mentioned are allowed.
Thanks!
Kevin