Mohamed from CityNet Host notified me that their $2.50/month OpenVZ VPS offer (last posted in August) is now back!
- 512MB memory
- 50GB storage
- 1000GB/month data transfer
- OpenVZ/SolusVM
Servers in their own facility in Egypt. The package also comes with central backup enabled, and 30 days money back. Use this sign up link to order. Previous CityNet Host offers all seem to generate a lot of comments so I guess many would be able to chip in their experience with this provider.
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--2010-11-20 11:37:42-- http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net... 205.234.175.175
Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net|205.234.175.175|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `100mb.test'
100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 810K/s in 1m 54s
2010-11-20 11:39:36 (897 KB/s) - `100mb.test' saved [104857600/104857600]
And uptime on this server is: Uptime: 11:37:35 up 42 days, 23:55.
Great package.
I have two VPS with them. Both working excellent. Here in Serbia, ping is better than from USA servers.
great package? their own site is down.
looks like their website is down, but my VPS is still up…
my VPS is down, so as their website 🙁
They have some network issue related to MTU, I can ssh to my VPS fine, but an attempt to transfer files stalls;
I issued the command “ifconfig venet0 mtu 1480” and after that everything works fine.
I suspect their site is not loading for people because of the same problem.
Thanks it worked 😀
Omg!! That happened to me too :S I will take a note about that tip
Mine is still up (node 7), and i can transfer files just fine.
DDos attack on the main website caused a little bit of slowing performance..
Now is everything OK
Is there a valid offer from them that I can use for a short term? I can only see $2.00 for 12 months minimum.
2.50 for 1 month with the same specs
http://www.citynethost.com/vps104offer.asp
But when I click through to the shopping cart, I cannot order for a term less than 12 month.
Hmmm that’s true…
Well, now I se 6 month period. They changed the old promo.
Be careful with them – they suspended my VPS TWICE for no reason – the first time it was because of “e-mail spam” which was not true – the server actually was sending system status mails to MY OWN e-mail address and absolutely no other e-mail(so, in that case maybe I’m spamming myself ?).
The second time they suspended my VPS because of “TOS violation, Running Proxy Server” – they DID not said that proxy servers are not allowed in their ToS (if they change that now, I have screenshots of their current ToS). Also I talked with them on the live chat BEFORE creating my account and they said that proxies are allowed.
In simple words: if you start using a lot of resources (RAM, bandwidth, disk space…) they will “invent” a reason or “ToS violation” and will suspend your VPS (that’s what happened in my case).
Ok, I don’t want ot, but, here is another customer with troubles…and I will tell you what happened to me.
First, buyed the VPS
Submit a ticket for tun with no answer
Some days after, suspended, reason? SSH “atacking”.
Opening a ticket… long time after was answered. I was “using” a lot of resources. What resources? They say, a lot of ssh sessions… And?? What’s the problem? Ok, I explained some of my cronjobs issues about opening ssh every minute and some days later was enabled again. By thw way, previous ticket closed…no tun.
Coming days, all ok, uptime goes well. One morning, I open my ssh session…htop, 300+ processes running. Well, I was hacked. Processes like “ssh-atack” and ssh-scan.. Everything in the logs is dirty, and I figured when the bot rooted my server. Ok, the problem is, the bot only did an attempt and logged in, like my password was “123” or LIKE someone knows my password. ONE!! attempt.
Then, I have 2 theories:
There is an SSH exploit not documented.
Or someone in citynet cracked my password and used my VPS for that bot hAx0r…
I changed my pass and something more, well, no more rooted vps at this moment.
I want to emphatize “atack”..do you understand? Why “atack” and not “attack”, in my process list and the mail from citynet? Looks bad, very bad to me….
Sorry for my English…
I hope this experience will be helpful for someone else.
@Yomero Well well that’s rediculous have you ever heard of a data center hacking a vps to use SSH bot? please before you come here and complain be sure that you know enough about your cronjobs that were sat if i am not wrong every second our passwords are well secured and only our clients access their servers unless they needed some help and it’s not done without a support ticket submitted from the same account that bought the service.
@Evo or Evtimiy do you think it makes any sense inventing a TOS term just to suspended you for no reason we have thousands of clients who are using their servers without getting suspended ah and something else to clarify none of our reps. said and will say we allow hosting web proxies as well as adult contents too so i doubt your theory about inventing a TOS term to suspend you makes any sense because you’ve been a client in our data center for quite long time untill now and nothing happened before things like that can be discussed in our support portal (Live chat,Tickets) not her but if you want to stay with us and give up on using proxy server your more than welcome anytime…
I haven’t problem with CityNet Host!
Because of that, i nominated them for best LEB provider for 2010.
Hey, i didn’t know that proxy is allowed!
@Winglet Thanks for your nomination and proxy isn’t allowed 🙂
It boggle my mind why would anyone want to set up proxy in egypt? You can’t browse porn.. hehe 😀
Can we distribute Wikileaks documents?
LOL! Wanna attract more gov-paid hackers?
Sorry, but this question is for Khalid :).
And which gov? I’m from Serbia…
@winglet not too sure about wikileaks it popped up a huge political arguements here..anyway will feed you back once i get any update but so far it’s not..thanks for the nomination again 🙂
Thanks Khalid.
Best regards
I got this plan and I regret about my choice.
I’ve been waiting for three days for my domain DNS records. It’s not working yet.
I have two opened tickets for more than 48 hours and when asked them for a solution to my tickets I got as an answer that they cannot tell me a date, because they have many other problems to solve first.
Terrible service, not recommended.