Matt from ClubUptime emailed in their April promotion coupon code. It is a bit complicated — it’s recurring yet only for a limited number of recurrence. Use promo code 50OffApril to get 50% off discount for 4 billing cycles, if you pay quarterly. That means $8.93/Quarter for their “Budget VPS – Level 1”, and fix at this price for the whole year. Afterwards it will be back to $17.85/quarter, but I guess by then some more flashy plans will be available. Together with their current “Double Up” promotion, you will get
- 256MB guaranteed/384MB burstable memory
- 40GB storage (doubled)
- 400GB/month data transfer (doubled)
- 1x IPv4 + 5x IPv6
- OpenVZ/SolusVM
Direct sign up link here. Servers are in either Dallas TX, Seattle WA, or Washington DC (Softlayer DC’s). They just had their 6 year anniversary so they have been in business for a while. They seem to have decent performance, quick support, persisted through a 14Gbps DDoS… But you might want to review their ToS/AUP to make sure you can comply with it.
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Only 4 billing cycles, it will be more attracting if they extend the recurring time longer. :)
As I’ve said, 4 billing cycles = 1 Year (quarterly billing cycle). They might have something else that’s better after a year.
I agree, they’re rolling out now promotions quite frequently.
Hi LEA, I think the tag should be clubuptime-com :)
Thanks for spotting. Fixed.
The tag is still broken xD
It’ll also apply to greater payment cycles, so if you pay six months at a time it’ll apply to two years. If you pay annually, it’ll apply to four years.
At the end of 4 years though, 256MB would be super-low end that can barely keep a WordPress 5.0 running with WP-UltraUberCache :P
“256MB would be super-low end that can barely keep a WordPress 5.0 running with WP-UltraUberCache :P”
I don’t understand this, the 256 MB will become low price yes, but if it can keep wordpress running today why can’t it run wordpress 4 years from now? Will wordpress become that bloated in 4 years?
Well, at the rate it’s become bloated in recent years… maybe. :)
As time goes on, it seems everything’s becoming more and more bloated. WP may have succumbed to creeping featureism, but I can’t really fathom why the various libs keep growing by megabytes at a time…
@dd — I have been running WordPress since the 1.2 days, and have my name credited inside the WordPress core source. I know how bloated it is these days :)
I don’t see anything mentioning 4 billing cycles on WHT:
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1036473
Does this mean if I click on the order link through WHT, there will not be a 4 billing cycle limit to this discount?
It’s the same order link that’s used anywhere on our site. The coupon code is what matters, and that’s the same coupon code listed here :)
We submitted a report to WHT yesterday asking that to be corrected, but they didn’t do it as of yet.
ClubUptime is THE BEST VPS Provider adverised here. I’m with them since their last promo and my uptime and perfromance are greatert than all other of my lowEndBoxes… even comparable with y shared hosting with Dreamhost.
Dreamhost hasn’t been any good xD
Well, my yearly plan ended in the past month, and wasn’t the best experience. Since November aprox they had a lot of problems, mainly with their VPS platform, every VPS was broken because they updated something without experimenting first. Also, the shared hosting server where I was, is always over 60-70% cpu usage, with big 100% cpu spikes. Yes, good uptime, but bad performance.
Ha no. I have been using DreamHost for about 5 years now. Definitely not have the best performance, but absolutely rocks every other shared hosting. I use it mainly for friends and families websites, where they might not be proficient on the command line.
Most shared hosts are great for small sites. Few are anything special. I’ve worked for many of the large common named ones in the past and I’ve seen it all: If it’s critical or important, put it on a high-end VPS or dedicated box. Also, KEEP BACKUPS! I can’t stress keeping backups anywhere near enough — Especially on a shared platform. I’ve seen the phrase “Sorry, but since you didn’t have backups, there’s not much we can do” go flying around way too many times.
Unrelated? Yes, but I figure it was worth throwing out there with people mentioning shared hosting.
Yes, dreamhost sells their control panel. Is very, VERY good and easy. Also they have backup systems and are funny people.
But not the best performer yeah.
Just to note, we’ve extended the sale by a week since this ended up posted up on the last day of the sales original term.
@Steliyan: Thanks for the kind words. We really do try to be the best out there :)
you need to send your ID card to them :) Their maxmind system not working, I didnt get any call after few minutes.
I’ll send my ID card tomorrow.
The MaxMind system works just fine: There are some sporatic issues here and there with it, though. It’s not able to call every phone number around the world — just most of them :)
I order from another provider and they using maxmind too, I get their call and pass maxmind verification :) but not when using ‘your’ maxmind.
I need to wait tomorrow (until send ID card), I hate waiting, hehe, I need to setup this server backup asap.
Send me a message at matt@clubuptime.com and I’ll see what I can do to get you squared away today without needing to send in an ID.
We do require identification on certain orders, as I explained to you in the chat. :)
Ugh.. I received the phone and the verification code, but after that i get this:
MaxMind Error
MaxMind has deemed your order to be potentially high risk and therefore it has been held for manual review.
:( :(
Resolved :)
@tommy, How do you know you should send your ID card? I ordered XEN 1 30 min ago, and my status still pending..
I got mine, thanks..
You’ll receive an error while you check out. You wouldn’t even be allowed to pay — it would simply decline your order.
I had same problem. They asked for ID card and Utility bill to me.
I ordered 512/786 memory package…
I agree with Steliyan by far the best company I have been with for a VPS. Uptime is great for me performance is great, Response time is even better. Plan to be a customer of there’s for many years. Would Recommend them to anyone.
Can anyone here comment on their Xen plan?
I have one of there Xen Plans it performs pretty well here are the specs
I wish more people were buying into our Xen platform. We’ve got nearly about 20-30 times more OpenVZ VPS’s out there than we do Xen. Our Xen platform is rock solid — We’ve yet to have a single cancellation over performance at all. The Disk I/O speeds in a single Xen instance are greater than that of a whole OpenVZ node, too. Our Xen platform is great, but people see the lower price of the OpenVZ and tend to go there.
If the Double Up promotion works on the Xen too I would get the Xen :)
Needed a place to put a remote MySQL server and my 123Systems’ VPS is not cutting it with the frequent network hiccup at Dallas.
Oh, didn’t notice it works on all plans.
Probably order one tomorrow :)
The hard disk space that’s listed on our website is what you will get however. The post on WHT was accidentally made using our previous Birthday sale and we’ve decided to match the birthday sale.
The only thing we can’t double up is disk space on Xen plans. Xen can’t be oversold on disk space, it all requires it’s own “partition” built in blocks. I could hand you 10tb bandwidth if you wanted, but I simply couldn’t do double disk.
I find it interesting that you can’t simply give out Xen VPS2 and reduce the ram allocation for VPS1 purchase :)
That way you can get around the partition problem :)
I probably wouldn’t need 10TB of bandwidth but I might as well take it :)
@Matt, this promotion is not valid for xen, right?
Also I can’t see any info about number of core I could have access to!!
20offapril is for Xen :)
“The promotion code you entered has been applied to your cart but no items qualify for the discount yet – please check the promotion terms”
Neither the 20off or the 50off seems to work on Xen1
It does, but as noted in the original post, it requires a payment term of 3 months or greater :)
Can you post /proc/cpuinfo and an approximate benchmark cpu?
Absolutely.
As a note, most of our servers are Dual 5620 servers. That just happened to be one I was already in and it had 5670 procs in it.
Do you really get access to all 8 cores? Is it fair share or weighted?
It’s dedicated CPU time. With Level 1 / Level 2, you get a single dedicated CPU core. With Level 3/4, you get two dedicated CPU cores to your account.
I am wondering if I get a Xen VPS and don’t want the double up can I get 10TB bandwidth.
First time I’ve used Softlayer’s network and found that it is crazy fast, like 15 times faster per connection, via the Telia+Level3 route rather than HE+Cable&Wireless.
Note that I’m on the OpenVZ Level 1 and is loving it :)
@Arthur, me too. My first softlayer vps for less than $3/month (well, at least for a year) ^_^
OpenVZ, on SeaVZ3:
root@r:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync && rm test
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 10.4031 s, 103 MB/s
and IOstat result:
avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle
0.03 0.00 0.05 0.11 0.00 99.81
Not bad :)
I agree Matthew I have the level 4 open VZ and I plan on transferring it to a xen plan when I reorder in August, The performance is just amazing on the xen platform.
No addtional IPs?
They’re $1.50/month provided you can Justify them according to ARIN specification/regulation.
Matt, I’m confused now. Budget VPS Plan 3 on WHT guaranteed ram is 2048MB, doubled official site. Howto get doubled ram? :-P
Whatever shows on the WHT thread is the upgraded RAM. The RAM is not doubled — As noted several times in the WHT threads and on here, it’s simply a series of typos from our Birthday thread that got carried over into this new one. We’ve decided to honor the RAM quantities in our current threads. What ever is up on WHT is valid now.
Pending for more than 3 hours….:-(
yes, my account too :) still pending,
I ask sales before, and he say only take 5 minutes to setup VPS, lets give them few hours more.
Tommy, you have not provided the requested ID. When you do that, we can activate your account. :)
We’ve also seen a very large influx in orders and have needed to roll out new servers quite a lot this past 5 days or so. If there’s a delay, we’re likely waiting on new servers the be provisioned.
Seems to be some confusion between employees here:
http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/clubuptime-openvz-vps-256mb/#comment-26782
http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/clubuptime-openvz-vps-256mb/#comment-26778
It’s not so much confusion as it is that client contacted me directly as instructed, and Andrew can’t see private email communications between myself and our clients.
@andrew, so I just ignoring Matthew Rosenblatt ?
@Matthew Rosenblatt, I ordered an OpenVZ. Can it be changed to Xen ;)?
Sure, but you would need to contact our sales desk for that :)
I just did by a ticket :) Thanks.
do you have a test ipv6 address?
Absolutely: 2607:f0d0:1101:2e::47fd:db96
How can I actually apply the IPv6 addresses? I see them in SolusVM but I get network unreachable after I add the address to venet0:0 using ifconfig on CentOS 5.
Your wiki is down and may be there is a guide for it…
Maybe you’ll need to configure the ipv6 gateway. something like this -> http://forum.openvz.org/index.php?t=msg&goto=36918&
their IPv6 not working the reason “The ads are true, but you are on a brand new server. It doesn’t have IPv6 yet, but it soon will.”
It works on most nodes, but it does not yet on DalVZ7-10, SeaVZ4, and WDCVZ2. We can only implement the changes necessary to make it work in the middle of the night due to a reboot being necessary on the OpenVZ sub-systems. If you require it right now, we can migrate your VPS to a node with working IPv6 connectivity.
Its amazing they can provide such cheap offers while Softlayer being strict giving out large number of IPv4 :)
Softlayer being strict is no joke. We just had a meeting with the CEO, head of networking, head of global sales, and our account manager 7-10 days ago about IP Address availability. They’re pretty much on their last stretch of IP space. We’re in the process of getting our own :)
Only way to do it now a days.
Could I have test IPs for Dallas & Seattle please.
Please visit http://www.clubuptime.com/network for test information. :)
:D thanks, so used to just asking ’cause of a lack of information.
Hello
Have You Direct admin or cpanel License ??
thanks..
We offer cPanel licenses from $10/server.
And VPS has NO console panel? such as vePortal,solusvm…
I’m not sure where you read that — We currently use SolusVM and CloudPanel will be moved into place within the next month for our Xen instances. CloudPanel is being moved into place for OpenVZ within the next 10 days. Our Managed clients are already using it.
@Matt
I got the login details in spam box…Sorry for that :-p
I ordered a Xen yesterday night. Seems like provisioning will take some time.
We don’t have any orders pending activation on our Xen platform right now. If you haven’t received your information, let us know. Be sure to check your SPAM box to see if it landed in there. Our emails are sent from “noreply@clubuptime.com” or “no-reply@clubuptime.com”
Ah thank you. It was in my spam box. That was a first.
Support seems slower :(
@Tanmoy: +1 to that..
From my understanding, ClubUptime is run by three people, Matt, Andrew, and Brian. Don’t get me wrong, they run a tight ship there, and kudos to them for proving themselves to be a solid provider. Not to mention, three people is probably more than enough until they grow – but they are eventually going to need some staff, or to outsource some of the support department to a third party center. It looks like their business model is working and they are growing, and this is probably a sign of slow support until they hire more staff.
Either way, keep up the good work Clubuptime.
Matt..how many cpu cores do you have on your Xen level 2 plan..?
From “ctrl-f core” it’s 1 core for lv 1 & 2, 2 cores for lv 3 & 4 ;)
Hello,
That’s not how it goes on any of our plans actually: It’s one core for L1/L2, two cores for L3/L4. We’ve seen a few instances on OpenVZ where the client was assigned four cores over the past few days for some reason: We don’t intentionally allocate four cores. We limit core access to help keep our systems stable.
Also, on Xen, the resources are dedicated, so those cores are yours and no one elses to use.
So far everything is excellent as mentioned by other people here.
The only problem I ran into was that their Debian 6 template didn’t work with their ancient xen kernel and I couldn’t get pygrub working correctly.
Fortunately the Ubuntu 10.10 template works.
ClubUptime seems to always be doing promotions. I’ll purchase one once I see a better promo ;)
We used Club Uptime in the past and the performance was amazing and never noticed any slow downs. Only reason we left them was they don’t allow VPS user’s to give out free hosting and they don’t allow hosting of a Web Hosting Company website.
Of course we allow those things: Our TOS was updated months ago to match that of a VPS provider, not a budget shared hosting provider from back in 2006 :)
What about what it says here? http://www.clubuptime.com/legal/aup/
Yes it says updated in 09′ but your TOS says stuff about the AUP and thats the only AUP I see.
Promotion over?
Finally. My 120 days uptime /SeaVZ1/ is gone.
Kinda odd that their “April promotion” ended after only 7 days and April isn’t even over.
Tried to order and received: “The promotion code entered has expired.” :(
My website went down for 36 hours with the recent screw up with the Dalvz4 server. Unfortunately it was a day after launching our new beta web-app and we lost a bunch of potential customers as a result. Updates were extremely slow from the team and backups couldn’t even be restored until the VPS was rebuilt, which was some 48 hours later. Had a couple of reboots and downtimes over the last few months but this was pretty bad. The support was the deal-breaker for me, no response to emails, no response to refund or cancellation request. Not sure what is going, but had better hopes for Clubuptime. Migrated over to QuickWeb where my other VPS servers are.
I’m not exactly sure why your tickets have not been answered: I’m looking at the tickets list and I’m seeing not one ticket open any longer with regards to DalVZ4 and as far as I can tell, all VPS’s have been re-created.
I highly recommend reading the following if you have not: http://updates.clubuptime.com/2011/04/08/dalvz4-emergency-raid-maintenance-2/
I heard that Club Uptime has started taking pre-orders for their San Jose, California servers for both OpenVZ and Xen VPS with 10% off -lifetime-.
Are your servers hosted at Softlayer’s new facility down in San Jose, CA? If so, what’s the test IP? And kindly post the “/proc/cpuinfo”, Matthew/Andrew.
Very correct. However, that facility won’t be open for anywhere between 2 and 4 weeks, although it should be less than two at this point. Until it’s open and networking is brought live, we can’t provide any IP or server information.
But yes — we are using Softlayers brand new facility.
Ahh, ok. Understandable. Danke, Matthew.
well there are only monthly and annually options..
Interesting. Clubuptime is discontinuing unmanaged OpenVZ VPSes.
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1042919
Ouch… this is gonna hurt ;-)
yep. ordered 20 days ago
That’s too bad, and interestly OpenVZ IPv6 stability has been listed as one of the top reason.
IPv6 Stability has been a huge issue with the venet devices on the Softlayer network due to Softlayers routing methods. It works perfectly with Xen without any fights — It’s done nothing but fight on OpenVZ, though.
@LEA , Some of us need some offers posting, haha
My 2 gig mem / 4gig burst unmanaged VPS will be sorely missed, I have been with them for over 5 months now and they are a top class VPS provider. Amazing uptime and VPS performance.
Club Uptime has gone downhill. I first started purchasing VPSs from them about 6 months ago. At first they responded to tickets instantly and were very helpful. Lately however, they have been deleting my tickets without even responding.
I am growing increasingly frustrated with their lack of any support. The last order I placed with them, took over a week fill. After waiting three days, I asked what was up. They said they were out of server space – a hosting company – out of server space!?!?! So, I replied to the ticket asking them to cancel, because I needed the VPS quicker than an indefinite wait. They promptly deleted my ticket and two days later filled the order.
I asked them to delegate rdns to me for a VPS, apparently they didn’t know what that meant and after a week decided they couldn’t do it…
…just throwing my two cents in.
Ryan
Simply… LOL
Thanks god I am not using it.
There’s a rather lengthy thread about these folks located here:
http://www.facepunch.com/threads/1097710-Brohoster-Proving-their-Excellent-Services-Yet-Again
Rumor is these folks are going to be shutting down sometime shortly. I;m currently reading the thread so I can;t point at anything specific.
Just a FYI.
That thread is filled with nothing but slander and lies. Our lawyers are working on having it completely removed as I’ve received death threats, notes to kill myself, DDOS attacks, and more.
Simply put: The previous owner of which I bought the company from back in December is unhappy that he was fired for stealing money, for drug abuse, and many other reasons. He’s doing everything he can to keep us from selling the company, including destroying every last bit of reputation we have.
Our lawyers are having a field day right now.
Found the sales thread:
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1057850
Please note that I;m still reading so things may be different from what I’m seeing.
Matthew, you’re not channeling what’s his name from W2, are you?
I’m not exactly sure what you’re asking here.
Most of that thread looks accurate to me. They haven’t replied to any of my tickets in weeks.
It’s interesting that after page 7 or 8 the admins at facepunch stopped banning folks for flaming.
What do you think? Too many to ban or they started agreed with their users?
I blame Fran for mentioning this over on LET. He knoews I’m going to go off, find the link and start reading. *sigh*
Hey!
…..you’re right :)
Francisco
Nope, someone got banned on page 11ish.
Banning does seem to be kind of random over there.
[humour]Hmmm, I wonder if LEA will let us use such language over here.[/humour]
What?! The discussions here were supposed to be about ClubUptime’s no-longer-existing product, rather than their attempt to sell a game server company and all the drama behind it.
I’ll be watching that LowEndTalk discussion though.
Hmmm, they do have some interesting avatars over there. Why can’t we have interesting avatars? Oh wait. That’s because a certain “I’m one of the most influential people on the net” thinking animated avatars are a security risk.
Oh, it’s been mentioned that the WHT thread has been edited and a number of posts have been deleted. LEB/LET is one of the few sites that allows it’s users to question screwed up and incorrect offers and providers. (Not saying that about CU. Just in general.)
CU Family,
We regret to announce that Club Uptime, LLC will be closing its doors,
effective immediately.
With growing costs and a substantial number of nonpaying clients, we
have been unable to continue our business with SoftLayer.
As a result, we will no longer be accepting new signups or renewals
for our products or services.
We will update this page when backups are able to be made available to clients as we have them transferring to external backup servers right now.
Refunds will be issued to all customers who have already paid their
invoice for the current month, and will be prorated if paid quarterly,
semi-annually or annually .
Please be patient as this process may take up to 4-6 weeks to complete.
BroHoster Customers please refer to http://www.brohoster.com for
applicable instructions.
We’ve appreciated your business. Thank you.
-Management
Source: http://clubuptime.com/
Bah, if someone doesn’t pay, just suspend it, I don’t think that is a problem ¬¬ Was in the way to the deadpool since the discontinuation of OpenVZ services…
@Yomero
Maybe they mean imaginal invoice… I have one. I canceled vps in timely manner (when you hit cancel they immediately wipe out your vps, big shock), but still have one imaginal invoice + late fee LOL!
They are big fail. Everything started ok, but then, every week we had new rules, new plans etc. They didn’t have “fixed” business model.
I left on time, few months ago…
They lost a huge portion of customers last month when the ‘Brohoster’ drama happened