Alexandre from Colo-Serv Communications emailed me their special offers on their OpenVZ VPS plans. Yes their “Premium” range is quite expensive — $19.95 CAD for 128MB OpenVZ VPS. Their promo offer is more inline with LowEndBox’s pricing — CAD$5.50/month (~USD$5.66) using this sign up link.
- 128MB guaranteed/256MB burstable memory
- 15GB storage
- 300GB/month data transfer
- OpenVZ
Servers in Montreal at CANIX. Colo-Serv has been in hosting business since 2006, although their domain was registered in February 2008. Incorporated in Canada, and owns all their equipments (although their Premium/Protected VPS range do look like reselling GloboTech’s?) Not much info can be found on WHT and their account there was disabled. A little bit expensive, although there does not appear to be any good Canadian offer at the moment (all the Nixcom ones are out of stock).
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Thank you for publishing our package. Golobotech provide to us their links and IPs adresses only.
For Nixcom, for sure it’s a good provider, we host one of their servers since many years.
Hi know Martin very well and he runs a reliable company.
Feel free to leave a comment or if you need any informations.
Colo-serv.net is great also ;)
good support, premium bandwidth, stable…
give it a try you’ll see :)
Thanks Martin, i hope it’s all the reasons why you are with us since many years :)
@Martin: So you are able to rent the servers from them and offer the VPS at 1/4 of what they charge? LOL, that start to make me wonder how profitable this business is haha :)
@96mb, rent a server and have our equipment is not the same exploitation fee by month. :)
Why your WHT account got disabled?
Public Profile: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/profile/Colo-Serv
Hmmm, and they’re one of them fancy pants Premium Members. heh Bet they’re regretting that now.
Seems to be helpful: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1036826
From looking at the other threads, my guess was that they suggested Globotech in a few threads and a moderator saw the relationship between them.
A long story between an other company that use our trademark
and we had to engage pursuit and WHT disable the account
to avoid mismatch between them and us.
Is IRC permitted? the ToS page does not mention IRC at all.
IRC is not allowed on our Web VPS, you can see it in our vps package on the website.
IRC is only allowed on the protected network but it’s not this promotion.
I;m sitting here looking for the AUP since you mentioned it. The ToS page mentions it “…the Colo-Serv Communications Acceptable Use Policy (AUP)…” but I’ve yet to find it.
But yes, the VPS page has red check marks all the way across for IRC on the Premium servers. The protected vps’es allow it though.
drmike:
I;m sitting here looking for the AUP since you mentioned it. The ToS page mentions it “…the Colo-Serv Communications Acceptable Use Policy (AUP)…” but I’ve yet to find it.
Thanks for your comment drmike, we change our website recently and we forgot to correct this line, i will ask our webmaster to make the correction. He took the old page of our old website for the TOS.
Thanks for the response and the follow up.
Done, the missing page is now online : http://www.colo-serv.net/aup.php
You have the link in the footer banner.
I have a VPS with Colo-Serv since March, 26. 100% uptime.
Some tests (March,26) :
BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 5.1.2) System: ca: GNU/Linux OS: GNU/Linux -- 2.6.18-194.26.1.el5.028stab081.1PAE -- #1 SMP Thu Dec 23 21:08:29 MSK 2010 Machine: i686 (unknown) Language: en_US.utf8 (charmap="ANSI_X3.4-1968", collate="ANSI_X3.4-1968") CPU 0: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz (4811.1 bogomips) Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, Intel virtualization CPU 1: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz (4810.9 bogomips) Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, Intel virtualization CPU 2: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz (4810.9 bogomips) Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, Intel virtualization CPU 3: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz (4810.9 bogomips) Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, Intel virtualization 13:30:52 up 1:34, 1 user, load average: 0.09, 0.06, 0.02; runlevel 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Benchmark Run: Sat Mar 26 2011 13:30:52 - 13:54:44 4 CPUs in system; running 1 parallel copy of tests Dhrystone 2 using register variables 8191546.7 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Double-Precision Whetstone 1405.3 MWIPS (10.1 s, 7 samples) Execl Throughput 1916.6 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples) Pipe Throughput 315628.2 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Pipe-based Context Switching 111413.2 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Process Creation 5846.7 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples) Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 4137.6 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples) Shell Scripts (16 concurrent) 376.8 lpm (60.1 s, 2 samples) Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 1236.1 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples) System Call Overhead 448222.5 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) System Benchmarks Partial Index BASELINE RESULT INDEX Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 8191546.7 701.9 Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 1405.3 255.5 Execl Throughput 43.0 1916.6 445.7 Pipe Throughput 12440.0 315628.2 253.7 Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 111413.2 278.5 Process Creation 126.0 5846.7 464.0 Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 4137.6 975.8 Shell Scripts (16 concurrent) --- 376.8 --- Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 1236.1 2060.2 System Call Overhead 15000.0 448222.5 298.8 ======== System Benchmarks Index Score (Partial Only) 488.2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Benchmark Run: Sat Mar 26 2011 13:54:44 - 14:25:01 4 CPUs in system; running 4 parallel copies of tests Dhrystone 2 using register variables 8232273.0 lps (10.1 s, 7 samples) Double-Precision Whetstone 5361.9 MWIPS (10.1 s, 7 samples) Execl Throughput 2024.4 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples) Pipe Throughput 320061.7 lps (10.1 s, 7 samples) Pipe-based Context Switching 113548.8 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Process Creation 5859.6 lps (30.1 s, 2 samples) Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 3292.3 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples) Shell Scripts (16 concurrent) 226.0 lpm (60.4 s, 2 samples) Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 451.2 lpm (60.2 s, 2 samples) System Call Overhead 450077.8 lps (10.1 s, 7 samples) System Benchmarks Partial Index BASELINE RESULT INDEX Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 8232273.0 705.4 Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 5361.9 974.9 Execl Throughput 43.0 2024.4 470.8 Pipe Throughput 12440.0 320061.7 257.3 Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 113548.8 283.9 Process Creation 126.0 5859.6 465.1 Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 3292.3 776.5 Shell Scripts (16 concurrent) --- 226.0 --- Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 451.2 752.0 System Call Overhead 15000.0 450077.8 300.1 ======== System Benchmarks Index Score (Partial Only) 499.2wow.. francisco say something positive about different provider, this is new ^_^
… wait.. different francisco?
/jk
s/different/other/
^ He’s not Francisco Dias though of buyvm. Not sure if he is a provider
I’m nice to plenty of hosts, just I spot out the problematic ones a lot too :)
I’ve been in the hosting industry for 5 years now so I can spot the scams pretty easily.
Francisco
There seem to be 2 x Franciscos here. Sorry circus :)
And I’m actually his love child if you listen to some of the folks here.
Can I have a pony?
Thank you for your comment Francisco.