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eNetSouth - $7 768MB OpenVZ VPS in San Jose or Chicago

Updated December 2011 — Both eNetSouth.com and eNSCloud.com stopped resolving since 11 November 2011. It has been confirmed that Brandon has done a runner.

eNetSouth Here is another company getting their gears up ready for the summer, and coming to LowEndBox asking us to help them off-load some stocks! Brandon from eNetSouth has released some LowEndBox-exclusive offers. Here are the deals:

  • LEBeVZ768 — Sign up links for San Jose CA (test IP: 98.158.22.164) or Chicago IL (test IP: 206.217.133.98)
  • 768MB memory
  • 20GB storage
  • 1000GB/month data transfer
  • $7/month
  • LEBeVZ200 — Sign up link for Birmingham AL (test IP: 216.180.128.2)
  • 200MB guaranteed/256MB burstable memory
  • 20GB storage
  • 650GB/month data transfer
  • $26/year
  • LEBeVZ160 — Sign up link for Birmingham AL (test IP: 216.180.128.2)
  • 160MB guaranteed/256MB burstable memory
  • 15GB storage
  • 500GB/month data transfer
  • $23/year

San Jose VPS also comes with 2x IPv6. They are also giving away an iPod Nano and free 6 months VPS hosting at their summer away promotion. I must say that Brandon has done a great job this year in their previous offer. You can also vote them in our current top provider poll here. They have also been testing Xen HVM and KVM VPS — hopefully we will see them next month.

Disclaimer: LowEndTalk.com is hosted on a VMWare VPS provided by eNSCloud.

LEA
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116 Comments

  1. Damn it! I just signed up with ramhost and Hostrail

    June 20, 2011 @ 2:13 pm | Reply
  2. Chicago? Birminghan? Is the same location o_O?

    Also, about your disclaimer, enetcloud is an indian company….

    June 20, 2011 @ 2:17 pm | Reply
  3. iKocka:
    enetsouth:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
    16384+0 records in
    16384+0 records out
    1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 282.698 s, 3.8 MB/s

    No comment. Dissapointed.

    June 20, 2011 @ 4:05 pm | Reply
    • Adam:

      That is very bad I/O

      June 20, 2011 @ 10:44 pm | Reply
      • I agree. I had some issues with new nodes but they are resolved now. Just bad timing on special day. ;)

        June 21, 2011 @ 6:15 am | Reply
    • I guess Ikocka’s post was queued or something. This was made earlier this morning. We had a problem with a new node that is in the process of getting resolved. Actually two nodes that now do not any customers on them (moved them off to others) will be reloaded and put back out. The poor I/O performance was that bad with only 3 customers on the node.

      I call it leftovers from KVM testing.

      Brandon

      June 20, 2011 @ 11:16 pm | Reply
      • iKocka:

        Brandon dealt with the issue professionally. I was temporary moved to a node with 30 MB I/O and now waiting to get a VPS on new node which is being reloaded. Will update you once I get new VPS.

        June 21, 2011 @ 4:59 pm | Reply
  4. The link of “our current top provider poll…” should be lowendtalk.com, instead of lowendbox :P

    June 20, 2011 @ 5:30 pm | Reply
  5. Brandon, you’re on a roll… you said June would be a hot month, and it is thus far…

    June 20, 2011 @ 8:29 pm | Reply
  6. Hi, I’ve been wondering around the site for ages, tempted to get myself a LEB. Finally bit the bullet and decided to go with ENetSouth – right off the bat, I’m impressed. Quick and easy setup, absolutely amazing value for money and support is top-notch – outstanding response time!

    Like all beginners still very much wet behind the ears, I got stuck on my VPS! But you know it’s okay because I sent a ticket 10mins ago and it was resolved 5mins later and now here I am willing to spread the good word.

    If you are like me, daring to tread into the wonderful world of VPS’ after years of shared hosting, you can not go wrong with ENetSouth.

    Go for it.

    June 22, 2011 @ 8:25 am | Reply
  7. Daniel:

    Any chance someone knows when eNS will provide KVM hosting to the public?

    June 22, 2011 @ 8:43 am | Reply
  8. Brennan:

    Brandon, I’m tempted to give you another shot.

    I ran into some issues during the past 2 months with them, specifically related to their NOC, but Brandon resolved them to my expectations. ;) He seems like a good guy, and seems to care about the satisfaction of his clients.

    Based on the positive reviews I’ve been reading over the past couple days, if you’re up for it Brandon, fire off an email to me with what price you can do for a 512MB cPanel box.

    Cheers

    June 23, 2011 @ 2:29 am | Reply
    • Thank you Brennan. Means a lot for the second chance!

      I will email you later tonight.

      Brandon Crawford

      June 23, 2011 @ 3:59 am | Reply
      • Brennan:

        I feel I was a bit harsh, and all I’ve seen are positive reviews, so I figure it was an unfortunate coincidence — thanks for the opportunity.

        Thanks,
        Brennan

        June 23, 2011 @ 4:52 am | Reply
  9. Bee Ohm:

    brandon. gonna take 2 tb bandwidth 128 mb ram 5gb disk. pls reply

    June 23, 2011 @ 1:04 pm | Reply
    • I looked for a email from you requesting this. Unless I’m loosing my mind (very possible) I can’t find it. When we colo or rent servers we get x-amount of TB a month.. If a customer is going to need 100% every month we need to order more from the DC to prevent overages. If you want to cover that at cost then send me a email and we will provide it for you.

      Brandon

      June 24, 2011 @ 6:15 am | Reply
  10. Any reason why LowEndTalk is down?

    http://cl.ly/0J323F3A173W3m2H2X0u

    June 23, 2011 @ 3:14 pm | Reply
    • iKocka:
      C:\Users\*****>ping lowendtalk.com
      
      Pinging lowendtalk.com [98.158.23.57] with 32 bytes of data:
      Reply from 98.158.23.57: bytes=32 time=194ms TTL=47
      Reply from 98.158.23.57: bytes=32 time=196ms TTL=47
      Reply from 98.158.23.57: bytes=32 time=195ms TTL=47
      Reply from 98.158.23.57: bytes=32 time=196ms TTL=47
      
      Ping statistics for 98.158.23.57:
          Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
      Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
          Minimum = 194ms, Maximum = 196ms, Average = 195ms

      VPS seems to be online, however there is an error with nginx.

      June 23, 2011 @ 3:20 pm | Reply
      • I noticed that, seems to be running again now.

        June 23, 2011 @ 3:22 pm | Reply
        • This was thrown out in syslog around 12:30 CDT today:

          LowEndTalk
          Warning
          Virtual machine cpu usage
          6/23/2011 12:33:20 PM
          

          It’s sitting around 2.3Ghz 100% CPU since that time — It’s doing something — just don’t know what. I thought about giving it a reboot for him but would rather hear from LEA about it.

          Brandon

          June 23, 2011 @ 7:51 pm | Reply
    • Yeah there’s a known issue with OSQA which generates some idiotic SQL that causes MySQL to go 100% at times. Due to ORM (arghhhh! much prefer straight SQL) it is actually a bit hard to track down where this is generated.

      I might need to spend some time looking at the code. Except I have no time…

      June 23, 2011 @ 11:35 pm | Reply
      • You know what I say? Overcome it with brute force.. Would 4 to 6ghz make that 100% not last as long? hehe ;)

        Seriously though if you need some more juice drop me a email and I will hook you up.

        Brandon

        June 23, 2011 @ 11:38 pm | Reply
      • Nope. Never overcome bad queries with brute force :) It’s just going to get uglier later on. I’ll take a look at the site over the weekend. Most likely just disable the places that causes bad queries.

        June 23, 2011 @ 11:54 pm | Reply
      • Anyway. Looks like clicking on “Hottest” on the home page actually does not sort the questions by their hotness. Rather it means running the CPU to the hottest. I am disabling that for now and see how it goes.

        June 24, 2011 @ 1:24 am | Reply
  11. iKocka requested the $7.00 plan in Birmingham, AL. I created it and offered it. If anyone else wants the same plan as Chicago, IL and San Jose, CA in the South East (Atlanta, GA peered) here is the direct link:

    https://clients.enetsouth.com/clients/order/?pid=27&skip=1

    Brandon

    June 23, 2011 @ 7:58 pm | Reply
    • The gold standard LEB test on the BHM OpenVZ node. This is with load.

      [juggernaut@ovz3 ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
      16384+0 records in
      16384+0 records out
      1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 9.91717 seconds, 108 MB/s
      [juggernaut@ovz3 ~]# uptime
       15:06:40 up 57 days,  1:25,  1 user,  load average: 2.47, 2.07, 2.07
      
      June 23, 2011 @ 8:13 pm | Reply
      • Gold standard haha. Slap that hard disks!!

        I am starting to hate it… xD

        June 24, 2011 @ 12:39 am | Reply
        • It really shows that there is a issue somewhere if applied correctly. I think 8 times out of 10 a bad result is simply too many instances hitting the drives at once. But not always.. Other times though it can be the system as a whole is just to loaded. I’ve seen host nodes on the VMware side of things where most of the traffic is network and most of the instances are just eating RAM and PROC cycles (ie: Proxys, Routers, VPN) and there is not much disk I/O to be seen and it takes a hit.

          Another problem I don’t think some have looked at is if the provider is selling CPU slices based on hyperthreads. VMware is bad about committing CPU based on total cores and their threads. So if you have a single proc with 4 cores @ 2.0GHZ but each core is hyperthreaded it thinks it has not 8Ghz but 12Ghz to allocate. Once you get over ~7.5Ghz total CPU and into the HT it falls face first in the pit of no performance.

          I disable HT in the bios on every machine we have with a proc that supports it and just run off the cores. Much safer.

          June 24, 2011 @ 12:54 am | Reply
        • Interesting.
          Also, it seems the load calculation is a little bit weird in Vmware. Sometimes I see some processes running and using cpu, but my load stays about 0. In other configurations surely gets rised.

          June 24, 2011 @ 1:28 am | Reply
  12. Brennan:

    Eh Brandon, I’d love to get a price in my inbox tonight & have it paid for and setup by tomorrow :) I’m leaving tomorrow for the weekend and it’d be nice to get my domains pointed to it and ready for when I get back.

    Thanks!

    June 24, 2011 @ 2:52 am | Reply
  13. I’m just wondering if you will even buy me breakfast in the morning.. Check your email. Thats the best I can do. ;)

    June 24, 2011 @ 5:57 am | Reply
    • Brennan:

      Have you hit send yet? :P My inbox is empty

      June 24, 2011 @ 6:02 am | Reply
  14. Just waiting on the “Setup Sucessful email” from WHMCS. ;)

    Open a ticket and tell me what port you want SSH on.. I will take care of securing the server and installing cPanel.

    Brandon

    June 24, 2011 @ 6:19 am | Reply
    • Brennan:

      I didn’t pay for it yet, I figured you were going to adjust the invoice to include cPanel and the stuff we discussed… :P Would that be why you still havent gotten a Setup Sucessful email?

      June 24, 2011 @ 6:21 am | Reply
  15. That would be it.. I trust you. Just handle that one outstanding because I’m lazy I want it to setup the server auto-style and I will edit the billing for the extras later.

    June 24, 2011 @ 6:23 am | Reply
  16. Brennan:

    Kk, you’ll have to email me & remind me later. I feel like I’m spamming these comments. Sorry LEA :/

    June 24, 2011 @ 6:25 am | Reply
    • He will forgive us for his CPU abuse over the past 12 hours. ;) (JK LEA)

      OK — I see it. Open a ticket with what port you want SSHD to answer on.. and I’m doing the rest.

      Brandom

      June 24, 2011 @ 6:28 am | Reply
  17. iKocka:

    San Jose, CA

    # dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
    16384+0 records in
    16384+0 records out
    1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 14.1072 s, 76.1 MB/s

    Chicago, IL

    # dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
    16384+0 records in
    16384+0 records out
    1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 30.5239 s, 35.2 MB/s

    Birmingham, AL

    # dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
    16384+0 records in
    16384+0 records out
    1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 9.46225 s, 113 MB/s
    June 24, 2011 @ 3:16 pm | Reply
    • vedran:

      San Jose for me:

      # dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
      16384+0 records in
      16384+0 records out
      1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 9.28521 s, 116 MB/s
      
      June 24, 2011 @ 3:49 pm | Reply
  18. Hi Brandon! A

    cat /proc/cpuinfo
    

    Of your LEBeVZ768 plan please?

    June 25, 2011 @ 7:00 am | Reply
    • Sure, I think your on our VMware in SJC correct? Here is our node we are selling off of in SJC currently. Which is ovz4. It’s the new Sandy Bridge setup. ( link to Intel: http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=52276 )

      This would show 8 but I don’t use HyperThreading .. just plain cores.

      [juggernaut@ovz4 etc]# cat /proc/cpuinfo
      processor       : 0
      vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
      cpu family      : 6
      model           : 42
      model name      :           Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31270 @ 3.40GHz
      stepping        : 7
      cpu MHz         : 3392.518
      cache size      : 8192 KB
      physical id     : 0
      siblings        : 8
      core id         : 0
      cpu cores       : 4
      apicid          : 0
      fpu             : yes
      fpu_exception   : yes
      cpuid level     : 13
      wp              : yes
      flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc id             a nonstop_tsc arat pni monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt lahf_lm
      bogomips        : 6785.03
      clflush size    : 64
      cache_alignment : 64
      address sizes   : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
      power management: [8]
      
      processor       : 1
      vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
      cpu family      : 6
      model           : 42
      model name      :           Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31270 @ 3.40GHz
      stepping        : 7
      cpu MHz         : 3392.518
      cache size      : 8192 KB
      physical id     : 0
      siblings        : 8
      core id         : 1
      cpu cores       : 4
      apicid          : 2
      fpu             : yes
      fpu_exception   : yes
      cpuid level     : 13
      wp              : yes
      flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc id             a nonstop_tsc arat pni monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt lahf_lm
      bogomips        : 6784.61
      clflush size    : 64
      cache_alignment : 64
      address sizes   : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
      power management: [8]
      
      processor       : 2
      vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
      cpu family      : 6
      model           : 42
      model name      :           Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31270 @ 3.40GHz
      stepping        : 7
      cpu MHz         : 3392.518
      cache size      : 8192 KB
      physical id     : 0
      siblings        : 8
      core id         : 2
      cpu cores       : 4
      apicid          : 4
      fpu             : yes
      fpu_exception   : yes
      cpuid level     : 13
      wp              : yes
      flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc id             a nonstop_tsc arat pni monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt lahf_lm
      bogomips        : 6784.61
      clflush size    : 64
      cache_alignment : 64
      address sizes   : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
      power management: [8]
      
      processor       : 3
      vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
      cpu family      : 6
      model           : 42
      model name      :           Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31270 @ 3.40GHz
      stepping        : 7
      cpu MHz         : 3392.518
      cache size      : 8192 KB
      physical id     : 0
      siblings        : 8
      core id         : 3
      cpu cores       : 4
      apicid          : 6
      fpu             : yes
      fpu_exception   : yes
      cpuid level     : 13
      wp              : yes
      flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc id             a nonstop_tsc arat pni monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt lahf_lm
      bogomips        : 6784.62
      clflush size    : 64
      cache_alignment : 64
      address sizes   : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
      power management: [8]
      
      
      June 25, 2011 @ 7:57 am | Reply
      • Ya know come to think about it I should have promoted the fact our new SJC nodes are Sandy Bridge.. which clock for clock is almost 17% faster than Lynnfield “Nehalem” processors.. Darn. ;)

        June 25, 2011 @ 8:17 am | Reply
        • iKocka:

          It is almost 50% faster then the X34xx series :)

          June 25, 2011 @ 8:26 am | Reply
      • Thanks Brandon, but I mean, I get access to all these cores in the Leb768 plan?

        June 25, 2011 @ 5:03 pm | Reply
        • And yes, I have a VMware with you in SJC :P

          June 25, 2011 @ 5:04 pm | Reply
        • iKocka:

          Yeah :)

          processor       : 7
          vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
          cpu family      : 6
          model           : 42
          model name      :           Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31270 @ 3.40GHz
          stepping        : 7
          cpu MHz         : 3392.518
          cache size      : 8192 KB
          physical id     : 0
          siblings        : 8
          core id         : 3
          cpu cores       : 4
          apicid          : 7
          fpu             : yes
          fpu_exception   : yes
          cpuid level     : 13
          wp              : yes
          flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc ida nonstop_tsc arat pni monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt lahf_lm
          bogomips        : 6784.36
          clflush size    : 64
          cache_alignment : 64
          address sizes   : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
          power management: [8]
          June 25, 2011 @ 5:06 pm | Reply
        • Damn iKocka xD Seems pretty interesting… maybe I will take a month of this the next week :P

          June 26, 2011 @ 2:25 am | Reply
  19. This is true. I must admit though the X34xx series are troopers. They have served us well. We have several of those in use currently.

    June 25, 2011 @ 8:45 am | Reply
    • This is ovz2. Which is at max capacity. It’s the one that Vedran is on.

      processor       : 0
      vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
      cpu family      : 6
      model           : 30
      model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           X3430  @ 2.40GHz
      stepping        : 5
      cpu MHz         : 2400.063
      cache size      : 8192 KB
      physical id     : 0
      siblings        : 4
      core id         : 0
      cpu cores       : 4
      apicid          : 0
      fpu             : yes
      fpu_exception   : yes
      cpuid level     : 11
      wp              : yes
      flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc ida nonstop_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt lahf_lm
      bogomips        : 4800.12
      clflush size    : 64
      cache_alignment : 64
      address sizes   : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
      power management: [8]
      
      processor       : 1
      vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
      cpu family      : 6
      model           : 30
      model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           X3430  @ 2.40GHz
      stepping        : 5
      cpu MHz         : 2400.063
      cache size      : 8192 KB
      physical id     : 0
      siblings        : 4
      core id         : 1
      cpu cores       : 4
      apicid          : 2
      fpu             : yes
      fpu_exception   : yes
      cpuid level     : 11
      wp              : yes
      flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc ida nonstop_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt lahf_lm
      bogomips        : 4799.85
      clflush size    : 64
      cache_alignment : 64
      address sizes   : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
      power management: [8]
      
      processor       : 2
      vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
      cpu family      : 6
      model           : 30
      model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           X3430  @ 2.40GHz
      stepping        : 5
      cpu MHz         : 2400.063
      cache size      : 8192 KB
      physical id     : 0
      siblings        : 4
      core id         : 2
      cpu cores       : 4
      apicid          : 4
      fpu             : yes
      fpu_exception   : yes
      cpuid level     : 11
      wp              : yes
      flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc ida nonstop_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt lahf_lm
      bogomips        : 4799.94
      clflush size    : 64
      cache_alignment : 64
      address sizes   : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
      power management: [8]
      
      processor       : 3
      vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
      cpu family      : 6
      model           : 30
      model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           X3430  @ 2.40GHz
      stepping        : 5
      cpu MHz         : 2400.063
      cache size      : 8192 KB
      physical id     : 0
      siblings        : 4
      core id         : 3
      cpu cores       : 4
      apicid          : 6
      fpu             : yes
      fpu_exception   : yes
      cpuid level     : 11
      wp              : yes
      flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc ida nonstop_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt lahf_lm
      bogomips        : 4799.86
      clflush size    : 64
      cache_alignment : 64
      address sizes   : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
      power management: [8]
      
      June 25, 2011 @ 8:48 am | Reply
  20. Is something going on somewhere that I don’t know about? We have had more signups this evening alone than the whole time this offer has been up.

    Is someone big down or going out?

    June 27, 2011 @ 12:38 am | Reply
    • TheLinuxBug:

      HostRail is on its way out… people are probably racing to replace their services with them as quickly possible.. maybe your getting some of that traffic.

      June 27, 2011 @ 12:47 am | Reply
      • Thanks TLB.. I got a email from a current customer that told me the same thing.

        If that is truly the case then any one who shows me proof they are coming here from that host I will cover their second month of service personally out of my pocket here at eNetSouth. I will let this offer stand from now till July 1st.

        email me – brandonc [at] enetsouth.com

        Brandon

        June 27, 2011 @ 12:53 am | Reply
        • In what offer do you will apply this? n_n I am getting more interest….

          Everybody is fighting for the hostrail customers :D

          June 28, 2011 @ 4:15 am | Reply
      • Brennan:

        Yeah, 60% price increase.

        I have a box there, excellent uptime (50+ days after MY restart) but it’s unfortunate they’re going down… Even though it’s only $1 difference, I have a feeling a lot of big customers will move, and overcrowding will take place at the very least.

        Brandon should accommodate you guys nicely :P Check your inbox in a few minutes btw. This comment reminded me.

        June 27, 2011 @ 1:04 am | Reply
        • Brennan:

          (That’s $1 difference to me, but it’s a LOT more for those who pay more — I sort of worded that weirdly)

          June 27, 2011 @ 1:09 am | Reply
        • Agreed. You can’t just up costs on customers in a few day “pay it or leave” situation. In any business that is a problem.

          ovz6 is brand new and has 0 customers on it as of right now so we have room.

          Brandon

          June 27, 2011 @ 2:39 am | Reply
  21. I had requests via email to do this – Just added:

    RAM: 256MB 
    Storage: 15GB
    Bandwidth: 400GB/mo
    CPU Cores: 2
    

    $3.50 month / $10.25 3 months / $19.25 6 months

    Chicago, IL:
    https://clients.enetsouth.com/clients/order/?pid=28&skip=1

    Birmingham, AL:
    https://clients.enetsouth.com/clients/order/?pid=29&skip=1

    June 27, 2011 @ 3:27 am | Reply
    • Brennan:

      Did you get my email earlier? :P

      June 27, 2011 @ 3:50 am | Reply
      • Yes – Working on a reply to it now.

        Brandon

        June 27, 2011 @ 3:55 am | Reply
        • Brennan:

          Awesome :D

          …and Yomero, of course he is, I’ve haggled him down so much he’s got to work for every dollar so he can have breakfast tomorrow :P

          June 27, 2011 @ 4:03 am | Reply
        • LOL breakfast hahaha xDDDDDDD

          June 27, 2011 @ 4:27 am | Reply
    • Damn Brandon! You are working HARD!!!! =)

      June 27, 2011 @ 3:58 am | Reply
  22. So goes the life of trying to conqueror the world a few dollars at a time. ;)

    June 27, 2011 @ 4:07 am | Reply
    • Brennan:

      More like a few cents when i’m around ;)

      June 27, 2011 @ 4:42 am | Reply
      • @Brennan — you might want to write a blog post “How to haggle with low end providers to squeeze them dry” :) I am sure no other providers would want to be featured here anymore.

        June 27, 2011 @ 5:30 am | Reply
        • Brennan:

          Don’t worry, I’m already on page 2 of the eBook ;) Haha

          June 27, 2011 @ 5:33 am | Reply
  23. *Todo list 6/27/11*

    1) Randomly pause Yomero’s VM when seeing usage.
    2) ..

    June 27, 2011 @ 4:29 am | Reply
    • 3) ???
      4) profit!
      5) listen to yomero fuuuuuuu on LEB

      Francisco

      June 27, 2011 @ 5:25 am | Reply
      • Hi Fran .. Somewhere between 1 and 100 there has to be some sleep. Let me know when you find a number to put that by. ;)

        June 27, 2011 @ 5:31 am | Reply
      • Brennan:

        208 sounds like a good number Brandon

        June 27, 2011 @ 5:33 am | Reply
        • Of course if you had it your way: We would be building servers for you all night.. *whipcrack* build faster!! Cheaper! NOW!

          June 27, 2011 @ 6:08 am | Reply
        • Brennan:

          If I had it my way the whip I was cracking would be included in the penny profit you’re making :(

          June 27, 2011 @ 6:11 am | Reply
      • LOL
        LOOOOL What is going on here?? I am getting scared xDDD

        And don’t pause my VM u_u I was just moving files from hostfail and getting my kernel messed up xD

        June 27, 2011 @ 4:15 pm | Reply
        • By the time you read this “all your server are belong to us”. Worried yet? ;)

          June 27, 2011 @ 4:24 pm | Reply
        • Yes, I am… :S

          I am more sad now… hostrail… curlhost… now Brandon? this will kill me u_u

          lol

          June 27, 2011 @ 4:27 pm | Reply
  24. I give up. ;)

    June 27, 2011 @ 6:12 am | Reply
  25. @Francisco

    Now your worrying me man.. ;)

    June 27, 2011 @ 6:34 am | Reply
  26. @Yomero — Just means you can buy more from us right?

    June 27, 2011 @ 4:31 pm | Reply
    • Yes I’m on it xD probably will need it, probably not. But I am considering several Chicago offers :P

      June 27, 2011 @ 4:40 pm | Reply
  27. iKocka:

    What’s with my ticket regarding rDNS? Also I/O is getting slower :P

    June 27, 2011 @ 4:39 pm | Reply
  28. I will see what the deal is on rDNS. We have a lot of new clients servers coming online right now so it will settle down. If the load increases much more over where it is then I will put OVZ6 in the pool. It’s just sitting there with nothing on it ready to go.

    Brandon

    June 27, 2011 @ 6:45 pm | Reply
    • iKocka:

      Are you able to set rDNS or not?

      June 29, 2011 @ 3:11 pm | Reply
  29. blarehead:

    is there something wrong in whcms? i didn’t received any email for welcome/payment confirmation/server details.
    I already got the server details/solus login from my client area.
    and no reply for my ticket 10 hrs had passed.

    June 29, 2011 @ 4:00 am | Reply
    • More so than not and I can’t figure out why WHMCS will not send emails. I can go back around a 1hr after a account is created and force a send — otherwise it just will not do it.

      We have been working on this over a month now.

      Anyways – I’m looking at your ticket.

      Brandon

      June 29, 2011 @ 4:16 am | Reply
      • Emmett:

        Brandon, I’ve the same issue as blarehead. Additionally, my ticket #165503 has been open for almost a week and I haven’t received any type of response.

        July 4, 2011 @ 8:41 pm | Reply
        • Emmett:

          All fixed now, thanks Brandon.

          July 7, 2011 @ 5:28 pm | Reply
    • blarehead:

      Thank you Brandon. [solved]

      June 29, 2011 @ 5:00 am | Reply
  30. CryptWizard:

    Hey Brandon,

    Could you please check ticket #814856.

    It’s kinda urgent for me and will only take you a second to do.

    Thanks.

    July 1, 2011 @ 5:21 am | Reply
  31. Bee Ohm:

    dude pls enable my tuntap.. its disabled for weeks.. pls i need it asap

    July 3, 2011 @ 9:50 am | Reply
    • Then why did you not say anything for weeks? ;)

      I disabled it and reenabled inside SolusVM. The OpenVZ node in San Jose was powered off and back on last night because of power company changes at that data center and I had to “modprobe tun” on the node. Even though I have that set to load at startup it did not so I will find out why.

      Anyways – you should be good to go now.

      As a side note “Phase II” of the power changes is scheduled for tomorrow July 4th at that DC – From what I am understanding it will only be a issue with their network gear and not affect server power sources like it did last night/this morning.

      Brandon

      July 3, 2011 @ 6:34 pm | Reply
      • rds100:

        The datacenter changes power companies so it has to power everything off? What kind of datacenter is this??? No UPS, no generators?

        July 3, 2011 @ 6:53 pm | Reply
        • I’m not their electrical engineer so I can’t answer that. Since you are hinting we host out of a 2bit datacenter then why don’t you call 8×8 and ask them if you are so concerned?

          http://www.8×8.com/AboutUs.aspx

          Their number is listed in page above.

          Another question for you since we are on the subject.. How many publicly traded fortune 500 companies do you host with?

          Brandon

          July 3, 2011 @ 7:36 pm | Reply
  32. shiny:

    why don’t you guys just enable tun/tap automatically upon activation of the vps?
    its a hassle to wait it get activated

    July 11, 2011 @ 11:28 am | Reply
  33. HLC:

    Hi Brandon, before I proceed to order, is it possible for you to put a 10MB test file on a San Jose server and a Birmingham server so my remote colleague and I can test download speed from these servers? Just trying not to bump into another VPS with poor download speed from China like a VPS I have in South Bend :)

    Thank you.

    July 12, 2011 @ 11:34 am | Reply
  34. carl:

    Can you try ? $ wget http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test

    post the result ty

    July 13, 2011 @ 1:51 am | Reply
  35. m:

    Is it possible to have one of those lower offers (23$ or 26$) in San Jose?

    I need a VPS to use as my own VPN (max two users and probably not at the same time) and because I’m in Asia at the moment, I guess US West Coast would be great!

    Thanks!

    July 21, 2011 @ 4:33 pm | Reply

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