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.
For those of us who prefer more dedicated-server like VPS (rather than glorified jail, ala OpenVZ), this latest exclusive offer from eNetSouth Cloud might interest you. The last offer from eNS Cloud in San Jose was good — except their earlier offer for Chicago was even better! Co-lo in San Jose is more expensive after all, and they did have a much beefier server in Chicago. However Brandon decided to amended the offer, and now you can use this sign up link to get the same VMWare offer for both Chicago and San Jose! So for $6.95/month you get
- 400MB memory
- 20GB storage
- 10Mbps unmetered bandwidth
- VMWare/vSphere
You can pretty much install any OS you want on your VMWare box (Windoze, Linux, xBSD, etc). See previous threads on discussions on this company.
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The original owner of LowEndBox known as LowEndAdmin or LEA for short founded LowEndBox in 2008 and created the concept of hosting applications on low resource Low End Boxes. After creating the roots of the community that we know today, LEA stepped aside and allowed others to carry the torch forward.
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I’ve been with eNetSouth since the San Jose offer. 100% uptime, performance is absolutely superb and no downtime. Very happy. :)
This would be a lot better offer with limited 100mbps port instead of 10 mbps which only comes down to 1MB/s, basically share 1 file = slow down your website.
Perhaps you can ask Brandon to change you to the 1500GB plan?
Assuming it is the same as Chicago offer, the downstream is 100Mbps while the upstream is 10Mbps.
Though the Chicago vcenter have been down for at least 2 days.
After signing up, I see
200 MB RAM – 15GB Storage – 1500GB Transfer | *Promo* $6.99 /mo
256 MB RAM – 20GB Storage – 1500GB Transfer | *Promo* $7.99 /mo
384 MB RAM – 30GB Storage – 1500GB Transfer | *Promo* $8.99 /mo
512 MB RAM – 40GB Storage – 10Mb Unmetered Transfer | *Promo* $12.99 /mo
etc..
Is there some promo code I am missing?
ya me too cant find the given promo package from their site..!
eNS has worked wonderfully for me; I almost hit 60 days of uptime (on the previous Chicago offer) before I rebooted my own VPS just to see if all my services would start up correctly. Nothing to complain of.
Ordered one.
Since I am new with them, I was try to make an order of WIndows 2008 server.
How long usually they process the order?
If it took a long time, then I will waiting for them :)
Hey Im interested in it. Just need opinions and suggestions from others before buying. Do you all think this a kind of a legitimate offer for the quoted price? Coz for a newbie like me most of the things in Low End Box looks legitimate. :)
Since there are many Pros of VPS hosting, I would like to make my decision based on your help. Thanks in Advance.
Ofcourse, most of the companies are legit. LEB admin also point out a few things about the company and it information when he posted. Also depend on what you want to do with it.
For ENSCLOUD, it is pretty good. I have an account with enscloud. I use it and happy with it. It is pretty stable.
i have checked domain history of this hosting company its only one year new.
Everyone have to start somewhere. However they have another domain enetsouth.com which redirect to enscloud.com :)
I got the VPS details today. ( as stated in the tos, server provisioning may took 24 hours)
Ordered one Windows 2008 last night. I want to learn to use Windows, because my all VPS were Linux / Debian based.
With 400Mb RAM, the RDP is running smoothly.
As for the ENS whois, I already make a comment about their website since the first offer in the LEB, and then they make some renewal for another year.
Hope they will be a VPS Provider for a long time. :)
I didn’t know the provisioning need 24 hours. I can’t wait that long :(
Signed up with eNetSouth yesterday and was setup with a Windows VPS really quickly!
Service has been fantastic, I havn’t had service/support this good from any other hosting providers! Looking forward to a long partnership with these guys! Performance has been great too, excellent speeds/latency from their San Jose cluster to Australia.
Thanks!
Hello, is it can reinstall the OS self from the contral panel that like SolusVM?
You can run Windows in 400megs of memory?
@drmike :
Yes, I am purchasing one of the windows 2008 server with 400Mb ram.
Well, in our office, one of our computer, are using a 256mb ram for running a windows xp. lol
Those of you reloaded your own OS… how do you do it? I never got really clear-cut directions from eNS Cloud.
To reload your own OS:
1. Download the vSphere client (take the /ui off the vcenter url)
2. Install client and login with your vcenter credential.
3. Go to your VM, then Edit Setting -> Option Tab -> Advanced and tick the option to boot to BIOS on next boot. Change the boot order to CDROM first.
4. Go to VCenter -> Summary Tab -> Open Console
5. On the Console Toolbar, Mount CD/DVD, mount the ISO of your choice.
6. If installing Windows XP/2003, Download the LSI driver at http://www.lsi.com/storage_home/products_home/standard_product_ics/sas_ics/lsisas1068/index.html
7. Make a floppy image with whatever tool you have, with the driver in it
8. Mount Floppy, like step 5
9. Reboot your guest system and boot from CDROM
10. Install OS as if it is your machine.
11. If Windows, install VMWare Tools
12. Install all updates, and do a full shutdown of your guest and then boot
Also, I wonder if anyone else have speed problem? I do a speedtest on the Win 2003 box and I only get <1.5Mbps up / down
Idle memory use for Windows 2003 with no service is 123MB
Sorry for the multiple posting
If anyone have a eNS Cloud VPS in both Chicago and San Jose could you please post a speed test result?
Single thread upload from my San Jose VPS seems top around 150KB/s. Not sure if it is because Win 2003 is not optimized or the network is like that.
Windows Server 2008 VPS hosted in the San Jose DC
http://www.speedtest.net/result/992205638.png
San Jose to Austin TX
19.73mbit down / 8.10mbit up
http://www.speedtest.net/result/992206299.png
San Jose to Palo Alto CA
78.05mbit down / 19.10mbit up
I am in San Jose, using Windows2008server.
But since I am new in Windows VPS, would you like to tell me how to test it?
RDP into it and use speedtest.net
So…this offer no longer allows for installation of a Windows server?
I get the following (after filling in TWO PAGES of information) when I follow the order link:
Special Discounts:: for http://www.lowendbox.com readers:
Linux only – Hosted out of Chicago, IL and San Jose, CA datacenters.
It has said that the whole time. Go ahead :)
is that 10Mbps dedicated?
I’m on a different plan but i still have 10mbps unmetered. Some tests for you:
Cachefly -> ens VPS
–2010-10-16 18:19:55– 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 38.4M/s in 2.6s
2010-10-16 18:19:58 (38.4 MB/s) – `100mb.test’ saved [104857600/104857600]
ens VPS -> VPS at Ramhost (Atlanta)
–2010-10-17 08:24:05– http://mysite/100mb.test
Resolving mysite … 98.158.22.xxx
Connecting to mysite|98.158.22.xxx|:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK
Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/x-tar]
Saving to: `100mb.test’
100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 4.57M/s in 20s
2010-10-17 08:24:25 (5.10 MB/s) – `100mb.test’ saved [104857600/104857600]
Yes. Ask some of the others that have service already. They will tell you it is.
I’ve been using the Chicago server for 2 months now and i’m a bit annoyed with their support. there is no one answering your ticket for over 10 hours even when the vcenter link to your server doesn’t work and it;s their fault!
I agree. New locations are very nice, but I would suggest that at this moment in time enscloud should be concentrating on getting the support system and control panel (not only vCentre but also the account management panel) working better. The servers and network have been great so far, but I think the non-working/incomplete control panels is a bit disconcerting for users, and improving them would greatly increase confidence in using enscloud. I know it would for me :)
@M.H — I understand your frustration. And yes, I failed with the vCenter intergration in Chicago, IL when adding the San Jose DC. I purchased another server from ColoCrossing last week to be a temporary vCenter while I redo the original server. It has to be redone from scratch.
You or no one else want another excuse .. therefore I am working on it right now. I’ve got egg on my face and I appreciate you being patient.
Drop me a email I will keep in communication with you. brandonc@enetsouth.com
Brandon
If that is the case you really should be sending an announcement to your customers!
The last email I have from you is that San Jose is all green and Chicago almost done.
I’m just waiting for the Chicago vcenter to install Windows on that one too.
P.S. The more locations you do the more VPS I’ll get from you :) OpenVZ just can’t beat VMWare in uptime.
Arthur,
San Jose is ready and perfect. I had a rough time getting vCenter back after I attempted to link them together to one database instead of two separate DB’s. I am almost finished with getting it back where it needs to be in Chicago.
I’m glad other than my epic fail with vCenter in Chicago you are happy. By the way.. I hear London is next. :)
@Mr. Soon
I went ahead and refunded your PayPal payment. I did this because for whatever reason the signup failed with you. I did not know anything except which DC you wanted. And that was from eMail. Of course I want your business and want to give you a kick ass server but a few steps need to happen so that we know what you want. Sign up again and get the confirmation and we will knock it out ASAP.
Otherwise, I do not know how to serve you properly.
Brandon
Oops, you are referring to me. Just signed up and paid :)
I didn’t get my IPs assigned for the past 8 hours after I purchase their plan.
Hey Brandon, I didn’t get my IP assigned in the past hours after I purchase the plan. I found a notice said: “Your server is currently awaiting provisioning from Support. You will be notified when complete.” in my control panel while I Add Cloud Server. How can I do that now? Thanks.
We had two issues over the past 24/36 hours.
#1 We ran out of IP’s. We have new IP’s now.
#2 Account signups did not finish 100% when they were built and we are having to correct a lot of problems by hand. There are several of you that will get provisioned today and we will credit time for everyone who had to wait.
Thank you for your understanding and patience while we get this worked out.
Brandon
@Brandon, thank you for the heads up. I will wait patiently :)
Please put TEST IP and file, thanks. :)
I wanted to give everyone a update. We provisioned a lot of servers today/tonight and got everyone running. There are a few more that will be provisioned overnight and through the day tomorrow. It’s not easy handling new and existing customer support while getting a double digit number of new servers online.
However we can handle it and everyone should be happy and where they need to be. I appreciate everyone being so patient and doing business with us.
If you have any issues at all please email me: brandonc@enetsouth.com or open a support ticket.
Thank you!
Brandon
Hey Brandon, ok i will wait your reply for my support ticket #1358.
My server still not provisioned since Oct 19…
Not looking so good afterall.
Why do a promo if you can’t handle the amount of requests coming in?
@kelemenbeata
It’s not that we can’t handle the amount of requests coming in. Wait, let me rephrase that. We can handle honest signups not several hundred using stolen credit cards and hacked PayPal. That has been the delay of it all is weeding out who is real and who is not. So that is what happened. We have been provisioning servers the entire time but we had a few slip through the cracks. I will make sure you have your server quickly this evening.
I could really use a couple of you out there to let eveyone know we have been getting servers out just a little slow. We are not being shady or trying to do bad business. I’m just really sick of dishonest people. :(
Brandon
Sorry I forgot to think about this..fraudsters suxx
Maybe you should consider maxmind’s minfraud and phone verification system… I’ve used them before and it really helped reducing fraud with CNP transactions. :)
I’ll wait for the activation:)
I don’t want to go in a lot of detail in public but just hitting the high notes this happened before back in April. We use a service that was linked without merchant account since that time and it caught a lot but I can only assume these were recent “steals” before they could get flagged. We are making a lot of changes over the next few days to prevent this from ever being a issue.
Thanks for being understanding and I’m sorry we let you slip through the cracks. I do admit that is what happened. It was a honest but unfortunate mistake.
Hey Brandon, I know it’s not a easy thing but could you please help to resolve my vps issue as soon as possible? I submitted a ticket #1358 but didn’t get resolved in the past three days. I can’t even connect to the vps via SSH or VMWare. Thanks.
Just a followup on my eNSCloud service.
The service has been fantastic, notifications of outages/server upgrades, stable connection and a speedy Server 2008 VM! The guys have even followed up to see how everything has been going which is rare in the hosting industry these days.
I love this personalised service and they have won my business over for any future hosting needs.
Thanks for the great work!
The SSL certificate chain isn’t bundled properly on your web servers.
Firefox showed it as untrusted until I visited http://certificates.starfieldtech.com/repository so that your SSL provider’s interim certificate became trusted.
@Krute – Check your email there were three that went out to you yesterday between 9:06 PM and 9:08 PM CDT.
@James – Thank you for the good words.
@CryptWizard – You are right I just tested that and it is as you reported. We have a proper encryption its just not passing the cert properly. I will get this resolved as soon as possible.
Brandon could you please cancel the service and refund me the charge as the server is still not provisioned since oct 19?!
I’m sorry I was unable to wait any longer, bought another VPS from someone else.
Im also waiting for the service… stillo now didn’t get the IPs…… :(
@kelemenbeata – You will have your refund in 5 min or less.
@thilanka – It plainly states in the email you recieved that provisioning can take up to 24 hours. You are still way inside that window. However, I am not accepting anymore Windows VPS’s at this price. This was clearly stated as Linux only and a lot of customers still chose Windows anyways so I did the honorable thing and provided service. After the week we have had I’m not going to sit here and get our name drug through the mud on near loss once you factor in the overhead of Windows.
Therefore I am refunding your money as well. Please make sure you cancel your PayPal subscription.
Brandon
OK..thnx for the reply…! Could you please give the Windows server for this price as a last windows VM.. caz i was looking for a Windows VPS and finally i got the best price from you…. If you can plzz reconsider that and setup my VPS..!
Cheers..!
Also how do I select the location? There seems to be no option during sign up.
It’s picked after you create the account. Although at this time I am in the process of taking Chicago out of the options until we add more nodes. We are sold out in Chicago at this time.
Thanks Brandon for the quick reply. Is TUN/TAP enabled by default (or on request)?
rgds,
JP
Hi Brandon I’m still waiting for you to fix my Chicago vcenter. No one responded to my support ticket 1292.
@Arthur: That was resolved (or attempted) yesterday. The ticket has also been responded to as well.
Brandon, I can’t use my vps even for a single day in the past 8 days after I purchase your vps. Could you please refund me? I drop an email to your business support but no reply in the past two days.
Krute, I checked and the last support email we could find was the 24th and we responded on the 24th. It looks like we had a breakdown in communication somwhere between then and now. Regardless of that to address the main issue at hand I just sent you a email to resolve your demands as you wish.
Regards,
Brandon
Mr. Brandon….. still now im waiting for the VPS now it has been passed more than week….no IP provisioned.. could you please refund me …?
Just contacted Brandon today. He is very friendly and helpful so now I am looking forward to this VMware based VPS solution. As I understood what he said, this VPS is not like shared VPS running on a single server where any failure brings everything down. The VMWare system runs by keeping the virtual vps instances on a storage area network with a cloud/pool of servers to access and run them. This means if a server failed, another would instantly pick up the instance and keep going without my need to do anything or even notice the issue. Another benefit is getting full capacity of the resources I ordered so that I have it all up front without any need to hope more will kick in if I need it later. Giving exactly what is promised, and setting it up at the outset means they are not going to oversell or underperform.
I plan to report back on how things are going after a couple weeks — and I will keep posted here to keep updated on what others say. The LEB site and user comments really helped me choose this solution. Thank you!
I still can’t login to the chicago vcenter giving me login errors. i have sent you emails regarding this issue some days ago and i’m still waiting. need urgent reboot and i can’t do anything right now (that’s so annoying) …. :(
I also have problem with their support in chicago, their support become very slow.
*ticket id 1407 (oct 30) : mount freebsd iso & set rDNS
nov 03 : freebsd iso mounted
* ticket id 1421 : set rDNS
still waiting :(
I hope they don’t have serious problem, their VPS is reliable.
ticket id 1421 was in nov 5.
Message-ID:
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From: eNS Support
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Iwan, Brian replied to you on the 5th. I checked the notes and it was submitted. We have to have rDNS handled by the namespace owner at the DC. As soon as they complete it you will have it.
No need to get on here and bash me even after you have sent me email too and I told you it would be taken care of. Kind of a low blow to make something appear you have been ignored since the 5th even though WE REPLIED TO YOU.
Geez.
Brandon
Hi MH!
You may not know this but vCenter runs on Windows and your username on the panel had a @ symbol in it. Windows does not allow @ in the username. So when the script tried to add your username to vCenter it failed. I need disallow a few other characters as well. (add’s to to-do list)
So to fix this I removed everything after the @ and it works OK. I am sending you a followup email about this as well.
Regards,
Brandon
Great, Thank you. I can now login to the vcenter.
No problem. Anytime MH!
– Brandon
@brandon
(the time is based on my timezone , GMT+7)
My 1st request for rDNS was in ticket 1407,october 30 (with freebsd iso request). Thanks for the .iso :) . But no reply about rDNS.
My 2nd request for RDNS was in ticket 1421, november 05. Got reply : “The request has been submitted to be changed.” in november 06.
The only clear response about rDNS was in your reply on this blog :”We have to have rDNS handled by the namespace owner at the DC. As soon as they complete it you will have it.”
[brandon]
Kind of a low blow to make something appear you have been ignored since the 5th even though WE REPLIED TO YOU.
Geez.
Brandon
[/brandon]
If you can’t accept my attitude, i feel so sorry, you can terminate my VPS anytime :).
FYI, i have similar issue with other provider, they get so much rude complain in WHT. They replied politely. And sent mass email to their customers,said sorry for the slow response/support
My tiket 1374 and 1375 since 10/25/2010 still unfinished :)
1374 : rdns
1375 : can’t login to vcenter
@IBK:
Who implied attitude friend? I felt the comment was a bit misrepresented considering we answered the request and we are waiting for it as well. Then come over the top with the “I hope nothing serious is wrong” .. just a poor way of wording IMHO. If you see it differently then I respect your oppinion. However, you have my email .. we have talked a lot. If you have a concern you or anyone else are more than welcome to talk.
Brandon
Sorry for the misunderstanding.
I posted that comment because your support unlike the usual, and i’m affraid that there is something wrong with your business.
Btw, great VPS & support :)
Thanks
Be careful, their vps’s disk IO is very very SLOW!!!
# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fsync
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 369.066 seconds, 2.9 MB/s
By the way, I send a ticket 2 weeks ago,
Still don’t get any replay until now.
I wanna say, keep away from this vps provider.
Very slow for me to .. exactly at your range.
We maintain a test server in each DC so that we can do real life tests. Inside those we run several monitoring applications.. Some are custom and some are everyday things like Nagios. The two main items I monitor is availability, latency and storage. From time to time Chicago’s I/O does get loaded. Since your post I have been running the same dd you posted every 15min and the slowest I have seen is:
root@nag-chicago:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=test2 bs=64k count=16k
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 41.1921 s, 26.1 MB/s
The next time it will follow up with anywhere from 60MB to 100MB and back down to the high 20’s and 30’s. I do not doubt you saw 2.9MB/s but I can’t make this instance perform that poorly. I’m curious if you had something else running at the same time. Regardless I will be happy to assist you to find the cause.
Also about a two week ticket — How about emailing me brandonc@enetsouth.com and let me know the details so we can find the root cause of the delay.
Brandon
Going on day 2.. still have yet to have VPS provisioned. Submitted a trouble ticket….. hopefully before the weekend so I can get the ball rolling on this project.
Brandon There’s few days past, you didn’t reply my ticket at all.
There’s few days ? not setup vps yet ?
There are not any setups outstanding that we are *not* aware of. Only one customer that signed up around 1:00AM localtime. eMail support with your information and we can look in to it. If it has been a couple of days maybe it was a fraud check mistake? I don’t know.
Contact support and we can help you.