Evorack - £2.49 128MB Xen VPS in UK

Dec 24, 2011 @ 12:19 pm

Ho Ho Ho! Another Christmas offer, and this time from Jonathan @ Evorack. Use coupon code LEBCHRISTMAS2011 to get £3.50/month recurring discount on any of their unmanaged Xen VPS hosting plans. It’s for Christmas, but it’s actually exactly the same discount for the last 4 times when they were featured on LowEndBox. Anyway, it gets you the following low end Xen VPS for £2.49/month (~USD$4.04). Direct sign up link.

128MB memory
20GB storage
250GB/month data transfer
1x IPv4 + /64 IPv6 (fully native & routed)
Xen/Custom panel

Payment in PayPal or credit card, and 20% VAT is payable for those in UK/EU. Servers in UK (test IP: 109.200.19.115 or 2a02:2658:1011:1::face). Evorack has had pretty good track record here on LowEndBox and they are owned by UK registered company “ABPNI Computer Solutions Ltd” since 2004.

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18 Comments

Asim Zeeshan:

Surprised to see no comments on the listing of such an awesome host. Its the best “bang for your bucks” as they say. Here are some of the tests

root@evorack:~# uptime
 15:30:14 up 147 days, 20:00,  1 user,  load average: 0.08, 0.03, 0.05

root@evorack:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=iotest bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync && rm -fr iotest
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 8.40756 s, 128 MB/s

root@evorack:~# wget cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
--2011-12-26 15:36:23--  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 15.8M/s   in 6.3s

2011-12-26 15:36:29 (15.8 MB/s) - `100mb.test' saved [104857600/104857600]

root@evorack:~#

December 26, 2011 @ 10:37 am | Reply

Jonny@Evorack:
Hi Asim,
Thanks for the nice comments.
Cheers
Jonny
December 26, 2011 @ 12:15 pm | Reply

Jonny@Evorack:

Something must have been busy when the above speedtest was run. I’m getting faster speeds now:

# wget http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
--2011-12-26 12:19:50--  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    

2011-12-26 12:19:53 (38.4 MB/s) - `100mb.test' saved [104857600/104857600]

December 26, 2011 @ 12:22 pm | Reply

Spirit:
@Asim Zeeshan, there’s nothing to complain about that’s why… :)
December 26, 2011 @ 2:55 pm | Reply
- rm:
  Agreed. :)
  December 27, 2011 @ 6:07 am | Reply
Clint:
I’ve been using Evorack since May for a VPS to watch BBC and for a backup DNS server. Jonny hasn’t let me down once. I’ve opened tickets at 1am UTC, only to get a response back in 15 minutes. These guys never sleep!
December 27, 2011 @ 12:09 am | Reply
Joakim Berglund:
Also bought one of these VPS:es, works brilliantly, the stuff I’ve tested with it so far. Also, as Clint said, support seems very responsive.
December 27, 2011 @ 8:53 pm | Reply

hr:

I got one today also, support is pretty responsive indeed, just a couple of minutes :-).

CPU model :    Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU 3060 @ 2.40GHz
Number of cores : 1
CPU frequency : 2400.084 MHz
Total amount of ram : 116 MB
Total amount of swap : 511 MB
System uptime :   2:34,       
Download speed : (16.7MB/s) 
I/O speed : 66.9MB/s

December 29, 2011 @ 12:06 am | Reply

mcyz:
I got one today also, but my iotest very bad i think. How can i fix this ?
```
Last login: Thu Dec 29 12:03:20 2011
root@localhost:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=iotest bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync && rm -fr iotest
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 66.6044 s, 16.1 MB/s
```
December 29, 2011 @ 11:53 am | Reply
- Jonny@Evorack:
  Hi There,
  It’s possible that you ran this test during our security zeroing. Please try again and you should get a much better result :)
  Thanks
  Jonny
  December 29, 2011 @ 4:29 pm | Reply
ianr:
Registered and setup a VPS with this company yeaterday. However, the documentation is very sparse; no idea of the nameservers to point my domain to, no domain manager, etc. Submitted a ticket but I’ve had no reply.
January 8, 2012 @ 1:56 pm | Reply
- Jonny@Evorack:
  Hi There,
  Evorack sells VPS (Virtual Private Servers). While some providers out there do indeed allow customers to register domains, this is outside of the scope of a VPS product.
  Thanks
  Jonny
  January 9, 2012 @ 5:51 pm | Reply
Chris:
I just went ahead and ordered one myself. Can you please tell me where exactly are the servers located in the UK? As I can only find the information that it’s hosted in the United Kingdom but not were at – or – what data center they are using.
Thanks
-Chris
January 11, 2012 @ 1:53 pm | Reply
- Jonny@Evorack:
  Hi Chris,
  Our servers are located in Gosport, England, with diverse 10G fibre links back to London :)
  Thanks
  Jonny
  January 12, 2012 @ 11:13 pm | Reply
  - Erawan Arif Nugroho:
    Dear Jonathan,
    If in case I want to upgrade my current VPS Plan to the higher one, will the discount still available? Or it back to the normal price?
    Regards,
    Erawan Arif Nugroho
    January 17, 2012 @ 10:58 am | Reply
    - Jonny@Evorack:
      We will of course provide the same discount (£3.50) to all of our unmanaged packages :)
      Cheers
      Jonny
      January 19, 2012 @ 9:00 pm | Reply
Jack:
Accept Alertpay..
February 26, 2012 @ 11:59 pm | Reply
Luke:
I never had problems with this host it was perfect the whole time i was with them (over a year), only reason i left was because they didnt offer something not in the UK. if they ever do i will move back right away.
April 28, 2012 @ 11:26 pm | Reply