William has tipped me some European providers that he has used, one of them being FitVPS, which is based in Varna, Bulgaria. It is actually a subsidiary of Telecoms Ltd in Bulgaria which is a local ISP runs its own data center since 1998. Their SLIM package is $5/month (+ VAT as Bulgaria is now part of EU). Order link here, and the plan detail:
- 256MB guaranteed/384MB burstable memory
- 5GB storage
- 100GB/month data transfer on 10Mbps
- OpenVZ/SolusVM
Servers in their own data center (test IP: 88.213.207.3, more information). Nice price for an exotic Southeast European location.
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Thanks for listing ;)
Here are some usual tests on the cheapest VPS, Connection seems to be Gbit shared on the hostnode (besides that it is noted as 10Mbit, maybe some are higher?):
Leaseweb, NL
Softlayer, Washington DC
Tun/Tap can be enabled for 1cent at ordering, and PPTP works fine for me, Debian Image is a very nice minimal image in English.
IO:
A good value for that price.
How’s the uptime?
Over a month without problems for me
But BG has strong anti-piracy law though… :)
wew!
another real low end of specs :o)
Keep moving on to highly oversold hosts, please. Nobody needs your comment, neither this.
everyone need the truth,
i even have 3 hosts that beyond soooo far away than yours and they’re all good!
but you can keep your 90’s style of your low specs with the high budget :p
is it low.end.box but with high.prices.box ?
$5/month for a 256MB guaranteed OpenVZ VPS is actually not bad a deal, as it is from a local ISP running their own network and racks. LowEnd *was* about the spec, which usually translates to low price but not necessarily.
Operating System: debian 5 64 Bit
Location: Varna, Bulgaria
Status: Online
Memory: 256 MB
Burst: 384 MB
Disk Space: 5 GB
Bandwidth: 100 GB
bg:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 16 model : 10 model name : AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1075T Processor stepping : 0 cpu MHz : 1054.061 cache size : 512 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 6 core id : 0 cpu cores : 6 apicid : 0 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 6 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mm x fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc nonstop_ tsc pni cx16 popcnt lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy altmovcr8 abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowp refetch osvw bogomips : 6027.12 TLB size : 1024 4K pages clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 48 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: ts ttp tm stc 100mhzsteps hwpstate [8] [9] bg:~# 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, 11.269 s, 95.3 MB/s BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 5.1.2) System: bg: GNU/Linux OS: GNU/Linux -- 2.6.18-194.26.1.el5.028stab079.2 -- #1 SMP Fri Dec 17 19:25:15 MSK 2010 Machine: x86_64 (unknown) Language: en_US.utf8 (charmap="ANSI_X3.4-1968", collate="ANSI_X3.4-1968") CPU 0: AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1075T Processor (6027.1 bogomips) Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, AMD MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, AMD virtual ization, SYSCALL/SYSRET 10:04:43 up 46 min, 1 user, load average: 0.08, 0.02, 0.01; runlevel 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Benchmark Run: Fri Mar 04 2011 10:04:43 - 10:32:53 1 CPU in system; running 1 parallel copy of tests Dhrystone 2 using register variables 4360698.6 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Double-Precision Whetstone 2272.3 MWIPS (10.1 s, 7 samples) Execl Throughput 1217.0 lps (29.9 s, 2 samples) Pipe Throughput 452439.6 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Pipe-based Context Switching 115464.8 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Process Creation 3277.0 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples) Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 1650.5 lpm (60.1 s, 2 samples) Shell Scripts (16 concurrent) 117.5 lpm (60.5 s, 2 samples) Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 230.3 lpm (60.2 s, 2 samples) System Call Overhead 425186.9 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) System Benchmarks Partial Index BASELINE RESULT INDEX Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 4360698.6 373.7 Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 2272.3 413.1 Execl Throughput 43.0 1217.0 283.0 Pipe Throughput 12440.0 452439.6 363.7 Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 115464.8 288.7 Process Creation 126.0 3277.0 260.1 Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 1650.5 389.3 Shell Scripts (16 concurrent) --- 117.5 --- Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 230.3 383.8 System Call Overhead 15000.0 425186.9 283.5 ======== System Benchmarks Index Score (Partial Only) 333.1yo frans, i made it to make my “m” key on my keyboard re-works!!
hurray
LEA: Bulgaria is not so exotic as it sounds. We have over 1320years of history…, and more than 15 years Internet experience. So don’t forget and John Atanasov – the father of the computer. If you dig a while you will find that Exotic Bulgarians gave too much to not so exotic world :)
Steliyan, Varna, Bulgaria
I agree with you Steliyan, but I guess it depends the point from where you look at Bulgaria…
Anyway, I’d think that you have way more than 1320 years of history! :)
You can have 5000 years of history and still be exotic to the rest of the world :)
And it’s not a bad thing at all, to be exotic. E.g. for me that rhymes with “exciting”. :))
Sorry. I meant it’s an exotic location for those looking for low end VPS, as LowEndBox is mostly populated by US, UK and DE offers.
LEA: I have been surprised to see Offer from Bulgaria here! Pleasant surprise :) This offer is about 1/4 in price of most offers here in Bulgaria…
Try coupon: wht50off
It will give you 50% off the first month.
And i will give you a personal coupon code for first month free if you want (just email me), thanks for reporting that EUR exchange rate problem.
Interesting offer but I’m really concerned about using a provider that lists having upper tier uplinks but doesn’t list who they are. Last I came across someone who did that, they were operating out of their parents basement with a Time Warner cable modem and saying that they were tier 1.
Not saying that these folks are doing this. Just would like to see specifics.
Also concerned about backup peering. If something goes wrong, there’s really no fallback. One of the reasons why I like sticking my equipment in a third party datacenter. If something goes belly up, five minutes later (if that long) previously setup peer agreements kick in and my data is going across someone else’s wire.
What you want to see?
Fitvps is clearly owned by Telecoms.bg (look at the IP whois), and you can see all their Uplinks there:
http://bgp.he.net/AS16154
Main Upstreams being Level3 (50%), Interroute (27%) and Cogent (16%) and some big local ISP (3%).
28k IPs, some Peering and DSL/Cable Customers – you dont run such a Network from your Basement, and if you do – your Basement is already a complete Datacenter comparable to normal DCs.
@drmike: Look at the Will’s comment – telecoms.bg is one of oldest and probably most reliable ISP here in Varna, Bulgaria. Few of their customers are local ISP’s too. Their network is pretty good for Bulgaria.
We can now provide ipv6 to customers. If you are a customer and are interested – please open a support ticket and we will add ipv6 to your VPS. We do not recommend to run your production traffic over ipv6 just yet.
P.S. We also have implemented working ipv6 rdns in SolusVM
ipv6 test ip for ping6: 2a02:7900:f17::1
ipv6 test dl url: http://ipv6test.fitvps.com/100M.bin