Corey, from FrontRangeHosting, has sent in a few Christmas offers, which were suppose to get posted before Christmas but due to the massive backlog, they’re only now being posted. Corey mentioned that this promotion will be extended until January 6th which also happens to be apart of Christmas for some people around the world.
OVZ-128
| KVM-384
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FrontRangeHosting have been listed on LowEndBox twice before. This promotion gives you 40% off their normal prices. Their VPS Nodes are built with Supermicro chasis’s and are based around the E5-2620 CPU which runs at 2.0GHz with a turbo speed of 2.5GHz. For diskspace, they use Enterprise 6Gb/s SAS Hard Drives with Intel Gen 2 520 series SSD’s providing SSD caching. I have to admit that we do see a lot of lowend OpenVZ deals but we don’t see as many KVM offers, so they’re KVM range may be more appealing to you. They operate their own AS network (AS54856) and own their IPv4 and IPv6 ranges, this allows them to provide services cheaper than other hosts who may be renting.
FrontRangeHosting provide 24/7 support and offer a 99.9% uptime guarantee. They accept major credit cards, Paypal, 2Checkout, Google Wallet and Amazon Pay as payment methods. Unlike most hosts who use the infamous FDCServers to provide services in Colorado, FrontRangeHosting’s servers are located in the Data 102 datacenter in downtown Colorado Springs, Colorado (USA). All plans come with a 30 day money back guarantee. For more information, do check out their Terms Of Service and Acceptable Usage Policy.
OVZ-256
| OVZ-384
| OVZ-512
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KVM-384D
| KVM-512
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Network Information:
Servers are located in Colorado Springs, Colorado (USA).
Test IPv4: 198.147.20.15
Test IPv6: 2604:2880::e191:6267
Test File: http://testden.frontrangehosting.com/test10m.dat
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Tried to get this in before Chrismas but it fell into a black hole somewhere :)
So the codes will run until Jan 6th.
Does the promo code valid if I change monthly billing cycle to annually after a month? Thanks.
open a ticket with sales when you do so we can make sure it happens.
Are the OVZ plans comes with SSD disk or cached? This offer here same with this -> http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1222370
Thanks.
Wing they’re SSD Cached
So it’s burst RAM ot vswap?
vSwap.
[root@us ~]# free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 128 126 1 0 0 122
-/+ buffers/cache: 3 124
Swap: 128 3 124
IO speed?
They are SSD Cached for reads so the most requested data on a node are cached on the SSD’s for quick access. Writes are not cached, but typically speeds are anywhere from 100-200MB/s depending on what’s going on with the node at any given time.
[root@us ~]# 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, 3.8616 s, 278 MB/s
[root@us ~]# 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, 8.14586 s, 132 MB/s
[root@us ~]# 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, 9.76365 s, 110 MB/s
[root@us ~]# 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, 4.82929 s, 222 MB/s
well, is it too cheap to be true?ahahaha
@FRCorey This is not going to be on kenobi or Belth, right?
Belth is an older node were looking at retiring it’s been locked out for awhile. What’s wrong with Kenobi?
What are you going to do with the node once you retire it?
It will become a utility node running monitoring software & such.
Nothing is wrong, I already have one on the node, kind of stupid to have 2 vps on same node.
that’s all.
Everyone on Belth would be moved to a new server not to an existing server. Do you currently have 2 OpenVZ VPS’s on the same node? If so open a ticket and we can migrate one to a different node.
vpn allowed?
Yes
Little confused.
I ordered the 20GB SSD Package : OVZ-512 – 512MB memory – 512MB vSwap – 20GB SSD Disk Space
But I’m on the same node as a non SSD VPS I have purchased previously with you.
Also the Disk speed doesn’t quite look SSD.
I/O speed : 83.2 MB/s
Was I placed on the wrong node?
You’re on a SSD Cached node, we only cache Reads not writes, DD tests are tests of writes to the HDD’s not the SSD’s. No writes touch the SSD’s.
“20GB SSD Disk Space”
So it’s not an SSD Based VPS. My storage isn’t on SSD.
Ugh I see up there. No it’s SSD Cached Disk Space, but yes that’s a pretty damning typo up there :(
With SSD Caching the most accessed blocks are placed on the SSD’s, so in a web server situation maybe a file keeps being read the SSD Cacheing algorithm moves a copy of it onto the SSD’s for faster access to the data. If the file becomes less popular then it could be replaced by something more popular.
It works at the HDD block level not the filesystem level.
OK – Understandable! I just was very surprised to find myself on the same node (Fine, but not SSD) when I purchased what I thought was a pure SSD plan.
Seems the writer of this article is to blame. Not FRCorey’s fault.
Yup, just realized that from his replies. Already use them & found myself on the same node when I thought I was getting pure SSD. For some reason I can’t reply to his posts, not sure if it’s because it’s a few posts deep.
Funny I could not reply to another post as well just replied to the same thread.
Yes, my typo. Duh!!
Yeah Sorry about that, Pure SSD’s would be way more expensive to implement for now. I believe SSD cacheing is more of a transitionary phase to pure SSD’s in the future. SSD Size increases are happening, but the prices are nowhere near going down anytime soon. I think that’s why even Apple implemented their Fusion Drive technology in their new mac’s. FWIW I have a 2011 MBP and I redid the SSD and HDD into a Fusion drive and it works great.
Does the KVM nodes having RAID-10 SAS Enterprise Hard Drives same as OpenVZ nodes?
Do you provide KVM template based install? Thank you.
We have a few KVM templates loaded, and yes the OVZ and KVM nodes are pretty much the same build.
SSD Too small
There is no mechanical hard drive
SSD Cached, which means there are Mechanical Drives. The KVM Plans are 2 each, one with less disk for less cost for those who dont need it, and one with a larger disk for those who want to pay the price for it.
Just ordered the $1.20 plan today. Got stuck in fraud protection first, but this issue got resolved quite quickly.
Until now, I have to admit that I’m pretty impressed by the speed, especially to Europe.
Download from NL (BIT B.V.),average 7.13 MB/s – peaking at 9.53 MB/s
Same file from UK server (mirror.as29550.net) in 6.5s / peaked at nearly 11 MB/s.
Regarding upstream, download peaked at 2.7 MB/s in my case (using a UPC CZ 60 Mbit connection)
powerbook-g4-17:~ user$ wget http://192.40.57.***/100mb.bin --21:05:27-- http://192.40.57.***/100mb.bin => `100mb.bin' Connecting to 192.40.57.***:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 104,857,600 (100M) [application/octet-stream] 100%[==============================================================>] 104,857,600 2.61M/s ETA 00:00 21:06:28 (1.67 MB/s) - `100mb.bin' saved [104857600/104857600]So, all in all thank you very much for this great promo, highly recommendable VPS.
Are the KVMs totally sold out now?
Mark.
Never mind, read the full offer and the 512MB KVMs are still in stock.
can i run freeBSD on kvm256? thanks
You can if the installer ISO would work with that much ram. You need to check with FreeBSD. Most installers need 512mb to work I think.
I did try these guys for a few months last year, must say it was pretty decent and issue free for the price.
Probably going to get another at some point.
Can you pls check if I can run freeBSD netinstall with kvm256? thanks a lot FRCorey.
Out of space on the KVM servers, I have a new KVM server build that should perform better than the first two. Maybe sometime next week if it ships tomorrow.
If netinstall will run on 256mb of ram you’re fine.
Had a server with this company before to host an IRC DNS blacklist. Highly recommend. Incredibly fast servers and barely, if any downtime. Only cancelled because the blacklist was no longer necessary. Gonna pick up another server with these guys when my current host expires on the 16th.
Server configured within a couple of minutes of payment and initial test results are positive:
dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=16k count=64k conv=fdatasync;rm test -f; ./ioping -c 10
65536+0 records in
65536+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 3.34396 s, 321 MB/s
-bash: ./ioping: No such file or directory
on node named pike, my kvm512 instance was down for hours until I boot manually today.
boot.log shows some files were not closed because of sudden poweroff.
and test result on my node, maybe worst one.
— . ioping statistics —
20 requests completed in 22116.1 ms
min/avg/max/mdev = 59.9/155.6/406.7/73.9 ms
dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=16k count=64k conv=fdatasync
65536+0 records in
65536+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 29.8686 s, 35.9 MB/s
> We are aware of an issue impacting the Pike node, we are currently investigating the problem and should have a updated status shortly.
from email. my vps could not boot up now. even manually via control panel.
also on Pike, KVM384. FreeBSD 9.0 installed with no issues, using virtio drivers
test# dd if=/dev/zero of=test.bin bs=64k count=16k conv=sync
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes transferred in 27.002278 secs (39764861 bytes/sec)
— test.bin (ufs /dev/vtbd0p2) ioping statistics —
20 requests completed in 19372.1 ms, 59 iops, 0.2 mb/s
min/avg/max/mdev = 0.2/16.9/117.0/35.7 ms
so getting very similar results.
hope that was not this morning, SSD cacheing takes about 30 minutes to sort itself out :/
might have been (it was middle of the night for me). It is even worse right now though..
got two of the OVZ-128’s one for a VPN link am pleased with speeds/stability so far, other is for synced file backups, really liked the dns/control interface, & ability to set reverse dns, and ability to set TUN/TAP without opening ticket.
do you plan to stock more of the KVM plans soon?
Next week or early the week after I’m waiting on a new server to arrive might ship tomorrow. I stopped provisioning on them because Pike kernel panicked and both are near each other in terms of VPS’s on the box. We will be moving into a full cabinet so I plan on rebooting both servers when they move and to also take advantage of a kernel upgrade that does address some kernel panick situation at the same time.
The current nodes are running Intel 520’s for the SSD cache in a raid 1, I”m not impressed with the performance on the disk side though. We only cache writes, the box coming in next week will be quad Samsung 840 pro’s in a raid-10, but on the horizon I’m trying to get the Intel S3700’s because of their IO SLA’s built into the disks which put all accesses in a very tight pattern compared to the randomness of current generation SSD’s. If that works out then we’ll work with people to migrate onto new boxes and recycle those back into OpenVZ nodes since they performed very well in that configuration.
KVM is new for us, but it’s more figuring out the hardware side of things to perform as well as how our OpenVZ nodes have been.
So will the promo be extended as well? or will it expire today because of unforeseen circumstances?
I got your email :) no anyone who asks for the package we’ll open a ticket and put it on hold, and apply the promo once that server gets here.
Only KVM is impacted we have plenty of OpenVZ space left for those who want that.
Well i have to say im very pleased with kvm 512 package got 2 extra ips for a good price.
nice vps n fast support altough i am flagged by maxmind,
very fast setup after bill payment,
i want to ask, what will happen after bandwidth quota reached?
and i am a little bit confused,
in terminal i am using free -m and get result :
total used free
Mem: 128 98 29
but in solusvm i got
11.95 MB of 128 MB Used / 116.05 MB Free
what should i follow, solus / terminal,
anyway, 9/10 nice service :D
Could you add freebsd-9.1-bootonly?
ment to be a new comment -.-
Exceed your bandwidth by 10% and it suspends.
As for memory believe your OS not SolusVM, someone over there is bad at math.
Was Brazil banned from Frontrangehosting ?
Since Dec ~ 10, I can’t open frontrangehosting.com (tryed on multiple locations with multiple ip adresses).
Lucas I did, I dont have many orders from there and I was having a hell of a time getting rid of a persistent fraud case I’ll unban it.
Okay you should be able to get there now.
Have 3 quick ques:
When will KVM-512 be available again?
Any plans for an $6 KVM-1024 promo?
How much for additional ipv4’s and ipv6’s?
Thanks.
Probably cheapest I’ll get in the near future is going to be 7.50 for a KVM-1024.
Additional IPv4 ip’s are 1 dollar, ipv6 are free, but I’m not giving out dozens of them.
root@nodeone:/home/vpn# 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, 1.23011 s, 873 MB/s
— this is a great host for its price. 2 thumbs up for this host. I hope you just get better as time passes by.
Promotion code expired.
Do you still have Christmas in your region?
Quite clever, William; but next/week after next week after Jan 4th would be around this time, no?
The code expired on the 7th, you can use FRH25 for 25% off any plan unless you were someone who opened a ticket to raincheck on the offer before the 7th.
Grabbed one to play around (for now). Initial impressions are great, instant setup, instant/super fast and helpful support, dd>400MB/s (am I the only one on the node?!). Top LEB provider material if this is consistently maintained. Thanks.
You’re probably on Torrey it’s a new node about 30 people on it currently.
Do not purchase vps from frontrangehosting, they have very horrible servers, once I found my vps is offline, then I asked them to fix it, then they gave me an empty online vps. I lost all data on their vps, and when I asked them where my data is, guess what they said:
Sorry for the inconvenience caused to you. If you have any backups then please upload in the server since the data is lost.
Thanks for choosing Front Range Hosting
iKY you know we had a power outage in the datacenter and your data is corrupted and non recoverable. Our TOS States that customers are responsible for their data and it’s your responsibility to be making proper backups. We are now making weekly backups, but that is no excuse to not have your own copies of your data. We did not delete your data on purpose it was an act of god. I’m sorry it happened, but you are completely misrepresenting what happened.