Rus emailed me about GigeVPS‘s 30% off recurring discount for the new year. Use promo code JANSALE to get the discount, and their “Bronze” package is now $4.17/month.
- 384MB memory
- 20GB storage
- 200GB/month data transfer on 1Gbps
- OpenVZ/SolusVM
You can order in either US location which is HostDime in Orlando FL, or UK location which is Rapidswitch. Rus also said that they are launching new service in LA next week. Not sure where they will be hosting with in LA — could be Telecom Center as it’s what Thrust::VPS is using. You can also get their 512MB package “Silver” for $6.97/month.
GigeVPS is now owned by NetIntelligence who also owns ThrustVPS and Rapidswitch.
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Well,What’s the differences between ThrustVPS and GigeVPS?
Nothing, both companies are being run by the same parent company.
GigeVPS, whoever, does specialize in lowend UK boxes which is not that common though (in my
I think Thrust and Gige is some Management but use diferent Data Center Location.
I already have 2 VPS in thrust and Two VPS in Gige, Gige VPS more faster their speed , but more expensive than thrust :)
* in my opinion
bought yesterday and submited the ticket but did not receive anything >.<
Not having the best of experience with them. Signed up over a month ago. When the monthly renewal notice came in the email paid using Google checkout only for the account to be suspended a day later. Emailed them and got the reply saying that they have an error with Google checkout.
That was a week ago. Today tried logging in and and my username does not exist.
All data gone and no access to server… hope I can get a refund.
Yep, they (only Rus I guess) do not answer tickets for last 2-3 days.
And I sometimes feel like support (Rus) is not really reading them, I get answers to different question than asked. Totally ignored.
Gonna leave them and I would suggest that do NOT buy anything from them*
* – GigeVPS, ThrustVPS, IOVPS.com
Been with them for the past 10 days.
Support replyed within decent time.
Server has been very stable, no high I/O or cpu peaks.
4x Intel(R) Xeon(R) X3440 @ 2.53GHz
NO BURST!
Total Used Free
Kernel: 2048.00M 6.79M 2041.21M
Allocate: 384.00M 191.81M 192.19M (384M Guaranteed)
Commit: 384.00M 87.39M 296.61M (42.0% of Allocated)
Swap: 0.00M (0.0% of Committed)
--2011-01-18 18:52:47-- http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.testResolving cachefly.cachefly.net... 140.99.94.175
Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net|140.99.94.175|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `100mb.test'
100%[==========================================================================================>] 104,857,600 54.6M/s in 1.8s2011-01-18 18:52:49 (54.6 MB/s) - `100mb.test' saved [104857600/104857600]dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=10k count=10k conv=fdatasync10240+0 records in
10240+0 records out
104857600 bytes (105 MB) copied, 0.40217 s, 261 MB/s
I ordered a VPS and everything seemed to go smoothly except one MAJOR flaw.
I installed (insert software here) and guess what?
It ran just fine for the first day.
Every day I get monitoring emails that the server goes offline and is unreachable.
I check and its there, but root pass isn’t mine. Reinstall via CP is the only way to get back in.
Changing root pass via CP does nothing.
So daily at 10am CST my VPS gets wiped.
Support has yet to reply. :(
Apparently, somehow… the network connection via/thru the container host is somehow being disrupted. I was able to gain access via Solus, and checked everything. Nothing was out of line. After pulling my hair out for a while, Shutdown/Boot via the CP. Console reboot didn’t do it. After a container reboot, connectivity was back. Very strange, but now we’ll see if they can find out why from their end.
FYI, I’ve only had this one for a few days. My others for a while. So at least I’m not heavily dependent on it yet. But it has me shopping US West hosts again.
Gone :) In a way – domain redirects to ThrustVPS now.
Indeed. Folding of a brand.
Whois gigevps:
Administrative Contact:
vaserv.com
Russell Foster (rghf@vaserv.com)
vaserv.com > redirects to cheapvps.co.uk