Paulius, from Host1Plus.com, is back with a update to their last offer. The last one was already pretty nice, offering Germany and Brazil as locations. This time, it adds Johannesburg, South Africa to the available locations, as well as Chicago, Illinois, USA! I’m pretty sure this is the cheapest South Africa offer we’ve ever seen on LowEndBox.com and probably only the second in it’s history. What makes this offer even more unique, is that it has quite some bandwidth. Yes, the port speed may be limited to 15Mbps, but 1TB of bandwidth is still 1TB and you can use it all. Host1Plus has been doing business since 2008 and is a division of D. E. Technologies Ltd., which is a registered company in England and Wales. They have offices in London (UK), Kaunas (Lithuania), Frankfurt am Maine (Germany) so I have the idea they have quite an operation running. From my personal experience I can say these machines run just fine. I have one both in Brazil and South Africa and for the past two months they’ve had 100% uptime. If you decide to give them a try, please share your experiences with us in the comments!
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Some notes: If you order for more than one month, it gets even cheaper. For example, the annual price of Level 2 per month is $3.08 ($36.96 per year)! TUN/TAP, PPP, and NAT are $1/month each, so if you are going to use one of these for VPN, you’re looking at a little price increase. Additional IPv4 addresses are available for $2/month.
HOST1PLUS accepts payments via Debit/Credit card, PayPal, AliPay, WebMoney, CashU, and Paysera. They have a refund policy which is worth reading before you order, so you know what you’re up to. Their Terms of Service has a long list of prohibited content and actions, such as copyright infringing content, use of gaming servers, proxies, bots, etc. Be sure to also read their Spam Policy.
Network information
Germany Data Center based in Frankfurt with Host1Plus.com’s own Data Center.
Brazil Data Center based in São Paulo with Equinix
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
IPv4 test: 5.175.192.201
São Paulo, Brazil
IPv4 test: 181.41.197.5
Johannesburg, South Africa
IPv4 test: 154.127.61.2
Chicago IL, USA
IPv4 test: 191.101.1.2
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Well, this was disappointing.
“Ninja”, I wouldn’t have expected this from you. What’s wrong with Host1Plus?
1) I was expecting a new host. Don’t ask me why, I just was.
2) Unless I’m misremembering, these guys don’t exactly have a sterling rep for quality.
This is why I am disappoint, son.
Also, thanks for outing me here. I was attempting to go ‘incognito’.
I personally don’t know about the track record. Have any information on that?
Was related to offering free VMs then randomly suspending.
Cheers Jack, I’ve been hunting and I can find evidence of people referencing complaints, but the complaints themselves are absent.
Nothing bad about this provider,stable,support quickly responded to questions via live chat. Only additional charges for TUN/TAP/NAT bit disappointed..
Use SolusVM and charge for TUN/TAP / PPP wow…
It’s so they got more money if you’re going to use the bandwidth
Pity, this is nothing new or a special offer (without coupon)
Does it cost them to provide TUN/TAP?
Can i know why you doesn’t accept registration from morocco ?
This provider is most famously known for their Host1Free branch, offering free VMs of disastrous quality and as we read above, terminating them at random. Not sure what was the intent or business model behind that endeavor, but it certainly had a reverse effect — to me their whole brand now feels tainted, and that’s not even getting into the bizzareness of charging for PPP/NAT/TUN.
Speaking of which, not defending them one little bit, but you can use SSH tunneling and a locally installed proxy such as Squid, and that way get the next closest thing to having a VPN, i.e. your personal proxy for web browsing via the VPS without the need to pay for any of the addons.
Add a browser extension such as FoxyProxy or SwitchySharp, and you can direct only some websites via the proxy; arguably better and more flexible than a VPN to which you have to route all your traffic without exception.
Here’s a benchmark for a South Africa VPS:
I’m glad someone had the nut sack to pick one up. doesn’t look bad at all. What are you planning on using it for, if you don’t mind my asking?
I’m using it for my own custom CDN (but for PHP scripts, not static content)
I forgot if this was run in Brazil or South Africa, but anyway, here’s a ServerBear benchmark for a Level 2: http://serverbear.com/benchmark/2014/03/24/mFvm5geFpCfgpt1B
Traceroute says south africa
0.5 vCPU Core. How does that work?
You get assigned 1 core that is throttled by 50%. See the benchmark above. 1 core @ 2.2GHZ on the first line but you only have access to 1.1GHZ as shown on the 3rd line.
Still plenty for most tasks though.
Running a service with then on Brazil and its great for the price!
What about Bitcoins – do they accept per request?
is ist possible to get an ipv6 address?
is it possible to get an ipv6 address in johannesburg?
I got myself vps from host1plus in Germany to host a personal website, later when they started offering vps in SA I order one here. Price, support, speed is really nice.
I could never place an order. They are very aggressive at rejecting customers.
I have one node with them on Brazil and it’s running great for the price.
can i download torrent from your vps??
thanks
I have installed PPTP on their brasil node but no internet access. Anybody succeeded?
kongming, You have to order PPTP tun tap to make it working.
My order contains TUN/TAP module which plus 1 doller. I think it should be enabled.
So you have no problem with it?
Besides, I mean I can connect via PPTP but no internet access.
Hello my friend, i have a exaclty same problem here…
I installer a PPTPD, and connect but not access the internet…
You fix it ?
support torent???
I suppose Torrent a prohibited.
They seem to own the AS in South Africa, the domain listed in the contact (as37692.net) goes to a german host1plus IP
Just a sidenote.
Same applies to Brazil.
I’m not sure why someone would try to hide this, sort of strange.
Ah, there we go:
191.96.0.0/16
It’s an elaborate methiod to gain IP space from LAC/Afrinic, i doubt the real numbers match for a /16 justification – an audit will solve that shortly :)
I buy 1, but I don’t know how to run vps and install my software and programe on this vps,
can anyone guide me how to install? what software do I have to download to run?
My S. Africa VPS up speed was updated to 50 Mbps.
Have you noticed any changes?
Mine all vps’es updated to the 50MBb/s too
Custom Plans!
Aww Yiss!
Follow Benchmark @Brazil
CPU model : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2440 0 @ 2.40GHz
Number of cores : 1
CPU frequency : 2399.974 MHz
Total amount of ram : 1024 MB
Total amount of swap : 512 MB
System uptime : 30 min,
Download speed from CacheFly: 5.94MB/s
Download speed from Coloat, Atlanta GA: 5.36MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Dallas, TX: 4.31MB/s
Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 3.39MB/s
Download speed from i3d.net, Rotterdam, NL: 4.52MB/s
Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 5.51MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Singapore: 2.46MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Seattle, WA: 3.54MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 3.22MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Washington, DC: 4.13MB/s
I/O speed : 406 MB/s
Nice Network for Brazil…
STAY AWAY! It’s almost scam and fraud in my eyes. They wont give you a refund if something is wrong and you are not satisfied, their support were being rude as well. I just had a very bad experience with them so dear users choose something else.
Best regards
Christian, what problem do you had?
I tried to order from them tonight, they marked my order for fraud saying my cell phone was not a cell phone. After talking to customer support, he suggested I get a landline phone and try again later. I guess I will move on to another company that actually wants my money.
2 month review for S.African VPS.
Working stable for such money very good option to buy.
tun/tap with extra free = disappointment