Richard from HostMist has emailed me an exclusive offer for the LowEndBox readers, on their new Germany based Xen VPS plans. Use promo code LEBSLICEPRICE to get 50% off discount for two months (i.e. not recurring). Their standard pricing is already pretty good, which we posted 3 months ago. “Monsoon” for $7/month (direct order link), and it comes with
- 512MB memory
- 25GB storage
- 500GB/month data transfer
- Xen/SolusVM
Servers in Falkenstein, Germany so I guess it would be Hetzner. HostMist was founded in September 2008. The 50% off for 2 months discount is available to new customers only and expire in 2 weeks.
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is there any info about SWAP space? 512MB, but what the SWAP space if it is XEN?
I think with SolusVM it’s usually 2x the physical memory. Although with Xen you can pretty much just create a swap file and then bang! More swap space!
(Not recommended though)
So My Xen VPS with 10GB SWAP is a bad idea?
The Amount of SWAP equals the amount of dedicated RAM you get.
???
In http://www.hostmist.com/xen-vps-germany.html, the price for 512MB plan is $6
We always display the lowest monthly price on our website (starting at basically). If you choose to pay annually, you would only pay $6 USD per month.
Good of ram size, mediocre on hdd space, but low on bw transfer limit,
it would be nice if it’s at less 1tb of bw.
it just my humble opinion :)
Almost any plan posted in this site is around that specs. I think is ok, and anyway isn’t a vps for p2p usage…
First impressions of Hostmist VPS:
location: Germany
processor:
4 core x IntelCore(TM)i7 930 @ 2.80GHz
disk I/O:
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, 12.8368 s, 83.6 MB/s
network speed:
1) wget ftp://ftp.ovh.net/test.bin — FRANCE
–2011-01-26 04:47:48– ftp://ftp.ovh.net/test.bin
Length: 104857600 (100M)
100%[===================================================================================>] 104,857,600 333K/s in 5m 28s
2011-01-26 04:53:16 (312 KB/s) – `test.bin’ saved [104857600]
2) wget http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
–2011-01-26 04:55:19– http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
100%[===================================================================================>] 104,857,600 1023K/s in 1m 53s
2011-01-26 04:57:13 (904 KB/s) – `100mb.test’ saved [104857600/104857600]
unfortunately too low speed network :(
maybe it’s just problem on my VPS
@Razor — Nope, I’m experiencing the same thing. 200-300 kb/s during downloads of Nginx packages. If that’s the general throughput, the VPS is close to useless… A shame…
And yes, the servers are at Hetzner’s
Razor,
We have not had any complaints about speed. Can you submit a ticket so that we can look into it for you?
Alright the reason for that is because a bunch of you are working at the same time. Give it a few days or so and it should be back up to full speed. It’s the effect of having a sale and about 15 people sign up in one day.
Host Mist speed has always been an issue, Matthew the owner now claims its because ” A BUNCH OF YOU WORKING AT SAME TIME”
BULL CRAP!
HOST MIST IS SCAM SO SLOW AND POOR SUPPORT
Dear Neil,
Could you please provide me with information so that I can verify that you are / have been an customer?
Speed has never been an issue. In fact I can say this is pretty satisfactory for a full server of about 30 VPS clients.
The new one is labeled below :)
Also, upon investigation there is no client named “Neil” in our billing system. Care to explain who you are?
@Matthew Strohmeyer — Makes sense. Could you shed light on how many VPS accounts you keep on each server node? A quick calculation tells me it’s more than 15 if a signup burst means maxing out the allocated bandwidth.
Average througput now is 400-600kb.
Dear Kasper,
This entirely depends on the plans we sell. We place an average of 30 XEN VPS on each node. Even 2 VPS can utilize 100% of the port as we do not limit it but if we do see customers impacting others by utilizing over 80% of the port constantly we will limit that customer.
HostMist swap. I have httpd installed on a basic CentOS install, and its using 500MB of RAM, and nothing big in top.
Dear Daniel,
That’s probably why SolusVM doesn’t show your current XEN VPS usage as pretty much every command which shows your memory usage shows that you are utilizing all of your memory.
Yeh, I checked if it was balooning. It wasn’t, it was actually a naughty httpd config which was in the CentOS repo. I just changed it and rebooted.
Now try it…
That should do it :)
Indeed today, everything is ok.
Excellent support and excellent performance servers!
I can confirm Strohmeyers test. I’m getting 11.2 MB/s now. CPU ressources seem ample. IO/wait is good too. For 3.5, I’m a happy camper!
Im glad that you guys are satisfied!
I too hit the slow speeds upon initial sign up but that’s where I’m @ today.
My order got flagged as fraud possibly since I forgot to change country from US to UK but this resolved in minutes & once I paid my vps was instantly online.
Seems like a solid little box so far. (I dist-upgraded which is why ive got 10.10 not 10.04)
Just bought the monsoon package. Server was up and running exactly 1 minute after I payed via paypal..
If this is any reference to what I can expect from them I’m already a happy customer.
We are almost out of stock so grab your XEN VPS before it’s too late. It may take us a few weeks to get some stock again!
Yup, all out of stock. :(
Dear Mike,
We should have stock again in 1-2 days.
It was fun while it lasted: I can confirm that they are out.
I was provisioned one @ 36hrs ago. It was snappy. The provisioning was almost instantaneous, but of course you have to wait for it to boot.
I updated it and was locking it down when I had to go to work, so I shut it down. Came home 8 hours later, and it wouldn’t start. I figured they were doing maintenance. When I woke up in another 8 hours my vps was gone.
I did get a timely refund though.
Dear Pat,
We do apologize for that. We are unsure what happened but SolusVM started messing up during the provisioning and suddenly put customers on full nodes. If you do experience something like this, please contact us immediately so we can fix it. We fixed the problem which was causing it and we do hope that you don’t mind us turning down business overall. We are currently out of stock but if you would like to try us again when we have stock again, I would like to offer you one free month for the inconvenience.
do you support pptp vpn servers ?
Sure, we have a few customers who installed this already.
We currently have really limited stock again and we will have way more stock tomorrow night so if you still want to grab one of these, tomorrow night is the day!
Awesome site. Great to have offers like this given out to readers.
Do these VPSes receive IPv6 IPs in addition to IPv4?
Dear Jim,
We do have an native IPv6 connection to the nodes but the XEN domU cannot use it currently. The network we use is routed and the XEN PV currently does not support proxy ndp which would enable us to offer IPv6 to customers.
In short, no but we are working on it.
//Does ballooning equal overselling?//
About ten minutes ago I received the following reboot notification from Hostmist. A node reboot from time to time is ok to me if there’s satisfactory explanation as to why it has to be done.
Does the following explation make sense to you? It doesn’t to me, but I’d be happy to be mistaken —
“Xen recently introduced an balloon driver which basically balloons out if an VPS needs to be started to gather resources. The fact is that they wanted to improve performance on boot with this and ended up making performance worse as VPS start locking up or it freezes the VPS while it’s running. There was an patch available,which we applied earlier and now they finally released an new kernel build which we will apply tonight to finally get this problem out of the world. In order to apply the new kernel we will need to reboot the node again. As much as we hate to reboot the node, it’s definitely necessary to get this new kernel working in order to proceed with normal operations.
The reboot will be happening tonight at 6 pm EST (GMT-5) and should only take 5 minutes. We cannot guarantee that this will fix everything but we are confident enough to say that there is nothing worse then the current kernel. A few other nodes have been migrated to this kernel and we did not have any problems yet.”
http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/how-to-tell-your-xen-vps-is-overselling-memory/
It depends, if it’s being used to give you above your promised amount (they suggest it’s to allow your VPS extra memory during startup), then it’s not overselling, it’s underselling.
But if ‘free’ only reports your promised amount as the total available, then possibly. If it only shows the standard total and also reports more in use than your processes are actually using, then it sounds more likely still.
Either way, a fix for the driver sounds like a good thing.
I apologize for the delay, we have been caught up with fixing the problem above. This is how the balloon driver works:
Usually the Dom0 (hostnode) gets all the memory allocated and then dynamically allocates the memory to DomU as needed. We limited this behavior by setting dom0_mem in the grub configuration file which basically gives the Dom0 an fixed amount of RAM and the rest is free to be allocated to the DomU. Now the balloon driver also allocates extra memory on our nodes while the DomU is booting. So whenever you boot an DomU that DomU temporarily get’s additional memory to boot without any trouble or complications. The problem we were having is that the memory which got allocated to the DomU while booting didn’t get freed again afterwards. So the DomU still had more RAM then allocated and didn’t give it back to the Dom0 to be allocated to other VPS who needed it. So if we still have around 3GB of RAM free, it won’t take long until that is used up by people rebooting their VPS. I think you guys know where Im going so no need to explain further.
If you know SolusVM then you would know that SolusVM doesn’t allow overselling on xen. In fact we even leave up to 3 GB of RAM unallocated for people wanting to upgrade so that they don’t need to be moved to another node.
You couldn’t upgrade some of my VPSs :(
Im sorry but that’s how vps hosting works. We can’t keep all resources free on all servers. We will probably get new stock soon, we are still figthing for IPv4 addresses as hetzner seems to run low on them.
I have had a server there for at least a week, despite the site saying the incorrect price, I did pay the rest.
My monitors have shown up 3-4 outages, which I would class as minor, but still outages.
I hope this does not keep up.
Those outages are related to the balloon driver / kernel upgrade to fix that. There won’t be any needs for a reboot for a long while.
As for site saying the incorrect price, it’s currently listed as the lowest price. The newer site will have everything listed out for each term prior to the order links.
We kept running out of stock and we should be able to provision plenty of XEN VPS again now. We apologize for the wait, guys, but we wanted to make sure that we have enough stock for the next few days.
Do you offer centOS 32bit? I cannot see it on the order form
Dear Harbinger,
We used to offer 32 bit OS templates but we had a lot of problems with those as the Hostnode is running on 64bit. Im afraid that we only offer 64bit OS templates now.
Just tried to get one, but after entering the promo code, the website said:
The promotion code entered has expired
Is this promotion officially closed now?
Opened a ticket on their site and got an almost instant reply stating that the code shouldn’t have expired so soon. After that, the promo code was indeed accepted.
This offer will be extended until 28th of Feburary, 2011. We were out of stock half the time so we decided to extend this promotion for all LEB readers.
Alright here’s my review of HostMist’s service:
Although I was a total n00b with linux (the only command I actually new was su :D) I bought and started setting up my VPS. At first I tried a lot of Linxu distributions, until finally I managed to setup my VPS with nginx (instead of the tons of memory eating apache), php+fastcgi, mysql and vsftpd and now I’m having successfully setuped and working wordpress blog on CentOs 5 x64. Now the only problem that I had to contact the support was that once after I tried to reinstall my Centos 5 x86 (while they still offered it) something went wrong and the installation process failed. Richard was kind enough to fix the issue by telling me that there have been problems with x86 versions and I shouldn’t have had them as an option in the control panel. So he installed a x64 version and everytjing was fine (I didn’t want to touch anything, cause I was totally freaked out that I may have killed my vps :D). As a result I educated myself a lot about linux, vpses, memory problems, comamnds, hosting setup, etc. For 3.5$/month (I’m using XEN in Falkenstein) it’s more that a great offer! Thank you HostMist, thank you Richard, keep up the good work!
Thank you for the kind words. We definitely appreciate that.
Hum, sounds great…
Any test IP?
As it’s running Xen, would it be possible to have FreeBSD instead of a GNU/Linux distro?
Thanks!
:)
Hey Bob,
We don’t officially have this template available but we could try to create one. It would be nice if you could send us an e-mail to sales [at] hostmist.com and include the FreeBSD version you would like. We will then try to create one and report back as soon as we have results.
Well, if you try i guess that other LEB readers could be interested by this offer (there aren’t that much *BSD providers around there…
Might be pretty easy though :)
Can anyone comment on the latency of these boxes – particularly from Asia Pacific, Australia etc? Is there a test box one can ping?
Thanks.
try to ping me
Thanks for the information xue :)
Are you happy with your VPS? Good speeds & reliability?
Thx
>Are you happy with your VPS?
yep!
When will the coupon expire?
Dear Joe,
The coupon will expire on the 28th of February.
Ok, nice.
And how many cores can we use?
Thanks!
Hey there
I took a VPS to test it, and so far all I can say is that I’m pretty impressed – hope it will stay as good as it is right now, as I am probably on a “new” node, which is not full yet…
For those who might be interested:
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, 13.3882 s, 80.2 MB/s
CPU: 4 cores, each one is:
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 26
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz
stepping : 5
cpu MHz : 2673.298
cache size : 8192 KB
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 11
wp : yes
flags : fpu tsc msr pae cx8 cmov pat clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht syscall nx lm constant_tsc rep_good nonstop_tsc aperfmperf pni vmx est ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt hypervisor lahf_lm ida tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid
bogomips : 5346.59
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
So far, sounds great!
Future will tell if it’s oversold or not..
Anyway – if some day FreeBSD become available, will current customers be able to reinstall their system to FreeBSD?
Thanks!
Dear Joe,
Sure you can reinstall your OS at anytime. We expect additional OS to be available shortly but I can’t promise anything yet as we have to do all of this besides providing support and handling orders etc.
Building, Configuring and testing OS templates is pretty time extensive.
Ok, great.
I’ll wait for your announce here to check that out though :)
Thanks!
We are almost out of stock again in Germany so if anybody still wants one of these grab one now. It will probably take 1-2 week(s) again until we get new servers.
And will the offer still be available in a couple of weeks?
Anyway, any news regarding FreeBSD support?
Thanks!
In to my second month with these guys and I’m happily impressed, good (damn good @ this price) performance, haven’t need to open any tickets; 5 mins planned downtime for a needed kernel update which was advised well in advance.
Keep it up!
The coupon is expired i am late bah :(
i hope this coupon will be available soon
I have 2 weeks with Hostmist. And i didn’t have problems. I recommend you them.
i hope i wont change my opinion. 100% recommendable
We do support FreeBSD now and you may also install any other exotic OS on selected Xen nodes.
When I try to sing up, no FreeBSD or other “exotic” OS are available to choose from. Is that how it’s supposed to be? (i.e. Can be installed later after getting the VPS?)
By the way, do you have the full list of OS you support?
Thank you!
WBR,
m
Dear WBR,
We did offer exotic OS but nobody was using them so we removed them again. We don’t like to maintain images which are not being used and we will not re-add them if only 1 or 2 customers are using them as the cost of the maintenance of these images are too high compared to the standard OS images.
Too bad then, would have been awesome to have one of my favourite OS running on a VPS :)
Still a very good offer though!
Thanks for the blazing fast answer :)
WBR,
m
Oh, and it’s kind of funny that you think my name/nickname is WBR ;)
No harm done/intended :)
Thanks again for clearing that OS question for me :)
I’ve been with Hostmist for months and have 6 VPSs with them.
All are brilliant, I hope they get more stock.
I guess you use them for your clients? Just can’t see why someone would buy large number of low end boxes from the same provider. But more power to you if you deploy low end boxes and make some income from it.
I have 37 VPSs with ThrustVPS :)
Yeh I use them for my clients, I have my own panel so :)
Dear Daniel,
We do have more stock available since yesterday. It’s really hard to keep up with all the orders but we are already working on a concept which will not make us run out of stock too soon.
Thanks for that, ill try not to use all your stock richard :)
Your awesome guys.
Hi Richard,
Please make coupon come back :D
out of stock
Dear Francisco,
Please contact our sales department with the plan you require and we will see what we can do.
I need all their plans in stock :)
# The promotion code entered has expired
Please make coupon back, i want to try :)
Why not just order from their order page? Its $7 pr month or pay 12 months to get their discounted price :)
Hey, did any of you order a VPS from them & kept if for a little bit?
If so, is it stable? Good I/O?
Thanks :)
Thanks for sharing.
I want to buy a VPS from hostmist. Could you please give me another promote code.
thanks!