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Impact VPS – OpenVZ VPS from $6/year for 256MB in Seattle, USA

Impact VPS

Alex, from Impact VPS, is back to share several offers for the LowEndBox community. They have three great annual deals, plus a whopping 4GB VPS monthly offer. These are all located in Seattle with Incero Data Center.

Please note that IPv6 is supported and Bitcoins are accepted – these features are very important to most of our readers.

Like their previous offer, we are told that these offfers uses VDR. In their own words, they explained the technology as this:

VDR stands for Virtual Dedicated Resources. Unlike a standard VPS package, you can split the resources you pay for into as many servers of any size you want.

Have 12GB of RAM? You can create

1 x 12GB server
3 x 4GB servers
1 x 6GB + 2 x 2GB servers
The combinations are endless

VDR256MB

  • 256MB RAM
  • 1x CPU Cores
  • 5GB SSD space
  • 250GB traffic
  • 1x IPv4
  • IPv6
  • $6/year
  • Order here
VDR Yearly

  • 512MB RAM
  • 1x CPU Cores
  • 10GB SSD space
  • 500GB traffic
  • 1x IPv4
  • IPv6
  • $12/year
  • Order here
VDR1

  • 1GB RAM
  • 2x CPU Cores
  • 15GB SSD space
  • 1000GB traffic
  • 2x IPv4
  • IPv6
  • $24/year
  • Order here
VDR4

  • 4GB RAM
  • 4x CPU Cores
  • 45GB SSD space
  • 2000GB traffic
  • 5x IPv4
  • IPv6
  • coupon: LEB
  • $7/month
  • Order here

Impact VPS is a product of Subnet Labs LLC, a rapidly expanding and high performance web hosting company based in Mechanicsburg, PA. The domain of Subnet Labs (subnetlabs.com) was just recently registered (November 2014), while ImpactVPS.com was registered on May 2013. Both have public WHOIS information. Host node configuration for the offers have Dual E5v3 Intel Processors, 128GB RAM, 4 x 1TB SSDs and a 10Gbps fiber connection to the node. Kindly share your feedback at the comments section below.

Accepted payment methods includes PayPal, Credit Cards, and Bitcoin. They are offering a 3-day no questions asked refund policy, so it is fairly safe to try their service. As always, Kindly read their Terms of Service before making any purchase.

Network information

Incero – Seattle, USA
Test IPv4: 107.155.106.130
Test IPv6: 2604:0880:000a:0002:0000:0000:0000:0001

113 Comments

  1. Thanks for the post Jonathan.

    I’m here to answer any questions anyone might have.

    October 8, 2015 @ 1:03 pm | Reply
  2. A correction to the post:

    VDR1 has 15GB SSD space instead of 10 and VD4 has 45GB SSD space instead of 35GB that is listed

    October 8, 2015 @ 1:04 pm | Reply
  3. One more correction: VDR1 has 2 IPs instead of 1

    October 8, 2015 @ 1:10 pm | Reply
  4. Rudde:

    Is this with gigabit, 10G or 100 mbit link speed?

    October 8, 2015 @ 1:44 pm | Reply
  5. hello Alex, it’s support rDNS?

    October 8, 2015 @ 3:41 pm | Reply
    • Hello,

      Yes you can set your own RDNS in our client area.

      -Alex

      October 8, 2015 @ 3:45 pm | Reply
    • john:

      any vSwap?

      October 8, 2015 @ 4:28 pm | Reply
      • JalalHobbs:

        vSwap seems to be even to the amount of RAM you have on account and you can adjust it to your liking.

        October 8, 2015 @ 4:31 pm | Reply
      • Yes each plan comes with some vswap

        October 8, 2015 @ 4:31 pm | Reply
  6. JalalHobbs:

    dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync; unlink test
    16384+0 records in
    16384+0 records out
    1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 1.42355 s, 754 MB/s

    Avg ping from South Australia aDSL2+ is 233ms

    Uplink Speed:
    South Australia aDSL2+ : Max
    California server 88.4MB/sec
    Washington server 85.3MB/sec
    Sydney NSW Au server 13.1MB/sec

    October 8, 2015 @ 4:30 pm | Reply
  7. Alan:

    If I purchase 2 VDR4, can I create 1 VPS with 8GB RAM, 8 vCores, 90GB SSD, and so on?

    October 8, 2015 @ 5:31 pm | Reply
    • Hello,

      No you cannot. You would have to order a VDR8 (LEB promocode still applies so it should be the same price as 2 x VDR4). Larger plans can be found on our website: http://www.impactvps.com

      -Alex

      October 8, 2015 @ 5:47 pm | Reply
  8. I’m assuming Impact VPS is using OpenVZ?

    October 8, 2015 @ 9:38 pm | Reply
    • Of the current public plans, yes. We do have some private KVM offerings that we will be bringing public in the near future.

      -Alex

      October 8, 2015 @ 9:45 pm | Reply
      • It’s supposed to be SSD, but I’m only getting 100 – 150 MB/sec… Should I open a ticket?

        # dd if=/dev/zero of=test_$$ bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync && rm -f test_$$
        16384+0 records in
        16384+0 records out
        1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 7.67767 s, 140 MB/s
        
        # dd if=/dev/zero of=test_$$ bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync && rm -f test_$$
        16384+0 records in
        16384+0 records out
        1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 7.70683 s, 139 MB/s
        
        October 9, 2015 @ 12:44 pm | Reply
        • Yes. Open a ticket, its possible the node you are on is being abused. Which node are you on?

          October 9, 2015 @ 12:53 pm | Reply
          • Asterix:

            with this be fixed soon? on sea2

            16384+0 records in
            16384+0 records out
            1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 9.88576 s, 109 MB/s

            October 13, 2015 @ 7:20 am | Reply
  9. CK:

    Can the VDR256 be divided into 8 x 32MB ultra low end box servers?

    October 9, 2015 @ 2:34 am | Reply
  10. 便宜如狗
    cheap like a dog

    October 9, 2015 @ 5:10 am | Reply
  11. Dwight:

    Pricing for VDR4 says $7 here, but in the shopping cart it shows up as $12 monthly or $132 annually.

    October 9, 2015 @ 7:11 am | Reply
    • Make sure you apply the coupon (LEB). Pricing also is only updated once you get to the final checkout screen.

      October 9, 2015 @ 8:39 am | Reply
  12. simon:

    can i set TUN/TAP on?

    October 9, 2015 @ 9:17 am | Reply
    • Stephen:

      I am a subscriber and while I couldn’t find anything in the public Knowledgebase I did find an article when logged on that says you just need to submit a ticket and they will enable TUN/TAP. I’ve had to submit a similar ticket to have FUSE enabled on my system and they resolved it within 2 minutes of the request so I have been very happy with their service so far.

      October 9, 2015 @ 12:46 pm | Reply
    • Just submit a ticket and we will get it enabled for you

      October 9, 2015 @ 12:54 pm | Reply
      • c:

        Can’t you do it in solusvm?

        October 12, 2015 @ 12:18 pm | Reply
    • simon:

      just tried to order VDR256MB using a Chinese billing address and wanted to pay by Paypal. I could not finish payment saying that my transaction was risky and needed to be reviewed manually. I did received an email including invoice for me to pay. But when I tried to make payment again. I saw that my order was canceled. Disappointed.

      October 9, 2015 @ 1:21 pm | Reply
      • Hello,

        This would be our automated fraud checking. Please open a ticket in the client area so we can look at the specific issue surrounding your order.

        October 9, 2015 @ 1:24 pm | Reply
  13. Eran:

    Signed up to VDR4 and cancelled (after poking around, did not fit my needs) – my refund request was handled within a minute.

    October 9, 2015 @ 11:24 am | Reply
  14. why the heck u canclled my service and refunded?

    October 9, 2015 @ 12:59 pm | Reply
  15. jake:

    Just tried signing up and was flagged as “high risk” immediately – I have a couple other vps servers that are severely underutilized and have them just to keep my skills on the latest stuff up to speed. I never had any problems before. I understand that policing is necessary to keep everyone’s vps up and running but this seems like a overzealous blanket policy for the convenience of impactvps at the expense of their customers if someone who is squeaky clean is caught up in it from the get go. If you think I am a “high risk” well then the feeling is mutual.

    October 9, 2015 @ 5:16 pm | Reply
    • jake:

      Just got a response from a support ticket and is stated that the support agent didn’t know why I was flagged and they have put me back in the pipeline, ah well…living here in Seattle I thought I could finally get a cheap lowendbox in town – Los Angeles has been and will be good enough for my meager purposes – not the end of the world.

      October 9, 2015 @ 5:27 pm | Reply
      • Were you able to get this resolved? If not please give me your order number and I will personally look into it.

        -Alex

        October 10, 2015 @ 5:33 pm | Reply
        • jake:

          I just want the order canceled now – I am getting billing notices – invoice no. 1900 – thank you

          October 10, 2015 @ 7:39 pm | Reply
  16. hiphiphip0:

    Simple bench
    CPU model : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v3 @ 2.40GHz
    Number of cores : 1
    CPU frequency : 2400.038 MHz
    Total amount of ram : 1024 MB
    Total amount of swap : 512 MB
    System uptime : 1:23,
    Download speed from CacheFly: 60.8MB/s
    Download speed from Coloat, Atlanta GA: 30.1MB/s
    Download speed from Softlayer, Dallas, TX: 28.5MB/s
    Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 14.2MB/s
    Download speed from i3d.net, Rotterdam, NL: 7.68MB/s
    Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 98.4MB/s
    Download speed from Softlayer, Singapore: 10.8MB/s
    Download speed from Softlayer, Seattle, WA: 632KB/s
    Download speed from Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 70.3MB/s
    Download speed from Softlayer, Washington, DC: 355KB/s
    I/O speed : 233 MB/s

    Speed to Softlayer Seattle and Wshington is wired

    October 9, 2015 @ 6:08 pm | Reply
  17. Ordered today 10am EST and still zip. Ideas? Order 9051215253 PAID.

    October 9, 2015 @ 7:58 pm | Reply
  18. Hello,

    Please open a ticket with your paypal transaction ID. I looked at your order number and it has not transaction recorded against it.

    -Alex

    October 9, 2015 @ 7:59 pm | Reply
  19. Jens Christensen:

    When will the LEB coupon expire?

    October 10, 2015 @ 12:54 pm | Reply
  20. Well, tried to purchase VDR1 but they marked me as a fraud for no reason!!!! when i opened a ticked someone replied to me saying “We cannot process your request at this time” and stopped replying to my emails!!

    October 10, 2015 @ 6:02 pm | Reply
  21. Martin:

    Got a VDR1, it’s possible to upgrade to VDR2?

    October 11, 2015 @ 5:35 am | Reply
  22. jack wu:

    Unable to get IPv4: There are no available addresses inside the pool.

    October 11, 2015 @ 12:19 pm | Reply
  23. durjoy:

    out of stock. are you going to have new stock soon?

    October 13, 2015 @ 12:57 am | Reply
  24. Chr:

    Out of Stock?

    October 13, 2015 @ 3:37 am | Reply
  25. Acu:

    Can you run a private VPN ? PPP enabled ? Do you use SolusVM ?

    Thx.

    October 14, 2015 @ 11:44 am | Reply
    • Yes you can run a private VPN. Just ticket and we will enable ppp.

      We do not use solusvm

      October 14, 2015 @ 4:34 pm | Reply
  26. John Wash:

    Which plan is the lowest and includes a routed /64 ipv6 subnet? Want to use it as an OpenVPN server and route ipv6 through it. With other OpenVZ (Solusvm) services (such as RamNode), /64 is provided but cannot route from OpenVPN to the Internet – must use Hurricane Electricity tunnel broker.

    October 14, 2015 @ 6:26 pm | Reply
    • Sadly this does not include a /64. I should mention we are also not a solusvm provider.

      October 15, 2015 @ 1:57 pm | Reply
  27. seemes everything is out of stock. will this happen again soon?

    October 15, 2015 @ 12:57 am | Reply
  28. We have put more in stock

    October 19, 2015 @ 11:06 pm | Reply
  29. L:

    :( VDR Yearly (0 Available)

    October 20, 2015 @ 9:01 am | Reply
  30. foobar38748478:

    They are either cheating with their traffic accounting, or something is broken – the “Bandwidth Usage” in the web interface grows at about twice the rate of actual traffic.

    October 20, 2015 @ 5:47 pm | Reply
    • Open a ticket and we will look into the issue. Keep in mind we do count both in and outbound bandwidth.

      October 20, 2015 @ 10:58 pm | Reply
      • foobar38748478:

        I don’t care for my VM as I won’t need that much traffic anyhow, but it doesn’t seem likely that that’s a local defect of one VM? And yeah, I downloaded 100 MB (of HTTP payload) to the server, and subsequently, the counter increased by about 200 MB (and the counter before also seemed to be roughly twice the total of in- and outbound traffic up to that point, though that’s just a rough estimate).

        October 21, 2015 @ 12:51 am | Reply
        • Just in case it is unique to your VM, I would appreciate if you could open a ticket.

          October 21, 2015 @ 1:11 am | Reply
          • foobar38748478:

            I couldn’t find an email address to write to, unfortunately, maybe you shouldn’t hide it quite that well?

            October 21, 2015 @ 12:50 pm | Reply
  31. iky:

    Dear Alex, can I buy VDR4(4GB RAM) annually and how much? Thanks.

    October 21, 2015 @ 11:57 am | Reply
  32. @ foobar38748478

    You don’t need an email address. Login to the client area and use the “open ticket” button.

    October 21, 2015 @ 1:35 pm | Reply
    • foobar38748478:

      For me, it is much more comfortable to use my email client that is configured for my needs, that makes it easy for me to keep track of my communication, and that I know how to compose readable emails with, so that is why I need an email address.

      If you agree to in the future send any messages to me by using a web form of mine, I might reconsider using your web form to send messages to you – other than that, if you want to hear from me, please provide an email address.

      October 21, 2015 @ 1:52 pm | Reply
  33. Dan Ports:

    Seems like everything is out of stock — both the offers here and the standard packages on impactvps.com?

    October 23, 2015 @ 11:12 am | Reply
    • We have the hardware ordered for a new node coming. Hopefully next week it will be in\

      -Alex

      October 25, 2015 @ 2:01 am | Reply
  34. MarkleB:

    Aaaand they’re gone. Any more stock coming, or is that it for now?

    October 23, 2015 @ 11:47 am | Reply
    • We have the hardware ordered for a new node coming. Hopefully next week it will be in.

      Open a ticket and ask to be added to the stock notification list

      -Alex

      October 25, 2015 @ 2:01 am | Reply
      • MarkleB:

        Thanks, Alex. I was able to get in on the added stock and migrate some sites over. Very impressed by the performance.

        November 1, 2015 @ 10:24 pm | Reply
  35. Andrey:

    Is it safe to use paypal through your vps? And are you going to have new stock soon?

    October 24, 2015 @ 8:22 am | Reply
    • We have the hardware ordered for a new node coming. Hopefully next week it will be in.

      Open a ticket and ask to be added to the stock notification list

      What do you mean is it safe to use paypal?

      -Alex

      October 25, 2015 @ 2:03 am | Reply
  36. kvm:

    need cheap KVM
    WAITING YOU

    October 25, 2015 @ 6:49 am | Reply
  37. Niz:

    out of stock, any idea when new VPS will be in stock?

    October 26, 2015 @ 5:30 pm | Reply
  38. Stock has been added for all plans

    October 28, 2015 @ 10:23 pm | Reply
  39. Sahil:

    Is torrent traffic allowed over OPENVPN?

    November 1, 2015 @ 7:57 am | Reply
    • Private torrents are allowed, please limit speed to prevent I/O abuse.

      -Alex

      November 1, 2015 @ 3:36 pm | Reply
      • alcino:

        $6/year
        VDR256MB is out of stock when it will be available?

        November 13, 2015 @ 3:49 pm | Reply
  40. kiasu:

    Ping and traceroute from Asia to “Test IPv4: 107.155.106.130” is very very bad.

    November 2, 2015 @ 12:40 pm | Reply
    • Can you show an mtr?

      November 2, 2015 @ 11:10 pm | Reply
      • Kramy:

        It’s pretty awesome to many parts of the world. I’ve been looking for a place to host my own Mumble server. I just happen to get 10ms to their server. I checked with friends… 53ms, 81ms for two in the states, 160ms to New Zealand, 183 and 191ms to Australia.

        When are you guys putting up more stock? I’m interested in the $6 one.

        -Kramy

        November 17, 2015 @ 7:32 am | Reply
        • Open a ticket and we will see what we can do

          -Alex

          November 17, 2015 @ 2:39 pm | Reply
          • Kramy:

            Hi. I opened a ticket and was told there were no slots. I’m on a waiting list, I guess!

            -Kramy

            November 26, 2015 @ 7:15 pm | Reply
  41. barack:

    hi – what’s the definition of spam you guys use, because the terms of service claim a $250 charge will be assessed. because your definition is loose, will this apply to mailing lists, or is it solely for people doing mass unsolicited email? you know, “Viagra for cheap,” stuff?

    I will be sending some email through my server now and then – mailing list type stuff, doesn’t resemble advertisements. it’s hand typed.

    for example, from time to time I send the state employees private emails about specific political issues or crimes that happen.

    my mail definitely fully complies with the can spam act of 2003, so what precisely do you consider spam that might trigger the $250 charge?

    November 14, 2015 @ 5:08 pm | Reply
    • Hello,

      We have never charged a client the fee. Overall we do not allow mass mail. As long as you are not sending too much it shouldn’t be an issue.

      -Alex

      November 14, 2015 @ 8:03 pm | Reply
      • barack:

        ok thanks. I signed up but here is my specs: I might end up sending 20,000 emails at a time to people on my mailing list.

        I would do this a few times a month, probably max 10 times a month but I’m not limiting myself to nothing.

        the mailings are being done for political activism and because of my lawsuit I have going.

        this isn’t the thing where I’m spamming random people trying to get my hits up, ie a spammer might send a million emails trying to get people to click through to phish or buy some scam items. so that’s good to go?

        November 15, 2015 @ 1:24 pm | Reply
        • barack:

          btw never had a problem at any of my previous providers but I was just checking. I’ll assume I’m good if no complaints come through.

          the main purpose of my VPS is actually VPN and IRC, the mailing thing is just in case I end up wanted to send some of my mailings through or not.

          November 15, 2015 @ 1:25 pm | Reply
  42. redgreen:

    SWIP doable or no?

    November 15, 2015 @ 5:05 am | Reply
  43. I tried to order, tried to pay with credit card but it was declined so I used paypal. 5 minutes later I got refunded and banned. Whats the deal? I was trying to buy a server legit.

    November 22, 2015 @ 8:30 pm | Reply
  44. Wan:

    What is difference between VDR and cloud server?

    December 18, 2015 @ 2:24 pm | Reply
    • These are resources pools from which you can assign resources as you choose between multiple servers

      January 2, 2016 @ 6:22 pm | Reply
  45. Ilian:

    Is 2xIPv4 option for VDR1 still actual?

    February 4, 2016 @ 10:35 pm | Reply
  46. Ilian:

    Is VDR1 still have 2x IPv4?

    February 5, 2016 @ 9:26 pm | Reply
  47. cybersans:

    how many IPv6 allocated?

    April 30, 2016 @ 3:36 am | Reply

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