Here is a new offer from Anthony @ InceptionHosting. A small 128MB Xen VPS which I believe most low end-die hards would prefer. “xenVPSleb” is the name of the package, leb128oct is the coupon code, and here’s the direct sign up link. For €6/Quarter (~USD$2.75/month) you get
- 128MB memory/256MB swap
- 5GB storage
- 150GB/month data transfer on 1000Mbps
- Xen/SolusVM
Payment in either Moneybookers or PayPal. Servers in the Netherlands (test IPv4: 89.207.135.55, IPv6: 2a00:7b80:483:2::9a3f:95bd). They have been in business since December 2010, and I have featured them twice here on LowEndBox (ref #1, ref #2) with good reviews.
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The Founder at LowEndBox
The original owner of LowEndBox known as LowEndAdmin or LEA for short founded LowEndBox in 2008 and created the concept of hosting applications on low resource Low End Boxes. After creating the roots of the community that we know today, LEA stepped aside and allowed others to carry the torch forward.
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Thanks LEA,
With so many offers recently actualy trying to give away low end dedicated server specs for $7 I thought it would be good to send in an offer that in my mind was the heart of the LEB community.
A little more detail on the offer:
Free upgrade to 15 GB HDD on request
Free 5 GB offsite backup rsync / FTP space on request
IP6 available
IRC allowed
Adult allowed
Instant setup as long as MaxMind does not flag you as fraud.
The ’50lite’ code is still valid for 50% off the 256 MB VPS Lite plan (4.50) in the previous offer if anyone wanted that instead.
The October offer has now expired, I have sent the November offer in to LEA however as I am sure he probably has 99 other things to do here are the details of what was sent in:
VPS Lite.
256MB RAM
512MB SWAP
15GB HDD
300GB Bandwidth
8 Cores equal Share
1000mbit shared port
1 x IP4
5 x IP6
5 GB Free Offsite backup available on request
Test IP4: 78.41.200.1
Test IP6: 2a00:7b80:3002::1
XEN PV Based
IP6 available
Adult Allowed
IRC Allowed
Promo Code: leb256nov (53% discount)
Regular price: 53.94 (Euros)
With Promo: 25.80 (Euros)
Billing Cycle: semi –annually
I will post this as the last comment too for those who skip to the end to see what is new (I know I do)
Is this a recurring discount?
Hi Andy,
Yes it is.
ordered one
instant setup
seems to perform pretty good
[root@weasel ~]#cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep name model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 950 @ 3.07GHz model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 950 @ 3.07GHz model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 950 @ 3.07GHz model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 950 @ 3.07GHz model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 950 @ 3.07GHz model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 950 @ 3.07GHz model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 950 @ 3.07GHz model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 950 @ 3.07GHz [root@weasel ~]#cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep MHz cpu MHz : 3066.702 cpu MHz : 3066.702 cpu MHz : 3066.702 cpu MHz : 3066.702 cpu MHz : 3066.702 cpu MHz : 3066.702 cpu MHz : 3066.702 cpu MHz : 3066.702 [root@weasel ~]#free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 128 106 21 0 6 69 -/+ buffers/cache: 30 97 Swap: 255 0 255 [root@weasel ~]#wget http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test --2011-10-13 09:13:43-- http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net... 205.234.175.175 Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net|205.234.175.175|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream] Saving to: `100mb.test' 100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 54.0M/s in 1.9s 2011-10-13 09:13:45 (54.0 MB/s) - `100mb.test' saved [104857600/104857600] [root@weasel ~]#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, 31.439 seconds, 34.2 MB/sI/O always like this? :/
Nope, this order went on a node which has someone abusing disk IO right now, a warning shot has been fired.
A closer representation would be the recent review on lowendtalk:
Will block new orders on this node while I get that resolved though in the mean time.
Sweet. :) You are definitely on my short-list if I need another box. Hope you can do a 256-512 offer (quarterly is ok) and also provide a bit more network transfer in the future.
Hi rm,
Good to hear, if you want to drop me an email inbox [-at-] inception hosting dot com with what sort of package you are looking for I will give you a customised price for a unique package.
Anthony.
Highly recommend InceptionHosting, Ant is a wizard with Xen, good quality service and good quality support ;)
I see here that IRC is allowed.. does this include also “normal” IRC usage, as example bouncer connected to quakenet, freenode or so…
I am asking this because your AUP -> where you don’t allow IRC connection to public networks while almost every, even smallest networks can be considered as public as long they are open for third party connections.
Hi Spirit,
The DC have lifted previously imposed terms, so IRC use is no longer restricted in any way by us, I will get the terms updated to reflect that by the end of the day today on our side.
Anthony.
That’s great news as this old term was only part which wasn’t suitable for me! Thank you for fast response.
Thanks, I signed up in a hurry after seeing this ;0
gotta to admit that support is awesome
highly recommended host
Nice offer :-) The support I have gotten from this company is pretty amazing.
How much for a 1TB bandwdith upgrade?
Hi Pinoy,
€10 p/month
Anthony.
i’m having problems finding a download test. looked on wht, but it didn’t work.
Hi Ben,
We took the speed test down after it started getting 10,000’s of downloads p/week from multiple sources it was getting ridiculous, and was assumed to be malicious.
I assume you were looking at the one on WHT, the DC test file is http://217.18.70.5/test.bin the results should not differ but if you want to do a test download directly from a VPS drop me an email inbox _[at]_ inceptionhosting.com and I will sort that out for you.
Anthony.
Which DC in NL is this? Never seen a DC in NL use cogent before.
https://www.snelserver.com
That’s right.
Other test IP’s for the new nodes, are 78.41.200.1 and 89.207.130.1
Anthony.
I’m probably not looking correctly, but is there a link to the SolusVM Control Panel in case I want to reinstall my VPS? User and pass are in my client area, I just can’t find the link :)
https://vpsadmin.inceptionhosting.com
It is in your “Your new VPS server details” email :)
Anthony.
Ah, there’s my problem… I registered with the wrong extension (.net instead of .nl), and corrected it right after my VPS was activated :)
Cheers!
The “client login” button on your home page pops a login form that points to an http page instead o https. Somehow I missed that and logged in, so had to change my password. For some reason Solus in the client area still shows my old password. The new one works and I haven’t yet confirmed that the old one doesn’t. Storing passwords is a bad idea in general but I guess if you’re not into modifying Solus or using something else, there’s not much you can do about it.
Hi Paul,
Thanks for pointing that out, I will have that fixed in 10 minutes (ish)
Anthony.
All fixed, login box and pwreset function go over https now.
Just signed up for a custom deal with them and am *very* pleased with both the performance and the support.
Thanks Klaus,
Appreciate the feedback.
Anthony.
How many CORES?
Read above post from camarg, it’s everything posted already…
Node4
It seems pretty much abused node. Traffic goes mostly over cogent which isn’t most usually for europe.
Hi Spirit,
As you were typing that comment I was dealing with an abuser as it happens, 2 people took a 96mb plan and installed cPanel and ISP Config 3, it has almost bean dealt with now.
Anthony.
A warning shot has been fired at another user who has been constantly writing to disk at an abv of 29.3 MB/s for the last hour+
I guess that can be the problem with lowendbox, apart from the good side it has a tenancy to attract people who think they can run cPanel, OpenVPN Access Server and a 100k hits p/day site on 96 or 128mb of ram.
Yes, of course. I can confirm that I/O is improved.
Thanks Spirit,
Still working on an auto alerting system for Disk IO / Load in XEN as it has been neglected by SolusLabs but please always feel free to open a ticket if you see such low results it does not take long to track them down.
Anthony.
Hi Borja,
8 cores equal share.
Anthony.
Can someone check ping time preferably to a vps, and preferably from the western US? Thanks.
Hi Paul,
I have a VPS with PhotonVPS myself as it happens, as expected from the west coast to Holland it’s not great I am getting a steady 151ms
Anthony.
no ticket answer?
Hi John,
There are no tickets open right now, which ticket are you referring too?
If that’s your order that came in 3 minutes ago your HDD has been upgraded you just need to reboot your VPS for the extra disk space to allocate.
Backup space is a manual task and your details will be sent within 24 hours.
Thanks.
Anthony.
153 – 155ms with buyvm.
Still stock available, if anyone would like double bandwidth instead of extra disk space that can be arranged.
Their is also a semi managed option now too.
Anthony.
Got mine, but pretty unusable. I chose debian 5 minimal (32 bit)
#free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 128 124 3 0 4 82 -/+ buffers/cache: 37 90 Swap: 255 0 255I can not launch anything…
What distro did you select?
I am not going to be able to track your VPS down from your name, but first off have a read of http://linuxatemyram.com and if you think something is wrong open a ticket.
Saying you can not launch anything is a bit vague, a number of people have taken this offer and immediately tried to install OpenVPN-AS or cPanel or ISPconfig and wondered why they ran out of resources.
Happy to help though.
Anthony,
Ok. I need to install TinyProxy. I need to use it. I got this error message: “ERROR [8565]: Could not allocate memory for child counting.”
Tinyproxy configuration is MaxClients 8, MinSpareServers 1, MaxSpareServers 5, StartServers 1 and MaxRequestsPerChild 1000
Ok, please open a support ticket so I can see why you are running out of memory with nothing but tiny proxy installed.
I still cannot find any record of anyone opening a ticket for anything like this which perhaps would have been the best idea from the start rather than posting here.
Anthony.
I just signed up with them and I must say I’m really pleased with their offer/server. Everything went smooth and the performance is amazing.. An awesome LEB!
Good job guys!
Thanks Kylium, appreciate the feedback.
Little bit of news.
To celebrate 1 year of business in January 2012 their will be a 30 Euro p/year 256mb KVM package on offer :)
Might be interested in a 256mb kvm for 30euro a year, please keep us posted!
Anthony,
January 2012 is here. Will the 30 euro for 256MB package be offered???
A question, your first comment says
This is for this offer? Ty
yeap, just open a ticket
Hi yomero,
Yes indeed, I did put details of the free upgrades in my email to LEA but they were missed from the main offer details.
Anthony.
I’ve just resolved my problem. Thank you
Sorry about that, it was caused by a fault at this end, pygrub mix up so the VPS was getting the centos kernel. all fixed now.
Couldn’t resist, tried to sign up. Checkout form rejected my phone # several times (I used +1 format for US phone number). I finally entered it without country code, and it went to maxmind screen saying it was placing an automated call with a security code. Call didn’t arrive. Now what? I didn’t want my phone number given to a third party anyway.
Oops, somehow when I resubmitted, country got changed back to UK from US. So it tried to call me in England. Not sure what to do now–start at beginning? I got an invoice but when I clicked the url it is marked cancelled. (Invoice # 5119).
I tried again (changed country in user profile) and it seemed to work that time. It sent me to paypal payment page which collected payment and I got an email saying my server is activated, so it sounds like everything worked. Thanks! This is a pretty attractive offer and I’m surprised it didn’t sell out faster. I need another VPS like a hole in the head, but now that I have an overseas presence, I feel like an international tycoon ;-).
Inception seems to be a UK company. Why the NL hosting?
OK, working great. Box feels a bit laggier over SSH than my other VPS’s do, prob because they are much closer (lower ping time). apt-get install from debian repo ran at 400 kB/s or so, not too bad, I should look for a European mirror. I do feel a bit cramped with just 5gb of disk and will probably request the disk upgrade rather than more bandwidth. The debian-6 minimal install apparently uses around 900M, and I installed about 200M of packages so far (more to come), so I currently have 1.1G used and 3.7G free.
Hi Paul,
Nothing is set in stone if you want to mix it up a bit that is no problem, I could arrange for an upgrade to 10GB disk and 1/3 extra bandwidth instead if that is better for you?
Anthony.
Thanks, I’ll leave it up in the air for now (I’m away from home among other things), but will probably request just disk space since I don’t plan to use all that much bandwidth. I’ll probably in turn use the disk space mostly to back up some other VPS data in a location geographically distant from its origin. Thanks also for putting up this offer in the first place, and for your sense of the LEB spirit.
The October offer has now expired, I have sent the November offer in to LEA however as I am sure he probably has 99 other things to do here are the details of what was sent in:
VPS Lite.
256MB RAM
512MB SWAP
15GB HDD
300GB Bandwidth
8 Cores equal Share
1000mbit shared port
1 x IP4
5 x IP6
5 GB Free Offsite backup available on request
Test IP4: 78.41.200.1
Test IP6: 2a00:7b80:3002::1
XEN PV Based
IP6 available
Adult Allowed
IRC Allowed
Promo Code: leb256nov (53% discount)
Regular price: 53.94 (Euros)
With Promo: 25.80 (Euros)
Billing Cycle: semi –annually
This is also likely to be the last XEN based offer posted here as there is no intent to stand up new XEN nodes as Inception Hosting will be moving towards KVM for the start of 2012.
Doesn’t kvm allow memory overselling? :p
Not that I am aware of managed by solusvm
from solus documentation
I stand corrected then, never tried pushing it over allocation on the test rig, I have to say it is a shame as KVM so far seems to be the obvious way forward in the VPS market and the reason Inception hosting went with Xen instead of OpenVZ was the trust factor that the ram would not be over sold.
Won’t post that one yet. I am doing minimum 1 post per provider per 30 days, and this post was made on 13 Oct.
Ah ok LEA,
Sorry time shoots by when your having fun I guess, cant believe it it was only Oct 13th, it seemed like an age ago.
I am aware of the rules, my mistake, I am just not aware of the passage of time it seems.
Anthony.
Little cheeky promo code: lebonly2 :)
Limited to 2 uses only.
512 MB RAM
512 MB SWAP
8 Cores (ES)
30GB HDD
400 GB Bandwidth
5.10 euros p/month with the promo ($6.87)
1 Person can take both and make 1 resource allocation change request or combine them in to 1 package.
That was quick….. :) 1 left
I don’t really need another VPS (still have a pair of BuyVM KVM’s (including a 500GB storage) waiting on me to set them up) but I couldn’t turn down such a great offer! :P
Also, it would seem that PayPal doesn’t agree with your (Google’s) conversion rates, was actually 7.09USD :)
Haha fair one.
Paypal add a margin to the exchange and set their own, I was using the actual official exchange rate from xe.com :)
Although an after thought while getting a coffee just now, I guess its the paypal rate you care about as that’s the one you are going to be forced in to using :(
*Noted for future.
Anthony.
No worries, a few extra cents never hurt anyone (though it could help quite a few people around here… ;)
double quick… both gone!
:)
Another cheeky promo for a Friday.
Promo code: leb2only when ordering the VPS midi package
Again Limited to 2 uses only.
512 MB RAM
512 MB SWAP
8 Cores (ES)
30GB HDD
400 GB Bandwidth
5.10 euros p/month with the promo ($6.87)
source xe.com: 1 EUR = 1.35198 USD I wanted to base it on the payment gateway rates but they are both different so I have gone with the official exchange rate.
1 Person can take both and make 1 resource allocation change request or combine them in to 1 package. (only 1 IP)
I will probably continue doing this with different offers for the rest of the month to clear out the last of the XEN stock as Inception Hosting plans to move to KVM in the long term now.
So say tuned :)
Anthony.
The code was wrong but I guessed the right one :p
Sorry about that.
Error between brain and fingers.
Anthony.
Using this VPS for more than 2 months, and everything is fine.
Good job!
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