JayStorage - $5 460MB OpenVZ VPS in France

Nov 29, 2011 @ 5:17 am

Another new listing from a new provider. Someone from JayStoage emailed me about their virtual server plan. Yes it says “$3 per month” and “Cloud Scalability” on their home page, but there’s only one plan — “VPS Advanced” for $5/month. You get

460MB guaranteed/1000MB burstable memory
45GB storage
250GB/month data transfer
OpenVZ/SolusVM

PayPal-only for payments, and servers with OVH in France (test IP: 91.121.14.114). Domain registered in August 2011, but service seems to be enabled only in November. Interestingly the same plan was advertised as “unlimited bandwidth” elsewhere. Not much info on his WHT account other than still a n00b in managing dedicated servers and in running OpenVZ as of last month. No SSL on the ordering pages. Website is full of 404 links, with ordering links for Web Hosting and Reseller Hosting that go nowhere.

No wonder WHOIS info is masked. I’ll be too embarrassed if it wasn’t.

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57 Comments

BudgetVPS:
> Not much info on his WHT account other than still a n00b in managing dedicated servers and in running OpenVZ as of last month. No SSL on the ordering pages. Website is full of 404 links, with ordering links for Web Hosting and Reseller Hosting that go nowhere.
> No wonder WHOIS info is masked. I’ll be too embarrassed if it wasn’t.
OMG, so why did you list this provider?
November 29, 2011 @ 5:23 am | Reply
- LowEndAdmin:
  OMG, so why did you list this provider
  To file them in the dead pool a few months later? Seriously I did the usual lookup and googling while I am writing up this blog entry so by the time I finished all the fact checks I’m already done — so might as well post it. When you google “JayStorage” they also appear in quite a few of those “VPS offer list” sites, without the details. So maybe this page will float to the top of Google SERP to help those looking for background/reviews of this particular provider.
  November 29, 2011 @ 7:52 am | Reply
Jack:
No Raid..
Kimsufi Paying Under £100
100mbps port in total.
November 29, 2011 @ 6:02 am | Reply
Jack:
Sorry :
TOTAL INCL. VAT £52.79 + £32 for IP’s.
November 29, 2011 @ 6:09 am | Reply
- Daniel:
  stop being a troll. its low end box not low end enterprise
  November 29, 2011 @ 7:26 am | Reply
gsrdgrdghd:
I always wonder why LEA posts such offers.
This will only make noobs fall for scammers
November 29, 2011 @ 6:57 am | Reply
- rm:
  Because of the same reason we have warning signs on roads, so that drivers don’t drive themselves off the cliff.
  Besides, do you really believe there’ll be even a single purchase from anyone who has read this post?
  November 29, 2011 @ 7:35 am | Reply
Matthew B:
And to top it all off he has a ripped website:
http://www.csnewmedia.co.uk/
This website was designed by AKDesigner for CSNewMedia in 2009.
We had been badly let down by several designers over the last few years, until I found AKDesigner on another web hosting providers website. I was immediately impressed with their wide portfolio and submitted an enquiry through their website. Within a few hours I had received a response back from Ammar with full pricing. AKDesigner may not be the cheapest web design company around, but their service, attention to detail and responsiveness is second to none. I have no hesitation in recommending AKDesigner, keep up the good work!
Carl Shepherdson – From CSNewMedia
November 29, 2011 @ 7:50 am | Reply
Bob:
Sounds like good fun :)
November 29, 2011 @ 10:06 am | Reply
Spirit:
Damn! This one will be tough! I can’t decide between this amazing offer by Ajay R Kamath from India and previous Liquid Host – $3.74 256MB OpenVZ VPS offer. I predict a great future for both! Yes, this will be for sure our favourite vps hosting company!
Any suggestions? Which one should I choose? Which one will be decent replacement for my UptimeVPS?
Any suggestion is welcome.
November 29, 2011 @ 1:49 pm | Reply
Dino Suarez:
I’ll let this company run for 60 days before I consider a purchase ;0
November 29, 2011 @ 4:59 pm | Reply
- Spirit:
  Come on! You should do it now. After 60 days it could be too late :P
  November 29, 2011 @ 6:47 pm | Reply
JumpStart Loser:
Well, these guys rip a website and don’t even have the time to change the names. Go to terms and conditions and you see CS New Media 4 times, fourth being prominently in the footer menu.
*Are you gonna invest in someone who cant do a clean “Replace All” command.
*Privacy Policy states their website as Jaytorage.com
*Since they ripped a website which is running since 2005, they get their reputation and copyright as well in the footer
*From About Us page, click twitter logo and voilà, you hit up csnewmedia. Until we start tweeting, let them do that for us..
November 29, 2011 @ 5:47 pm | Reply
- Christopher Easton:
  I lol’d!
  http://screensnapr.com/v/D5Fqrs.png That was on their site at the bottom. Damn shame he decided to rip it from that site. What’s it cost for a basic HTML template / WordPress Temp from Themeforest? $15?
  November 30, 2011 @ 12:26 am | Reply
amit kumar mishra:
this was earlier jayweb.in or jaywebs.in
they keep advertising on ebay.
last time they went down because they had their business with hostrail.
they had lots of issues.
the owner also auctioned his whmcs at ebay.com (the auction ended arround 80minutes before the end time)
they had n trace for some time, now they are back with some other name and servers from place other than hostrail.
may be this time it would work for these people.
November 29, 2011 @ 8:42 pm | Reply
xTx:
Its another like UPTIMEVPS company and LEB Support those kit.
Shame :(
November 30, 2011 @ 4:49 am | Reply
- Spirit:
  How can be posability to discuss about support? I don’t see any support here.
  November 30, 2011 @ 5:35 am | Reply
  - Jack:
    Im wondering whats going to last longer…
    the disks or the server its self.
    November 30, 2011 @ 5:36 am | Reply
ajay:
Thank you for all your Suggestions and Feedback… I welcoming all your Complaints and Comments..
Now i can Fix all the Problem Pointed out by Honorable members
Thank you so much
November 30, 2011 @ 11:15 am | Reply
- Ashley Hawkridge:
  Seriously… that is all you have to say? How about clearing up the valid comments made by members.
  November 30, 2011 @ 11:58 am | Reply
  - ajay:
    All of the above comments are not valid!.. But some are valid & We started the process of Acting to the members Valid Comments :)
    November 30, 2011 @ 1:46 pm | Reply
  - Tom:
    Sorry, but when I was 9 (going to second grade), our teacher had already taught us how to properly capitalize words in a sentence. It’s funny how uneducated kids are this days, but they still manage to start so called ‘hosting companies’ 1 after another.
    November 30, 2011 @ 2:07 pm | Reply
Damian @ ipxcore:
I signed up for one, out of curiosity. Still waiting for it to be assigned to me.
November 30, 2011 @ 11:29 pm | Reply
- Damian @ ipxcore:
  Wasn’t instant sign up, but it was still same-day. It’s not really THAT bad, but then again, that may be because no one else is on the server.
  I guess we’ll see how long it lasts.
```
root@mass:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 30
model name      : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU         750  @ 2.67GHz
stepping        : 5
cpu MHz         : 2666.194
cache size      : 8192 KB

*snip, repeats 3 times*
```
```
root@mass:~# 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, 18.6608 s, 57.5 MB/s
```
```
root@mass:~#  wget http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
--2011-12-02 04:16:18--  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 11.0M/s   in 9.1s

2011-12-02 04:16:27 (11.0 MB/s) - "100mb.test" saved [104857600/104857600]
```
  December 2, 2011 @ 12:15 am | Reply
  - Jack:
    Oh my his not even got the Kimsufi 24g
    £35.99 + £32 = £67.99
    67.99 British pounds = 106.649114 U.S. dollars
    5 x 32 = 160
    nice $55 Profit..
    December 2, 2011 @ 12:19 am | Reply
    - Dino Suarez:
      Do you have a problem with profit? that is generally how companies work these days.
      December 2, 2011 @ 12:44 am | Reply
    - Ashley Hawkridge:
      55 Bucks profit, thats hardly worth the time and effort. I could almost bet those figures are all 2X
      December 2, 2011 @ 9:48 am | Reply
    - Daniel:
      @Jack @Ashley
      Stop being trolls they are a new company.
      December 2, 2011 @ 9:51 am | Reply
    - Ashley Hawkridge:
      Troll. I have posted twice, both on topic. I would hardly class that as trolling :P
      December 2, 2011 @ 9:52 am | Reply
    - Daniel:
      okay you’re taking the piss then that better? you carn’t expect a provider to make thousands in there first few months. Would love to see you’re profit margins etc..
      December 2, 2011 @ 9:58 am | Reply
    - Bob:
      Yeah, share your profit margin per server Mr VMPort!
      Thanks :-)
      December 2, 2011 @ 10:02 am | Reply
    - Ashley Hawkridge:
      @Daniel
      I am quite aware of that, you shouldnt really expect any profit in at least the first 3 months anyway. I haven’t actually taken the piss either since they are not actual figures thw owner has shared, they are just figures guessed at by Jack.
      December 2, 2011 @ 10:50 am | Reply
Jack:
@Dino i was just seeing how much profit he was making :).
December 2, 2011 @ 12:45 am | Reply
- Daniel:
  How much profit are you making per server jack? i carn’t amagine much more than he is…
  December 2, 2011 @ 10:57 am | Reply
  - Ashley Hawkridge:
    Who knows with VD servers, there not exactly the dearest around.
    December 2, 2011 @ 11:12 am | Reply
    - Jack:
      VD Servers x 1. i sold 20 VM’s on it got issues so stopped selling USA for now.
      December 2, 2011 @ 12:28 pm | Reply
Earl:
What about the SolusVM license? don’t you have to pay for that?
December 2, 2011 @ 10:23 am | Reply
Jack:
@ Ashley..
Not really guessed as guess would be an estimate i did the working out of the one plan hes had stock in on and cost of server. so it would be $10-$15 off maybe if he sold others. ;)
December 2, 2011 @ 12:01 pm | Reply
Jack:
@ Ashley
$55 is an incorrect figure..
I forgot WHMCS – $14-16
Solusvm master license -$10
$30? Profit.
December 2, 2011 @ 12:27 pm | Reply
Damian @ ipxcore:
Things were going pretty well. Then got this email about 10 minutes ago:
Dear Client,
Our server require a Urgent maintanance & Request every members co-operation for Some time
For some time the server will not be Available
We will do the maintanance and Re-start the server as soon as possible
Inconvenience caused is deeply regretted
Information Dept
Jaystorage.com
December 30, 2011 @ 3:42 am | Reply
- Yomero:
  Cool, at least they sent a mail to the costumers.
  December 30, 2011 @ 4:59 am | Reply
Jack:
Paha that latest long. Disk died on there kimsufi ;)
December 30, 2011 @ 11:11 am | Reply
- Francisco Dias:
  I’m pretty sure I called it on either here or LET that all of these France based hosts are just abusing the OVH free first month.
  Check when LEA posted and when this ’emergency’ happened, literally 30 days after.
  I hope things return for the sake of peoples data, but yea.
  Francisco
  December 30, 2011 @ 11:32 am | Reply
Jack:
Kimsufi isn’t available? on that deal is it?
December 30, 2011 @ 2:14 pm | Reply
Damian @ ipxcore:
FWIW, mine came back up at approximately 3:00am -6UTC, which is an approximate downtime of ~5 hours. At least it came back up…
December 30, 2011 @ 9:09 pm | Reply
Jack:
I think they did a clever thing.. as kimsufi has 1 disk. and 100mbps port.
They vzmigrated/vzdump’d all the VPS’s to a new node from OVH with 1gbps port and 2 disks in a RAID etc.
December 30, 2011 @ 9:14 pm | Reply
Jack:
Thats my guess anyway.
December 30, 2011 @ 9:14 pm | Reply
- Francisco Dias:
  did your IP change?
  Would be curious to see if they simply transferred people to a new 30 day free box. I guess we’ll see at the end of January?
  Francisco
  December 31, 2011 @ 5:31 am | Reply
  - jack:
    @Fran
    OVH allow you to move ips between servers.
    He would stil have to pay €32 for ips.
    December 31, 2011 @ 1:29 pm | Reply
    - Francisco Dias:
      If he hasn’t made 32 EUR in a month then i’d be concerned :)
      Still curious if he swapped boxes or if it’s the same setup.
      Francisco
      January 1, 2012 @ 8:55 pm | Reply
LowEndAdmin:
I just re-read this blog post. I can’t believe people actually still went and bought from this provider after what I’ve written. Oh well.
December 31, 2011 @ 1:14 pm | Reply
- jack:
  What you wrote isnt bad…
  December 31, 2011 @ 1:30 pm | Reply
  - LowEndAdmin:
    srsly? I concluded:
    No wonder WHOIS info is masked. I’ll be too embarrassed if it wasn’t.
    Maybe I need to get rid of all that subtleness.
    December 31, 2011 @ 1:45 pm | Reply
    - drmike:
      +1 as far as I’m concerned.
      January 1, 2012 @ 10:15 pm | Reply
    - Francisco Dias:
      LEA is learning the true meaning of pony. :3
      BWAHAHAHAHAHA
      Francisco
      January 1, 2012 @ 10:21 pm | Reply
jack:
That wouldnt point me away … haha
December 31, 2011 @ 2:04 pm | Reply
joseph:
I am so impressed that how people are just killing a new service provider by just discussions and thoughts. I also purchased a vps 1month away from this provider and it is working without any problems
I am giving 3.5 out of 5marks & as per my opinion i am recommending it to my friends
January 21, 2012 @ 5:00 pm | Reply