Kazila - $7 512MB Xen VPS in LA, Dallas and New York

Sep 24, 2011 @ 12:48 pm

dallas, kazila.com, los angeles, new york, xen

New offer from Nate from Kazila, whom now have the tag line of “Optimum Xen VPS Hosting”. Comparing to their last month’s offer, you pay 5 cents more for a slightly better plan, but now with more data center choices. So $7/month gets you

512MB memory
10GB storage on RAID10
250GB/month data transfer
Xen/SolusVM

Direct link to sign up, and you can pay with either credit card or PayPal. 3 data centers to choose from — Los Angeles CA with Quadranet, Dallas TX with NorthTXConnect, New York City with Steadfast Networks. Check their network page for testing files + IP addresses. They have been around since 2008, is a registered LLC in Texas, and had some good reviews with the performance of their VPS.

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27 Comments

Francisco:

New York City

# 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, 2.68286 s, 400 MB/s

# wget -O /dev/null http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
--2011-09-25 01:15:41--  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: `/dev/null'

100%[==========================================================>] 104,857,600 11.1M/s   in 9.0s

2011-09-25 01:15:50 (11.1 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]

September 25, 2011 @ 1:20 am | Reply

Francisco:

#cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 44
model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           E5620  @ 2.40GHz
stepping        : 2
cpu MHz         : 2393.998
cache size      : 12288 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 1
core id         : 0
cpu cores       : 1
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 11
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu tsc msr pae cx8 apic cmov pat clflush acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht syscall nx
lm constant_tsc ida arat pni vmx est ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt lahf_lm
bogomips        : 5987.68
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

September 25, 2011 @ 1:22 am | Reply

anonymous:

Not sure how you’re getting 400MB/s..

root@test1:~# 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, 10.4302 s, 103 MB/s
root@test1:~#
root@test1:~# ls
test
root@test1:~# 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, 13.4338 s, 79.9 MB/s
root@test1:~# 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, 9.75169 s, 110 MB/s

September 27, 2011 @ 5:01 am | Reply

Francisco:
Not sure why you are getting low throughput as the provider posted “We are utilizing 3.5 inch SAS drives @ 15K RPM” and usually it means 250+ MB/s in a cheap budget VPS.
September 28, 2011 @ 3:27 am | Reply

Herbert:
SCAM?
I order the plan and paid the billing.But they banned my account with no explanation.
Anyone else know about this?
September 25, 2011 @ 8:06 am | Reply
- drmike:
  Only they would. Why not ask them?
  Did they refund your money?
  I’m sure you’ll be listing your reference and/or ticket numbers shortly.
  September 25, 2011 @ 1:33 pm | Reply
- Nate:
  Hello Herbert,
  While we really appreciate your business the distance between your billing address and current location is too great. Because of this, we were unable to accept your order at this time. I’m very sorry about this.
  If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me directly (nate [at] kazila).
  September 25, 2011 @ 2:09 pm | Reply
- Herbert:
  Problem solved.
  They refund my money and promise to get me all setup again if i correct the address.
  But i still advise you to notice people that will be canceled.
  September 25, 2011 @ 4:13 pm | Reply
YDGH-Corey:
Sounds like instead of using a fraud prevention service they are checking the distance of an address given at billing time vs the address of a paypal account?
September 26, 2011 @ 6:28 am | Reply
- Francisco:
  Address vs IP location.
  September 26, 2011 @ 10:27 am | Reply
  - Ashley Hawkridge:
    Standard maxmind fraud screening by the looks of things.
    September 26, 2011 @ 10:32 am | Reply
    - WHD Maru:
      Exactly. I’m guessing it is maxmind fraud check :)
      October 4, 2011 @ 2:11 pm | Reply
heaphy:
1G-RAM plan without discount ?
September 26, 2011 @ 8:42 am | Reply
- Nate:
  heaphy,
  I’m not sure I understand your question. Could you please rephrase?
  Thanks.
  September 26, 2011 @ 1:46 pm | Reply
  - Robin:
    The “Direct link to sign up” is link to a plan with 512MB ram. But I need more Ram. Is there any 1G-plan in discount?
    September 26, 2011 @ 2:57 pm | Reply
    - Nate:
      Robin,
      Please contact me directly and we can work something out (nate [at] kazila .com)
      Thanks!
      September 27, 2011 @ 1:45 am | Reply
heaphy:
Good servers, Nate is so kind.
Thanks for your help. I will have a powerfull vps.
September 27, 2011 @ 3:22 am | Reply
Bent:
@Nate: which kind of HDD is used for your RAID setup on these offers?
September 27, 2011 @ 4:29 am | Reply
- Nate:
  We are utilizing 3.5 inch SAS drives @ 15K RPM.
  September 27, 2011 @ 5:09 am | Reply
  - Bent:
    Wow, this is a big deal :)
    September 27, 2011 @ 5:18 am | Reply
Jay:
Sold out as of 9/29
September 30, 2011 @ 4:32 am | Reply

Robin:

Unix Bench 5.1.3 Test is not so good….

File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks        158504.8 KBps  (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks           39675.4 KBps  (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks        539251.6 KBps  (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Pipe Throughput                              197535.8 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Pipe-based Context Switching                  58317.6 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Process Creation                               3608.8 lps   (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent)                   3877.3 lpm   (60.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)                    534.2 lpm   (60.1 s, 2 samples)
System Call Overhead                         983368.4 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)

System Benchmarks Index Values               BASELINE       RESULT    INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables         116700.0   32098672.6   2750.5
Double-Precision Whetstone                       55.0       4996.3    908.4
Execl Throughput                                 43.0       2380.4    553.6
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks          3960.0     158504.8    400.3
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks            1655.0      39675.4    239.7
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks          5800.0     539251.6    929.7
Pipe Throughput                               12440.0     197535.8    158.8
Pipe-based Context Switching                   4000.0      58317.6    145.8
Process Creation                                126.0       3608.8    286.4
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent)                     42.4       3877.3    914.5
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)                      6.0        534.2    890.3
System Call Overhead                          15000.0     983368.4    655.6
                                                                   ========
System Benchmarks Index Score                                         524.8

September 30, 2011 @ 5:04 pm | Reply

Yomero:
What do you expect? Is one core, for me is average.
September 30, 2011 @ 6:05 pm | Reply
- Robin:
  This is the two cores’ score. Not so good.
  September 30, 2011 @ 6:08 pm | Reply

WHD Maru:
My bad :(
This item has expired or is currently out of stock. Please contact us for more detials.
October 4, 2011 @ 2:12 pm | Reply
Ben:
is there any more stock available yet?
October 14, 2011 @ 4:55 am | Reply
Mario:
Damn, just get this VPN 6 days ago and now it is down :(
October 15, 2011 @ 7:22 pm | Reply