LusoVPS - €1.80 128MB Xen VPS in France

Sep 13, 2011 @ 6:35 am

LusoVPS, as the name has suggested, is a Portuguese company that has just started out (domain registered in July 2011). With their coupon code 10OFF you get 10% off recurring discount (via this WHT offer), and their “VPS Starter” plan becomes €1.80/month (~USD$2.46). Here is the sign up link, and you get

128MB memory/256MB swap
10GB storage
100GB/month data transfer on 100Mbps
2x 2.3GHz CPU
Xen/SolusVM

They accept either PayPal or AlertPay. Nice price for a low end Xen VPS. Servers with OVH in Paris, France. I guess you can use their website’s IP address (46.105.120.170) to do traceroute testing. Xen PV by default but you can also request a Xen HVM node. Nice looking jQuery-based website that still seems to have a few issues (clicking on VPS Starter Plan comes up with VPS Basic Plan, for example). AUP is also no where to be found.

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LEA (LowEndAdmin) is the original founder of LowEndBox and the visionary who gave rise to an entire movement around minimalist, efficient hosting. In 2008, LEA launched LowEndBox with a simple but powerful idea: that it was possible to run meaningful applications, web servers, VPNs, mail servers, and more – on small, low-cost virtual machines with minimal resources.

At a time when most infrastructure discussions were dominated by high-end servers and enterprise platforms, LEA championed the opposite approach: lightweight Linux distros, self-managed servers, open source software, and thoughtful optimization. This philosophy gave birth to the term “Low End Box”, which would come to define a new genre of hosting tailored to developers, tinkerers, and budget-conscious users around the world.

Through LowEndBox and its companion forum, LowEndTalk, LEA built the foundation for what would become one of the most active and enduring communities in the hosting world, prioritizing knowledge-sharing, transparency, and accessibility.

After several years of nurturing the site and community, LEA stepped away from active involvement, passing the torch to a new generation of admins, contributors, and moderators. Today, LEA remains a respected figure in the LowEnd ecosystem, credited with launching a platform and philosophy that continues to influence thousands of infrastructure providers and users globally.

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69 Comments

Tom:
Another template host, that’s double in 1 day, let’s see how long the kiddies will last with OVH’s new no setup fees.
September 13, 2011 @ 6:59 am | Reply
- LowEndAdmin:
  Neither Filipe nor Miguel look like “kiddies” to me though.
  September 13, 2011 @ 1:43 pm | Reply
  - Yomero:
    The kids grow very fast in these days… LOL
    September 13, 2011 @ 4:25 pm | Reply
- circus:
  what template? I’m curious.
  September 13, 2011 @ 4:13 pm | Reply
Spo0lsh:
Another service without IPv6 :(
September 13, 2011 @ 7:01 am | Reply
Filipe:
Thank you for the post, LEB.
Hello Spo0lsh,
We already support IPv6. On the next week, we are going to make an offer to include 1 million free IPv6 addresses on each VPS.
Thank you!
September 13, 2011 @ 10:29 am | Reply
- Tom:
  Who needs 1Mio. IPv6 on a VPS?
  September 13, 2011 @ 10:45 am | Reply
  - Filipe:
    Hello Tom,
    1 Million is just a number. We have the IP addresses ready to deploy, so why not passing them to our customers?
    Thank you!
    September 13, 2011 @ 10:50 am | Reply
    - drmike:
      Because it’s a waste? Because if everybody did that, we’ll get into the same position we are currently in with ipv4?
      Wouldn’t that slow down the processor too considering it has to pay attention to all those addresses? And increase memory?
      September 13, 2011 @ 1:19 pm | Reply
    - Filipe:
      Hello,
      Again, 1 million is just a number. We are not going to setup 1 million ip addresses per VPS upon the delivery. We are going to make it available for a setup price per block. It doesn’t make sense to setup 1 million IP addresses at once, on a low end box, as stated before.
      Thank you!
      September 13, 2011 @ 1:27 pm | Reply
    - Spirit:
      Filipe next time rather say some IPv6 subnet range instead “million addresses” and no one will complain :) Million sound so much.. from IPv4 perspective but infact it’s just part of a some smaller IPv6 subnet. Most people fail to realize that and still look at IPv6 same as at IPv4.
      September 13, 2011 @ 5:15 pm | Reply
    - Filipe:
      Yes, Spirit, that’s a nice suggestion.
      Thank you!
      September 13, 2011 @ 6:39 pm | Reply
  - Spirit:
    Why so much complications because some average IPv6 block? Just for the sake of complaining?
    Because if everybody did that, we’ll get into the same position we are currently in with ipv4
    That’s nonsense based on IPv4 perception. People should get rid of old IPv4 perception when they talk about IPv6.
    September 13, 2011 @ 1:31 pm | Reply
    - Tom:
      Just to make it clear: IPv6 does not mean endless. It means when giving 1Mio. IPv6 to one single device we will in fact end up with the same situation we have now for about 4 bio. devices. End-to-end et al set besides. RIRs will never revoke. They did not with IPv4 and they will not with IPv6.
      September 13, 2011 @ 3:19 pm | Reply
    - Spirit:
      …we will in fact end up with the same situation we have now for about 4 bio
      This of course isn’t realistic unless you’re looking in distance intergallactic future with colonies in entire universe but then IPv6 won’t be the solution anyway. As I said and I will repeat again looking at IPv6 from old IPv4 perspective wont bring you nowhere. Get rid of that.
      Or like Aaron at pthree.org said:
      If there are exactly 6.5 billion people on the planet, and each person lived in their own house, and each of house had 6.5 billion light switches (I think we’ve grossly overdone an even remotely accurate representation, no?), we would still have left over 340,282,366,920,938,463,421,124,607,431,768,211,456 addresses. Yeah- we’re barely scratching the surface with that one.
      While this “one million IPv6 addresses” concern here serve us for little bickering and arguing to spend some time… it’s nothing more than that.
      Some more info (but I am pretty sure that most of you are able to find it by yourself of course)
      2001:0db8:0123:4567:89ab:cdef:1234:5678
      |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| ||||
      |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||128 Single end-points and loopback
      |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| ||124
      |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |120
      |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| 116
      |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||112
      |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| ||108
      |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |104
      |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| 100
      |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||96
      |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| ||92
      |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |88
      |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| 84
      |||| |||| |||| |||| |||80
      |||| |||| |||| |||| ||76
      |||| |||| |||| |||| |72
      |||| |||| |||| |||| 68
      |||| |||| |||| |||64 Single End-user LAN (default prefix size for SLAAC)
      |||| |||| |||| ||60 Some (very limited) 6rd deployments
      |||| |||| |||| |56 Minimal end sites assignment[3] (e.g. Home network)
      |||| |||| |||| 52
      |||| |||| |||48 Typical assignment for larger sites
      |||| |||| ||44
      |||| |||| |40
      |||| |||| 36 possible future Local Internet registry extra-small allocations
      |||| |||32 Local Internet registry minimum allocations
      |||| ||28 Local Internet registry medium allocations
      |||| |24 Local Internet registry large allocations
      |||| 20 Local Internet registry extra large allocations
      |||16
      ||12 Regional Internet Registry allocations from IANA[4]
      |8
      4
      Some hosts give us /64 and no one complain. But when you hear word “million” you switch to old IPv4 perspective. Wrong!
      Example:
      A /64 contains 2^64 nodes or 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 IPv6 addresses.
      That’s IPv6 subnet which most of us have either from vps provider either from tunnel broker and it’s all perfectly fine, isn’t it? So lets argue a bit more regarding those “million” IPv6 addresses to spend some more of our free time…
      – RIRs assign ISPs at least a /32 prefix (enough for 65,500 business customers or at least 16 million home users);
      – ISPs assign their corporate customers with /48 subnets (giving each business 65,500 subnets to utilise throughout their organisation);
      – ISPs assign their home or small end users either /56 subnets (if under 256 subnets are required by the customer), or one /64 subnet (if the client does not require any further subnetting).
      – Each ISP, corporate client and end user will subnet their /48 or /56 prefix according to geographic region, department and end user, ensuring a true hierarchy of addressing and allowing efficient aggregation of address space throughout their organisation.
      – Each host will sit on a /64 subnet, no longer and no shorter.
      This subnetting policy is far more efficient than IPv4 and should keep the IPv6 routing table compact. It is anticipated that each ISP will have only one /32 prefix, making the global table small. In addition, each ISP’s internal routers are kept small since each of their corporate customers will have only a single /48 prefix. Home and small office users have the benefits of plenty of static IP addresses, eliminating problems often associated with dynamic IPs and use of Network Address Translation (NAT).
      September 13, 2011 @ 5:05 pm | Reply

gsrdgrdghd:

The server is actually 3$/2.70$ after discount or 2.05€ (i guess that includes VAT)
Setup was instant

root@fr2:~# 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, 7.19123 s, 149 MB/s

root@fr2:~# wget http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
--2011-09-13 11:18:56--  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 8.43M/s   in 12s

2011-09-13 11:19:08 (8.29 MB/s) - `100mb.test' saved [104857600/104857600]

September 13, 2011 @ 11:25 am | Reply

Borja:
I don’t believe this offer :( o_O
September 13, 2011 @ 12:19 pm | Reply
- Filipe:
  Hi,
  It’s real. Believe it.
  Thank you!
  September 13, 2011 @ 12:39 pm | Reply
Vipies:
Nice ‘office’. At least it was not a ‘japanese restaurant’ :P
September 13, 2011 @ 2:04 pm | Reply
mrm2005:
@Filipe : Your Shopping Card has a problem. when i checked Gigabit port upgrade & 3-months payment schedule, it just added the upgrade price for the first month,not 3.
September 13, 2011 @ 2:35 pm | Reply
- Filipe:
  You are correct. I guess that WHMCS is going to charge 0.5€ per month, (1.8€*3 + 0.5€ on the first month) and then recurring 0.5€ per month. The addon is correctly configured. Of course we can manually override this.
  Thank you for your support, mrm20005. It means a lot to us.
  September 13, 2011 @ 2:46 pm | Reply

Daniel:

Test 1:

[root@fr ~]# 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, 5.25052 seconds, 205 MB/s

Test 2:

[root@fr ~]# wget http://proof.ovh.net/files/1Gio.dat -O /dev/null
--2011-09-13 20:12:32--  http://proof.ovh.net/files/1Gio.dat
Resolving proof.ovh.net... 188.165.12.106, 2001:41d0:2:876a::1
Connecting to proof.ovh.net|188.165.12.106|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 1073741824 (1.0G) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `/dev/null'

100%[====================================>] 1,073,741,824 11.5M/s   in 89s

2011-09-13 20:14:01 (11.5 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [1073741824/1073741824]

Test 3:

http://browse.geekbench.ca/geekbench2/view?id=480985

September 14, 2011 @ 12:15 am | Reply

Miguel Ângelo Santos Pereira / MrGeneral:
Hmm a Portuguese company, I should check this out, but no money right now :D
September 14, 2011 @ 3:08 am | Reply
sanchaz:
shame servers are not located in Portugal… that would be nice
September 14, 2011 @ 4:16 am | Reply
- Filipe:
  Hello,
  At first, we were trying to focus our attention on dedicated servers in portugal. But the prices are way high, wich makes a low cost sale not viable.
  Nevertheless, we never stop searching for new servers, and new places to host our clients. One major problem in Portugal hosting, is the price per IP Address. Maybe when IPv6 is working 100%, we’ll get decent prices on that.
  Thank you!
  September 14, 2011 @ 9:18 am | Reply
  - Miguel Ângelo Santos Pereira / MrGeneral:
    IPv6 is fully working @ NFSi :-)
    September 15, 2011 @ 2:34 am | Reply
    - Filipe:
      Hello,
      I was refering to the Data Center infrastructure to support IPv6. I was refering to the global population. I’m guessing that maybe 10% of all ISP’s are actually using IPv6?
      September 15, 2011 @ 8:05 am | Reply
    - Miguel Ângelo Santos Pereira / MrGeneral:
      It’s just one more big feature for the IPv6 enthusiasts ;-)
      September 16, 2011 @ 3:56 pm | Reply
    - Filipe:
      Hmm, I’ve just noticed that my response doesn’t make any sense. Let me re-phrase it:
      Hello,
      I wasn’t refering to the Data Center infrastructure to support IPv6. I was refering to the global population. I’m guessing that maybe 10% of all ISP’s are actually using IPv6?
      September 16, 2011 @ 3:59 pm | Reply
    - Miguel Ângelo Santos Pereira / MrGeneral:
      I know, read my post :D
      September 16, 2011 @ 4:03 pm | Reply
    - Filipe:
      Yes, indeed it’s a great feature. :)
      September 16, 2011 @ 4:06 pm | Reply
    - Spirit:
      Miguel Ângelo Santos Pereira, vps host can’t live mainly from “IPv6 enthusiasts” and business can’t base on IPv6 solely yet – this is what he try to tell you, but you know this anyway :)
      September 16, 2011 @ 4:09 pm | Reply
    - Miguel Ângelo Santos Pereira / MrGeneral:
      I surely do sir :-)
      It’s just one feature that I’d love to see (Portugal based though) :-), you’re completely right.
      September 16, 2011 @ 4:31 pm | Reply
Wira:
Hello,
Seems that they have increase the price..
Anyway newbie question, can I use vpn (pptp or openvpn) on xen vps?
Thanks
September 16, 2011 @ 3:01 pm | Reply
Filipe:
Hello,
our price remains the same for this package.
and yes, you can install openvpn on xen.
Thank you!
September 16, 2011 @ 3:23 pm | Reply
- Wira:
  Ups.. sorry my mistake… I just saw the USD which is $2.7 in your site (after disc), and wroted here ~$2.46. :)
  September 17, 2011 @ 2:35 pm | Reply
  - Filipe:
    Oh no problem.
    Thank you
    September 17, 2011 @ 2:44 pm | Reply
- john:
  you have openvpn template?
  October 17, 2011 @ 5:27 am | Reply
  - Filipe:
    Hello,
    We do not have an OpenVPN template, but we do allow OpenVPN to be installed on every plan.
    thank you
    October 18, 2011 @ 6:27 pm | Reply
None:
Hi Filipe
The price is only in US$ (3$ instead of 2€). It’s possible to use € directely?
WHM only show US$
September 17, 2011 @ 3:11 pm | Reply
Filipe:
Hi,
You can use EUR. Just select that currency and you’ll be able to use it.
Thank you!
September 17, 2011 @ 10:50 pm | Reply
Tanmoy:
Can I use PPTP vpn?
September 18, 2011 @ 5:43 pm | Reply
- Filipe:
  Hi,
  yes you can!
  Thank you
  September 18, 2011 @ 5:44 pm | Reply
  - Tanmoy:
    I just ordered one :)
    September 19, 2011 @ 1:03 am | Reply
    - Tanmoy:
      I bought but that cost me $2.70. As per this post, the price should be $2.46, please check the Invoice #1776.
      September 19, 2011 @ 1:42 am | Reply
    - Tanmoy:
      @Filipe, please do a correction in recurring payment in my account. There I found €2.7 per month.
      September 20, 2011 @ 2:09 am | Reply
    - Filipe:
      Hello,
      It’s corrected. But please contact billing if you have any questions.
      Thank you
      September 20, 2011 @ 10:08 am | Reply
  - Daniel:
    You need to change the currency to Euro Tanmoy i had the same problem. You must visit the cart then change it there
    September 19, 2011 @ 2:04 am | Reply
    - Tanmoy:
      Thanks Daniel but I already bought :(
      @Filipe, please do something.
      September 19, 2011 @ 2:15 am | Reply
Carlos:
I buy vps starter from lusovps and works perfect !!!!! And only 1,80€
September 20, 2011 @ 12:05 am | Reply
john:
Is this instant setup or wait for forever?
September 23, 2011 @ 2:57 pm | Reply
- Filipe:
  Hi,
  It’s instant delivery.
  Thank you
  September 23, 2011 @ 4:31 pm | Reply
HeXel:
O serviço está hospedado em portugal continental ?
Cumprmentos,
September 25, 2011 @ 10:02 am | Reply
- Filipe:
  Não. O serviço está hospedado em Paris, França.
  Obrigado
  September 25, 2011 @ 11:06 am | Reply
  - HeXel:
    Interessante era ser em Portugal mas prontos. Provedores a revender OVH há muitos !
    September 26, 2011 @ 6:20 pm | Reply
- Daniel:
  Por favor, todos aqui falam Inglês!
  September 25, 2011 @ 11:18 am | Reply
  - HeXel:
    Learn Portuguese instead ;)
    September 26, 2011 @ 6:20 pm | Reply
    - sanchaz:
      You should learn Portuguese correctly, before being a smart ass and telling others to learn it! “prontos” is not in the Portuguese Dictionary.
      As for speaking English like Daniel asked, please do so! Not everyone here speaks Portuguese, your question might be someone else’s question too. Why should we have the same question in two different languages in one discussion topic just because someone isn’t bothered to speak English?
      Wouldn’t it be cool if the Chinese for example starting asking questions in their own language and then you’d have to wait for an answer to a question, that has already been answered before, just because you can’t read it!
      Speak English! It ain’t that hard…
      September 27, 2011 @ 5:20 pm | Reply
    - Blackstorm72:
      Agree, but…
      It has been said that English is the hardest language to learn. :D
      Or just Google Translate. “We are have VPS problem.” ….yeah.
      September 27, 2011 @ 8:52 pm | Reply
    - ab:
      sanchaz我不会说英语。
      September 27, 2011 @ 8:58 pm | Reply
    - drmike:
      If LEA, the site admin, is stuck using English, I think the rest of us can do so as well.
      September 27, 2011 @ 9:46 pm | Reply
john:
Your vpn offer is good, but ssh does not work.
October 18, 2011 @ 6:18 pm | Reply
Filipe:
Hello,
What do you mean by SSH doesn’t work? SSH is enabled by default on every VPS.
thank you
October 18, 2011 @ 6:26 pm | Reply

Savikov:

freevps.us/downloads/bench.sh

root@hydra:~# cat a.out
CPU model :  AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 4174 HE
Number of cores : 2
CPU frequency :  429900.244 MHz
Total amount of ram : 118 MB
Total amount of swap : 255 MB
System uptime :   2 min,
Download speed from CacheFly: 5.34MB/s
Download speed from Linode, Atlanta GA: 999KB/s
Download speed from Linode, Dallas, TX: 818KB/s
Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 355KB/s
Download speed from Linode, London, UK: 11.1MB/s
Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 1.68MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Singapore: 365KB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Seattle, WA: 468KB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 329KB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Washington, DC: 699KB/s
I/O speed :  136 MB/s

nice!

December 6, 2011 @ 11:55 am | Reply

Savikov:
Benchmark: http://dumpz.org/110496/
December 6, 2011 @ 11:42 pm | Reply
- Filipe:
  Hi,
  Thank you very much on your feedback! Much appreciated!
  Best Regards
  December 7, 2011 @ 1:32 am | Reply
Savikov:
Download 1GB file
http://dumpz.org/119958/
December 20, 2011 @ 11:20 pm | Reply
eldruin:
Hey!
I got a server from these guys and migrated a 500+ hits/day web here like a week ago and so far, it’s working like a charm :)
Thanks for the great prices!
January 6, 2012 @ 7:35 pm | Reply
Tudor B:
I just ordered VPS from them.
I’ll come back later with a review.
February 19, 2012 @ 6:27 pm | Reply