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MiniVPS - £3.75/Month 512MB OpenVZ in Manchester, UK

Martin, from MiniVPS, has sent us a new exclusive offer following the success of their previous 1GB UK Special plan.

UK Special – 512MB

  • 2 vCPU
  • 512MB Ram
  • 15GB Raid 10 HDD
  • 100GB Bandwidth
  • 1 IPv4 Address
  • 5 IPv6 Addresses
  • OpenVZ/SolusVM
  • 100mbit port
  • £3.75 [$6]| Direct Signup

MiniVPS is a brand of, Scottish registered company, Xavvo Ltd. Since their debut on LowEndBox in September 2011, MiniVPS have been featured eight times. Their most recent appearance was back in October when they were offering a $3.23/Month 256MB OpenVZ SSD VPS in France. Those who follow LowEndtalk, will be aware that MiniVPS are closing their french location, and focusing on the UK, following OVH’s decision to charge monthly fees for IP blocks.

They offer a 99.9% uptime guarantee and accept payment via PayPal, Moneybookers and Skrill. MiniVPS offer a no-questions-asked 7 day moneyback guarantee. Martin summed up their terms by saying, basically “Don’t do anything stupid”. IRC is allowed, as long as it doesn’t cause any problems, TOR is not permitted but they do allow VPN (pptp, openvpn, etc). For more information, you can read their Acceptable Usage Policy and Terms of Service.

Network Information:
Servers are located in Manchester, UK with Melbourne Server Hosting.

Test IPv4: 46.20.235.10
Test File [100Mb]: http://www.minivps.co.uk/100MB.dat
Test File [1000Mb]: http://www.minivps.co.uk/1GB.dat

11 Comments

  1. Roph:

    I’m a little sad at the closure of the EU location. From my minivps there I’d get about 50, sometimes up to 90mbit/s (Virgin Media ISP). Checking their UK test file, I’m hitting 4mbit/s tops.

    November 17, 2012 @ 2:13 am | Reply
  2. Speed from US:

    [root@ovzhost04 src]# wget http://87.117.225.220/100MB.dat
    –2012-11-18 17:31:13– http://87.117.225.220/100MB.dat
    Connecting to 87.117.225.220:80… connected.
    HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK
    Length: 104857600 (100M) [text/plain]
    Saving to: “100MB.dat”

    100%[==========================================================================================================================================================================================================================>] 104,857,600 6.61M/s in 16s

    2012-11-18 17:31:30 (6.18 MB/s) – “100MB.dat” saved [104857600/104857600]

    [root@ovzhost04 src]#

    Speed from DE:

    [root@ovzhost03 src]# wget http://87.117.225.220/100MB.dat
    –2012-11-18 17:32:01– http://87.117.225.220/100MB.dat
    Connecting to 87.117.225.220:80… connected.
    HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK
    Length: 104857600 (100M) [text/plain]
    Saving to: “100MB.dat”

    100%[==========================================================================================================================================================================================================================>] 104,857,600 10.8M/s in 9.4s

    2012-11-18 17:32:11 (10.7 MB/s) – “100MB.dat” saved [104857600/104857600]

    [root@ovzhost03 src]#

    November 18, 2012 @ 5:34 pm | Reply
  3. Andy:

    Hi

    If I go for one of these and find out it isn’t quite up to my needs how would I go about upgrading?

    Also any chance of a comparable deal on the VPS 4 (1GB) as I might be tempted to leave Linode.com if so?

    Any comments or benchmarks regarding i/o?

    November 26, 2012 @ 7:44 pm | Reply
    • If you do a search on here you’ll find our previous 1GB special – that might be what you’re after.

      As for upgrading, that’s easy enough. It’s all handled in your client area however I should point out you can only upgrade to one of our other standard plans. You can’t upgrade between specials. Let us know if you’ve got any other queries!

      November 27, 2012 @ 1:40 pm | Reply
  4. Damian:

    Will this offer be restocked?

    December 5, 2012 @ 3:24 am | Reply
    • Yep – new stock is added at 9am and 6pm every day :)

      December 5, 2012 @ 5:15 pm | Reply

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