Dev from India-based, Hong Kong incorporated MountSpot has been emailed me quite a few times over the last 30 days trying to get MountSpot listed here again. Trying to get another boost in number of subscribers so he can get a better price when trying to sell the company? Maybe. Dev did mention that they are not looking for any buyer for now, so let’s as well check out their latest offers. Same coupon code from last time, and you also get a smaller amount of discount. “Explorer Plan” is now $7/month this time with code supersaver, and here’s the sign up link with promo code filled. Same spec:
- 512MB guaranteed/598MB burstable memory
- 10GB storage
- 250GB/month data transfer on 100Mbps
- OpenVZ/SolusVM
MountSpot has also got a new yearly plan “exclusively for LowEndBox”. “LEB Yearly Special” (signup link) is at $45/year with 128MB memory, 5GB storage and 100GB/month data transfer.
PayPal or AlertPay, and CtrlS/Tier IV data center in India (test IP: 182.18.143.40). They are still one of the few Asian low end providers around with virtually no competition there, and it’s a pity as South/South East/Far East Asia has numerous Internet users — not just users but also developers who love low cost VPS solutions.
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E:\Users\zhao>ping 182.18.143.40 -t 正在 Ping 182.18.143.40 具有 32 字节的数据: 来自 182.18.143.40 的回复: 字节=32 时间=397ms TTL=46 来自 182.18.143.40 的回复: 字节=32 时间=399ms TTL=46 来自 182.18.143.40 的回复: 字节=32 时间=379ms TTL=46 来自 182.18.143.40 的回复: 字节=32 时间=380ms TTL=46 来自 182.18.143.40 的回复: 字节=32 时间=379ms TTL=46 来自 182.18.143.40 的回复: 字节=32 时间=378ms TTL=46 来自 182.18.143.40 的回复: 字节=32 时间=383ms TTL=46 182.18.143.40 的 Ping 统计信息: 数据包: 已发送 = 7，已接收 = 7，丢失 = 0 (0% 丢失)， 往返行程的估计时间(以毫秒为单位): 最短 = 378ms，最长 = 399ms，平均 = 385ms“They are still one of the few Asian low end providers around with virtually no competition there, and it’s a pity as South/South East/Far East Asia has numerous Internet users — not just users but also developers who love low cost VPS solutions.”
its always a sad thing that freaking datacenters in Asia isnt playing nice and giving the competitive edge because all of these tycoons are so comfortable with the monopoly here. hehe just a thought to share in the early morning =P
Yeah I have always wondered why the cost does not come down.
1. Hardware — majority of servers are actually manufactured in this part of the world.
2. Labour — cheap cheap cheap! Some are highly qualified as well.
3. Market — millions of people online looking for localised content there, talking about the scale of things.
But why so expensive lah?
Minimal fibre i’d assume?
Francisco
You might want to check
http://www.fareastgizmos.com/computing/while_in_korea_download_a_120minute_film_in_just_12_seconds.php
The problem isn’t regional lines, it’s international that is the issue.
If you can get one, China based dedicated servers are like $40 with uncapped 100Mbit of China-only traffic with extremely over priced international transit :)
Francisco
That’s probably because it is China.
Their government loves to restrict their Internet.
Chinese can’t use facebook and twitter, you know.
In Korea, I had about 20mbps speed from my home to VPS in America with no additional charge.
It is NOT a lack of fibre.
Take a read of http://voxel.net/blog/2011/10/routing-challenges-asia – they fibre is there and there’s multiple major players with trans-pacific submarine fibre. Sure, there’s a LOT more coming out of Europe, but ultimately if you’re in say Amsterdam, it’s actually likely you will end up routing via LINX with the many carriers – some you won’t. Asia is not much different, you’ll find yourself routing via one of a small number of exchanges.
The big issue as Voxel found there was the domination. Asian carriers don’t like competition using their fibre, which is stupid. But building relationships with them, you can find some nice routing.
Nah, why profit 10k when you can 1000k..
Just because you don’t know, that doesn’t mean there are no low-end Asian VPS :)
For example, I have 512MB XEN VPS from my home country for only $5/mo.
It is connected to 1Gbps port and according to Pingdom(ping/1min), its uptime is 99.98.
It is RAID10 protected and its CPU score (my personal benchmark) is same as Chicagovps.
There are bunch of other providers and their price and quality vary a lot.
There are many cheap and high quality Dedicated servers, too.
I’m using i7-2600k+8G+SATA3 1TBX2+1Gbps Share(10TB/mo) lease-to-own(1YR) for $120 and its uptime is now 99.99.
I’m also using cloud server for enterprise purpose and its uptime is 100% for 6 months.
I guess you don’t have good information about these Asian hosts because you have no access to non-English websites and most of Asians are not proficient in English to know LEB.
Mind to share the provider?
You need to be able to speak Korean. HaHa
If you can, which one are you interested in?
I wish .. alas though I’ve watched some K-movies only one or two expressions remembered.
Where?
Don’t worry, i can read Korean.
I like the “lah” part.
That was for Haas @ CripperZ. Still sharpening my Singlish :)
@LEA haha … dont worry lah, you are doing fine. I am sure you can see more singlish slangs in singapore forums like vr-zone.com and hardwarezone.com.sg =P
Walao eh samongs! LowEndAdmin learning Singlish!
Too many monopoly in Asia. Like for instance, major backbone / telecom in South East Asia are actually being acquired by a Singapore based company – SingTel which is also a government owned and funded company. Therefore market prices are pretty much controlled and manipulated by the upper stream.
@Haas : There’s no generous offer from SE Asia? for SEA Games perhaps? :P
in Indonesia 1 rack International bandwidth shared 512kbps 1:12 cost is ~ $600 USD or dedicated 1mbps for ~ $850 USD.
“Too many monopoly” seems rather contradictory :D
contracdicting to what? @gsrdgrdghd:
@gsrdgrdghd
LOL that’s exactly what I thought
for this question, I don’t know why for other countries in Aisa, but if you are in China, you should know in fact there are only two ISPs in China(China telecom & China Unicom). They dominate this market. As a common user, You must pay about 120RMB/month($20 equivlent) to connect to internet( and the BW is only 2M). Compare to its income level, it’s too expensive! And non-english speaking is another question. And except these two point, I think The Great Firewall(GFW) is another killer, Facebook, twitter, youtube, blogspot… are all blocked by GFW.
The speed in Korea / Hongkong / Japan as far as I know is very fast, however, the cost is lower than China.
and GFW blocks some external access to Chinese contents.
I found some movies in youku cannot be accessed just because I’m out of China.
But you know, many Chinese know how to use VPN or proxy.
Such a meaningless GFW.
Chinese government doesn’t understand they are restricting themselves from great chance of becoming datahub of Eastern Asia.
Many of the answers here are spot on (regarding low LEB providers in Asia):
a. Greedy telecoms in Asia would rather squeeze the bandwidth for residential users that pay at least $20 per month, than encourage the growth of LEB providers that cut in on their bandwidth plan. China and India alone make up 2Billion of the total population on the planet – that’s a lot of people to con into capped home internet plans. Plus a lot of Asians hog torrent sites and game hubs, 24/7 – that really drives resources to the brink.
b. Ring of Fire, Typhoon belt. I think Asia gets more quake and typhoons than the West Coast and East Coast put together.
These are enough reasons why the demand for LEB in the US and Europe will remain high. So keep those promos and discounts coming, Asians are here to get ya lah.
it is because most USA and EU traffics are considered “local” traffic as most tier-1 carriers peer with one another so they don’t pay much interconnection and termination fees hence they are cheap, most carriers in EU and USA don’t pay interconnection fees for traffic going out of of their borders whereas counties connecting to them does. Read this to have better understanding http://bit.ly/rpJRP2
Why a fucking bit.ly link and not the real link?
We are not on twitter…
:)
They like using them for some reason even though he’s been shown that some folks can’t follow them. Don’t ask him for the corrected link though. He won’t give it.
He’s about to lose a customer because of this.
http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/treg/Events/Seminars/GSR/GSR07/discussion_papers/Eric_lie_international_interconnection.pdf
the link is too long.
@Roel, good article.
That’s disappointing, I was hoping for something less than the previous offer of $6.58, not more. And no, I don’t play the yearly offers game anymore, make that at most quarterly.
From my home connection:
aaand
Pretty ok i think
I wonder if Mountspot are still cold calling / chatting for business? It really annoys me when people waste my time like this!
This was them a couple of days ago on my livechat:
Youch.
*Yawn* – you’re clearly not in to the whole sales/marketing thing.
This is what being a sales person is all about. You don’t sit on your ass and wait for the sales to come to you – that’s what the low performing sales people in this industry do. The real sales guys who make the big bucks are the ones who go fishing. You have to be a person who’s not afraid of approaching others and someone who can easily develop a rapport. Cold calling, chatting and e-mailing is what sales people do and have to do and really pisses me off what petty idiots like yourself go ranting that sales people are wrong when they e-mail you or chat to you. It’s not like they’ve spammed you – they’ve made an honest personal approach.
Maybe you need some sales 101’s.
Nope, you’re right, it’s not spam. It’s worse than spam, because spam is dealt with automatically by my spam filters 99% of the time, and the rest of the time it takes me one second to spot and delete it.
This, however, is intrusive like cold-calling on the telephone is, or like some asshole cold-calling my house. People have to take the time to answer the phone/door/livechat/whatever, and then say they’re not interested, and then deal with the salesman trying to persuade you. This is untargeted marketing bullshit, and I would avoid a company who operates like this.
Same as these idiots in the shopping mall trying to get me to sign up to their ISP or whatever. No good ISP has to hassle people when they’re shopping. Anyone who wants the internet isn’t waiting for a good offer while out buying beer. Same as any other cold-calling crap, if someone’s interested, they’d do research and seek out a solution, or at least announce an intention to take offers, not just sit silently and wait for offers to come in.
Fuck salespeople.
imho cold-calling should be banned by law.
If i need something i am going to look for it, i don’t want someone to offer me something i don’t even need.
Wish we could something about all those unsolicited resumes I get as well. :P
In all fairness he did contact me on our sales line for OUR potential customers. Not only wasting my time but also theres. I would never buy anything from someone knocking on my door, nor would I buy anything from a company cold calling me. Personally if its an email which I don’t really have to read im perfectly happy, but bothering me like that I do not agree with.
Fuck salespeople. Disgusting spammers.
Yes, QuickWeb was right. Network within the country is not too costly but making it international costs a lot since the inter-connectivity is not in big scale.
IPv6?!
no.
This company is SELLING I think http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1092408
Already linked in the article?
Any Debit Card payment option avail for Indian clients?
You can do bank transfer to our Indian Bank account or send a cheque. We accept PayPal, Alertpay as well.
Ordered Kindly send the Bank A/c. Details :)
We have sent you the bank details. Let us know once you made the transfer.
this VPS is $21.95 right now, 24 November 2011
my mistake:
Subtotal: $21.95 USD
$14.95 USD Recurring Discount: $14.95 USD
Total Due Today: $7.00 USD
Total Recurring: $7.00 USD Monthly
Great host! I like the speed of the server from singapore. My 2nd/3rd month with them.
However i’m not sure why but there are quite a bit of downtimes.
can’t open their site even vps panel.
is there any reason why?
Their datacenter’s internet connection seems to be down. You can see that http://www.ctrls.in is not accessible too.
It’s just fine, they just hate Russians <_<
Francisco
Right, the website seems to work fine, I didn’t bother to actually check it in the browser, just looked at the traceroute and saw that it doesn’t go anywhere:
And now we have information that MountSpot has been suspended for non-payment:
http://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/730/mountspot-seems-to-be-down
What bugs me is Mountspot once again blaming the top-notch data center for several days of downtime when the reason is overdue payment.
even vps ssh can’t login
Yes, the mountspot.com website and my two VPS at Mountspot are still down. Does anyone know when this downtime started?
They are down since 11/24/2011 5:54:40 PM UTC. Just a couple of days after I had paid for the period 03/12/2011 – 02/01/2012 :-(
Seems like terrible DC that took 2 days to fix the networking issues.
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?p=7819990#post7819990
Unlikely it was the fault of the DC.
Francisco
VPS Up 11/27/2011 10:25:59 AM UTC (Downtime: 2 d 4 h 50 m)
BTW uptime
10:36:06 up 10 days, 22:28, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.02, 0.00
https://flippa.com/2668729-3000-revenue-web-hosting-business-in-top-market-reputed-business
https://flippa.com/auctions/2659956/due-diligence
“”There is no drawback of the business and it is running very fine. Any proof can be requested.””
Mountspot is down again :(
Still down :(
Mountspot explanation posted PayPal dispute:
Bullshit. This has been like that since 1 week ago or more right? Also the past outage… bad bad
I Called Dev on his number and u got my backup.
+919829839691
They are bluffing .
They are winding up .
Thank god i haven’t paid on yearly basis as he requested
If serious they make website online
I think website stop 2 weeks and email stop
Can not visit this website at this time…
Great host! I like the speed of the server
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