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Newwebsite - $6.95 512MB OpenVZ VPS

Newwebsite.com Via this WHT offer. Newwebsite.com is a Virginia-based hosting provider that has its domain registered since 1997! According to its about page it started in web design business, moved to hosting 2 years later, had its own small DC, and now have all its equipment with OnePartner.com in Duffield VA. It has released some low end specials starting from $6.95/month:

  • 512MB guaranteed/2048MB burstable memory
  • 25GB storage
  • 500GB/month data transfer
  • OpenVZ/SolusVM
  • DirectAdmin/Installatron included

Sounds like pretty good deal for those looking for DirectAdmin bundles to have a ready-to-run VPS for hosting websites. 256MB-512MB under 7 bucks seems to be the norm these days although those are no where near “low end box” IMHO. Well. The world moves on and I shall go back to play with my Commodore 64 and Apple IIe.

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35 Comments

  1. Anonymous:

    At $6.95/month their business is not sustainable:

    DirectAdmin $5/month
    Installatron $1/month
    SolusVM $10/month per server, assuming 10,20,30,40 VPS per server – $1-$0.25

    So their base cost without the server cost and bandwidth = $7-$6.25

    May 26, 2010 @ 7:50 am | Reply
  2. Hmm this seems to be a too good to be true scenario so I signed up but in their signup page they didn’t even ask for my payment info. I just got redirected to a page telling me everything will be setup soon after I placed my order. I’m confused now.

    May 26, 2010 @ 8:23 am | Reply
  3. David:

    @anonymous

    Most of these budget providers don’t have sustainable business models. A lot oversell till it comes out of their ears, then maybe sell the company off (like BoxVPS did)

    May 26, 2010 @ 8:53 am | Reply
  4. Virpus used to do $7 special with DirectAdmin as well. Maybe they can source some very cheap licenses? But yes, many providers listed on this blog are in fact not sustainable.

    May 26, 2010 @ 9:15 am | Reply
  5. Note: the budget plans may be just an action – means to attract people to the service. In this given case it is said the specials may vanish at any moment.

    May 26, 2010 @ 10:21 am | Reply
  6. Anonymous:

    DirectAdmin’s lowest price point is $5, Installatron on 50 units $1, you can get probably get it for 50c on 100-200+

    May 26, 2010 @ 10:46 am | Reply
  7. Just got my login details. The VPS is very fast and everything seems ok so far. Still haven’t paid yet though…

    May 26, 2010 @ 7:19 pm | Reply
  8. @Mike, they do have WHMCS system. Once you logged in you will see your invoice. I was a little surprised seeing an e-mail from them stating I passed the fraud check when I didn’t even paid yet.

    May 26, 2010 @ 7:54 pm | Reply
  9. Yeah, I just logged into WHMCS before I read your message, and noticed the invoice.

    May 26, 2010 @ 7:59 pm | Reply
  10. Start Benchmark Run: Wed May 26 16:19:41 EDT 2010
     16:19:41 up  7:52,  1 user,  load average: 0.03, 0.10, 0.08
    
    End Benchmark Run: Wed May 26 16:30:58 EDT 2010
     16:30:58 up  8:04,  1 user,  load average: 13.83, 5.94, 2.70
    
    
                         INDEX VALUES
    TEST                                        BASELINE     RESULT      INDEX
    
    Dhrystone 2 using register variables        376783.7 24196658.8      642.2
    Double-Precision Whetstone                      83.1     1504.8      181.1
    Execl Throughput                               188.3     7902.7      419.7
    File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks         2672.0   195394.0      731.3
    File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks           1077.0    54361.0      504.7
    File Read 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks        15382.0  1433691.0      932.1
    Pipe-based Context Switching                 15448.6   728688.3      471.7
    Pipe Throughput                             111814.6  2244097.0      200.7
    Process Creation                               569.3    23692.2      416.2
    Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)                    44.8     1450.0      323.7
    System Call Overhead                        114433.5  3698461.9      323.2
                                                                     =========
         FINAL SCORE                                                     418.6
    
    May 26, 2010 @ 8:34 pm | Reply
  11. earl:

    @ Evo, Thats good enough for me! I just placed my order, so we will see..

    May 27, 2010 @ 5:09 am | Reply
  12. Bob:

    I tried to go for quarterly payment, but they only billed me for 1 month. My guess is the price will be hiked next month :(

    May 30, 2010 @ 3:07 pm | Reply
  13. I love how people assume they know what our costs are. People have no idea what our costs are and we plan to keep it that way. We are not beginners at this. We have been here long before most of the big companies out there now.

    June 5, 2010 @ 10:12 pm | Reply
  14. David:

    @ 10. Evo,
    How do you run those benchmarks? (on debian)

    June 13, 2010 @ 4:00 pm | Reply
  15. David – I run the benchmark on Cent OS. It should be almost the same on Debian.

    June 15, 2010 @ 3:15 am | Reply
  16. I picked up one of the 11.95 VPS packages for hosting my sites and the 6.95 VPS for use as development/test environment. I must say I have been really impressed with the support. Floyd forgot to add the additional IP addresses on one of my VPS instances. I e-mailed him and asked about it. He promptly replied with apologies and they were added within 5 minutes. The servers have been solid with zero downtime, good speeds, and support requests have been answered quickly. Floyd (the owner) is doing things right it seems.

    June 16, 2010 @ 1:08 am | Reply
  17. I for one would love to know more about the $5 price point for Direct Admin. With 122 servers, I’m paying $19 per box. I don’t see a $5 price point. (Although I no longer see my $19 price point either. Hmmm….)

    June 17, 2010 @ 12:07 am | Reply
  18. I’ts a code 500 license for internal providers you need to request it from DirectAdmin.

    June 17, 2010 @ 12:41 am | Reply
  19. Thanks. We get the internal pricing even though we do a mix of shared and dedicated. Be a long while if ever until we hit 500 servers.

    June 17, 2010 @ 7:29 pm | Reply
  20. Eric:
       BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 5.1.2)
    
       System: xxxx.xxxxxxx.xxx: GNU/Linux
       OS: GNU/Linux -- 2.6.18-194.3.1.el5.028stab069.6 -- #1 SMP Wed May 26 18:31:05 MSD 2010
       Machine: i686 (i386)
       Language: en_US.utf8 (charmap="UTF-8", collate="UTF-8")
       CPU 0: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5410 @ 2.33GHz (4666.7 bogomips)
              Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization
       CPU 1: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5410 @ 2.33GHz (4666.0 bogomips)
              Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization
       CPU 2: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5410 @ 2.33GHz (4666.1 bogomips)
              Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization
       CPU 3: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5410 @ 2.33GHz (4666.1 bogomips)
              Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization
       04:33:24 up 22:23,  1 user,  load average: 0.17, 0.08, 0.02; runlevel 3
    
    ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Benchmark Run: Fri Jun 18 2010 04:33:24 - 05:05:50
    4 CPUs in system; running 1 parallel copy of tests
    
    Dhrystone 2 using register variables        9521686.2 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
    Double-Precision Whetstone                     2186.9 MWIPS (10.2 s, 7 samples)
    Execl Throughput                               3495.6 lps   (29.4 s, 2 samples)
    File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks        407056.2 KBps  (30.0 s, 2 samples)
    File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks          113307.4 KBps  (30.0 s, 2 samples)
    File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks        713582.8 KBps  (30.0 s, 2 samples)
    Pipe Throughput                              692754.6 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
    Pipe-based Context Switching                 101081.1 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
    Process Creation                              10921.8 lps   (30.0 s, 2 samples)
    Shell Scripts (1 concurrent)                   4164.6 lpm   (60.0 s, 2 samples)
    Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)                   1163.9 lpm   (60.0 s, 2 samples)
    System Call Overhead                         604720.7 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
    
    System Benchmarks Index Values               BASELINE       RESULT    INDEX
    Dhrystone 2 using register variables         116700.0    9521686.2    815.9
    Double-Precision Whetstone                       55.0       2186.9    397.6
    Execl Throughput                                 43.0       3495.6    812.9
    File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks          3960.0     407056.2   1027.9
    File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks            1655.0     113307.4    684.6
    File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks          5800.0     713582.8   1230.3
    Pipe Throughput                               12440.0     692754.6    556.9
    Pipe-based Context Switching                   4000.0     101081.1    252.7
    Process Creation                                126.0      10921.8    866.8
    Shell Scripts (1 concurrent)                     42.4       4164.6    982.2
    Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)                      6.0       1163.9   1939.9
    System Call Overhead                          15000.0     604720.7    403.1
                                                                       ========
    System Benchmarks Index Score                                         725.9
    
    ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Benchmark Run: Fri Jun 18 2010 05:05:50 - 05:38:21
    4 CPUs in system; running 4 parallel copies of tests
    
    Dhrystone 2 using register variables       37647727.5 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
    Double-Precision Whetstone                     8449.8 MWIPS (10.2 s, 7 samples)
    Execl Throughput                               5749.2 lps   (29.7 s, 2 samples)
    File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks        221723.3 KBps  (30.0 s, 2 samples)
    File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks           73437.5 KBps  (30.0 s, 2 samples)
    File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks        463451.5 KBps  (30.0 s, 2 samples)
    Pipe Throughput                             2759811.7 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
    Pipe-based Context Switching                 903765.5 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
    Process Creation                              19674.1 lps   (30.0 s, 2 samples)
    Shell Scripts (1 concurrent)                   9349.0 lpm   (60.0 s, 2 samples)
    Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)                   1477.5 lpm   (60.1 s, 2 samples)
    System Call Overhead                        1791599.3 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
    
    System Benchmarks Index Values               BASELINE       RESULT    INDEX
    Dhrystone 2 using register variables         116700.0   37647727.5   3226.0
    Double-Precision Whetstone                       55.0       8449.8   1536.3
    Execl Throughput                                 43.0       5749.2   1337.0
    File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks          3960.0     221723.3    559.9
    File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks            1655.0      73437.5    443.7
    File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks          5800.0     463451.5    799.1
    Pipe Throughput                               12440.0    2759811.7   2218.5
    Pipe-based Context Switching                   4000.0     903765.5   2259.4
    Process Creation                                126.0      19674.1   1561.4
    Shell Scripts (1 concurrent)                     42.4       9349.0   2205.0
    Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)                      6.0       1477.5   2462.5
    System Call Overhead                          15000.0    1791599.3   1194.4
                                                                       ========
    
    June 18, 2010 @ 9:57 am | Reply
  21. I must say, that this is a wonderful service! I’ve been using the VPS for about a month now, and it’s absolutely great – the server, the support and of course the price! Maybe they could add 6 months and 1 year subscription options and plans with more bandwidth. I hope that the quality will remain the same in the future!

    June 24, 2010 @ 11:03 pm | Reply
  22. We now have XEN VPS’s available for under $7. I don’t know if a link here would be considered spam so I won’t post it. But you can see the ad at WHT.

    June 28, 2010 @ 6:10 pm | Reply
  23. Eric:

    @Newwebsite.com

    As a current customer on this special, would I be able to switch over to Xen (and have you move my data, etc for me?) w/same disk, b/w, etc & cost?

    July 11, 2010 @ 6:48 pm | Reply
  24. @Eric

    We can do this for you but for the exact same specs Xen is a little more. Mostly its because of the memory. I am trying to be careful how much I post here because I don’t want to spam. There is a WHT post a few weeks ago with the Xen link to the specials.

    July 11, 2010 @ 8:56 pm | Reply
  25. ghost:

    … the website and nameserver was disappear…

    July 16, 2010 @ 9:48 am | Reply
  26. ghost:

    seems the promote already expired…

    July 16, 2010 @ 10:00 am | Reply
  27. @ghost
    What are you talking about?

    July 16, 2010 @ 12:59 pm | Reply
  28. Newwebsite.com hasn’t missed a bit on my own tracker. I guess he was talking about the offer has expired?

    July 16, 2010 @ 1:10 pm | Reply
  29. I don’t know why he would say the offer has expired either.

    July 16, 2010 @ 1:13 pm | Reply
  30. ghost:

    sorry i make a mistake,
    i didn’t find your VPS on your website home page link,
    so i think it’s expired.

    disappear, that’s because when i want to link to your websit before,
    i got fail almost 2~3 minutes,
    then it’s ok.

    but i can’t delete before comment…

    July 16, 2010 @ 2:10 pm | Reply
  31. Hi Newwebsite.com, please give me test ip!

    July 16, 2010 @ 3:46 pm | Reply
  32. There is a test download file at the WHT offer.

    July 16, 2010 @ 6:08 pm | Reply
  33. Tom:

    Horrible experience with this host http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?p=6996576#post6996576
    STAY AWAY people =//

    September 6, 2010 @ 11:24 am | Reply
  34. Sorry Tom has had a bad experience. It is inevitable. Not one host is going to be able to please everybody. All we can say is we stand behind the money back guarantee. If you don’t like the service all it costs you is a little time.

    September 7, 2010 @ 2:48 pm | Reply

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