Adam from NordicVPS has sent me a very nice exclusive offer for LowEndBox readers. For $15/year you can get the following VPS (OVZ128-LEB order link):
- 128MB guaranteed/256MB burstable memory
- 15GB storage
- 600GB/month data transfer
- OpenVZ/SolusVM
For $35/year it upgrades you to OVZ256-LEB (order link) with 256MB/512MB memory, 30GB storage and 1000GB/month data transfer.
No prize for guessing where they copied their plans from. I guess not much competition at this point as BuyVM has already sold out all the stock. BuyVM servers are also located in Fremont (good for Asia), but NordicVPS has its servers in Germany with Hetzner.
Now on annual plans — I understand that it makes sense for the providers. PayPal and credit card merchant accounts take a big chunk out for processing fee, and having fund available up front also helps to build and extend the business. Just that after the RackVM incident — make sure you do your due diligence and backup often 🙂
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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.
LowEndBox’s legacy, and its thriving community, is a direct result of LEA’s original vision.
Mine is down for 14 days now, few days ago I was trying to rebulid my os and after that i can`t boot it. Ticket submited, of course no response
Compare the benchmark speed i7 975 Extreme with other budget VPS providers, most offer on very old and outdated “Core2 Quad” or old XEONs like L5420 @ 2.50GHz
Intel Xeon E5420 @ 2.50GHz – Points: 3,697 (Note its the E*-seris and not slower L*)
Intel Core i7 975 @ 3.33GHz – Points: 7,035
All new OVZ512 and higher VPS’s are hosted on:
Intel Core i7 980X @ 3.33GHz – Points: Intel Core i7 995X @ 3.60GHz
Still fast, compared to Dual CPU of old XEON 5420s:
[Dual CPU] Intel Xeon E5420 @ 2.50GHz 7,771
[Dual CPU] Intel Xeon L5420 @ 2.50GHz 7,727
With i7 EXTREME series we use, with 1 single core you can get up to 3.73 GHz with Intel® Turbo Boost Technology
We provide powerful servers for peanuts — If you need Premium support/services please consider our Premium VPS offers.
Benchmark results taken from: http://cpubenchmark.net/
That is nice but i am sure that even fastest node can have limited number of VPSs…
So on your site should be statment like this: We offer a lot of plans but if they are not expensive you wont get support and fair tretment, also you might have 60% of monthly downtime.
No one will respect you when u treat people like that, and if i were customer in need of VPS i will never buy one from company like that.
We sell virtual private servers cheaper than regular shared webhosting, so please, we try by best effort to provide a good service to all our customers but we can not please all, thats impossible when dealing with customers in the budget segment — there will always be someone who is unhappy with the service provided.
We offer OpenVZ, XEN, HVM and KVM servers in USA, UK and Germany and have many happy customers and we will keep up the effort and improve our services.
“We provide powerful servers for peanuts”
Don’t be such a hypocrite. You provide crappy service with extremely a lot of downtimes, regular IPs renumbering, regular support ticket ignorance and basicly UNRESPONSIBLE APROACH which just waste our time. Your vpses aren’t worth even 0.50$/yearly because simple fact – our desktop PCs are more stable than your crappy servers with 65% uptime.
A please DO NOT request from us again as last time when thinngs settled a bit after weeks of ignorance to open tickets. Our tickets are as you see reports everywhere and as you know for your own ticket system opened and unanswered per weeks.
Hosts like you are bring to this industry bad name.
@ NordicVPS
I would like to return to my old OVZ512 node 4 x faster than what i have now. When i yum update it takes ages to update and install of updates is slow
I see i got 3GHZ CPU it does not help to speed up. Please guys fix this or atleast demigrate me back to node OVZ512.
Can you submit a ticket with your username? I will make sure the VPS is migrated to a faster server right away.
You ignore our tickets anyway… so don’t be such hypocrite now. Your request to submit ticket after all this ignorance is nothing else than insultive. Beside that I predicted that you will appear sooner or latter after things settle down a bit..
Things will settle down, but what about downtime of 60% / month. What about our costs for having to move our customers somewhere else, what about our lost money not just directly to you but for our lost customers. Some of us acctualy care about all customers and not just for ones that pay a lot. In this buissnes 5% downtime can be fatal and ruin reputation, and your downtime excede uptime! link to same thing here: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?p=7320241#post7320241
lupetalo actually I don’t think that things will settle up soon. As you see our vpses are still mostly down or uselles… and there’s announced another migration (in our language another 2 weeks of downtime and chaos) in some month or so which means… TWO MONTHS OF DISABLED SERVICE.
This crook lured us with cheap price for year pre-payment and we can’t do nothing than waiting till our payment without service expire.
LEA, you censored my comment? Why? =(
Btw, at least NordicVPS is here to comment about the problem.
I don’t think I explicitly delete any of your comment. Caught by Akismet?
Oh lookie, a zero post poster. Anyone want to put any money on it being a sock puppet of some sort?
Gotta admit that that while I feel sorry for the clients having issues, anyone who’s hung around for 2 months while going through all this needs to step back and question why they have hung around for 2 months. I would have been gone on days 3 or 5 to be honest.
@NordicVPS, folks up above have raised issues. Are you ignoring them on purpose? Doesn’t make you or your company look that great. And as noted up above it makes the rest of us in this business also look bad. Been a lot of that lately around here.
drmike it’s our mistake partially – we got lured with this 15$/year or so.. deal, so we don’t have much choice than waiting this poor year with them to expire without using their service at all.
They ignore our tickets per weeks. Not some day or two. Per weeks. And it’s not first time.
previous time when there was one whole week of downtime they vanished completely till node didn’t come back. Then they appeared in public and requested from us to open ticket disregarding the fact that they had still all our previously unanswered tickets… and now is completely same.
It’s not like day or two of downtime. This try to reduce costs with squeezing few hundreds customers on single “super node” failed miserable and we are almost 2 weeks with service uncapable to host anything.. and unanswered tickets of course. Two weeks of downtime in this business isn’t little thing, it’s not first time with them and issue still isn’t solved. Infact our vpses aren’t available even now.
side note: this zero poster doesn’t look like one of us. He pasted “cpu MHz : 3341.637″… well, our cpu is limited to 800 mhz but we can’t even log to vps most of the time.
I think its about time to either have this fixed in the next 48hrs or start offering
full refunds to anyone that has been locked into a yearly payment.
CPU Mhz issue should have been solved now 🙂
Customers VM01 still miss this update, but they will follow soon.
You mean that you have 2 nodes now… one for few high end vps customers and second “high spec failure” for hundreds and hundreds low end vps customers migrated from 4 or so previous nodes to reduce costs? And that one node works while second wont before third nordivps chaos fiasco (next migration)?
VPS’s ARE STILL DOWN!!!!!!!
How much more downtime do you need to get a new host?
How much do you need to understand that we are all already paid for this!
I personaly 70$, offcorse i will try to get what i already paid.
Whats your VPS username ? Submit a ticket and we will sort you out right now.
I did submit about 5 tickets… VPS12510
I checked, one VPS is online, second VPS seems corrupt.
Respond to the latest ticket reply from us and we will sort out server #2
Its up.
[root@srv1 ~]# uptime
13:44:45 up 21 min, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
[root@srv1 ~]# cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep name
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 975 @ 3.33GHz
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 975 @ 3.33GHz
Cpu looks good
lupetalo yes you have two cores but now try properly 🙂
grep ‘cpu MHz’ /proc/cpuinfo
cpu MHz : 1670.812
proc at full speed
I’m stuck down at 835mhz on 1 core still.
Please check your VPS now! All VPS’s on VMxx nodes has been updated to full speed now.
Do not expect 16 cores for a budget VPS especially one with just 128 MB RAM.
Currently this is how we set up the CPU-share:
OVZ128: 1 core
OVZ256: 2 cores
OVZ512: 2 cores
VPS’s with 1G RAM and above: 4 cores
No one expect this.
Infact we want just that nordicVPS would finally work as it should without constant long term downtimes, regular migrations, regular IPs renumbering and finally with some communication when things go wrong instead complete ignorance. With other words we want some more responsible and mature approach from you and here is completely irrelevant how much anyone paid for service.
AND READ FRIKKIN TICKETS! OR REMOVE THIS USELESS SUPPORT SYSTEM WHICH IS AVAILABLE FOR CUSTOMERS ONLY WHEN THINGS SETTLE A BIT BUT NEVER WHEN THERE ARE SOME ISSUES… You always appear later to say how sorry you’re for some downtime or so. Are you sorry also for your ignorant approach when you screw up things because this is what usually people pissed off the most..
Let me give you one advice. From this what I saw regarding nordicVPS this isn’t first neither last chaotic situation. I am pretty sure that there will be more in future, but you know what? COMMUNICATE. READ TICKET, ANSWER THEM.. GIVE US IMPRESSION THAT YOU CARE and many things will be easier for both sides. It’s not our fault that you don’t make money from your low end plan so don’t stigmatize customers because bought it. For all this, including long downtimes can be blamed only you. So remember… as you have support ticket system start to use it. Use it regulary no matter if there’s something wrong or not. We don’t use WHT and lowendbox for complains just because we’re bored. We often use them because proper channels like supoort tickets are ignored.
If any of my tickets was replied with answers (like they did in start), i would never post something here…. If i was told that there could be possibility of long downtime i would move customers somewherw else (two days is enough for nameserver ip propagation), and return them when migration or whatever was over… Offcorse there should be some compensation for downtime but so far nothing…
I can’t get rid of impression like they (or he – it’s most likely just one man host) looking on those issues with long downtimes just like little nuisance. His unresposnible approach is somehow scary… Migration? Ok… few minutes, maybe few hours… but FEW WEEKS of downtimes and still isn’t finished? What the hell is he thinking?!
I wouldn’t post around either if there would be some communication. If he would give impresison like he really care…
How much brain do you think a kid needs to order hetzner server and for 20$ ask someone to install openvz on it?
Another case of suspension because of DDoS. My VPS was suspended today because of ‘DDoS’. No detailed explanation. Just “Suspension Reason: DDOS Attack”.
Interestingly, I wasn’t hosting any websites or anything on it. I used it occasionally for testing stuff. No reason why it should be DDoSed.
It’s not DDOS, he didn’t pay the bill.