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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We’ll have more stock today, don’t worry about that 😉
Francisco
OK, I’m lost. Francisco, who do you work for? Seems like you’re following up on a lot of these. 🙂
Direct Order link: https://nordicvps.com/order/ovz128-leb
what is the different with buyvm ?
For the same $15/year plan:
+ More data transfer (600 GB, not 500)
– No IPv6 here (buyvm.net does provide 16 native IPv6 addresses)
* And the obvious difference in location (USA vs Germany)
Personally I care little about the extra 100 GB (who goes near their transfer limit anyway), whereas IPv6 is a very important feature for me in a VPS offer.
@rm We provide this generous offer to the LEB community.
We provide the same offer in US. Order link for OVZ128-US: http://nordicvps.com/order/ovz128-usa
We will release IPv6 to all our customers (current and new) once we are ready to provide this feature. We consider releasing a server with IPv6 support in Germany very soon.
and what is the different between softlayer and openvz ?
@Francisco — ha that’s good to hear. Your staffs must be shifting boxes to racks like crazy for the past few days 🙂
@Beny — Adam @ NordicVPS is Danish, but Francisco @ BuyVM is Canadian — whichever you prefer 🙂 Two different server locations as well.
any info on test ip or hardware spec?
Intel i7 720/i7 975 Extreme CPUs with RAID10 protected storage
Ping/Trace: 188.40.21.100
Speed Test: http://188.40.21.100/100mb
Wow.. there are so many low end VPS offers recently!
I’m going to get one too..
Btw, what location are they offering?
BuyVM has IPv6 (16 addresses) included from the get go, do NordicVPS have IPv6 too?
Germany with Hetzner. Adam said that they should also have offers for San Jose in US soon.
Thanks Admin for featuring our offer.
Yes, We been inspired by the offers by Blaze and BuyVM 🙂 We awaited delivery of new servers before we could announce this exclusive LEB offer.
We provide “Quick Backup” feature, and we also provide “Central Backup”, you can purchase backup slots on our dedicated backup server for a small amount pr year.
Speed Test: http://188.40.21.100/100mb
TUN/TAP will be enabled on request. (Just open a ticket)
It’s been several weeks and the stock has not been renewed for Germany/128. Will you be restocking this offer?
New nodes has been added and stocks updated. Thanks
I just signed up for one. I was just thinking the other day that I could really use a new backup vps in Europe since RackVM is no more. So this is just what I needed. It looks like a good deal.
@LowEndAdmin, when the server in US will be ready ?
Seem like they are not automate the setup. I’m still waiting my VPS to be deployed..
Their website says;
All VPS accounts are setup immediately and delivered within 5 mins upon payment confirmation.
If it’s not automated, something wrong, remember rackvm?
@chakara Please don’t scaring me 🙁
@NordicVPS: do you offer native ipv6 addresses with these VPSes?
Nice to see NordicVPS here, again. I have been an active customer with NordicVPS since many months now, Rock solid support and great uptime.
Don’t you worry guys, I have a box there for some time.
They give best value for the money!
But anyway, just make a backups.
@Sei Kan, I’m waiting for mine to be setup, too. While it’s odd that their website says all VPS accounts are setup immediately, and that didn’t seem to happen for me; I’m not concerned. They’ve built up a good reputation, so I think they’ll deliver.
@David Thanks for your update. Let’s see how they doing..
Might have to consider this to replace my RackVM system in Europe too!
I also have to say few good words for NordicVPS here. I’ve got a xen VPS with them, I got it when it was announced here few months ago.
Decent uptime, decent and steady bandwidth. I guess I am on a quiet hardware node 🙂
Thanks everyone for the kind comments 🙂
@Sei Kan Sorry for the delay. Your VPS has been activated now. All VPS are set up instantly now.
@NordicVPS I’m still not getting email for my VPS information. Is everything alright?
Really “instant” setup? I’m waiting 1 hour for solusvm information… it say service is active, but no details even in whmcs.
Finally details came in!
@NordicVPS, May I know when is this offer ready for San Jose? Thank you.
@Wing Loon By end of this month we should have new servers ready maybe even within this week.
We will put a notice on twitter once its available.
Thanks for the great offer! I have my VPS online now.
Yes, thanks. I received my VPS also. I notice the bandwidth quota listed in SolusVM is 500GB instead of 600GB, though (opened a ticket already).
David, guess that’s a type, as it should have bean the same as BuyVM, that’s why it’s at 500GB.
“NordicVPS.com is a brand of Active Media – a service provider located in Copenhagen, Denmark.”
But I can’t find anything about that service provider (link/info) online.
Maybe I have become a little bit paranoid after my rackvm debacle, so could you please alleviate my fears?
@Tom, I’m not sure, but the OVZ128 plan on their website also says 600GB bandwidth. Anyway, it looks like they’ve updated it to 600GB in SolusVM now, so that’s good.
@bart, from the test IP, active media should be http://www.activevps.dk
whois 188.40.21.100 % This is the RIPE Database query service. % The objects are in RPSL format. % % The RIPE Database is subject to Terms and Conditions. % See http://www.ripe.net/db/support/db-terms-conditions.pdf % Note: This output has been filtered. % To receive output for a database update, use the "-B" flag. % Information related to '188.40.21.64 - 188.40.21.127' inetnum: 188.40.21.64 - 188.40.21.127 netname: ACTIVE-MEDIA descr: Active Media country: DE admin-c: KS3881-RIPE tech-c: KS3881-RIPE status: ASSIGNED PA mnt-by: HOS-GUN source: RIPE # Filtered person: Kumaran Shan address: Active Media address: Skindergade 15 address: 1159 Copenhagen K address: DENMARK phone: +4565740741 e-mail: ripe@activevps.dk nic-hdl: KS3881-RIPE mnt-by: HOS-GUN source: RIPE # Filtered % Information related to '188.40.0.0/16AS24940' route: 188.40.0.0/16 descr: HETZNER-RZ-FKS-BLK1 origin: AS24940 org: ORG-HOA1-RIPE mnt-by: HOS-GUN source: RIPE # Filtered organisation: ORG-HOA1-RIPE org-name: Hetzner Online AG org-type: LIR address: Hetzner Online AG Attn. Martin Hetzner Stuttgarter Str. 1 91710 Gunzenhausen GERMANY phone: +49 9831 610061 fax-no: +49 9831 610062 e-mail: info@hetzner.de admin-c: DM93-RIPE admin-c: GM834-RIPE admin-c: HOAC1-RIPE admin-c: MH375-RIPE admin-c: RB1502-RIPE admin-c: SK2374-RIPE admin-c: TF2013-RIPE admin-c: MF1400-RIPE mnt-ref: HOS-GUN mnt-ref: RIPE-NCC-HM-MNT mnt-by: RIPE-NCC-HM-MNT source: RIPE # Filteredthere is no repos, no yum possible.
sent a ticket, no answer.
@Bart We are a reg. Business in Denmark. We have a phone line you can contact us on but not for support!
@David Yes we provide 600GB and the plan has been updated inside SolusVM now.
@John We will get back to shortly.
@Nordic, thanks!
@John, I did a reinstall of CentOS 5.5 (32 bit) after receiving the vps, and I was able to do a “yum clean all” and “yum update” without any problems, for what it’s worth.
I reinstalled 3-4 times, and no repos.
their template is corrupt.
I didn’t know checking takes this long.
If they can’t fix it, they should just refund, and forget about it.
@John highly unlikely that an OpenVZ template has an issue. Most providers use the default ones from openvz. What error do you get? What do you mean exectly when youn say “template is corrupt” and “no repos”
it says, no repos, so I can’t do anything.
I/) error.