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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@dyn We never received a ticket from you.
We continue to build our server park for high performance and will soon introduce servers with Intel® Core™ i7-980X Hexa-Core (2x 6x cores @ 3.60+ GHz)
But we can not move all customers on older nodes to new servers nor can we just decide to remove old but active server.
XEN and XEN HVM especially does add an amount of overhead compared to OpenVZ
An OpenVZ VPS, on the same server config, will give a greater performance value compared to a XEN VPS on the same hardware.
OpenVZ -> XEN PV -> XEN HVM
But with XEN you get guaranteed resources and is very good for developers who want to work with JAVA etc
For the budget we offer, I think its a pretty good performance.
If you believe you can find another provider a faster server with same package deal for same price thats good.
If you want to be moved to a new node, open a ticket. Thanks
*Please ignore any spell and grammar errors as LEB does not (yet) offer an edit function 🙂
Will be some promotion for OpenVZ packages? I’m interested in OVZ512.
@marikh there is one for OVZ51 see the link:
Direct order link: https://nordicvps.com/order/ovz512-leb
I want to buy this vps but i don’t have paypal or 2checkout. Can i pay via bank transfer?
@Giulio Sorry we do not accept bank tranfers. With 2Checkout you pay using major credit cards.
Thanks for explanation, i will open ticket or order new VPS when new node is ready. I didn’t know it can be moved to a new node, thanks. Yes, you are right, not many providers can match your performance/price. 🙂
Innya, everything could be nice, but i usually prefer monthly payment.
NordicVPS, can You do monthly payment in OVZ512 promotion?
So i can pay using a normal credit card? (of the mastercard circuit)
@Marikh It will be $5.95 pr month – Order page has been updated so you can choose between monthly and annually payment cycle.
@Giulio Yes you can use Mastercard
Buyed! Great service!
@NordicVPS May I know when the US VPS will ready?
Yes they are ready, Links can be found on our Twitter page.
Hi, @NordicVPS for US VPS, any test IP? do you provide IPv6 address? can you refund if not feel so good?
Ping/Trace: 74.82.174.131
No IPv6 support yet in US. We are setting up a server in Germany with IPv6 support and will upgrade all customers with IPv6 once we are ready, but I can’t give any ETA!
Sorry, No refunds.
Is this new US server in PENNSYLVANIA?
I thought it’s going to be in San Jose.
No Pennsylvania 🙂 Servers are on the West Coast, California.
We now provide VPS’s in US.
Direct order link for OVZ128-US: https://nordicvps.com/order/ovz128-usa
Direct order link for OVZ256-US: https://nordicvps.com/order/ovz256-usa
Direct order link for OVZ512-US: https://nordicvps.com/order/ovz512-usa
NordicVPS, your OVZ512 link is not working here, and also check the location on your US order forms…still showing DE.
Fixed the typos and link now. Thanks
Buyed! usa 128.
Get mine too. Thanks for the offer 😀
Do you offer directadmin licenses with this 128mb vps package?
Yes, we can delivery DA unlimited domain licenses, just open ticket. 🙂
Note that DA requires minimum 128MB of RAM (512MB is recommended)
Additional IP costs?
Somebody have own huge site in NordicVPS and is hosted in Hetzner, Germany?
Is that question? If i understand correctly you are asking is someone have huge site hosted bu NordicVps?
do you need test file?
I need a test site, which i can click some pages, and test speed.
I can’t edit my previous post.
VPS is connected to 100mbps port?
Don’t know really.. but i get around 50-60 Mbit/sec… tested at loadimpact, less than 200ms ad 50 clients test
Nice result, i wonder if I use about 500gb of my bandwidth, what they do? shutdown my VPS ;)? Anybody have some experience about that?
Support seems non existent :/
I ordered the vps 2 days ago and ping is still down until now :/ , support doesn’t answer.
Relax 🙂 Average support response in my cases is about 3-4 days 🙂
No problem with support from me as I’ve not asked for any!
The only problem I’ve had is there’s not enough burstable memory with 128MB for Gentoo
to compile an updated version of gcc. Using a binary package from my desktop instead.
Thats true… No big need for support, because no problems occurred yet…
I have a VPS with nordic VPS in Germany and USA too. Their service is great, but their support is pretty slow. It’s a really good offer for 15$/year.
I took one in germany today, so far it’s a very good deal ! I got it in some minutes, so now i’m doing some perf test on it.
NordicVPS : Is it possible to correct the template ? For me, I had directly apache installed, should be good to have an option to select packages or a distro without anything.
+1, I don’t think I’ve seen a perfectly bare-bones image provided by any of the dozen or so providers I’ve been with.
It’s only a 2 minute job to remove apache etc and get the image shrunk down a little bit but it’d be nice to not have to do that.
Yep, everyone assumes you want to use apache… some even preinstall bind and sendmail or exim.
Personally I don’t care, I just wrote my own script that does the initial clean-up on the VPS, removing all the common installed but unneeded packages, and installing the ones I actually use. That way I don’t waste time even on VPS reinstall from template.
I am not sure if providing a totally bare-bones template is a good idea for a host, though; in reality they are almost right, maybe 60-70% of customers will indeed want apache there, and if they are used (from all the other hosts) to have it preinstalled and don’t find it to be, that may result in an increased support ticket load.
Hey,
Sorry, I saw on the panel that it was possible to install a minimal debian. I agree that it’s better for them to provide apache, but a clean install is always better 😉 And in all the cases, it’s possible from their panel.
There is just a lil problem, on the template the apt.conf is not good, just remove the “2” from the mirror and it’s going to work well.
After 1 day of bench, ~7Mbits of upload to France, but no answer from them for the RDNS (support is slow…).
It was working quite well till yesterday… (about 10 hours down time) same thing today, offline form 7am
Did you get this email?
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Hello
We have recently had problems with the VPS’s on OVZ02 in Germany and we had to reboot the VPS both times to bring it back online,
We first tried get the DC to get us direct connection to the server in able make recover it without a reboot but for some unknown reasons the server keeps going down on us.
We will keep investigating the problem and hope to get it solved quickly.
Migration to another server in Germany:
Those who like to migrate off to a new VPS in Germany, can contact us.
We will create a new VPS for you on other nodes but there will be a delay since we need to get more IPs since have run out. So if you migrate off to new server in Germany, you will get a new VPS with new IP.
You must transfer all data yourself.
Migration to new server in UK :
This offer is only available for customers who pay monthly for their VPS, e.g OVZ512 – OVZ1024 and larger VPS’s
If you like to be moved to UK, please contact us — We will get you a new VPS in UK with new IP!
You must transfer all data yourself
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My VPS is up now. 🙂
My VPS is dead in now. I had sent a mail to support two days back no one has replied. I asked for new VPS is other server. Even for that no reply. However, these NO rdiculous VPS fixed the issue brought the server online. Now again it is down.
I guess they’re still swamped. I put in a ticket to see if it would be possible to switch my Germany VPS to their Fremont location. No answer yet, but it’s only been 2 days.
They have replied now. As per the support guy some badguy is abusing the server which is bringing the entire host down. Now my VPS is online.
Mine is back too, but it seem not very stable.. I’m getting timeouts from my monitor.
I’ve got a new personal Nordic record– an 8 day old ticket with no answer, breaking my previous record of 6 days.
Dude, you pay 15 dollars a year, so dont be a crybaby and just wait or go somewhere else and pay more for support…
Not crying, just posting my experience for the benefit of others. It is what it is.
For $15 a year you don’t expect bells and whistles. You don’t expect anything other than very basic support. If the box is up and working, you’re on your own.
You don’t expect tickets to be answered within minutes, or even hours. I’d expect them to be answered within a day or two though.
If NordicVPS are unable to provide basic support at this price point, they shouldn’t have priced it so low.
No matter what price something is, you expect it to work and you expect some level of support. If something breaks, you expect it to be fixed.
Sounds like NordicVPS have pretty much abandoned these customers.
Hello
Nobody has been abandoned! All customers have received reply to their tickets and a couple are put on hold while we take care of their problems!
Hello
We have replied all our customers, a few are put on hold or status: In Progress while we sort out their problems (upgrade/migration etc)
If you still have not received any response, please re-submit your ticket. Thanks
What happened to offer for migrating to another german server, was that just lip service to avoid their bad server in germany?
We are getting ready to make the move. We are working on several setups across the US and Europe. You will receive some updates soon.
After two month experience with this company, I can’t recommend them. Lately, they had a longer down time, due to “abuse by a customer”. Sometimes their server feel very slow (RTT 20ms) and it seems their servers are oversold. One of my support tickets is now waiting for an answer since 3 weeks.
I have diffrent expirience… Support is a bit slow, but problems do get fixed. I have not see any downtime (I am on OVZ03 and OVZ04)… Can’t tell if nodes are oversold, performance is same at all times, speed too…What node Are you on?
I’m selling my vps, anybody interested in?
how long’s left on it, and how much? And do they allow account transferral?
sure, I used one month, I will sell it for $14.00
I’ll give you $5 for it, assuming it’s within their T&C that you can transfer the VPS to me.
nope.