Updated February 2012 — It’s long time coming, but NordicVPS has finally bite the dust. Website is no longer working on 24 January 2012. Bye!
Adam and the NordicVPS team had sent me their new year offer for the LowEndBox readers. $4.50/month OpenVZ VPS using this sign up link to order.
- 512MB guaranteed/1024MB burstable memory
- 20GB storage
- 1000GB/month data transfer
- 1x IPv4 + 8x IPv6
- OpenVZ/SolusVM
Servers are in Frankfurt in Germany. rDNS is available via support ticket, and you can pay up to a year (no further discount though). There has been quite a bit of discussion from their previous German offer post regarding IPv6, which is only available on more expensive packages (not on $15/year 128MB VPS). NordicVPS is Denmark based provider. You can check their previous offers here and evaluate. Mixed comments although the support has been slow recently.
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The original owner of LowEndBox known as LowEndAdmin or LEA for short founded LowEndBox in 2008 and created the concept of hosting applications on low resource Low End Boxes. After creating the roots of the community that we know today, LEA stepped aside and allowed others to carry the torch forward.
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1x IPv4 + 8x IPv8 ?
What is IPv8 LEA?
Is it a new technology?
:(
I think is IPv6
Sorry. Must be someone travelling from the future who wrote this blog post, after observing that even 128bit address space is not enough :P
If there’s IPv8, I wonder if they will be using Base32 rather than Hex in representing IPv8 addresses. It’d be fun as we’ll be having some funny or weird “named” IP addresses.
Maybe IPV8 has easier to read addresses, like
67.245.235.523.652.673.536.235.836.624.534.566.731.777.7346.23.562.236.157.733
Lovely.
It’s worth reading previous comments as LEB says. NordicVPS promised free V6 addresses, people signed up, then they decided they weren’t getting them for free. That’s not a company I’d do business with.
There’s also been chatter about support ignoring tickets for days at a time. Again, unacceptable at any price point.
Actually they are giving them for free now for 512MB + packages.
No one ignored no tickets, there was a delay answering those tickets, but now they’re fine.
They told people on the lower packages they’d be getting them for free too. They lied.
And not answering tickets is ignoring them. I did specifically say that they were only ignoring them for a matter of days, not indefinitely. Customers weren’t getting so much as an acknowledgment.
The bottom line is that people were promised free V6 addresses, and they’re not getting them. They’ve paid a year up front, in some cases. If that’s not bait and switch, what is?
Everyone can get free IPv6s from HE.net and SIXXS and other providers.
For Debian/Ubuntu just install and run miredo and you have IPv6.
@NordicVPS That’s not native.
Ah, so the solution for NordicVPS lying to customers is for them to use workarounds? There’s a better workaround I can think of…
Nordic is a crook and liar, their server goes down without any notification for longer than a week.\
Just a terrible host and soon to be a Rackvm.
not right, my vps at fra01 node is quite stable, only downtime 1 hour because of DC outage. +1 for nordicvps!
How can you be sure that was a DC Outage…
Most Datacentres have a status/maintenance page if you dig deep enough. Or perhaps Sonic has other services in the same DC.
Nordic did pretty well, my node is FMT01, except the responce time
Ordered one, the RAM is 512MB guaranteed, 768MB burstable, instead of the 1024MB that’s in the post.
Yup, same here.
Everyone should now have 1GB Burstable RAM, if not please submit a ticket. Thanks
I got a VPS from their last deal. The server I’m on is way too overloaded in terms of CPU and disk I/O, to the extent that I can’t really recommend them even for hosting a small Web site.
Please submit a ticket if you experience problems with your VPS.
Submit ticket? Why? It’s going to sit there for 2 months.
Just try give it a chance!
Give it a chance eh?
LOL. Mine from months ago is still there unanswered.
I’m pleased with my VPS with them.
Server is stable and uptime is ok, I/O is sometimes high, but I don’t notice it when surfing websites hosted on that vps.
Since 3 weeks, the support is good again, that was my main problem with them a month ago.
I received 2 FREE IPv6 with my 35dollar/year vps. However, IPv6 doesn’t work correctly, and they don’t know why.
“I received 2 FREE IPv6 with my 35dollar/year vps. However, IPv6 doesn’t work correctly, and they don’t know why.”
It seems like Francisco (BuyVM) is at the moment the only guy at LEB capable to set up properly working native IPv6 at OpenVZ nodes. I am not sure how he did it while all rest hosts advertized here failed however after so many failed attempts of various.. hostrail, nordicpvs, etc hosts… there seems to be only one solution. Hire Francisco!
Our techs are working on a solution :) Do not worry, it will be fully supported very soon.
Valueserver.de support ipv6 fully too n_n
IPv6 problems seems to be fixed.
Yes IPv6 should work just fine now :)
Can I host Glype proxies? Also, please tell me the price for each additional ipv4 ip address.
Please read our TOS & AUP : https://nordicvps.com/legal.html
Didn’t find any AUP related to proxies, so, i think it’s allowed. Am I correct?
we do not accept public proxies — private (password-protected) proxies are welcome but do not share your VPN/Proxy with whole nation :) Make sure to keep the VPS secure and clean. Thanks
their techs are wurrking on the solution
Just to be clear. If I signed up right now I would get IPV6 addresses that
would not work?
It looks so :)
Is this discount recurring?
Yes discount is recurring
Their support is very poor. My server was always goes down last month when I was with them. When it goes down, I open ticket and they did not reply even for 2 days (!!!!) Also, they always ignore clients ticket reply. They are 1 man host Im sure. Make sure before order, your vps will be down always and they will not reply you. Also if you get any Ipv6, after 1-2 month they will taken off it from you and if you open ticket where my ips? They will not reply you any more.
this guy is one of the worst provider out there.
Their server goes down not like one or two hour, but 7 straight days(germany)
also their Fremont server goes down every other day, when you open a ticket,
after 3 days, server is up, that’s their reply.
Don’t care for customer, very rude, no manner, this guy will be on a track
for RackVM soon.
@Mahin & Mohamed
Server i DE was down because Hetzner locked the server because we were hit by a couple of abusive customers on same server. We had to send them some signed paperwork before they released the server back to us.
Server i Fremont was down after a kernel upgrade went wrong. We wanted to support PPP for VPN and add support for ArchLinux and other OS that requires a newer kernel. We had to get help from the DC which caused a big delay before the server was up again.
If you need a tight SLA I suggest you stay away from a budget VPS. We have new premium VPS packages you review them here: https://nordicvps.com/premium.html
We always keep everyone updated with network and server status on our Twitter page: http://twitter.com/nordicvps
Sorry to nitpick – I am not even your customer, but 7 days downtime, no reply to ticket for >2 days, downtime every other day and rudeness do not appear even a loose SLA for a budget host?
No Xen with the premium plans? Pathetic, really.
Want XEN? We got servers ready in UK , Chicago and DE, submit a ticket and we will set one up for you :)
Will they be premium? With “tight SLA”, as you put it?
Our XEN nodes has pretty decent uptimes — Only reboot to apply security updates etc.
“uptime 17:03:25 up 75 days, 16:38, 1 user, load average: 0.08, 0.02, 0.01”
XEN servers in US are powered by GigeNET and Softlayer :)
With burst I may guess? :)
What are the packages, prices?
Packages: https://nordicvps.com/premium.html — Add $10/mo for XEN
Send an email or open a ticket, with which package you want and which location : UK or Chicago, IL
WHT – Review of Several VPS (BuyVM|NordicVPS|Virpus & 5 more)
-> http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1012005
As I said, this is the worst vps provider out there.
No ticket answer, rude, unresponsible, everybody knows that.
On the contrary, I’m on the FMT01 node, and I had more than a month of uptime before the two crashes last week. It’s understandable that a budget VPS will not have 100% uptime; if you need 100%, don’t buy the cheap ones.
However, I’ve noticed that they DO cap bandwidth at 5Mbit for their cheaper offerings. Still, enough for a midsize site (but no gameservers or anything). Also, support is piss poor, taking up to 2 weeks minimum in my experience. Only buy if you can self-manage.
The one good thing is that they aren’t oversold (too much). I have decent I/O (>100MB/s) and decent latency (4ms within California). The weird thing is that the server is registered to Nordic in Denmark, so reverse geolocation apps always think that I’m in Denmark whenever I use the VPS as a SSH tunnel.
Overall, I’d recommend them, but only if you can provide your own support (or know some Unix longbeards).
Plz check ticket #428379 for me
Thanks
Like others have noticed support is non existent.
24 hours later (fully working day), still no tickets answer.
@dragon @Tom Tickets should be taken care of by now
IPv6 should work just fine now in Germany, we will make it work in Fremont as well :)
9 hours and counting… still no support :/
Hope you got the installation to work :)
my $15/y vps on node ovz03 is running quite stable. No noticable downtime yet, its running as a rsync backup server, and some file hosting. Did not need support yet, so I cannot say anything about that. But people, I really hope you don’t think you get instant support and a 100% uptime on a VPS for $1,25/month? Don’t be so cheap if you need it. I’m happy with it as long as it runs, and if it stops then so be it. In todays world a bread is more expensive than this, and there will be enough VPS providers just like there is enough bread…
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Gernany may be where Anonymous Grammar Nazi Cowards Originates??
Whats the point with your post?
Will you restock this plan? I would order one :)
Just submit a ticket and we will set one up for you :)
I thought the point of being out of stock was having no more room.
More stocks will be available soon. Around 30 new slots are reserved for this offer.
your site is down for 2 days, are you in business or ran away?
@khalid
We are still here. SolusVM works and email works.
thdir site has been off for more than 2 days now.
My VPS also just shut down after almost 30 days of uptime! Solus won’t respond. Something fishy here…
If your VPS does not work, its most likely because its suspended either because of non-payment issue or abuse case in progress.
It just came back online. I shall be backing up my VPS posthaste!
@hc Please submit an email to sales
it’s Out of Stock still now.
We will release some more stocks within few days, I will put a notice here when ready :)
Anyone else having huge problems with Nordicvps ? they have been doing an awful lot of maintenance / migrations / reboots etc… over the last week and its really annoying.
Been having problems to, on OVZ02. My uptime monitors scream like hell the last few days… Mostly between 3/6AM GMT…
Did he just add you to the ovz02? Rofl, that node has 128 mb contains and it was down for like 3-4days when someone abused it, don’t know how you even manage to bear with it.
I have two vps’s on OVZ02. They are down for more than 24 hours. No ticket answer. That is too bad. Every month or two months these vps’s are down for hours or days…
A post worth posting on WHT.
Yes, it’s starting to become a real problem. Apparently they are migrating, with data transferring at 5Mbps which is crazy slow.
Yes, they are completely useless. Whole time some maintenance, whole time downtimes, IPv6 sometimes works, most of the time not, etc, etc… Are their nodes on dial-up? I didn’t know that hetzner provide dedicated servers on dial-up…
My desktop PC with Win XP seems more stable with longer uptime than nordicvps nodes.
I decided to forget for this vps for some month or so in hope that one day when I log in (presumably I will still have same IP, and they wont be in end pool) things will magicly work.
Are you sure that they are using Hetzner?
Hetzner is not located in Frankfurt, as far as I know. Unless NordicVPS provided LEB with wrong information.
They have always announced their servers being in Falkenstein, Germany never Frankfurt, Germany
Have OVZ VPS in NOrdicVPS too. Down down down. Works for couple hours and unreacable again….
Then again my xen 256 host works decently in same DS. Time to look for another provider. Not cool after I spent several hours configuring the server.
Have similar problems. Up now but really slow. Can take up to 10 seconds to load weppage (if it wont time out).
Imho they would easily compete for “worst vps host of the year” at LEB. Their german nodes have roughly 70% uptime and what’s even worse, they always vanish when things go wrong and ignore tickets (which means every month for week or two) but then after some time they appear at WHT or here with “if someone have some issue send us ticket”. What ticket? Do you fooling us?
Oh, and why I write “they” as it’s obviously one man host! I really have no understanding for such incompetence.
NordicVPS was the best before the migration now is slow and my website load slow and before i had better connection like 20MB/s now is 2MB/s ..
I hope they fix it
Spirit is right, he always does vanish when problems appear. Sometimes he answers tickets, but always when he fixes the problem.
I always think that maybe, from now, things are going to be better, but actually things are going even worse.
Please, for future customers, think twice, it is not cheap, it is the most expensive because you pay for nothing.
LEA, please, do not publish his offers anymore. This guy is not honest. He is dangerous.
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1024221
I have two VPS there. In past month i had about 40% uptime. But that is not uptime as expected, they crippled all VPSs on german nodes (they cant pay for servers so they go to few bigger). VPS’s work with one CPU Core at 800mhz because nodes are overcrowded. With that VPS u can’t do anything except for blog… Recently i moved customers to other server and wanted to use vps as seedbox (network is still good 1gbps), but when i do reinstall no vps can boot (but i can ping ip!?). Support don’t respond except for uniform messages like “we are moving VPS to other node”, “Moving failed, expect downtime”… So far they moved mu VPS THREE TIMES (ovz02, ovz03, vm03, vm09). Admin it is time for dead pool… They took our money and when bills came they are nowhere to be found… I lost 70$ with this b-e-e-p company…
I have submit a ticket and they answered the next day. Another one and i didnt received answered.
Im not a customer, just an interested on vps with them, but nordicvps is not for me. I wouldnt like to have a problem and have to wait. Be careful
only advice: pay per month. u newer know when another crysis will be. and when it does u are not slave of your investment…
Servers are down again and no response from support… Same old story…
We are awaiting response from Hetzner!
APRIL FOOLS! They really took your money and ran! Good one Nordic!
There is always something…. Can there be a full month without issues? What about compenzations for downtime?
At least there is no hiding now…
Hetzner has not responded to our tickets sent 2 hours ago. We still awaits their response from them on regards to the servers begin offline!
We are getting very tired of Hetzner and are looking for a new German Datacenter.
Hetzner even started competing business providing their own range of VPS’s
From the talk on WHT, you can see their own server performance sucks.
I hope we can the problem with dead servers solved ASAP but they are slow as hell to act on our tickets.
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Semi-Live support on MSN (Not manned 24/7!) : ka27u6b@nordicvps.com
Remember we are an unmanaged service provider, so no 3rd party software support requests etc – Strictly support related to our Hardware/Network issues!
Now u see how nice is to now know what is going on and to have customers demanding services that they already paid.
So now is expected another 3 weeks downtime for new transfers. Nice service u got, for 12 months we get 10….
Hetzner is company with good reputation and they do reply to tickets, and they shut down only when u dont pay or breake rules. Friend of mine have server there and never expirienced problems in last 8 months…
So there is something else happening and it is not about Hetzner….
Once again, we have been with Hetzner for 5+ years now.
Always received good service but lately they become very slow to act on our requests compared to earlier.
We are tired they block whole server without notice even we act fast on abuse cases.
We have servers that work just fine and others just get blocked, because of problems with customers causes abuse on the network.
Good freaking god. Your insisting on migrations every couple weeks is like INCEPTION going terribly terribly wrong.
“We must go a level deeper”
Your poor clients have been through how many IP swaps so far? You’ve still not answered peoples request for information about your gigenet setup. Just think of your clients for once and “Start -> Run -> calc” before you try to fund this next venture with more random yearlies deals that don’t make sense. You told everyone $15/y wasn’t float able, but now $20/y is? How is $5/y going to help that much?
I really really really try these days to stay out of other companies affairs but as someone that has been with absolutely horrid providers in the past, this is just insane.
Francisco
@Francisco Unfortunately we do not have a large amount of IPv4 subnets like you, so we are forced to assign customers a new IP.
Hetzner first told us we can migrate IPs but then later it was not possible to swap between their own “Datancenters” e.g from DC10 to DC14 where new servers are deployed.
But NOW, all $15/year customers in Germany has been migrated and collected on separate nodes so other customers are not affected by the trouble caused by a few bad people.
@lupetalo
I am sorry for the trouble but once again, we still awaits response from Hetzner to our tickets!
I’m not even bringing my ventures into this, I’m commenting as simply an observer.
That right there is what I mean. You had a falling out with hetzner just last year where you had nodes disabled because of supposed abuse. Why go and dump more money in setup fee’s/etc just recently to now be looking at yet another?
@Francisco We recently discontinued our XEN servers with GigeNET since low demand for the service :)
It also reflected on the order page while network pages has not been updated but I will see it get done.
People who look up “Frantech” on WHT, will see lot of bad experince with Frantech before their launch of BuyVM :)
Some topics:
Stay Well away from Frantech.ca!!!
FranTech.ca is T-R-A-S-H
http://www.frantech.ca down AGAIN and no support
Frantech Down
Frantech Down?
I guess it proves we all struggle at some point but that doesn’t mean a provider is bad :)
We never put people through tons of IP renumbers to get things corrected. When we left Portland and got things spiffed in Fremont we didn’t have to renumber then either. Anyone that was with us at Steadfast was quite happy with things (minus latency to Asia) and things only went ugly in Portland. LEA even put our first listing from 2008 on deadpool watch when we suffered a 14 hour outage at said DC.
They claim to be in this for 5 years and if that’s the case why didn’t they arrange some IP space somewhere or be proactive after the last time they pulled boxes? I can understand it happening once and they got caught off guard but if that’s the case this time it’s a ’round 2′ thing. I know hetzner & OVH are jumpy for such cases so why stick with it?
There are a good hand full of DC’s in Germany to pick through so I’m just “WTFing” about it all.
Francisco
We mainly hosted XEN servers, with XEN there is no overselling and with the limited resources provided by servers @ Hetzner (12GB RAM) — We ordered special servers with 24GB and Hardware upgrades while our XEN servers run i7 975 not i7 920 because those servers were only equipped with 8GB before they introduced new server range with 24GB RAM as default.
So our servers actually costs more than their new 24GB servers because we paid extra setup fees and a larger monthly fee for the special setups.
We required max /27 subnet pr server and Hetzner does not provide IP pooling so we never was in a position that required us to have large /24 subnets, instead we have many smaller subnets in range /27, /26 and /25
How about another migration? This time to NetDirekt (Leaseweb Germany)
The servers offered by NetDirekt are not suitable for our services.
They once offered similar servers like Hetzner (i7.series), We also been with other German providers but their hardware sucked very much, even they claimed Enterprise grade hardware with Dual XEON their server performance terrible because of old out-dated hardware.
If Leaseweb offers better server hardware in Germany, we will consider them.
Update: They just provided us KVM access, server is up and fine, but network is not working.
I suspect they may have “accidentally” disconnected our network cable, it happend to us once before.
Server was rebooted but still no network!
We still awaits their response to the missing network connection to outside world!
Still no response from Hetzner on our tickets regarding server/network problems
I know this sounds silly and really doesn’t affect anything or anyone here but this is why I love using a datacenter in the same town I live in. Got a hardware issue? I’m there in about 20-40 minutes depending on the buses.
Something you can say when you live in the US.
So, NordicVPS, whats the problem now? you have had all day to get them to plug the network cable back in.
Looks like they want you to contact them via MSN for details:
http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/nordicvps-495-xen-germany/#comment-26393
ya, that is not happening, so I guess I will just be left in the dark.
but it is funny how it is the first of the month and the servers were
disconnected from the network.
Does anyone know if this is how Hetzner handles non-payment?
Hetzner unplugs your ethernet when you’re late on payment.
As it’s new month… are you sure that you paid invoices for april?
His CA server is gone too.