PacketVM is back with a new and interesting offer for our community.

The TLDR:

• Get an allotment of resources you can carve up into multiple VMs
• Starts at only $4/month with 3 IPs and unlimited IPv6!
• Dallas or Silicon Valley

If you’re not familiar with PacketVM, they’re a UK-based provider who we’ve featured before.

They’re launching a new product line, and I’ll let them explain it to you:

It is similar to VPS reseller, however we are calling it VPS Resource Packs. You can purchase packs of resources and you will then be able to create VM’s as and when you please via our VPS Control Panel. Resource packs can be upgraded and downgraded as you wish, however cannot be downgraded any further than our Base-1 pack. They can, however, be upgraded higher than our Base-3 pack. There are some pre-set upgrades in the client area that can be purchased (pricing for upgrades below) but if you want anything custom then this is also possible.

You will be able to create VM’s in all of our OpenVZ locations, which is currently Dallas and Silicon Valley. As we launch new locations, you will also be able to use your resources to create VM’s in those locations too (a Europe or Asia location will likely be next). At this time, resource packs are only available for OpenVZ but we hope to launch for KVM shortly too. Our standard VM’s are also still available to purchase.

All VPS Resource Packs also come with free DNS hosting (manageable via our VPS Control Panel) for your domains (no limit on number of domains or zones). We have a clustered DNS set up whereby one DNS server is located in Amsterdam and the other in New Jersey.

Everything is white-label so if you wish to use this for reselling VM’s then that is fine too.

Cool!

Years and years ago, I tried out one of these systems with another provider and they’re pretty cool.  The flexibility is great, particularly if you pair it with Ansible or something that lets you quickly reconfigure systems.  For example, you can share resources among your nodes but perhaps beef up one temporarily as a game server on the weekend – the possibilities are endless.

And they start at only $4/month!  Wow!

Check out their Terms of Service (nothing surprising), get out your PayPal, and then read on!

And if you do sign up or you’ve been a PacketVM customer in the past, please let us know what your experience has been in the comments below.

Datacenter Info

Dallas – INAP – VPS
Test IPv4: 72.9.144.30

Silicon Valley – EGI – VPS
Test IPv4: 172.252.205.241

Host Node Info

Yabs Benchmark for Silicon Valley – https://pastebin.com/raw/3Lv2j45p
Yabs Benchmark for Dallas – https://pastebin.com/raw/GesQ0wVj

All VPS plans are hosted on a minimum of a new generation Xeon E3 with 1Gbps Uplink with SSD’s.

OPENVZ 7 RESOURCE PACKS

30GB Disk Space
3TB Bandwidth
3GB RAM
3 IP’s
Unlimited IPv6
Free DDoS Protection
Free DNS Hosting for unlimited domains
Create VM’s in all of our locations: Currently Dallas or Silicon Valley (Santa Clara)
SPECIAL OFFER: $4 per month
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50GB Disk Space
6TB Bandwidth
6GB RAM
5 IP’s
Unlimited IPv6
Free DDoS Protection
Free DNS Hosting for unlimited domains
Create VM’s in all of our locations: Currently Dallas or Silicon Valley (Santa Clara)
SPECIAL OFFER: $6 per month
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100GB Disk Space
8TB Bandwidth
12GB RAM
7 IP’s
Unlimited IPv6
Free DDoS Protection
Free DNS Hosting for unlimited domains
Create VM’s in all of our locations: Currently Dallas or Silicon Valley (Santa Clara)
SPECIAL OFFER: $7 per month (PLEASE USE COUPON: HAPPYVALENTINES)
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raindog308

Raindog308 is a longtime LowEndTalk community administrator, technical writer, and self-described techno polymath. With deep roots in the *nix world, he has a passion for systems both modern and vintage, ranging from Unix, Perl, Python, and Golang to shell scripting and mainframe-era operating systems like MVS. He’s equally comfortable with relational database systems, having spent years working with Oracle, PostgreSQL, and MySQL.

As an avid user of LowEndBox providers, Raindog runs an empire of LEBs, from tiny boxes for VPNs, to mid-sized instances for application hosting, and heavyweight servers for data storage and complex databases. He brings both technical rigor and real-world experience to every piece he writes.

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His goal with every article is to help users, from beginners to seasoned sysadmins, get more value, performance, and enjoyment out of their infrastructure.

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