James from QualityServers emailed me that he was bringing back their popular LowEndBox OpenVZ VPS special — at an even lower price. It’s similar in specification as their August offer, except now it’s just £10/Year (~USD$16.11). Direct sign up link here and no coupon code required.
- 128MB memory
- 10GB storage on RAID10
- 200GB/month data transfer on 1Gbps
- 1x IPv4 + 8x IPv6
- OpenVZ/SolusVM
It comes with free R1soft backups. Servers with BurstNET in UK. IRC and and VPN are fine for private & legal use. According to James, “QualityServers have their own office, IP space, racks and equipment, which allow them to do this at this price”. Their new nodes are however, not CentOS 6 based thus no vswap (but burstable memory instead), as CentOS 6 nodes are still having some pending stability issues.
Just scanning through other low end offers in UK, there isn’t any at this price point. Well, there was one that’s even cheaper, but that provider did not end up too well. Let’s just hope James has got everything planned out with annual VPS offer.
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Nice offer :P
I might just pick one up if I can use it to watch iPlayer :-)
Hopefully the business model is solid…
Not too sure about iPlayer, but I can assure you our business model is solid :)
You should be able too without a problem :)
how much burst memory?
> Their new nodes are however, not CentOS 6 based thus no vswap (but burstable memory instead)
On this offer there doesn’t seem to be any burstable memory either :)
And given it’s the old beancounters model, 128 / no burst is not as useful as 128/256 :/
There is an additional 128MB burst, so total the total guaranteed + burstable is 256MB.
Shouldn’t that show up as 256MB in the VM?
Would of though so. Using this to run the ping sweeps for http://www.ukinternetreport.co.uk and its even having problems with that. Running out of memory creating rrd graphcs.
there is no such thing as 128/128 unless it’s xen
TUN / TAP is enabled?
Anyone know if OpenVPN works?
Thanks
OpenVPN should work – we can certainly enable TUN for you.
And just when this offer was posted, my VPS started lagging(seems like network is under attack to me).
O’well..
Everything looks fine at the switch. If you’re still having issues could you please open a ticket? It’s very hard to help you when I don’t know who you are ;)
QualityServers! Far away from quality.
I got their OpenVZ Eliminator UK offer, it was real quality service for 3 months with uptime of ~60 days, until they decided to move my VPS from stable node to VZ2UK, the node of hell, it was rebooting many times a day, they even stopped posting about that in their news section.
Hardware/Software problems happen, and they did their best to solve that rare problem.
What I don’t understand is why they moved my VPS from stable node to buggy one? Without informing me too. And then they refused to move my VPS back to any stable node.
Then they offered me to move to Xen node with “an added cost”, at first I said no, “why should I buy more to get the same quality now?”, then I said yes but then they said no discount!
After 2 months of hell, I left to other host which seems to be great so far.
Note: “They” == “He”
Our aim was to move people to the better VSWAP system and also to a better specified node by migrating people slowly onto 24-core Xeon nodes with CentOS 6. At first it seemed like a great idea and was working very well, but as time went on (and I need to clarify the node was not overloaded by any means) there were frequent kernel panics. These seemed to stem from activity on 2-3 VPSs as well as the R1soft kernel module that takes care of our backups.
We have removed the VPSs in question and are working with R1soft to resolve the issue. We have also migrated the majority of the customers on to VZ3UK and VZ4UK which are stable, and also eases the load on VZ2UK, making it a lot more stable. We haven’t rebooted the node in quite awhile now, but we still aim to switch it back to CentOS 5 as it’s in my opinion a much better platform for OpenVZ as things stand right now.
Yes, we did migrate customers without notice. This was under the assumption that there wouldn’t be any disruptions, which was clearly wrong and for that I apologise. I do remember answering the questions detailed above although I’m not sure why (according to your recollection of the incident) I didn’t suggest a migrating to another VZ node, so again for that I apologise.
As for suggesting Xen, unfortunately, Xen does cost more but it is generally more stable. There aren’t any two ways about that I’m afraid.
And finally, there are 3 of us at the moment, and have been for some time, but I can certainly see why you only remember (or may have only dealt with) me. I do all of the technical work during the day, Sherin does the technical work at night and Lucie helps out with billing, accounting and cancellations.
Glad you’ve found a new provider and that you’re happy where you are :)
From my logs the last reboot was 4 days ago, and yes VZ2UK its still unstable.
The questions is when will you report the outages of the node. The last reported outage was in september 20 (https://www.qualityservers.co.uk/cp/kayako/index.php?/News/List).
As everybody in the LEB knows transparency on news updates from the provider its very important. If you want to gain more support from the users update more often and be clear.
Just my 2 cents.
VZ2UK was known to be unstable, I received 6 mass emails about the issues on VZ2UK BEFORE you move my VPS to it, that’s something you should consider to alter your plans.
VZ4UK only came few days ago, and you moved my VPS to it after first downtime, but it doesn’t matter, I already moved and requested cancellation.
The thing is: I was a happy customer, you put me in bad situation and left me there for 2 months with no other option for me, except “Xen for an added cost”.
This is just smelly. Everyone knows by now that OpenVZ is unstable under Centos 6 which is why others who have attempted it have rolled back to Centos 5. If you want beta testers to shake out bugs in an unstable system, that’s fine, as long as they understand just what they’re signing up for. If users don’t sign up to be beta testers, they shouldn’t be put on systems with known stability issues.
When it’s the same issue again and again, I haven’t been updating the new feed. If you’d prefer I did, it’s no problem.
@thekreek – could you open a ticket to be moved to VZ4UK?
@Someone – do you still have your old ticket ID by any chance?
@paul – everyone knows it now because providers like us have tried it. At time time of installation and migration, I hadn’t read anything alarming about it, or obviously I wouldn’t have installed it :)
Then you really didn’t read all that far.
There has been plenty of threads on OVZ forums and their bug tracker even before they made their “stable branch”. Infact, I think they put a “stable” label on it just because, not that it was actually working properly.
For a while there it was possible to crash a node by live migrating them.
There’s good reasons why many of us are staying way the hell away from .32 till next year most likely. While we’d love to be cutting edge on things, multiple panics a day isn’t really good for PR :P
Francisco
As an add, that unstability is in that Xeon E3 cpus? Because I have one with Sandy:
And can be more time, but I rebooted :P
@yomero: it’s on a dual 5640 machine.
Just to put my ore in, I’ve found James to be very helpful. Yes the problems on VZ2UK have not been good, but James did post repeatedly on their support portal that anyone wanting to be moved, free of charge, could do so. I moved to VZ3UK and I’ve found it rock solid, current uptime on my VPS is 43 days and that reboot was me testing a startup script.
He’s also added several KVM images I wanted to play with on my other box :)
Not perfect, but I still rate them as a good provider.
We’re looking to fill just 5 slots on the following:
50GB RAID10 Disk
1GB RAM (Burstable to 2GB)
500GB Monthly Bandwidth
1 IPv4 + 16IPv6
Basic Management
£49/year, including VAT where applicable.
Order Link (use coupon code WHTNOV2011 and select annual billing)
https://www.qualityservers.co.uk/cp/cart.php?a=add&pid=119
Got the server from these guys yesterday and was setup instantly! I asked for TUN/TAP to be enabled by ticket and was done in few hrs, I tested with the tunnalling and watch BBC Iplayer with HD (not that I need it to as am in the UK but to test the server speed) and it worked flawless, no glitch to buffering! James personaly answered my ticket so he seamed to care for his customers! Happy days! lol
Yesterday i ordered a VPS. One hour later it was active, but with virtual server control unavailable.
So, as i don’t know it’s IP address, i can’t access it by ssh neither.
24 hours later i still can’t access it. Is it a normal delay or am i too impatient ?
I also opened a ticket but no reply till now, 6 hours later.
Effectively, i was too impatient. My VPS is now accessible.
is there any burstable memory?
I don’t know because i have no knowledge about OpenVZ
Here is the result of the command ‘free’
xxxxx:~$ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 131072 60688 70384 0 0 22372 -/+ buffers/cache: 38316 92756 Swap: 0 0 0It shows no swap but i think it is normal
Does that help you ?