Ben from RackVM sent me another awesome offer for the LowEndBox readers yesterday. Similar to their previous offer but requires yearly pre-payment. For £20/Year (~USD$31.28, or ~USD$2.68/Month) you can buy the following OpenVZ VPS package using this ordering link and promo code LEB-YEARLY2.
- 512MB guaranteed/1024MB burstable memory
- 30GB storage
- 300GB/month data transfer
- OpenVZ/SolusVM
That’s right — 512MB OpenVZ VPS for less than 3 bucks a month, if you are looking for a VPS in France. Do read our previous threads on RackVM. There are mixed-but-mostly-good reviews on this company.
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@Matt Parkinson
“I do have plans to raise our own legal case against RackVM before the end of the week”, Can I ask what’s your case going to be, just out of interest, I really hope Ben gets what he deserves.
@NoName, Unfortunately until our case has been founded and presented I cannot release much but as I have more information become available for release I will be sure to keep you up to date.
@Matt Parkinson
Ok I’ll keep checking back 🙂
Dear LEB Readers,
Another update for you today! We have now been able to speak to Ben and we are making arrangments for these servers to be switched back on for a few hours for data to be recovered. Data recovery will be down to the individual clients however, all we are doing is powering the servers back up and we will not be able to reset any passwords or rectify any problems with VPS’s. Once I have arranged for these to be turned back on I will make another post to let you know.
Best Regards,
Matt Parkinson.
Thanks Matt, you’re awesome!
All of the nodes have now been powered up and are online. We will keep these running for at least 4 hours.
@Matt –
Thanks for your work 🙂 Probablly you are the most generous host on the world 😉
– even though I am not one of RackVM’s customer 🙂
@KLIKLI, Thank you for your kind words, it’s what makes the effort worthwhile :).
@Matt, thank you for this. I was able to login to my old vps and wipe my data off it.
@Matt
Thank you for all you’ve done, when you were talking to Ben did you find out what actually happened?
@NoName, From what Ben said RackVM wen’t bankrupt and no longer exists.
Poor business plans with these people…. Most annoying part is probably not the servers being down its not being updated from the Owner/ Was rackVM actualy a Registered business?
@Matt : Thanks for switching up the nodes. Although I am on a OVH one, I think it is necessary to thank these type of way of thinking, very generous.
Mykeul
@Daniel, I am not too sure on whether RackVM was registered or not but it’s not a limited company as it’s not on companies house. As we have the infrastructure to do so we are trying to see if we can put together some VPS solutions ourselves as we have had quite a lot of people expressing interest in us offering them alongside our dedicated servers.
@Mykeul, Thanks for your kind words especially as you are not on one of these nodes. It does mean a lot to us that people have shown their appreciation.
@Matt
Thanks, if only Ben had told us that himself 😉
@Matt Wow, thats extreme customer (and non-customer) support. I would love to be a customer for one of your VPS offerings, if you ever do that. +1 for that
Totally Brilliant!
@Asim, we now have a couple of nodes online. If you want to shoot me an e-mail (matt[at]vooservers.com) I will arrange a trial VPS free to the end of September for you.
The same offer goes for any other old RackVM customers however there is a limit on the number we can accept. We have been around since March 2005 so we won’t be disappearing a couple of months down the line :).
@Matt Parkingson: will you have ipv6 on your VPSes? How will your pricing be?
@dirk, at the moment we do not have support for IPV6 as our upstream providers do not yet support it. If you want to shoot me an e-mail I will drop you our price list as we have not posted them on our website yet as we are only making this offer to previous RackVM customers at the moment to try and help them out a little bit.
@Matt
Are you using XEN or Openvz?
@Daniel, At the moment we are using Xen PV however we have another couple of nodes being delivered next week to offer Xen HVM and also a Windows Server 2008 node for Hyper-V Windows VPS’s.
@Matt thanks, dropped you an email just now
Ive dropped a email too 🙂
Thanks. It may take a couple of minutes to come through the greylisting on the spam filter however I will reply as soon as it comes through :).
Me too!
Hello Mate i just drop an email 🙂
Mee too 😉
Thanks for the e-mails. Everyone should have had a response within a few minutes of them being sent however if you have not heard back please re-send your e-mail as there have been quite a lot.
check it out, this could be “Ben” surfaced here!
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=982144
their domain is registered July, 2010.
Well I don’t think he can really register a limited company, as I believe him to be a college kid.
@John
The address is totaly different at companies house so it probably isnt Ben
Name & Registered Office:
AKISOFT LTD
SUITE 638
CHYNOWETH HOUSE
TRURO
CORNWALL
UNITED KINGDOM
TR4 8UN
Company No. 07361026
@KLIKLI
If hes 16 or older he can Register a LTD company.
@Daniel: and the address used for the domain is something else then the one used for the LTD:
Registrant’s address:
60 Windsor Avenue
Dalton House
London
SW19 2RR
United Kingdom
The domain being registered before the collapse of RVM doesn’t mean it’s not him, but why do you think it IS him? What evidence led you to that suspicion?
Domain name:
akisoft.co.uk
Registrant:
Akisoft LTD
Registrant type:
Other UK Entity (e.g. clubs, associations, many universities)
Registrant’s address:
60 Windsor Avenue
Dalton House
London
SW19 2RR
United Kingdom
Registrar:
Webfusion Ltd t/a 123-Reg.co.uk [Tag = 123-REG]
URL: http://www.123-reg.co.uk
Relevant dates:
Registered on: 07-Jul-2010
Renewal date: 07-Jul-2012
Last updated: 24-Aug-2010
Registration status:
Registered until renewal date.
Name servers:
ns3.akisoft.co.uk 66.96.206.154
ns4.akisoft.co.uk 66.96.206.158
WHOIS lookup made at 19:12:23 18-Sep-2010
Dalton house is a virtual office – http://londonoffice.co.uk/
And the “Other UK Entity” registrant type when it’s clearly a business is against Nominet rules.
Saying he’ll donate 50% of proceeds to charity seems a bit off too. If I want to donate to charity, I will.
His registered office is a virtual office too.
http://www.scanmypost.co.uk/
Yes, I would like to see the proof that this is Ben, please. Enlighten me.
ya, trust again, and get ripped again.
Look at the pattern, can you survive with $15/yr offer? Honestly?
@john
But this doesn’t mean it’s Ben ;P
I have to say that the writing style of the akisoft.co.uk post on WHT does seem very similar to Ben’s.
Also, it truly seemed like Ben genuinely gave a shit about his customers until he realised he was going bankrupt. I think desperation led him to try one last (illegal) shot at making some cash – which was a yearly payment offer, which he never intended to deliver on.
My theory: it worked very well (I for one never got a refund) and now he’s back for more of the same. Even if I’m wrong I’m 99% sure that whoever is running that operation is out to scam people – quite simply because you cannot provide the service he’s offering for $15/year unless you’re aiming to make a huge loss.