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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Ok, confirmation from VooServers, they have not suspended any Servers there so I believe if your IP belongs to them you shouldn’t be experiencing any issues with your VPS. However Entanet (haven’t got hold of them yet) must have either an issue with their datacenter or the agreement between them and RackVM.
@NoName
I doubt all of there servers are colo. I am 99% sure the france vps is on a kimsufi server.
@Daniel
Ok, but I think the UK servers are collo but obviously we can’t believe everything we’re told.
From what I’ve gathered so far, assuming it’s correct, RackVM would appear to be running on this service: http://www.vooservers.com/kent-colocation/. What people are paying would barely cover the cost of bandwidth so NoName may well be correct about the servers dropping one by one. I wonder how much Ben has cashed in for on this little stunt.
Hosting really should become a regulated activity. There are way too many a-holes like Ben, not too mention cheating Indians and 12 year old resellers. The really annoying thing is that even when his current business dies from the reputation it’s getting here – he can still very easily set up a new one and do it all over again.
Lol I’ve just noticed the RackVM website says “Dedicated 24/7 Support Staff”. What a huge joke that is. How does a one man band stay awake 24/7?
@NoName — Yes mine is with VooServers and currently 31 days of uptime.
Looking at my IP address tracking of RackVM.com
– 3 May 2010 — Giga-Hosting in Germany
– 11 May 2010 — VooServers in UK
– 12 May 2010 — Giga-Hosting in Germany
– 24 May 2010 — Star-Hosting e.K. in Germany
– 25 May 2010 — Giga-Hosting in Germany
– 18 June 2010 — Entanet in UK
– 22 July 2010 — VooServers in UK
Is it common for web hosting companies to move its web sites around?
Odd to move from Giga to Voo to Giga to another company to Giga to another company then back to Voo.
Are you seeing the results of some weird load balancing or something? Are all the Giga IPs the same? Likewise with the Voo ones?
@Gary — all the Giga-Hosting’s IPs are the same. It has already been repurposed for a web hosting company in Brazil. The current IP @ Voo is different from the one from May though.
@LEA – Brutal 🙁
There has been a lot of concerned users on WHT wondering what’s going on, as well as a few people asking me to bring BuyVM to Europe =P
Francisco
Thats 2 companies failed this month, First diverse web and now rackvm. i might send Ben a email to see if hes interested in selling 🙂
Is there any confirmation that more gear is going offline? last I read was only UK2 & “UK3” were offline.
Francisco
http://openvz.rackvmcontrol.com/
http://xen.rackvmcontrol.com/
are both down here.
@Daniel — both at Entanet. I guess we have to wait for them to confirm whether they have indeed turned off Ben’s servers.
I have to go work today, so haven’t got time to contact Entanet so if someone else could try getting hold of them by phone, they won’t be able to give much information away because of data protection but they might be able to tell you if they have suspended any servers or not. And @LowEndAdmin then I guess my theory of the VPS’s hosted on the Entanet side being down would be correct, thats the 188.39.*.* branch. And with their Control panels both being located there it seems there is an issue there. Also the price of the collo at VooServers is indeed a lot more than is covered by the price quoted here, unless of course he was putting 80+ people on one box.
Mmmm… 🙁
RackVM admin could have moved the control panels to another host: if He didn’t do anything until now I suppose it’s not a temporary problem.
He could have also informed his customers through his Twitter account and in the Announces section of his website, but now seems really disappeared…
If what is said on http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=973507&page=2 by olie122333 then they are answering support tickets. Maybe just those that are not about problems 🙁
This guy is a full blown prick. He’s just a cheat and a fraud.
If the master is down, they won’t be able to easily remake it unless they pulled backups. I dunno, it sounds like bad news all around.
Francisco
I’m on UK02 and it’s been up since late on Tuesday. Though it’s not in the 188. range (although it used to be) I’ve had my VPS moved 4 times.
@RS – “moved”? Like IP swaped or just migrated to different nodes?
Francisco
My IP has changed four times in the the 2 – 3 months I’ve had the VPS. At first it was because they said they were changing from Xen to OpenVZ, then it was because I an eth failed so moved me to another node, then that node appeared to fail (they didn’t actually say it had) and I was moved from UK04 to UK02
Each time I was moved my IP address was changed. The previous IP to the one I have now was a 188. one
It sounds like you got moved around DC’s as well, what a mess 🙁
Francisco
I’m in the 188 range too. Raised a support ticket yesterday but no answer as of yet.
My domain points to one of my RackVM IP’s which is in France just gave me this response, after I left it trying to load. It’s taken a long time, but is this a good sign? It knows at least I was using Ubuntu …
Bad Request
Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.
Apache/2.2.14 (Ubuntu) Server at myDomain.co.uk Port 80
I do have the some problem with my VPS.
My server stopped working Monday evening (same IP class, 188.x.x.x).
Now I don’t think this is temporary.
I have raised a ticket for a refund 🙁
Regards,
/Sorin
My IP is in the 178.33.*.* range. Still shows as
Hostname: 178.33.*.*
ISP: Ovh Systems
Organization: RackVM Providing low cost vps servers.
using http://whatismyipaddress.com/ip/178.33.*.*
Yet another “me too” comment…
I have two rackvm VPSes. The one on 188.39.22.* has been down for a day and a half; the second one on 91.216.93.* is running fine (although I’ve now deleted any personal stuff). No answer to support tickets.
On a more positive note, at least it’s given me motivation to automate my deployment process….
A lot of companies are willing to arrange a month (or more) trial service these days due to fierce competition. Has it occurred to anyone that this guy has just been moving his customers around every time his trial expires?
This little venture of his has probably outgrown his ability to upkeep it and he’s just decided to cash in and disappear. I guess the only reason why the main domain is still up would be to catch a few extra customers who haven’t bothered to read any reviews.
There goes my VPS too (XEN PV) on UK01/02 node (cant remember)
***** Nagios *****
Notification Type: PROBLEM
Host: UK
State: DOWN
Address: 194.0.252.125
Info: CRITICAL – Host Unreachable (194.0.252.125)
Date/Time: Thu Sept 2 18:07:06 PKT 2010
Well mine is down again now too, and so is rackvm.com! Looks like the whole thing has gone bump.
Vooservers confirmed that the server, on which my VPS was, is now DOWN
MattP says:
Yes, the server is down.
LEB dead pool here we come!! lol
Mine too (91.216.93.*) went down hours ago.
How long should I wait before filing a Paypal dispute?
2 VPS down here!!! refund? how?
@Bart
Paypal wont help you. They usualy help scammers….
I paid them using Google Checkout. How to dispute? Any idea?
I only ever saw payment with Nochex or maybe google. Don’t remember paypal? … I’ve already raised a query with Nochex. Will raise one with my credit card if they don’t play ball.