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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They did accept paypal.
Recently, RackVM have incurred numerous problems with one of our payment gateways (PayPal).
While we discuss the above issues with PayPal, We ask existing clients to move to another one of our payment gateways. We have now enabled Google Checkout as a payment method which should enable the vast majority of our clients to make their payments with minimal fuss. Furthermore, clients who pay via MoneyBookers need not worry as we will continue to offer this option.
We are continuing to work closely with PayPal to resolve our current issues and hope to have this rectified as soon as we can.
We would like to apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
Way to have money back with google checkout?
My 91.212.* RackVM vps on UK00 just went down an hour ago and hasn’t come back up. Well, I paid $8.56 (for a year) and got a bit over a month of service.
Also mine (91.216.93.*) VPS is down!
🙁 🙁
I used nochex too, but can’t submit a support ticket – just get a 403 error. I think I’m going to try my bank. They’re usually pretty good with things like this.
“Vooservers confirmed that the server, on which my VPS was, is now DOWN”
Did they say why? Lack of payment I assume??
@Rob: Take a look at http://esupport.nochex.com/ – This morning, it has yesterdays date on so my guess is maintenance work over run.
@Aubs: Thanks for that, I’ll submit a ticket once they’re up and running again.
Now their DNS servers not working too.
Someone’s going to get a lawsit i guess.
@DrokDR Just curious to know what you had with them?
Did anyone notice that the invoice came incredibly early this month? It’s almost like he planned this in advance and made every effort to collect up the last bit of cash he could get.
Ben Harper – you complete and utter c*nt. You will burn in hell for sure.
Well I paid mine through paypal opening disputes now, hopefully should get over 20 quid back
I guess the address is as fake as the phone number? Well, not completely fake as the address exists, but I don;t see why a 1-2 man VPS hosting company would rent office space somewhere like that. Maybe he has some connection to the address??
registrant-street1: Venture House, Silver Court
registrant-street2: Watchmead
registrant-pcode: AL7 1TS
registrant-state: HRT
registrant-city: Welwyn Garden City
registrant-ccode: GB
registrant-phone: +44.19929049049
registrant-email:
Yes. My invoice came early too. And I paid for another month of service with them, and only got 1 day out of it…
Ben sounded like a nice guy. Just shows that “nice guys” can turn out to be complete dicks.
I kinda feel sorry for all these people, maybe if I can get enough support I could try to get a low end deal up on a cheap dedicated server, and then hopefully provide a service at £2/month, but I need to raise funds first.
I’d do it if everyone on the planet gave me £2 each. Then I would set up a million servers and give everyone in here one each.
I am such a lovely guy, please believe me, all my friends like me. blah blah blah.
Sorry, no one online can be trusted 100%. Reputation, accountability and longevity are the key. There’s too many scammers going around, sadly.
Well, guess you have to find out the hard way as so many of us did with Ben, I’ve lost £40 to this jerk.
Fortunately I only lost out by £4 and a couple of hours work (no backup). I do feel for all those who have lost more though as I was tempted to go for a £36 package.
And considering I’m only 16, I don’t have that sort of cash to just spend again, so I now have to go the hard way and tbh the only way for me to cover this cost is to start hosting my own VPS on cheap dedicated servers with like 10 people on a box. But that depends if I can find the funds.
My OpenVZ VPS on 194.0.252.x went down at 1311hrs UTC today. Thankfully I opted for the monthly payment.
Maybe if enough people make claims at Paypal, we will posibly get a partial refund. As for the service, luckily i got another vps with buyvm, so my site it still up, a shame on RackVM.
Forgot to subscribe.
@Dorian I paid for 12 months of service not 2. I had important files with them that I lost.
Prior to this happening (about 10 days prior) Rack VM sent out an email requesting people did not choose paypal as an option to pay for their VPS. They claimed they were having issues with paypal that they were looking to rectify.
Late in August the option was removed to be able to use paypal.
I strongly suspect they had issues with chargebacks or disputed payments and paypal locked their account. This could have also meant that his money was tied into paypal and was unable to make payment for the servers. This is of course guesswork however.
I received 20 invoice reminders within 1 hour , 2 days before it was due, and after I paid them, servers go down.
Ben Harper appears to be a scammish fag.
20 invoices reminders WOW!! Its a real shame this happens it makes other low end providers look bad…
@Rob Vooservers said they cannot comment on the client’s account status or the reason behind the server going down since this is condifential. I asked him just tell me is the server on which my VPS was is down? He confirmed
I talked with my lawyer. If they do not be online in 48 hours we will proceed with a lawsit against them.
A lawsuit for £20? and you dont even know his address. but good luck 🙂
A lawsuit for $30? Talk to paypal, talk to your credit card company. Make enough fuss and they’ll refund you. Threatening to get lawyers involved seems a bit silly.
A lawsit for my files.
And actually there were so many people which lost their files.
I’m sorry for the Ben guy or whatever his name is.
If they were still up-and-running you would see from their TOS that they are NOT responsible for backups and as such not responsible for your files at all. If those files are important then you and only you are responsible of having a back-up of them.
I agree with @Dirk, when playing with small, cheap boxes especially ones from a totally new provider, alwasy take periodic backups. I take rsync backups to two different VPSes every 6 hours to protected my data. Thats the same reason I didn’t bother to backup RackVM data when my VPS was alive since it was all taken care of in the backend.
Fighting in court over data protection is a weak lawsiut in my opinion.
Makes me wonder where all the money he’s been making has gone too.
To build a case against Ben would take time, But remember we don’t even no if his name really is Ben, He cleary moved stuff around to avoid patterns etc… Plus I paid via paypal several times and I just looked back while making disputes and noticed they changed paypal accounts, they have one called RackVM and one called RackVN Billing. I kind wish i picked up on this sooner, I could of warned people.
Yes I noticed the rackVN name in Paypal when I opened a dispute for my other VPS. It was still linked to billing@rackvm.com though
admin-c-firstname: Ben
admin-c-lastname: Harper
admin-c-street1: Venture House, Silver Court
admin-c-street2: Watchmead
admin-c-pcode: AL7 1TS
admin-c-state: HRT
admin-c-city: Welwyn Garden City
admin-c-ccode: GB
admin-c-phone: +44.19929049049
Ring that number, do you get an answer? Ask for Ben but don’t directly mention the VPS servers, first establish if that’s his real number and his real address, once you know this you can start working on whatever u plan to do
Its an invalid number. Just tried it now.
I’m not surprised, so it’s likely the address is leading to some random office building somewhere as well. Infact @LowEndAdmin Do you log IPs on this blog, if so you could have a link to finding him (depending whether he was clever enough to use a proxy) I guess contacting the ISP and trying to find out like that would be the only way.