Mohamed, from CityNet Host, brings us this offer located in Istanbul, Turkey. A rare location and a nice wink at the traditional thanksgiving diner ;-)
The offer
- 512MB RAM
- 2 vCPU
- 40GB HDD space
- 2TB traffic
- 100Mbps uplink
- 1x IPv4
- KVM/SolusVM
- $4.95/month
- Order here
According to their public WHOIS, CityNet Host has been around since 2008 and the owner is located in Egypt. They seem to be a registered company as well (CityNet Telecom S.A.E.), but my search for company information ended at the EgyptAir website. If someone can find the registration to confirm it, please let us know.They have been featured a lot by LowEndAdmin in 2010 and 2011, but that’s a bit too long ago to draw some feedback from. This VPS is part of their standard offering but is definitely the one with the best value for money. I do not have much hardware or DC information. They have Live Chat available and two phone numbers for contact, so you should be covered. If you have experience with these guys or decide to give them a shot, please let us know in the comments!
You can pay for this server with PayPal, Credit Card, and 2Checkout. There’s a 30-day refund policy in place for the first account and the first service only. For full details on this and others things, please read their Terms of Service.
Network information
CityNet Telekom – Istanbul, Turkey
Looking glass: http://lg.ist.citynethost.com/
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Why only Turkey advertised? Cairo Egypt also offered. Exotic location :)
Wow, that’s the true! Egypt is also available for the same price. I’ll give a try!
Anyone know if there a Looking Glass for the Egypt location?
Looking Glasses
Cairo: http://lg.cai.citynethost.com/
Istanbul: http://lg.ist.citynethost.com/
Hello Mohamed,
Wow, you incorporated in Turkey? “CityNet Telekom Ltd” in Esenyurt, Istanbul is the LIR address for the Turkish branch.
Very interesting, why did you choose to expand here?
Also which datacenter are you using? Ping is not great to me and I’m in Istanbul.
Ping from CityNet Istanbul: 79ms
Ping from CityNet Cairo: 109ms
If ip spamlisted by gmail ,is refund possible?
Happy Thanks giving everybody.
Your VPS will be delivered on blacklist free IP’s. We monitor our ips against black lists frequently to avoid spamming from our notwork.
you keep on asking same question ^^
why would they refund you for such a basic thing?
me thinks you maybe a spammer.
Switch to other email provider, its simple.. ;)
He got it easier,
1) sign up for every new provider,
2) send spam,
3) get IP finally blacklisted,
4) “ip spamlisted by gmail” => ask for that refund, he’s so eager to know about.
5) Move on to the next provider.
All for free.
I am asking same question but to different provider,you are not qualified to answer
heh, looks like your business is recruitment solicitation?
non of ur business
It is rare that the same question to all providers
You keep asking the same question to everyone. Try not to abuse services.. Perhaps that will help your case.
Regarding CityNet Telecom company reregistration, we are a registered business. We are using our own autonomous system numbers AS33785 and AS59895 which available only to registered service provider.
READ OTHER citynethost THREADS BEFORE BUYING THIS S…
Warning has been given before your tears will start appearing on this new juicy post.
Our offers delivered with 30 Days Money Back Gurantee with no ifs or questions, No tears it is Thanksgiving :)
I don’t think feedback from 3-4 years ago is necessary still valid.
Also it’s not a yearly offer, paying per month at just $5 it’s easy to cancel if you don’t like it.
BW only 500Gb instead advertised 2Tb
How did you know, Our promotion package comes with 2TB.
Sorry, you are right, we fixed it.
Had a vps with them few years ago, wasn’t very good – but very cheap though – and they are still in business, providing VPS in unusual locations… maybe the service is more stable now?
would be nice to have bench/opinion from users from recent offers
Yes, they had problems in Egyptian datacenter a few years ago… Yeah, may be in Turkey everything is ok and support is good now days also. I hope…
PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING REVIEWS – I HIGHLY WARN EVERYONE BEFORE BUYING HERE:
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1045781
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1060071
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1047569
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1053701
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1055605
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1058947
In Short: I’ve been doing business with them (atleast i tried) had permanent outages, energy cuts, lost vps’es, massive latency issues, ddos, restarts, hardware failures etc etc etc.
DO NOT GO WITH THIS COMPANY
again
DO NOT GO WITH THIS COMPANY!
Posts from WHT since 2011, If we are that bad!, we still serving our customers up till now and expanding to new locations with better connectivity and infrastructure.
We are very sorry for your bad experience with us, We hope you feel better now.
I was a (Xen-PVM, with one of the backdoor’d images) customer of yours from August 2010 until this month, in Egypt. Kept hoping things would improve, but… nope. My hope, and patience, are finally exhausted. Ciao, adios, do svidanya.
The network in Cairo is terrible, in terms of peering and routing and throughput and latency, but that’s the limited connectivity to Egypt, and not really your fault.
What are your fault are the constant power outages and reboots, and “support”. I don’t think I’m exaggerating that our VM never went more than ninety days without unscheduled downtime and a reboot.
I stopped bothering to open tickets three years ago. The second ticket I opened, you “lost” my VPS (and customer account…) and provisioned a new one, twenty-four hours later. The third ticket you responded to with two oh-so-helpful words: “Working now..” The fourth ticket you responded to in a mere twenty hours. And those were *all* tickets about the server being offline and un-bootable for more than twenty-four hours (because you guys are, after all, the princes of power outages.)
Good luck with Turkey, and your ruthless horror of a so-called government. You’re going to need it.
had a vps with this company, it was very cheap, i had it in egypt… basically their service was bad, but because of the arab spring… anyway this istanbul location has nothing to do with egypt locations and turkey is pretty stable so i do not know, maybe give them a chance if the provide refunds.
Their routing is really weird. I was thinking to purchase one but after this traceroute from Turkey…no.
OR http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=s0pTC8sk
After investigation, there is a routing issue with Turk Telecom, which out of our control, we are handling this issue with our upstream provider to fix it.
If you get any result, could you post it here? And, who answers your phone number in Turkey?
GCHQ needs to intercept the data from turkey – NSA is watching them ;-)
My exact thoughts as I pinged the Istanbul IP.
Never seen such a ping in-country. 79ms from Istanbul to Istanbul and I’m with Turk Telekom.
Same here. I’m in Sakarya, the highest I’ve seen is around 40-45. To Radore, it’s always 20-25. Guess Mednautilus have some routing issues.
Well interesting. They’re on Mednautilus? First time I’ve heard of this DC. Apparently Mednautilus is a subsidiary of Telecom Italia, which is a pretty large brand, many have heard of Alice ADSL their subsidiary. Baffles me how they can screw up routing this much. And they advertise Mednautilus Greece page in the footer of Mednautilus Turkey; as if there’s any connection peering-wise between Greece and Turkey. Anything would go through Germany, and the geographical proximity is incoherent.
Are you sure is it Turkey location? I’ve never seen 50-70ms from Turkey location before(I’m at Istanbul).
The reason 50-70ms from Turkey to here or other nodes (TATA Istanbul or Ankara, Cogent Istanbul) is TTNET’s refusal to complete internet exchanges in Turkey. So they are exchanging traffic in Frankfurt or France, thats why you get 50-70 ms ping.
TTNET is evil.
I have had a Citynet VPS for years and it is very stable, yes they are not the fastest network link but my VPS is the most stable VPS I have ever had, In fact I have kept it for over 4 years and the support from the guys is good if I ever have a question.
I wrote above “Yeah, may be in Turkey everything is ok and support is good now days also. I hope…”
But no…
I recommend to stay away from any service of CityNetHost. Support is still terrible. ;( One day you will be faced with a problem and after no answer for your ticket within 48 hours you have to change hosting. Be careful, guys from WHT also warned about it.
ping to istanbul very big
7 DAYS to deliver my vps and the root password they gave is not even working…
Avoid these scam artists, placed my order, they would never respond to your tickets, will close it without even care to respond, will set the order for pending forever and at the end mark it as fraud and never refund you, i dispute it on paypal, its a crappy service without even deliver, glad i didnt it buy it yearly.
A short time after I paid for a VPS their website stopped working because they had
not paid to renew the domain name. The domain name registration was renewed after
a few days, took about a week for them to have the domain resolve to a working web server.
The VPS was not installed, I got an email with an ip address but it never worked,
the citynethost control panel showed the vps using zero disk space.
No response to a support ticket after three weeks.