Thrust::VPS - £3.95 1GB KVM VPS in UK

Apr 13, 2011 @ 8:38 am

Just got this email from Thrust::VPS.

KVM Released!
We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of our new KVM platform. We are offering to our existing (and new) clients.

You can get the following VPS for £3.95/month — only if you choose to use GBP as your currency. If you use USD it is $7.95, although 3.95 pound is only USD$6.43 on the market today. Here is the ordering link, and the plan detail:

1GB memory
30GB storage
1TB/month data transfer
KVM

UK based (RapidSwitch) but Dallas is coming soon. It’s the 3^rd KVM offer over the last couple of days. Daniel asked whether there’s plan for a $7/month 512MB KVM plan, and I think he might get more than he asked for! As of Thrust::VPS — I guess there is no need of introduction here. It’s going to be limited supply — only 100 of them according to the email.

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126 Comments

Hughesey:
Very good price, lets see what the performance is like on this offering from them (I/O mainly).
April 13, 2011 @ 8:43 am | Reply
Daniel:
Tried to signup to test it but i get this:
MaxMind has deemed your order to be potentially high risk and therefore it has been held for manual review.
If you feel you have received this message in error, then please accept our apologies and submit a support ticket to our Customer Service Team. Thank you.
April 13, 2011 @ 8:49 am | Reply
- drmike:
  At least they tell you want the holdup is. We’ve had providers here who don’t notify when their order is held for review.
  Did you get that as part of the signup or via an email?
  April 16, 2011 @ 8:11 pm | Reply
Daniel @ LowEndTalk:
I get it for £3.31, I feel special.
April 13, 2011 @ 8:53 am | Reply
- Daniel @ LowEndTalk:
  Oh and thats including 20% VAT.
  April 13, 2011 @ 8:53 am | Reply
  - Taka:
    Hi, please share us some test performance :)
    April 13, 2011 @ 8:58 am | Reply
    - Daniel @ LowEndTalk:
      Thats if the VPS boots, when it boots ill put it extremes, see how much Minecraft it will run before it crashes, perfect stability test.
      April 13, 2011 @ 9:21 am | Reply
Daniel @ LowEndTalk:
I got the VPS, it won’t boot, it won’t connect to VNC, its broke.
I actually ordered another VPS from them this morning (Xen PV) and thats having the same issues but its a different DC.
April 13, 2011 @ 8:57 am | Reply
- Taka:
  Did you tell them about issues? Submit ticket and see what happended
  April 13, 2011 @ 8:59 am | Reply
- Daniel:
  You tried reimaging it?
  April 13, 2011 @ 9:00 am | Reply
  - Daniel @ LowEndTalk:
    It works like HVM, it uses ISOs and you mount them in Solus then install via VNC.
    April 13, 2011 @ 9:00 am | Reply
    - Daniel:
      Ahh my bad. yeh forgot it was like vmware.
      April 13, 2011 @ 9:01 am | Reply
    - Daniel @ LowEndTalk:
      I gotta admit, the template feature of OpenVZ and Xen PV is so much simpler. Also some of Thrust’s ISOs are… quite broken.
      April 13, 2011 @ 9:02 am | Reply
    - Patrick Garman:
      You can have KVM templates. No reason they shouldn’t use them.
      April 13, 2011 @ 4:53 pm | Reply
    - Daniel @ LowEndTalk:
      They use ISOs
      April 13, 2011 @ 5:18 pm | Reply
    - Patrick Garman:
      Always OK to use ISOs, but should at least offer templates.
      A) Gets clients online faster
      B) Less issues from clients unable to setup their network because they are not familiar with static IPs
      That’s just my opinion though.
      April 13, 2011 @ 11:32 pm | Reply
- Ztc:
  Same here and yes I reimaged it to win 2008 R2.
  April 13, 2011 @ 9:06 am | Reply
Daniel @ LowEndTalk:
Looks like they already sold 20
https://clients.thrustvps.com/cart.php?gid=13
April 13, 2011 @ 9:04 am | Reply
- Daniel:
  Maxmind doesn’t like me today for some reason it wont let me order :(
  April 13, 2011 @ 9:07 am | Reply
Harbinger:
£4.74 for me including the 20% vat, this is also my preferred location rather than OVH with CPS.
April 13, 2011 @ 9:19 am | Reply
Ztc:
Well, I guess we just have to wait, looks like an awesome offer though.
Just wanted to post it on LET, but it was already on LEB :D
April 13, 2011 @ 9:26 am | Reply
- Ztc:
  It’s online, installing OS atm.
  April 13, 2011 @ 9:40 am | Reply
The Freebie:
Just grabbed one, lets see how it goes :)
April 13, 2011 @ 10:08 am | Reply
- Tom:
  Post
  cat /proc/cpuinfo
  cat /proc/meminfo
  dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
  Thanks
  April 13, 2011 @ 11:07 am | Reply
Rus Foster:
We are very interested to hear people feedback on performance and issues on this. We are releasing this to test that its viable and mature enough. As such we are most definitely considering this beta. As such please take appropriate caution and use it for testing. I wouldn’t recommend it for production yet
April 13, 2011 @ 10:39 am | Reply
- Tom:
  What are the node spec?
  April 13, 2011 @ 11:07 am | Reply
- Daniel:
  Windows won’t install :(
  http://img.evservers.co.uk/res/8ef66eb6.png
  April 13, 2011 @ 11:11 am | Reply
  - Daniel @ LowEndTalk:
    Why are you even trying to install it :P
    April 13, 2011 @ 11:14 am | Reply
    - Daniel:
      It takes to long to install VNC+GNOME on linux and thats why realy. Plus i dont know the commands from scratch.
      April 13, 2011 @ 11:17 am | Reply
    - Daniel @ LowEndTalk:
      You need my VNC Autoinstaller. Pulls all the files needed from my web server, and configured and install it, you can even check the commands if you want.
      http://dannycodes.co.uk/vnc.sh
      April 13, 2011 @ 11:40 am | Reply
    - Daniel:
      What a great Script! thanks
      p.s now we need one for kde :)
      April 13, 2011 @ 1:14 pm | Reply
    - Daniel @ LowEndTalk:
      Mah, I don’t see the reason in KDE. Gnome 3 looks so pretty anyway.
      April 13, 2011 @ 2:37 pm | Reply
- CryptWizard:
  It feels slower than a Pentium 1.
  Also, there’s a lot of random reboots and the VNC keeps dropping out and then reconnects to it fail for some number of minutes afterwards.
  April 15, 2011 @ 3:33 pm | Reply
Antony:
Wow, that’s a pretty interesting offer!
Isn’t that the company known to have “stolen” a website hosted by them?
April 13, 2011 @ 10:54 am | Reply
- ab:
  no, why would you think taht?
  April 13, 2011 @ 4:15 pm | Reply
  - Antony:
    Well, I did read something few weeks ago while gathering information about VPS companies, but I was not sure if it was that company or not; If nobody heard that / had this problem, sounds like it’s not this one :)
    April 14, 2011 @ 9:52 am | Reply
BluePanda:
Ah.. I hate VAT. The only thing that is putting me off buying this lol.
That and if there is no possibility to upgrade the space at a later date.
April 13, 2011 @ 11:09 am | Reply
- Daniel @ LowEndTalk:
  is VAT putting you off buying your internet?
  April 13, 2011 @ 11:14 am | Reply
  - BluePanda:
    No, the price that I would be given for my internet includes VAT. I do not get to the last stage of the checkout to find it out which is why its off-putting.
    I do however like the company, I already have a VPS with them but that was before they got taken over so no VAT.
    April 13, 2011 @ 11:21 am | Reply
Tom:
KVM Beta (-3 Available)
April 13, 2011 @ 11:30 am | Reply
- Daniel @ LowEndTalk:
  That probaly means 4 people ordered at once when there was 1 available.
  April 13, 2011 @ 11:46 am | Reply
Gonzalo:
OUT OF STOCK :(
April 13, 2011 @ 11:54 am | Reply
- GeekInFinance:
  Not fair for North American guys, I just turned on my PC and it is already out of stock, LOL :)
  April 13, 2011 @ 1:00 pm | Reply
Ztc:
Had my first bluescreen, some hardware error.
I guess they will fix this out of themself, doesn’t say beta for nothing.
April 13, 2011 @ 1:12 pm | Reply
- Daniel:
  I had that error tooo
  Is it same error msg as http://img.evservers.co.uk/res/8ef66eb6.png
  April 13, 2011 @ 1:14 pm | Reply
Shaveage Zigga:
I got it about an hr ago. Installed Server 2003, DHCP seems to be not have worked. Manually configured IP/DNS and its golden.
Also link back to AU seems to time warp. More testing tomorrow.
April 13, 2011 @ 1:36 pm | Reply
- The Freebie:
  DHCP seems to be not have worked. Manually configured IP/DNS and its golden.
  ~ I second this, but I passed it onto support to fix since I figured it would help them, It’s taking them along time..
  April 13, 2011 @ 3:27 pm | Reply
Steve:
Missed out. :(
April 13, 2011 @ 2:44 pm | Reply
Daniel:
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1250321347.png
Upload is okay must be a congested PIPE
April 13, 2011 @ 3:41 pm | Reply
- Daniel @ LowEndTalk:
  Glad my script worked for you.
  April 13, 2011 @ 3:47 pm | Reply
Khuzaymah Kumar:
Is it available in US any test ip or further discounts?
April 13, 2011 @ 5:00 pm | Reply
dirk:
Is this offer coming back anytime soon?
Also about the VAT, what if I have a valid VAT number, then I shouldn’t be paying any VAT on my order. How do you handle that?
Do you offer ipv6 addresses?
April 13, 2011 @ 5:14 pm | Reply
innya:
I am wait for dallas kvm.
April 13, 2011 @ 6:02 pm | Reply
- innya:
  I mean waiting
  April 13, 2011 @ 6:05 pm | Reply
The Freebie:
Still waiting for them to sort my vps out.. it’s now been nearly 12 hours :/
April 13, 2011 @ 8:30 pm | Reply
- bashful:
  24 hours and I’ve got nothing..
  April 14, 2011 @ 6:23 pm | Reply
Bob:
Definitely would like to see some west coast/central US love :)
April 13, 2011 @ 8:49 pm | Reply
innya:
Rus said they will release some dallas kvm in a few days.
April 13, 2011 @ 10:10 pm | Reply
bob:
I tried thrustvps back in November by buying 1 xen and 1 openvz in LA. The OpenVZ was utterly worthless with extremely high IO wait, and Rus’ promise to move me turned from 1 day into a week. The Xen was usable, but there were 2 large connection outages which caused me to cancel both.
I decided to try them again, this time in New Jersey. Unfortunately, it is still riddled with problems. First they assigned me to 7.xn.nj.damnvps.com, which had double the latency to some places in the US. All their other servers didn’t have this problem, so again I had to wait for a couple days to be reassigned to a node with proper routing. When that finally happened, my node went down several times which they blamed on a router failure.
All these reoccuring problems seem too frequent to just be bad luck. Your results may vary.
April 13, 2011 @ 10:21 pm | Reply
inso:
oh….sold out
April 13, 2011 @ 11:46 pm | Reply
dejan:
Pure overselling.
April 14, 2011 @ 12:00 am | Reply
- Daniel:
  Don’t think you can oversell KVM maybe LEA can verify this
  April 14, 2011 @ 2:39 am | Reply
  - Bob:
    You can still oversell disk I/O, network bandwidth, and CPU easily with KVM.
    April 14, 2011 @ 2:54 am | Reply
  - Yomero:
    Hmmm
    http://avikivity.blogspot.com/2008/04/memory-overcommit-with-kvm.html
    http://www.linux-kvm.com/content/proxmox-ve-15-adds-kvm-memory-overcommit-ksm
    http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/Virtualization/chap-Virtualization-System_requirements.html
    etc etc
    April 14, 2011 @ 3:36 am | Reply
    - Tom:
      A good example why I will always love Openvz for it’s lowest overhead, everything can be oversold and in the case with Thrust they have always been known for shity I/O.
      Strangely I can’t see anyone posting any results yet.
      April 14, 2011 @ 7:42 am | Reply
  - Taka:
    You can oversell with all virtualization
    April 14, 2011 @ 6:38 am | Reply
    - Tom:
      “Do not overcommit memory or CPUs in a production environment without extensive testing. Applications which use 100% of memory or processing resources may become unstable in overcommitted environments. Test before deploying.”
      @dejan, after reading that article seems like you can easily overcommit as far as 2x. But it could crash the host node, makes sense why the price is 4pounds for 1GB, Rus is just looking for some gini pigs to test the overselling of his nodes.
      April 14, 2011 @ 3:45 pm | Reply
    - dejan:
      It will crash only if you don’t have enough SWAP, plus most VPS do not use 100% of the available RAM all the time.
      (0.5 * RAM) + (overcommit ratio * RAM) = Recommended swap size
      April 14, 2011 @ 8:35 pm | Reply
  - LowEndAdmin:
    On KVM your VM is just a userland process that can be easily swapped out. So yeah overselling the memory is quite possible.
    April 14, 2011 @ 8:35 am | Reply
    - Daniel @ LowEndTalk:
      So overselling like OpenVZ Overselling? You can actually make 12 1GB VPSs with only 8GB of Memory?
      April 14, 2011 @ 9:08 am | Reply
    - dejan:
      How else can they sell 1GB VPS for £3.95/month
      Overcommitting with KVM
      http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Virtualization/sect-Virtualization-Tips_and_tricks-Overcommitting_with_KVM.html
      April 14, 2011 @ 3:02 pm | Reply
    - Steve:
      They can sell these for so cheap because they put massive amounts of RAM in one server, and then co-locate.
      April 14, 2011 @ 4:37 pm | Reply
    - Daniel:
      @Steve
      I dont think they colo, the company owns DC’s
      April 14, 2011 @ 4:38 pm | Reply
    - Steve:
      @Daniel
      The company only owns 1 datacentre in the UK.
      April 14, 2011 @ 6:18 pm | Reply
Tan:
out of stock.
April 14, 2011 @ 2:49 am | Reply
Rus Foster:
We’ve just released another 40 of these VM’s
April 14, 2011 @ 9:50 am | Reply
- dirk:
  Except that they seem to be in USD (more expensive) instead GBP.
  Also you to order without VAT (has I have a VAT number)
  April 14, 2011 @ 9:58 am | Reply
  - Daniel @ LowEndTalk:
    If you have a VAT number, you can just claim money back from the government of the VAT you paid.
    April 14, 2011 @ 9:59 am | Reply
    - dirk:
      As a EU company buying within the EU but outside your own country you do not have to pay VAT.
      Claiming it back is indeed possible but not what is the normal way to handle for intra-EU purchases
      April 14, 2011 @ 10:02 am | Reply
  - Joe Merit:
    Go into the shopping cart and change your currency to GBP and click save
    and then go back to the offer and it’ll say 3.95 gbp .
    April 14, 2011 @ 11:02 am | Reply
- Steve:
  Missed out AGAIN. :( :(
  April 14, 2011 @ 4:25 pm | Reply
Taylor Jones:
Just got mine, they were in stock at about 2 but are now out, seting up windows server 2003 {:
April 14, 2011 @ 3:14 pm | Reply
Dimitris:
I asked them on the live chat if they oversell and they logged-off.
PRETTY funny stuff.!!
April 14, 2011 @ 4:24 pm | Reply
Pman-Family:
I have a VPS with Thrust but it’s NOT kvm.
Is this offer available in Dallas yet? I really want to try out a KVM VPS, I am in the US and I’m steering away from UK VPS.
April 14, 2011 @ 8:50 pm | Reply
PenguinTux:
Damn VPS! I missed out on the exclusive KVM offer.
April 14, 2011 @ 9:04 pm | Reply
Joe Merit:
Ya i got in on this, really tempting to be able to run windows/freebsd etc.. Will report back on my experiences :)
Trying windows 2008r2 now, but probably will end up in debian6 or FreeBSD.
April 14, 2011 @ 11:00 pm | Reply
- Shaveage Zigga:
  how are you installing 2008? I didn’t see the option for that iso
  April 15, 2011 @ 12:36 pm | Reply
  - Shaveage Zigga:
    nevermind, missed the option. Wish the ISO’s were in order.
    April 16, 2011 @ 3:44 am | Reply

Harbinger:

Anyone got Centos 32Bit autoinstall to install?

[root@localhost ~]# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 6
model name      : QEMU Virtual CPU version 0.9.1
stepping        : 3
cpu MHz         : 2400.054
cache size      : 32 KB
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 4
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat                                    pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx lm pni
bogomips        : 4800.10
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

processor       : 1
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 6
model name      : QEMU Virtual CPU version 0.9.1
stepping        : 3
cpu MHz         : 2400.054
cache size      : 32 KB
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 4
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat                                    pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx lm pni
bogomips        : 4814.61
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

processor       : 2
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 6
model name      : QEMU Virtual CPU version 0.9.1
stepping        : 3
cpu MHz         : 2400.054
cache size      : 32 KB
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 4
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat                                    pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx lm pni
bogomips        : 4666.19
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

processor       : 3
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 6
model name      : QEMU Virtual CPU version 0.9.1
stepping        : 3
cpu MHz         : 2400.054
cache size      : 32 KB
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 4
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat                                    pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx lm pni
bogomips        : 4795.58
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

April 15, 2011 @ 5:04 pm | Reply

Daniel @ LowEndTalk:
All we need is paravirtaulized KVM, and that will be the VPS industry reborn :)
April 16, 2011 @ 8:32 pm | Reply

Joe Merit:
How are people finding the performance on this? I tried windows 2008r2 and it didnt seem to be stable, so I tried 2003 and it was stable but too slow to effectively use. (Not that I’d expect windows to run fast and good for this price)
April 16, 2011 @ 12:59 am | Reply
bashful:
Feedback so far:
win 2008 bluescreens, win2003 setup doesnt complete fully. Lots of glitches. Connectivity and operation extremely slow. A windows reboot takes like 10 minutes. More of an alpha than a beta. If you’re looking for a windows box this most definately isn’t the place, pretty awful really.
April 16, 2011 @ 4:25 pm | Reply
- Joe Merit:
  I concur with this. I think I will end up cancelling before the end of the month. For
  anyone who “missed out” on this , they were lucky imho.
  April 16, 2011 @ 7:46 pm | Reply
- Harbinger:
  Yeah, VPS will have to improve dramatically over the next three weeks, installing is very erratic and takes ages, as does a reboot. The broken cdroms don’t help either.
  Its too rough to be called Beta
  April 16, 2011 @ 8:23 pm | Reply
  - Joe Merit:
    I take my criticism back a bit, I found that debian 6 works acceptably well
    I’ve often thought disk i/o was the culprit in Windows not working right on this provider, but it seems to be just as good as other providers I’ve used.
    $ dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync 16384+0 records in 16384+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 12.3557 s, 86.9 MB/s
    (Although I’ve seen it go down to 35MB/s)
    April 18, 2011 @ 12:39 am | Reply
    - Harbinger:
      I had 6MB/s on saturday, it is still eratic.
      [root@localhost ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync 16384+0 records in 16384+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 84.468 seconds, 12.7 MB/s [root@localhost ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync 16384+0 records in 16384+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 28.1625 seconds, 38.1 MB/s [root@localhost ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync 16384+0 records in 16384+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 64.7914 seconds, 16.6 MB/s [root@localhost ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync 16384+0 records in 16384+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 16.9162 seconds, 63.5 MB/s
      I/O wait is going up and is the worst of my VPS’s along with the dd test
      from status.sh
      Uptime 3 hours 14 minutes Load 0.10 0.33 0.44 Memory Applications : 278 MB (27%) B/C : 620 MB (61%) Free : 102 MB (10%) Free (-B/C) : 723 MB (72%) Swapped : 0 MB (0%) Disk FS Size Used Avail Use% / 29G 3.0G 25G 11% IO Wait Since boot : 3.51% Last 5 mins : 0.95%
      April 19, 2011 @ 12:54 am | Reply
innya:
Rus, How come you charged $12.95/month for dallas kvm? you give discount on UK and not in us?
April 19, 2011 @ 4:51 pm | Reply
- Joe Merit:
  pretty sure that Rus owns or is one of the owners of the UK Datacenter that the UK servers
  are in (making it cheaper)
  April 19, 2011 @ 7:21 pm | Reply
  - Daniel:
    According to his Linkedin Page he is a brand manager for Thrust::VPS / GigeVPS at iomart ( Which Own RapidSwitch,Easyspace)
    April 19, 2011 @ 7:25 pm | Reply
innya:
Rus,
Any discount on dallas KVM?
April 19, 2011 @ 6:12 pm | Reply
innya:
I thought price is going to be same and I have waited for dallas KVM.
That was my bad. :(
Dallas promo is a bit more than uk kvm. It is still good deal thought.
April 20, 2011 @ 5:48 pm | Reply
XZed:
Two questions :
– Has anyone tried / Does someone know if nesting feature is/can be enabled on the host (opening support ticket) ?
– Any date about final and ready KVM offer ?
Thank you
April 21, 2011 @ 9:54 pm | Reply
- bashful:
  XZed don’t bother it’s not even vaguely usable.
  REMINDER to everyone that signed up for this nonsense, It’s like a vps node running on a battered old pentium3 connected to the net by several pieces sellotape and string.
  Now is the time to cancel before they get another cent for this rubbish!
  May 3, 2011 @ 1:48 am | Reply
Dino Suarez:
Thrust should be ashamed of this offering and just refund everyone.
I have one that I’ve already cancelled. It is by far the WORST vps
I have ever purchased. My 15$/yr buyvm VPS performs better. I was compiling something
on the ThrustVPS and it took 10 minutes, on buyvm it took 30 seconds.
May 3, 2011 @ 3:07 am | Reply
- Harbinger:
  Yeah I cancelled a few days ago, there is overselling and taking the pi$$, thrust take the pi$$.
  It is unusable. The last time I had a vps with rus was in 2003 with jvds, which was very good, standards have nosedived since then.
  May 3, 2011 @ 9:30 am | Reply
noone:
is this any good?
May 9, 2011 @ 7:38 pm | Reply
Steve:
Cheap UK ones are back in stock. I just got one, installed Windows, and it seems to be performing pretty well.
June 8, 2011 @ 10:10 pm | Reply
Daniel:
Can anyone tell if this is any good now?
June 22, 2011 @ 9:00 am | Reply
Ixape:
Anyone know if the windows offer is still on?
July 8, 2011 @ 10:24 pm | Reply
Ajay:
Thrust VPS DO NOT have their own data centre in the UK. They rent from rapid switch. I wish people would do some f****** research before they attempt express their opinions as facts.
Maybe they co-locate from Maidenhead to Scotland where there trading company is registered at (LOL) – or not. I wish data centres would stop their clients from chatting shit.
Wise up people, worlds not big enough for idiots.
July 12, 2011 @ 12:22 am | Reply
- Steve:
  iomart owns Thrust::VPS. iomart also owns RapidSwitch. So basically, it is their own datacentre.
  July 12, 2011 @ 8:26 pm | Reply
- Daniel:
  Clearly ajay you need to do some F****** research :D
  July 13, 2011 @ 9:33 pm | Reply
  - Steve:
    Yup. Should have done your research a bit better before mouthing off. ;)
    July 13, 2011 @ 10:06 pm | Reply
drmike:
Looks like ThrustVPS is going the way of YardVPS. Just got an emailed update on some maintenance that they’re planning. Not a customer, no legally required contact information, no way to unsubscribe, nothing.
I hope that’s just an oversight on their part and they realize that such a method of contact isn’t correct and proper.
July 13, 2011 @ 9:27 pm | Reply
- Steve:
  Maybe you were a client of a company that got merged into them? I’m sure they’ll sort it if you submit a ticket.
  July 13, 2011 @ 10:06 pm | Reply
  - drmike:
    …or they could just run a clean list and only send it to their current clients.
    And include contact information, a method of unsubscribing, etc.
    That way they can show that they know what they’re doing. Here in the US, that’s required by law. (Granted Thrust appears to not be a US company but still.)
    Why make me jump through hoops to deal with something that I shouldn’t be getting in the first place?
    July 13, 2011 @ 10:19 pm | Reply
    - Ixape:
      I believe this is also a law in the UK.
      July 14, 2011 @ 3:20 pm | Reply
littleguy:
Just got their Aquatic plan (OpenVZ).
They have an awesome CentOS 6 template that gives you virtual swap instead of burst RAM. Works extremely well!
Here is a quick disk bench:
```
[root@vps3 ~]# dd bs=1M count=128 if=/dev/zero of=test oflag=dsync
128+0 records in
128+0 records out
134217728 bytes (134 MB) copied, 9.82424 s, 13.7 MB/s
```
December 27, 2011 @ 2:43 pm | Reply
- Francisco Dias:
  Then it isn’t a KVM :)
  Francisco
  December 27, 2011 @ 8:00 pm | Reply
- Dino Suarez:
  Thats some pretty crappy disk performance. I tried a Thrust::VPS KVM plan some time ago and it
  was the worst performing VPS I have ever purchased. I cant imagine their OpenVZ offering being
  any better.
  December 27, 2011 @ 9:28 pm | Reply
littleguy:
Their KVM plans are out of stock, I just thought this was a good alternative. As opposed to burstable ram, VSwap seems to be guaranteed available. The OS also uses free memory as cache, much like a real machine.
See the OpenVZ wiki for more info
December 27, 2011 @ 8:15 pm | Reply
- Francisco Dias:
  Yes i’m fully aware of how vswap works, we got a few nodes running it :)
  I’m just saying, you posted this in their ‘KVM offering’ thread which may throw some people off
  Francisco
  December 27, 2011 @ 8:26 pm | Reply
  - littleguy:
    Haha I’m sorry Francisco, I was just so happy to see how great it worked and had to tell someone. :D
    Are you saying you have CentOS 6 templates over at BuyVM with with VSwap now?
    December 27, 2011 @ 8:33 pm | Reply
    - Francisco Dias:
      Keep it to our thread, sorry to the thrustvps guys/gals, not trying to derail :)
      Francisco
      December 27, 2011 @ 9:24 pm | Reply
Annis:
Need of thrust vps coupon for 1GB servers.
June 30, 2012 @ 8:48 am | Reply
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