RAM Host, who have been a consistent top 3 provider over our previous polls, have recently launched two tiny VPS brands — TinyVZ and TinyKVM. Very minimalistic designed home page with only one hosting plan each. For TinyVZ, it’s at the popular $15/Year price point. Sign up TinyVZ plan.
- 128MB guaranteed/256MB burstable memory
- 10GB storage
- 500GB/month data transfer on 1Gbps
- 1x IPv4 + 65,536x IPv6
- OpenVZ/Custom Panel
KVM offers are a bit dearer at $35/Year, and it’s fit for not only Linux distros but also xBSD. Sign up TinyKVM plan.
- 128MB memory
- 3GB storage
- 500GB/month data transfer on 1Gbps
- 1x IPv4 + 65,536x IPv6
- KVM
Servers in Kansas City (for TinyVZ) and in London UK (for TinyKVM). Robert has been running RAM Host since early 2009 and it should be easy to find mostly-positive reviews here or on WHT. As the name has suggested, these OpenVZ/KVM plans are “tiny” and if you need more resource, you need to upgrade to plans at RAM Host.
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The TinyKVM plan is actually in London, not Kansas.
I’ve signed up for one, looks like it’s not instant setup, FYI.
Thanks. Post amended.
placed an order on my cellphone, will pay it when i’m on a computer later
lol, addict
I’am wondering when IPv6 will actually become possible in KC. After sudden non expected removal of those addresses from KC nodes they said that “better” IPv6 will be back in a week… but now, months later still nothing.
@Spirit – the old tunneled IPv6 in Kansas City was shut off. If we haven’t renumbered you into native IPv6 yet send in a ticket and it’ll be done for you.
65,536x IPv6, LOL.
KVM looks good but only complaint is the storage. 15GB would be reasonable (10GB at least).
We will be launching another US based TinyKVM plan with more storage to compliment the UK offer next month.
hi ramnet
any chance we can pay to add more disk space to the vz plans ?
cheers
justin
any mailing list to inform us when it happens?
Will you be adding an Europe OpenVZ plan at the same specs/prices?
There will be no $15 TinyVZ plans in Europe anytime soon, only in Kansas.
Hosted with RAMHost for almost 1 year without issues. Worth to have a try with their new packages.
WOW
3 cpu cores?
Same, mine also 3 cores.
The DD seems bad?
He is using oflag=dsync
So standard plans at KC have been dropped?
We are going to be transitioning all the plans offered on ramhost.us to KVM-based plans only as the platform is superior. Since we still have a large amount of OpenVZ infrastructure still, those servers will be recycled for use as miniature VPS servers by our TinyVZ brand.
I have one OpenVZ at atlanta. So any affect from this?
We won’t be turning off any legacy OpenVZ plans in Atlanta until 2014 at the earliest :-)
I think I read about this in your forums… that you were considering moving everything away from OpenVZ because of recent instability issues. But that can’t be an issue any longer, with the release of a new OpenVZ brand :)
I’m quite happy with moving to KVM, as long as I get the same resources at the same price.
Cheers and best wishes.
Well, these TinyVZ plans use our older, more stable OpenVZ platform. We eventually will phase all this OpenVZ stuff out when this infrastructure is retired several years down the road. By that time we will be able to offer KVM plans with these specs at the same price point as OpenVZ.
That’s interesting, if I understood right, existing ramhost customers will receive free upgrade from openvz to kvm and their VPS specs remains the same?
BTW: Now we have a more competitive market of the $15 super-low-end-box and what’s coming next?
KVM needs more memory than openvz because you have to run your own kernel and a bunch of system services in your VPS, that are shared node-wide and don’t count in your memory limit in OVZ. 128MB OVZ users will probably have to upgrade to 144MB-ish KVM to run the same applications. But I think ramnet is just saying, hardware will get cheaper, so they will be able to offer the relevant upgrades.
I’m skeptical of this OpenVZ to KVM migration anyway. OpenVZ has trouble with certain kernels and usage profiles but can work really well, and is constantly being improved. It’s superior to KVM/Xen in many ways (though also worse in some) and it isn’t going away. By a couple years from now maybe all these problems will be sorted.
@paul
OpenVZ measures memory allocated.
KVM, Xen, and real hardware, measure memory that is actually used, which is less than memory allocated.
Applications allocate more than they actually use.
This is why you can run Java and Python on a 32MB KVM / Xen where OpenVZ will need close to quadruple that or the OOM-killer will step in.
This is why KVM costs more than OpenVZ: OpenVZ by design counts memory incorrectly, in favor of the host.
All things being equal, software running inside an OpenVZ VPS will require more memory than software running in a KVM/Xen/real hardware situation.
How about test IPv4 and IPv6 for both locations.
You can ping 199.180.253.1 and 2605:8900:5000:1001:1::1 for Kansas City and 146.185.21.1 and 2a02:2498:efff:ffff::2 for London.
Both v6 work for me from buyvm.net. London v6 ping time is slightly shorter than v4 (a couple ms). KC is about the same.
Any benchmarks of KVM VPS and OpenVZ VPS?
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 256 234 21 0 0 0
-/+ buffers/cache: 234 21
Swap: 0 0 0
=============================
4008 www-data 21 0 229m 3276 1544 S 0 1.2 0:00.00 apache2
what’s wrong?
Ramhost…Oh!
Not bad at all for just under £10 a year.
Just waiting for setup now.
This site takes simplicity to the next level :P Nice deal though.
Rob just has a hard on for http://prgmr.com/xen/ ;)
Francisco
Doh :P
;/ Wonder why he would do that
Actually I just couldn’t be bothered to develop any TinyVZ graphics :-)
I like it, I can just imagine you sitting there getting your geek on typing that out.
I have several servers with ramhost. Please check support ticket # 144912. I would like to try the TinyVZ they are offering here.
Thanks ramnet for ignoring my tickets. Ticket # 746718 (2011/10/03) and ticket # 144912 (2011/10/21).
We don’t like spammers and abuse. Go bother some other host who doesn’t mind your garbage.
Nicely said even if I’m asking help from you how to prevent such abuses via support ticket. It seems trusting you to help me means a very bad decision I make. Good luck.
@Mark R
4 servers spamming and sending out network attacks for over a month is your fault. You are either deliberately conducting criminal activity, or are far too unskilled to administer a server yourself. Considering it involves 4 servers, I’m going to assume you’re a scumbag :)
Good luck to you as well.
Thanks for deleting all my servers after posting my experience with you here and accusing me of conducting criminal activity even if I have upgraded all my methods of protecting my VPS. Liars will go to hell and God is just to give justice to those who are oppressed. Accusing me of 4 more abuse reports just in order for you to delete all my servers.
@Mark R “Liars will go to hell”
If only it were that easy to get rid of you :-)
Spamming and attacking US government servers is a criminal offense.
Your services were shut down a month ago after you were given several weeks to cease that activity and resolve the problem, which you failed to do.
Now do everyone a favor and stop trolling.
If you have told me not to pay because you’re going to terminate my servers anyway I would have not renewed it for the quarter Oct-Dec for the due date was Sep. You told me that my IP will be renumbered that’s why I trusted you and pay for the next quarter but instead of renumbering you have terminated it all. It’s very unfair.
allow IRC?
IRC on the TinyVZ is clearly specified in the AUP/TOS
IRC clients are fine.
IRC servers for personal use is fine as well.
And what about VPN? =)
KVM you can pretty much run whatever your OS is able to run on a real server.
The old OpenVZ technology powering the TinyVZ plans can handle TUN for OpenVPN and that’s about it.
Very nice offer. Looks like RAM Host works out of my hometown. One drawback is having to pay state sales tax, but on the other hand it’s nice to support a local business …and even nicer to know where to go with my pitchfork and torch if something goes wrong ;)
Knowing where to take the pitchfork and torch is worth the state tax!
We’re probably going to incorporate in a year or two in a state that doesn’t require sales tax on web hosting (or in a state with very low population like Wyoming). Texas is one of the very few states that requires we collect sales tax on web hosting, and we’re not particularly thrilled about passing that tax along to TX clients….
FWIW, it doesn’t really matter where you’re incorporated – you’re going to have to collect Texas sales tax either way. Any presence in Texas (your home office in Baytown, for example) requires that an account be established with the State Comptroller to collect sales taxes.
Unless, of course, you’re planning on moving to Wyoming … :)
Just FYI, A personal presence isn’t equal to a business presence when it comes to corporations.
And with global warming moving north might not be a bad idea heh :-P
This is great. There was an LET thread recently about redefining “low end” at higher than $7/month, but I think $15/year is really the right new definition. If you watch BuyVM stock releases, they always sell out their 128MB $15/year plans immediately while everything else hangs around all day. These are still quite powerful and useful servers. I keep feeling tempted to buy more of them even though in practice they’d end up sitting idle.
At the current rate of orders we’re seeing for these the $15 plan should have stock well into next week :-)
BuyVM sells out in seconds everything they have stock.
How do they do it?
No really they don’t. They had no stock at all for ages, so when they finally released a bunch last Saturday it almost all went fast. Later releases have lasted longer, like several hours for the 128MB plans and days for everything else. Today’s release seems to have not included any 256MB’s (there were 4 available at that time) and that’s why there’s none now. There are still plenty of 512MB and up available, with 512M at $5.95 priced well within the LEB limit. There’s even a 2048M KVM that’s been dangling there all week like a piece of ripe fruit ready for picking, but this place is too cheap to be tempted by it ;-). Anyway this is a Ramhost thread, shouldn’t go on too much about buyvm.
This is not a BuyVM thread :) lets discuss this in LET, shall we?
I like your minimalist home page and I’d happily buy one of those servers except I don’t know what I’d do with it. Yes this LEB stuff has problems but I’m just amazed that it works as well as it does.
what about the service/support quality, will it be any different between tiny and ram customers?
tinyvz / tinykvm come with minimal to no support. If you require semi-managed support or periodic hand-holding these discounted offers are not for you.
I guess he talks about general support (network fails, system reboots, outages, tun enabling, etc).
Well, obviously network and hardware issues, and any other issues beyond a client’s ability to control, are supported.
@Yomero, Yup that what I meant :)
like if I have network/node/tun/etc issues, how long tiny{vz,kvm} have to wait for ticket reply, do we have the same priority as ramhost customers for this kind of issues?
I am with them since 2 days ago. Very fast support on replying my ticket. TUN and PPTP enable by default however change hostname and RDNS record must open a ticket.
Today I notice, intermittent down almost 2 hours without any announcement in advance.
Yeah, circus is a pro!
If only you could buy extra BW on this plan :p
I/O is Too slow
Sometimes only 300KB/S, Good case only 20MB/S
and ramhost tell me ,test I/O will Fine, Be afraid
I/O seems OK with dd.
However, I’m still reserved as to the overall performance. Apt seems to take minutes to install packages that would complete in <30 seconds on another VPS I have elsewhere.
Three other things I think it's worth noting:
– My VPS was set up within ~30 minutes of me paying (with Google checkout at ~7AM UTC)
– IPv6 doesn't seem to work (ping6 always returns "Network is unreachable", and I can't connect to/from another VPS over it – and I know that IPv6 is working fine.)
– The control panel is a bit disappointing after being with providers using SolusVM and HyperVM. It would be nice to be able to change the hostname/RDNS without submitting a ticket, and the reload OS option always results in an error (although it does work fine.)
Can you do a ioping test? =)
You’re probably seeing the effects of caching. Wanna retry that with conv=fsync ?
Just a FYI, conv=fsync is basically the same as conv=fdatasync
If that was a cache’ing effect it’d be many orders of magnitude higher in the GBPS range.
@Perl
IPv6 works fine here – if it doesn’t open a ticket and we’ll take a look.
Your apt is probably going slow because of an issue with your network configuration related to your IPv6 not working.
Unless I need to explicitly do something to enable it, it definitely isn’t working how I’d expect – can’t connect in via the one address [/128] attached, and outwards always returns “network unreachable” – so I will log a ticket.
The slow part of installs isn’t the network part, it’s was unpacking / configuring. It seems to be better now, but still not ideal. (I’m on the same host as herbyscrub below, will see like in a couple of days.)
You’re using ‘conv=fdatasync’, but do you dare to use ‘oflag=dsync’ test?
dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=4k oflag=dsync
ramhost smashed their own brand of low-end vps, I will not renew the!
oflag=dsync is an useless test, fdatasync is the closest to real-world behaviour.
I second @rm’s comment. ‘conv=fdatasync’ is enough
Disk IO is fine on these servers. You are testing it incorrectly if you think it’s that slow.
then, tell us how to test correctly.
Same way Perl and Mr.z did earlier in these comments is fine.
Just got mine provisioned. Network is fine, but performance on VZ5 is less than ideal. Needed approximately 4 minutes for “aptitude install lighttpd” (download was extremely quick, unpacking was appalling).
There are a lot of os reloads going on at the moment from people installing their stuff slowing things down – the server will settle down in a few days.
We’re staggering provisioning of the orders for these to help keep that from happening on new servers.
But 4 minutes is ridiculous, it’s usually just a few seconds.
Test with ioping.
It’s better now compared to my previous post. Very useable, but there are definitely still brief(seconds) hiccups.
Are they allow web proxies?
Yes, those are fine.
I am frequently getting “504 Gateway Timeout” on my WordPress site hosted by TinyVZ.
After researching it looks like that speed may be the issue?
Any thoughts? Is there anything else I should check? I set it up from the WordPress tutorial @ http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/wordpress-cheap-vps-lowendscript/
Their website seems to be down, and so is my VPS!!
yes, my VPS is also down for 4 hours till now, VZ5 and i think all Kansas City VPSs are down, if all of this is because of os reload of new customers as ramnet say that before, then i suggest add restriction on number of OS reloads one customer can do in one day or in an hour.
Me too. Issues all afternoon. And I’m not on a $15 plan. Déjà vu…
Yeah looks like whole KC servers have a problem.
Yep. Here for example is what my VPS status looks like:
http://www.ramhost.us/?page=status&s=vz5
Lots of red faces today:
http://www.ramhost.us/?page=status
Makes me sad.
Networking issues I think, not hardware downtime. The red faces change frequently. Lots of empty space in the graphs. My VPS has 40 days uptime and a load of 0 0 0, but is mostly unreachable. I’m sure ramnet is working on it.
Yes, somebody was hitting kansas city, atlanta, and our web site in seattle with network attacks today.
Those have since been mitigated.
Would seem somebody doesn’t like us.
I opened a ticket asking about my VPS and a couple hours later got a response explaining the network problem.
For a $15/year VPS, that’s pretty good service.
Maybe the company want to be the only to sell $15/year VPS and afraid of you.
It seems all the Kansas location is down again! is this another network attack?
Danggggg, when’s the next time you guys are stocking up on this? I really wanna give this a try.
We still have stock on these. Due to the 3gbps worth of network attacks earlier it took down our order form for a little while.
BAM! Just put in my order. Can’t wait to try out your service =)!
I didn’t think it would take the full 3 days to set up the VPS; but yea… it’s almost the full 3 days, and I still haven’t got my VPS yet.
Nevermind, checked my SPAM and found the server information… can’t wait to try this new VPS out! =D
Just tried it out. Seems pretty decent, but really not for me unless they can do anything for my problem. I’m hosting a community Teamspeak 3 server, and the connections of the clients get dropped every other minute. This didn’t happen with my previous VPS provider, and not only are the international clients are getting dropped… but also US clients! I also submitted a ticket, but the response time isn’t that great; hopefully it’s better than their setup time.
Other than bandwidth quality & support response; I would say this is a decent quality VPS. Fast OS reloads, decent I/O, decent download (peaks at 1.1mb/s @ a file test from Softlayer), okay upload (Upload to the server at < 200kb/s), and exceptional price.
Get TinyVZ, best thing ever; support was answer within 2 hrs, and it was totally perfect. Worth the 15 bucks, DEFINITELY.
Thanks for your positive feedback :-)
My vps is still pending after 24 hours.
same like me
i already paid $15 yesterday,but setup info not sent to my email and also i submit ticket but no response,please check it , i use my name and email same as i post in here.
well… it does say it takes up to 3 days to get it set up AND to NOT open a ticket until the 3 days are up.
i signed up a few hours ago. I, too, am patiently waiting :)
Mine did not take anything like 3 days. I think I ordered in the afternoon and it was provisioned by the next morning (US Pacific times).
All orders from the 24th have been set up.
All orders from yesterday will be setup later today once another block of IP’s gets routed where we need it :-)
Guys, please subscribe to their announcements to know whats wrong. RAMHost.us always keep that updated
http://www.ramhost.us/news-rss.php
(I use rss2email on Ubuntu and/or Google Reader)
tinyvz out of stock?
Looks like the 15/mo is out of stock. I should have ordered this earlier..
DAMN!
We should have some more in a couple of weeks.
Network speed is a great to some locations and OK to others:
Geekbench: http://browse.geekbench.ca/geekbench2/view/506064
Now I just need them to add a CentOS 6 template so I can use the VPS for what I bought it for instead just of running benchmarks.
I’ve had the VPS for a few days now, and network doesn’t seem to be very stable. I have a test bot connected to IRC to test connection, and the bot has gone down several times, about 6 in the last 2-3 days.
via IPV6 btw.
most carriers still consider ipv6 to be experimental, so the global ipv6 network is likely to be less stable than the normal ipv4 one most people use.
For something like an irc bot that needs to keep a connection open for a long time, ipv4 will perform a lot better than ipv6 for the forseeable future.
These guys are great. One of my sites hit the second page of Reddit and was overwhelmed with traffic, which choked my dedicated server’s 100mbit port. I ended up distributing the content between 3 LEBs – one of which was at TinyVZ – and everything ran great. I was maxing 100mbps for about 5 hours at TinyVZ and there were absolutely no issues.
Highly recommended!
Thanks for the positive feedback :)
still out of stock?
We’ll be adding some more stock on these later this month.
Can we reserve one, or get contacted when it will be available?
Still wait for my SSH proxy Account wich I Have ordered(and paid) on 11/11/2011 but neither a reply from my ticket… odd
Restock! hurry up ^|^
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Thanks for the heads up! :)
I’ve already book 1 vps this afternoon,
but until now , 5hr passed , do not active.
Yes me too, however it was sunday. So I wasn’t expecting my vps yesterday :)
when will the vps be setup ?
waiting almost 1 days.
No more than 3 business days, IIRC.
Things with TinyKVM are going well — I’m a satisfied customer. I even had an issue with configuring my network manually (I assumed “address” was a local IP) and it was fixed in a support ticket within an hour.
Thanks so far, RAM Host.
Just ordered my site last night, can I expect my VPS to be online by saturday? or will it be up on monday?
Any news about tinyKvm in US?
I have registered via proxy – ramhost thinks i am fraud and suspended my login at all. Even reset password does not help :-)
I was idling in their IRC public support channel last night. I woke up to read this this morning.
Apparently these are “garbage” VPS’s and the ONE server they’re on isn’t reliable.
I figure if this is public information, everyone should know what they’re buying.
“Customer” is the person who joined. “ramnet” is the network/company operator.
**Edit**: Use http://pastebin.com/DztsULzd instead.
If I’d known I was buying something the provider referred to as a “garbage” server, I would never have bought one.
You should not take such comments so seriously.
If you read the entire conversation it is very obvious that it is just a bit of sarcasm.
We obviously don’t consider any of our services to actually be garbage.
Impressive comments… So, after that, I don’t want their garbage servers anymore.
Obviously, the premium servers we sell on our RAM Host brand are better than the specially discounted plans sold through the TinyVZ brand. That is a given: If they weren’t we wouldn’t be pricing them significantly cheaper.
TinyVZ infrastructure is primarily RAM Host’s older infrastructure from 2009/2010, which is why we jokingly refer to them as garbage since they have been recycled.
I thought ramhost is good name.
TinyVZ is operated independently of RAM Host. Any experiences from TinyVZ are not reflective of RAM Host services.
I’m pretty happy with TinyKVM plan. Uptime is 99% over month, OS installation over VNC is amazing.
Thanks for the positive feedback.
why?
So what about the US tinykvm?
I signed up for TinyVZ not expecting much from the price and some of the comments here. But so far I have been very impressed. I’m using it mostly for learning purposes, and with TinyVz I have more freedom then I get with my current shell provider for half the price. Outstanding like a smoker on lunch break.