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UptimeVPS - €1.50 128MB Xen VPS in France

Updated December 2011 — Well, Ken has switched to a different domain (UptimeVPS.co) and it is now not resolvable. Looks like the deals are too good to be true here.

UptimeVPS Ken from UptimeVPS emailed me last month their “introductory offer” (although Ken also claimed that they have been running for just under a year). With coupon code INTRO2 you can get their Xen VPS plans with 70% off recurring discount. Their “UT-128” would be €1.50/month (~USD$2.17) after the discount. Direct order link here.

  • 128MB memory/256MB swap
  • 10GB storage
  • 100GB/month data transfer
  • Xen/SolusVM

PayPal is the only payment option. Alternatively, if you are game enough for yearly payment, you can also use promo code INTRO to get the same plan for €9/Year (~USD$13.03, via this WHT offers). Servers with OVH in France. Domain registered in October 2010 by Ken in UK. TOS can’t be found on the site. In fact the info on the site seems to be quite lacking.

Update: Due to Xen routing issue, UptimeVPS has moved to OpenVZ VPS with the following spec at no extra cost (see Ken’s comment here).

  • 384MB guaranteed/768MB burstable memory
  • 30GB storage
  • 300GB/month data transfer

Ordering link here. This Xen issue would have raised some doubt on the technical competency of this provider…

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188 Comments

  1. circus:

    “OpenVZ/SolusVM” should it be xen?

    August 29, 2011 @ 6:05 am | Reply
  2. Although I do not think that OVH has a good speed linking to my country or U.S. I still wanna get the test ip and maybe test.bin to have a try since the price is great.

    August 29, 2011 @ 6:32 am | Reply
  3. aseeon:

    Well i felt adventuros today so i bought the 9 euro plan. I paid with paypal ofc, and the recipent addresse is paypal@utvps.co.uk . Co i checked and that domain is not even registered (utvps.co.uk). So i think this is all a scam. Sadly.

    August 29, 2011 @ 7:14 am | Reply
    • It may well be a scam especially when they are using a free website template.

      /*
      Design by Free CSS Templates
      http://www.freecsstemplates.org
      Released for free under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License
      */

      August 29, 2011 @ 7:23 am | Reply
      • Daniel:

        Matthew don’t be silly, Not everyone wants to get ripped of by spending hundreds on a template.

        August 29, 2011 @ 7:25 am | Reply
        • Yeh but is $25 on a theme forest site hard enough to spend?

          Because if you can’t even afford that then why start a hosting company up?

          August 29, 2011 @ 7:42 am | Reply
        • Because if you can’t even afford that then why start a hosting company up?

          Cannot afford is different from deliberately choose not to. We have no idea why the said provider is using a free template. However I have NEVER paid for a design after running various websites for 15 years. Somehow it’s just no my priority.

          August 29, 2011 @ 11:00 am | Reply
      • Christian:

        I don’t think it matters in anyway what kind of template they are using. Also calling them a scam for this is ridiculous.

        August 29, 2011 @ 9:16 am | Reply
      • zx123:

        what scam??? 1$??? LOL
        if raise the price to 100$ its not a scam???

        September 9, 2011 @ 2:39 pm | Reply
    • aseeon:

      Just updating. Still no vps setup. Propability of this being a huge scam 99.9%

      August 29, 2011 @ 7:42 am | Reply
      • With over 12 years experience in the industry you would expect a Terms of Service, Privacy Policy and an Acceptable Use Policy also.

        I suspect the 12 years experience may perhaps be in the industry of Life.

        August 29, 2011 @ 7:47 am | Reply
      • Christian:

        Not every provider is setting up orders instantly. I think you should wait at least 24 hours and maybe after it you should worry. And I also think it is a really bad thing, when your VPS is not ready in hours you call them “scam”. Give them a chance and wait until they deliver your VPS!

        August 29, 2011 @ 9:15 am | Reply
        • Their using WHMCS, so automated setup is a doddle.

          Saying that, the SolusVM Admin API is even easier.

          August 29, 2011 @ 9:24 am | Reply
        • Christian:

          I know WHMCS/SolusVM supports automation. But lot of providers tend to do it manually, because they want to check the orders. Also when a company gets his offer posted on LEB, if the offer is good they will get a “sales boom” and will have problems to deliver the servers so fast.

          August 29, 2011 @ 9:30 am | Reply
        • I am actually in agreement with Christian here. I don’t see why people would label a provider “scam” within hours of ordering. While their website rings quite a few alarm bells, I won’t be so hasty putting such label on them (yet).

          Let’s see how things play out in the next 24 hours.

          August 29, 2011 @ 10:57 am | Reply
        • aseeon:

          Well when you summarize all the things that are wrong, it looks clearly to me. I will point whats wrong:
          Free templete
          No ToS
          No Policies
          Paypal email adress does not exist
          Support does not reply to tickets
          Their adresse (62 Portman Road, Reading, Berkshire, RG30 1EA) is in fact a Self Storage Service, so no offices there.

          What more you need to label someone a scam?

          August 29, 2011 @ 12:23 pm | Reply
        • When they actually scammed you the money?

          Being suspicious does not equate someone to be a scam. The list of fails would surely deter people from buying from them, but you can only technically call someone a scam when they have really scammed you money — which in your case it *might* actually be the case, but we’ll see.

          August 29, 2011 @ 12:27 pm | Reply
        • Keith:

          The direct order link shows
          Setup within 1 hour, subject to fraud screening.

          August 29, 2011 @ 1:26 pm | Reply
      • ab:

        No ToS? Looks like you’re free to do whatever you want, wink wink.

        August 29, 2011 @ 12:48 pm | Reply
      • iKocka:

        Hi

        Apologies for the delay, we are currently experiencing some issues with our Xen nodes with IP routing.

        We are more than happy to offer you a OpenVZ Server if you would prefer.

        The specifications would be as follows at no extra cost.

        384MB Memory
        768MB Burstable
        30GB Disk Space
        300GB Bandwidth
        1 IPv4 Address

        Regards,
        Ken
        UptimeVPS.

        August 29, 2011 @ 2:35 pm | Reply
  4. Joe Merit:

    Surprised that nobody pointed out that 3 of their 4 name servers is a XenVZ.co.uk vps ;0 (and the same one!)

    Now why would anyone bother setting up 4 name servers for a domain, when 3 of the 4 are the same IP running off the same VPS?

    August 29, 2011 @ 12:29 pm | Reply
  5. Joe Merit:

    Another fishy thing is that you need a certain post count on WHT to be able to post in the offers section (10 posts). He got to the 10 post minimum by posting short/dumb comments randomly around the board and then immediately posted his offer.

    August 29, 2011 @ 1:01 pm | Reply
    • ab:

      Feel free to report every single one of his posts for spam then :)

      August 29, 2011 @ 1:03 pm | Reply
    • iKocka:

      It looks like he spent $50 for premium membership on WHT.

      August 29, 2011 @ 1:23 pm | Reply
  6. iKocka:
    # 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, 10.9612 s, 98.0 MB/s
    vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
    cpu family      : 6
    model           : 26
    model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           W3520  @ 2.67GHz
    stepping        : 5
    cpu MHz         : 2660.052
    cache size      : 8192 KB
    # wget http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
    --2011-08-29 14:42:46--  http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
    Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net... 205.234.175.175
    Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net|205.234.175.175|:80... connected.
    HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
    Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
    Saving to: `100mb.test'
    
    100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 35.0M/s   in 2.9s
    
    2011-08-29 14:42:49 (35.0 MB/s) - `100mb.test' saved [104857600/104857600]
    
    August 29, 2011 @ 2:44 pm | Reply
    • Ben:

      £99 one. most user’s seem to use this.

      September 22, 2011 @ 8:45 pm | Reply
  7. Hello Folks.

    Paypal issue will be resolved within the next hour or two.

    I have emailed the LEB Admin regarding issues surrounding our Xen nodes with IP routing.

    If anyone would like to place an order we shall be upgrading them to a OpenVZ plan of the following specs.

    384MB Memory
    768MB Burstable
    30GB Disk Space
    300GB Bandwidth
    1 IPv4 Address

    Appreciate there are a few issues which shall be sorted by today.

    We welcome anyone to try us for 7 days from then you will be able to make your own decision on whether we are a scam company or not.

    Coupon 7DAYS

    Ken.

    August 29, 2011 @ 4:33 pm | Reply
    • Christian:

      Will you have XEN too? Or only OpenVZ?

      August 29, 2011 @ 6:34 pm | Reply
    • And this coupon isn’t available anymore?

      September 7, 2011 @ 8:21 pm | Reply
  8. Steve81:

    Seems that the Xen VPS aren’t avaliable anymore. Only OpenVZ one. Also the 128mb ram plan have the same annual price of the 384 one (9€/y). Quite strange, IMO.

    August 29, 2011 @ 5:47 pm | Reply
  9. Hello

    For the time being, please order via the following link which shall iron out any more confusion.

    https://secure.uptimevps.com/cart.php?a=add&pid=7

    August 29, 2011 @ 6:50 pm | Reply
  10. axionmak:

    Got one of the free, seems ok, ip 46.105.251.106

    August 29, 2011 @ 6:57 pm | Reply
  11. Spo0lsh:

    Hi,
    OVH and without IPv6? This is not good offer ;)

    August 30, 2011 @ 6:48 am | Reply
    • Daniel:

      ovh is probably one of the best in Europe

      August 30, 2011 @ 6:50 am | Reply
      • Tom:

        Definitly not. Not if you plan to use a system on a professional base. Its fine for private purposes, though.

        August 30, 2011 @ 8:59 am | Reply
      • Spo0lsh:

        But this NOT.

        August 30, 2011 @ 11:12 am | Reply
      • Spo0lsh:

        Yeah! Try change disk or have others problems …

        August 30, 2011 @ 11:13 am | Reply
    • Daniel:

      Name me one network ( Hosting network ) in the Europe Better than OVH ( Excludes Leaseweb )

      August 30, 2011 @ 9:00 am | Reply
      • iKocka:

        Their european network is great, but transit is horrible. Speeds to USA are measured in KB/s :(

        August 30, 2011 @ 9:12 am | Reply
      • Christian:

        Hetzner, Equinix Düsseldorf and Zürich, Burstnet Manchester they do have a better network.

        August 30, 2011 @ 11:07 am | Reply
      • Tom:

        Only one? I can name you many: Interxion (Dusseldorf), Equinix (Dusseldorf), Lambdanet (Berlin), HostEurope (Cologne), EBM (Basel), Interxion (Vienna), Cogent (London).

        August 30, 2011 @ 11:25 am | Reply
      • TheLinuxBug:

        I was gonna say most of the ones Tom has. You also have WorldStream. Lambdanet you will find peers most of these networks directly with multi-10gbps, including OVH, Equinix, Leaseweb, Hetzner.. and many others that arn’t listed here. My suggestion Daniel, dont talk out your ass! There are a LOT of better data centers than OVH, just not as many willing to give away dirt cheap server for all the n00bs and highschoolers to purchase for their game servers (and start-up vps companies). In fact, you will find most of the networks listed a lot better routed than OVH and a lot less crowded. There is a reason OVH is so cheap….

        August 30, 2011 @ 11:54 am | Reply
        • Daniel:

          “dont talk out your ass”

          Carefull not to annoy the wrong people.

          “In fact, you will find most of the networks listed a lot better routed than OVH and a lot less crowded.”

          Yet most of these networks are on a Very small 10Gbps.

          August 30, 2011 @ 5:27 pm | Reply
  12. axionmak:

    Some info

    # wget http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
    --2011-08-30 08:52:05--  http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
    Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net... 205.234.175.175
    Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net|205.234.175.175|:80... connected.
    HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
    Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
    Saving to: `100mb.test'
    
    100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 34.3M/s   in 2.9s
    
    2011-08-30 08:52:08 (34.3 MB/s) - `100mb.test' saved [104857600/104857600]
    
    
    
    # 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, 12.4716 s, 86.1 MB/s
    
    
    
    # cat /proc/cpuinfo
    processor       : 0
    vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
    cpu family      : 6
    model           : 26
    model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           W3520  @ 2.67GHz
    stepping        : 5
    cpu MHz         : 2660.053
    cache size      : 8192 KB
    physical id     : 0
    siblings        : 8
    core id         : 0
    cpu cores       : 4
    apicid          : 0
    fpu             : yes
    fpu_exception   : yes
    cpuid level     : 11
    wp              : yes
    flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc ida nonstop_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt lahf_lm
    bogomips        : 5320.10
    clflush size    : 64
    cache_alignment : 64
    address sizes   : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
    power management: [8]
    
    processor       : 1
    vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
    cpu family      : 6
    model           : 26
    model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           W3520  @ 2.67GHz
    stepping        : 5
    cpu MHz         : 2660.053
    cache size      : 8192 KB
    physical id     : 0
    siblings        : 8
    core id         : 1
    cpu cores       : 4
    apicid          : 2
    fpu             : yes
    fpu_exception   : yes
    cpuid level     : 11
    wp              : yes
    flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc ida nonstop_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt lahf_lm
    bogomips        : 5319.28
    clflush size    : 64
    cache_alignment : 64
    address sizes   : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
    power management: [8]
    
    August 30, 2011 @ 8:57 am | Reply
  13. axionmak:
    System Information
      Platform:                  Linux x86 (32-bit)
      Compiler:                  GCC 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-33)
      Operating System:          Linux 2.6.32-238.19.1.el5.028stab092.2 x86_64
      Model:                     Linux PC (Intel Xeon W3520)
      Motherboard:               Unknown Motherboard
      Processor:                 Intel Xeon W3520
      Processor ID:              GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 26 Stepping 5
      Logical Processors:        2
      Physical Processors:       1
      Processor Frequency:       2.66 GHz
      L1 Instruction Cache:      0.00 B
      L1 Data Cache:             0.00 B
      L2 Cache:                  256 KB
      L3 Cache:                  0.00 B
      Bus Frequency:             0.00 Hz
      Memory:                    23.5 GB
      Memory Type:               N/A
      SIMD:                      1
      BIOS:                      N/A
      Processor Model:           Intel Xeon W3520
      Processor Cores:           2
    
    Integer
      Blowfish
        single-threaded scalar    1937 |||||||
        multi-threaded scalar     2056 ||||||||
      Text Compress
        single-threaded scalar    2201 ||||||||
        multi-threaded scalar     4085 ||||||||||||||||
      Text Decompress
        single-threaded scalar    2256 |||||||||
        multi-threaded scalar     4382 |||||||||||||||||
      Image Compress
        single-threaded scalar    1891 |||||||
        multi-threaded scalar     2540 ||||||||||
      Image Decompress
        single-threaded scalar    1766 |||||||
        multi-threaded scalar     3102 ||||||||||||
      Lua
        single-threaded scalar    3561 ||||||||||||||
        multi-threaded scalar     4513 ||||||||||||||||||
    
    Floating Point
      Mandelbrot
        single-threaded scalar    2401 |||||||||
        multi-threaded scalar     4005 ||||||||||||||||
      Dot Product
        single-threaded scalar    3910 |||||||||||||||
        multi-threaded scalar     4162 ||||||||||||||||
        single-threaded vector    4641 ||||||||||||||||||
        multi-threaded vector     5346 |||||||||||||||||||||
      LU Decomposition
        single-threaded scalar    2751 |||||||||||
        multi-threaded scalar     2774 |||||||||||
      Primality Test
        single-threaded scalar    3956 |||||||||||||||
        multi-threaded scalar     4488 |||||||||||||||||
      Sharpen Image
        single-threaded scalar    6571 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
        multi-threaded scalar     8638 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
      Blur Image
        single-threaded scalar    6015 ||||||||||||||||||||||||
        multi-threaded scalar     6843 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
    
    Memory
      Read Sequential
        single-threaded scalar    6042 ||||||||||||||||||||||||
      Write Sequential
        single-threaded scalar    9636 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
      Stdlib Allocate
        single-threaded scalar    4409 |||||||||||||||||
      Stdlib Write
        single-threaded scalar    4480 |||||||||||||||||
      Stdlib Copy
        single-threaded scalar    8942 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
    
    Stream
      Stream Copy
        single-threaded scalar    5498 |||||||||||||||||||||
        single-threaded vector    6303 |||||||||||||||||||||||||
      Stream Scale
        single-threaded scalar    4715 ||||||||||||||||||
        single-threaded vector    6025 ||||||||||||||||||||||||
      Stream Add
        single-threaded scalar    5091 ||||||||||||||||||||
        single-threaded vector    5933 |||||||||||||||||||||||
      Stream Triad
        single-threaded scalar    5461 |||||||||||||||||||||
        single-threaded vector    4437 |||||||||||||||||
    
    Integer Score:                2857 |||||||||||
    Floating Point Score:         4750 |||||||||||||||||||
    Memory Score:                 6701 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
    Stream Score:                 5432 |||||||||||||||||||||
    
    Overall Geekbench Score:      4545 ||||||||||||||||||
    
    August 30, 2011 @ 9:41 am | Reply
  14. TheLinuxBug:

    Hey Ken,

    I am guessing here, but you probably were using bridging when you setup xen, you need to look into using the ‘routing’ option instead of using bridging. Bridging doesn’t work in all setups. Also depends on what dist your using for you node, my suggestion is sticking to CentOS. Its not that hard to setup… just do a bit more research.

    Just my 2 cents.

    Good Luck!

    August 30, 2011 @ 11:45 am | Reply
  15. Heinz:

    Any update from clients? Their price is very attractive and I am tempted however something is telling me that this story last long.

    August 31, 2011 @ 2:38 pm | Reply
  16. Sam:

    the paypal email’s domain was registered on the 29th, Relevant dates:
    Registered on: 29-Aug-2011.

    If i remember correctly, that means paypal account must of been made on that day too?

    September 1, 2011 @ 1:09 pm | Reply
    • Keith:

      The may have added tne email address to an existing Paypal account instead of creating a new Paypal account.

      September 1, 2011 @ 1:16 pm | Reply
  17. UptimeVPS is adding the following low end plan. However as their post is pretty recent (< 30 days), I won’t post a new entry for them.

    • UT-512
    • 512MB memory/1024MB swap
    • 40GB storage
    • 400GB/month data transfer
    • €3.00/month with Coupon SEPTEMBER.
      Direct sign up link

    Xen I presume as swap memory was stated.

    September 4, 2011 @ 1:14 pm | Reply
  18. Kick In:

    Hi,
    I’ve tested this provider, I bought him a first server, was ready in less than 2 hours. It works great, tested some hdd performance with a > 16G file (dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=16K count=2048k) the min is 190Mo/s, reading might certainly ve affected by the zeros >3,3Go/s, band with is good, and performance is here, it’s like a real server (no like igxhosting, where going from ssh login to bahs takes minutes….).

    I bought a second server, it was ready in less than 10 mns. It was the VPS ones.

    Just my two cents…

    September 5, 2011 @ 1:17 pm | Reply
  19. Just bought one 384 (monthly). Setup is almost instant. And I was just confused. On the cart I chose CentOS 6, then the cpanel tells me it’s Operating System: CentOS 5 x86_64 and uname -a tells me this

    # uname -a
    Linux france 2.6.32-042stab036.1 #1 SMP Thu Sep 1 17:06:37 MSD 2011 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
    

    Just submitted ticket for TUN/TAP enabling.. waiting…

    September 6, 2011 @ 6:38 am | Reply
    • Daniel:

      Wow. looks like they need a kernel update!

      September 6, 2011 @ 8:06 am | Reply
      • Why? RHEL5 normally has 2.6.18, this probably is a OpenVZ beta or RHEL6. Someone can comment if has VSwap?

        September 6, 2011 @ 10:02 pm | Reply
        • # cat /proc/swaps
          Filename                                Type            Size    Used    Priority
          /dev/null                               partition       393216  516     -1
          

          Is this what you’re looking for?

          September 7, 2011 @ 4:29 am | Reply
        • Well, I am not sure, because I haven’t used an OpenVZ vps in a RHEL6 node. But if the kernel version is like that, and that /proc/swaps is like you say, then you are using RHEL6 for these OpenVZ 384MB plans right?

          September 7, 2011 @ 5:07 am | Reply
        • I’m not sure too ’cause I’m very new on VPSs…

          September 7, 2011 @ 6:21 am | Reply
        • /dev/null swap partitions — yes these are OpenVZ VSwap nodes.

          September 7, 2011 @ 2:25 pm | Reply
  20. blacky:

    They published a link to their TOS on WHT but not on their site. TOS: http://uptimevps.com/terms.pdf

    September 6, 2011 @ 2:29 pm | Reply
  21. Joe Merit:

    Wow, checked out the signup link and found they are selling a 128MB vps for 5 euros a year.

    This is really fishy.. we got providers that fail at $15/yr and now to try at 5 euros

    proceed with caution!

    September 6, 2011 @ 9:26 pm | Reply
  22. Yes some nodes are CentOS 6 with VSwap. Not fishy at all just a business practice to gain solid reputation on support and service. Sorry if some feel this is a scam but we are not selling hundreds or thousands unlike some. I look forward to 6 months to a years time when we prove we are in the market for the long hall.

    With regards to the site, would you rather a flashy expensive design which gives false illusion into service? Or something that gets the job done? Rome wasn’t built in a day and neither are businesses.

    September 7, 2011 @ 7:53 pm | Reply
    • Hi Ken, I was just wondering on the node where I am in. This CPU info normal? 800MHz? Or is it just me?

      ]# cat /proc/cpuinfo
      processor       : 0
      vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
      cpu family      : 16
      model           : 8
      model name      : AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 4174 HE
      stepping        : 1
      cpu MHz         : 800.000
      cache size      : 512 KB
      physical id     : 0
      siblings        : 6
      core id         : 0
      cpu cores       : 6
      

      On the other node:

      # cat /proc/cpuinfo
      processor       : 0
      vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
      cpu family      : 6
      model           : 26
      model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           W3520  @ 2.67GHz
      stepping        : 5
      cpu MHz         : 2660.042
      cache size      : 8192 KB
      
      September 8, 2011 @ 1:49 pm | Reply
  23. john:

    I have 3 vps with Ken, this guy never sleeps.
    get some sleep sometime, ken.
    You know who I am,:) Kept talking about sleeping…..

    September 8, 2011 @ 2:51 am | Reply
  24. openlab:

    I’ve purchased a 128M(dedicated, no burst) low end annual plan today. And when I issue a ticket for TUN/TAP issue, I’ve got a quick and kind response. The experience is nice, and the price is brilliant.

    The only pity is the internet link from my locate(CN) to server has a high ping for 4xx-6xx.

    here is some test results on this tiny VPS. :)

    root@utv:~# wget http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
    --2011-09-08 17:31:31--  http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
    Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net... 205.234.175.175
    Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net|205.234.175.175|:80... connected.
    HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
    Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
    Saving to: `100mb.test'
    
    100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 29.2M/s   in 3.6s
    
    2011-09-08 17:31:35 (27.6 MB/s) - `100mb.test' saved [104857600/104857600]
    
    root@utv:~# wget http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
    --2011-09-08 17:31:46--  http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
    Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net... 205.234.175.175
    Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net|205.234.175.175|:80... connected.
    HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
    Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
    Saving to: `100mb.test.1'
    
    100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 14.7M/s   in 6.2s
    
    2011-09-08 17:31:52 (16.2 MB/s) - `100mb.test.1' saved [104857600/104857600]
    
    root@utv:~# wget http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
    --2011-09-08 17:31:55--  http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
    Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net... 205.234.175.175
    Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net|205.234.175.175|:80... connected.
    HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
    Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
    Saving to: `100mb.test.2'
    
    100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 15.2M/s   in 6.9s
    
    2011-09-08 17:32:02 (14.5 MB/s) - `100mb.test.2' saved [104857600/104857600]
    
    root@utv:~# 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, 17.4217 s, 61.6 MB/s
    root@utv:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo
    processor       : 0
    vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
    cpu family      : 16
    model           : 8
    model name      : AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 4174 HE
    stepping        : 1
    cpu MHz         : 2300.000
    cache size      : 512 KB
    physical id     : 0
    siblings        : 6
    core id         : 0
    cpu cores       : 6
    apicid          : 0
    initial apicid  : 0
    fpu             : yes
    fpu_exception   : yes
    cpuid level     : 5
    wp              : yes
    flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc rep_good nonstop_tsc extd_apicid pni monitor cx16 popcnt lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs skinit wdt nodeid_msr npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save
    bogomips        : 4600.83
    TLB size        : 1024 4K pages
    clflush size    : 64
    cache_alignment : 64
    address sizes   : 48 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
    power management: ts ttp tm stc 100mhzsteps hwpstate
    
    processor       : 1
    vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
    cpu family      : 16
    model           : 8
    model name      : AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 4174 HE
    stepping        : 1
    cpu MHz         : 800.000
    cache size      : 512 KB
    physical id     : 0
    siblings        : 6
    core id         : 1
    cpu cores       : 6
    apicid          : 1
    initial apicid  : 1
    fpu             : yes
    fpu_exception   : yes
    cpuid level     : 5
    wp              : yes
    flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc rep_good nonstop_tsc extd_apicid pni monitor cx16 popcnt lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs skinit wdt nodeid_msr npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save
    bogomips        : 4600.41
    TLB size        : 1024 4K pages
    clflush size    : 64
    cache_alignment : 64
    address sizes   : 48 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
    power management: ts ttp tm stc 100mhzsteps hwpstate
    
    September 8, 2011 @ 1:55 pm | Reply
  25. @Marc You are on Dom17 with an AMD 6 core processor. I shall open up two more cores for you.

    September 8, 2011 @ 5:23 pm | Reply
  26. Christian:

    Can you enable PPTP VPN on your OVZ boxes?

    September 8, 2011 @ 5:40 pm | Reply
  27. @Yomero Please submit a ticket and I shall get this sorted for you.

    September 8, 2011 @ 9:43 pm | Reply
  28. zx123:

    just ordered a vps! seems good and also a good price :)

    September 9, 2011 @ 2:30 am | Reply
  29. I have seen this website design from somewhere….

    September 9, 2011 @ 4:10 am | Reply
  30. zx123:

    I cant install mysql!!! someone have the same problem? or someone can help me?
    ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock’
    I tried everything but nothing!
    the file mysql.sock not exist also in tmp folder! I check the my.cnf and its good
    I think that its a host file problem

    September 9, 2011 @ 2:33 pm | Reply
    • tux:

      128mb is very low amount memory for MySQL. Can you tell your server MySQL version?

      September 9, 2011 @ 2:37 pm | Reply
      • zx123:

        mysql-server-5.0.92-lxcenter.1.i386

        September 9, 2011 @ 2:54 pm | Reply
      • paul:

        mysql is running without problems on my 128mb. more than 60mb still free.

        September 14, 2011 @ 5:44 pm | Reply
    • @zx123,

      You need to start mysqld service to make sure it is listening.

      September 10, 2011 @ 1:14 am | Reply
  31. Anyone notice their WHMCS is completely down?

    Server not found

    Firefox can’t find the server at secure.uptimevps.com.

    Check the address for typing errors such as
    ww.example.com instead of
    http://www.example.com
    If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer’s network
    connection.
    If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure
    that Firefox is permitted to access the Web.

    September 11, 2011 @ 1:31 am | Reply
    • Spirit:

      It’s up for me.

      UV-128 (17 Available)

      September 11, 2011 @ 2:00 am | Reply
    • Vlad C:

      Up for me too:

       SSL info: 
       Holder: OU=PositiveSSL, CN=secure.uptimevps.com
       Issuer: C=GB, ST=Greater Manchester, L=Salford, O=Comodo CA Limited, CN=PositiveSSL CA
       Date: valid from 2011-05-20 00:00:00 GMT to 2012-05-19 23:59:59 GMT
       AltDNS: www.secure.uptimevps.com
       HTTP/1.1 200 OK
       Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 08:03:08 GMT
       Server: Apache/2
       WHMCS license f48875571e558953b79e for secure.uptimevps.com (VPSMen) is currently active. Type: Monthly Lease (free account), valid from 2010-12-29 (no expiration date), installed in /home/admin/domains/secure.uptimevps.com/public_html, obtained through: LicensePal, no addons.
      
      September 11, 2011 @ 2:03 am | Reply
      • Looks like some issue with my DNS, thanks a lot guys :)

        September 11, 2011 @ 2:10 am | Reply
  32. sarpedon:

    Are the VPS still working properly ? I think I’ll take one. But I prefer to ask first because I am an old hostrail customer and my current vps is at HostSign…

    September 14, 2011 @ 5:32 pm | Reply
    • paul:

      I have two and they are running without any problems.

      September 14, 2011 @ 5:39 pm | Reply
  33. Hi,

    We’ve been sizing up the nodes and have placed another 20 in stock.

    Order link. https://secure.uptimevps.com/cart.php?a=add&pid=7

    September 14, 2011 @ 11:18 pm | Reply
    • You said you were not selling hundreds of these packages and now stacked up 280 nos of 384mb package.
      Should we still not be cautious?
      And you took down your own website today for atleast an hour(I only checked for that long trying to buy one). How well would our vps boxes fare?
      I held back my own purchase decision after seeing the new stock. (I m really not worried about loosing 9 euros. Just don’t like that bad feeling and the effort of shifting boxes)
      Honestly, I am not indicationg anything going seriously wrong. However, would love to see your justifiable explanation.
      Wish you best of luck in maintaining all those pretty little boxes for years to come.

      September 16, 2011 @ 2:53 pm | Reply
  34. myco:

    I attempted to contact you guys asking whether it was ok to run an IRC channel bot to keep my PC-help channel alive and a VPN endpoint (have family over there) on one of these, contacted twice and have not received a response.
    Are you still selling? does the pre-sale contact form work?

    September 17, 2011 @ 1:52 am | Reply
  35. @veer

    We’ve deployed more nodes. 9 linux 20 Windows. We also have monthly clientel too so all services and servers are covered. We currently operate dom1 – dom 20 for linux and virtuozzo.win.1 right though to win.20.

    We already have a 5 figure turn over per month, not entirely sure what all the bad heat is about, maybe some substantial facts would like to be presented to myself?! Generally speaking.

    @myco, no sales enquiries I believe. Do you have a ticket number?

    Ken

    September 18, 2011 @ 3:53 pm | Reply
    • myco:

      It doesnt give a ticket number
      >Portal Home > Pre-Sales Contact Us
      >
      >If you have any pre-sales questions or want to contact us, please use the form below.
      >
      >Your Message has been Sent
      >
      >Powered by WHMCompleteSolution
      Thats all i get

      Like i said all i wanted to know is if it is ok to run an IRC bot on it to keep the channel where we chant and help people with PCs open. I know a lot of hosts have issues with IRC, tho mostly IRC servers and i am not going to use one of those. Is just something for a crippled ex technician to do.
      Would also like to run a VPN endpoint on it
      Wondered if those things were ok, soon as i get a yes i will hit buy

      September 18, 2011 @ 4:41 pm | Reply
  36. @myco

    Thanks for raising this, should be resolved now. Some custom fields in whmcs wasn’t filled out correctly.

    VPN is no problem at all, we can enable tun/tap and ppp for you. Also IRC is no problem at all.

    Ken.

    September 18, 2011 @ 5:48 pm | Reply
    • myco:

      good god – 7 minutes from email sent to ppp enabled
      a vps that reboots in 4 seconds dead for this money
      somebody pinch me I’m dreaming

      September 24, 2011 @ 12:41 am | Reply
  37. Here is the 96MB.com VPS review about them, I think overall the performance is pretty good, some minor hiccups here and there but I am sure given some time, the results would be resolved:

    http://www.96mb.com/96mb-low-end-vps-review-part-xxiv-uptime-vps/

    September 18, 2011 @ 6:30 pm | Reply
    • Interesting, thanks.

      This seems to be in a RHEL5 node?

      September 18, 2011 @ 6:58 pm | Reply
      • Mmm…how can you tell what is the operating system of the node from the VPS? Is it somewhere hidden in the uname -a output?

        September 18, 2011 @ 8:02 pm | Reply
        • If their using SolusVM, its CentOS 5.6+, and most likely 64bit.

          September 18, 2011 @ 8:35 pm | Reply
        • @Daniel: But can you tell if it is CentOS 5 or 6 from the uname output?

          September 18, 2011 @ 9:05 pm | Reply
        • Nope, that just shows the Kernel.

          If you got a OpenVZ with the kernel version being 3, then its CentOS 6, or if you have VSWap, its also CentOS 6.

          September 18, 2011 @ 9:34 pm | Reply
        • @Daniel: I see, learned something new today, thanks a lot!

          September 18, 2011 @ 10:55 pm | Reply
  38. Hi,

    Some nodes are are Centos 6 and some Centos 5

    Just to let everyone know a new site is up, be sure to check regularly on the special offers page.

    We have also added brief network details for the time being. We shall now build on this. 100% Unique.

    Ken.

    September 18, 2011 @ 8:50 pm | Reply
    • Spirit:

      Site looks better now. You should start with something like that. Only thing which I still missing are some company.. or whatever real contact infos as “about us” seems like standard more or less useless “we are bla bla…” and “contact” bring us to anonymous whmcs page instead real contact page. If you fix this and show us finally some REAL contact info it would give more credibility to your “company”.

      Oh and another thing.. what’s with this © Copyright 2009-2011 (http://uptimevps.com/index.html) or even more strange © Copyright 1999-2011 (http://uptimevps.com/about-us.html).

      1999 is most likely mistake (left from template?) while 2009 most likely lie to give more credibility to page as even your domain isn’t that old and you give us no reason to believe that you started under some other name before.

      September 18, 2011 @ 9:47 pm | Reply
  39. George:

    I’ve got two of the 5euro/year VPS, but the CPU configurations are radically different. One VPS seems to be unthrottled, the other is this. Dom16/Dom17.

    2 cores of this — both 800MHz

    processor       : 0
    vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
    cpu family      : 16
    model           : 8
    model name      : AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 4174 HE
    stepping        : 1
    cpu MHz         : 800.000
    
    September 18, 2011 @ 9:39 pm | Reply
    • rm:

      My guess would be AMD Cool’n’Quiet was enabled on the node :P
      You should’ve loaded with something CPU-intense, and check if cat /proc/cpuinfo changed.

      September 22, 2011 @ 2:47 pm | Reply
      • George:

        You are completely right! Fluctuated a lot during a Unixbench.

        herpes@ns8:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep MHz
        cpu MHz : 2000.000
        cpu MHz : 2300.000

        September 22, 2011 @ 5:33 pm | Reply
  40. Hi,

    No problem at all. All taken care of. Thank you for the feedback. Hope this thins out doubts and gains some credibility.

    Ken.

    September 18, 2011 @ 10:31 pm | Reply
    • Spirit:

      Better and better. Thank you.

      September 18, 2011 @ 10:40 pm | Reply
  41. blacky:

    CPU 800MHz seems to be throttled, not lucky.

    Disk test:

    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, 6.15751 seconds, 174 MB/s

    Download test:

    wget -O /dev/null http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
    --  http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
    Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net... 205.234.175.175
    Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net|205.234.175.175|:80... connected.
    HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
    Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
    Saving to: `/dev/null'
    
    100%[=======================================>] 104,857,600 30.5M/s   in 3.5s    
    
    (28.9 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]
    September 19, 2011 @ 2:48 pm | Reply
    • George:

      I thought so too, but rm pointed out the power saving feature that could be causing it.

      September 22, 2011 @ 5:49 pm | Reply
      • No, the cpu is really capped

        September 22, 2011 @ 8:05 pm | Reply
        • George:

          I ram Unixbench and checked proc/cpuinfo — It jumped from 800MHz to 2300MHz. Could be though..since it looks like there’s no real uniform node configuration they use…

          September 22, 2011 @ 11:56 pm | Reply
  42. AJ:

    Here’s my concern:

    domain: uptimevps.com
    created: 31-Oct-2010
    last-changed: 02-Dec-2010
    registration-expiration: 30-Oct-2011

    September 22, 2011 @ 7:28 am | Reply
    • Daniel:

      What’s the problem? We are only on 22 September. Over a month left… Just because someone doesn’t renew a domain for 10 years etc doesn’t mean they cannot be trusted. Only a fool would think otherwise ( Usually a WHT fool)

      September 22, 2011 @ 7:47 am | Reply
      • Tom:

        I got my domains on auto renewal, hardly does expr date say say anything.

        September 22, 2011 @ 4:31 pm | Reply
    • Christian:

      C’mon that doesn’t mean anything!

      September 22, 2011 @ 5:02 pm | Reply
  43. Ajit:

    My speeds is the lowest of everyone else who has posted here :( And the cpu is throttled. DOM14

    # wget http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
    --22:31:18--  http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
    Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net... 140.99.94.175
    Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net|140.99.94.175|:80... connected.
    HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
    Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
    Saving to: `100mb.test'
    
    100%[=================================================>] 104,857,600 11.2M/s   in 9.2s
    
    22:31:27 (10.9 MB/s) - `100mb.test' saved [104857600/104857600]
    
    # cat /proc/cpuinfo
    processor       : 0
    vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
    cpu family      : 6
    model           : 42
    model name      : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2300 CPU @ 2.80GHz
    stepping        : 7
    cpu MHz         : 1600.000
    cache size      : 6144 KB
    physical id     : 0
    siblings        : 4
    core id         : 0
    cpu cores       : 4
    apicid          : 0
    initial apicid  : 0
    fpu             : yes
    fpu_exception   : yes
    cpuid level     : 13
    wp              : yes
    flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt aes xsave avx lahf_lm ida arat epb xsaveopt pln pts tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid
    bogomips        : 5587.27
    clflush size    : 64
    cache_alignment : 64
    address sizes   : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
    power management:
    
    processor       : 1
    vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
    cpu family      : 6
    model           : 42
    model name      : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2300 CPU @ 2.80GHz
    stepping        : 7
    cpu MHz         : 1600.000
    cache size      : 6144 KB
    physical id     : 0
    siblings        : 4
    core id         : 1
    cpu cores       : 4
    apicid          : 2
    initial apicid  : 2
    fpu             : yes
    fpu_exception   : yes
    cpuid level     : 13
    wp              : yes
    flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt aes xsave avx lahf_lm ida arat epb xsaveopt pln pts tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid
    bogomips        : 5586.59
    clflush size    : 64
    cache_alignment : 64
    address sizes   : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
    power management:
    
    September 22, 2011 @ 6:44 pm | Reply
  44. justmoi:

    Frankly, so far it is almost too good to be true:
    excellent service
    no unexpected reboot (ok, only 10 days, but I’ve seen daily reboots on many other hosts)
    very good speed (hosting a gallery v2), no slow down
    cpu speed is varying but it is not really impacting real world use.
    all this for the cheapest VPS price one can find so far, all on my favorite network!
    THANKenS :)

    September 23, 2011 @ 7:21 pm | Reply
  45. Simplyfast:

    Here also, ticket answered in 1 (!!!) minute.
    My second VPS with them.
    Stable so far.

    September 26, 2011 @ 9:33 pm | Reply
  46. ive bought a server there for hosting our gamefiles (offsite mirror) and the hosting a pretty amazing

    Support: 10/10 (fast & good)
    Network: Perfect speeds
    Price: More then good!

    September 29, 2011 @ 10:53 am | Reply
  47. sanchaz:

    Got two VPS with them and got a say up till now support is great!

    September 29, 2011 @ 3:49 pm | Reply
  48. ezkebet:

    It would be nice to see your special deals, but I’m blocked from accessing them…

    October 1, 2011 @ 6:50 pm | Reply
  49. You should also include 2CO Payment Method, for Credit Card Payments because Paypal is not supporting all countries. Specially my Country

    October 2, 2011 @ 6:08 pm | Reply
  50. aimKa:

    this company is a whole scam! dont even buy a server from them… they cap your cpu, thier support is unfriendly!

    October 3, 2011 @ 11:06 am | Reply
    • Daniel:

      You fool, How does that make them a scam.

      October 3, 2011 @ 11:56 am | Reply
    • justmoi:

      aimKa, let me know if you find as cheap as them, with a support as reactive and geekbench results as high. Good luck! Your post is a scam, not them :)

      October 3, 2011 @ 11:59 am | Reply
    • sanchaz:

      I found their support is friendly and willing to help.
      For the price i say its very good.

      October 3, 2011 @ 5:50 pm | Reply
    • Christian:

      Their support is fast and helpful. Their prices are dirty cheap. Their performance is good. So why do you think they are scam? Do you know what scam means?

      October 3, 2011 @ 6:17 pm | Reply
    • Spirit:

      I have some doubts too.. and only future will tell.. however this what I get now is far from scam – service they offer work as it should, support is relatively fast and friendly. There are some inconsistences in their operation but service which they offer isn’t problematic and I see no reason for complain.

      October 3, 2011 @ 7:44 pm | Reply
    • @aimKa — It would be much more helpful if you can state the specific reason why you think they are scamming you? Capping the CPU (pretty common in VPS) and unfriendly support (subjective, but again happens all the time in hosting) are probably just you dissatisfaction with this provider, but won’t make them scams?

      October 4, 2011 @ 10:22 am | Reply
      • Turn to the dark side. 96 pixel flashing text. You know you want to, LEA. :)

        October 4, 2011 @ 12:26 pm | Reply
    • john:

      you are a scum,

      October 4, 2011 @ 7:31 pm | Reply
  51. Spirit:

    Ken, this new website is very nice and clean :) I like it.

    October 4, 2011 @ 6:20 pm | Reply
  52. @Spirit Thank you. :)

    October 4, 2011 @ 7:08 pm | Reply
  53. Lucas:

    I got their 128/256 VPS today, took like 10h to be activated but I didn’t mind this – it was really late in the night anyway.

    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, 12.6391 s, 85.0 MB/s
    

    Their network is decent too, I got 57.8Mb/s download speed in a test and I am able to max out my connection while testing their upload (640kb/s). VPS is pretty fast overall.

    While it’s too early to say anything as I got it today, as long as they keep this way, I will be their customer. This VPS is for personal torrent/rapidleech and I don’t use it a lot so it basically sits there all day using 40MB memory, but I will probably get another VPS with them soon to host a website, just waiting a little bit to see if there’s no down time and such. :)

    October 5, 2011 @ 12:33 am | Reply
  54. blacky:

    No new signups in France. Does it mean VPS at OVH will be terminated?

    October 6, 2011 @ 10:24 pm | Reply
  55. @blacky please submit a ticket, to make us aware of an issue.

    October 6, 2011 @ 10:28 pm | Reply
  56. @blacky sorry worked ragged and tired :) We are awaiting more Ips for the France location.

    October 6, 2011 @ 10:32 pm | Reply
  57. Ajit:

    UptimeVPS scammed me and does not honour their TOS. I cancelled my services with them (UT-128) within 4 days and am eligible for a refund as per their TOS. Every email and ticket I raise is met with a template response – “I can assure you your refund has been processed”. I haven’t received a dime yet and its been over 3 weeks now. The excuse each time is “paypal takes 3 days to clear”. Yeah, 3 days .. not 3 weeks!

    @Ken
    do you care to explain why you simply keep deleting my tickets and not respond? Is this the kind of service you provide? I can post screenshots here to prove that you keep deleting my tickets. I can post your email responses here about your “assurances” to refund me. So, where is it? Your tactics are eerily similar to the plethora of fraudsters in this webhosting business. Can you atleast respond here since you are aren’t responding to my tickets?

    October 12, 2011 @ 7:57 pm | Reply
    • Maybe giving the ticket numbers would be helpful?

      October 12, 2011 @ 10:16 pm | Reply
      • Ajit:

        Well, Ken has either closed or deleted all of my tickets. Just to shed light on his shady practices, take a look at this screenshot of my latest ticket here. If you follow the url in the screenshot (here), you’ll get an error saying “ticket not found”. That’s because he has simply deleted it. Yup. That’s how you provide service to your customers. Just delete their ticket and assume they don’t exist.

        Just process my d*mn refund, will you?

        October 13, 2011 @ 1:23 am | Reply
        • A refund was processed! It came out of my bank 3 days after it was done.

          October 13, 2011 @ 1:37 am | Reply
        • If there’s a problem, submit a claim we shall soon get this sorted out BUT I am adamant a refund was processed.

          October 13, 2011 @ 1:39 am | Reply
        • Ajit:

          Then why can’t you just email me the proof of payment? I’ve asked for this every single time but you haven’t sent me any confirmation yet.

          October 13, 2011 @ 3:10 am | Reply
  58. Loolanga:

    Got 2 of their UT-1024 plans and the vps’s are running more or less perfect.

    VPS located in France = Pings are stable, Bandwidth is consistent, CPU doesnt appear limited. Just wished they offered these deals in Australia :(, through that would be asking to much.

    VPS located in USA = Pretty much the same as my box in France, i noticed my service was slowing down and when i made a ticket they responded quickly and found the problem.

    Their prices are competitive and their constantly getting new servers, I’m glad i found them.

    October 16, 2011 @ 2:54 am | Reply
  59. Dan:

    Hi, does anybody know how to get those vservers reachable from the internet? – I ordered mine some weeks ago, but still have problems reaching it from some locations. If I try to reach my IP via just-ping.com it tells me around 25 locations with 100% packet loss.

    The IP of my vhost is 46.105.166.27. The host is in default installation, and I’ve tried to reinstall it with Debian and Fedora for quite a few times, but that changes nothing.

    Ken @support was not helpful until now; he can ping the host from @home and says it is my configuration. I did not configure ANYthing. Just took the default setup. Outgoing pings work well. Incoming only from some locations. In hosts.deny is nothing listed, fail2ban is not installed. Anybody here who can tell me how to make that VServer reachable after having ordered or reinstalled it?

    October 19, 2011 @ 5:51 am | Reply
    • openlab:

      I’ve tried to ping your IP from two different locations. 100% package lost.

      Had you checked your control panel for the server status? Make sure the server is up first. And then try to connect to your server through serial console within control panel. Make sure there is no firewall rules or others blocks you out.

      October 19, 2011 @ 9:47 am | Reply
    • justmoi:

      Dan, as far as I can tell, another vps on the same host (ip .25) is reachable just fine as is the host itself (ks212831.kimsufi.com) so I don’t know what is wrong with your vps but certainly something is amiss somewhere.. the other tools from watchmouse.com show that some locations can’t reach you indeed.

      October 19, 2011 @ 9:49 am | Reply
    • rm:

      It should just work. You shouldn’t need to do anything to ‘make them reachable’.

      The fact that it doesn’t work from some locations, is purely your upstream’s fault, i.e. either OVH or UP2VPS.

      I can confirm the IP is accessible from one location, but not from another. Traceroutes differ a bit. I can’t seem to post those because of a spam filter or something.

      My wild guess would be that OVH has some sort of load balancing in place, maybe based on sourcedestination IP pair, and it is misconfigured, so for some source IPs it sends the packets down the wrong route (to a wrong dedicated server, as we can see from the kimsufi.com rDNS hop).

      October 19, 2011 @ 9:51 am | Reply
      • rm:

        * not UP2VPS but UptimeVPS.

        October 19, 2011 @ 9:52 am | Reply
    • Dan:

      Thank you for your messages!
      In the meanwhile, UptimeVPS support proposed to install a different operating system. I did that but the situation remains the same.

      @openlab: Thank you for testing! Well, the server is up, that’s for sure. Connecting via the serial works. There is no firewall, no hosts.deny entries. It’s just the plain default installation.

      @justmoi: Thank you too, this is a valuable information. So it seems as if something is wrong especially with my server. It could be an option for UptimeVPS to give me just another one.

      @rm: you are absolutely right. I have some traceroutes that end at ks212791.kimsufi.com (188.165.222.147), and others that end before, at vss-3-6k.fr.eu (94.23.122.237). Those that pass through go through vss-3-6k.fr.eu and to ks212831.kimsufi.com (188.165.223.40) which is a completely different host. The hoster kept telling me that it’s a vhost configuration issue and my server is unmanaged, although I’ve sent him the complete traceroutes yesterday in the evening … let’s see what’s his next proposal. Maybe they just have some misconfiguration on their site and need some time to figure it out.

      Thank you again for your help!

      October 19, 2011 @ 4:59 pm | Reply
      • rm:

        @Dan
        There is no way these symptomps could be caused by any configuration or misconfiguration inside the VPS, most likely there’s an issue with an upstream router. You can try sending complete details and full explanation of the issue you have directly to https://www.ovh.co.uk/ , but since you are not a customer of theirs, they are free to ignore you.

        From your description of how UptimeVPS is handling this, being shown those traceroutes and still not understanding that they need to raise it with Ovh, shows a lack of competence and desire to b/s the customer instead of solving actual problems.
        I suggest just changing to a different provider and requesting a refund if you can from this one.

        October 19, 2011 @ 5:17 pm | Reply
      • rm:

        @Dan
        There is no way these symptomps could be caused by any configuration or misconfiguration inside the VPS, most likely there’s an issue with an upstream router. You can try sending complete details and full explanation of the issue you have directly to https://www.ovh.co.uk/ , but since you are not a customer of theirs, they are free to ignore you.

        From your description of how UptimeVPS is handling this, being shown those traceroutes and still not understanding that they need to raise it with Ovh, shows a lack of competence and desire to b/s the customer instead of solving actual problems. I suggest just changing to a different provider and requesting a refund if you can from this one.

        October 19, 2011 @ 5:19 pm | Reply
      • justmoi:

        Ask an IP change and you will have fixed your problem. Ken will have to deal with the issue by contacting OVH or discard this IP.. OVH have antiDDoS protections that sometimes trigger for no obvious reason (thresholds needing tweaks).

        October 19, 2011 @ 5:36 pm | Reply
    • Dan:

      Hi, thank you again for your help!

      I’ve asked for an IP change. I got a new IP, but the server did not startup anymore. Then they fixed the vserver, but reset the Ip to the old one again, so the vserver ran but was not reachable anymore.

      Finally they shifted me to another datacenter location yesterday, and since then it works very well.
      Have a nice weekend altogether!

      October 21, 2011 @ 10:00 pm | Reply
  60. Loolanga:

    Well paypal is no longer a payment option… lost a lot of brownie points just then guys…. a lot.

    October 20, 2011 @ 8:48 am | Reply
  61. Loolanga:

    And paypal is back, :) back to being happy.

    October 24, 2011 @ 1:09 pm | Reply
  62. ITPro:

    One thing is for sure – “Setup within 1 hour” is definitely not correct. ;)

    October 28, 2011 @ 2:36 pm | Reply
  63. Robert:

    WARNING!!
    DO NOT BUY FROM UPTIMEVPS!
    I have 4 PayPal complaints open with them atm. I had just ordered 2 VPS yearly payment and renewed 1 VPS I paid per month to “quaterly” yesterday; Almost 100 Euros!

    The name on the PayPal is different then 1 month ago and the emails to support@uptimevps.co (and.com) are now bouncing back!

    I will provide screenshots and more information shortly, just wanted to let you and some other places know first.

    DO NOT SEND THEM MONEY!!

    October 29, 2011 @ 2:12 pm | Reply
    • Daniel:

      Are you just generally stupid? They have already said they where moving to .co publically.

      Fools like you make no sense.

      October 29, 2011 @ 8:27 pm | Reply
      • And that surprises you, Daniel?

        Although the emails bouncing are a concern….

        October 29, 2011 @ 9:16 pm | Reply
        • Robert:

          It is not about bouncing emails. I found today that my VPS had been suspended and also I have no access to the client area anymore. The reason for the suspension was “non payment” with a due date of 00/00/0000. I just yesterday extended my already paid month for another 4 months, thus changing my payment to quaterly. At the same time I also ordered and pre-paid 2 more VPS of which one was pre=paid for a full year. I sent them almost 100 Euros per PayPal and as a result, not even one day later, I get suspended and the VPS I use switched off. On that VPS resides one domain with a site I am currently developing i.e. there is no possible scenario for any other reason of my suspension then pure neglegence or fraud on their end.

          October 29, 2011 @ 9:52 pm | Reply
      • Robert:

        Excuse me sir, but you have no right to insult me publicly. We have never done business together and you are not a friend or family member. You have no grounds or merit, to address in me in such a manner and I hereby kindly ask you to cease and desist.

        October 29, 2011 @ 9:48 pm | Reply
  64. Robert:

    Update: I have been refunded in full.

    October 29, 2011 @ 10:08 pm | Reply
  65. ITPro:

    They started selling Netherlands nodes as well.I bought one 5 days ago, they are charging me money like I use it, but actually, it hasn’t been activated yet.Strange things going on.
    Also, when I paid money via paypal, it was paid to this email: payment@legrafc.com ??? Web site of some soccer team.Weird!!
    If Ken is reading this – Please activate Netherlands nodes or refund the money so we can buy some other service instead. Thanx

    November 4, 2011 @ 3:30 pm | Reply
  66. Hi,

    Still pushing the NL setup, sorry for the delay. Customers are being kept informed, please submit a ticket if there is a problem.

    November 4, 2011 @ 5:27 pm | Reply
    • Joe Merit:

      You have had plenty of time to get IPs, whats the matter? they arent giving you more than 30 per server like
      VMPort said?

      I think it is time you start mass refunding all the suckers like me that ordered an NL vps from you.

      November 4, 2011 @ 9:44 pm | Reply
    • ITPro:

      This is hilarious!!Almost 2 weeks after I paid for Netherlands VPS and still nothing.
      They promised to setup some temporary service until their server becomes active, but nothing happened since then.Hopefully,they will refund the money as expected.If not, pay pal will do it instead.

      November 9, 2011 @ 6:40 pm | Reply
  67. Joe Merit:

    Please do not give your money to this host – They took my money for a VPS they never provided and wouldn’t
    give it back.

    I’m currently considering my options via paypal. I’m probably going to file a dispute and I recommend everyone
    else do the same.

    November 12, 2011 @ 5:31 pm | Reply
  68. Marc:

    They seem to be gone!

    1) Website offline
    2) VPS Nodes offline
    3) SolusVM offline
    4) No reply on support (twitter / msn)

    My german server is still running but thats basicly all! i have no control anymore over the servers
    to see traffic or reinstall the server, creating a backup.

    I would not prefer anyone to deal with this hosting since its a big scam.

    Marc

    November 14, 2011 @ 1:30 pm | Reply
  69. shane:

    well my vps germany expires this week so i not bothered but they where a big scam they kept doing deals to get much money as possible

    November 15, 2011 @ 1:04 pm | Reply
  70. Sq!m:

    I have posted a big comment about my experience of using VPS by this company, please look at the different thread http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/uptimevps-e3-1gb-openvz-vps-in-scranton-france-or-germany/#comment-54582

    November 16, 2011 @ 8:08 am | Reply
  71. ross:

    They have gone off-site retreat.
    Unfortunately my information on my website.
    The Facebook interface.
    They deleted my post immediately.
    http://www.facebook.com/pages/UptimeVPS/256232601084492
    มันเป็น vps ที่เลว

    December 1, 2011 @ 4:34 am | Reply
  72. Sudoeste:

    I tried to fill a complaint, but got closed automatically. Called Paypal and they said that if enough persons claim the same seller that they would investigate the case, and maybe get the money back.

    So if you got ripped by UptimeVPS and by paypal make a claim and maybe we’ll get lucky

    December 1, 2011 @ 8:35 am | Reply
    • rchurch:

      How do you call Paypal? I tried reopen a dispute they closed and couldn’t find any other contact details on their website.

      Do these companies deliberately keep contact details off their websites?

      December 1, 2011 @ 8:48 am | Reply
      • Probably: Contact Us (see footer) -> Call Us -> paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_contact-phone

        December 1, 2011 @ 9:15 am | Reply
  73. @rchurch

    Yep i think that’s the idea :P

    December 1, 2011 @ 12:11 pm | Reply

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