Steven, from VMBox, has an exclusive OpenVZ offer for LowEndBox readers.
LowEndBox OpenVZ VPS
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This is the first time that VMBox, who were founded in April of this year, have been featured on here. Steven previously ran NozHost, who were featured on LowEndBox, they were subsequently sold to the Ixam Hosting group. NozHost, along with another host, were accused by UrPad of launching DDoS attacks in February but nothing ever came of it. The thread is long but there’s an excellent summary by Chief. VMBox have an account on LowEndTalk, but have only posted one offer so far. Phoenix servers have Raid 10 but Scranton and Luxembourg nodes have Raid 1.
Additional IPv4 addresses are charged at $2 per ip per month and a cPanel license is available for an additional $9.95/month extra in Phoenix only. VMBox accept the following payment methods: credit/debit cards, PayPal (Via 2Checkout), Liberty Reserve, Payza and, on request, Moneybookers. They don’t offer any type of refund. They allow IRC, Legal Porn and more or less, anything else that’s legal. For more information, you may want to read their Terms of Service and their Privacy Policy.
Network Information:
Server.lu – Steinsel, Luxembourg:
Test IPv4: 94.242.238.194
Test File [10Mb]:http://lu1.vmbox.co/10mb.test
Test File [100Mb]: http://lu1.vmbox.co/100mb.test
SingleHop – Phoenix, Arizona:
Test IPv4: 198.20.67.2
Test File [10Mb]:http://phx1.vmbox.co/10mb.test
Test File [100Mb]: http://phx1.vmbox.co/100mb.test
VolumeDrive – Scranton, Pennsylvania:
Test IPv4: 199.19.105.64
Test File [10Mb]: http://scr1.vmbox.co/10mb.test
Test File [100Mb]: http://scr1.vmbox.co/100mb.test
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Read the TOS very carefully. Aside from the TOS being *very* badly formatted, the information in this article is not accurate.
Additionally, their Phoenix location is with SingleHop, who seem to be very unfriendly towards controversial but legal content. I’d say that the phrase “more or less, anything that’s legal” is not accurate.
I’m sorry my formatting skills aren’t up to your expectations.
Terms have been amended.
What makes you think i’m a “jackass” Joe?
Sorry it was Spencer, not you, my apologies.
Keep up the professionalism!
What is your problem?
Right from the domain WHOIS:
Registrant Address1: 7 Fresca Road
Registrant City: Oldham
Registrant State/Province: Gtr Manchester
Registrant Postal Code: OL1 4NN
Registrant Country: United Kingdom
Registrant Country Code: UK
Given that it’s just expecting that such things are in the TOS.
VPS based in or owned by a citizen of the UK and US are only interesting for running client websites of freelance website developers. Not for your own ‘cloud’, personal email-server, hobby projects or personal website.
Too bad, since the Luxembourgian internet jurisdiction is less restrictive in comparison with the one of USA or UK. In this case, the only advantage of having a Luxembourgian VPS of VMBox is the ping.
Also, judging the price & specs of this offer with the prices and specs at Server.lu, I could only conclude it’s very, very oversold.
We will be selling a limited amount of these plans in all locations.
Just curious I would love to know the friendship that you describe on your website between these companies
Whoops the image didn’t work http://i.imgur.com/D2fY8.png
I have no idea what you’re getting at. It’s not sexual anyway, we’re just friends.
I think the more appropriate term you are looking for in this context might be partners and not friends.
We aren’t their partners. So no, it’s not the appropriate term.
You obviously know what I mean…
No please explain.
Please explain the relationship between you and those companies, are you just using them on your website to to have logos or do you actually have some kind of business background together?
That information is irrelevant we are friends, that’s all you need to know. Also why are you calling me jackass in IRC?
I think this is VERY relevant. Before I buy a VPS I was just wondering. So please inform us about the ‘friendship’
You aren’t going to buy a VPS are you though. If you don’t like me or my site, go elsewhere. The site design has nothing to do with the quality of my VPS or service. You a picking the only thing you can and it’s pathetic. Stay of of the thread please.
Seems like you are not willing to disclose this ‘friendship’ possibly because there isn’t one? I
Is it possible to get custom plans?
Yes, please submit a sales ticket and i’ll see what i can do for you.
Steven are you 12 years old?
No. Thanks for your contribution.
So one of my test ip’s just came under flood. Thanks.
Stop acting like a whining jackass and posting childish comments then.. oh wait, sorry I forgot you were only 12.
I’m probably older than you by the way, so yeah…
Yea Asad don’t mess with him!
What’s your problem Spencer?
I was just standing up for you :(
Well, I doubt it and you sure don’t act like it.
If I were you, I’d stop posting right now and stop damaging your company’s reputation.
What has my age got to do with anything anyway?
are you planning on staying in business longer than your other venture?
Hi Joe,
We stayed in Business the domain was sold but an email was sent to all our Client’s.
Viewing Email Message
To: REMOVED
Subject: NozHost.Com is rebranding to reflect our new direction.
Hello Client Name,
1st July is a significant day for our company. It’s the day we drop the name “NozHost” which we have been using for 18 month’s and go by our new name: “VMBox.Co”. 2012 has been an exceptional year for us and we thank you for your continued support. NozHost client base has grown rapidly and we feel it’s time to rebrand and redesign our site to reflect our new direction. VMBox.Co will be shifting primary focus from cPanel and reseller hosting to budget and premium VPS services.
We plan to offer both budget OpenVZ and premium KVM virtual private servers. To mark the start of a new era for our company, we are offering all existing NozHost customers 20% off all KVM and OpenVZ VPS. Please use promo code “20%VMBox” at the checkout to make this huge saving.
Current customers will see very little change during the switch over to the new domain. Your current pricing and plans will stay the same, as will your login details for the billing and support center. All you will need to do is change your nameservers to the new domain’s, like as follows.
The billing and support area will change from:
http://nozhost.com/client/ -> http://my.vmbox.co/
Contact Details:
Emails:
Support@NozHost.Com -> Support@VMBox.Co
Abuse@NozHost.Com -> Abuse@VMBox.Co
Skype:
NozHost -> VMBoxCo
Twitter:
@VMBoxCo
Please don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.
Kind Regards,
Steven Norris
VMBox.Co
NozHost as a company was not sold. The domain was changed and ALL customers came with me to VMBox. The domain was then sold to another company for the traffic. I still have customers from day one. If you have any more questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
02:49 ,whmcs my.vmbox.co 02:49 cornelius: WHMCS license f7f50cae0f41572b08e2 (Steven Norris, VMBox.Co, noz10@live.com) for my.vmbox.co [198.143.165.99 - United States, Los Angeles, CA, SingleHop] is currently active. Type: Monthly Lease (through reseller), valid from 2011-06-21 (no expiration date), v5.1.2 installed in /home/myvmbox/public_html, obtained through: LicensePal, addons: Android App.wow 34 comments of …
Good Luck with Sales.
Is there a reason why you two are trashing this guy’s reputation?
So which is it?
The latter, fixed.
That was my fault for confusing him in our correspondence. :)
Is the offer closed?
No. What makes you say that? Have i missed something?
Hiya Steven,
I’m considering to move to VPS to host several PHP sites, but I’m a bit reluctant due to not having experience managing mail server (Postfix). All I did was qmail many years ago.
Otherwise, would just need PHP-FPM, MYSL (MariaDB) + mail (postfix+dovecot).
What do you think?
We are an unmanaged provider, although tech’s do try and help if you get stuck along the way. We do however have cheap cPanel licenses available in our Phoenix location if that is financially viable. Please don’t hesitate to submit a sales ticket if would like further information.
Do I have to pay extra for an IP address? What’s this about not allowing bittorrent?
All VPS packages come with one ipv4, additional ip’s are charged at $2 each. We allow torrents as long as they are legal. Please let us know if you have any further questions.
> We are an unmanaged provider, although tech’s do try and help if you get stuck along the way.
Which OS is on the server?
> We do however have cheap cPanel licenses available in our Phoenix location if that is financially viable.
I’m not sure that using panels add-on would still make the offer attractive…I’m from poor Croatia. :-/
You could use virtualmin free version. It is as good as if not better than cpanel. The UI sucks a little bit, but then it is a free product. Actually you can even import a cpanel dump from virtualmin. I migrated from cpanel shared hosting to virtualmin vps in around 6hrs.
> You could use virtualmin free version.
That’s good idea. Do you admin your own mail (Postfix) server?
yes
Also running mailman
Hmm no refunds, no dice. Unless you offer some kind of 3 day trial or something.
After the nightmare I had with ChicagoVPS, I’m pretty much done with any provider that doesn’t either provide a cheap/free 3-5day trial, or a fair refund policy such as pro-rated or full within X amount of days.
I’m just glad my chargeback to ChicagoVPS was finally approved.
We would be happy to provide a trial for you. Please submit a sales ticket on the site.
these guys are a joke firstly they was one of the biggest flooders, then they got flooded to death themself, then stole there clients content and email and sold on, they have the worst support, and cowboyed on there nozhost name due to it being the worst mistake going they ripped there hosting customers of who paid yearly on romania and there other server moved them to usa for which we all didnt have a choice tickets blow they help you in no way shape at all and lets say hi to nozhosts norris tosser he is example resellers was down for around 3-4 days at a time there excuse we can help getting ddossed , ok so i thought sod it vps, we had no control panel, and the node was slow as hell running apt-get update took about 40+ minutes glad after big dispute got refunded via paypal other wise stay clear you have been warned and nope im not troll telling the truth thats all i have more support tickets filled in with this guy than all the other place i use put together
I smell bull
“one of the biggest flooders” – I work 40 hours a week, i don’t have time for that shit.
“they got flooded to death themself” – So i take it your ip got nulled?
“stole there clients content and email” – What content and emails? To be honest with that grammar i don’t want your content.
“worst support” – Obviously, if you don’t like what we’re telling you, you are going to think it’s bad.
“ripped there hosting customers of who paid yearly on romania and there other server moved them to usa” – Yes, we moved RO shared servers to USA. We allow the same content in both countries, so the only reason to complain would be hosting warez/nulled. We also offered a free proxy to all customers.
“lets say hi to nozhosts norris tosser” – Hi?
“resellers was down for around 3-4 days at a time” – Obviously an over exaggeration. We’ve never had a downtime like that.
“we had no control panel” – VPS.VMBox.Co has been online since day one.
“node was slow as hell” –
root@USA1 [~]# 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, 7.97862 seconds, 135 MB/s
root@USA2 [~]# 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, 8.92119 seconds, 120 MB/s
root@USA2 [~]#
[root@LU1 ~]# 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, 17.7197 seconds, 60.6 MB/s
[root@LU1 ~]#
[root@SCR1 ~]# 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, 16.1667 seconds, 66.4 MB/s
[root@SCR1 ~]#
I think you got kicked for being abusive or another TOS violation. By the state of you grammar (or lack of it) i’d also say you are around 14 years old. Send me your email and lets see what really happened eh?
LU location sold out, thanks for your support guys.
Gets called a kid. Then calls others kids. Must be a kid.
Yeah must be. Great logic.
Everything aside all I can think of is B&Q. Sorry :P
Who doesn’t like B&Q though right? :)
read their TERMS before you buy, its full of bullshit, do not buy from this provider
What makes you say that?
do you all alow minecraft servers on your vps i dont want to buy a vps and have it removed
Minecraft servers ca be cpu intensive
dont want 50 people joining and getting removed
gotto be the worst provider in history first i got the vps lux night time morning i got up to start my setup then to find the suspended for malware i mean wtf on a new install malware.
maybe this was due to me getting the node for 1/2 price with a coupon-
next after spending 4 hours compiling the mysql database i asked which files where malware they couldnt find it second i didnt get refunded
lastly the most shocking bit of info the users what where on my database have had emails from vmbox offering them hosting service
meaning they stole my details and sent out mails to my clients
good job i was only using it for testing a website just a big warning these people are idiots and have no clue about customer support- yes you will get some support but it will be useless
waste of cash scam artist and hackers for sure stealing peoples information like that very shady
so lastly after having enough i gave some abuse and my account was closed thank god nightmare over
spouting more crap as usual?
Everyone ignore this joker, he likes to troll at random, its a new story every time.
Prove me wrong x360 by posting up an order number or ticket ID (Not fake names like you did the last time)
I personally think the mod’s should do some research in to you.
Malware isn’t allowed on our servers and you will be terminated without refund or backup if you upload it.
Ref: SBL172123
94.242.238./32 is listed on the Spamhaus Block List (SBL)
94.242.238./32 is listed on the Spamhaus Botnet C&C List (BGPCC)
2013-01-10 10:31:04 GMT | SR29 | root.lu
SpyEye collector @94.242.238.
The host at this IP address is running a SpyEye collector which is being used to collect stolen data from infected computers (bots):
https://spyeyetracker.abuse.ch/faq.php#collector
SpyEye is a banking Trojan used to steal credentials for online banking accounts from the victims computer:
http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_257679.htm
IP Address : 94.242.238.
AS number : AS5577
AS description : ROOT root SA
SpyEye collector is located at 94.242.238. on port 443:
$ telnet 94.242.238. 443
Trying 94.242.238….
Connected to 94.242.238..
Escape character is ‘^]’.
what a load i dont need to post shit norris know scam artist
an ant you can shut the fudge up you douchebag ive had my nightmare with you go an order service from them and check it out yourself oh thats right your far superior to me
NOT
x360 just prove it or shut up.
Thanks.
Anthony.
no make me you clown you but into something that dont concern you oh thats right your a douche
Thought so.
Phoenix location upgraded to a Gbit port.
This offer is a scam. The owner has apparently pissed off a bunch of script kiddies, which constantly attack his services. I was unable to use the server I purchased over 75% of the time due to the service being unreachable. I could not even access the client portal most of the time due to these attacks. I tried asking for a refund after the fact due to giving up on it after 2 weeks or so. In the end I filed a Paypal dispute to only get rejected as this person uses 2checkout.com to hide behind as a seller. This is by far the biggest waste of $7 in my life, and possibly a worthwhile candidate for fraud. Fraud is illegal in most countries and is punishable with jail time.
Email support was always available when the portal was down and all VPS nodes have 99%+ uptime. Service credits are applied if we fall below 99%.
We don’t provide refunds on VPS as stated in our terms of service, which was agreed to during signup and also posted in the offer details on this page. Are you the customer who became abusive via email and got terminated?
If you would read my name that I am posting on, and even cared about people who have paid you money for your “services”, you would know exactly who I am. I use the term “services” lightly, as they were not available for me over 50% to 75% of the time I tried to use the server.
Stand on your soapbox and spout your lies all you want Steve, your are a scammer. My VPS was down over 50% of the time. Within the first 24 hours of having purchased your services, you sent me this via email after I contacted you about both the server and your client area being unresponsive:
“We are currently receiving a Gbit+ flood on our Scranton node.”
I think it’s laughable that you think that I don’t know that this was the issue the whole month of my services.
Please tell everyone here why you have to run Cloudflare DDoS protection on your site and client area. It’s obviously because you have problems with people DDoSing and flodding your services constantly. It was even stated in the LowEndBox post above that your previous service had the same issue. Apparently those script kiddies are not done making you disappear yet.
No, I’m the customer that couldn’t cancel my account because your client area was constantly down. I also asked you quite nicely originally over email to cancel my account and refund my $7, as my partial month of service at the time was not acceptable. At the time you said that you could not cancel my account, only I could from the client area. Then later you emailed me to tell you that you did cancel my account and would not refund my money. This was the point I started to realize you were just an scammer and disputed the charges.
I even sent you a screenshot of said client area being down. In fact, I have the emails all logged. I’m also the one that filed a Paypal dispute about your fraudulent services and will be contacting 2Checkout.com for the same reason. Here is the same screenshot for everyone else here to see. This is what I saw most times I tried to login to my “account” with this “service”. 99%+ uptime is a complete and utter lie and is false advertising at the very least, if not complete fraud. It’s a shame you can’t honor your customers with the services they paid for and take things to the level of fraud over $7.
I am posting this information here due to the fact that this is where I found out about VMBox’s services. Somehow Steve got out of refunding me my money through a Paypal dispute, and I don’t want anyone else to fall victim to this scam.
As stated in our terms, we do not provide refunds. We can however offer you a free month if you feel you didn’t get what you paid for. We aren’t here to scam.
Regarding the flood on Scranton last month, we contacted VD and got the ip nulled quickly. We have never had any extended period of downtime on any of our nodes so i don’t know why you couldn’t access your VPS. If you had submitted a support ticket, we could have investigated for you.
Please contact us via email if you wish to have the additional month.
waiting on support to get back to me, its been a while.
no worries, but wondering is everything ok here?
support, have been great now, i must admit the experience is fine, and server is great. :) Thanks again guys.
Sir,
It looks like we are working with vmbox.co who are like a child, who without any reason stopped my 4 VPS with them and they have blocked one VPS first about abuse complaint and to my suprise when i had seen all my other 3 VPS also were stopped, i have asked the reason which they just gave one line answer that you were given time but u didnt fix things.
I have given this VPS to my client and i was not intimated for the same, and abuse whenever the complaint comes the format of the thing is one VPS for which abuse has come it would be stopped not all.
Secondly, when a reply is given atleast from the backend like through other IP or anything we can go and fix the abuse issue which has not happened as these guys have just unplugged the VPS
I have lots of Legal data in that pertaining to Police Department, which i have requested them to atleast make it on so that we can take out our data for which i had to stay awake from night 1 AM to 5AM but they replied only one line at 2 AM that we have given you time to fix issue of 24 hrs for abuse u didnt do.
Is this a kind of support i expect from any professional company, i still request your kindness to please understand what you did is wrong, and if you think you did is right please give us the justification and please allow us things to fix, but here nothing like that is happening, a communication itself is a nightmare we cannot communicate with them at all.
Hi guys! The customer support is terrible!!! My VPS closed for 4-5 hours he did’nt reply my ticket.
Remained closed VPS 5 hours today. I do not want to work more with this company. I requested a refund. Not agreed to return for the remaining days.
I requested a refund. Not agreed to return for the remaining days.
http://i.imgur.com/oDTbK5g.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/KaHtQ9q.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/uROcEsY.jpg
They remove my account! No refund! This is fraud!!!
Stay away from these crooks! They are deleted my account (http://vps.vmbox.co https://my.vmbox.co/)
I pay 6.5 dollars on November 30. But they are delete my account prior to 21 days.
VMBOX is big scammers company, they way to collect money is by cheat people, working good for one or two client and scam the third
i dont trust them anymore they scam me for about 20$
Hi, before 4 months I buy VPS from VMBOX.CO. I will tell you only one! NEVER buy from vmbox.co!!! MY VPS IS SUSPENDED FOR OUTGOING DOS! I DONT KNOW HOW TO SEND DOS ATTACKS! I AM NOT GUILTY! IT IS SCAM! THEY DONT TURNED ON MY VPS! THEY ARENT TELLING ME MY FILES! THEY HAVE COPYRIGHTS! I WILL SUE VMBOX.CO FOR SCAM AND COPYRIGHTS!
Received only 50GB HDD and 512MB RAM instead of 50GB HDD and 2048MB RAM with this link. :(
I can’t speak for others, but my company and I have had excellent success and service with VM Box. It is the fastest server I’ve ever had. If you want support, it has to go through the VMBox control panel, and these are unmanaged servers. The price is great and I’ve been very happy. I had a challenge to learn to manage some things, such as DNS for mail. But I learned it and did not complain.