Steven, from VMBox.co, has written us to share this special offer with you that comes with a free Wildcard SSL certificate!
The offer
- 2GB RAM
- 50GB SSD-cached disk space
- 4 CPU cores
- 2TB transfer
- 1Gbps uplink
- 1x IPv4 (Amsterdam and Phoenix)
- 2x IPv4 (Los Angeles)
- 5x IPv6 (Los Angeles)
- OpenVZ/SolusVM
- $5/month
- $40/year
- Order in Phoenix, AZ, USA
- Order in Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Order in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
VMBox.co has a domain that’s two and a half year old. They are a registered business in the UK since March 2014, so they’re heading for their “official” one-year anniversary. This server comes with a free AlphaSSL Wildcard SSL certificate. If you get that SSL certificate within the first three days of service you forfeit your right to a refund. This is to prevent abuse of the free SSL certificates. I don’t have many details on the host nodes, but I do know VMBox.co runs 8 hard drives in RAID10 backed up by an LSI 9271-8i RAID controller with Cachecade. I’ve seen quite some positive reviews on VMBox.co. If you are a current customer or give them a try as a result of this offer, please share your experiences with us in the comments!
Credit/debit cards and PayPal via 2Checkout are accepted payment methods. There’s a no questions asked 3-day refund policy in place, though you’re not entitled to a refund if you use the free Wildcard SSL certificate order. Additional IPv4 addresses are $2/month each; additional IPv6 addresses are free of charge. cPanel is available for $9.95/month. Before you order, please read their Terms of Service.
Network information
SingleHop – Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Test IPv4: 107.6.170.210
Looking glass: http://nl-lg.vmbox.co/
SingleHop – Phoenix, AZ, USA
Test IPv4: 198.20.94.138
Looking glass: http://phx-lg.vmbox.co/
QuadraNet – Los Angeles, CA, USA
Test IPv4: 192.161.182.2
Looking glass: http://la-lg.vmbox.co/
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Hi,
The 2 first looking glass are not responding (1 error 1 404)
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.
You signed up on the 30th June, how much downtime from 30th June until 21st November where you requested cancellation did you have? Around about an hour, a certain hostnode had a number of issues within the month of November where on one day it kernel panic’d and another it had one or two clients that had inbound DDoS’s.
You requested a refund, due to having an hours outage within a weeks period while this is unacceptable I don’t really feel it requires the full $6.50 refunding as you requested & as you requested an immediate cancellation your service was cancelled then you proceeded to carry out threats such as you’ll post on WHT/LEB and LET and as such you have above
You signed up on the 30th June, how much downtime from 30th June until 21st November where you requested cancellation did you have? Around about an hour, a certain hostnode had a number of issues within the month of November where on one day it kernel panic’d and another it had one or two clients that had inbound DDoS’s.
You requested a refund, due to having an hours outage within a weeks period while this is unacceptable I don’t really feel it requires the full $6.50 refunding as you requested & as you requested an immediate cancellation your service was cancelled then you proceeded to carry out threats such as you’ll post on WHT/LEB and LET and as such you have above
You signed up on the 30th June, how much downtime from 30th June until 21st November where you requested cancellation did you have? Around about an hour, a certain hostnode had a number of issues within the month of November where on one day it kernel panic’d and another it had one or two clients that had inbound DDoS’s.
You requested a refund, due to having an hours outage within a weeks period while this is unacceptable I don’t really feel it requires the full $6.50 refunding as you requested as you requested an immediate cancellation your service was cancelled then you proceeded to carry out threats such as you’ll post on WHT/LEB and LET and as such you have above.
Thanks for posting Maarten! If anyone has any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
Looks like the URL for PHX looking glass has an extra character in, the (NL) one is actually ams-lg though, I’ll get an CName added for NL now though.
SingleHop, Phoenix, AZ (USA): http://phx-lg.vmbox.co
Quadranet, Los Angeles, CA (USA): http://la-lg.vmbox.co
SingleHop, Amsterdam, NL (EU): http://ams-lg.vmbox.co
Steven, i want to purchase a wildcardssl only, if possible. How much?
Thanks
We don’t sell them sorry.
I don’t use Kloxo, but am curious as to why it is prohibited in your ToS.
Due to its many exploits it causes a lot of headaches when it gets exploited.
How about Kloxo-MR ?
As long as your VPS is secure you’re fine.
i wouldnt trust these lot to save my life hackers scammers steal your data and spam your client stay clear suspended node all the time awfull support and service sux
Could I ask for some proof of this? Maybe a ticket ID?
Isn’t lj the kid that has been trolling and spamming you continuously, probably because you suspended his vps for violating the Terms of Service? Just doing a quick google search on lowendbox.com throws up his kiddish comments.
Grow up, lj.
Yes that’s correct. The original reason he was suspended will probably be in a precious offer comments.
Hi, does the free SSL last as long as I have an active subscription with you guys? Or will I need to renew it myself after a certain amount of time?
They’re 1 year SSL’s that can be renewed free with us.
Steven,
If I understood correctly, as long as one is your customer – one has SSL for free?
Very nice offer, would love to grab NL one. Do you accept Bitcoins?
We accept then manually, please register then submit a ticket.
“-Torrents (Only allowed in US locations…”
Usually hosters prohibit torrent in the US but allow it everywhere else. Why is torrent not allowed on NL servers?
Got that updated for you, I think it’s when we had a lot more bandwidth and better hardware in our US Locations.
Can 2 of these plans be purchased and merged into one?
We can merge them in AMS, not in LA or AMS though.
*Not in LA or PHX that should have said.
anyone has buy it? some benchmark please….
Which location are you interested in?
What sort of benchmarks?
i m interesting in LA.
this kind of test :
wget freevps.us/downloads/bench.sh -O – -o /dev/null|bash
dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync; rm test
df -ih
one more question, if i buy vps, can i buy more ssl wildcard alfassl ?
I see no point in doing the DD and the FreeVPS bench…
http://i.imgur.com/80Plt9u.png
We don’t sell the SSLs but you’re welcome to request more than one.
Here’s a benchmark from my VPS in LA:
Can you please post an ipv4 address for a ping test in AMS? Do you offer a download test?
Please see my comment above for our lg’s.
Your connection to Iceland is excellent, I have already signed up for 1 year. Can I at any time claim the free wildcard SSL after signup or is there a time frame?
You can claim it anytime you wish.
Just for you guys which are opening tickets asking how to apply for SSLs, the information is in the New VPS Information email you get :-)
However,
Please provide a fully-qualified domain name so for example ‘vmbox.co’ If you’d like a valid card cert it’s going to be ‘*.vmbox.co’
Please include your CSR too and make sure that the FQDN matches the one you give us and also please make sure admin(at)FQDN.tld works for ease of processing.
Cheers!
Been with this guy for almost a year. Those who say that their service suck are totally wrong. Steven has been extremely accommodating. Even at times when i have actually caused trouble for him because of faults on my part. Once i even had accidentally exceeded my bw limit and he renewed it FOC out of good will.
Those who are complaining must’ve really abused the system beyond forgiveness.
Downtime is next to none unless its maintenance which is like barely once or twice a year. A+ i would say
Thanks for your feedback. :)
Wow, ordered a box in AMS. Awesome performance, great speed. Of course I can’t say much about up-/downtimes – but so far… great!
Thanks a lot! Finally a cheap provider for a GitLab instance. I’ll stay! :)
Thanks for your feedback! :)
The connection speed is..
..Awesome :D
Amsterdam:
http://www.speedtest.net/result/4054747081.png
Thanks for your feedback! :)
Steven, may I bring to your attention ticket #826742?
The yearly cost is valid for renewal too?
Yes you can renew at same price.
So its basically a lifetime offer?
Yes. :)
Just to let you and everyone at LET know – I just purchased the VPS at Amsterdam :)
Okish service, minimal templates ONLY (no exceptions despite the request for a unmodified OS template) ticket response is slow (average around 2-3 hours) tickets half read and responses incorrect.
6/10 for effort
8/10 back end hardware
Good luck to em guess
Hi ‘Wulfy’
Within Lowendbox you usually find that more than 90% of the clients would require a minimal OS rather than one that’s full of the standard garbage.
Sorry that you feel 2-3 hours is a slow response time, I agree that the first part of the ticket was mis-read and I did apologize for that.
Hi “VMBox” (???)
Reason for the requirement: https://documentation.cpanel.net/display/ALD/Installation+Guide+-+CentOS+Servers
minimal installs are not recommended for cpanel installs
Hi “Wulfy”??
We’ve not had any issues with cPanel installs on our minimal installs, that’s regarding an ISO install not a template install :-)!
I’ll stand by my original comments and i’m now seeing other little bits that made me realize it wasn’t a mistake, good or bad always respond rather than ignore it will do wonders for your rep (and watch the pedantic’s it can cause issues)
I don’t understand why you’re still commenting? You got a refund and then moaned when you got it?
Learn how to use the service you purchase rather than trying to blame the provider.
Ahem….
There has been no response to ticket #681464 after ca. 16 hrs. (LA site).
Bad cough you have there think your above post is a little off my thread
You had stated “…ticket response is slow (average around 2-3 hours)…”. I thought other potential customers should be informed that responses to tickets may be significantly slower or may not occur at all.
I’ve had these guys for a day or two now, and I have to say I’m surprised at the level of support and accommodation. The OS templates are minimal, which is what I prefer. I’d much rather add to an installation than have to pull software apart from one. Ticket response time has been pretty quick, especially considering the repetitive questions I have. They also issued a certificate that has worked perfectly thus far. My download speed from the VPS has been pretty decent so far, but all I have really downloaded are software updates and tarballs. Haven’t had a chance to check the upload quite yet but that’ll be the next thing, after my software is configured.
Thanks for your feedback.
This looks promising! Just purchased the monthly plan. SSL wildcard is a great deal too.
Hello All,
Please specify the site of a vmbox vps when giving comments. I’m wondering if quality of service may vary with location.
Thank you.
I was a user of the service and entitled to passing my comments of the service i received and one of the issues was the inflexibility and another is the attitude and the creeping (which is becoming evident in your responses more and more) unprofessional remarks.
Learn how to use a service? see above comments I have several vps’s running and only your company gave me any headaches.
Maybe you should learn your client base?
Thanks for your feedback.
I just got myself another, smaller VMBox promo VPS (promoted through LET):
25GB SATA3 RAID10 SSD Cached Storage
512MB DDR3 RAM
1TB Premium Bandwidth
1Gbps Port
1 IPv4 Address
$3/Month (or 30$/yr)
I’m positively surprised.
Just reinstalled it with another distro (it came with CentOS), updated it, and installed some basic software. This thingy is fast! Both system and network.
Except for payment verification everything went very quickly. And I can understand perfectly well that they verify/check payments.
All in all I spent less than 30 min. between ordering it and being on my new VPS via SSH.
If it stays that way I’m a really happy customer.
Thanks for your feedback!
I purchased this great deal, and so far I have been satisfied with it. After the purchase was confirmed, it gave me my IP and login details immediately and said that it was up, though I couldn’t shell into it until about 20-30 minutes after, which was no big deal.
Just felt like adding another customer opinion if anyone is on the fence about it.
Thanks for your feedback.
My last VPS provider (Armorshark) up and disappeared one day, needed a replacement and vmbox.co looked beyond perfect. Tried to register, used my whois address for the account like an idiot, fraud alert kept kicking in, so I tried to get my information changed, told them i’d only give them my actual personal information for my account if they could assure me that it was only for their purposes, I was told they wouldn’t accept my business. Meh.
You gave multiple false names and addresses, due to potential fraud reasons your order was declined.
Multiple? There was one, the whoisguard information for my domain and an online handle that I use to protect what little personal information I can in this day and age. I offered my personal information for the simple assurance that it would be secure, and instead of a simple “Yes, that information is only used by us”, I got told to move on.
We require correct information first time round, we refuse orders that look suspicious. What are you even complaining for? Just go elsewhere?
Just providing my feedback. Sorry for wasting your time.
gracias por compartir información
no voy a comprar
Here’s the benchmarks from NL if anyone is interested.
and dd:
Thanks for your feedback! :)
Just bought another in your LA location. So far looks to be a great service.
I’m very happy to move my VPS from digital-ocean to vmbox.co, I have been with digital-ocean since its start-up but after many years of using services from them, I never faced any issues, recently I got some issues with digital-ocean, Ineed some better provider.
I found vmbox.co and I’m very happy with their VPS.
Really, vmbox.co rocks!
Thanks for your feedback! :)
would like to know more
on this company
sorry, but discouraged TOS
I from Vietnam and I want to purchase this offer. Thanks
sounds good, but $2/month per additional IP is expensive for today…(((
or $2 – per year?
And very important..
Is DDOS PROTECTION ON YOUR VPS INCLUDED FOR FREE..??
I have a curent yearly plan I was wondering is there any way to add aditional storage or combine two plans to lets say
double storage, bandwidth, cpu…etc
if not could you qoute me a price to increase my storage?.. In a yearly form please if possible.
Access to this virtual server has been restricted. The node is currently under maintenance. Please try again later
This has been last 26 min.
I believe you opened a ticket of which was responded to in under 5 minutes.
“This virtual server has been suspended by the administrator. Please contact support” – and there is no response from support within 5 hours.
“Sorry for not being able to give more information earlier. At this time, I can tell you that the server was seized by law enforcement. We do not have any more info to share at this point, but our attorney is working on it.”
FUUU
They are working to open a temporary new node but to be honest I’m praying that the law enforcement return the server unchanged in the next few days.
I have a few backups of some of my websites but a lot of current up-to-date customer data is on that server. The LE really don’t seem to realise the damage they do to legit online businesses by just physically taking a server away.
Although I suppose we should be more angry at the trolls who abuse powerful and fast servers by torrenting TBs of illegal stuff and ruin it for everyone else.
Purchased a server yesterday from VMBox, today it has been down for, at this point, 5 hours! That’s an insane amount of downtime, I can only hope that this is a one off and that it won’t occur again.
Have a few question before I make purchase.
My customers websiite is base on wp and I use a security plugin. The security plugin will constantly email if any intruder try to breach the website. It will also send automated email to the webmaster. Would my vps be block or account terminated.
Thank you…
I am very happy with this provider. I’m neat to a month now with a 2GB server.
For webs is simply amazing. Runs smoothly and with no hiccups. Unfortunely, the downside is if you need to run, say, icecast with aDJ, sometimes got a little of hiccup. Anyway, seems like we have plenty CPU on quad-core cpu. I had a service CPU-intensive that worked for weeks and never got suspended. I simply love this.
I’m considering to buy 2 more on CA an AZ for other things appart web.
I’m using them for almost a year to host some small pages, I’m pleased with their service.
I would like to have some admin panel that could enable me to install stuff with a few clicks, maybe in the future this will be possible.
I recommend you Kloxo-MR (the fork, not the branch) that has better security and you can integrate softaculous (free -with lesser app choice- or paid) or installatron (free for few installs, paid 2.5 mo each VPS). You can also stop Kloxo-MR to get rid of security issues if you’re afraid, but have my word it’s OK for production servers.
Ticket #163981
My vps suspended after I do import export sql and web file.
And vmbox answer :
Your VPS is hacked and can’t be turned back on.
Have you got back your VPS?. Wasn’t actually a hack?.
Please respond about there service.
I am interested on them.
Do you offer IPv6 in Phoenix?
Just ordered this morning. Cpanel/WHM says Pending. Waited 3 hours ? Send Ticket no reply.
Please help me…..Thank you….
Just be patience and Ben will reply… :) my bet…
Future Customers,
I have made a purchase 2 days ago. from VMBOX.CO.
They refuse to issue me a new IP address since it was blacklisted and I request a refund. They did not oblige to the 3 day money back no question ask. I even told them they can charge me for the cpanel month licence and issue a refund for VPS they refuse. And most of the time VMBOX are very rude.
I really hope you read this listing before you make a purchase with them.
ME:
You have a 3 day No question ask Policy.
Please follow the policy.
Since I use the cpanel, Fair enough if you charge me for that.
But for the VPS, let me remind you your 3 day Policy.
Thank you.
VMBOX not honest
The amount of support you’ve requested has justified your whole year worth of payment already.
It’s self managed, this issue can be resolved by yourself.
The refund is down to our decision.
Best Regards,
Ben D.
VMBox.Co
Twitter – @VMBox.Co
Skype – VMBoxCo
Email – Support@VMBox.Co
Hey dear VMBox. I managed to break my set up on my VPS, that’s why I ended up cancelling it. I regretted it shortly after.
I now actually asked if you could open it which should be very simple for you so I don’t need to start a new billing period when I already had time left. Why would it cancel immediately anyways?
Your two worded reply to my ticket shows very bad customer service.
However, I’ll ask one last time if you can be understanding to keep a customer, which obviously will pay next month. If not I’ll just go to HostUS, they are just as cheap and I have been told their customer service is good.
I’m just signed up to VMBox.co with this deal for a year.
Everything looks great so far and I’ll keep you posted here if I have any problems.
How’s the CPU limit calculated, it says you are allowed only 0.9 usage which concerns me a little on would I get suspended for running e.g a Minecraft / Any other game server on these plans?
Went through the ToS, but didn’t figure out about these. Could you please let me know if I could run the following?
-San Andreas Multiplayer (SA-MP) Game server
-VoIP like Teamspeak
I’ve been waiting for my VPS to deploy for over 24 hours now. The live chat is never open. Seems like this company is about to hit the grave. Do not buy.
Just bought a VPS from VMBox, awaiting the details. Ticket response time was very good and staff are hospitable. I will post more performance details as and when possible. Cheers guys.
So I bought that VPS, Althought I had asked and paid for specific configuration of 6vCPU and 6GB RAM. Ben accepted this offer and setup my VPS with 6 vCPU clocked at 1.4GHz instead of 2.1GHz that they offer. This makes it equal to 4vCPU. I was quite pissed for scamming me quite obviously because I was trying to find a trustworthy hosting company. You guys should watch out and check the VPS specs immediately after purchasing to avoid such bull shit and know whether the host is cheat. Heres a pic of the spec i recieved http://i.imgur.com/mHIJVDN.png
They appear to be using speedstep since the cpu is 2.1ghz from your pic. If the cpu is used it will automatically increase on demand. Speedstep isn’t often enabled on a VM provider, but it’s intent is to reduce power usage.
Try reaching out to them, they’re quite responsive – i’ve used them for a year and they’ve been one of the best providers I’ve had a VM on.
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!
Based on your description and what appears to be a broken caps lock key, it’s likely you were hacked and your VM abused. You are liable for your security of your server.
Do you accept website with warez link only?
Hi Steven,
Couple of questions as I am new to vmbox:
1. Is it okay if I pay up $5 for the first month and then move to the $40 plan? Will it still be available for me next month?
2. As I renew with $40 an year, will the wildcard SSL also be renewed?
No words. New clients are fraud in this shit. I was ordered a VPS and paid with my CC yesterday and still waiting for VPS.