Community provider Hivelocity shared a video announcement on LowEndTalk to tease their upcoming VPS launch (see below).
If you’re not familiar with HV, they’ve offered great deals on dedicated servers to our community for a long time. Some examples:
- E3-1230 v6 3.5GHz Kaby Lake, 32GB DDR4, 480GB SSD, 20TB/1Gbps, Tampa, Atlanta, NYC, Dallas, LA, & Miami Data Centers, $62/month
- E-2136 3.3GHz Coffee Lake, 64GB DDR4, 480GB SSD, 20TB/1Gbps, Tampa, NYC, Seattle, Chicago & LA Data Centers, $99/month
Now they’re moving into the VPS market.
What prices? What specs? What host nodes? We don’t know!
But some hints have been teased:
- $4/month for the entry price point, with “some specials for this community” 👍
- 3 US locations…which cities are not officially confirmed but they have some tests going on in LA so (my opinion) that location is likely one of the three
Follow the news in the LowEndTalk thread!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9npvN6wHgc
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They used to have a VPS brand years ago called Sparknode (https://www.hivelocity.net/blog/hivelocity-launches-cloud-specialty-site-sparknode-com/). Interesting that they’re launching a new VPS lineup. I wonder what they’re doing differently this time.