Salvatore, from Prometeus, sent in an e-mail regarding the launch of his new brand: XenPower! XenPower offers high-resource servers for a very reasonable price! XenPower was started because Salvatore once purchased the domain (xenpower.com) and still hadn’t done anything with it. What better to do with it than offer some great Xen servers! These servers are hosted on a host node with dual Intel E5-2620v2 CPUs, 128GB of RAM and 12x 3TB SATA hard drives in RAID10! This happens to be Prometeus’ first deployment of servers with SATA disks (all others are SAS, SSD, or SAN) and I have to say, the speed is very good! We all know Prometeus: most reviews are very positive, support is fast, and the customer always comes first! Please share your own experiences with XenPower in the comments!
The offer
- 2 vCPUs
- 1GB RAM
- 120GB Disk space
- 2TB Bandwidth
- 1Gbps uplink
- 1x IPv4 address
- 2x IPv6 address (/64 on request)
- XenPV/SolusVM
- Coupon: XENPOWER25
- Price: €4.42/month or +/- $6/month
- Order in Milan
- Order in Dallas
Prometeus accepts payments via Paypal. VAT, at 22%, is added if you’re an EU citizen/company without a valid VAT ID. Prometeus is a registered LIR (RIPE NCC member), which means they own their IP addresses. Like noted above, an IPv6 /64 is available for free on request. No refunds are offered. For more information, have a read of their Terms of Service.
Network information
Looking glass Milan: http://lg-milano.prometeus.net/
Looking glass Dallas: http://lg-dallas.prometeus.net/
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Looks like a pretty decent deal, especially with the generous amount of disk space. Most other offers would be 60-80GB at this price range.
Especially like the fact you can get the same deal outside the US – this will continue to be important for citizens of other nations not wanting to host their data inside the US.
Thank you :)
This was one of our problems, people were comparing other providers offering SATA storage with our SAS/SSD/SAN which was, obviously, lower, at the same price.
Now we are offering SATA too but this is top range with many disks and a good raid card.
However, please remember we offer free FTP/secure FTP/HTTP/HTTPS back-up space for free to all our customers (sure, non-budget plans such as Biz ones benefit from larger storage).
Awesome, got one for my (again!)
Let’s go sign up!
Windows an options?
XenPV does not support windows. You can try http://www.iwstack.com if you need to install from arbitrary ISO, it has also licensed windows templates.
Best node is node 19 ;)
pm19 is KVM…
Exactly, KVM + SAS drives feel like the best options from Prometeus.
I can assure you: I have multiple VMs with Prometeus and its brands in different locations. XEN, OpenVZ and KVM. They are on different nodes, of course, and they ALL are “the best”. No matter what drives, no matter what Virtualization, Prometeus simply rocks.
We had to perform maintenance just a month ago and took it down after some 500 days of uptime. SAN is better, but even that must be upgraded. We are now upgrading the SAN and some latency is seen.
Pm20 and pm21 are still counting the 500+ uptimes :)
im on pm19. a little hiccup but all good
My fault for mentioning, indeed some issues atm as my websites are down, ssh isn’t loading, restart does nothing =/
If you are the guy with KVM1103 yeah it is stuck in D state, we cannot shutdown the node to solve this issue, too many people would have downtime, seems that the last upgrade introduced some bug in KVM.
Salvatore is dumping your data now, it should be started some other place soon. Sorry for this issue, Murphy hit you hard, it seems, Xen never needed restart, though, after the time bug in 2012 I think.
We will compensate you for this. Please make a reasonable request in the ticket after it is done.
Can someone post the disk I/O speed please?
dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
Do not forget to delete the “test” file ;)
XPu1G Dallas
# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync && rm test
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 3.16815 s, 339 MB/s
….
CPU model : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 0 @ 2.00GHz
Number of cores : 2
CPU frequency : 1999.999 MHz
Total amount of ram : 1007 MB
Total amount of swap : 511 MB
Is this for new customers only? I have 2GB RAM one and already used this code (or some similar). Wondering if I could use it again to purchase this one.. ?
It was certainly not intended for new customers only, from what I know it should work, if it doesnt, then maybe there is another problem, please open a ticket with the error you get.
does it include any swap?
Yes, it does, but it should not be used as a RAM replacement.
buy one. running now. hope get good performance.
I still prefer the one I bought with 4 cores and 40g ssd in Dallas.
Is Bittorrent (legal) and Minecraft server allowed?
Yes, everything legal and which does not abuse resources. If you BT is pounding disk at 40 MB/s 24/7, it is not ok.
Game servers are allowed, but DDoS is not. If you receive attacks without using our DDoS protection, the server might be suspended/terminated.
Do you have DDoS protection on these plans? I do not see it as an option. If so. How much is it?
Hello !
We didnt route DDoS protected IPs to these servers and it is only available in Italy, anyway, but we will consider it if there is demand. It looks lie people do not care and prefer to be blackholed after attacks and hope it does not happen again.
A filtered IPv4 costs 9 Eur/month.
However, this means speeds will not be great and there is a bit of extra latency. The filtered traffic totals 200 mbps.
I see, thank you for your quick response, please let us know if you every decide to get DDoS protection.
Tempting for the 1GB RAM, but the 512MB on my current KVM there does the job (for a bit over $6/month), and it uses SSD. I’ve had Prometeus service since Oct. 2012, and I’m on pm14.
I’ve been using XenPower 1G in Italy since the launching of it, 25 days ago, and always impressed :)
Mas Erawan, me too. I’m a satisfied customer :)
Prometeus service+Incero’s Dallas network=awesome!
So you bought the vps in Dallas? Did it comes with IPv6?
Last time I checked the offer for xenpower in Dallas, it’s comes with less disk, but in SSD.
If you go to the XenPower.com site there are tabs for Italy, USA, and USA SSD. The USA tab has the same regular SATA HDD plans as Italy. I think they were just added within the past couple of days.
I’ve had one of the Dallas SSD plans for a couple weeks and picked up a Dallas HDD plan yesterday. They all have IPv6.
I think the Dallas IPv6 is tunneled through HE until they can get native with Incero but it works just fine for me.
IPv6 is available in Dallas?
Hello !
Yes it is, but over a HE tunnel (non-native) :(
I’m Xen Power proud user. :)
Can someone please post the disk performance?
Thanks.
Jae did just a minute before you asked again :)
Jae:
XPu1G Dallas
# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync && rm test
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 3.16815 s, 339 MB/s
….
CPU model : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 0 @ 2.00GHz
Number of cores : 2
CPU frequency : 1999.999 MHz
Total amount of ram : 1007 MB
Total amount of swap : 511 MB
January 20, 2014 @ 2:43 am | Reply
kindly share ioping
ioping -c 10 .
4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/xvda1): request=1 time=0.1 ms
4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/xvda1): request=2 time=0.2 ms
4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/xvda1): request=3 time=0.2 ms
4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/xvda1): request=4 time=0.3 ms
4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/xvda1): request=5 time=0.2 ms
4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/xvda1): request=6 time=0.2 ms
4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/xvda1): request=7 time=0.2 ms
4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/xvda1): request=8 time=0.2 ms
4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/xvda1): request=9 time=0.3 ms
4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/xvda1): request=10 time=0.3 ms
— . (ext3 /dev/xvda1) ioping statistics —
10 requests completed in 9004.0 ms, 4464 iops, 17.4 mb/s
min/avg/max/mdev = 0.1/0.2/0.3/0.0 ms
1. do you have cheap internal cpanel licenses like $10/m at italy?
2. how much is extra ip?
Hello !
We are not cPanel resellers, only for Direct Admin.
You can of course, use your own license.
An extra IPv4 is 12 Eur a year.
Accept CPU mining?
Hello !
Please look here:
http://board.prometeus.net/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1390
Those are the rules translated from legalese.
In short, no. Those things are done on dedicated servers with special graphic cards, not in a shared environment.
coupon works on annual. sweet, double discount!
well i give in the temptation and bought XP4G vps package… but i have a problem, i accidentaly choosed from Milano instead of dallas…
You can open a ticket and we reprovision in dallas.
Great offer ! but phone verification with pin is required. I hope I won’t get spam sms.
Hello !
Only in some cases over a certain risk treshold.
It is done by a third party, we only bought services from them.
How long does it take to provision? Just purchased a 2G deal now.
It takes up to 24 hours, but much faster usually. I am dealing with this usually but was in a 2 days vacation so could have taken a couple of hours or so.
How is the DDOS attack protection? and server uptime status
We only recently started offering DDoS protection. It applies only to certain plans for now, but we plan to extend it. It protects fro 10+ Gbps and 1 nil+ pps Over that treshold the IP is nulled for an hour.
As for server uptime, we just deployed them, the plans were launched a month ago.
Example uptime (KVM):
Do you guys offer DDOS for Dallas?
Hello !
No, we only offer it in Italy.
any plans in restocking the Italy non-ssd plans?
Yes, but will take some time, we did not expect to sell so fast. In the meantime, we have SSD in Italy and non-SSD in US.
Hi
When do you plan to restock XP1G?
Cheers
I am not sure, will take some time to order and receive new servers, we didnt expect it will go so fast.
I’ve read some posts above, and learned that anything is fine, as long as it’s legal.
But just want to make sure.
1. Do you all adult content website (legal)?
2. VPN usage?
Thank you
All legal content is allowed. It must be legal in Italy/US, though, not your country of origin.
Promo code was expired,
Please give me chance to order your service again.
I have one from XENPower with SSD plan, that very awesome. :D
Please open a ticket.
Yay~
Now i have 2 VPS on XENPower :D
Thank you, i really like your services.
But is legal torrent allowed on server Milano, Italia ?
Legal torrenting is allowed on any location on non-biz plans (this means only budget ones such as OVerZold XenPower and a few others). Please make sure you do not abuse the disk and dont go over 300 mbps sustained.
Allowed to install Plex media server?
Anything legal which does not abuse is allowed.
Any stock of the XP1G coming up again?
We only have a bit of non-ssd in US and some SSD in Italy. Planning to get more, however, cannot give an ETA.
I just checked your tracert, using http://lg-milano.prometeus.net/ , and I see that packets go through all the world to me. The path is Italy – France – USA – Japan – Russia. Total ping is more than 200ms. Can this be fixed? Right path is Italy – German – Russia.
Will Dallas server become available any time soon?
Looks like this deal is expired now :/
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Would not recommend, Prometeus.net / IperWeb.com / OverZold.com
Closed my account and would not even allow me
to BackUp my account after more than 2-Years of
paying them with punctuality on time ever time !
When I mention that I would post to LowEndBox.com
about it is when they terminated my account from suspended
to terminated, very NAZI-Like / GOD-Like attitude, STAY AWAY !