Chicago VPS 2048MB Ram 2TB Bandwidth 50GB Diskspace $30 year

I've emailed Chicago VPS multiple times asking, amount/speed of the processors. But have yet to get an answer. Do you know what their giving?

i will check one of my boxes

cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 30
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X3450 @ 2.67GHz
stepping : 5
cpu MHz : 2666.745
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 smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt lahf_lm
bogomips : 5333.49
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 : 30
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X3450 @ 2.67GHz
stepping : 5
cpu MHz : 2666.745
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 smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt lahf_lm
bogomips : 5333.25
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: [8]


processor : 2
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 30
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X3450 @ 2.67GHz
stepping : 5
cpu MHz : 2666.745
cache size : 8192 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 8
core id : 2
cpu cores : 4
apicid : 4
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 smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt lahf_lm
bogomips : 5333.18
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: [8]


processor : 3
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 30
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X3450 @ 2.67GHz
stepping : 5
cpu MHz : 2666.745
cache size : 8192 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 8
core id : 3
cpu cores : 4
apicid : 6
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 smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt lahf_lm
bogomips : 5333.25
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: [8]

Very, very nice!

what exactly is this for? I mean, what would my alternative be? Build a local one and maintain it. Or is this local? is this a service? I need an excuse to buy this for my future business?:-)

if you want to host stuff online( eg website, ftp/file server, VPS/VPN tunneling), this works

don't host anything super-critical on these though...

I had one to host a memory-intensive ruby site, worked fine they got hacked and lost a lot of customer's stuff. Then I over to amazon ec2 because I wanted more flexibility and easier backup of data (of course, whil epaying more for that privilege)

http://www.lowendtalk.com/discuss...rs-offline

Quote : If you know anything about VPS pricing

... you don't buy your hosting based on pricing alone.

This is great! Stank you. Stank you smelly much.

Quote from dealstack : what exactly is this for? I mean, what would my alternative be? Build a local one and maintain it. Or is this local? is this a service? I need an excuse to buy this for my future business?:-)

If you host from your home, you're probably going to end up using something like dyndns for domain name resolution. More over, some ISPs won't allow you to use your connection for things like hosting sites and such suchary. The likely hood that they'll find out is low (or that they'll care), so it isn't much of an issue.

Here's something else to think about though.. Over the course of a year, keeping a machine powered on will probably cost you a decent amount in electricity. Also, you won't really have a failover, so if something happens and your power goes out, your server goes off-line.

The datacenters have redundancy set up for those types of situations, and are more equipped to handle the minutia of DNS and web hosting.

Thanks a lot. I currently pay $5/mo for far far fewer available resources, be interested to see how reliable these guys are.

bought it. 30 for a year is worth to test. this also includes cpanel without extra charge if you don't want to go through the hassle of doing everything. thx and repped.

UPDATE: Cpanel is not included. Have to pay extra $15 if you want it.

Quote from dealstack : what exactly is this for? I mean, what would my alternative be? Build a local one and maintain it. Or is this local? is this a service? I need an excuse to buy this for my future business?:-)

I use mine to host a few websites. It's basically having a remote linux server with root access. The benefits to me is the customizability that general web hosting sites don't have. The bad (or good) part is that you have to be your own sysadmin so you kind of have to know what your doing as far as server setup/maintenance.

I highly suggest anyone using a budget (or any) VPS to make sure you do your own backups of anything important. I consider ChicagoVPS one of the good providers, but they recently lost ALL my data due to some type of hacking incident on their nodes. I fortunately do nightly backups to my home machine so only had to suffer a couple days downtime. They claim to be backing up everything now so a similar disaster doesn't happen again and I believe them, but these budget VPS providers all have a bad reputation as far as I'm concerned.

Stupid question. Let's say I own coolstuff.com. When I sign up, it asks me for a server name. Does it matter what I put in there? What is that server name used for? I assume if I choose something like chuk.coolstuff.com, I just create an A name for www in my DNS?