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

Still alive - placed an order on the Chicago server at 11/26 1:45am EST. I've always used Xen for my VPS needs, so I'm hesitant to go with OpenVZ, but for $30, I'll take my chances. I just hope the servers are not ridiculously oversubscribed.

Quote from gobstopper : Still alive - placed an order on the Chicago server at 11/26 1:45am EST. I've always used Xen for my VPS needs, so I'm hesitant to go with OpenVZ, but for $30, I'll take my chances. I just hope the servers are not ridiculously oversubscribed.

Yeah - I see guaranteed amounts of RAM, storage, etc, but notice they don't mention how much CPU you get. It's only $30, but to me, this is like buying a laptop without knowing which CPU it has.

Quote from birdwax : Yeah - I see guaranteed amounts of RAM, storage, etc, but notice they don't mention how much CPU you get. It's only $30, but to me, this is like buying a laptop without knowing which CPU it has.

did you see my second post


http://slickdeals.net/forums/show...ostcount=4


the VPS I purchased from this deal gave me4 cores from a Xeon X3450 processor @ 2.67GHz

Quote from brickjenks100 : did you see my second post http://slickdeals.net/forums/show...ostcount=4 the VPS I purchased from this deal gave me4 cores from a Xeon X3450 processor @ 2.67GHz

Yes, I did see that, but it doesn't tell me very much. What share of the CPU do you get? It could be .1GHz or .33GHz. In fact, that isn't atypical (WireNine's cheapest VPS - $25/month - gives you .33GHz, for example).

Quote from birdwax : Yes, I did see that, but it doesn't tell me very much. What share of the CPU do you get? It could be .1GHz or .33GHz. In fact, that isn't atypical (WireNine's cheapest VPS - $25/month - gives you .33GHz, for example).

I will try to run a benchmark

$ mkdir mprime2511
$ cd mprime2511
$ wget http://mersenneforum.org/gimps/mprime2511.tar.gz
$ tar xvf mprime*.tar.gz
$ ./mprime

16. Options/Benchmark


Phenom II 965 x4 @ 3.8 ghz processor w/ overclocked bus w/ no CPU limits w/ 16gb memory clocked at 1733 mhz running Centos 6.3 and KDE 4.3 at runlevel 5
AMD Phenom II X4 965 [cpubenchmark.net] (not overclocked)4,344 --> Passmark (bigger is better)

[Worker #1 Nov 26 04:33] Timing 10 iterations at 6144K FFT length. Best time: 35.977 ms.
[Worker #1 Nov 26 04:33] Setting affinity to run helper thread 3 on logical CPU #3
[Worker #1 Nov 26 04:33] Setting affinity to run helper thread 2 on logical CPU #2
[Worker #1 Nov 26 04:33] Setting affinity to run helper thread 1 on logical CPU #1
[Worker #1 Nov 26 04:33] Timing 10 iterations at 7168K FFT length. Best time: 42.110 ms.
[Worker #1 Nov 26 04:33] Setting affinity to run helper thread 3 on logical CPU #3
[Worker #1 Nov 26 04:33] Setting affinity to run helper thread 2 on logical CPU #2
[Worker #1 Nov 26 04:33] Setting affinity to run helper thread 1 on logical CPU #1
[Worker #1 Nov 26 04:33] Timing 10 iterations at 8192K FFT length. Best time: 48.034 ms.
[Worker #1 Nov 26 04:33] Timing trial factoring of M35000011 with 58 bit length factors. Best time: 3.171 ms.
[Worker #1 Nov 26 04:33] Timing trial factoring of M35000011 with 59 bit length factors. Best time: 3.175 ms.
[Worker #1 Nov 26 04:33] Timing trial factoring of M35000011 with 60 bit length factors. Best time: 3.180 ms.
[Worker #1 Nov 26 04:33] Timing trial factoring of M35000011 with 61 bit length factors. Best time: 3.176 ms.
[Worker #1 Nov 26 04:33] Timing trial factoring of M35000011 with 62 bit length factors. Best time: 3.181 ms.
[Worker #1 Nov 26 04:33] Timing trial factoring of M35000011 with 63 bit length factors. Best time: 5.833 ms.
[Worker #1 Nov 26 04:33] Timing trial factoring of M35000011 with 64 bit length factors. Best time: 5.851 ms.
[Worker #1 Nov 26 04:33] Timing trial factoring of M35000011 with 65 bit length factors. Best time: 5.825 ms.
[Worker #1 Nov 26 04:33] Timing trial factoring of M35000011 with 66 bit length factors. Best time: 5.783 ms.
[Worker #1 Nov 26 04:33] Timing trial factoring of M35000011 with 67 bit length factors. Best time: 5.785 ms.
[Worker #1 Nov 26 04:33] Benchmark complete.
[Worker #1 Nov 26 04:33] Worker stopped.


Xeon X3450 2.67GHz processor w/ 4 cores available @ Unknown GHz w/ 2gb memory available running Centos 6.3 no WM and runlevel 3
Intel Xeon X3450 @ 2.67GHz [cpubenchmark.net]5,223 --> Passmark (bigger is better)

[Worker #1 Nov 26 13:30] Timing 10 iterations at 6144K FFT length. Best time: 55.883 ms.
[Worker #1 Nov 26 13:30] Setting affinity to run helper thread 1 on logical CPU #1
[Worker #1 Nov 26 13:30] Setting affinity to run helper thread 2 on logical CPU #2
[Worker #1 Nov 26 13:30] Setting affinity to run helper thread 3 on logical CPU #3
[Worker #1 Nov 26 13:30] Timing 10 iterations at 7168K FFT length. Best time: 68.888 ms.
[Worker #1 Nov 26 13:30] Setting affinity to run helper thread 1 on logical CPU #1
[Worker #1 Nov 26 13:30] Setting affinity to run helper thread 2 on logical CPU #2
[Worker #1 Nov 26 13:30] Setting affinity to run helper thread 3 on logical CPU #3
[Worker #1 Nov 26 13:30] Timing 10 iterations at 8192K FFT length. Best time: 79.135 ms.
[Worker #1 Nov 26 13:30] Timing trial factoring of M35000011 with 58 bit length factors. Best time: 3.497 ms.
[Worker #1 Nov 26 13:30] Timing trial factoring of M35000011 with 59 bit length factors. Best time: 3.498 ms.
[Worker #1 Nov 26 13:30] Timing trial factoring of M35000011 with 60 bit length factors. Best time: 3.512 ms.
[Worker #1 Nov 26 13:30] Timing trial factoring of M35000011 with 61 bit length factors. Best time: 3.498 ms.
[Worker #1 Nov 26 13:30] Timing trial factoring of M35000011 with 62 bit length factors. Best time: 3.500 ms.
[Worker #1 Nov 26 13:30] Timing trial factoring of M35000011 with 63 bit length factors. Best time: 5.885 ms.
[Worker #1 Nov 26 13:30] Timing trial factoring of M35000011 with 64 bit length factors. Best time: 5.891 ms.
[Worker #1 Nov 26 13:30] Timing trial factoring of M35000011 with 65 bit length factors. Best time: 5.309 ms.
[Worker #1 Nov 26 13:30] Timing trial factoring of M35000011 with 66 bit length factors. Best time: 5.275 ms.
[Worker #1 Nov 26 13:30] Timing trial factoring of M35000011 with 67 bit length factors. Best time: 5.271 ms.
[Worker #1 Nov 26 13:30] Benchmark complete.
[Worker #1 Nov 26 13:30] Worker stopped.

Is there a way to get this without getting a host name? just accessing with a bare IP address?

Quote from jason68031 : Is there a way to get this without getting a host name? just accessing with a bare IP address?

The welcome email provides the IP address of your new VPS..


then you can do


ssh root@[new VPS ip from welcome email]


use the password set when configuring VPS


when configuring my vps I used the hostname and domain I will use when I finish building my server.

Quote : These guys recently got hacked and lost all their customers' data including mine. Luckily I had my own backup but I'd hate to have all any customers' personal data on there.

I was just about to say this was a good offer until I read this ... I guess you get what you pay for with $30 / year. There's more web hosting deals on Slickdeals just search

Quote from brickjenks100 : The welcome email provides the IP address of your new VPS.. then you can do ssh root@[new VPS ip from welcome email] use the password set when configuring VPS when configuring my vps I used the hostname and domain I will use when I finish building my server.

I mean when purchasing the vps, is it possible not to purchase/transfer a domain name?

Quote from jason68031 : I mean when purchasing the vps, is it possible not to purchase/transfer a domain name?

Usually you can put any domain in the " Use my own", I think usually the domain(unless you purchase or transfer" is used as a identifier in billing.

Quote from brickjenks100 : I will try to run a benchmark

Doesn't show the share though. So you could get awesome results now, but maybe only because no one else is using their share. What the other poster is trying to figure out is, how much cpu at once are you promised. If everyone is running a high cpu applications, who gets what? Say it's a 16GB server, at 2GB per user (assuming he/she doesn't oversell) you have 8 people sharing 16 cores. Now is it 4 cores dedicated to each user?, etc etc.

Quote from brickjenks100 : it is NOT dead... did you try the coupon? I was able to apply the coupon to the LA location..

I've been trying to use it since yesterday (using Chrome). Keeps saying that nothing in the cart applies to the code.

EDIT: figured it out, you have to choose 12months of service (full year)

Quote from jason68031 : I mean when purchasing the vps, is it possible not to purchase/transfer a domain name?

click
I will use my existing domain and update my nameservers




then you can put anything in those boxes (I have never done it a different way)

The links in the first post are incorrect because they will add a Xen virtual machine to your cart and those are not on the deal. It has to be OpenVZ. Instead go to the lowendbox link and use their links to for the deal. Note that OpenVZ VM's are less secure than Xen as far as VM separation on the host goes.

I got one to play with but honestly I'm not sure I would trust these guys. The default Debian install has all kinds of crazy stuff installed that you should never install by default because of security risks (samba, xinetd, bind, etc). I mean you can install that stuff yourself if you know what you are doing but it should never be in a default install.

OK, this one is just personal opinion but the default filesystem is farking reiserfs which is what unskilled admins that think they're some kind of awesome hacker use (versus XFS, ext, or some other stable and reliable fs).

Plus they got hacked. According to them it was a brute force. Whatever the reason they either had a security hole or weak primary admin password.

They seem to lack skill all the way around, hence my lack of trust. It's too bad because I get a really good ping to my core backend business systems from these guys but I just can't see trusting them with something like that. Probably a wasted $30.

Quote from junhao123 : I've been trying to use it since yesterday (using Chrome). Keeps saying that nothing in the cart applies to the code. EDIT: figured it out, you have to choose 12months of service (full year)

try Firefox IE and Chrome