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

Enterprise $30/year :):):)

• 2048MB Dedicated Ram
• 50GB Diskspace
• 2TB Bandwidth
• 100Mbps Port
• 1xIPv4 Address
• SolusVM/OpenVZ
• Promo Code: 2GBYR
• $30/year with promotion code
• Order in Los Angeles [chicagovps.net] | Chicago [chicagovps.net] | Buffalo [chicagovps.net]

http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/chicagovps-30year-2gb-openvz-vps-in-los-angeles-chicago-buffalo/

this shows as a recurring discount, If you know anything about VPS pricing this is a smoking deal at 1GB of memory

This post can and should be edited by users like you :)
 

UPDATE! As of 12/30 it appears ChicagoVPS has released stock in all locations and at the moment, I have tested the promo code and confirmed that the promo code works on all locations.

Caution - Chicagp VPS kernels are very outdated by 3 yrs at least - it concerns you for 1) security 2) patches 3) speed 4) upgrade paths

if you run a >uname - a command you will see their kernel is 3 yrs old without the latest security updates Kernel version# 2.6.32-042stab061 , this is an issue because your VPS shares the same host kernel which will prevent upgrades. It will fail some of the upgrades [askubuntu.com]


ChicagoVPS appears to offer free backups:

We support a central backup system. Everyone gets 1 free central backup to store a copy of their VPS at the time of creation.
Each additional backup is $5 per month. Please open a support ticket for additional backup's.
Backup's are provided as-is and are not gaurenteed.




$40/year with promo code "STEALOFADEAL"

Link to *special* $40 per year packages


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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.
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In case anyone else wants to upgrade from Ubuntu 11.10 to Ubuntu 12.04LTS on chicago vps, here is how I did it (64 bit). Everything seems to be working fine, so far

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EDIT* I found some options to CPanel - Please feel free to add, (optional any help inst- would be greatly appreciated.)
DirectAdmin
Webmin
Plesk - not free
ohh boy, what did I get myself into - help for novices like me [stevenkohlmeyer.com]
similar question [webhostingtalk.com], but not clear answers here

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In case anyone else is real noobish with VPS like I am, here's a real quick guide on how I setup my server:

If you're using Windows on your desktop, download Putty so you can SSH into your server:
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk...ham/putty/

You'll use the IP address in your account and the root login you defined when you purchased the VPS.


Then follow this guide to upgrade Ubuntu to 12.04 LTS through SSH:
http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-...-server-p2

For the most part, the guide follows 1-to-1 with the install. During the install, I had to tell it multiple times (like, 20) to follow the default action and leave some files. You'll know what I'm talking about when you see it.


Then follow this guide to install the cPanel alternative, Virtualmin:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1197883

Most of the guide you can skip. There's no need to edit your fqdn, IP address, or host name. On mine, this was all set when the OS was first installed. AppArmor wasn't installed by default, so I didn't have to remove it. So really, you can start on the following line:

"We are now going to download the free open source Virtualmin installation script."

After that, it's like 3 lines of code and you're installing like a boss!
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In the middle of this blog post is what you need: http://vjetnamnet.com/how-to-inst...-centos-6/
Look for the section with "Now we’re enabling ip forward and create NAT iptables rules so we can access the internet with OPENVPN server"

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Here is what I found on installing a GUI on the VPS server, it seems like the desktop GUI can be installed, I am noobie as well :bounce:
Install A GUI linky [webhostingneeds.com]
#Install GUI on Ubuntu VPS
#After u get new ubuntu vps, first run apt-get update

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

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

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

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.

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?

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.

you eventually need a server to actually host "coolstuff.com", which is what this would be for - they would likely give you a static IP address such as 12.34.56.78, and from there you could have a web server like apache running on their box 24/7 and backed up by them

Right, I understand what a VPS is, etc. I'm wondering what is the significance of the actual server name that I choose when signing up. It asks you the domain name (coolstuff.com), but then it asks you for a server name. That server name then shows up under your account. (chuk.coolstuff.com). What is the server name portion for?

Phenomenal deal - thanks!

Also, can you easily change your server type after the fact? (like from centos to ubuntu, etc)

Just checked their control panel - looks like you can re-install any OS at any time

Good deal for the 2GB of memory. Kinda lame they don't have Ubuntu 12.04/12.10 as an available OS.

*Edit: nvm, got in there!
Thanks

If you need the kind of reliability or advanced features that come with Linode, Rackspace or Amazon EC2 you are not in the market for $30 a year hosting.

I have used Chicago VPS for around a year. Besides the hacking incident, they are good for the money.

They Use an older OpenVZ kernel that doesn't support Ubuntu 12.04. Many budget VPS providers use the older OpenVZ kernel.

Don't try to upgrade to Ubuntu 12.04 without going through the steps listed here [askubuntu.com]

something similar happened to linode


http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/cloud-service-linode-hacked-bitcoin-accounts-emptied-030212

Also a static IP from your ISP is around $10 a month and they usually block port 25 for mail.

Thanks...got one to play around with. Already setup a remote crashplan server on it....

dead?

it is NOT dead... did you try the coupon?


I was able to apply the coupon to the LA location..

that's reassuring :p

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.

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).

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?

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 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 :)

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.

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.

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)

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.

try Firefox IE and Chrome

looks good. got mine for OpenVPN and SFTP use.

Agreed, samba in default install is madness.
Putting effort into patching reiser4, when ext4, btrfs, xfs, etc are already available is silly. I could understand patching ZFS for its features, but reiserfs has been basically dead for 4 years.

But then again would you trust a $30/yr VPS from some random guys whose datacenter you haven't seen in person, connected to your backend? Yikes.

I got an OpenVZ account with Debian x86-64, and it doesn't have samba/xinetd/bind installed. The only active network service is sshd.

I agree that I wouldn't trust them with any important/sensitive data though.

Interesting, I'm using the 32-bit install. Maybe just that one is tweaked weird. This type of lack of attention to detail doesn't make them look good at all in my book. :)

Those instructions didn't quite work for me - but their alternate libc packages did, installed manually.

In case anyone else wants to upgrade from Ubuntu 11.10 to Ubuntu 12.04LTS on chicago vps, here is how I did it (64 bit). Everything seems to be working fine, so far

#update and install update-manager-core
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
apt-get install update-manager-core
#install recompiled libc
mkdir updateOpenVZ
cd updateOpenVZ
wget https://launchpad.net/~izx/+archive/ovz-libc/+files/libc6_2.15-0ubuntu10%2Bopenvz0~oneiric_amd64.deb
wget https://launchpad.net/~izx/+archive/ovz-libc/+files/libc6-dbg_2.15-0ubuntu10%2Bopenvz0~oneiric_amd64.deb
wget https://launchpad.net/~izx/+archive/ovz-libc/+files/libc6-dev_2.15-0ubuntu10%2Bopenvz0~oneiric_amd64.deb
wget https://launchpad.net/~izx/+archive/ovz-libc/+files/libc6-i386_2.15-0ubuntu10%2Bopenvz0~oneiric_amd64.deb
wget https://launchpad.net/~izx/+archive/ovz-libc/+files/libc6-pic_2.15-0ubuntu10%2Bopenvz0~oneiric_amd64.deb
wget https://launchpad.net/~izx/+archive/ovz-libc/+files/libc6-prof_2.15-0ubuntu10%2Bopenvz0~oneiric_amd64.deb
wget https://launchpad.net/~izx/+archive/ovz-libc/+files/libc-bin_2.15-0ubuntu10%2Bopenvz0~oneiric_amd64.deb
wget https://launchpad.net/~izx/+archive/ovz-libc/+files/libc-dev-bin_2.15-0ubuntu10%2Bopenvz0~oneiric_amd64.deb
dpkg -i *

#change to precise repositories to fix broken dependencies
#to do this, change you /etc/apt/sources.list file to have the following 4 lines (you can use the command "nano /etc/apt/sources.list")
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise main restricted universe
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise-updates main restricted universe
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu precise partner

apt-get update && apt-get -f install
do-release-upgrade

@barret - This is Ubuntu upgrade is so helpful :worship:
Just curious, which other locations did others pick and what HW did you get, I tried LA, but got Chicago...

1. I have centOS, and dont know HW, what can I do to get HW info and change over to Ubuntu, and new users.
2. I have used Ubunut Desktop version before, I recently switched to Mint, will the Ubuntu server be just as friendly. I need to be able to admin the box easily, idiot proof it and not leave any open access :D.

1. Are there any free/cheap alternatives to Cpanel that are easy for a novice (I can cd dir, chmod permissions), but that's the limit.
2. Is it possible to use scriptaculous on this for 1 click installs
3. I want to run some PHP open sources like Joomla or W P
4. I also want to install Mono
5. What are some of the other apps/ways people typically use the box? I bought it on a whim

Besides Putty, is there another GUI / RDP /RemoteDesktop way to manage/connect, any recommendations, Any Cpanel coupons, maybe we could collectively bargain like groupon :)

EDIT* I found some options to CPanel - Please feel free to add, (optional any help inst- would be greatly appreciated.)

DirectAdmin
Webmin
Plesk - not free
ohh boy, what did I get myself into - help for novices like me [stevenkohlmeyer.com] :D
similar question [webhostingtalk.com], but not clear answers here

I've been with them before and had a terrific experience. This is a steal of a deal.

well, think about it...

X3450 supports 32GB ram max [intel.com]. It's a 4 core with hyperthreading (8 threads) at 2.66-3.2ghz

with no overselling, 32GB / 2 = 16 people (well 15, if you have to count hypervisor overhead)

obviously with overselling at 50% (doable with swap/SSD), maybe 32 people... you get half a thread at best?



ChicagoVPS might get those as working pulls from off-lease... ebay sells them for $600-$1000 (search ebay for Dell Poweredge R210 / x3450)

$30 * 32 people = $960 for a year...
minus networking costs, power costs, maintenance, location costs (google colocation... maybe $40/month)... so $960-$40*12 = $500

standard 3 year depreciation rate - $500 * 3 = $1500 < cost of the server on ebay

could be doable

Can anyone point me to some info on how to use this?
I can't seem to login using Putty.

I just need to find a way to get to the damned hard drive to upload files. I already managed to forward my nameservers, but that is as far as I got.

Is there a way to just login using filezilla?

I think the deal has ended. The promocode won't replicate anymore :(

I only bought one; should have bought more. I have several friends that didn't get one on time...

is there some special way to get this started? for status, mine says offline and i ordered at like 2

I was trying to order but as it gave a 'recurring discount' for ~$224/yr, it wouldn't apply to any sort of server configuration. Dead?

Edit: Seemed to work fine for LA but not Chitown

Edit2: Mine shows up with 4 instances of a

I ordered the package, but having some basic problems. Anyone familiar with their system want to PM me to answer a few basic questions? I'm having trouble just ssh'ing into the system (password is correct but nothing happens after logging in).

Thanks!

You login with root as username and then you type in your password (which is correct?) and then what happens?

They allow adult hosting? IRC, etc.

Don't use this for anything you want to count on being up.

They allow adult hosting? IRC, etc.

Don't use this for anything you want to count on being up.

Can anyone tell me how to install a red5 server on this?

Do I need to change the OS? If so, how?

In for 1. Good price for what they are giving!

WARNING

I have dealt with this company before during promos like this. Although it said my VPS would be available immediately, it took over 5 days. For me that mattered, I ordered it because I needed it now. The guy who runs the place (Chris) was a HUGE pain to deal with.

Took them to the BBB, took him weeks to respond.

Buyer beware.

Got 1, thanks!

For $30, I'm not expecting much, but so far I'm happy. I signed up last night, and it was ready immediately.

How do you get this discount to apply? This cart software is terrible. It looks like its applied, but the final price does not update. I have tried monthly and yearly.

I never completed the process because the price never changes, but now my hostname is "in use". I love shitty ecommerce software.

Can I install WIndows Server on this VPS?

nope.

How is their uptime? Do they actually meet the 99.9% uptime they claim?

Make sure you use the right link in the OP, and that you specifically chose 12 months of service in the drop down. It should take.

No.

Any of you guys using this for VPN with OpenVPN?

I have another UK VPS for watching UK BBC TV shows using iPlayer . I can watch them after getting a SSH tunnel via Putty.

I configured OpenVPN on it and setup OpenVPN on my Win 8 desktop. VPN seems to connect fine but then I cannot go to any Internet sites after connected in Win 8.

Has anyone got OpenVPN to work in Win 8?

FYI I am using 32 bit OpenVPN now since 64 bit was crashing as soon as it opened in Win 8.

In case anyone else is real noobish with VPS like I am, here's a real quick guide on how I setup my server:

If you're using Windows on your desktop, download Putty so you can SSH into your server:
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk...ham/putty/

You'll use the IP address in your account and the root login you defined when you purchased the VPS.


Then follow this guide to upgrade Ubuntu to 12.04 LTS through SSH:
http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-...-server-p2

For the most part, the guide follows 1-to-1 with the install. During the install, I had to tell it multiple times (like, 20) to follow the default action and leave some files. You'll know what I'm talking about when you see it.


Then follow this guide to install the cPanel alternative, Virtualmin:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1197883

Most of the guide you can skip. There's no need to edit your fqdn, IP address, or host name. On mine, this was all set when the OS was first installed. AppArmor wasn't installed by default, so I didn't have to remove it. So really, you can start on the following line:

"We are now going to download the free open source Virtualmin installation script."

After that, it's like 3 lines of code and you're installing like a boss!

https://www.google.com/webhp?sour...80&bih=925

Not seeing very many positive reviews on this place. Just because someone releases a very cheap deal doesn't mean it's worth it. This company isn't established and cannot find much history on them other then a couple negative reviews on quality of servers and support. Not buying.

Have you configured iptables to route traffic through the tunnel? This might not be a Win 8 issue, and more of a routing configuration issue on the VPS

Hmm..not done this yet. Still learning...Thanks I look into this next.

Chicago node doesn't take the coupon anymore. Only Buffalo and LA.

In the middle of this blog post is what you need: http://vjetnamnet.com/how-to-inst...-centos-6/

Look for the section with "Now we’re enabling ip forward and create NAT iptables rules so we can access the internet with OPENVPN server"

any tutorials for getting a graphical desktop environment and remote desktop installed?

Minecraft server?

This was because you were being unreasonable :) I explained over and over what was happening and you were the most difficult person I have ever delt with.

I ordered this, and it was up and running in minutes. Been great so far, but it has only been a day. Can't beat it for the price.

John

Thanks will give it a try!

Is there a link on the site for the info to forward nameservers to this provider?

I signed up, got the VPS and IP and control panel. As far as I know theres no nameserver provided, just an IP address, so you will need to have a dns service (godaddy etc provide them) or set it up on the server itself by sshing into it via the IP.

Please open a ticket and you can utilize our name servers if you would like.

ns1.chicagovps.net, ns2.chicagovps,net and ns3.chicagovps.net

The promo code does not seem to work. Is this dead?

::edit::

It seems LA and Buffalo work, but I cannot order one in Chicago

Los Angeles server worked for me with annual. Promo still seems to be alive. Others have mentioned that Chicago is dead.

Chris, since you're here... care to answer about upgrades later? If I would like to switch from, say, CentOS to Ubuntu. Or if I can add WHM/cpanel?

Took a while for the IP to show up. So now I will update the Godaddy hosting information.

Thanks

I've put too much time into dealing with your nonsense. You were not able to fulfill the service that your website claimed in the time you claimed. It's as simple at that.

If I started with Ubuntu, can I re-install another distro later? Is it hard?
Thanks!

I honestly can't answer that question. I was so unhappy with my dealings with Chris and the fact that my VPS wasn't ready within 3 days that I just switched to ChunkHost. A bit more expensive, but worth it for the service.

So, were you punishing him? Not necessarily a bad thing, sometimes I do that with my PITA customers ;)

I tested OS reinstall. It's super easy to install a different OS (switched to Debian x64). Do it from your manage.chicagovps.net console, bottom pane, under "General" tab.

Hey, I have just bought one.

How do I tell if mine is active?

Please help...

http://stats.pingdom.com/jzrszp4wfu79
Looking at uptime numbers. Doesn't look too good.

How do I know if my account and service is active?
I didn't receive any ip for loggin??

You should have gotten an email with your root password, server IP address, and links to various management consoles.

Check your spam folder?

Did you get an email with a receipt?

Doesn't look spectacularly terrible to me, but I'd want a history going back a couple months. Most of those are showing one 3-5m downtime over the last week... not something I'd be too scared of at this price-point.

I wouldn't put any real business sites up on this VPS, though. For me, though... I have a dozen or so sites that need hosting but don't need better than 99.5%. I use Google Apps for everything, so as long as the nameserver is working my emails and docs continue to go through. The sites are for my nonprofit, photography hobby, etc.

I pay almost the same price for an incredible deal with a good shared hosting provider, but I'd rather have root and be able to manage my own server.

FWIW, my server is currently quite snappy. Wget of a test file on a rack in Netherlands was 14 MB/s, latency in the So. Cal area around 20ms. Apt-get was fast and smooth and I probably had Apache up within 10m of placing my order.

I received four emails. I could login https://billing.chicagovps.net
But I have problem log into the "My VSP CP" tab in the browser?
is my user name supposed to be email address for root access?

Thank you!

No. The username should be in your email... mine is in the format of cvps_#### where #### is four digits.

Look under something that should look like this:
Manage Access
=============================


If you're having trouble finding it, I'd at least attempt to ssh into your server.

You can reinstall the VPS at anytime via the control panel same goes with adding on cPanel

Seems to be ivy bridge based servers in the mix as well, pretty impressive for the price. Hopefully they don't crash and burn next month.

I explained you happened to order at a bad time, and were provisioning new nodes. The fact you were that impatient and were not able to comprehend it is beyond me. I offered a free week for your wait, and you still denied it.

Im not here to fight, we both moved on and doing just fine without each other. I gave you your refund, so there is no reason to tell people not to deal with us when what your saying is unjust and untrue and can be considered slander.

Well, I guess they haven't set it up. I don't have that email.
My status seems to be stuck in pending...

Thanks for your help!

Please help to setup mine.
Thanks!

You have to realize, most of the servers the have seen downtime are not in production and being used for testing or upgrading hardware. This is why I do not like pingdom because from your point of view things may not look good, but on the other hand its nice to see.

We offer SLA credits ( which rarely need to be enforced )

Great deal, will make a good gateway for my local cluster that keeps growing each time there is a FAR deal on mobos on SD.

I would like to complain about the time it took to setup my server though. Several microseconds passed before the emails showed up in my inbox. I guess you're going to blame Google (my mail provider).

looks like ubunchu 12.04 is available on buffalo and LA now.

pretty sweet deal. we'll see how it holds up.

Chicago and LA are both sold out. Buffalo is the only location with some room left!

Terrible refund policy. Better hope you don't have issues. 48 Hours before my cancel request was replied to, before finally being told NO refunds, or pay $25 to get a refund.

I had Chicago location, very poor performance, decide to cancel within 24hrs of buying. ANY business would offer a %100, or close to it, refund. These people? NOPE. Time for a chargeback.

Better read some reviews on lowendbox.com, lots of problems.

That is an absolute lie. Even when I filed the BBB complaint you wouldn't refund me.

That is fairly common in this industry, you should read the terms of service before placing an order. Chicago VPS has always been a budget provider.

Anyone having trouble starting their VPS? I click Boot, the page refreshes with a confirmation message at the top and my virtual server is still offline...

I don't know what everyone is complaining about performance wise. I'm getting pretty good benchmarks from phoronix-test-suite on the disk test - ubuntu 12.04.1

Been running good for the last 2 months on them. Didn't read this whole thread but they had a HUGE crash and burn last month with total data loss and 24hr+ of down time. When I inquired about a partial refund/month credit, etc was told tough.

Does anyone know what "node" represents in this case, single server, server rack, or something else?

I'm unable to connect to my server via SSH/Putty. :/
The server is online and I've tried restarting it a few times.

"Network Error: Connection timed out."
can't ping the server either.

edit: submitted a support ticket and had the issue fixed

They set my box up quickly, no problems so far. Excited!

I also had a horrible experience with them trying to get a refund.

The ToS you AGREED to, specifically states we do not offer it and is on case to case basis. We offer credits no refund unless there is a problem with the server itself.

Also before you go off on a rant how you waited for your VPS' to be setup for days, in the ToS is also specifically states we have up to 5 business days to deliver the product in case a situation like yours happens.

Im not here to screw anyone, so please get it out of your head and move on.

deal dead? seems like I keep seeing a
Total Due Today: $254.49 USD
price for annually even when code is applied. and code error:
The promotion code you entered has been applied to your cart but no items qualify for the discount yet - please check the promotion terms


*Edit* finally got it working on buffalo's. The rest would error out.
I reinstalled mine to ubuntu 12.04 (that's what I run on my ovh dedi)

When I registered I randomly put in hostname and domain name... would that affect anything later on? I dont actually own any domains yet

I have no skin in this game, but you are absolutely not helping your company's reputation by being confrontational on a public forum.

This may be cheap but the bandwidth speed for the node is lacking. Good for a dev site but if you have any site with any modest amount of visitors they would be seeing it at dial-up speeds.

Dang, wish they still had some for Chicago. I've always wanted to mess around with a VPS, but the price always kept me from experimentation. Oh well, guess I'll have to continue using localhost as my dev machine a little while longer! Slick as heck price though.

Just saw the Buffalo VPS still had slots for this deal, went ahead and signed up for it even though I'm in the Chicago area since the speed isn't going to make a difference with one person toying around with it for development.

Super deal for a year of fun and games. Nothing like $48.25 / year for a VPS, domain, and private registration (assuming that's what ID protection is to these guys)

BTW, Hotmail classified the e-mails from chicagovps as Junk if anyone goes for this and can't find their confirmation e-mails.

Hi All,

Kevin with ChicagoVPS here. I just wanted to clarify that the $30/Year special is now only available in our Buffalo datacenter. We sold out very quickly in Los Angeles and Chicago, and this wouldn't be possible without our loyal customers. We appreciate you very much.

Nope, that's perfectly fine ;)

You can change your hostname at anytime in our Manage Control Panel.

Hi Mrjminer,

Welcome to ChicagoVPS! The emails from our server definitely shouldn't be marked as spam by Hotmail, have you set a reverse DNS record for your IP? Feel free to contact our support department so we can further diagnose this.

We look forward to hosting you for many years to come.

Hi Bioflare,

This is definitely not normal, our servers are connected to multi-homed networks and each VPS is allocated a 100Mbps port.

Can you please contact our support team at support@chicagovps.net so we can investigate the speed issue you may be witnessing?

Thanks,

Kevin

So far I tested it against my OVH 1gbit... it at least up and down @ about 11mb/s and 7mb/s respectively. Not bad for a little VPS in buffalo to France. I do notice the speeds are erratic though. Seems to have inconsistent load time for the website i put on it.

Is that mbytes or mbits you mean? I assume it's the former, or roughly the speed of the port.

Tested incoming bandwidth:

------
brandon@la:~$ wget http://speedtest.wdc01.softlayer....test10.zip
--2012-11-30 09:42:00-- http://speedtest.wdc01.softlayer....s/test10.z
ip
Resolving speedtest.wdc01.softlayer.com (speedtest.wdc01.softlayer.com)... 208.4
3.102.250
Connecting to speedtest.wdc01.softlayer.com (speedtest.wdc01.softlayer.com)|208.
43.102.250|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 11536384 (11M) [application/zip]
Saving to: `test10.zip'

100%[======================================>] 11,536,384 4.55M/s in 2.4s

2012-11-30 09:42:02 (4.55 MB/s) - `test10.zip' saved [11536384/11536384]

brandon@la:~$ wget http://speedtest.wdc01.softlayer....est100.zip
--2012-11-30 09:42:07-- http://speedtest.wdc01.softlayer....ds/test100.
zip
Resolving speedtest.wdc01.softlayer.com (speedtest.wdc01.softlayer.com)... 208.4
3.102.250
Connecting to speedtest.wdc01.softlayer.com (speedtest.wdc01.softlayer.com)|208.
43.102.250|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 104874307 (100M) [application/zip]
Saving to: `test100.zip'

100%[======================================>] 104,874,307 22.6M/s in 6.7s

2012-11-30 09:42:14 (14.9 MB/s) - `test100.zip' saved [104874307/104874307]

brandon@la:~$ wget http://speedtest.wdc01.softlayer....est500.zip
--2012-11-30 09:42:19-- http://speedtest.wdc01.softlayer....ds/test500.
zip
Resolving speedtest.wdc01.softlayer.com (speedtest.wdc01.softlayer.com)... 208.4
3.102.250
Connecting to speedtest.wdc01.softlayer.com (speedtest.wdc01.softlayer.com)|208.
43.102.250|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 524288000 (500M) [application/zip]
Saving to: `test500.zip'

100%[======================================>] 524,288,000 22.0M/s in 25s

2012-11-30 09:42:44 (19.9 MB/s) - `test500.zip' saved [524288000/524288000]
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Consistent 22MB/s, thank you ChicagoVPS!

The way you state it... "each VPS is allocated a 100Mbps port" sounds like dedicated but that is not possible xD.

@Crix, you definitely can't be on the same plan as those transfer speeds are only possible on a 1Gbps port. 100Mbps port max out at 12.2MB/s.

Anyways the speed has picked up slightly, it must have been all the new orders running benchmark scripts. I use your vps's for dev so speed doesn't really matter. You guys need to fix your LET reputation though, its half good praise half horror stories.

Can anybody comment on what ports are blocked on this server? Is this actual VPS / root / not firewalled? Wish I could give it a test drive to see if the server will work for my purposes...

From what I can tell, it's an actual VPS. I have real root and haven't seen any firewalls or ports blocked.

If you give me some test code you want run I'll do it, or check whatever ports you're interested in. That said, not sure if anything is still available? Buffalo?

I honestly dont know anything about this stuff, if I want to host a small website, which OS do I select when ordering? Best options?

This isn't for you... and neither is any other VPS. Start out with affordable shared hosting. If you want to PM me about what you want to do with the website, I can help you out with that.

This deal is for an unmanaged VPS. Unmanaged means the customer has to manage his own software, install and configure everything, maintain security, etc. If you're good with linux before but have never done any sort of web development, expect to spend at least a full week getting the setup to work well. And even then... it'll be insecure and need regular maintenance.

well ive wanted to mess around with linux for a while now, so ill look for some good basic tutorials with some stuff to configure :)

ty for the answer!

Ahh, sorry, I thought you were just looking for cheap hosting :) ... if you want to give it a go... CentOS is probably the most common in the web community, although many use Debian. I run Debian 6 64-bit.

You can use VirtualMin [virtualmin.com] and Webmin, Kloxo, or a similar control panel. Fun thing about a VPS is that you can mess around all you want, break things, and have the image reinstalled in 1 minute :)

I'll respond in PM and link to some guides, although it does depend a bit on what you intend to do. If it's just one site and you don't need anyone else to have access, I'd do everything manually just to go through the learning process.

well, cheap hosting can never hurt, give me some info and ill check it out.

is it possible to change my installed OS? to whatever might be easiest to use.

@thedukey3, I am in the same boat as you, i.e. a noob, no way an admin level or otherwise. For something like a simple website with Wordpress, this is overkill and Kickstand maybe right.

But for other kinds of websites, there are some scenarios where both linux/windows and shared hosting doesn't work/give you access for websites that use for e.g. 1) noSql 2)NodeJs and some of the newer technologies.

I am trying Neo4j, NodeJs and RavenDB, the regular shared hosting don't know where to start (or lock you down for ports or installs), so I plan to install a database like this for my backend to tryout. If anyone can share some insight on how to set this up for backend data repository, like I am trying and use REST to access it, it would be great. :)

I'd agree if you need something other than a standard LAMP stack you should look at VPS or better, but... I think by simply mentioning nosql you prove to not be a complete newb :). Actually, sounds like you either are or will be fairly advanced if you're looking to use NodeJs or similar. But I think we're in agreement for the most part.

I'll try to clarify my advice... if you're running standard stuff (like WordPress, Drupal, phpBB, SMF) for a small website/blog/forum, shared hosting is fine (and a VPS is probably overkill). If you need something other than SQL databases, the ability to install your own php extensions and various modules, or high levels of dedicated resources, you'll likely need something else.

I'm not that great with databases, but I feel obligated to point out... for most applications, you'll take a massive performance hit having your database on another system, let alone a different provider. Even with 10-20ms latency between servers, you can bring a lot of applications to a crawl. Depends on your setup and queries and plenty of other things, but yeah... give it some consideration as you proceed if you're looking to use the VPS to host just the database.

Super easy :) just go to the VPS Control Panel and have it install a new OS. Naturally, you'll have to reconfigure things... so it's not that easy once you've got a live site that needs to stay live

Has anyone managed to get a IPsec/L2TP VPN server up and running? I've been trying all day on various different OS platforms, but they all seem to be based off of the same kernel:2.6.18-308.el5.028stab099.3
which doesn't seem to have NETKEY support.

Anyone else find it strange that the Ubuntu builds are based off of a Centos Kernel?

I've been running a Counter Strike:GO off one of their servers since August, it's been running great.

Their virtualization platform is OpenVZ which is based on a modified Linux 2.6 kernel. The guest OSes use the same kernel as the host. Wikipedia is your friend. If you have needs for a specific kernel, the package on this offer is not for you.

Try out Amazon EC2 for a year!

That is correct, OpenVZ is very efficient, its containers share the same kernel as the host which means less overhead = better performance :)

While Amazon EC2 may be free for a year, they have a higher virtualization overhead and offer very little resources compared to our offer, and to my knowledge the bandwidth is very limited (just 15GB per month) and they charge a ridiculous amount of money on overages.

If you require the ability to run your own kernel (most people shouldn't), we do offer XEN VPS's on our website which support this.

Thanks for the interest,

Kevin

Yep, better performance but less flexibility. But this deal is not for Xen, it's for OpenVZ. That's what I was trying to point out.

I have, so far, been happy with the servers, I have 2 of them now. Not really using them for much though.

One thing I will note, the Chicago server is VERY slow compared to the Buffalo server. Not sure if it is the node I am on or what, but it is VERY slow.

John

Hi John,

Glad to hear that you are happy with our services!

We are happy to look into the speed issue you are witnessing with your Chicago server, can you please submit a support ticket or email support@chicagovps.net so either myself or a technician will get this sorted out straight away for you? This definitely doesn't sound normal and I'm not seeing anything abnormal in our monitoring systems, nor have we received reports from other customers regarding slow performance.

Definitely get in touch with us and we'll look into it right away.

Thanks for choosing ChicagoVPS, its a pleasure to have you with us.

Kevin

No ports are blocked, you will receive full root/administrator access to your VPS.

Yes, it's an actual VPS with full root access, no firewalls by default and we do not block any ports. If you wish to block ports you can always configure a firewall such as CSF or just by adding a few iptables rules, but by default we do not block anything.

This offer is still available in Buffalo

- Chris

Anyone know of a cancellation/refund policy? What if I don't like it after the first month and want to cancel? Do I still lose the remaining amount? Or do I get a prorated refund?

Any chance either of you can tell me if there are PRORATED refunds for cancellations? Thank you in advanced. I really want to try out your service, and don't mind paying for what I use. I'll keep it if I'm happy, but would like to have the ability to cancel for a prorated refund if it doesn't turn out to be what's right for me. I've had extensive history with shared/reseller hosting, and even VPS hosting. However, never tried unmanaged VPS hosting before, which is why I'm a little hesitant.

My server has been offline I have tried to boot, reboot and submitted tickets no response. I am wondering how to get it online...

We offer refunds on a case by case basis. If we are at fault and you are not satisfied with our services, we have no problem in issueing a refund as long as its for a legitimate/genuine reason.

Sorry about any inconvenience this may have caused! This does not sound like us, and I would be happy to look into this for you personally.

What is your ticket ID? I am not seeing any server down tickets awaiting reply right now in our support queue.

Thanks,

Kevin

Thank you for getting back to me. Sounds fair enough. I've gone ahead and placed an order. Look forward to trying it out!

Welcome aboard! We appreciate the opportunity you have given us, and look forward to hosting you for many years to come!

If you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact us, we are available 24x7 at support@chicagovps.net

Thanks,

Kevin

Sent you a PM

Hi Xmlguy,

I have checked multiple times, but I did not receive a PM from you. Please re-send it.

Thanks,

Kevin

Quick initial impression about their services is positive so far. Setup was almost immediate. Submitted a support ticket and got an answer within a few minutes. Don't have time to actually play with the VPS right now, but looking forward to it all!

Glad to hear! An amazing feature about ChicagoVPS is that we have automated our infrastructure, which means that setup process is instant, you will receive your VPS login details in under a minute after you have completed your order, so there is absolutely no waiting around ;)

Thanks for choosing ChicagoVPS, and as always we are happy to help if you have any questions! Have a great weekend.

Wow, what a great deal! I'm currently paying Linode $80/month for a 2GB RAM VPS and it's only $30/year which comes down to about 2-3 bucks a month here. :drool: I'm definitely interested, but I need to head off to work in a few minutes and don't have time to read the 11 pages of replies here.

Just need someone to tell me if this deal is still available/valid?

Regards!

Offer is still good for the Buffalo location.

Anyone has instructions to setup one as vpn?
anyone using as DNS?

I think we only get 1 IP so I'm hosting my DNS else where and just setting up records to point back to it.

I'll definitely get a VPN setup sometime, just don't have time to figure out how yet.

I'm looking to use this as a VPN as well and have tried a ton of different guides to get it installed with pptpd or openswan, all with no luck. I have PPP and Tun/Tap enabled from the control panel. Is there something else that needs to be enabled through a support ticket for VPN, or can someone point me to a guide or script that will work with this specific VPS? I don't have a preference on operating systems, but have been trying with ubuntu 12.04 x86_64. The ability to connect to the VPN with my iPhone while traveling is what I really need.

Yep, this offer is still available in Buffalo but will likely be sold out soon until we get our next batch of servers.

Here's a direct order link just so you don't have to go pages back to find it:

https://billing.chicagovps.net/ca...add&pid=66

Select the 12 month billing cycle option and use promo code 2GBYR when checking out to receive this VPS for just $30/Year!

Let us know if you have any additional questions :)

Is TUN/TAP enabled for your VPS? You can enable this in Manage. We have many clients running OpenVPN successfully on our VPS's, but TUN/TAP has to be enabled. It takes just a few clicks to enable in our VPS control panel :cool:

Thanks,

Kevin

I do have Tun/Tap and PPP enabled on the control panel, but I'm new to Linux, so the only thing I have to help me with the setup are various guides and scripts that I've found online. I guess I just haven't found the right one yet!

If you get it working, please post here since I plan on doing that too!

Ordering now, thank you for the awesome offer and sorry for the delay I was at the office working on a project for work.

Back home for the evening.

No problem, we appreciate the opportunity to be working with you. If you have any questions or face any problems when ordering don't hesitate to let us know!

Thanks,

Kevin

X2.

More than anything it seems to prove the guy's point. I think I'll pass on paying to be abused not to mention the no refund policy. Kind of says "We know you're likely to be unhappy."

There is some kind of a refund policy:

All ordered in buffalo as of about 30 minutes ago. Got my VPS login details instantly, seems pretty snappy. Will be moving my websites on here.

Thanks Kevin!

Try OpenVPN. I haven't tried it yet, but will attempt this coming weekend:
https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/ser...envpn.html
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OpenVPN

thanks. i might also setup a dns just for fun :P and we'll see what else. i guess i can also use this to access my home files throurg the vpn somehow..

I haven't used OpenVPN for routing/bridging/traffic forwarding, but OpenVPN *does* work on my VPS with TUP enabled through the control panel (enabling reboots your server).

Depending on your purposes for OpenVPN, you may not need to bother with VPN. If you're looking to traffic forward so you can browse from open wifi... why not use something like:
ssh -D8008 -t example.com

Then you configure your machine to use your server (actually 127.0.0.1) as a SOCKS proxy and... done! Worked for me in just a couple minutes.

The DNS offerings are insufficient for me. DNS was showing slow performance from several countries, and the interface doesn't seem to support the "_" character needed in many configurations, including Google Apps and Amazon Web Services. That said, for $30/year I don't really care. I can use DNS elsewhere.

Links: http://dltj.org/article/ssh-as-socks-proxy/
http://rudygems.com/post/56978731...our-friend

Welcome to ChicagoVPS! We still have limited stock available in Buffalo for this special.

Kevin

I posted earlier in this thread, and just wanted to update.

Speeds in Chicago are slower than Buffalo for me, but, much faster originally thought. I used only a couple of websites to test speeds, others are much faster, although not as fast as I would like, but very fair for the price.

Buffalo speed tests are much faster than I thought I would get... like 18M/s speeds (faster than 100mbit.)

My Chicago VPS had a couple of issues early on. My experience with support, thus far, has been stellar. Replies within minutes each and every time. In fact, I sent a ticket to billing at nearly 1am (I am a night bird sometimes) and received a reply within 15minutes!

It doesn't seem like a huge company as many of the people I have dealt with have been the same, but I prefer this as the support and responses are more personal.

I now have 3 VPS's with them. I also have many VPS's with other venders, and may consider switching some to ChicagoVPS (I like redundancy,) if the service and support stay consistent.

A few things I would like to see changed:

More than 1 IP address.
For most applications (SSL, DNS, and so on) more than 1 IP address is required.

A better deal on CPanel
Cpanel is a wonderful tool that allows for quicker changes (although you should be able to do most tasks command line, this makes it easier.) Although $15 isn't a bad deal, another low cost provider that I use, charges $10 for the license.

A bit more disk space.
Obviously for this price this is an insane deal, but maybe an option to get more than 50gb would be nice.


All in all, these are the cheapest VPS servers I have by far, and I haven't been disappointed yet. I have read good things about ChicagoVPS and bad, I am hoping to stay in the former category.

Good luck to all,

John

+1 for Chicagovps, I signed up with them yesterday, and support is really fast and on the dot. Sent in a total of 2 support tickets as I had some quick questions, and one of the ticket I sent in was at 4 AM in the morning (generally I'm @ the night to morning shift at work), got a reply in exactly 7 minutes.

I then sent in another one asking a quick question asking about additional IPs this afternoon, got a reply in 11 minutes. Not too shabby! :) And as for the VPS itself it has been nothing short of great so far. Heh, to be honest it has better disk and network performance compared to my Linode VPS I'm paying $80 per month for!

Thanks for the kind words! Just a heads up John we do offer additional IP addresses for a small fee if one is not enough. Feel free to contact us for more information.

Hope everyone here had an awesome weekend :)

Hi, I've a similar DNS question, I am trying to point 2x domain's (e.g. coolstuff.com hotstuff.com) and all sub domains (except mail) of that domain to this vps server

In my registrar account (say goDaddy), for the @ record,

1. In the Chicago VPS management panel, for the host name entry do I put in the fully qualified domain name, i.e www.coolstuff.com or just coolstuff.com. Do, I need to do anything else here
2. back in my registrar account, what IP do I put in the @ record - do I put in the my VPS servers static IP address or, do I put in the ns1.chicagovps.net nameserver
3. How will the Chicago DNS know the IP of my server I am asking because I thought the name server does this

:nod:

I have created a new ticket again and emailed again, but my server is still offline ~4th week now!!! :mad: they need to prorate my account. I would like to cancel this account (and possibly start fresh open another one in LA or Buffalo).

The management panel has been very slow, any changes or web page refresh/'s take very long.

If you don't understand the basics of DNS, this may not have been the wisest purchase for you. Point the A record for the "@" sign to the IP of your VPS. That should get it working for you.

Of course, you'll need to setup your VPS to have an actual accessible server though.

Thanks for the response, I need to start somewhere.

When does the ChicagoVPS DNS come into the picture, or does it not, since I am using goDaddy's DNS setting

Can I point both domains to the same IP on my box?

It sounds like they have their own DNS hosting service. It wouldn't be useful since you're using another one already.

Great, thanks for the reply. That answers it.
Will Apache/Tomcat auto route the call that comes into the server to serve up the request.

got one.. just cause $30 is nothing for a server like this

do you know how much will it be for the 2nd year, 3rd year and so on?

the deal stated it is perpetual so im expecting 30$'s

Thats what I saw too, so I signed up :nod:

Can i transfer to LA from Buffalo, when you have more LA slots?

Ordered on the 9th. Still waiting on the vps.

Contacted support who responded on the 10th but haven't heard from them since.

Live support link on the home page redirects to a contact form.
Contact form redirects to my gmail.

I guess this is dead.

Looks dead to me -- I just tried to sign up:

The promotion code you entered has been applied to your cart but no items qualify for the discount yet - please check the promotion terms

what location did you order?


a friend bought Buffalo this morning. It is working there only.

Buffalo.

Damn! No wonder why they started this sale. Luckily I saw your comment.

I agree about that. That is why I am just using it for a PPTP server. And maybe as a toybox to do some Linux work on.

Yes our servers do support Apache/Tomcat.

Welcome aboard!
$30/Year pricing is locked in for life, it will never increase! :)

Mike,

We delivered your VPS over a few days ago, and support has always responded to you within a matter of minutes. However you keep emailing us acting like we never responded to you, this makes me believe that your mail server is somehow not receiving emails from us, please check your spam folder or log into the client area and view the ticket yourself... we even tried to CALL you (no answer) and re-sent your VPS login details multiple times.

This offer is only available in Buffalo at this time, sold out in Los Angeles/Chicago.

Sweet -- I originally tried chicago then LA and then Buffalo and none of them worked. There must've been some glitch because I just clicked through for Buffalo and it went through with no issues.

For $30/year ($2.50 a month), I can hardly justify *not* getting it. Thanks for the slick deal!!

been trying for weeks, but it still NOT working for me.

Yep, we're sold out in Chicago/LA, only Buffalo is available. Thanks for choosing us!

This offer is currently only available in Buffalo as we sold out in Los Angeles & Chicago, let me know if you experience any further problems as I'd be more than happy to help out.

Thanks,

Kevin

Hey Kev, out of curiosity....
what if i ran rtorrent?
Not saying I am... right now it's being used as a webserver.

Thanks.

can i move to Los Angeles from Buffalo when more slots are free there?