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04-22-2012, 05:08 AM #1Newbie
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Looking for Cheapest VPS hosting.
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Hi to WHT:
I am new to webhosting & VPS thing. I just want to get kick starting with VPS. I want cheapest VPS in whole internet. I don't care about hardware. I only need Handson experience.
I am looking for something from 10-15$ per year. So far with google I have found Below listed VPS hosting service. I want you guys to post honest feedback.
- FastVPS
- Hostitek
- 123Systems
All are below or equal to 15$ per year.
Any help would be appreciate. I am sorry I have to switch to cheapest available because I don't want to mess up my investment.
Thanks
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04-22-2012, 05:52 AM #2Chief Executive Officer
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hello kiano and welcome to WHT.
I just want to know if you have any experience with VPS and with Linux at all. As far as i can understand you will get a linux based vps cause of your low budget. If you want to host something like a website it will be better to get a cheap web hosting package with a control panel like cpanel, plesk that will help you manage your website.
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04-22-2012, 06:01 AM #3Web Hosting Master
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in that price range and as it's only for experience have a look over at http://www.lowendbox.com/ for the cheapest of the cheap.
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04-23-2012, 02:04 AM #4Newbie
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04-23-2012, 02:17 AM #5Web Host Reviewer
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123Systems is good.
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04-23-2012, 02:37 AM #6Web Hosting Master
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Be aware that $10-$15 a year vps systems will almost consistently have 128mb ram, more rarely 256, never more that I've seen. This pretty well limits the things you can test on it.
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04-23-2012, 03:18 AM #7WHT Addict
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I'm using Hostitek and 123systems for 11-12 months. (For that price) i have nothing to complain.
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04-23-2012, 03:47 AM #8Web Hosting Master
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That's a joke right? $15.00 a whole year...
So you want a vps just to run pings to google.com and execute some clear screens
If you don't have budget don't go with a vps, what you will get will not work right.
Create a virtual machine in your pc or mac with VirtualBox (free) or VMware (Free), and install a centos 5 or 6 iso (Free).
That will actually be BETTER! You will not waste 15 dollar and you will get a full vps , yeah a vps = virtual machine ...
Hey is just for experience right! ?
Otherwise:
Get managed if you don't have any experience, what if you break it? ! ! !
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04-23-2012, 04:14 AM #9Total Nerd
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04-23-2012, 04:19 AM #10Web Hosting Master
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04-23-2012, 04:32 AM #11Disabled
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Yes, it sure will.
Joe is right, with optimization there is much you can do with a VPS, 64MB you will need optimization, but 128MB is plenty for a website or two with PHP and SQL, and a couple other things.
Lowendbox has an EXCELLENT 64MB VPS optimization post that I recommend you check out.
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04-23-2012, 04:37 AM #12Web Hosting Master
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So you want a user that is new to vps and that is paying to do an "optimization" ?
^ ^
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04-23-2012, 04:45 AM #13Web Hosting Guru
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For $15/year, I think Buyvm.net is the best. But you'll need to wait until they have stock. I've had one since Aug. 2010 that I mainly use for a VPN, and some testing.
Of the others on your list, I also had a 123systems vps for a year that was ok, but that was awhile back (Sept. 2010-2011), and it was a more expensive $21.60/year plan.
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04-23-2012, 05:07 AM #14Disabled
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http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/yes-yo...mb-link-1-vps/
If they follow that guide then I'm quite sure they could figure it out, however I do agree with you that a new user might have some issues, I'm sure the host could help them out with those minor things, I for sure would not mind.
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04-23-2012, 05:50 AM #15Total Nerd
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The person is getting a VPS to learn with. Linux commands work no matter how much RAM you have. I know that most users who are unfamiliar with Linux need 512MB of RAM to do anything, but users who are familiar with Linux know and appreciate its potential. I'm currently running a webserver, pptpd, XFCE4, and VNC on a 32MB VPS without any issues. That being said, most of the providers he listed offer at least 128MB of RAM so he has even more possibilities.
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04-23-2012, 09:53 PM #16Aspiring Evangelist
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1) 123systems.net is a great provider.
2) If you've never used linux EVER, I highly suggest getting a Windows VPS instead (which are much more expensive though) or at least a managed package (again, more expensive). Otherwise, there is a STEEP learning curve and most people give up. If you didn't know this already, the vast majority of us do not have a UI for our linux VPS'....we do everything via command line (like command prompt in Windows).██ 613websites.com ● Canadian Hosting and Web Design
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04-24-2012, 05:43 AM #17WHT Addict
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I have two low-end VPS. One from UBServers where I paid about $25 per year (pre-discount) and the other from AlienLayer ($12 p.a.).
I don't want to talk about the AlienLayer VPS for obvious reasons but the UBServers VPS is noteworthy.
- It does have occasional & random downtime.
- It offers 128MB RAM & 25GB space
- I've installed Centos 6 32 Bit
- Its powered with Centminmod auto-installer (nginx + memcache etc)
- I've installed wordpress, mariadb (mysql) & phpmyadmin
- I use it to house my low-traffic website and also as a back-up store house for my production sites.
- Its performance is as follows:
Code:[root@abc ~]$ dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync 16384+0 records in 16384+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 18.1943 s, 59.0 MB/s [root@abc ~]$
Code:[root@abc ~]$ wget http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test --2012-04-24 19:40:54-- http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net... 205.234.175.175 Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net|205.234.175.175|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream] Saving to: â100mb.testâ 100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 72.3M/s in 1.4s 2012-04-24 19:40:55 (72.3 MB/s) - â100mb.testâ [root@abc ~]$
Code:[root@abc ~]$ free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 128 121 6 0 0 90 -/+ buffers/cache: 30 97 Swap: 128 53 74 [root@abc ~]$
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04-24-2012, 08:08 AM #18Web Hosting Master
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I don't know what the fuss is over having so much RAM!
Back in the mid 1990's, My most powerful server back in the day had a massive 32Mb of ram and it was an incredibly capable box.
It ran: a web server, a mail server with ~1000 accounts, 128 Serial Ports with Modems. Did I forget to mention that this was a 486 DX4 100 Processor - about 1/8 the processing power of of the average I-Phone.
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04-24-2012, 11:13 AM #20Newbie
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Thanks for rude reply . I don't want high end geeky VPS for myself. I own Master Reseller for Hosting(offshore & Onshore) for your information. I don't want to get VPS for WHM & WHCMS, MYSQL, Apache or whatsoever service can I install in a VPS Box. I just want to have test of it.
Between I know more then doing PING to Google.
Yes! exactly safe investment theory. I don't want to jump in pitch without knowing the depth of it.
Thanks for that man!.
Thanks to everyone for comment. I am trying vpsdeploy I will post feedback about this VPS provider.Last edited by kiano; 04-24-2012 at 11:15 AM. Reason: spelling
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04-24-2012, 11:25 AM #21Disabled
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It's really better to install virtual box and create a vm there then buy such a low-ram vps from some provider. Many things simply will not work.
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05-24-2012, 08:13 AM #22New Member
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Just wanted to say, that having a cheap VPS with low memory is actually good for testing things. If you can get it working on a "weak" VPS, then it will work great on a production quality VPS or a dedicated server.
Here's my current memory usage on 192MB VPS I have on 123systems.net:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 393216 25756 367460 0 0 0
This is running apache.
One thing to keep in mind with low end boxes is to keep your uptime expectations low as well.
16:11:32 up 44 days, 13:57, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
I have been very happy with 123systems.net for last 9 months, but in the first month of having the service, they suddenly changed IP to a completely different block and destroyed my first carefully set up instance with no warning.
So these kind of boxes should be used for play and testing not for serious stuff.
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