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As someone who has tried more than 20 deals from lowendbox, the downtime and performance is completely unsuitable for anything requiring uptime. They are fine i

by codexon 14y ago

As someone who has tried more than 20 deals from lowendbox, the downtime and performance is completely unsuitable for anything requiring uptime. They are fine if you are using it for DNS, VPN, backup, or a blog you don't care much about. Many of the hosts are run by kids trying to strike it rich with barely a few months worth of experience. Here's some of the things to watch out for. - IOwait so high that it takes several seconds for ls to run. - Complete data loss - Random packet loss because of all the people sharing a link or getting ddosed. - Hosts going bankrupt when they realize that no one is going to buy them out just because they have a bunch of customers obtained with their loss leading deals. If you have a good experience with them you probably: - Didn't stay on the node long enough for it to get overloaded - Are extremely lucky - Barely use the VPS Linode is overpriced, but the deals on lowendbox aren't a great alternative.

IgorPartola 14y ago
I have had a mixed bag with LEB deals. Forced me to figure out how to run my apps Ina distributed fashion, which was fun. Currently with ThrustVPS where I pay $8/month. They have been solid for about two years now. BuyVM also seems to have great reputation on LEB.
- codexon 14y ago
  Done both ThrustVPS and BuyVM. ThrustVPS: bought it, selected Debian 6. VPS stopped booting. Then they tell me that it doesn't work so I get them to install Ubuntu instead. 1 week later it goes down due to "network issues". (probably for several hours, can't be bothered to login to look at the ticket again). BuyVM: bought it to see how it was, VPS went down in the first couple of days. Never bothered to try it again. They are always out of stock. http://buyvmstatus.com/info/recent http://buyvmstatus.com/info/recent
  - frantechca 14y ago
    buyvmstatus isn't run by us. They are entirely ping based so if someone gets a flood, ICMP will go to the garbage while a nullroute kicks in a second or two later. We have an internal nodeping that monitors other services on the nodes that we're likely going to make public since more than a few people seem to get that idea about buyvmstatus. We actually provided the buyvmstatus developer a read-only HTTP page he was able to pull off each node to get the current uptime of the node but he's yet to actually work it into the system. Stock wise check back never week and we'll be reloaded on every plan in our Vegas location :) Thanks for the interest and kind words, Francisco

by codexon 14y ago

IgorPartola 14y ago

I have had a mixed bag with LEB deals. Forced me to figure out how to run my apps Ina distributed fashion, which was fun. Currently with ThrustVPS where I pay $8/month. They have been solid for about two years now. BuyVM also seems to have great reputation on LEB.

codexon 14y ago
Done both ThrustVPS and BuyVM. ThrustVPS: bought it, selected Debian 6. VPS stopped booting. Then they tell me that it doesn't work so I get them to install Ubuntu instead. 1 week later it goes down due to "network issues". (probably for several hours, can't be bothered to login to look at the ticket again). BuyVM: bought it to see how it was, VPS went down in the first couple of days. Never bothered to try it again. They are always out of stock. http://buyvmstatus.com/info/recent http://buyvmstatus.com/info/recent
- frantechca 14y ago
  buyvmstatus isn't run by us. They are entirely ping based so if someone gets a flood, ICMP will go to the garbage while a nullroute kicks in a second or two later. We have an internal nodeping that monitors other services on the nodes that we're likely going to make public since more than a few people seem to get that idea about buyvmstatus. We actually provided the buyvmstatus developer a read-only HTTP page he was able to pull off each node to get the current uptime of the node but he's yet to actually work it into the system. Stock wise check back never week and we'll be reloaded on every plan in our Vegas location :) Thanks for the interest and kind words, Francisco