4Matt Ayres of Unixshell has just announced that orders are back!
We are back open for orders. Due to the inability for us to keep up with supply at the lower prices we’ve been forced to increase prices across the board and restructure the plans.
Current customers will NOT have their current plan prices changed.
They have had data centre space issue since May this year (they are with Gnax in Atlanta GA), have not been able to fill new orders, and have very limited capacity upgrading existing customers. It is great that they have in some extended sorted out the DC issues, and are able to provide more sign ups.
However the price of their VPS has gone skyrocket. They got rid of those silly plans with 32Mb memory increment — which I suspect is giving them issues keeping the servers utilised, when customers with weird memory configuration cancelled their plan. They now have Xen VPS plans ranging from 128Mb to 512Mb physical memory, costing $20 to $80 per month. They continued to be unmanaged, thus making them no longer good value, especially comparing to its sister company’s Virtuozzo-based VPS running SLM memory model. Gone is the company that started all that “Linux VPS under 10 bucks a month” craze.
| RAM | Swap | Disk | Transfer | Monthly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 128Mb | 256Mb | 6Gb | 128Gb | $19.99 |
| 256Mb | 512Mb | 12Gb | 512Gb | $39.99 |
| 384Mb | 768Mb | 16Gb | 384Gb | $59.99 |
| 512Mb | 1024Mb | 24Gb | 512Gb | $79.99 |
I’m curious – is there much of a demand for 128MB packages? 256 seems to be the minimum IMO.
I’ll say 128Mb on Xen is plenty to run small dynamic sites if configured properly. Lighttpd (2Mb RSS) + 3x PHP-CGI (16Mb x 3 RSS) plus other misc services (Dropbear, Syslog, Cron) — they fit easily into 128Mb.
You can even run a few instances of RoR or Django + lighty on that much memory.
Of course there are also people getting those low end VPS to just run mail servers, or DNS, or Asterisk.
64MB on Xen is more than enough for me to run a few low traffic sites using apache, sendmail and running DNS on it as well. Prior to their upgrade to Xen 3 this was all running on a 32MB. I haven’t been able to find another provider that does 64MB anywhere…
Hi,
Try VPSChoice.com and set “max RAM” to 64Mb. There are still plenty of providers that have VPS at that range, although no one is really cheap.