PhotonVPS
join:2009-06-09
|  [vps] PhotonVPS 150; BUY a VPS with your LUNCH MONEY! (50% 1st M
PhotonVPS offers an array of fully scalable VPS solutions to meet the needs of any perspective customer.
- We do not oversell our services.
- Semi-managed.
- Weekly backups on separate hard drive for fast extraction.
- BBB member since 2004, so we value customer satisfaction.
- Disaster Planning N+2 Setup (Hardware, Generators, AC, Routers, Switches, Staff!)
- In-housed Onsite Staff!
OpenVZ Plans
BEAM1
512MB RAM – DDR3 RAM
1.5GB Burstable RAM
20GB Disk Space – Enterprise VelociRaptor 10,000RPM Disks
500GB Bandwith – 100mbit Dedicated (Not Shared) Per VPS Node
2 IP’s
$10.95
BEAM2
1GB RAM – DDR3 RAM
2GB Burstable RAM
35GB Disk Space – Enterprise VelociRaptor 10,000RPM Disks
900GB Bandwith – 100mbit Dedicated (Not Shared) Per VPS Node
2 IP’s
$20.95
BEAM3
2GB RAM – DDR3 RAM
4GB Burstable RAM
80GB Disk Space – Enterprise VelociRaptor 10,000RPM Disks
1500GB Bandwith – 100mbit Dedicated (Not Shared) Per VPS Node
2 IP’s
$35.95
BEAM4
4GB RAM – DDR3 RAM
8GB Burstable RAM
150GB Disk Space – Enterprise VelociRaptor 10,000RPM Disks
2500GB Bandwith – 100mbit Dedicated (Not Shared) Per VPS Node
2 IP’s
$65.95
Xen Plans
WARP1
512MB Guaranteed RAM – DDR3 RAM
1GB Swap
20GB Disk Space – Enterprise Hard Disks
500GB Bandwith – 100mbit Dedicated (Not Shared) Per VPS Node
2 IP’s
$16.95
WARP2
1GB Guaranteed RAM – DDR3 RAM
2GB Swap
35GB Disk Space – Enterprise Hard Disks
900GB Bandwith – 100mbit Dedicated (Not Shared) Per VPS Node
2 IP’s
$26.95
WARP3
2GB Guaranteed RAM – DDR3 RAM
4GB Swap
80GB Disk Space – Enterprise Hard Disks
1500GB Bandwith – 100mbit Dedicated (Not Shared) Per VPS Node
2 IP’s
$41.95
WARP4
4GB Guaranteed RAM – DDR3 RAM
8GB Swap
150GB Disk Space – Enterprise Hard Disks
2500GB Bandwith – 100mbit Dedicated (Not Shared) Per VPS Node
2 IP’s
$71.95
Addons:
cPanel: $12.00/Month
DirectAdmin: $6.00/Month
Fantastico: $1.50/Month
RvSkin: $2.50/Month
Clientexec: $6.95/Month
Extra IP: $1.50 per IP
Extra 1GB Bandwith: $1.00/Month
Extra 6GB Space: $8.95/Month
Security Subscription: $15.95/Month
RBL Installation: $10.95 / One time
Application Optimizations: $15.95 / One time
Mod_security Setup: $9.95 / One time
All plans come with the following:
- Instant Setup
- 30-days money back guarantee
- Intel Nehalem Quad Xeon CPU nodes
- Enterprise Supermicro hardware (Fast hot swappable bays)
- Enterprise Hard drives
- Fast UPGRADES
- Limit 15 VPS per node!
- Choice of OS: CentOS, Debian, Suse, Ubuntu, Fedora, Gentoo, Windows 2003/2008 ($7.00/Month)
said by BEAM1 :
BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 4.1-wht.2)
System -- Linux server.duobasis.com 2.6.18-128.1.1.el5.028stab062.3 #1 SMP
Sun May 10 18:54:51 MSD 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
/dev/simfs 20480000 560780 19919220 3% /
Start Benchmark Run: Fri Jun 12 16:20:40 PDT 2009
16:20:40 up 1 day, 13:52, 1 user, load average: 0.17, 0.07, 0.02
End Benchmark Run: Fri Jun 12 16:32:17 PDT 2009
16:32:17 up 1 day, 14:04, 1 user, load average: 13.05, 5.62, 2.52
INDEX VALUES
TEST BASELINE RESULT INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 376783.7 17882193.8 474.6
Double-Precision Whetstone 83.1 1118.8 134.6
Execl Throughput 188.3 12268.6 651.5
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 2672.0 417736.0 1563.4
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1077.0 94447.0 876.9
File Read 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 15382.0 2372052.0 1542.1
Pipe Throughput 111814.6 3276133.8 293.0
Pipe-based Context Switching 15448.6 321733.7 208.3
Process Creation 569.3 35725.5 627.5
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 44.8 4889.0 1091.3
System Call Overhead 114433.5 2994208.6 261.7
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FINAL SCORE 531.8
Current coupon codes for newly created accounts:
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TENOFF – 10% off entire purchase! (This applies to monthly payments for the duration of the account.)
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- Lightning Speed Network!
- Fastest ROUTES to Asia!
F.A.Q.
Q: How long does it take to setup a VPS?
A: On average, less than an hour since you ordered your VPS; however we ask for a 24-hour grace period.
Q: Where are your servers located?
A: Los Angeles, California.
Q: Do you own your servers?
A: Yes.
Q: What type of server are these VPS hosted on?
A: Intel Xeon Nehalem Quad-Core, 12 GB DDR3, 300 GB HDD 10K RPM RAID
Q: How long have you been in business?
A: PhotonVPS - Since 2008; Profuse Solutions - Since 1999
Q: Can you help transfer our data?
A: Typically we can do this as long as you have the data in a cPanel or DirectAdmin VPS.
Q: What payment options do you have available?
A: Currently we accept all Major Credit Cards and Paypal.
If you have any further questions or comments please contact us at sales (at) photonvps.com |
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Vathral
Premium
join:2002-08-26
Kreplachista
clubs:
 ·Earthlink Cable Mo..
3 edits | Re: [vps] PhotonVPS 150; BUY a VPS with your LUNCH MONEY! (50% 1
Those are some nice deals...anyone else on here have any opinion about this? Is there enough access given for example to edit php.ini, my.etc, ssh, etc? Can we install mod_security ourselves?
Do you have any websites that you can share with us that is moderately visited to see how well it loads through the browser? Also....
quote:
Network Performance : PhotonVPS accounts operate on shared resources. Excessive use or abuse of these shared network resources by one customer may have a negative impact on all other customers. Misuse of network resources in a manner which impairs network performance is prohibited by this policy and may result in termination of your account.
* You are prohibited from excessive consumption of resources, including CPU time, memory, disk space and session time. You may not use resource-intensive programs which negatively impact other customers or the performance of PhotonVPS systems or networks. PhotonVPS reserves the right to terminate or limit such activities.
What happens if the site gets Digg'd for a few hours, will it be suspended? Granted VPS is supposed to isolate users, something as bad (good for publicity) being Digged can really kick the connections up there. And what version of php/mysql are installed by default. |
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PhotonVPS
join:2009-06-09
| You'll have root access to the VPS so you can modify any of the files to your settings as long as they don't disrupt the node.
Due to our privacy policy we can't share the sites our clients host with us.
If your VPS starts disrupting the node for more than 24 hours continuously you'll resources and uplink will be capped. |
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Vathral
Premium
join:2002-08-26
Kreplachista
clubs:
·Earthlink Cable Mo..
1 edit | reply to PhotonVPS
Thanks for the quick reply! Anything negative if I'd like to use lighttpd instead of Apache for example?
Do you guys install php5/mysql5 on a default install? Can it be left alone for the user to install themselves?
Like I only host a wordpress and phpbb3 site for about 50 users but I like VPS for the extra control provided over shared. What kind of usage would warrant service being limited. I wouldn't expect any kind of heavy traffic whatsoever.
Sorry about the website question, don't even know why I mentioned that at the time |
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PhotonVPS
join:2009-06-09 | These are installed by default.
You can use Kloxo which is free control panel. |
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Chiyo
Save Me Konata-Chan
Premium
join:2003-02-20
Minneapolis, MN
clubs:
·Comcast
4 edits | reply to PhotonVPS
I just signed up.
I selected Beam 1 I selected CENT OS 5 (32bit) CPanel and Fantastico too. The total cost for 3 months was $43 can't complain so far I'm really looking forward to dumping both my current hosts and moving all seven domains to the VPS.
I was looking at going with a Windows setup but a lot of my sites run on PHP and wordpress so I figured it would be too hard to convert all that over so I'm sticking with Linux.
EDIT: since making this one complaint I have is they don't roll the add-ons into the final price. I paid for 3 months of hosting it was $29 and when I was making the payment it said $43 was due but when I made the payment it only took the $29. I had to make a seperate payment for the add-ons (Cpanel and Fantastico)
That is really annoying please roll your addon costs into the final cost.
EDIT 2: Well its been over an hour on the website it says "instant setup" but I know it says here it could take up to 24 hours. When I made my last payment it auto opened a ticket saying so and nobody has gotten to it.
EDIT 3: its 1pm central time and I still don't have an e-mail or anything I've paid them and I still don't have service. If I don't have my vps working in seven hours I'm getting my money back.
They must not be 24 / 7 (even they say they are)maybe I'm expecting too much.
EDIT 4: Took about 3 hours to get my high priory ticket answered. I asked what is going on and got a pretty lack luster answer. I'm almost wondering if the positive reviews on WHT are made up or something this is ridiculous its been 21 or so hours since placing my order.
What bugs me is they claim "Instant setup" I was told "Instant setup on some packages" don't claim something you can't backup I'm already skeptical on the 24 / 7 support. They have 3 hours until I ask for my money back.
EDIT 5: Well they came though and got me my vps setup now I'm just waiting for the VPS Manager (Fluid VM) to be setup and I'll be good to go. In a few days I'll leave a review of what I think this is my first vps and I'm excited.
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w0g
o.O
join:2001-08-30
Portland, OR
clubs:
 ·Clearwire Wireless
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September 21:
I signed up for WARP2 which is the same as the ZAP accounts for Windows less the licensing cost. They let me use WARP2 for Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter x64 with my own license. Initially they set my VPS up improperly with Redhat Linux, so I had to wait longer for them to install Windows, and when they did I was set up with plain old Windows Server 2008. They agreed to install R2 if I sent them an ISO, the technician "Steve" who was working on this had no place for me to upload it to and he wouldn't download the ISO from my FTP. I ended up uploading the ISO to my VPS and set up and FTP there for him to get it, and once he got it he had no clue what format it was in or how to decompress it - I used 7-zip to compress it. I gave him links for where to get programs to decompress the archive for Windows and Unix and he didn't seem to bother, days past and still no set up - finally the director stepped in and said he'd handle it, and I got word the Windows admin wasn't handling his support tickets and got fired.
September 29th:
Today they finally got R2 and are in the process of installing it, nearly two weeks later. Normally if I had this kind of bad service I wouldn't do business with them and cancel service, but luckily I didn't need this up ASAP and it's more of a little experiment than anything so I'm willing to tolerate it. Plus I understand I ask some special requests that they weren't repaired for, including that 2008 R2 isn't being sold yet so I didn't expect them to have the necessary experiencing or software to install it.
As it took so long, they adjusted my payment cycle for the 29th so I didn't pay for anything since this started and I'll still get a full month starting the time R2 is up and running. I think for the price this host is a good value, cheapest around I think and as long as you sign up for normal service everything should be fine. I'll be back to review overall service performance later, so far remote desktop is really slow to control over this thing.. |
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w0g
o.O
join:2001-08-30
Portland, OR
clubs:
·Clearwire Wireless
| reply to PhotonVPS
For reference I'm using Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter x64 and am using Subsystem for Unix Aplications to run IRCd, IRC services, etc. I'll be using Internet Information Services 7.5 for HTTP, FTP, DNS, and everything else. Should be fun- I like that I can run software from platforms pretty much seamlessly, Unix software needs some adaptations occasionaly to build and to make sure compiler flags are right, and that's beeen a huge pain, but it works if you know what you're doing. |
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w0g
o.O
join:2001-08-30
Portland, OR
clubs:
·Clearwire Wireless
| reply to PhotonVPS
They had trouble getting 2008 R2, then they couldn't use my key, and ended up getting their own but it was for Standard edition, and managing the server was too long and performance sucked so I ditched it. Upload was performing very slowly, 400kbps - they respond to email quick, but doing the deed can take many repeat requests and many days, so I canceled. I think their Linux support is probably less problematic though, don't want to discourage people from trying it out. Stay away from the Windows VPS though, it sucks bad. |
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