AwardSpace $1/mo for 6 months, have you tried it?

LivingSouL

Or at least tried their VPS, any of their VPS offer?

Check this out http://wp.me/pgmwd-oQ

jcaleb

512mb xen for $1/mo? That's too unrealistic

yomero

"Trusted by over 1 000 000 customers" WTF¿?

vahe

I think they've been around for a while. I'm not sure about VPS but they used to offer decent shared hosting if I remember correctly. It's been at least 5 years since, a lot could've changed.

ErawanArifNugroho

I saw their Shared Hosting and Reseller a few years ago. And it were good, last time I checked

Presbytis

Awardspace? They have free shared hosting with good uptime, several years ago..

eastonch

Just purchased it for the lulz... Doubt it will even turn up, or anything, But it seems stupidly expensive afterwards.

DanielM

@yomero said: "Trusted by over 1 000 000 customers"

Thats true, But most of them are free hosting customers :L

DanielM

lmao

"You might ask, how much it would cost after 6 months? 98.94 EUR or 122.408568 U.S. dollars per month (That’s what the support said)"

LivingSouL

@eastonch: let us know about the benchmarks.. and yea, stupidly expensive aftewards..

eastonch

Picked up the server, took about two hours to create, looks fine, it's in Cyprus? WTF?!

Did a few tests... Here's the results. DISK Speed

vps826:~#  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, 15.2363 s, 70.5 MB/s
[first test]


vps826:~#  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, 15.3711 s, 69.9 MB/s
[Second Test] 

FreeVPS.us benchmark coming soon...

CPU model :  Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           E5620  @ 2.40GHz
Number of cores : 1
CPU frequency :  2400.108 MHz
Total amount of ram : 508 MB
Total amount of swap : 1023 MB
System uptime :   2:51,
Download speed from CacheFly: 743KB/s
Download speed from Linode, Atlanta GA: 723KB/s
Download speed from Linode, Dallas, TX: 734KB/s
Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 725KB/s
Download speed from Linode, London, UK: 737KB/s
Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 736KB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Singapore: 718KB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Seattle, WA: 732KB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 669KB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Washington, DC: 730KB/s
I/O speed :  87.2 MB/s
[FINALLY DONE!]

This looks like a really bad investment to be honest, especially for somebody paying £100/month LOL! Curious where this is hosting, anybody feel like finding out? 81.209.164.46 (It's picked up by WebOfTrust as unsafe but isnt listed on any spamhaus or anything like that.).

jarland

I'll gladly pay $123/m. I get four dedicated CPUs, 2 memory slots dedicated to only me, a raid controller assigned only to my vm, and a hefty bandwidth allotment at 100mbit right? Oh wait...

I'm all about the 4000% markup. I guess you only need two idiot customers to generate quite the profit.

eastonch

True that, A friend of mine didnt know I did web design, pays somebody £60/yr for 200MB Storage hosting and "minor" text site edits. I almost choked.

LivingSouL

@eastonch said: £60/yr for 200MB Storage

aww.. that's bad... I hate people taking advantage of someone..

Maounique

35 dollars a month ??? I can get 2 dedis with that or colo for a big ass server... Gee... M