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Cheap VPS in mainland China
I am looking for a cheap VPS in China for the sole purpose of running a few traceroutes once every few days. Minimum specs:
128 MB RAM OpenVZ/XEN/KVM/whatever
2 GB HDD
200 MB data transfer per month on 1 Mbit link is enough
1 IPv4 address
Price: as cheap as possible
I do not care about uptime (80% uptime will do just fine).
This has to be in mainland China (NOT Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, etc).
I did a quick google search but the cheapest offer I came across was $30+ per month.
Any suggestions?
PS. Also, what's up with avatars?
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StarryDNS has you covered.
https://my.starrydns.com/cart.php?gid=7
@MrX Thanks, looks like exactly what I need.
PS. I am actually looking for multiple VPS from different providers, so I am open to more suggestions.
I can offer you VPS in different area in China, feel free to send an Email to [email protected]
Thanks, we have just ordered 2x VPS from you and I will ask my colleague to send you an email.
Based on your purpose I would suggest QingCloud https://www.qingcloud.com/
It's not a traditional VPS service but a Iaas cloud. If you only need to run a few traceroutes once every few days, you can launch a instance when you need it, and when you finished traceroutes, remove it. Their cloud system has an response time as fast as, if not faster than, EC2. Launching an instance, associating an IP, destroying an instance usually takes <10sec. Their network is virtualized (like EC2) but traceroutes have no problems. And they calculate your price per SECOND. That makes it much cheaper than any traditional VPS.
They have network in Beijing and Guangdong.
The website is all Chinese, however. And they don't seem to accept paypal and credit cards. They accept Alipay and bank transactions.
If you need any help I can help you.
@zxb QingCloud sounds very good but I cannot even create an account as it looks like it requires a valid Chinese mobile number
We would want the VPS to stay operational most of the time anyway (like 80%). Perhaps it is not worth the hassle. But thanks for the suggestion!
@dcc
Why you need a VPS to run trace route?
Try these online services:
http://www.webkaka.com/Tracert.aspx
http://www.17ce.com
http://www.alibench.com
http://ce.cloud.360.cn
Wrong Thread.
@mycloud
We'd like to also be able to run some mtr's too and possibly doing that at certain intervals (automated).
StarryDNS is to be avoided. Bunch of incompetent.
Care to back up your claim with evidences? I have had a box with them for a few month for OpenVPN, the box runs just fine (although I didn't monitor the uptime or anything but it is online whenever I need it to be).
I think at the very minimum the owner (or whoever advertised here for them) is very honest, the server is clearly labelled as oversold so you won't expect premium performance, unlike hundreds of others who advertise as "not oversold" and yet manage to jam 1000 VPS into a node.
It's this: http://lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/746699/#Comment_746699
Apparently they removed his VPS by mistake, but he only noticed 2 months later.
Yet despite not having checked the VPS for 2 months, apparently it had crucial and absolutely important data on it. And even though they refunded him in full to PayPal, he still goes around looking for old threads to dig up and badmouth the host.
Well, at least he didn't check like 100 years later and noticed the old owner is long dead and Internet has evolved and we no longer have any hard drives lying around...
It is a system screw-up, which could happen to any host IMO...not sure how "scam" would work when they have refunded him his money...guess those guys are really some second-class "scammer", can't even scam properly.
So as long as the hosting provider deletes all your data but refunds you the months you were paying but in fact having the VPS deleted, it all OK for you right? If you use your VPS for some criminal activity maybe yes, if you use the VPS for legitimate business having it deleted without any notice its unacceptable.
Nobody is saying its not wrong however mistakes happen, no matter how good the provider may be or at least appear to be.
In this situation though you did not even notice for 2 months the VPS was missing, so clearly it was of little importance if a) you did not notice for so long and b) you had no backups.
So the outcome for you was that they apologized by providing you with a full refund and in your case was absolutely fair.
Move on, learn from it.