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[1] At this time, we do not provide licensing for Microsoft Windows Server products. You are free to use the Evaluation license provided with the initial installation, which is valid for 180 days and subject to terms Microsoft places on the legitimate use thereof. Students and developers may be able to obtain free or inexpensive licenses from their network.
[2] If you would like an SSL certificate added to your service, simply open a Support Ticket to our Sales department after purchasing and activating your service including your domain name, a valid email on that domain (to prove ownership) and some justification text (ie: what will SSL be used for?) We will promptly send information to the provided email on how to complete SSL activation.
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Please note that deployments are handled manually, your VPS could take up to one hour to be initially provisioned, from which point; you can use the provided SunStone management panel to re-create your VPS at any time, even change your OS or resources completely. This manual deployment system is in place to protect both our company / existing customers, as well as you (the future customer) from abuse and fraud.
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My only concern is the "unmetered fair use" bandwidth. How much is considered fair? 1TB? 100TB? 300TB? You'd probably save yourself a lot of hassle by just setting a hard limit so that people know what they're getting.
Apart from that looks like a really nice offer.
But I want HardCloud not Goodhosting ;>
We have many customers exceeding 1TB a month, however; we'd ask to see proof that the bandwidth is being used legitimately past about 100GB/mo . We have SNMP community monitoring set up on all adapters, bridges, and switches (both with software and hardware traps) to ensure that nobody is abusing the resources.
If you are using in excess of 10TB / month on a $7 VPS, we may not permit this ** although we have made exceptions in the past where users had a very good reason to be using this much bandwidth.
It is worth noting that we only measure outgoing bandwidth. Incoming is not a factor in our abuse monitoring, as our providers do not care about incoming bandwidth so much.
As per why we use 1TB as our "de facto" measure:
Outgoing: 1024 / 30 = 34 GB per day.
Incoming: (unmetered / not measured)
At a 30/70 rate (common with webservers) you would be looking at a total bandwidth usage (incoming+outgoing) of around 45 GB of daily transit, which would require a rather popular and badly optimized website (perhaps a WordPress blog) to eat up, or some media. (That would be almost 2GB per hour.)
Is ISO mounting available? Self-service or ticket? Thanks!
We will gladly source out and/or create templates for your favourite distribution/flavour of Linux/BSD/etcetera to increase our ever-growing library of Operating Systems options available to all our customers.
We also offer the ability to "private mount" ISO installation media, as long as the link given to us (via Support Ticket) was legal, and not exceeding 5GB [case by case basis, but basically: it must either be free, or you should provide proof of license] .
The media would be added to your account and permanently available to you for (re)installations at any time via the SunStone management panel.
As it has been asked, here are the payment methods we accept
Direct Credit Card (via Stripe)
Bitcoin (Virtual Currency) (via Bit-Pay)
PayPal (discouraged... for many reasons.)
@HardCloud Is there any smaller plan (1GB and 512MB mem)? Are any yearly or semi annually payment options?
Also, what do you mean by "we'd ask to see proof that the bandwidth is being used legitimately past about 100GB/mo"? Is that means that we have to prove you that if we exceed 100GB per month, is legitime use? Most medium websites with daily offsite backups, exceeds this traffic (in a 4K visitors per day portal I have, my normal traffic per month with 3 off-site daily backups is about 300GB p/m)
Feel free to come on LiveChat (just fixed it now) if you would like details on a smaller plan, they would be roughly the same price scaled for the resources (ie: $3.50 for the 1GB, $1.75 for the 512MB) ; but we would require a longer term pre-purchase for values this low (to offset merchant and processing fees ; ie: $10.50 per quarter for 1GB, $10.50 semi-annually for 512MB.)
A simple screenshot of awstats/webalizer/logaholic/etcetera or a similar statistics tracking program that showed that x thousand hits were producing y egress per day would be more than enough for us, so we can make sure that it's not just a network attack or some other sort of rather abusive usage.
We also offer off-site backups that do not count against your transfer (as they use private links) in both our Chicago and Phoenix locations, regardless of the location of your service (in case you're paranoid, and think one datacenter might cease to exist, and still want your data somewhere else.)
What if its no website but another service? How do you define "legitimate" (and under which US states law)? Porn? Streaming? P2P? The 100Gb limit without "proof" (which i think is just plainly wrong on so many levels) also should be noted in the first post as it is not unmetered - It's limited, and for Gbit even extremely low.
You can't sell Windows VPS without getting licenses through the SPLA. You can't use or sell evaluation licenses on services. This is against the terms of the evaluation license.
If we buy a $4.39 VPS for one month and get the Alpha SSL Wildcard Certificate.
If we cancel our VPS the next month will the SSL still be valid for the rest of the year?
no lower plan offer?
(lowend vps i mean
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They have $2 VPS's on their website
We're not going to shut your VPS off for using 100GB per month, 100GB in one day perhaps.. yes; especially if it's not routine (again, only outgoing is counted against, so if you're using 100GB on a 40GB disk, you're either serving a rather busy site (and should have some sort of statistics), or you're serving media; or something abusive/illegal.)
I would be open to suggestions on how the burden of proof could be shifted away from the customer, but it is important to note that SingleHOP cares quite a lot about what goes on in their network; they are a premium/enterprise providers for a reason. They expect that we deal with abuse and other network inquiries within 12 hours, which puts unnecessary stress on our customers to prove their usages in a very short amount of time.
We have our watches to help customers provide validation/justification for their usages before hand, so we have something (anonymized, we won't keep IP addresses or anything else on the screenshot; and we will ask you before sharing it with them); to give them when they inevitably ask why your IP is doing so much outbound.
They're still under the impression that an active website with 1,000 daily visitors need only use less than 1 GB / day. (I'm not even kidding); and have requested rather strongly that I suspend users in the past without fair time to prove otherwise, I would rather try and avoid anything like this before it happens.
The burden of providing a license is on the customer. We provide the server with the Operating System installed of their choice; and the customer should provide a license. If we receive complaint(s) from Microsoft (which we have in the past) of an unlicensed service being abused, we will contact the customer to negotiate licensing [as SingleHOP does offer us Windows licensing, but it's rather expensive on a per-VPS price point.]
This is a very standard industry practice in my opinion, and you can choose to either purchase the Windows Server 20xx R2 Standard Edition license from us at a cost of $20.00 per month (our cost), or you can provide your own license. These are the same terms many other providers go with, an example people are quick to use is "BurstNet" (albeit I would not like to be compared to their shoddy services.)
The restrictions for the SSL certificates are laid out in plain English on SingleHOP's "Exclusive Features" page as seen here: www.singlehop.com/advantages/singlehop-exclusive-features/ ; if you are found using the SSL outside of their network, they will revoke it.
That being said, I won't try and track it down myself. (that's rather unfeasible.)
As explained in this post:
Please feel free to contact us either on LiveChat or via ticket for pricing on a lower plan, the same goes for higher plans in which we are not allowed to list here (due to the $7 limitation.)
I haven't read the terms, but is that so? Because if that's the way it works, we're going to have to nerf some offers :-)
If so, just about nobody would be allowed to advertise Windows here (I can count the number of licensed providers on my fingertips). Also, why is it my luck is so bad people only complain in my threads, and not other offer threads just posted in the last three days, one week, one month, etc ; with the same Windows OS selection
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(Nothing against you @qps , just bad luck on my part I guess.)
Sorry but if your DC does that you should not use them. Plain and simple. That is not their problem in any way.
I'm not sure I can agree, but it would turn into a gigantic flamewar of where providers and Telcos must draw the line between "customer privacy" and "precautionary / proactive "damage control" / "change mitigation" vs reactive (bad)"
Simply put, if you (as a Telco) are seeing one customer suddenly doing 5GB outbound on port 25, what are you to assume? In this day and age, you'd immediately assume it was email spam, and might suspend the user until they prove otherwise. It's sadly what mass marketing and other abuse has turned the industry into.
If you're not 100% proactive, you get immediately blacklisted (on entire /21s and /18s ...) by people like SpamHaus when you have as few as 1-2 outstanding spammers on your network (even if the reports are less than 24 hours old.) To keep the network clean, I understand they must make certain measures and monitors on their end.
As per people asking why we don't have a hard limit, we'd rather not automatically suspend your service for a backup cron job or some other normal operation, but would rather speak with you on a case-by-case basis of why the bandwidth usage (outbound) is so high, and what we could do to work with you on this.
We offer many caching services, such as our private CDN access to subscribers that need to push lots of data to specific endpoints, saving both on our bandwidth costs and the overall performance of customers' websites to the end users, and would rather sell the customer a service such as this (or work with them to include it in their price), than to suffer an extortionately high overage rate from our provider; or have a node suspended / IP nullrouted due to suspected attacks or spam (again, proactive vs reactive).
If you would like to discuss things such as this (industry wide implications of the current computer age); I would suggest we bring it to another thread, as it has little to do with our offer in specific, and much to do with many premium/enterprise Telco providers and datacenters (SingleHOP, SoftLayer [now IBM], UKFast, etc.)
but i hope you have lower price when buy 256MB plan for annual or semi annually
@mpkossen - You really should rename Damon's account.
Yes, for example:
GoodHosting Ci5
CPU: 1 Cores (100 Units)
Memory: 1024 MB Dedicated
Storage: 20 GB RAID10 [3]
Bandwidth: Unmetered fair-use (1Gbps port)
IPs: 1 Standard, 2 with Justification
Your Cost: $10.50 (quarterly)
Your Cost TODAY: $9.19 (first quarter) (see pro-rata feature)
GoodHosting Ci3
CPU: 1 Cores (50 Units)
Memory: 512 MB Dedicated
Storage: 10 GB RAID10 [3]
IPs: 1 Standard
Your Cost: $10.50 (semiannually)
Your Cost TODAY: $9.83 (first semiannual) (see pro-rata feature)
GoodHosting Ci1
CPU: 1 Cores (25 Units)
Memory: 256 MB Dedicated
Storage: 5 GB RAID10 [3]
IPs: 1 Standard
Your Cost: $10.50 (annually)
Your Cost TODAY: $10.17 (first annual) (see pro-rata feature)
All of our plans scale on the offer. Above are simply some examples. For exact pricing and a coupon valid for the service you are interested in, please submit a Support Ticket or message in LiveChat.
No phoenix?
Chicago and Phoenix locations can be selected in the order form.
Yes. You have to obtain licenses through the SPLA. Doing it any other way is against the license agreements.
Why is it that you assume the only use for a VPS product is hosting a website?
What if I wanted to use the server as a VPN server? At that rate I could easily use 100GB in a day if I were downloading a lot of things through the vpn. Also, one vpn product I use, you can actually have the master node relay traffic, in other words, all of my vpn traffic would hit that server first and be routed. It is not unheard of for my VPN network with more than 40 nodes setup in said fashion to use more than a few hundred Gb in a day. This is only one example I came up with.
I am sure there are other things which could use past this limit as well and still be valid usage. What if for example I am using the server as a varnish proxy for a large site that does a lot of traffic? What if I am using the server for back-ups and it just so happens it replicates my 20gb back-up to 8 other servers twice a day?
My point here is you are vastly mistaken if you think the only use for a VPS is serving websites. I agree with @William you need to just set realistic limitations instead of stating 'unmetered' while their being hidden restrictions.
Cheers!
OpenNebula is a Cloud system that does not incorporate bandwidth limitations. That being said, it does support all cloud billing systems (ingress/egress metered Mbps 90th or GB/h transit); we'd rather not charge for bandwidth at all however.
We are very up front and public with how we look at services, and when we see users using 1TB of transit in the first few hours, there's absolutely no legitimate means for this (500MBps+ upload from a fresh install for a period exceeding one hour?)
I was using a webserver so heavily in my above examples as that is the bulk of our clients, true B2B customers that benefit from the stability and uptime provided in SingleHOP's network; but don't have a site power-hungry enough to warrant a full dedicated solution (yet.) This is also a great example of something that "puts out more than it gets in" (ie: has a much higher egress than ingress.)
A VPN would not be an issue, as something such as this would have a more or less 50/50 spread of traffic (traffic in ~= traffic out), with the exception of OpenVPN configured with line compression and a few spokes, but even in this case it would be simple enough to show "Oh hey, I'm running a private VPN."
It's important to note that we do not allow PUBLIC proxies or "proxy-alikes", as SingleHOP does not allow this on their network. Private proxies and VPNs are however, allowed. When the site is fleshed out fully (later this week, when I finish off the FAQ and interactive "SunStone 101") we will have a full list of what can and can't be used on the site, as well as a full explanation of how we look for bandwidth or transit abusers.
Our B2B clients comes out from the start with real figures on what they expect to transit, so we have had very few issues with them; and we use our bandwidth monitoring practices with them as a warning system for if their instances may have been compromised (ie: showing irregular behaviour.) I can understand how this may not be the best system for our B2C clients, but surely if you're pushing large transit you would have a good reason?
What? Telcos are INHERENTLY neutral - This is CODIFIED in law in many european countries by now.
Proactive monitoring is plain and simple illegal in half of the EU, you DON'T look at customer traffic or you have huge legel issues. (ex. Austrian ECG, German TKG, english translations available on respective government sites)
NOTHING, because this is not the ISPs problem until abuse arrives. Suspending on this reason alone can earn you nice lawsuits in Europe.
No, you don't (unless you use CC it seems) - We/I had many spammers before, Spamhaus lists a /32 and if no one reacts in a week they list larger, i never had an issue with them listing any larger ranges - Not even when Rokso spammers got some ranges was the larger one listed, only their /26. I once oversaw a Spamhaus record for a month and they did not list anything larger, same for a repeat offender that reordered and got the same IP again.
This is all fine and dandy, but in North America where the NSA does whatever they want and admits it [ https://www.eff.org/agency/national-security-agency ] ( among other sources ). In the USA especially, it is safe to assume that no less than ten separate agencies have copies of all your traffic.
We don't watch your traffic, but automated software (such as ebtables , ipfw , Vyatta , etcetera) as well as statistics gathering tools (SNMP communities / traps) do have counters, and otherwise analyze the headers of various communications (such as to prevent address stealing, vlan crossover, etc.)
Laws are very very different than in the EU/UK, and frankly I wish the laws were a little closer to the European way ... in some aspects. I do not however approve of the "Every ISP should ban porn, among other things" lists that were distributed and expected to be used, but it seems many consumers were not either.
Many spam lists (Spamhaus notoriously) makes it the provider's problem for even being reported, even if all reports are dealt with timely (within 2 hours in most cast, 24 hours at a maximum.)
I don't quite understand why I have this luck, but it seems that everyone here hates my threads specifically. @qps for example, has yet to mention the SPLA restrictions to any other recent offers (I can see five on either side of my offer with in close proximity that offered a "BYOL & Evaluation" type offer for Windows).
I guess I'm unlucky?
Regarding the SPLA regulations as discussed above anyways, I have yet to actually receive a proper response from Microsoft regarding this. SingleHOP told me that they don't really care, as it's up to the customer to provide a license; or choose to use the Evaluation themselves.
Sure, yes, in EU also - Especially the Germans and the UK guys. This however does not change my point that traffic analysis is inherently wrong and not the ISPs problem. The ISP (in SPECIAL in the US) is protected from persecution anyway.
Such systems are used in not even 10 EU countries. And yes, it's bad as it should be uncensored anyway.
Because no one else says he offers unmetered and states traffic has to be justified later in the thread. Simple as that. (And no, i don't have any hate specifically for you or your company, you are not even using CC which would cause hate, and i don't use US services at all and ignore the market mainly)
Your Windows offering is fine also, many do that, i don't see the issue with that either unless it is specifically promoted as licensed or not noted specifically as unlicensed.
As per the traffic, I could have easily said "Oh yeah guys, 4TB traffic per VM" (like a few other offers have) and they don't get any complaints, but even this would be far too much traffic to be legitimate in many cases (since again, we only count outbound.)
A 256MB VPS [for example] would be hard pressed to use 4TB of egress without being an open proxy (not allowed on the SingleHOP network), or content replicator (ie: a relay service; which is allowed but would be easy to justify.)
I don't use ColoCrossing (it's pure SingleHOP, hence the stringent regulations required on the network. They get very cross with me if I allow anyone bad onto the network, and let's face it ; budget has a much higher rate of "bad" due to the ease and price, even if my MaxMind is set to deny at 2+% risk.)
Our Windows offer specifically has a footnote explaining that we do not provide a license in the standard offering, but that people can purchase a license "at cost" with SngleHOP's offer of Windows Server 20** Standard Edition (at $20 per.)