Cheap Russian VPSes

ValdikSS

Hello.
As you may know, there is a crisis in Russia and $1 went up to 75 roubles from 45 a month ago.
There is a nice website http://vps.menu/ similar to lowendstock, where you can choose and compare VPSes.
200 Roubles ~ $2.8

It may be a good time to buy one.

4n0nx

Interesting idea, now if only I spoke Russian. Heh.. maybe in a year or so there will be European/American sanctions that prevent them from processing VISA/etc. ...

rm_

@ValdikSS nice, is that your project?

MuZo

Any personal experience with BeriHoster? The annual 256MB plan for ~10USD looks very good.

ValdikSS

@rm_, no, the authors are unknown. They got account on habrahabr http://habrahabr.ru/users/vps-menu/
There is another project from Leonid239 — http://poiskvps.ru/

ValdikSS

@MuZo said:
Any personal experience with BeriHoster? The annual 256MB plan for ~10USD looks very good.

Most Russian hosters are fine. I can remember only MCHost which is similar to 123systems except it is more expensive, scammed their clients and even made illegal graffiti advertisments

So stay away from it. Others are probably fine.
You can search for the reviews, just use word "отзывы".

ehab

@ValdikSS which one you recommend?

ValdikSS

@ehab said:
ValdikSS which one you recommend?

Last time I used VPS in Russia was 5 years ago from some company with "добро" in their name. Something like "Доброхост" or similar. So I cannot really recommend you anything.
Maybe @rm_ can help?

By the way, this is important. For 2 years, we have internet censorship. You may not get access to some banned sites, mostly boards with anime like sankakucomplex, gelbooru, danbooru and similar (full list here http://antizapret.info/). I can't say for upstream VPS ISPs, but for home users some of the ISPs use DPI and ban only certain URLs and not the whole site, some ban IP address, some hijack DNS A-record.

Quinten

I just ordered a 128mb box at BerryHost. Lets see how this turns out.

rm_

@ehab check this thread and the post by @Profforg there: http://lowendtalk.com/discussion/29349/which-russia-ukraine-moldova-vps-provider/p1

fitvpn

Yep, folks may use this situation for pay less in EUR or USD with old prices in Rubles..

fitvpn

ValdikSS said: ValdikSS

@ValdikSS just unadequate Ukrainian, as well we seen..

ValdikSS

@fitvpn Excuse me? I'm Russian.

nexusrain

@ValdikSS Haha, that's Russia. Pretty brave by them when you keep in mind, you have to send your ID when ordering a .ru domain..

ValdikSS

@nexusrain you can buy VPS without registering a domain.

nexusrain

@ValdikSS said:
nexusrain you can buy VPS without registering a domain.

Sure, I just meant because of the graffiti if they write their domain there and the registrar or whoever got the ID details..

MuZo

I bought a 256MB VPS from BeriHoster. The port is capped to 8Mbps download and upload, you can see it hard set in the vemanager panel.

Previously I had a VPS from FirstVDS but there were a lot of network outages daily and I hope this one will perform better.

EDIT: also for people wondering, they do accept Paypal and you can set the billmanager panel in English

ben78

MuZo said: I hope this one will perform better.

So far how is it working?

Thanks

Stevie

@ValdikSS

Thanks for the list I signedup with berihoster.ru and its cool they they accept my low $2 deposit, but with that I have almost enough for 3 month. so thanks again for that link.

@MuZo
Let me know how they are, I have not created a vps yet because I am saving money till I have a use for it lol. the 8Mbps limit sucks hmm I wonder what the connection would be like for someone in New York like me :-/

MuZo

@ben78 @Stevie

Quite good, just a random reboot this morning but way better uptime than FirstVDS for now.

2014-12-19 04:06:47     Reboot  Device rebooted after 2 days, 5h 53m 58s
2014-12-17 00:36:49     Processor   Processor removed: type ucd-old index 0 descr CPU
2014-12-16 22:23:16     System  Distro_ver -> 7.7
2014-12-16 22:23:16     System  Distro -> Debian
2014-12-16 22:23:16     System  Kernel -> 2.6.32-openvz-042stab094.7-amd64

CPU model :  Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           L5520  @ 2.27GHz
Number of cores : 1
CPU frequency :  1199.778 MHz
Total amount of ram : 256 MB
Total amount of swap : 512 MB
System uptime :   18:17,

Network isn't that good but for this price I excepted it

$ wget http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test -O /dev/null
--2014-12-20 03:14:56--  http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net (cachefly.cachefly.net)... 5.178.80.20
Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net (cachefly.cachefly.net)|5.178.80.20|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `/dev/null'

 8% [=========>                                                                                                                      ] 8,411,248    619K/s  eta 2m 44s  ^C

5.178.80.20 is in Selectel DC in St. Petersburg.

They also do some kind of disk caching

$ dd bs=1M count=256 if=/dev/zero of=test conv=fdatasync ; rm test
256+0 records in
256+0 records out
268435456 bytes (268 MB) copied, 4.86783 s, 55.1 MB/s

$ dd bs=1M count=256 if=/dev/zero of=test conv=fdatasync ; rm test
256+0 records in
256+0 records out
268435456 bytes (268 MB) copied, 0.642384 s, 418 MB/s

$ dd bs=1M count=256 if=/dev/zero of=test conv=fdatasync ; rm test
256+0 records in
256+0 records out
268435456 bytes (268 MB) copied, 0.635583 s, 422 MB/s

$ dd bs=1M count=256 if=/dev/zero of=test conv=fdatasync ; rm test
256+0 records in
256+0 records out
268435456 bytes (268 MB) copied, 0.680943 s, 394 MB/s

Stevie

@MuZo

Ok thanks so much for the info, well the speedtest is better then what I thought, and I would not do anything network intensive related so that would not be much of a problem.

But the random reboot already I do not like, after 2 weeks or a month keep us updated, I really hope this was just a rare hiccup

netomx

Thanks!