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Arubacloud Location Roulette
blackjack4494
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So Aruba changed their Small VPS offer once again. Now you cannot choose your location for 1€ anymore (recently you only could choose between it1/cz1 for 1€). If you want a specific location you need to pay 2,79€. BUT if you go with random location it will be just 1€! I guess most of them will still be provisioned in it1/2 and cz1.
I think about getting 1-2 just to see where they go. Their de1 was quite good I just forgot to top up for that and it was gone unfortunately.
Maybe you gonna join me and try to see what location you get. I mean it's just 1€ - ONE EURO
Good luck on location hunting.
https://www.arubacloud.com/vps/virtual-private-server-range.aspx
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I am on IT1 and speed is good. I have no other Aruba location to compare to though. For €2.79 I would probably go elsewhere. There are many offers around that price for a 1Gb box out there.
Just a FYI:
if you already have an Arubacloud account (and some €€ there), no need to visit the OP's URL as it would only top-up your credits without actually creating a server.
How to, then? From the Control Center (any DC will do, e.g. admin.dc4.arubacloud.com ), log in and "Create a server"; configure it as desired, choose the smallest VPS and tick "random DC".
Good luck.
edit: created one, no surprise: DC1-IT. By the way: "Yo dawg, we put random CPU in your random server":
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650 v3 2.3GHz / Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650L v4 1.7 GHz / what else...
got a 1euro vps for some years now, still in the DE DC, im happy with it
Its 1EUR, I am sure they do make no profit with it.
No wonder that they build in the "randomness".
But I do not think that its random, its more like KS1, on Kimsufi.
A huge amount gets Italy the rest gets the other locations.
You think?! I am sure!
I tested. To make sure it works without spending money (because €1 is way too much for LET testing), I made sure I have a VPS with same name in each datacenter where I have active services (IT1, IT2, CZ1). Then I started creating a VPS on random location with same name, thinking I would get a €1 VPS on another datacenter (or an error because that name it's already taken in those 3 mentioned).
I tried multiple times, because it's random, I should get a hit. Every time I got the same error:
Maybe I am unlucky, maybe the Universe is against me, maybe Aruba staff really hates me, maybe I am way too cheap and life finally got me. Logic tells me this is happening because it's always IT1, with no randomness whatsoever, like @Neoon already realized with divine inspiration.
Cool trick. Might be worth to retry some time later though. Who knows what factors decide the outcome of this supposedly random allocation.
A few moments ago I tried to deploy a server randomly, and received UK on the first attempt. It seems UK datacenter got added to that random list. Grab it while it's hot.
Can confirm. Thx!
So you just got the UK location too?
Yup.
Got it as well. Thanks for the heads up!
And several days ago Germany was available too
Thanks for the info; I had just assumed they were "randomly" putting all the cheap VMs in IT or CZ. Got a UK one; 2ms to Clouvider/Inception via Telia.
Yey, also got one in UK
Can someone post the specs/ benchmark for these UK accounts? Thanks!
UK:
Woot! I selected UK first and then random location and got one in the UK too!
UK deployed. yay.
Thank you @default. One can never collect enough
Excellent
UK received too.
For 1euro cant complain ..
If anyone can pop back in and holler when they have other locations available on random - that would be great! :-) Need to get me a few in each location
Lucky you, you got the E5v3, not the crap Lv4
1€ UK is heavy LET idle material:
Still getting UK location. So if anyone wants one now is the time to grab one.
wow, 36 eur spent for idle server. Filthy rich !
Idling is important, but I don't want to become too greedy now. It's 50 days till Black Friday 2018, so for now I decided to keep myself from "idle" wishes, until that crazy moment, when I shall unleash all my money on LET offers.
got one myself in UK
IT3 shouldn't be paired with IT1 and IT2 imho, it's directly connected with MIX and delivers a sensibly different latency (22ms max to AMS-IX and LINX, 18ms max to Marseilles France-IX, 16ms max to NL-IX, 9ms to DE-CIX Frankfurt)
IT1 and IT2 are like
Thanks. Got one. I have 3 vps in fr, de and uk for idling instead of a cup of coffee.
That's great. You should quit coffee anyway. On Black Friday you will get more idling servers, this way you can quit smoking too.
You can almost feel the smell...
For $5 , I can buy nearly a kilo of arabica beans here. White people be crazy