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Hello everyone!

I am grubles, cofounder of the newly formed Bitcoin service: BitVPS. BitVPS is a brand-new provider specializing in Virtual Private Servers, Virtual Private Networks, Shell Accounts, and IRC Bouncers along with new features being planned right now. We also plan to offer a Bitcoin eSafe to protect your wallet. The eSafe will be encrypted and only the customer will know the passphrase to decrypt it.

Virtual Private Servers start at roughly 3 BTC (the price changes in real time to keep the dollar amount the same) and are hosted in Dallas at GNAX’s state of the art data center. All servers are protected by Cisco packet scrubbers at the core. Juniper Networks hardware is also at the core utilizing BGP to ensure your packets arrive at their destination over the most efficient route.

Being based in the continental US, we aim to provide exceptional service by enabling our customers to be in constant contact with us if they need a question asked or need a problem solved. We have a strong presence in IRC on the Freenode server and are trusted in the OTC Web of Trust. Just connect to Freenode and idle in #BTCVPS or query user 'grubles' or 'rg' for any question you need asked or you can email me at grubles@btcvps.net.

Test drive ANY of our VPS plans for 5 days for 50% of the cost of the plan. When you decide that you love it, just pay the rest of the plan cost. You can also upgrade your plan.


Here is a list of plans we currently sell:
    
   VPS Plans:

    VPS-1
    256MB Guaranteed Ram
    10GB Hard Drive (512Mb will be allocated for swap space)
    1 IP Address
    50GB bandwidth in/out
    OS: Linux*, FreeBSD
    Price: Check our website!
    Add-ons available
    * CentOS will not install properly with lower than 1GB of ram

    VPS-2
    512MB Guaranteed Ram
    30GB Hard Drive (512Mb will be allocated for swap space)
    1 IP Address
    200GB bandwidth in/out
    OS: Your Choice! Linux*, BSD, Solaris. No Windows.
    IPv6 access with reverse DNS (Chicago DC only)
    Price: Check our website!
    Add-ons available
    * CentOS will not install properly with lower than 1GB of ram

    VPS-3 (best value!)
    1GB Guaranteed Ram
    50GB Hard Drive (512Mb will be allocated for swap space)
    1 IP Address
    300GB bandwidth in/out
    OS: Your Choice! Linux, BSD, Solaris. No Windows.
    IPv6 access with reverse DNS (Chicago DC only)
    Price: Check our website!
    Add-ons available


    Add-Ons
    Extra IP’s – .5 BTC/mo
    Extra 50GB of transit – 2 BTC/mo
    Extra 10GB of hard drive space – 2 BTC/mo
    Extra 128MB of ram – 1.5 BTC/mo
    IPv4/IPv6 Reverse DNS – Free
    System/Security Updates – Free



   Custom Plans:

   Contact us at sales@btcvps.net or #btcvps on Freenode

10% off to all our friends from #bitcoin-otc on Freenode. (Must be signed up and have 5+ positive ratings)


For further information please visit: http://www.bitvps.com
http://bitcoinawards.bitcoinbetas.com/nominated_badge.jpg

get them for £10 a year, and they accept BTC if you contact them and have a good history

http://www.lowendbox.com/tag/uk/

Good see some competition though, Im actually in the market for VPN currently but im away to india for 2 month end of year so may leave it until i return in march next year. But thanks for heads up ;)

That site just links to actual providers. We are an actual provider. I don't see anything about any of those companies accepting BTC either. You don't have to ask nicely to get us to accept BTC, since we do from the start!

We aren't actually competing with the link you posted since we are US based at the moment, with our data center being located in Dallas, Texas.

I got a VPS from them... its pretty good.  I even got a "special surprise" because I was one of the first 10!  I don't know if that is still going on... but it was pretty good!  Their VPS-3 deal is a pretty good deal, in my opinion.  They provide extremely quality service, and I happen to have traded with one of the founders a bunch on #bitcoin-otc. 

Highly recommended!

:D

I got a VPS too. These guys are good, it's not some cheesy over provisioned service like other providers offer. Hosted in a very good location too (GNAX Dallas), and run by guys that actually know what they are doing. +1 Recommended.

Just a bump for these guys.  I know these guys very well and can vouch for their professional and honest dealings in the BTC industry.  I know if I ever need a server they'll be the first place I go.

Good luck guys,

pirate

Yes, always forget that most people here are american :)

We are planning a hosting solution in Europe but I don't have many details to give you at this moment. For now, we are focusing on US customers.

We are currently ironing out some bugs with the ordering system, if for some reason your order fails please contact us at sales@btcvps.net and we'll get you set up as soon as possible!

Due to unexpected order volume on opening day, we ran out of IP addresses, but, we've got plenty more now and are ready for more sign-ups!




grubles

We are just about finished with our Control Panel interface. Log-in and manage your VPS from our website!

btcvps.net is nice service.  Yay for IRC presence!

We've updated our prices due to the recent price change. Come check out our deals!



grubles

Hello again everyone.  We are proud to announce we are selling dedicated servers as well as virtual private servers!

These servers are unmanaged. They’re ideal for a high traffic web server, mail server, or DNS server. They can also be used to host high availability game servers. These servers are built custom to order. As a result, they will take from 1 day to 3 days to provision. All hardware is in stock if listed on the site.

More plans will be added with market interest! Please contact sales@btcvps.net if you’re looking for a ‘beefier’ machine.

The Starter

    CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ (2×2.4GHz)
    Disk: 250GB SATA II
    Ram: 1GB
    Uplink: 100Mbit burstable
    Monthly Bandwidth: 400GB
    Price(monthly): 70BTC or $160 with Amazon Simple Pay

The Medium

    CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Kentsfield (4×2.4GHz)
    Disk: 250GB SATA II
    Ram: 2GB
    Uplink: 100Mbit burstable
    Monthly Bandwidth: 400GB
    Price(monthly): 80BTC or $180 with Amazon Simple Pay

We've just added a new Dedicated Plan:


The Beast!

    CPU: 2 x Intel E5620 (8 cores total)
    Disk: 1 x 2TB SATA II
    Ram: 24GB
    Uplink: Gigabit
    Monthly Bandwidth: 10TB
    OS: Linux or BSD
    Hosted in either Texas or Georgia, your choice

    Price(monthly): 137 BTC, or $300 with Amazon Simple Pay

Hello again everybody!

We have just provisioned another VPS cluster due to major (unexpected) growth! It’s located in Chicago. We are using only premium transit providers like nLayer, Level3, and Internap. Latency to ANYWHERE in the USA is guaranteed to be less than 50ms (35ms to East Coast and 25ms to West Coast).

Please expect new offers and deals soon!


Specifications of the new cluster:

    CPU: 24 x Intel L5520 @ 2.3 GHz
    RAM: 36GB
    Disk: 4 x 1TB

Pretty nice deals. Is possibility to use SSD disks in your configurations?

Edit: Btw I see pretty big gap between low-cost offers and high-cost. For example, 2GB RAM on server is nothing if you need to run some memory eating applications (like bitcoind, heh). However 24GB RAM is quite oposite. Some offer with 8-12GB RAM would be pretty nice.

Hey slush! We now have an upgrade option for 8 GB for only $60 more per month. Also, we can upgrade you to a 128 GB SSD for only $50 more per month.

Obviously, we accept BTC if you don't want to use USD :)

Visit http://www.btcvps.net/ for more information. If you need additional upgrades just contact us at sales@btcvps.net.



grubles

We've updated our prices due to the price fluctuation!  ;D

Many US residents prefer EU or Iceland hosts  8)

Prices updated!  ;D

Hello everybody!

Do you know people who would be interested in VPS servers? Want to make some money for it?

BTCVPS offers an affiliate program that pays you every month for as long as your clients stay customers.

Rates:
Virtual Servers

VPS-A : 0.5 BTC/mo
VPS-B : 1.0 BTC/mo
VPS-C : 1.5 BC/mo

Dedicated Servers:

Contact us first and we’ll make sure you see atleast 5% of the sale price

How?

Signing up as an affiliate is easy. If you’re already a customer just email sales@btcvps.net and we’ll activate your account as an affiliate and provide you with a custom affiliate URL. If you’re not a customer simply email sales@btcvps.net with your name and email and you’ll be up and running within the hour.



grubles

Thinking about ordering but first, do you own your servers, or are you just a reseller?

We rent our kits because they are very high quality hardware and we do not want to risk any damage if something happened during shipping.

Here are a few benchmarks of our servers:

Bandwidth Test:

Dallas
2011-11-08 13:43:25 (106 MB/s) – “test500.zip” saved [524288000/524288000]

Chicago

2011-11-25 15:37:27 (11.58 MB/s) – “100mb.test” saved [104857600/104857600]

Raid Array Test:

Dallas

/dev/sda:
Timing cached reads:   15602 MB in  2.00 seconds = 7808.79 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 310 MB in  3.02 seconds = 102.68 MB/sec

Chicago

/dev/sda:
Timing cached reads:   13992 MB in  2.00 seconds = 7004.89 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 284 MB in  3.01 seconds =  94.39 MB/sec

Hello everyone, shell accounts are now available!

Shell accounts are hosted in Chicago. All shell accounts come with basic web hosting. We utilize mpm-peruser in Apache to run a secure shared hosting environment. Mpm-peruser ensures that each website runs as its own user as opposed to most shared hosting providers which run your website all under the same user. This forces you to keep your files world-readable. This also limits the implications of a security breach if it were to happen.

We also give customers access to IPv6 by default making your website ready for the future of the internet.

Shell Account / Hosting Features

Full shell access (bash)
500MB storage space
100GB transfer
PHP
Full MySQL databases
1 background process (IRC session, IRC bot, etc)
Price: 2 BTC/mo
Add-Ons

Extra background process – .5 BTC/mo
Extra storage space (in increments of 1GB) – 1 BTC/mo




grubles

Hey fellow Bitcoiners! BTCVPS has changed names to BitVPS! We will continue to offer the same great service as always, BitVPS is just a cooler name.

In celebration of the new name and the new year we’ve upgraded all the plans and kept the same prices! These plans will remain throughout the new year!

Changes:

VPS-A -> 256MB Ram (upgraded from 192MB) ( 3 BTC/mo ) ($12.00 USD)

VPS-B -> 512MB Ram (upgraded from 256MB) ( 4 BTC/mo ) ($16.00 USD)

VPS-C -> 1024MB Ram (upgraded from 768MB) ( 5.5 BTC/mo )  ($22.00 USD)


grubles

We've just added a new Dedicated server plan:

Dual Quad Core Xeon L5420
8GB RAM
500GB SATA-II DISK
10TB Bandwidth

35 BTC/month

So are you billing in BTC or USD? ie. when bitcoin price fluctuates what happens to server fee?
My VPS in UK is shutting down and I'm planning to move onto Amazon but I'm curious about this. At $4/BTC this is an ok deal but what happens when BTC goes up next year to $10/BTC? Am I still paying $12/mo. or $40/mo...

We adjust our prices according to the exchange rate. No matter if the Bitcoin price goes up or down you will still pay $12/month or $40/month etc.

Hey guys!

I’d just like to take this time to announce our new dynamic pricing.

What is dynamic pricing?

Dynamic pricing allows our current Bitcoin rates to be synched with the largest Bitcoin exchange online. Our prices are updated every five (5) minutes to reflect the newest exchange rate.

Why is this good?

This pricing model is good because it ensures when you pay your invoice you’re using the newest exchange information. This makes sure that your payment is exactly the amount it should be, not a guess.

 
We feel this is the future of Bitcoin billing and we’re glad to be the front runner in offering this technology.   8)



Happy Holidays!


grubles

Hello again everyone!

For a limited time we are slicing 1 BTC off of our Chicago VPS-B and Chicago VPS-C plans!

Just enter the respective code words: "CHIVPSB" or "CHIVPSC" during ordering and your 1 BTC savings will be in effect.

This coupon is only for Chicago VPS-B and Chicago VPS-C plans.


Beware of copycat VPS companies! BitVPS is still your number one provider providing full virtualization and allowing you to run any OS you like.



grubles

BitVPS has been nominated for Best Bitcoin Start-up of 2011 and Best Bitcoin Service of 2011!

http://bitcoinawards.bitcoinbetas.com/nominated_badge.jpg

Check out the voting status over at http://bitcoinawards.bitcoinbetas.com/ and vote for BitVPS!

grubles

Hi guys!

 rg here, the admin of BitVPS. I wanted to let you guys know we have a shell server aswell as virtual servers; for people who want something to IRC from besides their home connection but dont really need a full virtual/dedicated server. It's just 1 BTC, has IPv6 and less than 15ms latency to hubbard.freenode.net.

 Right now my test IRC client has been connected for 340 hours .. Pretty stable.

 Also with the current rate of BTC->USD our quadcore offering is extremely cheap. only 22 btc/mo!

James @ BitVPS

bump for a great service!

I setup a shell for an eggdrop bot the other day, these guys were awesome help in getting me up and running!

A+ bitcoin service here guys, will use you again for sure!

We now have an updated pricing page!  :)

Check out our awesome deals here: http://www.btcvps.net/services-pricing/virtual-private-servers






grubles

Ahoy, james from bitvps here.

There are a few coupons left for people to get .5 BTC and .3 BTC off our VPS-C and VPS-B plans in our Chicago datacenter.

Coupon for VPS-B: CHIVPSB - 0.30 BTC off (for a year)
Coupon for VPS-C: CHIVPSC - 0.50 BTC off (for a year)

If you would really really like to be in our other datacenter, Dallas, we would most likely be able to let you use these coupons for it aswell..


Cheers,
James @ BitVPS

I'd like to order from you guys; you have reasonable prices and a good reputation, along with accepting Bitcoins. I have no experience with VPSs though; all previous web work I've done through cPanel. I'm fine with working in the command line; but I've never set up a web server that way before. Two questions: Do you recommend any particular OS for a "newbie" to VPSs, and do you know of any particularly good tutorials for setting up a web server with a VPS?

Thanks in advance,
BinaryMage

Hey BinaryMage,

 We dont offer any control panels out-of-box. If you wanted to pay for a cPanel license i'd be more than happy to install it for you. A license costs $15, thats the straight price, no markup from us.

 RE: a 'newbie' OS... Well, cPanel only installs happily on a few OS's:
CentOS versions 4.x, 5.x, 6.x
Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® versions 4.x, 5.x, 6.x
FreeBSD®-RELEASE versions 7.3, 7.4, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2 [4]

If you have any other questions feel free to mail me, james AT btcvps.net , just remove the spaces and AT = @

Cheers,
James @ BitVPS

No, I don't need a control panel, I'd rather learn to use the command line anyway. I'll probably go with FreeBSD; it has a good reputation and some decent tutorials.

Cheers! We do offer a FreeBSD install.
It'd be nice to get some more customers using it.
We're one of the few providers who provide a fully virtual FreeBSD machine.

James @ BitVPS

Alright, ordered and paid. Looking forward to experimenting!

cheers , i see it. i am setting it up right now.

james

Its all set, im emailing you the details now.

Details sent. I took some time to setup your machine nicely so you should have a very well functioning BSD machine now :)

Thank you for the excellent and speedy service. SSH'd in just perfectly.

Hello!

BitVPS is proud to introduce our new Virtual Dedicated Servers!

What is a virtual dedicated server?

A virtual dedicated server is a virtual private server that is shared with less users than the typical virtual server. You are generally able to use more resources for a longer period of time with a virtual dedicated server. Each server is loaded with dedicated resources. No other virtual server is able to touch/see them.

Each of these VDS is on a dual quad core system with 24GB of ram shared by only 4 people total. Each has an even share of the system so other users' usage does not adversely affect any other users.

For more information, and dynamically updated pricing: http://www.bitvps.com/services-pricing/hosting/virtual-dedicated-server




grubles

Hello Everyone.

BitVPS now has more capacity in Chicago and a brand new VM cluster in California!

California has 4x450GB SAS 15k RPM disks with 32GB ram and a 2x6 core Operton 2245.

Its quite nice :-D

Sign up now!

Server and management console seem to be down. (No SSH, console gives "timed out error") Any info?

EDIT: Problem has been fixed. Response was quite speedy.

It is with heavy heart I announce that BitVPS now accepts PayPal. We've had several customers who've asked for it.

Nothing changes with BitVPS as far as service. We just needed to reach a wider market than Bitcoin only. It's the only way we can stay in business.

However! Paying with Bitcoin is still *cheaper*. People paying with PayPal will incur extra fees.

We love you all.

Got a BitVPS service for hosting a litecoin pool (mine.liteco.in) and have been extremely impressed: Fast setup, helpful staff (thanks James!), great prices, and fast servers--getting great performance/price ratio.