FsckVPS short review

As I wrote in an earlier post after a hacker attack my VPS provider, FsckVPS had been aquired by BlueSquare, and I got a new VPS of them.

After a few months usage here is my short review.

Well, I am very satisfied with the "new" FsckVPS and their services.
They gave me 2 free months services because of my old/attacked VPS's downtime and data loss.
After some initial problems my VPS works perfectly with minimal downtime, and it never crashed till now.
Price is unchanged, starts from just $9.95/month!!! This is a very important factor for me, because I want a cheap VPS.
Support is fast and professional.
The old HyperVM panel has been removed (yeah, wow, more chance to security!!!), so I can manage my VPS trough SSH only (putty, command line). But I am familiar with Linux (Debian), so this is not a problem for me. And just now FsckVPS starts to provide SolusVM panel, so if I will need a control panel ever, I can get it.

And also they start to provide KVM. KVM is a full hardware level VPS environment allowing both Windows + Linux to run at close to native speeds. It allows to do the basic restart/reload of  VPS, load kernel modules and add swap space.
So if I want more control and speed on my VPS, I can move to KVM, but presently I stay with OpenVZ.

Conclusion: great service, low price, 5/5 stars.

If you want to find a cheap, but reliable unmanaged VPS provider I strongly suggest you FsckVPS/Vaserv.

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New VPS has been requested

I requested a new vps from FSCKVPS a few hours ago. Because I am the one of lots of unlucky guys who has 100% data loss on their vps. It seems I am not pessimist, but realist.
Now I am sitting back and waiting for the new vps,
but my hand is on my colt. :)

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Bang Bang

FSCKVPS (they are part of Vaserv) post the following message on their status page:

"Dear Customer,

We have worked tirelessly through the night and over the last 48 hours to recover as many VPS as possible. However, we have now reached the end of all of our servers, and as such, if your server is not currently up, or not partly up (i.e. it is up but not working due to a configuration issue) then it is unfortunate that you will have lost your data due to this third party attack.

We are offering all customers who have lost data a brand new VPS on our new platform. If you are in the position of requiring a new VPS due to your old one not coming back up, please submit a support ticket with the subject ‘New VPS Required’, and including the specification you ordered in the message. We will then start to provision these straight away. We will aim to have all new servers up within 6 hours at the latest, of course providing no new issues occur. If you have your own backups you can then restore these onto the new VPS.

We will also be providing two months free hosting as compensation to customers that have lost data and require a new VPS.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused, and your patience and understanding in these very difficult times.
Regards, VAServ Team."

Bang Bang

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My websites are offline

Dear Visitor, Reader, Member of my following websites:

http://www.laszlomolnar.name - it is up again!
http://www.laszlo.molnar.name - it is up again! (redirected to http://www.laszlomolnar.name)
http://www.b21club.com - it is up again!
http://www.languagejuice.com - it is up again!
http://www.osboom.com - parked on Sedo
http://www.jammmer.com - parked on Sedo
http://www.wifisoftwares.com - it is up again!

Two days ago my virtual server provider, fsckvps.com had been hacked.
You can read a very long forum thread about this attack and the chaos here
So all of my websites/webprojetcs went offline, and they are still offline today.
I hope FSCKVPS's staff is working hard and fast and they will restore my vps asap.
But it is only a hope. I am so pessimist, I think my datas will not be restored.
And I will have to reconfig my vps and rebuild my websites/webprojects.
Not a nice future vision.

Because I don't know when will be my vps/websites online again now I redirect temporarily all of my websites to this blog and I will inform you about my vps/websites issues here.

I post this first blog entry with date of 2020 (edited! - back to 2009), because I want it to the top of my blog. If you want to read the full story, start here please.

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