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After a very popular intial release of our VPS plans, Crucial Paradigm has significantly upgraded our new VPS plans!

Our new plans utilize the following MONSTER servers:

2 x Intel Xeon 5420 (8 x 2.5Ghz Cores, 24MB Cache)
32GB FB-DIMM DDR2 RAM
8+ Drives RAID 10
Dual Redundant Power Supplies

Link: Xen Virtual Private Servers (VPS) Hosting

Plans:

* All plans come with a web based control panel, and ability to remotely console/KVM into the server.

VPS 256
256MB RAM
25GB Storage6
150GB Bandwidth
$20/month


VPS 512
512MB RAM
50GB Storage
300 Bandwidth
$37/month


VPS 1024
1024MB RAM
100GB Storage
600GB Bandwidth
$75/month


VPS 2048
2048MB RAM
200GB Storage
1200GB Bandwidth
$150/month


VPS 4096
4096MB RAM
400GB Storage
2400GB Bandwidth
$300/month


Order Links:

VPS 256: https://www.crucialp...?step=2&pid=382
VPS 512: https://www.crucialp...?step=2&pid=383
VPS 1024: https://www.crucialp...?step=2&pid=384
VPS 2048: https://www.crucialp...?step=2&pid=385
VPS 4096: https://www.crucialp...?step=2&pid=386


Operating Systems Supported (64bit!):
* CentOS 5
* Debian 4
* Ubuntu 8
* Fedora Core 9
* Gentoo 2008 (Coming soon!)


Add-ons:

1. Additional IPs - $3/IP/month
2. Full VPS Management - $30/month
3. cPanel/WHM - $12/month
4. Backups:
256 Plan: $10/month
512 Plan: $15/month
1024 Plan: $25/month
2048 Plan: $50/month
4096 Plan: $100/month


Notes:
* All plans include swap space, the same size as the RAM.
* 1 IP included, additional IPs $3/IP/month


Why Crucial Paradigm:

* Established Company, in our 5th year of operation.
* We offset our emissions using Green Electricity and by planting trees (so far 1000+!).
* We put customers before profit.
* We are always looking for ways to improve, and offer improved services to our clients.
* Friendly support with fast responses



Feel free to contact us at sales@crucialparadigm.com if you have any questions!

[morefood2001]

Jordan, Normally VPS machines are very stable and actually faster than some of the lower end dedicated servers. It all depends on how the host handles overselling. I'm very happy with my vps machines. I still need to blog about part 3 to handle my vps experience, so stay tuned for that.

As for the plans above, cpanel will not run comfortably on anything less than 384MB of ram, but the addons are average cost. I'd say that for xen virtualization, the prices above are average.

[crucialx]

Hey Jordon, no at this time we are not offering any discounts on our packages. These have just been released, and are a significant improvement over our previously managed only VPS packages.

While these are maybe not the cheapest VPS plans, this is due to a number of factors/benefits:

1. These servers are running RAID 10, so means you don't have to worry about a hard drive failing - as you would have to worry about on a $30/m dedicated server.
2. These VPS plans are running Xen, which is not dynamic virtualization - but rather fixed virtualization - this means you are getting a fixed amount of resources, and we don't oversell our servers! It also means your VPS is usually a lot more stable. Our customers have noted that our VPS accounts are quite stable as a result.
3. We use very high end server grade hardware, not cheap desktop hardware. You will probably find the low end dedicated servers are using cheap desktop hardware and/or old hardware that is more likely to fail.
4. You have a control panel to manage your VPS which allows you to rebuild your VPS without a wide range of operating systems, as well as access a file manager which in the event that you mess up some configuration you will be able to access your files even when your VPS is down. You also have the ability to access the console of the VPS, which is just like being logged in via a keyboard and monitor! If the network is down the VPS, you will be able to use this to troubleshoot and bring the server back online.

If you want raw processing power, you will probably find the cheap dedicated server is the way to go. However if you want something to host on, or do testing then a VPS is probably the way to go as you have the data security and flexibility to easily reload the VPS, and also troubleshoot through the file manager without even having the VPS running!

Hope this covers your questions/concerns regarding these packages.

Kind Regards,
Aaron Weller
Crucial Paradigm

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morefood2001 said:

Jordan, Normally VPS machines are very stable and actually faster than some of the lower end dedicated servers. It all depends on how the host handles overselling. I'm very happy with my vps machines. I still need to blog about part 3 to handle my vps experience, so stay tuned for that.

As for the plans above, cpanel will not run comfortably on anything less than 384MB of ram, but the addons are average cost. I'd say that for xen virtualization, the prices above are average.

Yes, I have to agree - VPS accounts are actually quite stable, especially Xen. This is why we use Xen for our Virtualization, as is much more stable! Its actually not possible to oversell on Xen, so you are guaranteed a much faster VPS.

Regarding cPanel, it actually does run on 256MB quite well as of recently. cPanel has created new optimizations for VPS servers which drastically reduces memory usage. We have a number of clients running cPanel without any issues - however if you have a busy site, or require lots of PHP/Apache addons then you may need more.

Regards,
Aaron

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crucialx said:

Regarding cPanel, it actually does run on 256MB quite well as of recently. cPanel has created new optimizations for VPS servers which drastically reduces memory usage. We have a number of clients running cPanel without any issues - however if you have a busy site, or require lots of PHP/Apache addons then you may need more.

Cpanel VPS Optimized was a huge leap. Unfortunately, I found that my mail woes that I used to have with lxadmin came back for a week after I first switched over. They are fixed now and I hope they remain fixed.

I find that I am averaging 300 MB of memory usage with cpanel now and at peak times, I'm up around 350MB of usage, so I can never recommend less than 350MB of guaranteed memory.

I have found that Xen will slow down dramatically when it taps into the swap space, so its best to have enough dedicated ram for any vps.

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Jordan said:

In my experience they were not so reliable. This may have just been a bad experience which makes me dislike VPS servers but I've heard others say similar things. Perhaps the ones I tried were very oversold.

Hey Jordan, there is a high chance you were on an oversold server! Many providers oversell their VPS servers, however we utilize Xen which makes it near impossible to oversell resources, as we provide fixed resources on a server.

If you were using something like Virtuozzo or OpenVZ, these do not use true virtualization, so you would be restricted with what you can do. We utilize Xen on our VPS plans, which is like having your own dedicated server.

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morefood2001 said:

Cpanel VPS Optimized was a huge leap. Unfortunately, I found that my mail woes that I used to have with lxadmin came back for a week after I first switched over. They are fixed now and I hope they remain fixed.

I find that I am averaging 300 MB of memory usage with cpanel now and at peak times, I'm up around 350MB of usage, so I can never recommend less than 350MB of guaranteed memory.

I have found that Xen will slow down dramatically when it taps into the swap space, so its best to have enough dedicated ram for any vps.

As with any server, if you start using swap space it slows down significantly, as you are using hard drives to store rather than RAM. If your swap space is extremely slow, this may have something to do with your host (depends how they have configured their swap space).

Lxadmin is not the most stable software, and we have found clients find cPanel more stable - but has the downside of consuming more RAM!

- Aaron

[crucialx]

For those who are interested, we are running a 50% off the first month special!

COUPON: VPS50OFFFIRST

[Xav]

50%?

Oh, only the first month.

[morefood2001]

50% off the first month is to pull you in, but I've seen far better offers that last for the lifetime of the account.