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API in Action

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

Check out what we are building with the VPS.NET API

This is utilizing the Tera CP (from our sister company, 10TB.com), but we have plans to deploy a reseller portal utilizing a brand-able Tera CP so resellers can give this level of access to their client without the need to create a CP of their own ;)

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The Sexy Interface of Tera CP

Review us and get free hosting…

Tuesday, May 12th, 2009

As VPS.NET breaks the 1000 nodes barrier in less than one month, we are thankful to all the users who have spread the word and told their friends and family about us, without you we could have not done it.

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We want to show you guys our gratitude by giving you one month of free hosting (max 3 nodes) for every review you write about vps.net on established forums/blogs/etc (one per blog/forum/etc).

The terms are as follows:

  • Review must be an original post (not a blog/forum reply)
  • Review must not be placed on commercial offers forums and blogs
  • Review must conform to the blog/forum TOS
  • Reviewer must have an account with VPS.NET

I want to emphasize that we are looking for *real* reviews, not just praises – so, please be as honest as possible when reviewing us. Spread the word – but be truthful to the experience you’ve had at VPS.NET…

The way we will monitor the review is via twitter (as we have it on our homepage), so to qualify you simply write your honest review, and submit a twitter post that incl. the url to the review and ‘vps.net’ and then submit a ticket with the same info! …

Thanks for your support – we really appreciate it!

New Feature: Scheduled Bursts

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

Today we have launched a new featured for VPS.NET, “Scheduled Bursts”

With this new feature, you are now able to schedule a burst of nodes to your VPS for when you need it, and only pay for those nodes on a daily rate of $1 (£1 in UK) per node.

So how does it work ?, simple on your VPS view you now have this new Tab:

Inside it you are able to schedule a “Burst” of nodes for that VPS, there are 2 kinds of bursts, “temporary” and “permanent”

On temporary you can select to add a number of nodes to your VPS at a certain date and time and keep it there for a determined period of days, with this choice, you are charged $1 USD / £1 GBP per day per node you are using extra, at the end of the period those nodes will simply go away.

On permanent, you can schedule your VPS to be upgraded to a certain number of nodes, the nodes will be permanently added to your account and assigned to the VPS, you can at a later date remove them if you wish, those nodes are charged at the standard monthly rates.

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Once assigned you are able to quickly view upcoming scheduled upgrades, you can also remove any scheduled upgrades before they occur and not be charged for it, charing only happens when the upgrade runs.

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Why this feature one might ask ?, there are many instances when your VPS might need that extra resource boost, a good example for a temporary boost is used on these screenshots, say you have a mailing-list to send to your customers, notifying of something new or a special on your website, it can be a good idea to boost your VPS resources to coincide with the mailing-list so you can ensure your site wont be overloaded when that sudden influx of visitors comes to your website.

As for permanent, if you know you will need more resources from a certain date onwards, you can now schedule your upgrades so your not paying for the period before when you dont yet need it, it’s just piece of mind and another way VPS.NET shows how flexible our system is.

In the near future we will be adding “Recurring Scheduled Bursts”, so you can set temporary boosts on a recurring fashion.

Keep looking for many more great features, we keep working to amaze you. :)


Pricing … Version 2

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

Since we announced the pricing 2 weeks ago, we have been reading and listening to the various comments people had about it, we assumed we had nailed it the first time around.. but you know what they say about assuming too much .. dont !

As such, we have gone back to the drawing board and squeeze every penny and pence we could out of the CFO, and have come up with the following changes:

1 – Double the Mhz per node, from 200Mhz to 400Mhz

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By increasing the Mhz we make each node more powerful and capable, a better value on itself.

2 – Lowers the pricing per node.

So yes, not only we doubling the CPU, we are making the cost of each node cheaper as well, who said the VPS Cloud cannot be cheap as chips ? (no, you cannot have chips also)

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Despite all these great discounts, we might even floats a few extra discount coupons here and there, just keep your eyes and ears open wide for those as well ;)

The Mascot

Sunday, December 7th, 2008

I have always been a huge fan of website mascots, they are not just great marketing tool, but also a fantastic way for people to relate to their provider, plus for us, it’s a fun way to express ideas by utilizing the mascot, you can create cartoons, explanatory graphics, etc .. much nicer than plain text and a chart.

With that in mind, we decided to create one for VPS.NET .. here is it’s story.

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