[The Real Slim Shady]

Domain Name: CLOUDATCOST.COM
Creation Date: 2011-12-29
Expiration Date: 2013-12-29

Seems they registered the domain in 2011 but launched the site just one month ago or so.

People are facing issues mainly regarding support and some default configuration (easily solvable). You can check their fb page: https://www.facebook.com/cloudatcost

A detailed review from a person having direct experience of using it can be found here: http://penguindreams.org/blog/review-cloud-at-cost/
It tells "They have a very limited selection too: CentOS, Ubuntu LTS and Debian."

I suggest don't go for a life time account. Just buy an annual subscription for 12$. And It is only good for playing around and not 2 b used as a production website server.

A guy bought one yesterday and his feedback is pasted below. Original link:http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1315388

Just bought Developer 1 package, bandwidth is pretty rubbish:

I have now been using it over 2 weeks now and the uptime has been 100% - server load is alright, and when i downloaded ubuntu as a test i was hitting 4mbps - with 2.5-3mbps being average. of course that isnt definitive because the limiting factor may have been the ubuntu servers.

When i purchased the vps, i was not expecting a premium vps hosting server. I would think anyone expecting that would be crazy. But its a good little server for development or tinkering around. Or hell, just for security 12$ a year is a great price for a private vpn that you have full control over. No questions about if they log this or that either.

[godtheonlytruth]

Thank You Geoff
I was hesitant just because last post on HC was more than 2 weeks ago about this topic. So was curious and wanted to have most recent feedback from someone trust worthy and having first hand experience.
Will go for it now
Thanks n Regards

[godtheonlytruth]

Geoff
Can you please provide me some stats about available resources when the ubuntu is running speccially free memory available. Actually I want to use it as VPN and do some Django based web development. So I have to decide whether to go for 512MB or 1GB memory.
Will appreciate your advice and help.
Thanks

[The Real Slim Shady]

top - 06:48:07 up 16 days, 23:34, 1 user, load average: 0.13, 0.09, 0.19
Tasks: 71 total, 1 running, 70 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni,100.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 502352k total, 263120k used, 239232k free, 132184k buffers
Swap: 2064376k total, 0k used, 2064376k free, 37832k cached

looks like im using about 50% of my memory. Im running just OpenVPN and and ZNC (An IRC bouncer) but thats it. its a little higher than i expected but the bulk of it seems to be vmtoolsd.

When i get around to it ill probably get a development environment up and running.

Oh and im running CentOS, not Ubuntu. Its kinda weird but all my servers run CentOS, and all my home computers run a version of Ubuntu lol. I guess the reasoning is that i was using centos/redhat on my servers long before i switched over to linux at home. and when i did that i went with ubuntu. lol

[godtheonlytruth]

Thanks Geoff for the top dump and other info
Even the 512MB looks really good for some tinkering and playing around.