The other day, I was looking at the Frantech’s weird (as in cool) way of showing their stock / restock and last stock status at DoesBuyVMhaveStock.com and I noticed there is a new tab for Buffalo, NY (yayy!!!)
Currently they operate out from only one location that is San Jose, CA which gives me like 400ms from PTCL which makes it very hard to use their VPN service or host any content targeted for Pakistani users. Psst!! have been using Amazon’s S3 along with Amazon CloudFront for such purposes which is dirt cheap anyway.
Coming to the point, I contacted and got confirmation that they will have stock on the new location in next week, it will be released in two phases
- For the current customers
- If there is something left, it will be released later for everyone else
The ping/download tests are way improved from their San Jose location and approx 200ms less (I wish I could give out the test IP for you to test out). Tried requesting to get a box moved to the new location but they are not accepting such transfers not until they soft-launch on Monday for existing customers. I hope im lucky enough to get hold of a box to publish test ip and test files though.
Will we be able to get GeoIPs? (Canadian IP on US VPS?) I cannot comment but I hope to see the same.
I was not aware of the site doesbuyvmhavestock one.
Pretty nice to keep records though.
I have VPS from both SJ and NY. Both have great network. Very satisfied
I am more satisfied with NY minus the fact that storage is still offered in SJ. My satisfaction comes from mainly the fact that the resolve time is less in NY location 😀
been ssh’ing into my buyvm vps through my hostigation vps, only way its usable on ptcl. looks like i wont have to do that anymore, thanks for the headsup asim