ChunkHost is giving away free VPS hosting

FYI, it is only the first chunk you get upon signup AND it stops being free after 4-5 weeks. It wasn't explicitly clear on the landing page.

"100% network and server uptime. Guaranteed." is a bold claim to make.

ChunkHost is currently looking for Beta Testers (in the U.S. only) to shake this new service down! For Beta Testers, the first 512MB chunk is free.

<a href="http://chunkhost.com/faq" rel="nofollow">http://chunkhost.com/faq</a><p><pre><code> How long will the beta be free? At least 5 weeks. Sometimes longer, depending on capacity. When your beta chunk's time is up, we email you asking you to take a survey about the experience. At the end of the survey, you can choose to keep your chunk and begin paying for it or let it be shut down.</code></pre>

I signed up for hosting from these guys about a year ago and have been pretty satisfied. The service just works, and the support I get has been great. Granted, I'm just running a simple little personal site. It's nothing of critical importance or anything.

They don't seem to be able to verify my (valid) credit card. I'm hoping it's not a scam, but if it's not, they may have gotten shut down by their payment processor for a lot of suspicious $0.01 authorizations.

US only. BOOOO!

Seems to be full at the moment. I signed up and they said, no room for beta testers at the moment, but they'll tell me when there are openings.

US only strikes me as a weird condition, and taking the CC card to check seems suspicious to me.<p>It's also a bit disappointing as I'm in the UK.

32GB per node and only two SATA drives in RAID-1? Sounds like IO wait might be pretty high on nodes that are filled up.

not giving my CC for free trial