I have seen some offers around other sites for a $3.99 VPS, with an unmetered port. Are these offers legit? I have never seen prices that low, not even the company I work for could do that

I very much doubt you would get that for $3.99... very unreal

The connection to the node may be on a unmetered port but not the VPS.

I wouldnt come close to such offers, a decent metered VPS costs 10 times that much

That price is too cheap to be reliable. If you have the money maybe look into paying for a more expensive VPS and then buy that $3.99 unmetered VPS and host files on it, but either way don't put anything on it you would not mind losing, I cannot see that host being around for too long at all.

If anyone is offering that, I'd stay away from them.

That's like me coming to you and offering you car insurance for $10, instead of $1000. It just doesn't make sense and is an unrealistic price. Chances are, sooner or later these guys will shut down or sell off their business.

Do some research and you'll notice the average type of prices yourself.

BTW, what's the link to this "supposdly" low offering biz.

I wouldn't mind seeing this link to. But I can guarantee there won't be an address; phone number and their Domain WHOIS will be guarded.

If you go to WHT, it's mr_brain.

welcome2inter.net

Dont under estimate such offers. Certain top quality brands have enough bandwidth and have enough "owned servers" to cut costs and convert the "investments" of rented servers into owned and translate the same for the bandwidth. Unmetered ports and upgrades are very much possibly. HOWEVER this is definitely limited to top companies and not just small players who need fast cash

"1 Mbps full-duplex Uplink"

3.99 Euro is about $5.80 USD, for 64 MB ram with 1 Mbit/s unmetered and 1GB disk isn't anything too extraordinary. Sounds like a plan meant to be a nameserver to me.
The 1Mbit/s, if you were able to saturate that for every second of the month only comes to roughly 320GB. A host with a 100 Mbit commit won't even notice someone using that.

To the OP the offer is really very strange.

This thread brings up a good point - when something says "unmetered" the first thought in your mind needs to be "What is the port capacity?" and the next "Is that dedicated to me or shared between who knows how many other customers?"

A handy tool to figure out about how much bandwidth you can get in a month out of a connection is to use Google. Ie. Search for "1 megabit per second = ? gigabytes per month" and it will tell you. Don't forget the real usage you will end up getting out of the connection is likely a lot less than what Google will list as your peak usage will be a lot higher than your average usage.

I knew Google could calculate, but that's pretty cool.

The kicker with that offer is the 1mbps port, thats nothing and will be slow for anything but a DNS server.

Also, how many such servers are they putting on a box? The disk will likely slow to a crawl.

For a 1mbps port, I guess the offer isn't terrible (bang for buck). But I wouldn't trust it with anything of value.