As some of you probably know, I have recently bid for a domain on WHT and it is: FindMyVPS.com After a week of waiting, finally the domain is under my Cloudflare account but other than redirecting visitors to 96MB.com, it is not really doing anything major at the moment. Since you guys are the most important parts that supports my work, I am once again, open for ideas on what I should do with this domain. Here are some of the options: 1. Just let it points to 96MB.com 2. Rebrand 96MB.com to become FindMyVPS.com since the domain contains keywords that are relevant to the blog 3. Make it the name of the new forum that we have discussed about that is currently at the under construction/sub-beta stage. (I know I should not talk about a piece of work when it is not done, but I am definitely looking for Read More

By the time you have read the first three parts of Finding The Right Low-End VPS series at here, here and here, and if you have not get bored yet, you should have a pretty good idea to have a few service providers to pick from. The last, and perhaps one of, if not the most important step, is to verify those providers by digging through some of the publicly available data sources, that they are indeed what they claim to be. In this section, I will use QuickWeb as an example for illustration purposes, since they are one of my favourite providers! The first piece of information that is widely available is the domain registration. Google for "domain whois" information and you will find a myriad number of websites offering such information.  I personally do not have a preference which website is better, but some websites do cache those Read More

OK, now you have done a great assessment, you know how much you are willing to pay approximately and the level of service you are going to get, and perhaps, you’ve even gone a step further from my previous post to start looking for a VPS provider and is somewhat shocked by the myriad number of choices that you have. The question then becomes, naturally, how do I find the few ones that you know you can trust with your precious websites/programs? Step 1: Reading reviews Few people actually bother to sit down and read reviews from the Internet these days, partially because if you search in Google by typing in “VPS Reviews”, there are perhaps millions of links shows up. On the other hand, most of the them are perhaps nothing more than meta tags embedded in the web pages, hoping to attract more traffic, and the remaining ones, Read More

Let me begin by saying this: the most important part of finding the “right” or the “best” low-end VPS for you, actually start from nowhere else but YOU! What? Me? Why me? Two reasons: 1. The reason why you are buying a low-end VPS is because you do not want to pay, for whatever reason, 100 dollars a month to set up your website, and 2. What you pay is going to be a very strong clue of what you will be getting. I used to dream of having a super-powerful server sitting somewhere that I can do some real rocket-science type of computing with it. Unfortunately, the reality is, as a decent working person with no wealthy family background and no oil reserve in my backyard, what is left in my pocket after paying all the necessities every month, is minimal. And that is why, most of you, are Read More

May be your shared host has just emailed you that they will no longer able to offer you shared hosting service because your website has out-grown the amount of resources they are expecting, may be you are expecting your website to attract 10K page views per day at least, may be you need root access to install some customized Python add-on that the shared hosting providers will not install them for you due to security reasons… Regardless of what the reason(s) are, you decide to get your own VPS – a “virtual” computer that you know is there (or hope it will be there all the time) but you almost certainly will never get a chance to see it. We are, fortunate or not, living in the age where whoever that pays 50 dollars a month could be a web host in an hour, and there are thousands of hosts, Read More