As much as I care about the integrity of the reviews, I also care about the integrity of the comments, and while I appreciate users who are willing to share their own experience with the provider (since the 96MB review has many limitations as listed here), I am also strongly against any business who are trying to post “reviews” in order to make a fake positive image of themselves and recently I have seen quite a few reviews posted on 96MB’s website that are suspicious at best: Looking at these comments posted, first it surprised me that all but one of these reviews are posted by users who are using Yahoo! email accounts, although clearly all of them seems to have a legitimate business running. Digging further down, all the IPs used to post these reviews are belonging to various data centres and proxy companies, for example, the last IP Read More

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

So it is summer again and for me, summer is usually a time I spend on catching up with a few things that I have been thinking of doing but have unfortunately no time to do yet. And as it turns out, the top issue on my to-do list for 96MB.com, based on the number of requests that I get (other than the requests to review VPS products and services) is to have a forum. Obviously there is the Big Brother (WebhostingTalk) in the realm of hosting-related forums, and then there is LowEndTalk, which I have personally benefited more than a dozen times from it and 96MB.com is never meant nor will ever be a competitor to any of them. So, here are some questions that I would like to throw to the readers of 96MB: 1. What is the direction do you think the forum should go in order Read More

I have not been checking LowEndBox lately since I had a pretty busy time lately due to my study schedule (yes, back to graduate school is never too easy) and several other personal items that takes a fair share of time. Therefore, I was surprised today when I noticed one of my reviews was posted as the first comment on one of LEB’s postings, followed by two really nice feedbacks from the LEB readers. I just want to say that a big thank you to all of the readers of 96MB.com for your support and encouragement. Just like any other ordinary person, sometimes I am lazy busy, but all the supportive readers like Breton, Asim and Miguel makes me want to keep writing more and more. VPS is a relatively new idea to me as well, it is a learning process for me and I do hope that all the Read More

First, I want to say that I was not spending the whole week trying to find out who Joseph was, I really do not have time for that. However, by accident, I have found something interesting and figure I should share with all of you. So Who is Joseph? To be honest, I know as little about him as you, other than the website he left in his comments here and here. I was impressed by the amount of content that the website in his signature contains. Although unfortunately it is offline while I was writing this, and no, I am pretty sure I did not have any server sending any request to this site: Fast Forward to Today… I was browsing on WHT as it is just another lazy Sunday night and I am not really in the mood of doing any work, and stumbled upon this website: http://vpslist.net/. Read More

I have been writing over a dozen of articles by now talk about good and bad things about VPS providers, so I think it is only fair for me to write something about the “bad” things related to 96MB Low End VPS Reviews. First, the period I am reviewing the VPS is relatively short. For most of the review-only VPS that I have (i.e., VPS that I did not purchase for myself but just for the review), I will perhaps log into the VPS at most half a dozen times through the review, and collecting the data during this period. Therefore, unfortunately, I can not measure the consistency of the performance. Hence, a bad performance does not necessarily mean the host is using really cheap hardware, but it could just because some abuser(s) are on the node at the time I was taking my readings. Also, although I have tried Read More

It was the first thing I did after getting home from my photography class to check my email since I was away for the whole afternoon (classes itself was three hours and add another 3 hours of commute to it), and I saw this dreaded email from UptimeRobot saying 96MB.com is down. I was able to SSH into the server although logging in alone took me a minute. I checked SolusVM panel and the VPS was shown as online, only 80MB of memory was used (out of 96MB) and half of the hard drive space was used. I have rebooted the server and it seems to be up now, I am still trying to read through the access logs and PHP errors to see if it is just because 96MB.com is getting too popular or someone is trying to crash the website. Having said that though, I think I need Read More

It has been more than four months since I have put up the very first post on 96MB.com, I was, honestly, a little surprised and honoured how much attention that this little blog has drawn from the low end VPS community and I truly appreciate my readers, you, who put up the time reading everything that I have been posted here. I have also beginning to get more and more requests from various VPS providers to make the general community know more about the great services that they provide. So, just to make it somewhat “official”, here is a few FAQs you would like to get a 96MB Low End VPS Review: How can I contact 96MB? 1. Leave a comment to this post, let me know the provider’s name and if there is any particular product line (Xen/OVZ/KVM) you would like to get a review about, OR 2. Send Read More

After almost a year without a vacation, 96MB Admin has finally decided to take a break this coming weekend during the Canada Day/US Independence Day long weekend. As such, I am afraid there may not be another review published during that weekend, but I will be back on the week after and continue to share with you the adventures in the VPS world! Wish everyone a Happy Canada Day in Canada and Happy Independence Day in US!

It was almost ironical that less than 24 hours after I posted my previous post (which, now, no longer exists for reasons that I will explain below) celebrating 30-days of uptime with 96MB.com (or the 96MB RAM VPS box it is sitting on), 96MB.com received such a huge visiting volume that the box could no longer hold it through and surrendered with a DB Connection Error screen. Out of panic, I tried to reboot the box, the shutdown was fine, however after I tried to boot it up again, here is the error message that I have got: Filesystem unmounted: sudo /bin/umount /home/xen/vps2433.vm/mnt VPS config file written: /home/xen/vps2433.vm/vps2433.vm.cfg Filesystem Created: sudo /sbin/mkswap /dev/VolGroup00/vps2433.vm_vmswap Filesystem labelled: sudo /sbin/e2label /dev/VolGroup00/vps2433.vm_rootimg domU_disk_root Filesystem mounted: sudo /bin/mount /dev/VolGroup00/vps2433.vm_rootimg /home/xen/vps2433.vm/mnt VPS hostname file written: /usr/local/openitc/tmp/vps2433.vm_etc_hostname Files chowned: sudo /bin/chown root:root /usr/local/openitc/tmp/vps2433.vm_etc_* File moved: sudo /bin/mv /usr/local/openitc/tmp/vps2433.vm_etc_hostname /home/xen/vps2433.vm/mnt/etc/hostname VPS hosts file written: /usr/local/openitc/tmp/vps2433.vm_etc_hosts Files chowned: sudo Read More