My recent VPS reviews have been focused on mostly the VPS that are located in North America and despite all the similarities between the VPS services provided in Europe and Americas, the specifications provided, at the same price level, could varies quite a bit simply due to the cheaper bandwidth cost and the existence of some really low-cost DCs such as OVH and Hetzner. As such, I will start a review today on FileMedia, which is a German-based VPS provider offering KVM VPS. Basic Information and Set Up I noticed FileMedia when they have made a post on LowEndTalk to provide a free test VPS for three months for a review. As per the the advertisement, here is server that is on the offer: Although I have been in Germany a few times as a tourist, I have to confess that I knew next to nothing about the language, however, Read More

Posted in VPS Review at December 2nd, 2012.

It has been a while since I review various low end VPS providers online, and one of the more contentious topic in the low end VPS community is whether Xen or OpenVZ could perform better with similar specifications. One of the Xen providers who I have reviewed before had a friendly discussion with Ashley in VMPort on the Xen Vs. OpenVZ issue and asked me to provide a review on their OpenVZ VPS to see how the performance is. General Information and Set Up VMPort has recently updated their website and according to Ashley, it was the first time she has tried to play around building a website and apparently it went really well, the new design is actually really good: Compare to their original design (thanks to LowEndBox.com), this new design is definitely a lot more elegant and right to the point. For GBP 3.10 per month, here is Read More

Posted in VPS Review at September 8th, 2011.

Bret from UrgentVPS has emailed me almost a month ago (yes, I know I have been really lagging behind on the requests, but it is getting more and more difficult to sit down and spend time to write reviews these days) to request a review on their OnApp cloud VPS lines that they have pushed out to the public recently. The idea of cloud VPS using OnApp is great, but traditionally it has been mostly restricted to the wealthier clientele with deep pockets, so let’s see how it is. General Information and Set Up May be a little off the topic, but the first thing that jumps into my eyes when going to the home page of UrgentVPS is their chat with us windows, which is rather unique: Although not publicly advertised on their website, UrgentVPS actually has a low end VPS special, and here is what you get for Read More

Posted in VPS Review at September 6th, 2011.

There is perhaps no VPS providers recently (other than the ones almost in the dead-pool, such as Hostrail or W2 Servers) has caused as much controversy as IPAP.Co. Their previous offer on LowEndBox has gathered close to 500 replies. However, they are definitely not satisfied with the amount publicity (positive or negative) that they have received, and this time, they came up with a even more surprising offer on LowEndBox, and for 6.99 USD per month, here is what you expect to receive: I have to say I really doubt how they could possibly offer this crazy amount of resources at this price. After all, 6.99 would perhaps cover the cost of 2IP + 2GB memory and nothing else. So, I decided to give it a shot myself to see how such a insane plan works. General and Set Up The origin of IPAP.CO is truly a mystery, besides a Read More

Posted in VPS Review at June 28th, 2011.

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

Posted in Finding The Right Low-End VPS at April 3rd, 2011.