So…it has been a few weeks since the last VPS review from 96MB.com and as promised in my last review, I will present another review as my Christmas present to the readers of 96MB.com. As promised, and since Hani from servaRICA has emailed me almost 3 months ago asking for a review, we will get it started without any further delay. Basic Information and Set Up Servarica is a provider that only provide VPS using Xen virtualization technology, as per this post on WHT and their lowest VPS offering, the XenSource VPS Offer 1, comes with the following specification: The price is not exactly “low end” for a 256MB VPS, so we’ll hope for a solid specification for the VPS. However, the servers are located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, which could be a factor to justify the price. The sign up page is using HTTPS page, and there is only Read More

Quite frankly speaking, F9 Servers is another not-so-cheap VPS service provider that should probably be excluded from the “low end” VPS list, however they are one of the very few Canadian providers in Ontario province and the company itself is located in the same city that I spent my university life at! Therefore, when they offered a free trial server on WebHostingTalk, I could not resist but to sign up for one quickly. Price and Sign Up The lowest configuration for a VPS in F9 Servers looks something like this: and here is the corresponding price: For that price, you can get a similar specification for the whole year in Montreal Canada, so I really do not see how much advantage they would have price-wise. However they claim to have pretty solid servers and very few VPS per node, which could potentially meet the clientele who needs high-end VPS. One Read More

The first review is obviously on my XenVZ/OpenITC box, which is the very box that 96MB.com is sitting on. The original offer is no longer available, however as per the offer page on LowEndBox.com, here are the specification of this most low-end VPS that I have: Obviously Xen is what I chose as this is really what I see makes the offer attractive. Also, it was not mentioned that it also comes with 2GB of off-site backup with 2GB monthly transfer. Set up is almost instant, order paid via Paypal on 9:07PM, VPS provisioned on 9:38PM. The control panel is highly customized, and here is how it looks like: Some of the really nice features about this custom panels are: 1. Allow custom kernel through PyGrub, some users have reported here that they actually managed to get a few MB of RAM after making use of the custom kernels, however Read More