NinjaHawk is probably not one of the VPS providers who provide aggressive prices in the LEB community (which is in contrast, of, say, ChicagoVPS), and quite frankly speaking the pricing that they have, without discount at least, is definitely in the “premier” range. Although this is definitely not the first non-LEB VPS provider I have ever reviewed (you can see some of the examples here, here and here), since personally I feel that it is a matter of personal choices that some people would simply like to pay more for one reason or another (even though I do encourage readers like you to get the most work done using the least amount of resources), I definitely have higher expectations on the non-LEB providers. So how is NinjaHawk holding up with regards to this, especially after one of their founding members has left? Let’s take a look. Basic Information and Set Read More

Preface I woke up this morning and was pleasantly surprised to see a review from a long time Low End VPS community member jcaleb (who has done many good deeds in the community, including the most recent ones here) has sent me his own review on one of the Low End VPS providers that was on my to-do list. Thanks so much jcaleb! This is the first time time I am posting a review that is done by a community member so please feel free to share your thoughts on the comments below and depending on the feedbacks, I may be more than happy to post more reviews from the reputable community members in future. Disclaimer: jcaleb has provided review using his own test VPS and I have not done any verification (nor any change, other than some minor formatting) on his review. However being a very reputable member of Read More

Happy New Year everyone! Hope everyone has had a good break, had spent some time with your family and friends and had a pretty good break! And to me, I have been spending days taking a mini-vacation and spend some time to think and plan for the next year, and one of the items that I have had for my 2013 To-Do list is definitely to keep 96MB going so that readers like you would be benefited from the VPS review that I have been writing! Most of the time I do a review either because the VPS business has put in a review request or if I happened to be in need of a VPS myself. However, in some occasion, the review request comes from customers who are either happy with the service and would like more people to know about the provider they are using, or they feel Read More

As many have said recently, my pace in writing VPS reviews are getting slower and slower. Believe it or not, I am actually just getting as frustrated with my own progress as well as I have received quite a few email politely reminding me their review requests have not been completed for months. NECS is one such example, Ramon from NECS has sent me a review request since June 7, and another reminder last month about it. I have finally got around to them and let’s take a look at their services. Basic Information and Set Up I have decided to take advantage of their offer on WHT and unfortunately their lowest plan (Basic) was sold out, so I had to sign up for the Starter 1 Plan, which offers the following amount of resources for 5 GBP (equivalent to slightly above 8 USD at the time of writing) per Read More

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

As 96MB.com grows everyday, so is the number of requests for a review of the services, and as the pile grows up, there is often one or two that tend to slide through the crack. YourDomainGoesHere (YDGH) is one of them, I have ordered and being paying for their services for more than half a year and each and every time I paid my invoice, I kept telling myself I will need to get this review done next week, and…the cycle just repeated. So finally, I have decided to write about them and take a look at how their services are performing. (On a side note, I do pay for every VPS that I have written on this blog, except the ones that I labeled clearly as part of the promotions/beta testing, I will normally ask for a refund for the VPS that I paid purely for review purposes – Read More

Recently, I have been doing quite a few “unsolicited” reviews, i.e., reviews that are not from anyone in particular. Reasons being I was quite curious in taking a look at those “cloud” VPS providers myself as well. The review today is “unsolicited” as well, however this time, it was simply due to the few recent controversies that this VPSNodeBox, as a relatively newcommer to the LEB market (such as here and here), has got involved in, which made me rather curious about their services and decided to take a look at their service to see how it is like. Basic Information and Set Up I have grabbed their 1GB KVM VPS deal that is listed on LowEndBox.com and here is how it looks like: I have to say, for a 1GB RAM KVM box, the price of 7USD per month is actually quite good, although the fact that Windows is Read More

Recently, there has been quite a few cloud VPS hosting appeared on the 96MB Low End VPS reviews, and the review today is no exception. Atomic VPS is probably one of the “high-end” VPS providers as well, with their regular price start at 59.95USD per month for a 1GB RAM VPS. At this price level, how would the performance be? Let’s take a look. Basic Information and Set Up I have signed up for a cloudONE package during their open beta test stage for this particular review when I saw their posting on WebhostingTalk and here is the package specifications on their plan page:   At the moment they are running a promotion for 14.95 at the first month, which is really out of the “low end” VPS range as well: The sign up page is pretty standard WHMCS page and in fact I was asked to enter my domain Read More

My previous review was about a “cloud” VPS provider, VPS.NET, which is probably one of the largest “cloud” providers in the relatively budget market with 15 locations throughout the world. The VPS provider that I am going to review today, VMStorm, is a much smaller one but has some pretty good reviews and reputations in the community. Are they really as great as they seem to be? Let’s take a look. Basic Information and Set Up As per their advertisement on LowEndTalk, here is what is offered: The signup page is almost a piece of art: As you can see, everything was listed in one page and straight-forward, which is something really great. They have also listed their helpline number and email for you to contact them. Note that on the sign up page, there is no cost for extra IPv4 addresses, I have confirmed with David that IPv4 is Read More

Recently, more and more people start to talk about the idea of “Cloud Computing”, particularly since the Amazon EC2 and Microsoft Azure start to gaining popularity among primarily enterprise customers who has a strong desire for scalability and stability of the platform. Unfortunately for the low end VPS users like you and me, the cost to run such a true cloud set up is more than often prohibitively high, way beyond what hobbyists could afford. VPS.NET, from this perspective, provided an pretty reasonable price point (albeit still a little high in the low end VPS market). Therefore, when I saw the free month offer from VPS.Net on Webhostingtalk.com, I decided to sign up and take a look at how their services is like. Basic Information and Set Up As per their advertisement on WHT, here is what you get for a month worth of free services: As you can see, Read More