Flipping through the emails in my inbox, the first email from Prometeus to me was sent on January 28th of this year, when they were first getting into the low end VPS market and I have replied with a self-imposed deadline of early April. I have almost missed the deadline by another four months and meanwhile, Prometeus has evolved from one of the brand names that few low end VPS community members know to one of the most popular brands, earning the second place in the Top Providers Q2 2012 poll on LowEndTalk. Obviously, part of their success attribute to the great personality that the owner of Prometeus has, including the time where he actually helped some VPS-provider-wanna-be to start his business. Having said that, however, are their servers really solid? I have decided to get one and take a look at it myself. Disclaimer: I have received two free Read More

If you have been reading my VPS reviews recently, you would realize that I was at least, for a while, looking for some relatively “high” end VPS packages (of course, using the LEB standard), particularly with large hard drive space and a reasonable amount of RAM. The reason for me to do this is pretty simple, I was looking to build a fail-safe private network of backups using Crashplan and headless VPS. As such, when OneProvider posted their offer on WHT, I decided to take the dive and take a look. Basic Information and Set Up One Provider is part of Brainstorm Network Inc., which seems to own a few brands, besides OneProvider, they are also the owners of BSNServers and HostHaha (which is one of those hosts providing “unlimited” shared hosting, which is one of the most debatable concept on WHT, however 96MB.com is not about shared hosting and Read More

DMEHosting has recently posted quite a few limited (20 only as per their WHT advertisement, although I have almost never seen this product going out of stock for the past few months) for a pretty big VPS at a slightly above standard LEB type of prices. Since the RAM is so big, I got curious with the offer and decided to grab one myself and see how it works. Basic Information and Set Up As per their post on WHT, here is the specs of the VPS: I guess the biggest selling point here is the 1Gbit port with 2TB of bandwidth, which, although is not unmetered, is pretty generous. Of course, 2GB of dedicated RAM makes it a pretty sweet deal for those RAM-hungry app as well. The sign up process, as indicated on the advertisement, is using WHMCS in secured HTTPS and there seems to be quite a Read More

It is rare to find a decent low end VPS provider in Canada, let alone in Toronto, Ontario. It is pretty interesting because you would think that in every metropolitan city, the economies of scale will simply bring down the cost of VPS providers. However, apparently, the rules are not the same in Canada and therefore, when Amanah Technology offered a free VPS to try for a month, I immediately took the dive and ordered one. Of course, later on Amanah has come up with a even more surprising offer to give people free VPS for life, which was mentioned in my previous post here, and although the specification was a bit low end, it was nonetheless one of the most stable VPS I have had. Some of the screenshots in this review will be based off the free low end VPS, however all tests on the VPS itself was Read More

How time flies! It seems 96MB was just opened yesterday but in fact the blog is a year old now. In the highly competitive VPS industry, one year is a long time and many providers has started during this time, some of them become highly successful and grew, while others simply vanished into the thin air (we have plenty of examples here which I am not going to mention). BlueVM has celebrated its first birthday earlier last month and I have decided to buy a VPS from them and take a look at. Basic Information and Set Up As per their advertisement on LowEndTalk, here is what you can get for 1.99USD per month: Unfortunately when I signed up with them, they are already out of stock for this special for all four locations they offer, and I ended up have to sign up for the BlueVM2 Plan which has Read More

123Systems.Net is probably one of the most controversial VPS providers in the low end VPS industry. On one hand, they are definitely selling some really cheap VPS that is many of us use for backup purposes (I have yet to see another provider offering a 128MB box for 10USD per year and 192MB VPS  for 15 USD). However, they are also (in)famous on WHT for their notoriously slow response speed (see the most recent episode here). As a result, I have decided to take a look and see how things are going with them. Basic Information and Set Up I have actually been waiting relatively patiently for a while for the 128MB RAM VPS box to come on stock, however unfortunately it did not happen, and finally I decided to spend an extra 5 USD and get a 192MB RAM VPS instead, and according to their advertisement on WHT, here Read More

When I have completed my previous review for VMPort and asked for a refund for my payment last September, Ashley issued the refund quickly to me with one condition– I will come back and review their service in few months. I did get my refund but many reviews after, I still have not got back to VMPort. During this period, Ashley has started another line of business, KVMPort (although KVMPort.com is down for me as well as for isitup), offering services using KVM virtualization. During this period, Ashley has emailed me and contacted me via Twitter trying to get a review. After repeated apologies, I have finally got around to sign up with them and write a review for their KVM service. And here is what I have seen from isitup at the moment: Basic Information and Set Up As usual, the package I am reviewing is the lowest KVM Read More

Knownhost is probably one of the most well-known brand in the VPS community for their managed VPS services. The services that they have provided is really second to none and have received quite a few positive feedbacks on WebhostingTalk. The only problem? They are too expensive to the budget VPS community. In fact, even with the heavy discount that they have posted here, even their cheapest VPS plan is way beyond the acceptable range of the budget VPS, which is typically set to below 7USD per month. Therefore, when Knownhost opened up their budget hosting division, RocketVPS, and offered a really sweet deal on WebhostingTalk, which even brought down their most basic VPS to within the budget VPS limit, I immediately took the dive and signed up for one of those boxes (Fortunate enough for me, I was able to be one of the first 50 lucky customers to get Read More

Anthony emailed me a long time ago before InceptionHosting even started to offer hosting in the continental US for a review on their Phoenix node, however I was too busy with all other stuff in life (if you have noticed recently, my posting rate on 96MB is decreasing drastically) until Anthony basically gave up waiting for me on that review (sorry Anthony!) and asked me to review the new node he set up in Netherlands. Unfortunately, although I have done the data collection work like months ago, I did not get a chance to write this review until now. Therefore, without further delay, let’s take a look at how the new service is doing. Note that this won’t be a full review since Inception Hosting has been featured quite a few times on 96MB (more specifically here and here) and therefore I will only focus on the recent changes as Read More

Among all of the VPS providers that I have reviewed so far, besides a few that I was curious about myself, others were either requested by the providers themselves or someone who is interested in purchasing their services. However, VPS6.Net stood out as the only one which there were requests from both sides: Jeremy from VPS6.Net has asked me to write a review about them a few months back and one of their potential customers has asked me to review their services as well. What is the magic power behind VPS6.Net that made them so attractive? I was curious about this and when I saw they actually offer free trial on their OpenVZ service, I took up the opportunity and signed up for a box. Basic Information and Set Up As mentioned above, the trial VPS offered by VPS6 comes with 128MB of RAM, 10GB of bandwidth, 2 CPU cores Read More