I have to say that that although there are many providers which claimed to provide VPS with only 96MB of RAM, rarely any of them actually do provide a VPS for which 96MB is all you have as memory resources. Most of the OpenVZ providers actually provide at least another 96MB of burstable RAM, which means you are essentially running on a VPS with 192MB of RAM (although you can not do that all the time), which is really what all is needed to run an LNMP stack, plus many other basic functionalities. For Xen HVM providers, you even have the ability to add your own swap space, making the swap space to be as large as you like. That is why when IPXCore start to offer a true 96MB VPS (i.e. all you have is 96MB of memory and no burstable/swap RAM), it immediately turns out to be something Read More

As I was going back in time and reading about all the past 42 reviews I have done with the VPS providers and enjoy the fruit of my work, I can not stop wondering what happened to the providers of some of the oldest reviews. Obviously some of them are already closed (for example, IPAP.co and eNetSouth), however some of the others have thrived with the great VPS that they have provided. Today, we are going to take a look at XenVZ again, which is the VPS provider that I have wrote the first review and is what 96MB.com was originally sitting on. It has been a year since I have last reviewed them (and a year since 96MB.com was conceived!), how have they been doing? Basic Information and Set Up As per their advertisement on Webhostingtalk, here is what you get: Although once you click on the order link, Read More

For the low end VPS regulars, Quickweb is definitely one of the big names out there. It has, at least in the past, done some really impressive work and sold really stable VPS, and more importantly, perhaps the most central website in this low end VPS community, LowEndBox.com, is hosted with them. Personally, my first VPS was purchased from them and the VPS I have paid the most is a Supa VZ1 at their London, UK location. However, the recent posting about them did come with some negative feedbacks, and a long time LEB veteran, drmike, does not seems to be too happy with their VPS offerings as per this comment here,which was posted on the Christmas day. So what is going on with Quickweb recently? I decided to sign up for a VPS and take a look myself. Basic Information and Set Up Again, as per this post on Read More

As I am pondering slowly over the long-overdue list of review request, VPSDeploy seems to be the next one on the list. Their VPS offerings got me really excited as it was one of the very few low end VPS that is actually offered on SSD! We are know the advantages of SSD: fast disk I/O, however, the current cost of SSD is a lot higher than the standard HDD and therefore kept the low cost VPS providers away from offering it. In fact, there is only one other VPS provider that I have reviewed so far that offered this service. So how is this particular offering from VPS Deploy performs. Basic Information and Set Up As per this post on LowEndBox, here is what you get for 4.99USD:   Although LEA has supplied a discount code for 50% off the first month payment, I did not actually get to Read More

Back in November, DotVPS was featured in LEB for a really sweet deal of getting a 512MB dedicated memory (1024MB burstable memory) VPS for under 5 USD per month. The best part? The Netherland location has a 1Gbps unmetered bandwidth. Yes, I have to say although I have not been in the Low End VPS community for a long time, this is, as far as I can remember, the first(second at most) time that I have seen a 512MB unmetered bandwidth VPS for under 5 USD per month. Little surprise that their stock vanished in just one day. Since then, there were several “incidents” happened to them, such as understaffed, and died hard disks at various times. Nonetheless, Jack has added a few more stocks in the days after the initial stock ran dry and I have decided to pick one up to see how well it works for me. Read More

Nate from Kazila, emailed me back in September asking me to review their services. And of course, as the same as my previous review, I have to really apologize for delaying things so much. So let’s take a look at how solid the VPS from them are. Basic Information and Set Up As per the advertisement on LowEndBox, here is what you get for 7USD/month, the cheapest of their Xen VPS packages. As per LEB, three locations are offered at this time, Los Angeles CA with Quadranet, Dallas TX with NorthTXConnect (UPDATE: they are now with GIP networks as per Nate), New York City with Steadfast Networks. The sign up page is a heavily themed WHMCS in HTTPS, however I am a little surprised that after all the customization work, the order page still started off by asking you for a domain name, which is not necessary in WHMCS system. Read More

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

In the previous post, we have reviewed the performance of the smallest siblings of BuyVM’s KVM offering. Although the disk I/O is pretty good at close to 100MB/s, the fact that only 1 CPU core is available caused the benchmarks to be pretty low. So, by paying more, other than getting larger RAM, do we also get better performance? In this post, we shall take a look at the performance of a 512MB KVM VPS. General Information and Set Up Since both 128MB and 512MB VPS use the same sign up process and the SolusVM control panel is pretty much the same, I will focus our discussion here on a few differences. First difference is obviously the cost, the 521MB VPS cost 10 per month, and here is what you get for 10USD: During the sign up process, the warning message that appeared for the 128MB VPS declaring that upgrading/downgrading Read More

BuyVM is perhaps one of the most frequently featured providers here – for a good reason that they sell really great servers at really cheap price. So far, almost all 15/year providers are unable to deliver a reasonably performed VPS for a prolonged period of time, except BuyVM. As a result, almost every time BuyVM added some new stock, they are sold out in relatively short time frame. Therefore, although it has been a few months since BuyVM has announced their new KVM product lines, I did not manage to get a hold of a few KVMs until recently. This review will consists of two parts, both are dedicated to BuyVM’s KVM series, the first is the most budget 128MB KVM VPS and second part is for the mid-range 512MB KVM products. Why? Because many hosts use lower-range hardware and almost all hosts put more clients per VPS on their Read More

There are several VPS auctions on WebhostingTalk almost at any single period of time. To VPS users like you and me, they basically provide us opportunities to get some really decent VPS at an amazing price, and to the VPS hosting providers, especially the relatively new VPS providers, it is definitely a great opportunity for them to increase the brand-awareness in the VPS market. Recently, I have won one of such auctions for a VPS provided by MegaWorldHosting and decided to take a look to see how much I can get out of the four dollars per month. Basic Information and Set Up Justin appears to be leading the marketing effort of MegaWorldHosting and the domain name registrant as well and he also seems to own Sprocket Networks, which, until recently, has been offering VPS auctions quite actively on WebHostingTalk. Sprocket Networks has since moved to the relatively high end Read More