Note: Apologies for the delay in publishing this review, this was supposedly to be published for last week, however, I hope you can forgive my delay considering that I have only slept for 5 hours altogether during the first three days of last week. There will be another review published in the next few hours for this week as well. As far as I can remember, there were only three providers who have tried to offer the 2GB that were listed in LowEndBox.com – IPAP.co, eNetSouth and Up2VPS. IPAP has recently changed their company name, and the owner of eNetSouth, Brandon, has recently disappeared with his servers goes offline for weeks without any response (even before I get a chance to write a review for them). So how about the last survivor, Up2VPS? After they have decided to offer a $1 deal on LowEndTalk.com for people to “play with”, I Read More

The review of this week was originally scheduled for eNetSouth.com $7/month 2GB VPS offer. However, the VPS has been offline for a week and it is still offline at the time of writing:    Furthermore, Brandon has ignored all support tickets, not just from me but from any of his customer who is affected as seen by the comments on this post in LowEndBox.com. Furthermore, even his new hires are having difficulties in finding him. Therefore, until Brandon brings back everything online (and re-appear in the online world), there won’t be any review from 96MB.com about eNetSouth.

Matt from SSD Nodes has dropped me a message on Webhostingtalk over a month ago asking for a review on their product and although he has encouraged me to try out a VPS using SSD on the root partition, I have decided to keep up with the spirit of choosing selecting a standard LEB offer where possible and ended up choosing the small plan that is almost the same as what is advertised on LEB, with a slight modification (but at the same cost), and we’ll take a look at how this box performs. General Information and Set Up As per the advertisement on LEB, here is what you will be getting for 6.99 per month:   However, while reading through the comments section, I have noticed that Matt has posted a comment that we can use SSD as a secondary storage at no additional cost, and that is what Read More

OK, so I have had some fun in doing the review for QualityServers (which was completed unscheduled), now it is back to the schedule again. Flipping through the list, I realised I have promised circus more than a month ago for a review on EDIS.at, which I have not done so yet, so here we go. General Information and Set Up Being an Austrian company, EDIS for sure have enjoyed quite a bit of freedom in the online contents as per William (who is now working for EDIS), another strength with their services is the fact that they are using Linux VServer and actually have their own control panel, which seems to be an indication of they know what they are doing (since Linux VServer is much harder to set up and maintain compare to the standard virtualization platforms such as OpenVZ and Xen), but obviously, it could also be Read More

It is again another lazy weekend, I know I know, I am back to school now, and with work piling up (never thought a graduate degree would be more demanding than a undergraduate one!), I really should study day and night and should spend more time in the library. However, for anyone who have been working for a few years, you know how difficult it is to give up a lazy weekend and do something you really want to do (in my case, writing on 96MB.com!). Therefore, when I was contacted by a member of LowEndTalk asking me to do a review on one of the QualityServers VPS that he bought recently, I used that as an excuse (don’t like to borrow things from others for long!) and decided to put in another review for the week. Disclosure: The member on LET has offered me a logo design for 96MB.com Read More

Recently, I was in need of a larger VPS to put a few of my dead projects on, which was originally placed on a Nix Communication’s VPS in Montreal (which also acted as a test server to test the upload speed, which resulted in some pretty harsh comments on LEB recently). I have a relatively limited budget and the sale from Buffalo VPS was definitely a great deal for me: cheap, great latency to Canada and the datacentre seems to have some DDOS protection, therefore, I decided to give them a shot and see how it goes. General Information and Set Up BuffaloVPS is a reseller of ChicagoVPS, and as such, they share the same hardware nodes and services, even the same SolusVM control panel. In the particular promotion that I signed up for, here is what you get for 40 USD a year: Note that there is no burstable Read More

When UptimeVPS posted their last low end box offer on LowEndBox.com, the comments did not go that well, and they were accused as “scammers” several times. In view of such, Ken from UptimeVPS actually offered everyone a free 7-day trial period to see if they are indeed scammers. I decided to seize this opportunity to review about their VPS and services. General Information and Set Up Basically, for 5 Euros PER YEAR (yes, per year, not per month), you are able to get the following VPS as indicated on this advertisement: Although there is a 7 day free trial period which you can decide whether or not to continue the service later on. The interesting part is the promo code shown on LEB is actually a recurring 100% off promo code, which means once you put in the code, the price of the VPS is supposedly to be free forever: Read More

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

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

The hottest topic on the low end VPS community this week is definitely not a lot far from ChicagoVPS and their seems insane offer which has made more than 150 discussions on the post and another over 20 posts on webhostingtalk.com within the 24 hours after the topic was started, which is pretty impressive. I was one of the curious souls out there as well and decided to sign one up and see how it works. General Information And Set Up On the web page, the pricing model seems more or less aligned with the “regular” pricing: Click on Order Now would bring you to the normal (and almost getting annoying) domain registration page on WHMCS, which is using HTTPS connection: I know for shared hosting, such information in rather important since whatever domain you have put up here will eventually becomes part of your CPanel user name. However for Read More