It must have been almost a month since I was contacted to by Alvish to do a review for Evolucix. So why was the delay? Well, as some of you may know, I really have quite a few reviews lining up at the moment, but more importantly, their low end VPS have been out of stock for a while. Therefore, when I finally saw they have restocked, I took the first opportunity possible and grabbed one myself. General Information and Set Up Many providers start their budget lines of VPS with 128MB VPS, but the lowest plan with Evolucix has 256MB of RAM and at 5.95USD per month, it has the following specifications: Note that TUN/TAP is not enabled by default but you can raise a support ticket to request for it. The VPS uses OpenVZ virtualization technology. Sign up was via secured HTTP site and set up was instant Read More

Brightbox has definitely won the title of the longest free beta service providers on my list. Although it is common to see providers offering a month or two worth of beta services, having one that offered beta services for more than 6 months is something unheard of. Quite frankly speaking, I have completely forgot about the cloud VPS with them until I have received an email informing me that they will discontinue the beta services soon and put things in production mode to make some cash. How is their services? Let’s take a look. Basic information and Set Up I have to admit that I have never heard of Brightbox before I signed up for the beta program, and their price structure has really made me wondering if I have encountered the most expensive VPS providers. Although the specifications seems by no means beyond “low end”, the price structure is Read More

There are definitely not that many providers offering unmetered services and is within the low-end budget type of range, a few of them which claimed to do has either proven not to be the case. However, Alvotech was daring enough to offer such services at a very low price and yet still received quite a few great comments about the services they provide. Is it really as good as many people have claimed them to be? Let’s find out. General Information and Set Up By default, Alvotech’s website is in Deutsch, which is understandable since they are, after all, German company. They do have a toggle on their home page for those who are not that efficient with German, although I am not sure how many people will complain when they have to click on an American flag to see the English version: Jokes aside, unlike many of the other Read More

Another weekend and the time for another VPS review! Scrolling down the list of the providers that I need to review for, it seems this weekend is the time to review the second request on my review list, which is BassHost. General Information and Set Up I have to admit BassHost is perhaps one of the “hottest” hosting providers that I will ever get to review, after all, I really do not see how many hosting providers actually put a pretty hot young lady on their home page: On the VPS plan page, you can see all the plans available and the prices: The order page is not using HTTPS and for some reason, it is still the default WHMCS set up where you will need to enter the domain name even for registering the VPS, which is rather unnecessary: Set up was instant and in the confirmation email, the Read More

Recently, one of my earlier reviews for Inception Hosting was featured on LowEndBox.com, although I was excited and honoured that 96MB.com could receive such great recognition from one of the leading websites in the low end VPS community, it also get me curious about Inception Hosting. It has been more than two months since I last (and first) reviewed their VPS services and Anthony and Inception Hosting seems to have done pretty well recently, so how are they doing right now? Let’s take a look. General Information and Set Up To make it comparable to my previous review, I signed up once again on their VPS Lite package, which, for 8.99 Euros per month, would give you the following specifications: Although with current discount code that Anthony have made available here, you are looking at about 4.50 Euro (about 6.50USD) per month. It is good to know that their Client Read More

Burst.Net has been probably the oldest and largest budget VPS providers in the world. With 20 years of history and customer all over the world, it is certainly a giant in this VPS industry. As such, when they offered a first month free deal on LowEndBox.com, I decided to sign up for one and see how it works. General Information and Set Up First, I need to clarify that the offer presented on LowEndBox is not exactly a free month, you will need to pay one dollar of set up fee, which, according to the comment here, the fee is strictly for fraud prevention only. In any case, to take advantage of this offer, you will have to go to this page here and then select one of the VPS for a free month, under the category of Dedicated Servers: I signed up with the lowest VPS #1 Plan with Read More

Circus was the first one to comment on the post regarding getting a 96MB review for one of the providers, so although this was not exactly as per my schedule, I decide to offer circus what he wants first, a review on BitCable. General Information and Set Up It is pretty tough for me to find some information on BitCable, although their domain has been registered last year according to here and here to Global IT Tech LLC, there has not been too many reviews floating around. Circus was quick to point out that the company is run by a high school student. The website carries a very minimalistic design, everything was kept clean and straight-forward, which is something that I personally like: There are only two product lines offered by BitCable: Shared and VPS hosting, and for VPS hosting, only KVM platform are offered. The sign up page in Read More

It has been a while since my last post about BuyVM and several things have happened since. Over all of them, the biggest change was that they are no longer with Hurricane Electric and instead moved all their servers to Coresite.com, as indicated here. How are the pony VPS doing now after months of improvements? 96MB decided to take a quick peek just before the new stock opens again in a few hours’ time. Note that this is a not a full review since many thing have not changed since my last review,  instead, I will only focus on things that are changed. OS Selections Several OS templates have been added to the BuyVM’s list of OS selections since the last time I reviewed them, most notably Debian 6, CentOS 6 and CPanel DNS-only template, which according to Francisco, would use very minimal amount of memory. Here is a list Read More

Secure Dragon has always offered me some pleasant surprises, and although barely two weeks ago I have reviewed their ultra-low-end 96MB OpenVZ product line, I have received an email that they are offering a Xen ultra-low-end product as well. For 16 USD/year, which is barely 2 USD more than their OpenVZ equivalent offered by Secure Dragon, I decide to give it a shot to see. Basic Information and Set Up As per Secure Dragon’s website, here is the detailed on their new 96MB Xen PV VPS: Note that the swap space offered in this case is pretty big compare to the dedicated memory, which might be helpful if you need to use more than what you are assigned to once a while. However, do note that although in OpenVZ, burstable memory is actually still RAM, in Xen, the swap space is actually hard drive space, therefore it is extremely slow Read More

It has been more than four months since I have put up the very first post on 96MB.com, I was, honestly, a little surprised and honoured how much attention that this little blog has drawn from the low end VPS community and I truly appreciate my readers, you, who put up the time reading everything that I have been posted here. I have also beginning to get more and more requests from various VPS providers to make the general community know more about the great services that they provide. So, just to make it somewhat “official”, here is a few FAQs you would like to get a 96MB Low End VPS Review: How can I contact 96MB? 1. Leave a comment to this post, let me know the provider’s name and if there is any particular product line (Xen/OVZ/KVM) you would like to get a review about, OR 2. Send Read More