Jay from Tailored VPS emailed me and would like me to write a review about them. Although I do all my reviews for free (in fact, for some of the more notable names, I even paid out of my own pocket to purchase the VPS), I am always happy to see business requesting reviews since that shows at least the owners of those business cares and are serious about running a VPS business. Therefore, I happily agreed upon the condition that I pay and sign up the VPS just like an ordinary customer of theirs, so…here it goes: General Information and Set Up TailoredVPS has just had their domain registered in February 2011, and according to their domain whois information that I have obtained via this checker, is based in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia in Canada, although their servers seem to be based in Philadelphia in US. As per Tailored Read More

For those low end VPS fans, 15 seems to be a magic price point for many of the ultra-low-end VPs providers. Many of the companies have tried to shoot at this price point and almost every one of them failed. Most of them either oversold the resources so much that makes the box completely unusable, or the price points becomes so unsustainable that eventually the provider just collect cash and run. Therefore, when Secure Dragon (which has nothing to do with Chinese dragon, I believe) offered a 96MB guaranteed memory low end VPS on LowEndBox.com, and disclaimed “No Overselling!” in bold on their home page, I was instantly curious to see how the performance of such a ultra-low-end VPS would be like. General Information and Sign Up As per the post on LowEndBox, here is the specifications of this low end VPS: On their product homepage, there are actually more Read More

After received a honourable mention in the last quarter’s Best Low End Providers, and being the only one in the list using KVM virtualization, which offered the capability of practically installing any OS, and for barely for 3 dollars a month, the VPS provided by Hostigation is almost a steal. However, is it really as good as it sounds? I decided to give it a shot to see. Basic Information Up until 2 weeks ago, the only VPS location that Hostigation provide was at Rock Hill, South Carolina, and for 3 USD per month, here is what you will be able to get: Hostigation has since announced that it started a new location in Los Angeles to cater to the west coast clientele and Tim has been kind enough to move my test server there too, therefore, this review will be based on the LA KVM server. Provision was almost Read More

It has been a while since the last time I have signed up for a VPS, after all, the last time I did a count, I have already had 7 VPS under my name. Other than the VPS hosting this blog, and another one hosting another few low-traffic blog that I have, the rest are pretty much idle all the time. However, when IonVM offered a free 48-hour trial VPS, I figured it won’t cause me too much harm to sign up for another one, so I decided to give it a shot. Set Up and General Information Entering the signing up page in their WHMCS system using HTTPS, there was not too much information revealed about the trial VPS, however, it is interesting to note that the sign up page allow you to activate TUN/TAP devices during sign up, which is rare, if not the first one (BuyVM has Read More

The World IPV6 day has just passed, however, for average home Internet users like me, IPV6 remains a distant dream than a reality: my ISP does not support IPV6 and some of my friends, even those with some computing background, have no idea what IPV6 is. Therefore, when FitVPS advertised their IPV6-only VPS offer, I was really curious to see how it is looks like and the 99 cents price for the first 3 months made me decided to give it a shot. Product Information and Miscellaneous Based on this post on LowEndBox.com, here is what you get for 0.99 for the first quarter and $10 thereafter. However the prices have been down to $3 per quarter afterwards: There are also free upgrades offer to LEB readers, however I was been told the ports are already on 100Mbps port, hence you can either double the hard drive space or double Read More

There is perhaps no VPS providers recently (other than the ones almost in the dead-pool, such as Hostrail or W2 Servers) has caused as much controversy as IPAP.Co. Their previous offer on LowEndBox has gathered close to 500 replies. However, they are definitely not satisfied with the amount publicity (positive or negative) that they have received, and this time, they came up with a even more surprising offer on LowEndBox, and for 6.99 USD per month, here is what you expect to receive: I have to say I really doubt how they could possibly offer this crazy amount of resources at this price. After all, 6.99 would perhaps cover the cost of 2IP + 2GB memory and nothing else. So, I decided to give it a shot myself to see how such a insane plan works. General and Set Up The origin of IPAP.CO is truly a mystery, besides a Read More

It is always interesting to see a company selling VPS services half-way across the globe, which is exactly what QualityServers did. Through their Eliminator plan, which was advertised on WHT, they have promised to have a “one-size fits all” plan. Is it really good as it has advertised? I decided to try it out myself just to see. Plans and Set Up As per their advertisement on WHT, here is the specification of the box: As per this post on LowEndBox.com, their US servers are based in Tempa, Florida with Hivelocity DC. UK is also available for the same price for those who prefer a European location. 6USD for a 600MB OpenVZ box is not exactly cheap for an unmanaged service, however for a “fully managed” service, it definitely sounds like a good deal, add 1 more pound per month and you get a Xen box, which definitely is a Read More

Joe from FST Servers left a comment on one of my previous reviews stating that they would like me to write a review about them. I have never heard about this company before – no reviews, no history, but the fact that they are using Citrix XenServer is something that makes them a really worthy one to be reviewed for. General Information and Prices There is really limited information I can find about FST Servers, through the domain checks, their domain is registered to Brendan Fusco in Chicago Illinois and it seems to be where their servers are based as well according to this post on LowEndBox.com. As per this post on Webhostingtalk, they have decent processing power on the hardware nodes, as well as completely dedicated resources with nothing “burstable”. Prices offered are definitely in the low end of the budget spectrum, especially for XenServer platform, with the lowest Read More

If you have been following this blog since its birth, you probably notice that I have recently slowed down a little from the original pace I was targeting (one review per week, which sort of give me the balance of maintaining the interest without devote too much time that would jeopardize my other priorities), as a result, I literally have a mini-queue of VPS that is lining up for me to write reviews on. Inception Hosting is an interesting company, registered in UK but their servers servers in Netherlands – The low land and the land of freedom that is famous for many of the off-shore hosts, who are “not reputable and have poor infrastructure” according to this WHT post. Could Inception Hosting be an exception or just like their names have suggested, they would just be a dream mixed with reality? Price and Set Up Inception Hosting has a Read More

Quite frankly speaking, F9 Servers is another not-so-cheap VPS service provider that should probably be excluded from the “low end” VPS list, however they are one of the very few Canadian providers in Ontario province and the company itself is located in the same city that I spent my university life at! Therefore, when they offered a free trial server on WebHostingTalk, I could not resist but to sign up for one quickly. Price and Sign Up The lowest configuration for a VPS in F9 Servers looks something like this: and here is the corresponding price: For that price, you can get a similar specification for the whole year in Montreal Canada, so I really do not see how much advantage they would have price-wise. However they claim to have pretty solid servers and very few VPS per node, which could potentially meet the clientele who needs high-end VPS. One Read More