The idea of "Cloud" hosting has always fascinated me. Everyone seems to talk about it at all times but yet I am not sure how many people (me included) knows too much beyond "putting up a bunch of super-powerful computers together and make them look like one". Therefore, when I was offered an opportunity to test out the cloud VPS offer from Gandi.Net, I jumped on the wagon almost instantly. Price Price for Gandi’s cloud VPS is not exactly low-end, considering the cheapest you can get is 12 Euro per month, which is about 18USD, for a 256MB, 5Mbps share: The key advantage here is rather the dedicated CPU core, which is different from most of the budget providers that only offer “fair share CPU usage”. If they truly don’t oversell, that means you will at most have 15 neighbours on a 16-core server, which, compare to some hosts that Read More

Personally, I am not exactly a fan of KVM and has never had one before. After all, what is the great part of KVM when both OpenVZ (which is cheap) and Xen (which is sort of dedicated) are already in place? However, this post on LowEndBox.com has made me curious about taking a look at the KVM boxes, and since the opportunity has presented itself (who does not like free stuff?), I decided to give it a try. Basically you get the following specifications: The prices are not exactly cheap, since 1 GBP = 1.6USD approximately, so even prepay a year means you will have to pay 160USD, which is more expensive than any of the VPS that I have ever had!   Provision It could be due to the fact that they were still in Beta stage when I tested it out, however the provision was completely manual and Read More

It was not exactly my plan to get another VPS, after having 6 VPS and 3 of them are practically sitting idle. However, when I saw this test offer from TelVPS, my finger start to get itchy again. After all, for 3 cents (for 24 hours), you can’t really lose too much. Basically, this is what you get for 24 hours for 3 cents (yes, you read it right, USD 0.03): Server is located with ServerCentral (they have a link to the information sheet on the DC here) in Chicago. Setup and Control Panel The set up was instant, I got my payment received email the same time as I got my VPS login! Although it is no longer rare these days, it is always something great. Control Panel is the standard SolusVM panel with all the standard functionality: What is really great is that they have a myriad selection Read More

BuyVM pretty much the most contentious brand in the low end VPS industry, primarily due to its ability to offer one of the cheapest low end box in the industry, the famous 15 USD per year plan. The post on LowEndBox has generated more than 300 comments, perhaps more than any other posts that have ever generated, and according to this post, they basically need to answer the doubts about their profitability almost every week. Basically, for 15 USD per year, here is what you will be getting: All of their VPS offered are co-located in the data centre of Hurricane Electric in Fremont, CA. Domain name was registered barely last year and the registrant is based in Victoria, BC, Canada: and name servers seem to have different IP blocks, which is, as usual, a good thing: The interesting part is that their company website seems to be using their Read More

The first review is obviously on my XenVZ/OpenITC box, which is the very box that 96MB.com is sitting on. The original offer is no longer available, however as per the offer page on LowEndBox.com, here are the specification of this most low-end VPS that I have: Obviously Xen is what I chose as this is really what I see makes the offer attractive. Also, it was not mentioned that it also comes with 2GB of off-site backup with 2GB monthly transfer. Set up is almost instant, order paid via Paypal on 9:07PM, VPS provisioned on 9:38PM. The control panel is highly customized, and here is how it looks like: Some of the really nice features about this custom panels are: 1. Allow custom kernel through PyGrub, some users have reported here that they actually managed to get a few MB of RAM after making use of the custom kernels, however Read More

I just did a head count on my VPS today and here are what are available in my inventory at the time of writing: 1. 1 x XenVZ/OpenITC (Got it from this offer, no longer available) 2. 2 x BuyVM (The famous 15USD per year offer, normally out of stock, and there is actually a website dedicated to check if they are in stock or not here) 3. 1 x Quickweb Supa VZ1 (Description here) 4. 1 x Nix Communications (Got it from this offer, seems sold out at one point and more stock was added later on but it seems it is out of stock again) 5. 1 x IPAP.Co (Got it from this offer,  it is still being set up at the time writing, and reviews won’t be available until it is fully set up). In the next few weeks, I will be writing reviews for each and Read More