NinjaHawk is probably not one of the VPS providers who provide aggressive prices in the LEB community (which is in contrast, of, say, ChicagoVPS), and quite frankly speaking the pricing that they have, without discount at least, is definitely in the “premier” range. Although this is definitely not the first non-LEB VPS provider I have ever reviewed (you can see some of the examples here, here and here), since personally I feel that it is a matter of personal choices that some people would simply like to pay more for one reason or another (even though I do encourage readers like you to get the most work done using the least amount of resources), I definitely have higher expectations on the non-LEB providers. So how is NinjaHawk holding up with regards to this, especially after one of their founding members has left? Let’s take a look. Basic Information and Set Read More

Preface I woke up this morning and was pleasantly surprised to see a review from a long time Low End VPS community member jcaleb (who has done many good deeds in the community, including the most recent ones here) has sent me his own review on one of the Low End VPS providers that was on my to-do list. Thanks so much jcaleb! This is the first time time I am posting a review that is done by a community member so please feel free to share your thoughts on the comments below and depending on the feedbacks, I may be more than happy to post more reviews from the reputable community members in future. Disclaimer: jcaleb has provided review using his own test VPS and I have not done any verification (nor any change, other than some minor formatting) on his review. However being a very reputable member of Read More

Happy New Year everyone! Hope everyone has had a good break, had spent some time with your family and friends and had a pretty good break! And to me, I have been spending days taking a mini-vacation and spend some time to think and plan for the next year, and one of the items that I have had for my 2013 To-Do list is definitely to keep 96MB going so that readers like you would be benefited from the VPS review that I have been writing! Most of the time I do a review either because the VPS business has put in a review request or if I happened to be in need of a VPS myself. However, in some occasion, the review request comes from customers who are either happy with the service and would like more people to know about the provider they are using, or they feel Read More

As many have said recently, my pace in writing VPS reviews are getting slower and slower. Believe it or not, I am actually just getting as frustrated with my own progress as well as I have received quite a few email politely reminding me their review requests have not been completed for months. NECS is one such example, Ramon from NECS has sent me a review request since June 7, and another reminder last month about it. I have finally got around to them and let’s take a look at their services. Basic Information and Set Up I have decided to take advantage of their offer on WHT and unfortunately their lowest plan (Basic) was sold out, so I had to sign up for the Starter 1 Plan, which offers the following amount of resources for 5 GBP (equivalent to slightly above 8 USD at the time of writing) per Read More

Quickweb is one of the oldest VPS providers in the budget VPS industry and the original sponsor of LowEndBox.com, they have also been reviewed on 96MB before and I am still using one of my Quickweb VPS to test their network connection on the West Coast today. However, they rarely give big recurring discounts so when I saw this news on Twitter, I thought it would be important to share with the 96MB readers. Promo code is: XMAS2012 for a 50% recurring discount on the following supaVZ plans: At the time of writing, for VZ1, there is stock everywhere except Florida location (UPDATE: Stock has been added for Florida location as per this twit), which means there is also stock in Los Angeles! It is available for any payment period including monthly payments: Indeed they are a bit more expensive than other providers in the LEB market, but this is Read More

My recent VPS reviews have been focused on mostly the VPS that are located in North America and despite all the similarities between the VPS services provided in Europe and Americas, the specifications provided, at the same price level, could varies quite a bit simply due to the cheaper bandwidth cost and the existence of some really low-cost DCs such as OVH and Hetzner. As such, I will start a review today on FileMedia, which is a German-based VPS provider offering KVM VPS. Basic Information and Set Up I noticed FileMedia when they have made a post on LowEndTalk to provide a free test VPS for three months for a review. As per the the advertisement, here is server that is on the offer: Although I have been in Germany a few times as a tourist, I have to confess that I knew next to nothing about the language, however, Read More

As much as I care about the integrity of the reviews, I also care about the integrity of the comments, and while I appreciate users who are willing to share their own experience with the provider (since the 96MB review has many limitations as listed here), I am also strongly against any business who are trying to post “reviews” in order to make a fake positive image of themselves and recently I have seen quite a few reviews posted on 96MB’s website that are suspicious at best: Looking at these comments posted, first it surprised me that all but one of these reviews are posted by users who are using Yahoo! email accounts, although clearly all of them seems to have a legitimate business running. Digging further down, all the IPs used to post these reviews are belonging to various data centres and proxy companies, for example, the last IP Read More

As 96MB.com grows everyday, so is the number of requests for a review of the services, and as the pile grows up, there is often one or two that tend to slide through the crack. YourDomainGoesHere (YDGH) is one of them, I have ordered and being paying for their services for more than half a year and each and every time I paid my invoice, I kept telling myself I will need to get this review done next week, and…the cycle just repeated. So finally, I have decided to write about them and take a look at how their services are performing. (On a side note, I do pay for every VPS that I have written on this blog, except the ones that I labeled clearly as part of the promotions/beta testing, I will normally ask for a refund for the VPS that I paid purely for review purposes – Read More

Recently, I have been doing quite a few “unsolicited” reviews, i.e., reviews that are not from anyone in particular. Reasons being I was quite curious in taking a look at those “cloud” VPS providers myself as well. The review today is “unsolicited” as well, however this time, it was simply due to the few recent controversies that this VPSNodeBox, as a relatively newcommer to the LEB market (such as here and here), has got involved in, which made me rather curious about their services and decided to take a look at their service to see how it is like. Basic Information and Set Up I have grabbed their 1GB KVM VPS deal that is listed on LowEndBox.com and here is how it looks like: I have to say, for a 1GB RAM KVM box, the price of 7USD per month is actually quite good, although the fact that Windows is Read More

Recently, there has been quite a few cloud VPS hosting appeared on the 96MB Low End VPS reviews, and the review today is no exception. Atomic VPS is probably one of the “high-end” VPS providers as well, with their regular price start at 59.95USD per month for a 1GB RAM VPS. At this price level, how would the performance be? Let’s take a look. Basic Information and Set Up I have signed up for a cloudONE package during their open beta test stage for this particular review when I saw their posting on WebhostingTalk and here is the package specifications on their plan page:   At the moment they are running a promotion for 14.95 at the first month, which is really out of the “low end” VPS range as well: The sign up page is pretty standard WHMCS page and in fact I was asked to enter my domain Read More