My previous review was about a “cloud” VPS provider, VPS.NET, which is probably one of the largest “cloud” providers in the relatively budget market with 15 locations throughout the world. The VPS provider that I am going to review today, VMStorm, is a much smaller one but has some pretty good reviews and reputations in the community. Are they really as great as they seem to be? Let’s take a look. Basic Information and Set Up As per their advertisement on LowEndTalk, here is what is offered: The signup page is almost a piece of art: As you can see, everything was listed in one page and straight-forward, which is something really great. They have also listed their helpline number and email for you to contact them. Note that on the sign up page, there is no cost for extra IPv4 addresses, I have confirmed with David that IPv4 is Read More

Recently, more and more people start to talk about the idea of “Cloud Computing”, particularly since the Amazon EC2 and Microsoft Azure start to gaining popularity among primarily enterprise customers who has a strong desire for scalability and stability of the platform. Unfortunately for the low end VPS users like you and me, the cost to run such a true cloud set up is more than often prohibitively high, way beyond what hobbyists could afford. VPS.NET, from this perspective, provided an pretty reasonable price point (albeit still a little high in the low end VPS market). Therefore, when I saw the free month offer from VPS.Net on Webhostingtalk.com, I decided to sign up and take a look at how their services is like. Basic Information and Set Up As per their advertisement on WHT, here is what you get for a month worth of free services: As you can see, Read More

Flipping through the emails in my inbox, the first email from Prometeus to me was sent on January 28th of this year, when they were first getting into the low end VPS market and I have replied with a self-imposed deadline of early April. I have almost missed the deadline by another four months and meanwhile, Prometeus has evolved from one of the brand names that few low end VPS community members know to one of the most popular brands, earning the second place in the Top Providers Q2 2012 poll on LowEndTalk. Obviously, part of their success attribute to the great personality that the owner of Prometeus has, including the time where he actually helped some VPS-provider-wanna-be to start his business. Having said that, however, are their servers really solid? I have decided to get one and take a look at it myself. Disclaimer: I have received two free Read More

If you have been reading my VPS reviews recently, you would realize that I was at least, for a while, looking for some relatively “high” end VPS packages (of course, using the LEB standard), particularly with large hard drive space and a reasonable amount of RAM. The reason for me to do this is pretty simple, I was looking to build a fail-safe private network of backups using Crashplan and headless VPS. As such, when OneProvider posted their offer on WHT, I decided to take the dive and take a look. Basic Information and Set Up One Provider is part of Brainstorm Network Inc., which seems to own a few brands, besides OneProvider, they are also the owners of BSNServers and HostHaha (which is one of those hosts providing “unlimited” shared hosting, which is one of the most debatable concept on WHT, however 96MB.com is not about shared hosting and Read More

DMEHosting has recently posted quite a few limited (20 only as per their WHT advertisement, although I have almost never seen this product going out of stock for the past few months) for a pretty big VPS at a slightly above standard LEB type of prices. Since the RAM is so big, I got curious with the offer and decided to grab one myself and see how it works. Basic Information and Set Up As per their post on WHT, here is the specs of the VPS: I guess the biggest selling point here is the 1Gbit port with 2TB of bandwidth, which, although is not unmetered, is pretty generous. Of course, 2GB of dedicated RAM makes it a pretty sweet deal for those RAM-hungry app as well. The sign up process, as indicated on the advertisement, is using WHMCS in secured HTTPS and there seems to be quite a Read More

Barry Lloyd from NetStall has sent me an email last month about their latest Iceland VPS offering, which I thought would be pretty interesting to share with the 96MB readers. Here is what is on the offer: Iceland Location (ThorDC) OpenVZ Virtualisation SolusVM Control 256mb memory, burstable to 512mb 25GB diskspace (RAID) 250GB Monthly Transfer £2.99 per month/£29.99 per annum (we are a UK company hence prices in GBP). Here is a direct link to their cheapest package: Order Link Promo code 96MB will give 25% discount for the first month on any VPS package. Barry has mentioned that All of our Iceland nodes are Dell hardware, running on 1gbps ports as standard. We pride ourselves on our 24/7 livechat and ticket support, and telephone support is available during UK office hours. Interestingly, I have tried to contact them via Live Chat and here is what I see: IRC seems Read More

It is rare to find a decent low end VPS provider in Canada, let alone in Toronto, Ontario. It is pretty interesting because you would think that in every metropolitan city, the economies of scale will simply bring down the cost of VPS providers. However, apparently, the rules are not the same in Canada and therefore, when Amanah Technology offered a free VPS to try for a month, I immediately took the dive and ordered one. Of course, later on Amanah has come up with a even more surprising offer to give people free VPS for life, which was mentioned in my previous post here, and although the specification was a bit low end, it was nonetheless one of the most stable VPS I have had. Some of the screenshots in this review will be based off the free low end VPS, however all tests on the VPS itself was Read More

How time flies! It seems 96MB was just opened yesterday but in fact the blog is a year old now. In the highly competitive VPS industry, one year is a long time and many providers has started during this time, some of them become highly successful and grew, while others simply vanished into the thin air (we have plenty of examples here which I am not going to mention). BlueVM has celebrated its first birthday earlier last month and I have decided to buy a VPS from them and take a look at. Basic Information and Set Up As per their advertisement on LowEndTalk, here is what you can get for 1.99USD per month: Unfortunately when I signed up with them, they are already out of stock for this special for all four locations they offer, and I ended up have to sign up for the BlueVM2 Plan which has Read More

As some of you probably know, I have recently bid for a domain on WHT and it is: FindMyVPS.com After a week of waiting, finally the domain is under my Cloudflare account but other than redirecting visitors to 96MB.com, it is not really doing anything major at the moment. Since you guys are the most important parts that supports my work, I am once again, open for ideas on what I should do with this domain. Here are some of the options: 1. Just let it points to 96MB.com 2. Rebrand 96MB.com to become FindMyVPS.com since the domain contains keywords that are relevant to the blog 3. Make it the name of the new forum that we have discussed about that is currently at the under construction/sub-beta stage. (I know I should not talk about a piece of work when it is not done, but I am definitely looking for Read More

123Systems.Net is probably one of the most controversial VPS providers in the low end VPS industry. On one hand, they are definitely selling some really cheap VPS that is many of us use for backup purposes (I have yet to see another provider offering a 128MB box for 10USD per year and 192MB VPS  for 15 USD). However, they are also (in)famous on WHT for their notoriously slow response speed (see the most recent episode here). As a result, I have decided to take a look and see how things are going with them. Basic Information and Set Up I have actually been waiting relatively patiently for a while for the 128MB RAM VPS box to come on stock, however unfortunately it did not happen, and finally I decided to spend an extra 5 USD and get a 192MB RAM VPS instead, and according to their advertisement on WHT, here Read More