Back in November, DotVPS was featured in LEB for a really sweet deal of getting a 512MB dedicated memory (1024MB burstable memory) VPS for under 5 USD per month. The best part? The Netherland location has a 1Gbps unmetered bandwidth. Yes, I have to say although I have not been in the Low End VPS community for a long time, this is, as far as I can remember, the first(second at most) time that I have seen a 512MB unmetered bandwidth VPS for under 5 USD per month. Little surprise that their stock vanished in just one day. Since then, there were several “incidents” happened to them, such as understaffed, and died hard disks at various times. Nonetheless, Jack has added a few more stocks in the days after the initial stock ran dry and I have decided to pick one up to see how well it works for me. Read More

Nate from Kazila, emailed me back in September asking me to review their services. And of course, as the same as my previous review, I have to really apologize for delaying things so much. So let’s take a look at how solid the VPS from them are. Basic Information and Set Up As per the advertisement on LowEndBox, here is what you get for 7USD/month, the cheapest of their Xen VPS packages. As per LEB, three locations are offered at this time, Los Angeles CA with Quadranet, Dallas TX with NorthTXConnect (UPDATE: they are now with GIP networks as per Nate), New York City with Steadfast Networks. The sign up page is a heavily themed WHMCS in HTTPS, however I am a little surprised that after all the customization work, the order page still started off by asking you for a domain name, which is not necessary in WHMCS system. Read More

So…it has been a few weeks since the last VPS review from 96MB.com and as promised in my last review, I will present another review as my Christmas present to the readers of 96MB.com. As promised, and since Hani from servaRICA has emailed me almost 3 months ago asking for a review, we will get it started without any further delay. Basic Information and Set Up Servarica is a provider that only provide VPS using Xen virtualization technology, as per this post on WHT and their lowest VPS offering, the XenSource VPS Offer 1, comes with the following specification: The price is not exactly “low end” for a 256MB VPS, so we’ll hope for a solid specification for the VPS. However, the servers are located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, which could be a factor to justify the price. The sign up page is using HTTPS page, and there is only Read More

In the previous post, we have reviewed the performance of the smallest siblings of BuyVM’s KVM offering. Although the disk I/O is pretty good at close to 100MB/s, the fact that only 1 CPU core is available caused the benchmarks to be pretty low. So, by paying more, other than getting larger RAM, do we also get better performance? In this post, we shall take a look at the performance of a 512MB KVM VPS. General Information and Set Up Since both 128MB and 512MB VPS use the same sign up process and the SolusVM control panel is pretty much the same, I will focus our discussion here on a few differences. First difference is obviously the cost, the 521MB VPS cost 10 per month, and here is what you get for 10USD: During the sign up process, the warning message that appeared for the 128MB VPS declaring that upgrading/downgrading Read More

I have not been checking LowEndBox lately since I had a pretty busy time lately due to my study schedule (yes, back to graduate school is never too easy) and several other personal items that takes a fair share of time. Therefore, I was surprised today when I noticed one of my reviews was posted as the first comment on one of LEB’s postings, followed by two really nice feedbacks from the LEB readers. I just want to say that a big thank you to all of the readers of 96MB.com for your support and encouragement. Just like any other ordinary person, sometimes I am lazy busy, but all the supportive readers like Breton, Asim and Miguel makes me want to keep writing more and more. VPS is a relatively new idea to me as well, it is a learning process for me and I do hope that all the Read More

BuyVM is perhaps one of the most frequently featured providers here – for a good reason that they sell really great servers at really cheap price. So far, almost all 15/year providers are unable to deliver a reasonably performed VPS for a prolonged period of time, except BuyVM. As a result, almost every time BuyVM added some new stock, they are sold out in relatively short time frame. Therefore, although it has been a few months since BuyVM has announced their new KVM product lines, I did not manage to get a hold of a few KVMs until recently. This review will consists of two parts, both are dedicated to BuyVM’s KVM series, the first is the most budget 128MB KVM VPS and second part is for the mid-range 512MB KVM products. Why? Because many hosts use lower-range hardware and almost all hosts put more clients per VPS on their Read More

There are several VPS auctions on WebhostingTalk almost at any single period of time. To VPS users like you and me, they basically provide us opportunities to get some really decent VPS at an amazing price, and to the VPS hosting providers, especially the relatively new VPS providers, it is definitely a great opportunity for them to increase the brand-awareness in the VPS market. Recently, I have won one of such auctions for a VPS provided by MegaWorldHosting and decided to take a look to see how much I can get out of the four dollars per month. Basic Information and Set Up Justin appears to be leading the marketing effort of MegaWorldHosting and the domain name registrant as well and he also seems to own Sprocket Networks, which, until recently, has been offering VPS auctions quite actively on WebHostingTalk. Sprocket Networks has since moved to the relatively high end Read More

Note: Apologies for the delay in publishing this review, this was supposedly to be published for last week, however, I hope you can forgive my delay considering that I have only slept for 5 hours altogether during the first three days of last week. There will be another review published in the next few hours for this week as well. As far as I can remember, there were only three providers who have tried to offer the 2GB that were listed in LowEndBox.com – IPAP.co, eNetSouth and Up2VPS. IPAP has recently changed their company name, and the owner of eNetSouth, Brandon, has recently disappeared with his servers goes offline for weeks without any response (even before I get a chance to write a review for them). So how about the last survivor, Up2VPS? After they have decided to offer a $1 deal on LowEndTalk.com for people to “play with”, I Read More

The review of this week was originally scheduled for eNetSouth.com $7/month 2GB VPS offer. However, the VPS has been offline for a week and it is still offline at the time of writing:    Furthermore, Brandon has ignored all support tickets, not just from me but from any of his customer who is affected as seen by the comments on this post in LowEndBox.com. Furthermore, even his new hires are having difficulties in finding him. Therefore, until Brandon brings back everything online (and re-appear in the online world), there won’t be any review from 96MB.com about eNetSouth.

Matt from SSD Nodes has dropped me a message on Webhostingtalk over a month ago asking for a review on their product and although he has encouraged me to try out a VPS using SSD on the root partition, I have decided to keep up with the spirit of choosing selecting a standard LEB offer where possible and ended up choosing the small plan that is almost the same as what is advertised on LEB, with a slight modification (but at the same cost), and we’ll take a look at how this box performs. General Information and Set Up As per the advertisement on LEB, here is what you will be getting for 6.99 per month:   However, while reading through the comments section, I have noticed that Matt has posted a comment that we can use SSD as a secondary storage at no additional cost, and that is what Read More