OK, so I have had some fun in doing the review for QualityServers (which was completed unscheduled), now it is back to the schedule again. Flipping through the list, I realised I have promised circus more than a month ago for a review on EDIS.at, which I have not done so yet, so here we go. General Information and Set Up Being an Austrian company, EDIS for sure have enjoyed quite a bit of freedom in the online contents as per William (who is now working for EDIS), another strength with their services is the fact that they are using Linux VServer and actually have their own control panel, which seems to be an indication of they know what they are doing (since Linux VServer is much harder to set up and maintain compare to the standard virtualization platforms such as OpenVZ and Xen), but obviously, it could also be Read More

It is again another lazy weekend, I know I know, I am back to school now, and with work piling up (never thought a graduate degree would be more demanding than a undergraduate one!), I really should study day and night and should spend more time in the library. However, for anyone who have been working for a few years, you know how difficult it is to give up a lazy weekend and do something you really want to do (in my case, writing on 96MB.com!). Therefore, when I was contacted by a member of LowEndTalk asking me to do a review on one of the QualityServers VPS that he bought recently, I used that as an excuse (don’t like to borrow things from others for long!) and decided to put in another review for the week. Disclosure: The member on LET has offered me a logo design for 96MB.com Read More

First, I want to say that I was not spending the whole week trying to find out who Joseph was, I really do not have time for that. However, by accident, I have found something interesting and figure I should share with all of you. So Who is Joseph? To be honest, I know as little about him as you, other than the website he left in his comments here and here. I was impressed by the amount of content that the website in his signature contains. Although unfortunately it is offline while I was writing this, and no, I am pretty sure I did not have any server sending any request to this site: Fast Forward to Today… I was browsing on WHT as it is just another lazy Sunday night and I am not really in the mood of doing any work, and stumbled upon this website: http://vpslist.net/. Read More

Recently, I was in need of a larger VPS to put a few of my dead projects on, which was originally placed on a Nix Communication’s VPS in Montreal (which also acted as a test server to test the upload speed, which resulted in some pretty harsh comments on LEB recently). I have a relatively limited budget and the sale from Buffalo VPS was definitely a great deal for me: cheap, great latency to Canada and the datacentre seems to have some DDOS protection, therefore, I decided to give them a shot and see how it goes. General Information and Set Up BuffaloVPS is a reseller of ChicagoVPS, and as such, they share the same hardware nodes and services, even the same SolusVM control panel. In the particular promotion that I signed up for, here is what you get for 40 USD a year: Note that there is no burstable Read More

When UptimeVPS posted their last low end box offer on LowEndBox.com, the comments did not go that well, and they were accused as “scammers” several times. In view of such, Ken from UptimeVPS actually offered everyone a free 7-day trial period to see if they are indeed scammers. I decided to seize this opportunity to review about their VPS and services. General Information and Set Up Basically, for 5 Euros PER YEAR (yes, per year, not per month), you are able to get the following VPS as indicated on this advertisement: Although there is a 7 day free trial period which you can decide whether or not to continue the service later on. The interesting part is the promo code shown on LEB is actually a recurring 100% off promo code, which means once you put in the code, the price of the VPS is supposedly to be free forever: Read More

It has been a while since I review various low end VPS providers online, and one of the more contentious topic in the low end VPS community is whether Xen or OpenVZ could perform better with similar specifications. One of the Xen providers who I have reviewed before had a friendly discussion with Ashley in VMPort on the Xen Vs. OpenVZ issue and asked me to provide a review on their OpenVZ VPS to see how the performance is. General Information and Set Up VMPort has recently updated their website and according to Ashley, it was the first time she has tried to play around building a website and apparently it went really well, the new design is actually really good: Compare to their original design (thanks to LowEndBox.com), this new design is definitely a lot more elegant and right to the point. For GBP 3.10 per month, here is Read More

Bret from UrgentVPS has emailed me almost a month ago (yes, I know I have been really lagging behind on the requests, but it is getting more and more difficult to sit down and spend time to write reviews these days) to request a review on their OnApp cloud VPS lines that they have pushed out to the public recently. The idea of cloud VPS using OnApp is great, but traditionally it has been mostly restricted to the wealthier clientele with deep pockets, so let’s see how it is. General Information and Set Up May be a little off the topic, but the first thing that jumps into my eyes when going to the home page of UrgentVPS is their chat with us windows, which is rather unique: Although not publicly advertised on their website, UrgentVPS actually has a low end VPS special, and here is what you get for Read More

The hottest topic on the low end VPS community this week is definitely not a lot far from ChicagoVPS and their seems insane offer which has made more than 150 discussions on the post and another over 20 posts on webhostingtalk.com within the 24 hours after the topic was started, which is pretty impressive. I was one of the curious souls out there as well and decided to sign one up and see how it works. General Information And Set Up On the web page, the pricing model seems more or less aligned with the “regular” pricing: Click on Order Now would bring you to the normal (and almost getting annoying) domain registration page on WHMCS, which is using HTTPS connection: I know for shared hosting, such information in rather important since whatever domain you have put up here will eventually becomes part of your CPanel user name. However for Read More

It must have been almost a month since I was contacted to by Alvish to do a review for Evolucix. So why was the delay? Well, as some of you may know, I really have quite a few reviews lining up at the moment, but more importantly, their low end VPS have been out of stock for a while. Therefore, when I finally saw they have restocked, I took the first opportunity possible and grabbed one myself. General Information and Set Up Many providers start their budget lines of VPS with 128MB VPS, but the lowest plan with Evolucix has 256MB of RAM and at 5.95USD per month, it has the following specifications: Note that TUN/TAP is not enabled by default but you can raise a support ticket to request for it. The VPS uses OpenVZ virtualization technology. Sign up was via secured HTTP site and set up was instant Read More

Brightbox has definitely won the title of the longest free beta service providers on my list. Although it is common to see providers offering a month or two worth of beta services, having one that offered beta services for more than 6 months is something unheard of. Quite frankly speaking, I have completely forgot about the cloud VPS with them until I have received an email informing me that they will discontinue the beta services soon and put things in production mode to make some cash. How is their services? Let’s take a look. Basic information and Set Up I have to admit that I have never heard of Brightbox before I signed up for the beta program, and their price structure has really made me wondering if I have encountered the most expensive VPS providers. Although the specifications seems by no means beyond “low end”, the price structure is Read More