It has been a while since my last post about BuyVM and several things have happened since. Over all of them, the biggest change was that they are no longer with Hurricane Electric and instead moved all their servers to Coresite.com, as indicated here. How are the pony VPS doing now after months of improvements? 96MB decided to take a quick peek just before the new stock opens again in a few hours’ time. Note that this is a not a full review since many thing have not changed since my last review,  instead, I will only focus on things that are changed. OS Selections Several OS templates have been added to the BuyVM’s list of OS selections since the last time I reviewed them, most notably Debian 6, CentOS 6 and CPanel DNS-only template, which according to Francisco, would use very minimal amount of memory. Here is a list Read More

After received a honourable mention in the last quarter’s Best Low End Providers, and being the only one in the list using KVM virtualization, which offered the capability of practically installing any OS, and for barely for 3 dollars a month, the VPS provided by Hostigation is almost a steal. However, is it really as good as it sounds? I decided to give it a shot to see. Basic Information Up until 2 weeks ago, the only VPS location that Hostigation provide was at Rock Hill, South Carolina, and for 3 USD per month, here is what you will be able to get: Hostigation has since announced that it started a new location in Los Angeles to cater to the west coast clientele and Tim has been kind enough to move my test server there too, therefore, this review will be based on the LA KVM server. Provision was almost Read More

It has been a while since the last time I have signed up for a VPS, after all, the last time I did a count, I have already had 7 VPS under my name. Other than the VPS hosting this blog, and another one hosting another few low-traffic blog that I have, the rest are pretty much idle all the time. However, when IonVM offered a free 48-hour trial VPS, I figured it won’t cause me too much harm to sign up for another one, so I decided to give it a shot. Set Up and General Information Entering the signing up page in their WHMCS system using HTTPS, there was not too much information revealed about the trial VPS, however, it is interesting to note that the sign up page allow you to activate TUN/TAP devices during sign up, which is rare, if not the first one (BuyVM has Read More

Joe from FST Servers left a comment on one of my previous reviews stating that they would like me to write a review about them. I have never heard about this company before – no reviews, no history, but the fact that they are using Citrix XenServer is something that makes them a really worthy one to be reviewed for. General Information and Prices There is really limited information I can find about FST Servers, through the domain checks, their domain is registered to Brendan Fusco in Chicago Illinois and it seems to be where their servers are based as well according to this post on LowEndBox.com. As per this post on Webhostingtalk, they have decent processing power on the hardware nodes, as well as completely dedicated resources with nothing “burstable”. Prices offered are definitely in the low end of the budget spectrum, especially for XenServer platform, with the lowest 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

Just received the message from Andrew from 123Systems: We actually just released stock less than an hour ago, there is 25 spots for the 128 plan and 25 for the 192 plan. Order link is https://123systems.net/billing/cart.php?a=add&pid=149 and you can also view my previous post for more details about them, but make your move quick because only 25 are there! Good luck everyone and let us how it goes if you got one!

Just saw on the 123 Systems’ website here that they seems to have stock for the 10 USD/year VPS special again. Basically, 123Systems’ deal is one of the cheapest I have seen (even cheaper than 15USD/year BuyVM deal!) and here is what you will be getting for 10 USD: VPS – Dallas,TX – Linux-128-Yearly-Special Instant Setup! Guaranteed RAM: 128MB Burstable RAM: 128MB Disk Space: 5GB Bandwidth: 250GB/Month 1vCPU 1 IP Address SolusVM Control Panel And I think the other nice feature about them is that they offer add-ons that you only need to pay one time: 1024MB Dedicated RAM – ($65.00 USD One Time) 20 GB Disk Space – ($15.00 USD One Time) 128MB Dedicated RAM – ($5.95 USD One Time) 256MB Dedicated RAM – ($12.95 USD One Time) 512MB Dedicated RAM – ($27.95 USD One Time) I have not tried them yet and the reviews on WHT and LEB Read More