BlueVM is another contender for the low end VPS community which has often offered some really attractive deals from time to time. The last 96MB review on them, however, turned out not to be that ideal, and there were a few questions about if my expectation on them were a bit too high. It has been a year since my last review for them, and I am curious if they have made any changes to their services after their site has changed to a very “blue-ish” appearance. Let’s take a look. Basic Information and Set Up As per the offer on LowEndTalk, here is what you get for 1 USD per month, which is pretty amazing price for a 256MB dedicated RAM + 256MB Swap VPS: As you can see, the price is really cheap for the resources given, particularly the amount of guaranteed RAM and swap space given. BlueVM Read More

Harry from CloudShards approached me almost a year ago (last day of October last year to be exact), asking for a review on CloudShards. However I failed to respond to it until February of this year (sorry for the delay in response to many of the readers of 96MB, the review requests are simply piling up and unfortunately, I am a one-man team with a day job). As I was working through the pile, Harry sent another reminder wondering if I could give him an ETA. I did not realize until a few days later when he posted this is 96MB VPS offer on LowEndTalk. As rarely any providers are actually offering small VPS these days, and this is actually what was 96MB all about initially, I decided to jump the queue and review this particular offering first. Basic Information and Set Up As mentioned on the following advertisement on Read More

Recently, there seems to be more and more providers offering either pure SSD-based VPS or SSD-cached + HDD based hybrid VPS. Although normally comes with very limited hard drive space, SSD-based VPS are promised to have amazing disk I/O speed and is suitable for I/O intensive applications such as databases. However, are those magical SSDs really as good as they have promised? Is the sacrifice in storage space really going to bring you the fast and stable disk I/O? Let’s take a look with VPSBlast. Basic Information and Sign Up As per their advertisement on WebhostingTalk, here is the resources you would be getting for 2.50USD per month: Note that this plan is not offered directly on their homepage and if you order directly on their homepage, the smallest plan is 512MB of RAM and 10GB of SSD space for 10 USD per month: Slightly below the slider bar, they Read More