Happy New Year everyone! Hope everyone has had a good break, had spent some time with your family and friends and had a pretty good break! And to me, I have been spending days taking a mini-vacation and spend some time to think and plan for the next year, and one of the items that I have had for my 2013 To-Do list is definitely to keep 96MB going so that readers like you would be benefited from the VPS review that I have been writing! Most of the time I do a review either because the VPS business has put in a review request or if I happened to be in need of a VPS myself. However, in some occasion, the review request comes from customers who are either happy with the service and would like more people to know about the provider they are using, or they feel Read More

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

Burst.Net has been probably the oldest and largest budget VPS providers in the world. With 20 years of history and customer all over the world, it is certainly a giant in this VPS industry. As such, when they offered a first month free deal on LowEndBox.com, I decided to sign up for one and see how it works. General Information and Set Up First, I need to clarify that the offer presented on LowEndBox is not exactly a free month, you will need to pay one dollar of set up fee, which, according to the comment here, the fee is strictly for fraud prevention only. In any case, to take advantage of this offer, you will have to go to this page here and then select one of the VPS for a free month, under the category of Dedicated Servers: I signed up with the lowest VPS #1 Plan with Read More

Secure Dragon has always offered me some pleasant surprises, and although barely two weeks ago I have reviewed their ultra-low-end 96MB OpenVZ product line, I have received an email that they are offering a Xen ultra-low-end product as well. For 16 USD/year, which is barely 2 USD more than their OpenVZ equivalent offered by Secure Dragon, I decide to give it a shot to see. Basic Information and Set Up As per Secure Dragon’s website, here is the detailed on their new 96MB Xen PV VPS: Note that the swap space offered in this case is pretty big compare to the dedicated memory, which might be helpful if you need to use more than what you are assigned to once a while. However, do note that although in OpenVZ, burstable memory is actually still RAM, in Xen, the swap space is actually hard drive space, therefore it is extremely slow Read More

For those low end VPS fans, 15 seems to be a magic price point for many of the ultra-low-end VPs providers. Many of the companies have tried to shoot at this price point and almost every one of them failed. Most of them either oversold the resources so much that makes the box completely unusable, or the price points becomes so unsustainable that eventually the provider just collect cash and run. Therefore, when Secure Dragon (which has nothing to do with Chinese dragon, I believe) offered a 96MB guaranteed memory low end VPS on LowEndBox.com, and disclaimed “No Overselling!” in bold on their home page, I was instantly curious to see how the performance of such a ultra-low-end VPS would be like. General Information and Sign Up As per the post on LowEndBox, here is the specifications of this low end VPS: On their product homepage, there are actually more 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 is always interesting to see a company selling VPS services half-way across the globe, which is exactly what QualityServers did. Through their Eliminator plan, which was advertised on WHT, they have promised to have a “one-size fits all” plan. Is it really good as it has advertised? I decided to try it out myself just to see. Plans and Set Up As per their advertisement on WHT, here is the specification of the box: As per this post on LowEndBox.com, their US servers are based in Tempa, Florida with Hivelocity DC. UK is also available for the same price for those who prefer a European location. 6USD for a 600MB OpenVZ box is not exactly cheap for an unmanaged service, however for a “fully managed” service, it definitely sounds like a good deal, add 1 more pound per month and you get a Xen box, which definitely is a Read More