As many have said recently, my pace in writing VPS reviews are getting slower and slower. Believe it or not, I am actually just getting as frustrated with my own progress as well as I have received quite a few email politely reminding me their review requests have not been completed for months. NECS is one such example, Ramon from NECS has sent me a review request since June 7, and another reminder last month about it. I have finally got around to them and let’s take a look at their services. Basic Information and Set Up I have decided to take advantage of their offer on WHT and unfortunately their lowest plan (Basic) was sold out, so I had to sign up for the Starter 1 Plan, which offers the following amount of resources for 5 GBP (equivalent to slightly above 8 USD at the time of writing) per Read More

My recent VPS reviews have been focused on mostly the VPS that are located in North America and despite all the similarities between the VPS services provided in Europe and Americas, the specifications provided, at the same price level, could varies quite a bit simply due to the cheaper bandwidth cost and the existence of some really low-cost DCs such as OVH and Hetzner. As such, I will start a review today on FileMedia, which is a German-based VPS provider offering KVM VPS. Basic Information and Set Up I noticed FileMedia when they have made a post on LowEndTalk to provide a free test VPS for three months for a review. As per the the advertisement, here is server that is on the offer: Although I have been in Germany a few times as a tourist, I have to confess that I knew next to nothing about the language, however, Read More

Recently, I have been doing quite a few “unsolicited” reviews, i.e., reviews that are not from anyone in particular. Reasons being I was quite curious in taking a look at those “cloud” VPS providers myself as well. The review today is “unsolicited” as well, however this time, it was simply due to the few recent controversies that this VPSNodeBox, as a relatively newcommer to the LEB market (such as here and here), has got involved in, which made me rather curious about their services and decided to take a look at their service to see how it is like. Basic Information and Set Up I have grabbed their 1GB KVM VPS deal that is listed on LowEndBox.com and here is how it looks like: I have to say, for a 1GB RAM KVM box, the price of 7USD per month is actually quite good, although the fact that Windows is Read More

Flipping through the emails in my inbox, the first email from Prometeus to me was sent on January 28th of this year, when they were first getting into the low end VPS market and I have replied with a self-imposed deadline of early April. I have almost missed the deadline by another four months and meanwhile, Prometeus has evolved from one of the brand names that few low end VPS community members know to one of the most popular brands, earning the second place in the Top Providers Q2 2012 poll on LowEndTalk. Obviously, part of their success attribute to the great personality that the owner of Prometeus has, including the time where he actually helped some VPS-provider-wanna-be to start his business. Having said that, however, are their servers really solid? I have decided to get one and take a look at it myself. Disclaimer: I have received two free Read More

When I have completed my previous review for VMPort and asked for a refund for my payment last September, Ashley issued the refund quickly to me with one condition– I will come back and review their service in few months. I did get my refund but many reviews after, I still have not got back to VMPort. During this period, Ashley has started another line of business, KVMPort (although KVMPort.com is down for me as well as for isitup), offering services using KVM virtualization. During this period, Ashley has emailed me and contacted me via Twitter trying to get a review. After repeated apologies, I have finally got around to sign up with them and write a review for their KVM service. And here is what I have seen from isitup at the moment: Basic Information and Set Up As usual, the package I am reviewing is the lowest KVM 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

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

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

Circus was the first one to comment on the post regarding getting a 96MB review for one of the providers, so although this was not exactly as per my schedule, I decide to offer circus what he wants first, a review on BitCable. General Information and Set Up It is pretty tough for me to find some information on BitCable, although their domain has been registered last year according to here and here to Global IT Tech LLC, there has not been too many reviews floating around. Circus was quick to point out that the company is run by a high school student. The website carries a very minimalistic design, everything was kept clean and straight-forward, which is something that I personally like: There are only two product lines offered by BitCable: Shared and VPS hosting, and for VPS hosting, only KVM platform are offered. The sign up page in 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