One of the trends that I noticed among many VPS providers with large client base is always they have more negative reviews. I guess one could always attribute that to “it is easier to make one person happy but difficult to make a million”, or, from the customers’ perspective, “when a VPS provider gets too large, they don’t care about each individual customer, since 1/10 is a huge loss but 1/1,00,000 loss of customer is next to none. For example, Googling “Burst.NET negative reviews” and I am sure you will be able to find quite a few of them. Virpus, which is based in WholeSale Internet in Kansas City (but has recently expanded to other cities as well), is another VPS with quite a large client base and obviously, searching for their reviews shows more negative reviews than the positive one. At 96MB, I try not be driven by the Read More

How time flies! It seems 96MB was just opened yesterday but in fact the blog is a year old now. In the highly competitive VPS industry, one year is a long time and many providers has started during this time, some of them become highly successful and grew, while others simply vanished into the thin air (we have plenty of examples here which I am not going to mention). BlueVM has celebrated its first birthday earlier last month and I have decided to buy a VPS from them and take a look at. Basic Information and Set Up As per their advertisement on LowEndTalk, here is what you can get for 1.99USD per month: Unfortunately when I signed up with them, they are already out of stock for this special for all four locations they offer, and I ended up have to sign up for the BlueVM2 Plan which has Read More

Among all of the VPS providers that I have reviewed so far, besides a few that I was curious about myself, others were either requested by the providers themselves or someone who is interested in purchasing their services. However, VPS6.Net stood out as the only one which there were requests from both sides: Jeremy from VPS6.Net has asked me to write a review about them a few months back and one of their potential customers has asked me to review their services as well. What is the magic power behind VPS6.Net that made them so attractive? I was curious about this and when I saw they actually offer free trial on their OpenVZ service, I took up the opportunity and signed up for a box. Basic Information and Set Up As mentioned above, the trial VPS offered by VPS6 comes with 128MB of RAM, 10GB of bandwidth, 2 CPU cores Read More

For the low end VPS regulars, Quickweb is definitely one of the big names out there. It has, at least in the past, done some really impressive work and sold really stable VPS, and more importantly, perhaps the most central website in this low end VPS community, LowEndBox.com, is hosted with them. Personally, my first VPS was purchased from them and the VPS I have paid the most is a Supa VZ1 at their London, UK location. However, the recent posting about them did come with some negative feedbacks, and a long time LEB veteran, drmike, does not seems to be too happy with their VPS offerings as per this comment here,which was posted on the Christmas day. So what is going on with Quickweb recently? I decided to sign up for a VPS and take a look myself. Basic Information and Set Up Again, as per this post on Read More

Nate from Kazila, emailed me back in September asking me to review their services. And of course, as the same as my previous review, I have to really apologize for delaying things so much. So let’s take a look at how solid the VPS from them are. Basic Information and Set Up As per the advertisement on LowEndBox, here is what you get for 7USD/month, the cheapest of their Xen VPS packages. As per LEB, three locations are offered at this time, Los Angeles CA with Quadranet, Dallas TX with NorthTXConnect (UPDATE: they are now with GIP networks as per Nate), New York City with Steadfast Networks. The sign up page is a heavily themed WHMCS in HTTPS, however I am a little surprised that after all the customization work, the order page still started off by asking you for a domain name, which is not necessary in WHMCS system. 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