As 96MB.com grows everyday, so is the number of requests for a review of the services, and as the pile grows up, there is often one or two that tend to slide through the crack. YourDomainGoesHere (YDGH) is one of them, I have ordered and being paying for their services for more than half a year and each and every time I paid my invoice, I kept telling myself I will need to get this review done next week, and…the cycle just repeated. So finally, I have decided to write about them and take a look at how their services are performing. (On a side note, I do pay for every VPS that I have written on this blog, except the ones that I labeled clearly as part of the promotions/beta testing, I will normally ask for a refund for the VPS that I paid purely for review purposes – Read More

If you have been reading my VPS reviews recently, you would realize that I was at least, for a while, looking for some relatively “high” end VPS packages (of course, using the LEB standard), particularly with large hard drive space and a reasonable amount of RAM. The reason for me to do this is pretty simple, I was looking to build a fail-safe private network of backups using Crashplan and headless VPS. As such, when OneProvider posted their offer on WHT, I decided to take the dive and take a look. Basic Information and Set Up One Provider is part of Brainstorm Network Inc., which seems to own a few brands, besides OneProvider, they are also the owners of BSNServers and HostHaha (which is one of those hosts providing “unlimited” shared hosting, which is one of the most debatable concept on WHT, however 96MB.com is not about shared hosting and Read More

DMEHosting has recently posted quite a few limited (20 only as per their WHT advertisement, although I have almost never seen this product going out of stock for the past few months) for a pretty big VPS at a slightly above standard LEB type of prices. Since the RAM is so big, I got curious with the offer and decided to grab one myself and see how it works. Basic Information and Set Up As per their post on WHT, here is the specs of the VPS: I guess the biggest selling point here is the 1Gbit port with 2TB of bandwidth, which, although is not unmetered, is pretty generous. Of course, 2GB of dedicated RAM makes it a pretty sweet deal for those RAM-hungry app as well. The sign up process, as indicated on the advertisement, is using WHMCS in secured HTTPS and there seems to be quite a Read More

Barry Lloyd from NetStall has sent me an email last month about their latest Iceland VPS offering, which I thought would be pretty interesting to share with the 96MB readers. Here is what is on the offer: Iceland Location (ThorDC) OpenVZ Virtualisation SolusVM Control 256mb memory, burstable to 512mb 25GB diskspace (RAID) 250GB Monthly Transfer £2.99 per month/£29.99 per annum (we are a UK company hence prices in GBP). Here is a direct link to their cheapest package: Order Link Promo code 96MB will give 25% discount for the first month on any VPS package. Barry has mentioned that All of our Iceland nodes are Dell hardware, running on 1gbps ports as standard. We pride ourselves on our 24/7 livechat and ticket support, and telephone support is available during UK office hours. Interestingly, I have tried to contact them via Live Chat and here is what I see: IRC seems Read More

It is rare to find a decent low end VPS provider in Canada, let alone in Toronto, Ontario. It is pretty interesting because you would think that in every metropolitan city, the economies of scale will simply bring down the cost of VPS providers. However, apparently, the rules are not the same in Canada and therefore, when Amanah Technology offered a free VPS to try for a month, I immediately took the dive and ordered one. Of course, later on Amanah has come up with a even more surprising offer to give people free VPS for life, which was mentioned in my previous post here, and although the specification was a bit low end, it was nonetheless one of the most stable VPS I have had. Some of the screenshots in this review will be based off the free low end VPS, however all tests on the VPS itself was 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

123Systems.Net is probably one of the most controversial VPS providers in the low end VPS industry. On one hand, they are definitely selling some really cheap VPS that is many of us use for backup purposes (I have yet to see another provider offering a 128MB box for 10USD per year and 192MB VPS  for 15 USD). However, they are also (in)famous on WHT for their notoriously slow response speed (see the most recent episode here). As a result, I have decided to take a look and see how things are going with them. Basic Information and Set Up I have actually been waiting relatively patiently for a while for the 128MB RAM VPS box to come on stock, however unfortunately it did not happen, and finally I decided to spend an extra 5 USD and get a 192MB RAM VPS instead, and according to their advertisement on WHT, here Read More

Knownhost is probably one of the most well-known brand in the VPS community for their managed VPS services. The services that they have provided is really second to none and have received quite a few positive feedbacks on WebhostingTalk. The only problem? They are too expensive to the budget VPS community. In fact, even with the heavy discount that they have posted here, even their cheapest VPS plan is way beyond the acceptable range of the budget VPS, which is typically set to below 7USD per month. Therefore, when Knownhost opened up their budget hosting division, RocketVPS, and offered a really sweet deal on WebhostingTalk, which even brought down their most basic VPS to within the budget VPS limit, I immediately took the dive and signed up for one of those boxes (Fortunate enough for me, I was able to be one of the first 50 lucky customers to get 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

UPDATE: Amanah has ceased to offer their free VPS services.   Amanah has just sent me an email informing me that they are now offering a small VPS out of their Toronto location. It comes with the following specifications: 1GB of hard drive space 128MB of RAM 100GB bandwidth at 100Mbps OpenVZ Yes, I know the hard drive space is a little small, but I believe they are the only provider in Canada who is offering free VPS! So definitely sign up quickly before all the stock are gone. Their plan, as far as I know, is to offer the free VPS on a permanent basis and you will not be charged for the service at all. Here is the sign up link and nope, it is not an affiliate link and I am not taking any profit for this. By the way, set up is not instant as they Read More