I have to say that that although there are many providers which claimed to provide VPS with only 96MB of RAM, rarely any of them actually do provide a VPS for which 96MB is all you have as memory resources. Most of the OpenVZ providers actually provide at least another 96MB of burstable RAM, which means you are essentially running on a VPS with 192MB of RAM (although you can not do that all the time), which is really what all is needed to run an LNMP stack, plus many other basic functionalities. For Xen HVM providers, you even have the ability to add your own swap space, making the swap space to be as large as you like. That is why when IPXCore start to offer a true 96MB VPS (i.e. all you have is 96MB of memory and no burstable/swap RAM), it immediately turns out to be something 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

As I am pondering slowly over the long-overdue list of review request, VPSDeploy seems to be the next one on the list. Their VPS offerings got me really excited as it was one of the very few low end VPS that is actually offered on SSD! We are know the advantages of SSD: fast disk I/O, however, the current cost of SSD is a lot higher than the standard HDD and therefore kept the low cost VPS providers away from offering it. In fact, there is only one other VPS provider that I have reviewed so far that offered this service. So how is this particular offering from VPS Deploy performs. Basic Information and Set Up As per this post on LowEndBox, here is what you get for 4.99USD:   Although LEA has supplied a discount code for 50% off the first month payment, I did not actually get to 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

There are several VPS auctions on WebhostingTalk almost at any single period of time. To VPS users like you and me, they basically provide us opportunities to get some really decent VPS at an amazing price, and to the VPS hosting providers, especially the relatively new VPS providers, it is definitely a great opportunity for them to increase the brand-awareness in the VPS market. Recently, I have won one of such auctions for a VPS provided by MegaWorldHosting and decided to take a look to see how much I can get out of the four dollars per month. Basic Information and Set Up Justin appears to be leading the marketing effort of MegaWorldHosting and the domain name registrant as well and he also seems to own Sprocket Networks, which, until recently, has been offering VPS auctions quite actively on WebHostingTalk. Sprocket Networks has since moved to the relatively high end Read More

Note: Apologies for the delay in publishing this review, this was supposedly to be published for last week, however, I hope you can forgive my delay considering that I have only slept for 5 hours altogether during the first three days of last week. There will be another review published in the next few hours for this week as well. As far as I can remember, there were only three providers who have tried to offer the 2GB that were listed in LowEndBox.com – IPAP.co, eNetSouth and Up2VPS. IPAP has recently changed their company name, and the owner of eNetSouth, Brandon, has recently disappeared with his servers goes offline for weeks without any response (even before I get a chance to write a review for them). So how about the last survivor, Up2VPS? After they have decided to offer a $1 deal on LowEndTalk.com for people to “play with”, I Read More

The review of this week was originally scheduled for eNetSouth.com $7/month 2GB VPS offer. However, the VPS has been offline for a week and it is still offline at the time of writing:    Furthermore, Brandon has ignored all support tickets, not just from me but from any of his customer who is affected as seen by the comments on this post in LowEndBox.com. Furthermore, even his new hires are having difficulties in finding him. Therefore, until Brandon brings back everything online (and re-appear in the online world), there won’t be any review from 96MB.com about eNetSouth.

Recently, I was in need of a larger VPS to put a few of my dead projects on, which was originally placed on a Nix Communication’s VPS in Montreal (which also acted as a test server to test the upload speed, which resulted in some pretty harsh comments on LEB recently). I have a relatively limited budget and the sale from Buffalo VPS was definitely a great deal for me: cheap, great latency to Canada and the datacentre seems to have some DDOS protection, therefore, I decided to give them a shot and see how it goes. General Information and Set Up BuffaloVPS is a reseller of ChicagoVPS, and as such, they share the same hardware nodes and services, even the same SolusVM control panel. In the particular promotion that I signed up for, here is what you get for 40 USD a year: Note that there is no burstable Read More

When UptimeVPS posted their last low end box offer on LowEndBox.com, the comments did not go that well, and they were accused as “scammers” several times. In view of such, Ken from UptimeVPS actually offered everyone a free 7-day trial period to see if they are indeed scammers. I decided to seize this opportunity to review about their VPS and services. General Information and Set Up Basically, for 5 Euros PER YEAR (yes, per year, not per month), you are able to get the following VPS as indicated on this advertisement: Although there is a 7 day free trial period which you can decide whether or not to continue the service later on. The interesting part is the promo code shown on LEB is actually a recurring 100% off promo code, which means once you put in the code, the price of the VPS is supposedly to be free forever: Read More

It has been a while since I review various low end VPS providers online, and one of the more contentious topic in the low end VPS community is whether Xen or OpenVZ could perform better with similar specifications. One of the Xen providers who I have reviewed before had a friendly discussion with Ashley in VMPort on the Xen Vs. OpenVZ issue and asked me to provide a review on their OpenVZ VPS to see how the performance is. General Information and Set Up VMPort has recently updated their website and according to Ashley, it was the first time she has tried to play around building a website and apparently it went really well, the new design is actually really good: Compare to their original design (thanks to LowEndBox.com), this new design is definitely a lot more elegant and right to the point. For GBP 3.10 per month, here is Read More