The hottest topic on the low end VPS community this week is definitely not a lot far from ChicagoVPS and their seems insane offer which has made more than 150 discussions on the post and another over 20 posts on webhostingtalk.com within the 24 hours after the topic was started, which is pretty impressive. I was one of the curious souls out there as well and decided to sign one up and see how it works. General Information And Set Up On the web page, the pricing model seems more or less aligned with the “regular” pricing: Click on Order Now would bring you to the normal (and almost getting annoying) domain registration page on WHMCS, which is using HTTPS connection: I know for shared hosting, such information in rather important since whatever domain you have put up here will eventually becomes part of your CPanel user name. However for Read More

It must have been almost a month since I was contacted to by Alvish to do a review for Evolucix. So why was the delay? Well, as some of you may know, I really have quite a few reviews lining up at the moment, but more importantly, their low end VPS have been out of stock for a while. Therefore, when I finally saw they have restocked, I took the first opportunity possible and grabbed one myself. General Information and Set Up Many providers start their budget lines of VPS with 128MB VPS, but the lowest plan with Evolucix has 256MB of RAM and at 5.95USD per month, it has the following specifications: Note that TUN/TAP is not enabled by default but you can raise a support ticket to request for it. The VPS uses OpenVZ virtualization technology. Sign up was via secured HTTP site and set up was instant Read More

Another weekend and the time for another VPS review! Scrolling down the list of the providers that I need to review for, it seems this weekend is the time to review the second request on my review list, which is BassHost. General Information and Set Up I have to admit BassHost is perhaps one of the “hottest” hosting providers that I will ever get to review, after all, I really do not see how many hosting providers actually put a pretty hot young lady on their home page: On the VPS plan page, you can see all the plans available and the prices: The order page is not using HTTPS and for some reason, it is still the default WHMCS set up where you will need to enter the domain name even for registering the VPS, which is rather unnecessary: Set up was instant and in the confirmation email, the 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

It has been a while since my last post about BuyVM and several things have happened since. Over all of them, the biggest change was that they are no longer with Hurricane Electric and instead moved all their servers to Coresite.com, as indicated here. How are the pony VPS doing now after months of improvements? 96MB decided to take a quick peek just before the new stock opens again in a few hours’ time. Note that this is a not a full review since many thing have not changed since my last review,  instead, I will only focus on things that are changed. OS Selections Several OS templates have been added to the BuyVM’s list of OS selections since the last time I reviewed them, most notably Debian 6, CentOS 6 and CPanel DNS-only template, which according to Francisco, would use very minimal amount of memory. Here is a list Read More

Jay from Tailored VPS emailed me and would like me to write a review about them. Although I do all my reviews for free (in fact, for some of the more notable names, I even paid out of my own pocket to purchase the VPS), I am always happy to see business requesting reviews since that shows at least the owners of those business cares and are serious about running a VPS business. Therefore, I happily agreed upon the condition that I pay and sign up the VPS just like an ordinary customer of theirs, so…here it goes: General Information and Set Up TailoredVPS has just had their domain registered in February 2011, and according to their domain whois information that I have obtained via this checker, is based in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia in Canada, although their servers seem to be based in Philadelphia in US. As per Tailored 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

It has been a while since the last time I have signed up for a VPS, after all, the last time I did a count, I have already had 7 VPS under my name. Other than the VPS hosting this blog, and another one hosting another few low-traffic blog that I have, the rest are pretty much idle all the time. However, when IonVM offered a free 48-hour trial VPS, I figured it won’t cause me too much harm to sign up for another one, so I decided to give it a shot. Set Up and General Information Entering the signing up page in their WHMCS system using HTTPS, there was not too much information revealed about the trial VPS, however, it is interesting to note that the sign up page allow you to activate TUN/TAP devices during sign up, which is rare, if not the first one (BuyVM has Read More

The World IPV6 day has just passed, however, for average home Internet users like me, IPV6 remains a distant dream than a reality: my ISP does not support IPV6 and some of my friends, even those with some computing background, have no idea what IPV6 is. Therefore, when FitVPS advertised their IPV6-only VPS offer, I was really curious to see how it is looks like and the 99 cents price for the first 3 months made me decided to give it a shot. Product Information and Miscellaneous Based on this post on LowEndBox.com, here is what you get for 0.99 for the first quarter and $10 thereafter. However the prices have been down to $3 per quarter afterwards: There are also free upgrades offer to LEB readers, however I was been told the ports are already on 100Mbps port, hence you can either double the hard drive space or double Read More

There is perhaps no VPS providers recently (other than the ones almost in the dead-pool, such as Hostrail or W2 Servers) has caused as much controversy as IPAP.Co. Their previous offer on LowEndBox has gathered close to 500 replies. However, they are definitely not satisfied with the amount publicity (positive or negative) that they have received, and this time, they came up with a even more surprising offer on LowEndBox, and for 6.99 USD per month, here is what you expect to receive: I have to say I really doubt how they could possibly offer this crazy amount of resources at this price. After all, 6.99 would perhaps cover the cost of 2IP + 2GB memory and nothing else. So, I decided to give it a shot myself to see how such a insane plan works. General and Set Up The origin of IPAP.CO is truly a mystery, besides a Read More