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

Recently, there has been quite a few cloud VPS hosting appeared on the 96MB Low End VPS reviews, and the review today is no exception. Atomic VPS is probably one of the “high-end” VPS providers as well, with their regular price start at 59.95USD per month for a 1GB RAM VPS. At this price level, how would the performance be? Let’s take a look. Basic Information and Set Up I have signed up for a cloudONE package during their open beta test stage for this particular review when I saw their posting on WebhostingTalk and here is the package specifications on their plan page:   At the moment they are running a promotion for 14.95 at the first month, which is really out of the “low end” VPS range as well: The sign up page is pretty standard WHMCS page and in fact I was asked to enter my domain Read More

My previous review was about a “cloud” VPS provider, VPS.NET, which is probably one of the largest “cloud” providers in the relatively budget market with 15 locations throughout the world. The VPS provider that I am going to review today, VMStorm, is a much smaller one but has some pretty good reviews and reputations in the community. Are they really as great as they seem to be? Let’s take a look. Basic Information and Set Up As per their advertisement on LowEndTalk, here is what is offered: The signup page is almost a piece of art: As you can see, everything was listed in one page and straight-forward, which is something really great. They have also listed their helpline number and email for you to contact them. Note that on the sign up page, there is no cost for extra IPv4 addresses, I have confirmed with David that IPv4 is Read More

Recently, more and more people start to talk about the idea of “Cloud Computing”, particularly since the Amazon EC2 and Microsoft Azure start to gaining popularity among primarily enterprise customers who has a strong desire for scalability and stability of the platform. Unfortunately for the low end VPS users like you and me, the cost to run such a true cloud set up is more than often prohibitively high, way beyond what hobbyists could afford. VPS.NET, from this perspective, provided an pretty reasonable price point (albeit still a little high in the low end VPS market). Therefore, when I saw the free month offer from VPS.Net on Webhostingtalk.com, I decided to sign up and take a look at how their services is like. Basic Information and Set Up As per their advertisement on WHT, here is what you get for a month worth of free services: As you can see, 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

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