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

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

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

In the previous post, we have reviewed the performance of the smallest siblings of BuyVM’s KVM offering. Although the disk I/O is pretty good at close to 100MB/s, the fact that only 1 CPU core is available caused the benchmarks to be pretty low. So, by paying more, other than getting larger RAM, do we also get better performance? In this post, we shall take a look at the performance of a 512MB KVM VPS. General Information and Set Up Since both 128MB and 512MB VPS use the same sign up process and the SolusVM control panel is pretty much the same, I will focus our discussion here on a few differences. First difference is obviously the cost, the 521MB VPS cost 10 per month, and here is what you get for 10USD: During the sign up process, the warning message that appeared for the 128MB VPS declaring that upgrading/downgrading Read More

BuyVM is perhaps one of the most frequently featured providers here – for a good reason that they sell really great servers at really cheap price. So far, almost all 15/year providers are unable to deliver a reasonably performed VPS for a prolonged period of time, except BuyVM. As a result, almost every time BuyVM added some new stock, they are sold out in relatively short time frame. Therefore, although it has been a few months since BuyVM has announced their new KVM product lines, I did not manage to get a hold of a few KVMs until recently. This review will consists of two parts, both are dedicated to BuyVM’s KVM series, the first is the most budget 128MB KVM VPS and second part is for the mid-range 512MB KVM products. Why? Because many hosts use lower-range hardware and almost all hosts put more clients per VPS on their 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.

Matt from SSD Nodes has dropped me a message on Webhostingtalk over a month ago asking for a review on their product and although he has encouraged me to try out a VPS using SSD on the root partition, I have decided to keep up with the spirit of choosing selecting a standard LEB offer where possible and ended up choosing the small plan that is almost the same as what is advertised on LEB, with a slight modification (but at the same cost), and we’ll take a look at how this box performs. General Information and Set Up As per the advertisement on LEB, here is what you will be getting for 6.99 per month:   However, while reading through the comments section, I have noticed that Matt has posted a comment that we can use SSD as a secondary storage at no additional cost, and that is what Read More