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

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

Circus was the first one to comment on the post regarding getting a 96MB review for one of the providers, so although this was not exactly as per my schedule, I decide to offer circus what he wants first, a review on BitCable. General Information and Set Up It is pretty tough for me to find some information on BitCable, although their domain has been registered last year according to here and here to Global IT Tech LLC, there has not been too many reviews floating around. Circus was quick to point out that the company is run by a high school student. The website carries a very minimalistic design, everything was kept clean and straight-forward, which is something that I personally like: There are only two product lines offered by BitCable: Shared and VPS hosting, and for VPS hosting, only KVM platform are offered. The sign up page in 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

Secure Dragon has always offered me some pleasant surprises, and although barely two weeks ago I have reviewed their ultra-low-end 96MB OpenVZ product line, I have received an email that they are offering a Xen ultra-low-end product as well. For 16 USD/year, which is barely 2 USD more than their OpenVZ equivalent offered by Secure Dragon, I decide to give it a shot to see. Basic Information and Set Up As per Secure Dragon’s website, here is the detailed on their new 96MB Xen PV VPS: Note that the swap space offered in this case is pretty big compare to the dedicated memory, which might be helpful if you need to use more than what you are assigned to once a while. However, do note that although in OpenVZ, burstable memory is actually still RAM, in Xen, the swap space is actually hard drive space, therefore it is extremely slow 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 is always interesting to see a company selling VPS services half-way across the globe, which is exactly what QualityServers did. Through their Eliminator plan, which was advertised on WHT, they have promised to have a “one-size fits all” plan. Is it really good as it has advertised? I decided to try it out myself just to see. Plans and Set Up As per their advertisement on WHT, here is the specification of the box: As per this post on LowEndBox.com, their US servers are based in Tempa, Florida with Hivelocity DC. UK is also available for the same price for those who prefer a European location. 6USD for a 600MB OpenVZ box is not exactly cheap for an unmanaged service, however for a “fully managed” service, it definitely sounds like a good deal, add 1 more pound per month and you get a Xen box, which definitely is a Read More

Let me begin by saying this: the most important part of finding the “right” or the “best” low-end VPS for you, actually start from nowhere else but YOU! What? Me? Why me? Two reasons: 1. The reason why you are buying a low-end VPS is because you do not want to pay, for whatever reason, 100 dollars a month to set up your website, and 2. What you pay is going to be a very strong clue of what you will be getting. I used to dream of having a super-powerful server sitting somewhere that I can do some real rocket-science type of computing with it. Unfortunately, the reality is, as a decent working person with no wealthy family background and no oil reserve in my backyard, what is left in my pocket after paying all the necessities every month, is minimal. And that is why, most of you, are Read More