Preface The low end VPS market has received quite a bit of “shock” recently when DireVPS, which is an subsidiary of OpenITC/XenVZ, announced that they would be selling what they called “carefully oversold” VPS, offering 4GB of RAM at a price of less than 7USD per month. Soon after that, we saw a lot more offering from other VPS providers offering VPS at such an incredibly low price. Clearly DireVPS was the leader in this change and how have they been doing recently? The most valuable contributor of 96MB, jcaleb, has decided to sign up with them and take a look. Thanks jcaleb and without further to do, let’s take a look at his review: Introduction 2GB OpenVZ has been more and more common nowadays, that many providers shoots up that offer from time to time. But last February (2013), OpenITC surprised the LET/LEB community by giving a new landmark Read More

As I was going back in time and reading about all the past 42 reviews I have done with the VPS providers and enjoy the fruit of my work, I can not stop wondering what happened to the providers of some of the oldest reviews. Obviously some of them are already closed (for example, IPAP.co and eNetSouth), however some of the others have thrived with the great VPS that they have provided. Today, we are going to take a look at XenVZ again, which is the VPS provider that I have wrote the first review and is what 96MB.com was originally sitting on. It has been a year since I have last reviewed them (and a year since 96MB.com was conceived!), how have they been doing? Basic Information and Set Up As per their advertisement on Webhostingtalk, here is what you get: Although once you click on the order link, Read More

By the time you are reading this, the tiny VPS box that 96MB.com is sitting on has been online for 30 days! Thanks Sean and XenVZ for providing such a extremely inexpensive but yet stable box! For more reviews about this box, which has only 96MB of RAM but runs the entire 96MB.com, feel free to read my review. Happy 30-Day Anniversary, 96MB.com! Here is the current uptime at the time this post is written: uptime 12:04:33 up 30 days, 9:23, 1 user, load average: 0.08, 0.18, 0.12

The first review is obviously on my XenVZ/OpenITC box, which is the very box that 96MB.com is sitting on. The original offer is no longer available, however as per the offer page on LowEndBox.com, here are the specification of this most low-end VPS that I have: Obviously Xen is what I chose as this is really what I see makes the offer attractive. Also, it was not mentioned that it also comes with 2GB of off-site backup with 2GB monthly transfer. Set up is almost instant, order paid via Paypal on 9:07PM, VPS provisioned on 9:38PM. The control panel is highly customized, and here is how it looks like: Some of the really nice features about this custom panels are: 1. Allow custom kernel through PyGrub, some users have reported here that they actually managed to get a few MB of RAM after making use of the custom kernels, however Read More

I just did a head count on my VPS today and here are what are available in my inventory at the time of writing: 1. 1 x XenVZ/OpenITC (Got it from this offer, no longer available) 2. 2 x BuyVM (The famous 15USD per year offer, normally out of stock, and there is actually a website dedicated to check if they are in stock or not here) 3. 1 x Quickweb Supa VZ1 (Description here) 4. 1 x Nix Communications (Got it from this offer, seems sold out at one point and more stock was added later on but it seems it is out of stock again) 5. 1 x IPAP.Co (Got it from this offer,  it is still being set up at the time writing, and reviews won’t be available until it is fully set up). In the next few weeks, I will be writing reviews for each and Read More