5If you have been hunting for a virtual private server for a while, you should know all the metrics that service providers use in their advertisement and package/plan pages. You have your monthly data transfer amount (which sometimes are confused with “bandwidth”). There is a disk storage space for your operating system and data files. [...]
Fivebean Media OpenVZ VPS Hosting Review
Update November 2009
Signing Up
MoxieVM
Plan Upgrades
Performance
Conclusion
Looking at my history of past reviews and found that I have not done a hosting review for the last 8 months! Meanwhile, I probably have used half a dozen different hosting providers since my last review (my review on Gandi.net’s Xen VPS, which I will hopefully write about them [...]
vzfree – Checking Memory Usage inside OpenVZ VE
Gee. It has been a while since I’ve last written here, and it will be a while again for my next post as I will be on holidays from next Monday (visiting families in Hong Kong and Taiwan). Let me share one small utility program that I wrote quite a while ago.
We all know that [...]
ServerWays OpenVZ VPS Review
Provisioning and Setting Up
CPU — Severely Limited
Support
Conclusion
Last week I needed a small VPS to test a new project so I went to Web Hosting Talk VPS offers forum to look for something really cheap, and found this deal at ServerWays.com. ServerWays is a new company, with its domain registered in December 2007. It is also [...]
Xen or OpenVZ VPS?
I have been a VPSLink customer for about as long as they have been offering the service — since June 2006 I think — although I rarely blogged about them here. Recently I had an opportunity to test out their recently launched Xen VPS hosting. VPSLink now offers both OpenVZ and Xen based VPS hosting [...]
Is Virtuozzo good for OpenVZ?
Kir Kolyshkin wrote on the OpenVZ blog, Why Virtuozzo is good for OpenVZ,
The first version of Virtuozzo was released about 6 years ago, so it is not something new. Virtuozzo costs money, and is used by big corporations for mission-critical applications. Virtuozzo customers expect it to be very stable, fast, bug-free, well documented, etc. And [...]