10Well. Here is a review that was supposed to be done 9 months ago. Back in February, Nicolas from Gandi.net contacted me about reviewing their Xen VPS hosting product, which was under beta testing back then. I had a review VPS from them for two weeks, did a few tests, but was not able to [...]
Webbynode Beta about to be Launched – Sign up Now
A few months ago I reviewed VPS Media’s Xen VPS. It was a relatively young hosting start up (although with years of experience behind it). In the email interview I asked Carlos of VPS Media about their up-coming plans, a customised control panel is on the card so they can ditch HyperVM. However the detail [...]
VPS Media Xen VPS Review
VPS Media, a relatively young provider in the virtual private server scene — yet have years of experience in application hosting, is marketing itself as “for Designers and Developers”. Thanks to Carlos T. who has provided me a testing VPS over the last two weeks, and here is my review on Xen VPS at VPS [...]
Crucial Paradigm Sydney Xen VPS Review
(Disclaimer: Aaron W. from Crucial Paradigm emailed me early last week asking for a review on their re-launched Xen VPS plans. So here we go — a review on their Xen VPS after playing with one for a few days.) Crucial Paradigm is a web hosting/web design company in Sydney, Australia that have both Australian [...]
Moved from Web24 to Linode
(Note: This is a review of VPS hosting services provided by Web24 and Linode, and a migration of one of my sites from one to the other at the end of March 2008. Web24 may have improved their service since but I have no way nor intend to verify it.) Web24 — Virtuozzo VPS in [...]
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 [...]
Linode.com Xen Virtual Server Review
Update September 2008 Expecting UML, Got Xen Linode Platform Manager Initialisation and Booting up Disk Images Configuration Profiles Finnix Recovery Distro Linode Shell Linode Community But, What About Reviewing the Actual VPS?! Conclusion When I first went shopping around for VPS hosting back in early 2006, Linode was high on my list. There were only [...]
SliceHost 12 Months Mini-Review
How do you know that a web hosting company is good? You do a Google Search, landed on an initial impression review written almost 12 months ago, search around the site for any hint of negative comments on that hosting company and find none, and 12 months later the site is still hosted there. Yes, [...]
DreamHost Joined Private Server Hosting
“So, DreamHost has started their own Virtual Private Server hosting business.” “You kidding?!” “Yes, it is true!” From DreamHost Blog’s latest entry, What a CON!, where Josh Jones has again done what he does best — humiliating the whole HostingCon, companies such as Lunarpages, HostGator, Tier 1 Research and OpenHosting. Very enjoyable read for an [...]
LxAdmin Host-InA-Box Review Part 1
Lxlabs‘ LxAdmin Host-InA-Box is a “feature-complete” server control panel product designed for web hosting. There are already many control panels for web hosting providers. Some are commercial, some are free, and some are open sourced/free software. What then makes LxAdmin HIB unique? Its runtime size, which claims to be only 15MB! The tiny memory footprint [...]