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VPS LIST Q4 2011 Benchmarks Released

By Cheap VPS On February 8, 2012 · Leave a Comment

I apologize but the last six weeks have been hectic for me. I just finally got around to posting the Q4 2011 results! It looks like Nick from Fanatical VPS has the top benchmarks this quarter! Congratulations to Nick, Fanatical VPS and all his clients for having such a solid, reliable service.

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VMPort Customer Migration

By Cheap VPS On May 14, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Attention all VMPort Customers, Per our email sent out yesterday we are going to be migrating VMPort customers into our fully owned equipment. You will have the option to migrate to one of the following facilities: US Available Location Choices: – Los Angeles, CA (west coast) – Kansas City, MO (midwest) – Dallas, TX (central [...]

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FTNHosting Acquires VMPort

By Cheap VPS On May 13, 2012 · Leave a Comment

A few important things to note: – As FTNHosting is an American based company, we will be converting the GBP currency into USD. It will be the equivalent amount and no price changes will be made. – We do not have any plans to merge VMPort into another brand, and until further notice VMPort will [...]

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Iperweb KVM SSD VPS in Italy

By Cheap VPS On May 13, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Salvatore from Iperweb has issued me a trial of his 256mb KVM SSD virtual private server that has SSD hard drives. First thing first, there are limited amount of hosting providers in Italy. What separates Iperweb from other hosting providers is Iperweb is LIR (RIPE NCC member) and Iperweb does BGP with their Autonomous System [...]

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EDIS is offering FREE Raspberry Pi Colocation!

By Cheap VPS On May 12, 2012 · 1 Comment

Source: EDIS’ Twitter account For those who do not know, Raspberry Pi is a low power, embedded system that costs $25 USD retail. Now do you understand what all the excitement is all about? According to the Raspberry Pi FAQ: The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer that plugs into your TV and a [...]

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The Host Genie Update

By Cheap VPS On May 12, 2012 · Leave a Comment

I’ve had a OpenVZ virtual private server with The Host Genie and the uptime is amazing: # uptime 04:18:00 up 193 days, 16:04, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Over 6 months of uptime and I’m a very proud customer of theirs! The back story on The Host Genie is they were previously a [...]

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SemoWeb Offers $21 Per Year Cheap VPS Plan

By Cheap VPS On May 11, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Source: Cheap VPS The crew over at Cheap VPS have posted an offer by Semoweb, an Orlando Florida VPS provider, that they have extended their $21 per year plan due to the amount of interest by customers. This is a very good deal because you basically get double the RAM of most of your yearly [...]

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VPS.NET Announces Partnership WIth WHMCS

By Cheap VPS On May 11, 2012 · Leave a Comment

VPS.NET, a leading cloud hosting provider with over 13 unique locations, announced today that it has partnered with WHMCS. Through this partnership VPS.NET clients are now able to purchase the WHMCS client management software at a discounted rate of only $7.50 a month. In addition to the discount WHMCS has committed to improving the reseller [...]

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24Shells – Fast, Reliable New Jersey VPS Hosting

By Cheap VPS On May 10, 2012 · Leave a Comment

I contacted the folks at 24Shells about their services because I saw that they had services in New Jersey, which is pretty rare by today’s standards, and I wanted to know a little bit more about the company. 24Shells is located at the DuPont Fabros Technology (DFT) data center in Piscataway Township, New Jersey. Piscataway, [...]

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BlueVM’s Illinois Node Hacked; Customer Data Affected

By Cheap VPS On May 9, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Hello, Yesterday around 4:00 PM MST one of the servers in our Illinois datacenter was compromised. This compromise lead to the loss of data on that server along with all backups and data associated with it. That data was unrecoverable and thus roughly 30 of our clients VPS are currently offline. We have no reason [...]

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LFCVPS Review

By Cheap VPS On May 9, 2012 · 2 Comments

How is everyone doing? Jeff and the crew with LFCVPS (Loose Foot Computing) has deployed their Xen PV project. According to LFCVPS’ company page, it appears that LFC has been in the hosting business since 1998 but just now got on virtual private servers. According to LFCVPS’ hardware page, their node specifications are impressive: ASUS [...]

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SecureDragon Permits IRC Clients On Their FL VPS Hosting

By Cheap VPS On May 8, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Yup, we just changed our TOS to allow IRC on our network (only clients at this time, no servers). We also have some new security in place so that DDOS attacks will no longer impact other clients on the network (good timing right?) so no need to worry about sharing a node with “bad neighbors”. [...]

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VPS.NET 2 Week Review

By Cheap VPS On May 6, 2012 · 2 Comments

Hello I have a good amount of VPS.NET account credits so I decided to do a VPS.NET review with all my account credits. So far, after 14 days, I have a total of 7 days uptime. Uptime: [root@chi ~]# last root pts/0 xxx-xx-xx-xxx.li Sun May 6 17:30 still logged in reboot system boot 2.6.18-308.4.1.e Sun [...]

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Monitoring VMWare Logs

By Cheap VPS On May 2, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Source: SANS Institute It is also not uncommon to see VMWare farms growing exponentially as people tend to throw more hardware and just create new VMs. In such cases, controlling what your administrators do is a must yet I also see that organizations auditing their VMWare farms (and especially administrator’s activities) are pretty rare. One [...]

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VPS.NET Review Update

By Cheap VPS On May 1, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Well, sorta a mini update… VPS.NET has security features such as if you login via an “unknown” or non-whitelisted IP address, you are prompted for security answers to security questions you setup. Unfortunately, I forgot mine because I didn’t know I would have an issue at home trying to access my VPS.NET VPS when I [...]

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Is LowEndBox (LEB) Dead?

By Cheap VPS On April 30, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Source: Low End Talk A VPS hosting company owner asked the simple question, “is LowEndBox backlogged?”. Boy did some hilarious responses come out. First and foremost, Netcraft confirms that LowEndBox is indeed dead. This confirms it. I do keep a mental note of the Alexa ranking and indeed, this confirms what I know mentally. The [...]

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Why Would A VPS Company Owner Associate With Known Trolls?

By Cheap VPS On April 30, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Source: Low End Talk Nothing confuses me more than so many flame wars and DDoS attacks coming from LowEndTalk when communities like these, which pride themselves on being less “restrictive” than WebHostingTalk, when restrictions keep the flame wars and DDoS attacks from getting out of control.

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