November 13, 2008 @ 5:50 am 
Via this WHT deal. UBHosting is a Toronto based hosting company running its own equipment since 2004 (i.e. good sign). It has some VPS plans, although the cheapest one, UBH-VPS Mini, is not available on their website and you need to use the link from WHT to order it (for this week only). For $4.99/month, you get
- 128MB memory
- 10GB storage
- 50GB/month data transfer
- HyperVM / OpenVZ
- CentOS / Debian / Fedora Core / Gentoo / OpenSUSE / Ubuntu
No words on “guaranteed” vs “busrstable” memory. However as it’s OpenVZ + HyperVM based, we’ll assume it takes HyperVM’s recommendation to give twice amount of guranteed to burstable memory, i.e. 256MB.
FYI, I signed up for this last week and I have to say that I am very impressed so far.
Prompt setup and the VPS has been very snappy, in fact it even “seems” faster than my dedicated server but I haven’t really run any tests.
In addition I’m fairly impressed with the network performance as well; I’m pulling > 1.4 M/s from Toronto to LA. I had a VPS located at Burst that did much worse.