We’re probably going to add Telia once we get our own ASN and BGP going.

I just tracerouted to about a dozen or so ips
spread all over europe and you are looking at
about 110ms of latency, everything went
through HE.Net

Another good feature for a Seattle based VPS is its closeness to Amazon’s data center, if you need to use the Amazon web services from inside your VPS.

I also agree about the credit card vs. PayPal and would like to use PayPal for online services whenever possible. It is not that the provider is dodgy and fraudulent — sometimes you just cannot trust your credit card details being stored on a 3rd party database. Sites get hacked and your credit card detail is now in every mafia’s pocket…

1) VPSLink provides their own nameservers and have a pretty nifty interface to manage them.

2) I already knew their service (managed some VPS accounts from them) for a few months *prior* to jumping for a 24month prepay. It wasn’t *just* the tempting price, never fall for those type of schemes, but rather the fact I already knew what I was paying for and how reliable things were so far.

3) VPSLink does offer both tty and ssh access from their account management area using some java applet. The tty is pretty useful for those times where one get’s too carried away securing the VPS and locks himself out.. (already happened to me!)

Sidenote: Their IP range seams particularly prone to brute-force root password attacks.. Never do the mistake of leaving sshd on port 22 and/or having a short root password (if possible disable password login and opt for RSA keys).

I myself already have one of these ultra-cheap-low-end VPS with VPSLink (Xen 64MB — Link1 plan) being so far my one and only gripe the fact their ping is way to high for my European location (above 200ms on average). It’s still awesome value for the price tag I have paid, given that I decided to go crazy and prepay 24months during their 50% off anniversary offer. [Don't do this at home kids! -- Although this is Spry we are talking about ;)]

Rock stable and only with one short network shortage that I can remember during this 2 months.

Now I need another VPS for my personal hosting needs, but this time I will only pay on a per month basis (like everyone should). I was really looking after the USD$6 plan from VPSVillage, but they don’t accept PayPal, and I vividly don’t recommend anyone using their real hard credit card data for purchasing this kind of services, regardless of reputation (issues are harder to solve when the other side can still charge you regardless of the service provided or what you may say..)

That’s why I am looking towards RapidXen, that seems to be a pretty decent alternative and their ping to my European location isn’t that bad considering they are stationed in the US (average slightly above 150ms).

Hope my comments aren’t getting tiresome to read, but I am really looking for all the information I can gather for my next personal VPS.

So I would suggest you keep listing 5$ hosts :)
but dont list them till they have been around for awhile.

VSZ is not as important as a lot of programs allocate more than they use.

@Webmister — I did have some drama with RapidXen at the beginning (due to my own fault in the first place) so the uptime wasn’t that great. 64bit is also making no sense for 64MB VPS I found.

Performance wise it is not bad. I got one core of Opteron 2216 (2.4GHz) which is more than sufficient.

Do note that it has no control panel but they do provide you tty access via Xen to fix FUBAR’ed VPS (neither do Datarealm).

I fully understand your concern about Datarealm’s bandwidth cap. I don’t really notice it unless I am doing upgrades which requires me downloading lots of packages. I am using this box as a low end web server + secondary MX so uptime is more important to me than the bandwidth.

The reason I won’t choose Daterealm is their 1Mbps bandwidth cap. Don’t get me wrong, but for that kind of bandwidth I would rather setup my own box with my DSL connection.

The owner in fact appears to be both a nice guy and trustworthy, plus his non-VPS hosting company appears to be around for some years now being the only complaints so far regarding his spam filter, that seems to filter way too much.

I myself never got a reply to my last email about the promotional offer (keyworks like “promotional” + nazi spam filter = @#$%), which is kind of frustrating since I feel my primary mean of communication has been compromised.. and sending more mails about the subject can only make things worst from a spam filter perspective.

Hopefully everything will be sorted out via his IRC channel, when I am not in a hurry and pressed by all the work..

TEST                                        BASELINE     RESULT      INDEX

Dhrystone 2 using register variables        376783.7  3781666.5      100.4
Double-Precision Whetstone                      83.1      999.5      120.3
Execl Throughput                               188.3     1329.0       70.6
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks         2672.0    69469.0      260.0
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks           1077.0    23706.0      220.1
File Read 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks        15382.0   439690.0      285.8
Pipe Throughput                             111814.6   399851.4       35.8
Pipe-based Context Switching                 15448.6    63579.4       41.2
Process Creation                               569.3     2873.7       50.5
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)                    44.8      254.4       56.8
System Call Overhead                        114433.5   592676.7       51.8
                                                                 =========
     FINAL SCORE                                                      89.8

Personally I don’t believe in the unixbench as they say little about real world performance.

As of Datarealm — it runs fine but not without downtime. You get 1mbps unmetered which is good as a hacked site won’t be able to start a DoS on it, but downloading software packages will take longer time. The biggest itch would be their kernel, which is RHE 4 based, i.e. 2.6.9.