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How to use

When you load the page, only cheapest (cheaper than $7 a month) virtual private server hostings are listed. Basically, filter by the 4 available fields and sort by the 5 columns. Enter 10000/0/0/0 in the four fields above to make the filter displaying all available proposals. We have more than 120 companies listed. That's several hundreds of plans.

News And Catalog Updates

2012-05-02
Added Hostigation (KVM), LFCVPS, AmeriNOC, QuickPacket, HostingInside, SecureDragon, OverclockedHost, OnePoundWebHosting and LusoVPS.
2012-05-01
Added OneNetwork, vpzzo, HomeNode. Updated JollyWorksHosting, LightWave, AlienVPS, OpenVZ.ca, Spacerich, BuyVM, NeoSurge. Removed GigeVPS, HostRail.
2012-04-30
Updated BurstNet, RisingNet, IGXHost, 123Systems Solutions, IdeaStack , EcoVPS, QuickWeb, Velcom 2.0, AllSimple, NewWebsite, 2Host, HostMist, UCVHOST, BlueMileCloud. Added ChicagoVPS, YardVPS. Removed SliceHost (acquired by Rackspace) and Neutrino.
2012-04-26
Updated Giga-International, MochaHost, Ram Host, Webangel.IE, WhyNotaVPS, vpsDC, VPSNOC. Removed XVPS, eNetSouthCloud.
2012-04-25
Updated BurstNet, HostChunk, ThrustVPS, Prgmr.com, JoinVPS, VPS.net, Linode, HostFolks, NordicVPS (removed), PhotonVPS.
2011-09-03
Added: BlackBoxVPS, XtraHost (Xtraordinary Hosting). Verified: 1CheapHosting.
2011-02-09
A major update: MochaHost and SimpeRack prices went down, DiverseWeb and FastRackServers cheap hostings are no longer in business (shut down), IdeaStack and AlphaHostPlus increased bandwidth and disk space, NewWebsite reduced available bandwidth, TekTonic introduced completely new cloud and high-performance plans and increased RAM and HDD for its plain VPS plans, IGXHost increased bandwidth for its VZENT plans, CirrusHosting increased RAM and bandwidth, WebAngel lowered prices so plans now start from 3 EUR/month, HostChunk cancelled its top 3GB RAM plan, increased hard drive and traffic, Virpus increased hard drive, XVPS reduced hard drive in its top plans, ThrustVPS increased RAM and hard drive and reduced prices so they start from $5.95.
2010-09-11
Found a few decent competitors: HostPulse.com has the largest database so far, 40 VPS hostings. Its listing format is the best I've seen so far, it's even better than ours because of arrows to indicate sorting order for each column. But unfortunately its owners think that it's good idea to hide the table in a pile of informational garbage. TheHostingDir limited its clogging to just 3 blocks useless for visitors: "vps by country and US state", "Latest 5 web hosts" and "Featured Articles". The listing format itself is somewhat obscure, but nevertheless the four most important figures (bandwidth, disk space, memory, monthly price) are clearly visible. VPS hostings added today: KVC Web Hosting, HostoMosto.
2010-08-29
Added SiteValley, fanaticalVPS, HttpReg, NeoSurge (only low-level plans up to 5 GB of memory) and ServerOrigin. For iHubNet added their mini-Router plan series.
2010-08-28
Sorry for not having updates for more than a week - I was busy with my other projects. So, today I searched for cheap vps hosting and added RapidXen and PhotonVPS to our database. Besides that, I found two excellent competitors: Buy a VPS .com and Techno Surge blogs. They are not link farms, and are not clogged with navigation and ad blocks. They do provide their visitors with valuable information about virtual private server hosting plans, but their main flaw is that they are blogs. The visitors are forced to follow their recommendations, and don't have a choice of their own. In particular, there is no global filtering/search/comparison/visualization engine, even there is no such a primitive engine like ours. And, of course, their data volume is small. I also found a very strange beast: Best Cheap VPS Hosting page. Yes, this ridiculous web resource is just a single web page with 5 really good proposal on it: #1 is Linode, not very cheap, but it's a market leader, and it's not too expensive either at $20/mo. The rest four are just good cheap hostings below $10 and as low as $5.95. The sad side is that the only 5 plans listed, the listed 99.999% uptime claims are unverifiable and thus useless for users, and it's not disclosed how the 9/10 ratings are calculated, so those figures are useless too. So basically, this page is useful and really lists some of the best companies on the market, but a layman visitor cannot verify their claims about the perfectness - only we can, because we have a quite large and unbiased database. And you can verify our claims by using our own web hosting search engine.
2010-08-20
Page changes monitoring by Watch This Page.com brought its first valuable results: watchthispage informed us that SolarVPS changed its pricing in somewhat controversial way. Despite being rather expensive at $38 for their old 768 package, they raised their prices even more: now 768 MB RAM package costs $52. They also gave strange names to packages: Micro is the smallest, Pico is the largest, and all packages have same, quite large, amount of hard drive storage and monthly internet traffic. In addition to updating SolarVPS profile, there are usual updates: added HostColor, WebsiteSource, WestHost, NetHosting, Fluid Hosting.
2010-08-19
Added Compevo, eBoundHost, DataRealm, GPLHost, ServerPoint, Nexcess.
2010-08-15
Our old friend BuyVM is accepting new orders again. Same cheapest prices on market, same VPS specifications. Added RootBSD - the only FreeBSD VPS in our database so far. They also claim to provide OpenBSD and NetBSD on demand. Also added Applied Innovations, Nordic VPS, HostRail, FsckVPS, Verio.
2010-08-14
Added A2Hosting, WiredTree RimuHosting. We have 100 VPS hostings listed now!
2010-08-13
Added KickAssVPS, Pandela, NTCHosting. Rechecked NetworkSolutions.
2010-08-12
Added ServInt, JaguarPC, VPSNOC, TekTonic VPS hosting companies. Rechecked PowerVPS and JoinVPS.
2010-08-09
Added Linode, SolarVPS and HostFolks providers. Rechecked hosting plans for VpsLink, HostV, HostGator, Inmotion Hosting, Spry, VPSLand, VPSLink and DiverseWeb. No changes in their pricing and availability. Yes, some hosting companies die over time, stop providing certain services or merge with other companies!
2010-08-08
Added VPS.net provider. Rechecked prices and added URL for Slicehost. Unfortunately, links can only be seen in the upper table for now, and only for the companies I added recently. I'll try to add vps hosting links to the lower table when I have time. But for now most of the listed virtual server hosting companies can be easily found by Googling their names.
2010-07-29
HazeNet provider is removed from our database as all its VPS server plans are sold out.
Installed JS-Kit/Echo comments engine.

About Our Catalog

This is a VPS hosting search engine designed to help webmasters to find cheap virtual private hosting for their project or to compare their existing hosting to other proposals on the market.

We aim to improve on existing web hosting catalogs, such as webhostingrating.com, webhostinggeeks.com, hostingcatalog.com, whost.info, cheaphostingdirectory.com, vpsaccount.com, b2evolution.net, vpshostingreviews.com, findmyhost.com, top5webhosts.com, webhostingsearch.com, askwebhosting.com, vpshostingfriends.com, webhostingtop.org:

Less clutter
no "navigation", "menus" etc
More data
hostingcatalog.com claims to be "the largest", but it lists just 11 VPS hostings. VPS Hosting Reviews, the only catalog from the above list that looks like a catalog and not like a SERP spammer/link farm with paid listings, has whooping 53. And we have more than 120 as of Aug 29 2010.
Free
while our ultimate goal is to earn no less than a billion, we are not going to do this at the cost of our visitors. Our policy is at most single ad block per page, no paid catalog inclusions, no premium listings, no ads or any other attempts to monetize traffic until the traffic is significant, no extra pages designed just to improve search engine visibility or advertisement impressions
No rankings, voting, testimonials or ratings - only raw data
Ratings are easily bought. The ratings on our competitors' sites seem to be bought by the same few expensive companies. They are neither quality oriented, nor price oriented. So called ratings don't include known giants such as rackspacecloud.com, linode.com, slicehost.com, Amazon EC2. The giants are expensive, but provide excellent enterprise-level hosting with many additional services (CDN, load balancing, elastic cloud computing, distributed bulk file storage, automated backups, premium support). Also the ratings don't include cheap oversold low-end hostings such as listed at Low End Box Cheap VPS Blog. So how these "top 10 best vps hostings lists" are created? The only explanation is paid affiliation. These "catalogs" are useless to potential VPS users, we consider them link farms and SERP spammers. Needless to say, we are not going this way. We design our site for you, our users, and not to maximize our profits at the cost of your convenience.

According to Smashing Apps Blog, before you choose a hosting provider, you must research and compare all the companies out there. The following points should be closely compared while choosing a web hosting company:

  1. Is the hosting company a reputed one ?
  2. What other users are saying about the company ?
  3. What are the different plans available ?
  4. How is the tech support of the company?
  5. Which sites are using the same hosting company for their websites?
  6. What are the user reviews, goodwill and customer feedback of the hosting company?

We focus only on answering the 3rd question. We collect information about hosting plans available on the market and attempt to provide you with advanced tools to categorize, sort and filter the raw data. At the moment, only classic "sort-and-filter-in-a-table" analysis instrument is implemented. It's rather primitive, and we are not satisfied with it in any way and working on getting you something better to dig through this pile of hosting proposals. But we believe that this present uncluttered table is much better than those found at our competitors' pages, so we decided to put this very bad beta quality product to the web.

Our Data Sources

Our data sources are Low End Box Blog and Google. There is also a huge listing of web hostings at Open Directory Project, but we haven't used it yet.

Disadvantages of Cheap Virtual Private Hosting

For low-end websites there are basically no disadvantages. But if your project is not trivial (read: not just another personal blog with no visitors), then your enemies are: overselling, strict Acceptable Usage Policies (AUPs) and noisy neighbours.

Overselling
Overselling means that your project gets too little resources because too many accounts are sharing the same physical machine.
Strict AUPs
Strict policies mean that your provider prohibits you to use too many resources or run certain kinds of innocent (not malicious) applications. For example, at some cheap hostings you cannot use your VPS as a central hub for your corporate VPN if all your branches happen to have private IP addresses, or host a game server to play with friends
Noisy Neighbors Effect
Noisy Neighbors Effect means that amount of resources you get vary greatly between different virtual servers, because they are hosted on different physical boxes, and each physical computer has different average load. With certain providers you can attempt to find the quitest neighborhood by creating and deleting your server many times.

The above three issues hit you immediately. In the long run the following problems become important:

No backups
Many cheap providers don't perform backups at all. In contrast, some more expensive providers offer free daily offsite backups (that is, to another datacenter in another city, so your data will survive in case of fire, stolen hardware or a natural disaster)
Hardware Failures
Cheap providers use cheap hardware that breaks often. Cheap hardware + no backups = disaster. But even if backups are performed, it may take a few days until your server is back and running again as restoration process is not fully automated. In contrast, a more expensive provider may offer you a live migration to another physical server if current server encounters failures, as this feature is supported by all virtualization software. Also, a more expensive provider may just have spare servers while a cheap one will have to order new hardware from its supplier.
Limited connection speed
As your website grows, network infrastructure (that is, provider's LAN and external connnectivity) becomes important. Some high-end providers provide you with load-balancers and content delivery networks (CDNs) while low-end hostings will not be able to handle your increased traffic at all. Also take into consideration that 'unmetered' traffic is not 'unlimited'. There are no such things as free cheese and unlimited resources. So if your project becomes too noisy a low-end provider may just terminate your account or ask to pay more. Even if a cheap provider lists limited, but very high amount of network traffic - beware of that, as it is not clear if it will be able to sustain such a high load for such a low price point.
Poor or expensive support
If something breaks, people will care more of you if you pay them $50 a month than if you pay them $5. Also, support staff can be not skilled enough to deal with scalability issues of their infrastructure. That is, they will not be able to help you if your visitors suffer because their router started to drop packets under high load. And finally, with more expensive hosing plans more support is usually included in the price.

What makes a web hosting cheap or expensive

Talking about VPS, the following has influence, according to Best Cheap VPS Hosting page:

  • Linux (and *BSD) VPS are cheaper than Windows
  • Unmanaged VPS are cheaper than Managed VPS
  • OpenVZ VPS are cheaper than Xen VPS, and Xen VPS are cheaper than OpenVZ Virtuozzo.

Note that we are focused on unmanaged Linux VPS and may omit some providers managed plans in our database if the same provider has unmanaged plans too. This is not because of our policy but mainly because of my laziness - I don't find managed plans useful.

Unmanaged vs "marketese managed" vs managed

Oh, and for your information, "managed" is a kind of marketing buzzword these days, just like "unlimited". It doesn't usually mean THEY (the support staff) are going to administrate and monitor your server. It just means the server has a web control panel installed, and a layman not familiar with Unix configuration and software packages can install and configure some software. Some expensive providers do really manage your managed servers for you, but that costs much more than $10 a month (a usual price difference between unmanaged and so called "managed" plans, mainly a control panel licensing fee).

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Есть 4 поля ввода – требуемая цена, размер винта, размер памяти и объем трафика. В нижней таблице отображаются все пакеты, укладывающиеся в данные требования. В верхней таблице отображаются 5 самых дорогих пакетов из нижней таблицы. Нижняя таблица сортируется щелчком по заголовку соответствующего столбца.

О проекте

Проект – поисковая система по предложениям виртуальных выделенных серверов (VDS, VPS), призванная помочь в следующих случаях:

  • Если у Вас уже есть сайт – Вы можете сравнить Ваш текущий хостинг с имеющимися на рынке и переехать либо на более дешевый, либо на более энтерпрайзовый хостинг.
  • Если ваш текущий хостинг стал тормозить в связи с наплывом клиентов или перестал Вас устраивать по какой-то другой причине
  • Если Вы только собираетесь создавать проект и хотите оценить Ваши будущие затраты на хостинг
  • Если Вы разработчик и ищете временный сервер для отладки ваших проектов, хостинга репозиториев кода, багтрекеров, билд-ботов и прочих инструментов разработки.

По понятным причинам мы ориентируемся на неприбыльные проекты:

  • На полностью финансируемые владельцем проекты
  • На проекты, полностью или частично финансируемые за счет показа рекламы и меценатства
  • На маленькие проекты, на проекты на начальной стадии развития и на несостоявшиеся проект
  • На недоделанные, умирающие и полумертвые проекты

Если у вас прибыльный проект и исправно работающий хостинг – вы вряд ли переедете на другой хостинг из желания немного сэкономить. Как известно, скупой платит дважды. С другой стороны, в наше время серверов за 3.5 доллара в месяц странно видеть объявления «проект закрывается в связи с отсутствием трехста долларов в месяц на хостинг». Умерьте свои амбиции, затяните пояса. Пусть ваша система не умирает, а продолжит жить на более убогом и перегруженном хостинге, хотя и тормозя.

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