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VPSVille Canada, Used vpsville.ca for 6 months and had 2 major issues. First, the hardware node of my VPS died and I lost 3 days of changes when they restored from backup. They didn't inform me and blamed me for the problem until I showed them my log files and they talked to the tech on duty. Second, my server was shutoff of 2 days inexplicably without my intervention or knowledge. They blamed me of course and stop answering my support questions. Overall: poor reliability and poor support. Will be switching to another service.
VPSVille Canada, don't do it...suppport is horrible...price was great tho....
X1 Services, page says "Hello Word"
Registeryfly, urls (the linked one and just www.registerfly.com) return 404s
SharedHardware, apparently disappeared, domain name is for sale
We're Back!
We've migrated from unixshell/tektonic to our new provider. During the time we've also migrated the database over to MySQL from Postgres, which means it should be more maintainable. All site functions are not migrated yet, but they will slowly be revived!
Thanks for everybodies patience
vpschoice.com formerly whatisxenhosting.com
Its a searchable database of all companies with VPS Hosting capability around the world.
What is VPS?
Virtual private servers or Virtual dedicated servers are a form of virtualization that split a single physical server into multiple virtual servers. The practice of partitioning a single server so that it appears as multiple servers has long been common practice in mainframe computers, but has seen a resurgence lately with the development of software and technologies such as VMware, Xen, FreeBSD Jail, User-mode Linux, Linux-VServer, FreeVPS, OpenVZ, and Virtuozzo.
The benefits of VPS Hosting are many:
- You have root access to the server
- Install any application you want, ROR, PHP, Tomcat, Oracle...
- Have just about any flavour of linux, Debian, Suse, Redhat...
- Some virtualization software lets you use different flavours of Windows
- Guaranteed uptime with most suppliers
What is Xen?
Xen is an open source virtual machine monitor, developed by the University of Cambridge and now XenSource. It is intended to run up to 100 full featured OSs on a single computer. Operating systems must be explicitly modified ("ported") to run on Xen (although compatibility is maintained for user applications). This enables Xen to achieve high performance virtualization without special hardware support.
What is Virtuozzo?
Virtuozzo is a proprietary operating system virtualization product produced by SWsoft, Inc. A version that supports Linux has been available since 2001; a version that supports Microsoft Windows became available in 2005.
Note: We don't index quite a few providers who use Virtuozzo as they do not specify guaranteed RAM (not burst RAM) on their hosting plans. Having said that, guaranteed is not necessarily guaranteed because Virtuozzo services (unlike Xen) can be oversold.
VPS Hosting Providers:
- Are you a VPS Provider? Add your plans to our list
- Know of a provider not listed here? let us know
| Provider Name | Location(s) | Total Plans | Virtualization |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Linux | UK | 1 plans | Xen |
| Brightbox | UK | 4 plans | Xen |
| Bytemark | UK | 4 plans | UML |
| Canada Web Hosting | Canada | 3 plans | Virtuozzo |
| CentreHost UK | UK | 4 plans | Virtuozzo |
| ContextShift | Europe | 7 plans | Xen |
| Crystal VPS | UK | 3 plans | Xen |
| DangGood.com | US | 8 plans | Virtuozzo |
| DataSlab | US | 2 plans | Xen |
| DEHE | US | 6 plans | Virtuozzo |
| Dynamic Web Hosting | Australia | 3 plans | Xen |
| EasyVPSHost | The Netherlands | 4 plans | Xen |
| eUKhost.com | UK | 3 plans | Virtuozzo |
| Gandi | FR | 2 plans | Xen |
| Gazzin Networks | US | 8 plans | Xen |
| GigaTux | UK | 6 plans | Xen |
| Goscomb Technologies Limited | UK | 5 plans | Xen |
| GPLHost | US, France, Singapore, Australia, Israel | 30 plans | Xen |
| GrokThis.net | US | 3 plans | Xen |
| HostCube | US | 8 plans | Xen |
| Hosting Ireland | Ireland | 4 plans | Xen |
| Indivision | The Netherlands | 4 plans | Xen |
| Interhost | UK | 6 plans | Virtuozzo |
| ISPserver.com | Belgium, US | 8 plans | VDSManager |
| Labyrinth Data Services | AU | 3 plans | Xen |
| Linode.com | US | 5 plans | Xen |
| Liquid Web | US | 2 plans | Virtuozzo |
| luminea IT Solutions Ltd. | DE | 3 plans | Xen |
| Memset | UK | 3 plans | Xen |
| MiniVDS.com | US | 8 plans | VDSManager, OpenVZ |
| Network EQ Ltd. | UK | 3 plans | Xen |
| Power VPS | US | 9 plans | Virtuozzo |
| Pro VPS | US | 5 plans | Xen |
| Quantact.com | US | 5 plans | Xen |
| RapidXen | US | 6 plans | Xen |
| Registeryfly | US | 4 plans | Virtuozzo |
| Rimu Hosting | US, UK, Australia | 10 plans | Xen |
| Server Axis | US | 8 plans | Xen |
| Server Evolution | US | 3 plans | Xen |
| SharedHardware | US | 7 plans | Xen |
| SitiosHispanos | Argentina | 4 plans | Xen |
| SitiosHispanos.Com | Argentina | 4 plans | Xen |
| SLHost | US | 3 plans | Virtuozzo |
| Slicehost | US | 3 plans | Xen |
| Spry | US | 7 plans | Virtuozzo |
| StackedTech VPS Solutions | US | 3 plans | Virtuozzo |
| Strugglers | UK | 10 plans | Xen |
| SwissCenter | CH | 2 plans | Xen, Xen 3.1 512MB / 5GB |
| Tersum | US | 4 plans | OpenVZ |
| Trenden Networks | US | 3 plans | Xen |
| Virpus Networks | US | 3 plans | Virtuozzo |
| Virtual Private Servers | Canada | 3 plans | Xen |
| Virtual SK | SK | 3 plans | Xen |
| VPS Farm | US | 2 plans | Xen |
| VPSLand | US | 11 plans | Xen, Virtuozzo |
| VPSLink | US | 6 plans | Xen |
| VPSVille Canada | CANADA | 4 plans | OpenVZ |
| Wantingawebsite.com | UK | 6 plans | Open VZ, Virtuozzo |
| WebHosting.UK.com | UK | 6 plans | Virtuozzo, Open VZ, Virtuozzo |
| Webintellects | US | 8 plans | Virtuozzo |
| X1 Services | US | 10 plans | Virtuozzo |
| Xel Hosting | US | 4 plans | Xen |
| Xen Planet | Ireland | 6 plans | Xen |
| XENCON | DE | 6 plans | Xen |
| Xtraordinary Hosting | UK | 12 plans | Xen |
| Yellow Fiber Networks | US | 3 plans | Virtuozzo |
| ZZ Servers | US | 7 plans | Xen |