Reliable UK & US Debian vps hosting
There are dozens of companies provding debian vps, and if I tell you that I have been a customer of all of them that would be a lie.
However, I have searched all over the internet, browsing through popular review sites, webmasters forums, blogs, questions & answers websites, as well as talking to those vps hosting companies customer service staffs, so if you want to spend two days reading boring reviews, well, be my guest.
I had a list of 20 debian vps providers, after evaluating them on customers experience and hardwares, and plans, only 4Â left on my list, which are listed below.
VPS.NET
Cloud vps
Datacenters are located in both US and UK
$20 / month = 0.4GHz CPU, 256 RAM, 10GB storage, 250GB bandwidth
For more Info click here
Pandela
8-Core Servers, Â Virtuozzo/Hyper V
256MB RAM, 200GB Banwidth, 5GB storage     $17
2048 MB RAM, 1500 GB Bandwidth, 50GB storage $64
Additional IP's: Â Â Â Â $1/mth
Extra Bandwidth: Â Â Â $0.25/GB
For more Info click here
Sitevalley
xen servers
$14.95 / month = 256 MB Dedicated Memory, 256 MB SWAP Memory, 20 GB storage, 100 GB Bandwidth
$49.95 / month = 1024 MB Dedicated Memory, 1024 MB SWAP Memory, 80 GB storage, 500 GB Bandwidth, 4 Dedicated IP
Adult allowed
For more Info click here
Eukhost - uk webhosting provider
Virtuozzo server
£ 19 / month = 15 GB Web Space, 300 GB Monthly Bandwidth, 384 MB Guaranteed RAM
£ 39 / month = 45 GB Web Space,  500 GB Monthly Bandwidth, 640 MB Guaranteed RAM
Muiltply by 10 is your yearly price
For more Info click here
A2hosting – Low Price = Poor Quality ?
A2hosting offers $8.97/month VPS hosting plan, no set fee, the promotion ends on the 31st of Dec.
The cPanel installation assistance service is reasonally priced, it costs $50 one time fee, as many other vps hosting companies would ask you sign up for their managed service which is usually more expensive.
30 Day money back guarantee, it is neccessery to know what the refund policy is before sigining up with any hosting companies, for a2hosting, only the month fee is refunable, one time fees such, ssl, cpanel set up assistance will not be refunded. Payment made by cheques and dedicated servers will not be refunded either.
Hardware
The a2hosting basic vps plan includes 128 Guaranteed Ram with 256 burstable ram, so your website will still be accessible even if it has exceed it ram limit. 10 GB storage and 100 GB Bandwidth / Data Transfer, unless you are hosting a huge ecommerce site (not as huge as eBay tho) with huge amount of page views per day, this should do you.
Software
Many Linux based OS to choose from,to name a few, Gentoo, Debian, Centos etc
2 virtualization systems, xen & openvz, in case you don't know the difference is, xen allows you to have multiple OS/operating system installation, as OpenVZ has 4 times less CPU consumption, less overhead, and more stable. They all have their advantages but if you only need vps for standard websites, then OpenVZ is the choice.
A2hosting offers 2 cPanel templates for vps customers, standard and advanced. basically advanced template is the same as the one in shared hosting, this is great for any one who is new to vps and would like to use cPanel.
Customers Service
99.9% Uptime policy, a2hosting has good reputation for their server uptime, although like many other companies, scheduled maintainances are not included in the uptime gurantee. Toll free phone support for US and Canada. Live support, Feedback button shows that a2hosting is continually working on their customers experiences and it is definitely a sign of good customer support.
Conclusion
A2hosting is an affordable vps hosting provider that has good customer support and plans that are suitable for absolute beginners in vps. Click here to visist A2hosting
Illegal immigrants can not use 1&1 internet
I was browsing through 1&1 internet reviews, and came across a post in one of the forums suggests that you need to provide your passport copy and very very personal information in order to sign up for their services, sounds like 1and1 has become the online police department.
So out of curiosity I had a look in 1&1 internet privacy policy, where I found no mentions regarding to passports. That's why it is time for us to focus on the problems, pros and cons.
Problems
Not receiving validation email, You should get it right after you sign up, otherwise check your spam filter first, if still not, well, wait for a while and contact their support, for vps and dedicated may take up to 5 days to set up.
other problems are not really problems, such as how to set up joomla, wordpress, all you need to do is to use an ftp client such as filezilla, if you don't know how to do it, let me know, I will make a video on that.
Pros
Good variety of hosting plans, shared hosting, vps, dedicated servers etc. The starting price is surprisingly low for dedicated server, only $49/month, as for shared hosting and vps are pretty much the same as many other hosting providers.
I like the sound of green hosting, it feels like that we are helping to protect the environment as we are building our sites.
90 day money back guarantee (does not apply to dedicated), while most of the hosting companies offer only 30 days.
24/7 support which is pretty standard with all the big hosting companies, although I am a big fan (my surname is Fan too, and I am big) of live chat support, which is not available.
Cons
The account cancellation in 1&1 internet can be tricky, many customers had complaints on that issue, so read through their policies before you purchase 1&1 internet hosting plans (that applies to any other hosting companies)
Even though 1and1 and many other hosting companies provide a free domain when you sign up, but unless you are just testing it out and don't care about the site much, don't use the free domain provided for your site. I think we can all afford $10 for a domain name.
Conclusion
Don’t decide whether to register for a hosting account with 1&1 internet or not based on what I have just said, as I always suggest do more researches before buying any hosting service, and that will save you a lot of headaches and nightmares in the future. Watch my video “how to find a reliable hosting serviceâ€, and don’t forget to order hosting services through my links, because you will get a nice gift, actually a few. Click to see what you will get
EasyCGI review: is it worth your money
Before we go in to EasyCGI review, let's take a look at what are the key features in easyCGI vps hsoting,
Data centers located in Boston MA
30 Day money back  guarantee
One IP address included in the hosting plan
Linux debian OS
Plesk control panel
RAID
Starting price, $49.95 monthly billing or $39.95/month yearly billing for 20GB disk space, 256MB RAM and 500GB per month data transfer.
So fat EasyCGI hosting does not offer windows vps
Pros
Since easyCGI runs on linux debian, the OS / Operation system, the system is solid, although one may argue that since debian is operated by vonlunteers, the Debian OS don't usually contain the latest softwares, however, this should not be a concern for vpshosting.
The RAID storage feature is another good thing to see in easycgi hosting, basically raid has the best data backup functionality, though one thing to keep in mind, no matter what system the vps hosting companies are using or how reliable the vps providers are, it is always good to back up your own data.
Many hosting companies, especially vps providers would charge an additional fee for adding a control panel such as plesk and cPanel, easyCGI has included plesk in their vps hosting plans.
Control panel and software tutorial is definitely a good thing to have.
Cons
Even though, debian is a solid operation system, it is good to have more choices, such as centOS, ubuntu, for more experienced users.
I have come accross a few other vps hosting companies that include 2 dedicated ips, where as easyCGI only offers one.
Since I constantly in search of vps hosting companies, I am not too excited about their customer support, I will tell you why in a sec, but first I will show the conversation I had with there sales staff via live Chat.
"P: Hi Dawei. My name is P (don't want to show the real name here), how are you today?
Dawei: Hi . 2 questions, first , I was trying to register for an account on linux vps x. and saw the free domain with qualified plans, what does that mean qualified
P: Could you please provide me the exact URL of the page from where you have entered the Live Chat?
Dawei: easycgi.com
Dawei: sorry, this is the one https://secure.easycgi.com/register/registration.bml?flowid=8&masters=694
P: Okay.
P: You can find the VPS base hosting package by going through the URL at:
P: http://www.easycgi.com/easycgi/vps/linux-vps-compare.bml
Dawei: so if I sign up for linx vps x. will I get a free domain,
P: Yes, Dawei "
Here are the reasons
1. I only needed to wait for 3 seconds before the chat started, so what am I complaining about ? wait, here it comes, Once I finished typing in the questions, it took them about 30 seconds to come back to me, and instead of answering my question, they first had to ask where I entered the live chat, and I know one thing for certain, if I didn't answer that question, they will never answer mine. so here's a question comes into my head, "if the customers are more important, why didn't they answer the customers questions first ?"
2, As you can see the questions were pretty straight forward, and yet I was sent back to the page I was previously viewing, if I wasn't how would I know it was linux vps X?
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Conclusion.
The vps hosting package seems to be good enough for small business site, and it is risk free since they offer a 30 day money back gurantee. More importly if you want to keep you data safest possible, ask them if they have SSH, this applies to any vps hosting. Ok , so that was my easyCGI reivews, but  don't take my word, do more investigation befoere you decide on buying any vps hosting services, because one person's review does not really mean anything.
Important: if you buy any hosting services via the links provided on my site, You will get a nice bonus (check it out here),
VPS.net review
VPS.net is a vps provider belongs to UK2 group. Its technology is based on cloud computing, the servers are located in both London. UKÂ and Chicago & SLC. US.
VPS.net Pros
The best feature of VPS.net is its instant scalability, You can scale up your usage according to your needs without paying for anything you have not used, that's the benefit of cloud hosting/computing too.
Daily or Weekly back up
Cloud hosting also allows you to have many OS / operating systems to choose from, since vps.,net is a linux only vps hosting solution, the OS available to you are CentOS, Gentoo, Ubuntu, and many more.
VPS.net has one of the best support forums available in the industry, as well as other support methods, such as phone, email.
VPS.net offers softwares such as cPanel and ISP System Linux in a discounted price.
VPS.net Cons
VPS.net uses Xen as their exclusive virtualization system, xen allows users to have multiple operating system installation, the problem with Xen is its overhead, and CPU consumption, comparing to OS level virtualization softwares, such as OpenVZ and Virtuozzo, Xen consumes 4 times more CPU.
Conclusion
If the customer support is very important to you, vps.net is definitely one the best choice you can have, however, if you want more choices of virtualisation softwares, vps.net might not be the one for you.