D. Strout
Resident IPv6 Proponent
I haven't done any reviews of hosting providers lately, despite the fact that I use a lot of them. So today I am going to be reviewing one of my favorite providers: BudgetVM. Let me start by saying that my main "production" server hosting most of my websites is with them, and I completely trust them with that responsibility. I have found it to be a stable service with good prices and good support. The main VPS I have with them has the following specs:
There is one downside to BudgetVM which may have been resolved, but I can't say for sure yet. The first three VPSes I ordered from them did not have working IPv6, nor did they come with the promised 16 addresses - they only had three. I had to ticket for each one, and with one it took six days to get resolved and working. That one I got account credit for, but the rest were just a waiting game. Once IPv6 is up, it remains working fine, but I was consistently surprised that they couldn't get that working right off the bat. The most recent VPS I ordered did have it working immediately, but it too only came with three addresses. Perhaps they entered the number of addresses each plan is supposed to have incorrectly, but you'd think they'd fix that when it was pointed out (which I did, each time).
Anyway, if you don't mind waiting for IPv6, I'd recommend you give them a try. The prices are good, the support is good, and on the off chance you don't like them, they have a very nice 30-day refund policy, which I can tell you they are perfectly willing to make good on. Good stuff!
I pay semi-annually, and due to an interesting sequence of events, I'm only paying $27/6 months as opposed to $4.87 as it says on the order form. I find this to be an excellent price for the specs and reliability I'm getting. The VPS has good speed due to the good specs with a gigabit link and disk speeds around 150MB/s. BudgetVM is owned by Enzu, and as the name suggests is their budget brand. Yet it still benefits from Enzu's owned IPs and good peering: they have a mix of HE, Cogent, Abovenet, and nLayer which I have found very satisfactory. Finally, the support is fairly good, with prompt (1 hour or less) responses to most of my inquiries so far.
There is one downside to BudgetVM which may have been resolved, but I can't say for sure yet. The first three VPSes I ordered from them did not have working IPv6, nor did they come with the promised 16 addresses - they only had three. I had to ticket for each one, and with one it took six days to get resolved and working. That one I got account credit for, but the rest were just a waiting game. Once IPv6 is up, it remains working fine, but I was consistently surprised that they couldn't get that working right off the bat. The most recent VPS I ordered did have it working immediately, but it too only came with three addresses. Perhaps they entered the number of addresses each plan is supposed to have incorrectly, but you'd think they'd fix that when it was pointed out (which I did, each time).
Anyway, if you don't mind waiting for IPv6, I'd recommend you give them a try. The prices are good, the support is good, and on the off chance you don't like them, they have a very nice 30-day refund policy, which I can tell you they are perfectly willing to make good on. Good stuff!
