This is an overview of the experiences VTLUUG users have had with various VPS hosting providers. == Virtual Private Servers ==

Prgmr is a discount Xen host used by several VTLUUG members. After Prgmr was originally viewed as very inexpensive, however they have not made significant upgrades to their plans in recent years. Hosts like DigitalOcean and Linode's 2013 upgrades, that have have made Prgmr is not as competitive at higher price tiersa poor choice for all but their cheapest plans.

The Kimsufi brand is a low cost, low power dedicated server service provided by OVH. It is comprable comparable in cost to many vps VPS providers but is dedicated hardware. OVH has extensive peering issues with the US resulting in poor connections to their France and EU based datacenters. A recently built DC in Canada should help with some of this but will not fully alleviate the issue most likely. They do provide many ISO's with the grsec set of kernel hardening compiled in and IPv6 subnets come with all kimsufi plans. They do have a habit of putting an SSH backdoor on to your server, "so they can help you in the event of a problem" but this just serves as another possible point of failure. US residents also will not have access to the same plans as residents of the EU, who often can recieve receive much more favorable pricing.