tmzVPS – Managed/Unmanaged SSD/HDD VPS Starting $8/Mo – Review

In this article I am going to review tmzVPS a web hosting company that specializes in VPS Market. They offer both Managed and Un-Managed VPS Hosting solutions with SSD and non-SSD Variants. I’ve been provided with their VPS-S4U (OpenVZ) plan to test their services so that I can write a honest and unbiased review.

According to their about page they are founded on 2007, that means they are in this industry for quite some time now, so you should not be worried because you will be in good hands. Well lets continue with the tmzVPS review and see what are their offerings.

Offers

Well, first lets start with their VPS offers.

Un-Managed SSD VPS

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Plan Name: VPS-S2U

CPU Cores: 1

Ram: 2GB

Disk Space: 35GB SSD

Bandwidth: 2TB

$9/Month.

Complete Plan details can be found here.

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Un-Managed HDD VPS

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Plan Name: VPS-S2U

CPU Cores: 1

Ram: 2GB

Disk Space: 50GB

Bandwidth: 2TB

$8/Month.

Complete Plan details can be found here.

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Some tests performed on their Unmanaged SSD VPS: VPS-S4U

Serverthrough put using dd command:

In this test one gb was written and 371 MB/s was server throughput, which is quite impressive for a virtual private server. Now let see what is the server latency.

Server latency time

Network Speed

For network speed I’ve downloaded a 1GB file using “wget” command and following were the results.

So the average speed was around 9.85 MB/sec, which is not bad too.

Locations Offered

They currently offer two locations:

• United States.
• United Kingdom.

Payment Methods

• Paypal.
• Bitcoin.
• Credit/Debit Card.
• 2Checkout.

VPS Control Panel

For VPS Control panel they are using SolusVM, using which you can perform following operations:

• Reboot VPS.
• Shutdown.
• Access Remote Console.
• Reset password.
• Re-install operating system.

Test files and ping!

United States

Ping: 142.4.41.130

Download file: http://mirrors-lax.webnx.com/test/1gb.bin

United Kingdom

Ping: 212.18.224.182

Download file: http://212.18.224.182/lg/1024MB.test