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VPS Provider Comparison Table
I've been working on a small project for the past few days, and I have a first version up and running. It's essentially an 'interactive' table with VPS plans from a bunch of providers, that can be filtered by specifications, price, etc.
The table/site can be found at http://vps-list.cryto.net/.
The features/to-do list that used to be here has been moved to http://wiki.cryto.net/doku.php?id=projects:vpslist
If you have any feedback, let me know!
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I like the fact that we're on top - Only thing is we do offer free DNS upon request.
I've been working on it for about 2 days now - not for the entire days though. Probably about 20 hours of work altogether, including adding the providers that are there now.
The magic of the alphabet
On a more serious note though, I've fixed the BlueVM entries, they should start displaying green checkmarks somewhere in the next minute
Some VPS providers offer free DNS hosting for all their customers, that's what the 'Free DNS' column indicates.
Why you didn't enabled sorting in the datatables plugin? :P
Also, include a button to reset the filters :P
It doesn't play nice with formatted numbers
Anyhow, I'll be implementing sorting slightly differently, since I don't particularly feel like hacking around in the DataTables code any more. It's a rather messy bit of code, and I've found my one trip into the source of it to fix a bug, to be more than I wanted It does work well though.
The reset button is a good idea, I'll definitely include that when I update the rest of the filters (to add filtering for IPv4, IRC, etc).
YEah, the plugin is complex, you need to do the custom sorters :P
Oh hey, it's the anonops kid. Haven't seen you in awhile :P
Nice work on the chart.
I'd like to see the RAM sliders adjusted to only allow values in increments of, say, 64MB. Otherwise, quite nice.
That is actually already what they are (supposed to be) doing :P
Hey there, long time no speak
Anyhow, this is possibly derailing the thread a bit, but could you check if the BuyVM plans on the chart all have the correct specs? I couldn't seem to reach DeltaAnime IRC, so had no chance to ask.
UPDATE: I've just put up a rough first version of the user submission page. You can now submit your own providers and plans at http://vps-list.cryto.net/quickadd.php
hey, would it be possible to make the filters set by text input in addition to your sliding bars?
Good idea, will implement that soon as well.
Sure thing; looks dead-on to me. Everything looks pretty solid, that table is pretty slick.
Awesome! And it would be nice if the slider is goes from maximum to minimum 0, pardon my English, for example if someone looking for a maximum 128 MB Dedicated RAM they can set the RAM to 128 max.
Might be a good idea if location-based filtering was added as well
Way to copy me... http://cheapvpsdeals.info/feature-search/
@taipres - It's not like you'd posted that work here before....
There's an abundance of sites out there that let you compare hosts. Can you honestly claim to be the first to develop the idea?
I am Really appreciate your effort...
thanks dude
Nice one Maybe a test file for speeds too ? Most providers include one.
Also location is a good idea since many ppl I know are selecting hosts by location.
And an expiration time, say a couple of weeks, since many hosts are sold out fast and it gets outdated.
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Another column for location might be good too. Since many people look forward to the place where they server's are located.
PS: Nice job!
Filtering on ipv6 would also be usefull
Yeah joepie91, you might as well just copy the rest of the features from my site, you're almost there anyway. Here go ahead and take this code too http://cheapvpsdeals.info/table.php so you can have a real sort table.
Where are we! :P
I think there should be filtering on OS (Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, etc.), it would be very helpful.
I noticed there's quite a few companies missing...
So... that's why he want to add an user submission feature
i think there should be filtering on openVZ, XEN and KVM
I've changed a few things around and added some remarks on the user submission pages to make it a bit more clear what information should go where. Additionally I'm in the process of reviewing the submissions that were made in the past few hours, they should appear shortly
Also location is a good idea since many ppl I know are selecting hosts by location.
The database fields for this actually already exist, I just still have to work on the server location feature a bit (this is also where test files and IPs will be implemented). Should be done very soon.
I'm not sure if that would be a good idea, as it would put a lot of pressure on people to constantly submit their plans. I think it would be better to just allow users to submit corrections for all entries in the list - that way (I hope) corrections will be submitted for outdated plans.
This will come soon
Feel free to add yourself at http://vps-list.cryto.net/quickadd.php
It's actually already there (or well, a basic and rough version of it)
This, too, will be added soon.
Since you apparently can't stop filling up this thread with complaining about how I 'ripped off' your idea:
1. I was not even aware that the plan comparison on your site even existed. As far as I was aware, it was still the promo offer low-end VPS blog that it was before - which, I might add, was an exact clone of LowEndBox at the time.
2. There are many comparison sites out there for virtually everything that use a similar format - there were just not any complete ones for VPS providers. This is just about the most generic comparison idea there is.
3. Your comparison only shows plans that have had a promo offer posted on the blog. It is not direct user submission, does not give a full overview of all plans of a provider, and is even more prone to being outdated as they are discount prices.
Now can we cut the childish rubbish and get back to actual constructive feedback? Thank you very much.
Ha Sven,
Nice list, thanks. Page looks a bit weird without javascript, had to turn off Scriptno...
@joepie91
For some reason someone raised all of the ram amounts I put in for burstable, I offer vSwap not burst, so I put in the vSwap amounts, but with this raise it makes it look like I'm offering more swap then ram.
For some reason someone raised all of the ram amounts I put in for burstable, I offer vSwap not burst, so I put in the vSwap amounts, but with this raise it makes it look like I'm offering more swap then ram.
Yes, that's correct. I added a note to the plan submission page a few minutes ago that if you are offering vSwap, the 'Burstable RAM' entry should be Guaranteed + vSwap, since many users consider 'Burstable RAM' to be "the maximum they can burst to", and if that were to be lower than the Guaranteed RAM, that would raise questions like "how can I burst to less than what I can always use?". I'll fix that up once I have a proper way to denote vSwap as opposed to OpenVZ burstable - for now this was the most easily overseeable solution I could come up with.
Just make the table say Burst/vSwap