Greetings and Introduction

Greetings citizens of the Internet.

First of all what is a Virtual Private server? Let me quote from Wikipedia:

"A virtual private server (VPS) is a virtual machine sold as a service by an Internet hosting service.^[1]
A VPS runs its own copy of an operating system, and customers have superuser-level access to that operating system instance, so can install almost any software that runs on that OS. For many purposes they are functionally equivalent to a dedicated physical server, and being software defined are able to be much more easily created and configured. They are priced much lower than an equivalent physical server, but as they share the underlying physical hardware with other VPSs, the performance may be less, and may depend on the workload of other instances on the same hardware node."

There are 3 types of Virtual Server Platforms: OpenVZ, XEN and KVM. XEN and KVM provide a 100% dedicated RAM and HDD, since OpenVZ can be theoretically oversold.

In the last months I bought around 15 Virtual Private servers from around the world. I selected the following locations until now. In this blog I want to present my tests results. Feel free to write me a comment.