[deanhills]

VPS 9 looks great but the reason people prefer VPS 5 over VPS 9 is just because of its location as many of us like Europe locations for hosting game servers and hosting other things.

Another reason is users get their own Admin panel. The OS and Admin Panel is more up to date than your average Admin Panel as Manal is completely hands-on with his software. There is more active hands-on support from the sponsor. Like if you're a power user Manal is likely to stand right behind you in your projects as he is keen to show case his VPS to every one. He wants you to be successful with your projects. Virmach is much larger and although the VPSs are great, and we do get support, we don't get it on the same level as from Shadow Hosting. The KVM change has not been that great for availability of OS and up to date OS - Virmach seems to be struggling with conflicts after the change to KVM. We can't use Ubuntu. I still prefer my VPS 9 though, but then I've always been a CentOS user, and am happy with what I have right now. I'm not on an up to date CentOS, but things are working OK and I'm happy with the speed. It's working is also seamless. Feels like something is right in the configuration of VPS 9, but that KVM change that was done production style instead of individually, created some issues for OS that hopefully will be sorted out in the long run.