Tornado VPS Reviews

Originally founded as Prgmr.com, Inc. in 2005 by Luke Crawford, the company rebranded to Tornado VPS, Inc. in 2022. Starting with FreeBSD Jails, the service quickly transitioned to Xen virtualization (initially Xen2 with a NetBSD dom0, now modern Xen Project hypervisor with a CentOS dom0) within its first year. Tornado VPS focuses squarely on providing unmanaged, self-managed Xen-based Virtual Private Servers (VPS). Their target audience consists of technically adept users, system administrators, developers, and programmers who prefer command-line management (via SSH console) over graphical control panels and require root access. The company prides itself on a no-frills approach, summed up by their original slogan: "We don't assume you are stupid." They offer pre-generated images for various Linux distributions (Arch, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu) and BSD variants (FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD), supporting both 32-bit (legacy) and 64-bit architectures, as well as Xen HVM mode for running standard OS kernels and installers. Unique selling points include their focus on experienced users, support for BSD operating systems, SSH-based management console, and historically competitive pricing for CPU and memory resources.