Best USA based VPS host?

[titanium]

Currently I use Rimuhosting and Linode for my VPS servers, but the latencies / number of hops aren't the greatest (thank you, Telkom).

If anyone has experience with a US-based VPS that has the lowest number of hops / low latencies to SA that you've seen, please let me know the name of the VPS provider.

Thanks!

 

[Belial]

I am also a Rimuhosting customer, and I find them to be an excellent host.

Unfortunately latency is always going to be somewhat of an issue if you use a host in the states. I have also used servint.com. They are great, try give them a ping or two and see if you think its better than Rimu.

 

[TheRoDent]

try jvds.com

Host                                                                    Loss%   Snt   Last   Avg  Best  Wrst StDev
 1. dsl-165-4-01.telkomadsl.co.za                                         0.0%    11    9.7  10.0   9.3  11.1   0.6
 2. rndf-ip-er-2-fe-12-0-1-610.telkom-ipnet.co.za                         0.0%    11   10.6  10.6  10.1  11.2   0.3
 3. ???
 4. ny-ip-dir-globalc-pos-7-0.telkom-ipnet.co.za                          0.0%    11  263.2 264.4 261.5 277.1   4.4
 5. nyk-i3-geth3-2.telia.net                                              0.0%    11  262.2 263.0 261.9 264.8   1.0
 6. nyk-b1-link.telia.net                                                 0.0%    11  263.0 263.9 261.9 270.7   2.6
 7. nyk-bb1-pos7-2-0.telia.net                                            0.0%    11  263.6 263.8 262.1 269.7   2.2
 8. nyk-b2-link.telia.net                                                 0.0%    11  262.9 263.7 262.1 265.4   1.0
 9. wbs-112980-nyk-b1.c.telia.net                                         0.0%    10  265.8 265.1 263.5 269.3   1.7
10. 65.98.0.213                                                           0.0%    10  266.5 265.1 263.1 268.7   1.8
11. 69.72.218.82                                                          0.0%    10  264.0 265.9 263.7 274.2   3.4
12. dixie.neology.co.za                                                  10.0%    10  265.3 265.1 263.7 267.5   1.3

 

[Deckert]

Linode VPS

Hi,

Yeah.. a little late for this post, but here goes. I've also had my own VPS hosting (your own Linux server with root access for those who don't know) with Linode http://linode.com and I must say I am very impressed. They keep on upgrading me all the time.

Currently the smallest Linode you can get has:
- 100MB RAM
- 4GB disk space
- 50GB of transfer traffic

All for $20 (about R140) a month. No contract, no hassles. I get excellent uptimes and they offer good distro's which you can install yourself. They also offer a free primary and secondary DNS service if you rent a Linode from them. Really great value for money.

I've always had good ping times and transfer speeds from them:

From my DSL line:

[tva@zorg ~]$ ping tetra.cube.co.za -n -c 5
PING tetra.cube.co.za (70.85.16.124) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 70.85.16.124: icmp_seq=0 ttl=52 time=293 ms
64 bytes from 70.85.16.124: icmp_seq=1 ttl=52 time=293 ms
64 bytes from 70.85.16.124: icmp_seq=2 ttl=52 time=293 ms
64 bytes from 70.85.16.124: icmp_seq=3 ttl=52 time=293 ms
64 bytes from 70.85.16.124: icmp_seq=4 ttl=52 time=294 ms

--- tetra.cube.co.za ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4004ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 293.165/293.656/294.568/0.479 ms, pipe 2

Only 16 hops away.

--deckert

 

[Deckert]

South Africanl VPS provider

If anyone has experience with a US-based VPS that has the lowest number of hops / low latencies to SA that you've seen, please let me know the name of the VPS provider.

So, speaking of low latency, SA has finally gotten a decent VPS provider with servers in South Africa for about the same price as US-based VPSs.

Have a look at http://www.spinup.co.za

Xen hosts, many distro's and good connectivity. Been a while since I've been able to ping one of my VPSs at 11ms over my ADSL line.

--deckert

 

[AeroVPS]

So, speaking of low latency, SA has finally gotten a decent VPS provider with servers in South Africa for about the same price as US-based VPSs.

Have a look at http://www.spinup.co.za

Xen hosts, many distro's and good connectivity. Been a while since I've been able to ping one of my VPSs at 11ms over my ADSL line.

--deckert

You can't really compare - because a US host will give you 100x the port speed they're offering. And more or less the same price? - not really, we charge half their price for about the same specs but the 100mbps port.

 

[Deckert]

we charge half their price for about the same specs but the 100mbps port.

Which is useless when you're in SA. That's the whole point. Identify your market and work with that. I have a VPS in the US and one in SA and they serve very different purposes. The VPS in the US is very slow from South Africa, no matter how fast the port in the US is.

A local VPS is very fast, has low latency and sites and other services hosted on the local VPS offers a much better experience to the local user.

--deckert

 

[AeroVPS]

Which is useless when you're in SA. That's the whole point. Identify your market and work with that. I have a VPS in the US and one in SA and they serve very different purposes. The VPS in the US is very slow from South Africa, no matter how fast the port in the US is.

A local VPS is very fast, has low latency and sites and other services hosted on the local VPS offers a much better experience to the local user.

--deckert

Downloading files from my VPS on a 4mbps Mweb uncapped account runs at 420kbps stable. When I connect via VNC, its responsive. When I browse my websites, it's fast.

I can't speak for today though with Mweb's hassles, but when I maximized my download manager now I was getting 423kbps.

 

[Deckert]

Downloading files from my VPS on a 4mbps Mweb uncapped account runs at 420kbps stable. When I connect via VNC, its responsive. When I browse my websites, it's fast.

"responsive" "fast" - subjective and unquantifyable terms.

Pinging aerovps.com (and linode.com, for that matter) from my ADSL line is around 380ms. Pinging my local VPS with the SpinUp guys is around 11ms. Are you seriously suggesting a US-based VPS would be more responsive while using VNC?

I'm not talking about just downloading files (which is what you seem to be all about). I'm talking about how responsive a server is. Ever download 300 messages using pop3 with a latent link? I'm not contending the fact that US-based VPSs don't have their place (I love my Linode too), but for some services a local VPS (or server) is just better.

Why do you think this very site, mybroadband.co.za, hosts locally? Even though it costs them substantially more, the mybroadband.co.za admins know that their customer base is local and that the user experience for South African users us far better on a locally hosted server.

SSH to a local server is also just so much more pleasurable than to an international server. But hey, each to his own, I guess. If you're in the market for a local VPS, give www.spinup.co.za a try.

--deckert

disclaimer: I don't work for SpinUp, just a satisfied customer.

 

[AeroVPS]

"responsive" "fast" - subjective and unquantifyable terms.

Pinging aerovps.com (and linode.com, for that matter) from my ADSL line is around 380ms. Pinging my local VPS with the SpinUp guys is around 11ms. Are you seriously suggesting a US-based VPS would be more responsive while using VNC?

I'm not talking about just downloading files (which is what you seem to be all about). I'm talking about how responsive a server is. Ever download 300 messages using pop3 with a latent link? I'm not contending the fact that US-based VPSs don't have their place (I love my Linode too), but for some services a local VPS (or server) is just better.

Why do you think this very site, mybroadband.co.za, hosts locally? Even though it costs them substantially more, the mybroadband.co.za admins know that their customer base is local and that the user experience for South African users us far better on a locally hosted server.

SSH to a local server is also just so much more pleasurable than to an international server. But hey, each to his own, I guess. If you're in the market for a local VPS, give www.spinup.co.za a try.

--deckert

disclaimer: I don't work for SpinUp, just a satisfied customer.

Topic title. US Based. Please don't compare SA to US all of a sudden! Price wise you get more in the US, that's what I was saying.

MyBB's target market is SA DSL/Broadband consumers, thus they need to cater for local cap users too!

Good luck with your VPS journey!

 

[Grimster101]

Hey there guys. I just had to sign up to post this message If you want really cheap prices, good amounts of ram and bandwidth limits. I would really suggest https://my.frantech.ca

I actually do some support staff work for them. But right now my net is currently capped so i cant x-x But yeah. Their very cheap. We also do custom dedicated server plans (All you need to do is submit a ticket with the specs you want and a staff member will reply back to you with a price. If your happy, they can set you up :3) You can pay via paypal/credit cards/and Western Union (although WU can take time for the payment to complete which can delay the order being setup) You can even get free shared webhosting/mysql if you have a vps with them

Currently their lowest package is the 512 MB vps plan, linux/windows which is $12.50 usd a month. I would really recommend giving them a try. They use vmware software (They are based in Fremont right now) They just moved there about a month ago as the data center they were at before was rather choppy. I get about an average 350-360 ms pinging their ip's etc etc.

They are with Hurricane Electrics. I believe their site is www.he.net or something like that ^^ Please do give Frantech Solutions a try. I really do recommend them =]

Edit: For those of you who want to know, Im on a 384kb/s line. Yay for fail telkom </3