Isohost virtual private server reviewed

Pricing is good for "early adopters" but I'd rather not take a chance on a new product. Sticking to Rackspace.
 
I don't have much faith in a hosting company that uses Wordpress for their website!

Currently, our isoho.st provisioning process is manual, so if you want one you’ll need to phone us or drop us a mail at [email protected].
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What a fail. Manual provisioning in this day and age?
 
deweyzeph said:
I don't have much faith in a hosting company that uses Wordpress for their website!
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Seriously? It's the right tool for the job and serves us well. We're not selling web site hosting either, but virtual iron. Web site technology is not our core business.


deweyzeph said:
What a fail. Manual provisioning in this day and age?
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Yup and you can't install pre-installed images yet either. That doesn't mean we don't have something of value to offer.

Not everyone is in our target market just yet, but there are those who appreciate being able to set up their box just the way they like it. They are the early adopters we are looking for right now. Think of us more as good value virtual hardware than a full "cloud" service at this stage.

We'll build up the stack in due course, but we're starting with a solid base offering first.
 
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Flojo said:
Too expensive.

http://www.lowendbox.com/
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Apples and oranges.

Non local, which makes a huge difference. Also, OpenVZ is Linux containers, not true isolated virtualization. And, on the low end machines, how contended is the box? We publish our contention ratios, which will matter to people who are doing serious work.
 
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-confused- now that I'm done reviewing the web site

- there is nothing "cloud computing" about these servers, what exactly do you define as "cloud computing" ?
- appears to just simply be Hetzner reseller?
- brag about local yet "remote.isohost.st" traces internationally?
 
biometrics said:
Wow that is cheap. Worth trying them just for that ...

Have you used them? Hidden costs?
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Ive got about 10 vps`s with them. Theyre cool. Go for the Xen servers rather. Their support is average but I dont have issues with any of the vps`s I have with them. Unless you have latency intolerant applications, hosting abroad still make more sense.

I even use them for a windows desktop (bought a tiny little windows vps which I use are a remote desktop).
 
ghoti said:
Ive got about 10 vps`s with them. Theyre cool. Go for the Xen servers rather. Their support is average but I dont have issues with any of the vps`s I have with them. Unless you have latency intolerant applications, hosting abroad still make more sense.

I even use them for a windows desktop (bought a tiny little windows vps which I use are a remote desktop).
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Thanks. Going to give them a try ...
 
epeer said:
Seriously? It's the right tool for the job and serves us well. We're not selling web site hosting either, but virtual iron. Web site technology is not our core business.
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I don't care what your core business is, your website is terrible. In fact, it's one of the worst I've seen in a long time. I could possibly be in the market for what you're offering, but your website has completely put me off.
 
Aragon said:
They're unbelievably cheap, but only offer Centos? *barf*


I'm inclined to say ignore the cheap skates, but I'm sometimes one myself, heh. Kudos, and good luck.
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Nope. On signup Centos is auto loaded. You can then change it. Just loaded Ubuntu 12.04 myself ...
 
deweyzeph said:
I don't care what your core business is, your website is terrible. In fact, it's one of the worst I've seen in a long time. I could possibly be in the market for what you're offering, but your website has completely put me off.
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Ah well, I guess we can't please everybody. We've actually had quite a few compliments on the minimalist feel we were going for. :)
 
ghoti said:
Ive got about 10 vps`s with them. Theyre cool. Go for the Xen servers rather. Their support is average but I dont have issues with any of the vps`s I have with them. Unless you have latency intolerant applications, hosting abroad still make more sense.

I even use them for a windows desktop (bought a tiny little windows vps which I use are a remote desktop).
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I've got everything running but I can't find where to create DNS records?
 
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