The Hosting / Cloud bargain thread

[The_Ogre]

Thought it'd be a good idea for those of us who make use of VPS's and the Cloud in general to post good deals in this thread.

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[Idiosyncratic]

This is a fantastic idea - why let this thread die a silent death?

 

[Jade @ Absolute Hosting]

Stay far away from www.chicagovps.net - you'd be better off hosting your sites / applications on your friends adsl line in an area that is subjected to load shedding twice a week.

 

[myKey]

Stay far away from www.chicagovps.net - you'd be better off hosting your sites / applications on your friends adsl line in an area that is subjected to load shedding twice a week.

Can't drop a statement like this and not substantiate it.

 

[Jade @ Absolute Hosting]

Can't drop a statement like this and not substantiate it.

Their VPS solutions are not stable by any means and one can expect around 6 hours of downtime per month. It seems that they dont have any monitoring in place to monitor their nodes and their response to all issues seems to be that restarting other servers within the node solves all issues.

IP's are reclaimed from live servers and you're left with servers that are dead to the world.
To sum it up, if you are looking for cheap and nasty then go with www.chicagovps.net - otherwise look around.

 

[Thor]

Their VPS solutions are not stable by any means and one can expect around 6 hours of downtime per month. It seems that they dont have any monitoring in place to monitor their nodes and their response to all issues seems to be that restarting other servers within the node solves all issues.

IP's are reclaimed from live servers and you're left with servers that are dead to the world.
To sum it up, if you are looking for cheap and nasty then go with www.chicagovps.net - otherwise look around.

Stay far away from www.chicagovps.net - you'd be better off hosting your sites / applications on your friends adsl line in an area that is subjected to load shedding twice a week.

Mmmmm..

I have 2 with them 1 with OVH then a few with domains, 1 with elitehost and 2 with AH

And the only one in that list I had issues with was AF...

 

[shadow_man]

Their VPS solutions are not stable by any means and one can expect around 6 hours of downtime per month. It seems that they dont have any monitoring in place to monitor their nodes and their response to all issues seems to be that restarting other servers within the node solves all issues.

IP's are reclaimed from live servers and you're left with servers that are dead to the world.
To sum it up, if you are looking for cheap and nasty then go with www.chicagovps.net - otherwise look around.

+1 ChicagoVPS are complete ****E!

There's a reason they've been marked as a bad host on LowEndTalk / LowEndBox.

I wouldn't touch them with barge pole.

Hosts I would use:

Digital Ocean
Ramnode
Vultr
HostUs
Host1Plus
Online.net
OVH

 

[Jade @ Absolute Hosting]

+1 ChicagoVPS are complete ****E!

There's a reason they've been marked as a bad host on LowEndTalk / LowEndBox.

Thanks for this, added to my list of daily browsing

 

[philaniH]

Vultr

VPS in less than ten mins

 

[ChalkCheese]

Vultr

VPS in less than ten mins

Like 99% of VPS providers out there..

I do like the fact that you can mount your own custom ISO though which is pretty rare.

 

[shadow_man]

Vultr

VPS in less than ten mins

Problem with Vultr is they use JBOD - so if 1 disk fails you're buggered.

I'd prefer the provider have some RAID and then I have BACKUPS too.

 

[philaniH]

Problem with Vultr is they use JBOD - so if 1 disk fails you're buggered.

I'd prefer the provider have some RAID and then I have BACKUPS too.

Have one in mind? with SSD?

 

[Thor]

Have one in mind? with SSD?

Domains.co.za

 

[philaniH]

Domains.co.za

Have they fixed the issue of more than 30 mins downtime?

 

[Thor]

Have they fixed the issue of more than 30 mins downtime?

What issue is this, my servers are up and running.

The last downtime I can remember was last year when Vox went down, I think that was last year?

 

[philaniH]

What issue is this, my servers are up and running.

The last downtime I can remember was last year when Vox went down, I think that was last year?

Yes last year, i think they good with domains as per company name