My honest VPS.NET review

Discussion in 'Web Hosting' started by Jakee, Feb 11, 2010.

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    I've already done a review on VPS.net before, but thought people might like to see how it's been for me and read what I think of VPS.NET overall after 4 months of hosting with them.

    I've been with VPS.net for about 4 months now, I found them searching through Google looking for a new host because I wanted more control over my hosting and my current shared host kept going down at the most annoying times. I had a look at the VPS.net website and was drawn in by the website design and the fancy node slider, which I must say is very nice. I'm looking forward to the new site design and control panel too that is expected very soon. (I’ve just seen a sneak peak of the design from ditlev on the vps.net forums http://ditlev.dk/snitch/IMG00008-20100208-1742.jpg-20100208-174333.jpg and it’s looking nice so far.

    The uptime for VPS.net for me wasn't the best to start off with, but that was most likely my fault as my Linux administration skills were not the best. But VPS.net did have some issues with DDOS attacks and problems with an issue which caused all servers to reboot which made the queue very long and took hours to restore all servers but the problems seem to have gone now, I believe a staff member posted somewhere on the forums that the DDOS was mainly due to the IRC ports not being blocked. At first I was unimpressed at the 'Self healing' features, I didn't host any big websites at the time but it's not exactly the cheapest hosting for a 17 year old college student, we did get credited a full months hosting due to the problems that month, which I must say is very nice of VPS.net and they went out of there way.

    I now host all of my websites at VPS.net and can now say I’m very happy with the vps.net platform; my server currently has 26 days and 5 hours of uptime as of writing this, my personal record with vps.net so far. I no longer use any webhost other than vps.net and wouldn’t want to use any other provider anymore.

    One of the features with vps.net that I love is the optimized images that are available in a few clicks, I had a Debian server with Nginx/MySQL/PHP5 running in minutes, the only problem I had with that was vhosts weren’t working, so I had support fix that for me using an on demand ticket. My websites have always been fast on a 2 node sever, I host about 11 low traffic Wordpress websites including this one and about 8 MySql powered websites and I still have plenty of resources for more

    The only thing’s I can think of what would make VPS.net better is more SAN redundancy which is currently the problem with VPS.net for most as it causes many peoples servers to run slowly, but vps.net have said V3 sans are already in testing. Now that’s listening to customers :)!

    I hope this review helps you with your decision to use VPS.net. I have used Media Temple, Linode and Slicehost and can say vps.net is my favourite by far.

    Keep checking back and I will edit this post with some more information, also feel free to ask any questions and I will answer this as soon as I can.

    Thank you for reading!
     
    Jakee, Feb 11, 2010 IP
  2. premwithme

    premwithme Active Member

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    well nice review hope you are not anyway connect to vps.net other than being a customer. And your decision to host every site in a single host seens bit over confidence that to just hosting with them for 4 month.

    Even if one webmaster 100% satisfied its better to diversify and to host sites in multiple provider, which keep you on command, if in future the vps.net warns you to close your acount or some tech problem you can just upload content to other server and redirect the DNs and stay cool.
     
    premwithme, Feb 11, 2010 IP