http://www.vpsreview.com Find out opinions about VPS hosting company before buying! Sat, 14 Mar 2009 18:38:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en At this website, you can find reviews of web hosting companies. These reviews are my compilation from other reviews I found at the Internet and relevant forums and similar. Also, I looks into uptime and pricing of each provider. Apart from looking at this website and similar I would like ... http://www.vpsreview.com/general-information/few-points-regarding-choosing-your-vps-provider-helps-you-choose-your-virtual-server/ Price : 7/10 Uptime: 9/10 Support: 9/10 Good reviews around! http://www.vpsreview.com/hosting-providers/rosehostingcom-review/ Price : 6/10 Uptime : 9/10 They are a little bit too expensive for OpenVZ. http://www.vpsreview.com/hosting-providers/blue-room-hosting-review/ Price: 5/10. They have quite weird packages with 512MB as start package and 1GB package is quite expensive - you can get dedicated server for 129$. Uptime: 6/10 Support : 4/10 Complains about wiping entire accounts and unable to cancel their services. http://www.vpsreview.com/hosting-providers/vistapages-and-hostmds-review/ Pricing : 8/10 Support: 9/10 Reliability : 8/10 Performance : 8/10 Their pricing is among better, although some european VPS servers are still cheaper at the moment. http://www.vpsreview.com/hosting-providers/virpus-vds-review/ Uptime : ?/10 Speed : 8/10 Support : 7/10 Price : 6/10 - the price is in pounds and in the moment is ok due to low pound comparing to other currencies. They claim that their response times for support are within 10-20 minutes. Some people claim that company is the joke. http://www.vpsreview.com/hosting-providers/eukhostcom-review/ Support : 8/10 Uptime : 5/10 Speed : 5/10 Price : 5/10 There are mixed opinions about bodhost. At the moment some other hosting providers provide better pricing and some people at forums complain about uptime. Some users are satisfied with uptime. http://www.vpsreview.com/hosting-providers/bodhost-review/ Price: 7/10 Support: 7/10 - I've seen 2/3 of reviews at internet for them were good. http://www.vpsreview.com/hosting-providers/vpsvilleca-review-a/ Uptime : 9.5/10 Speed : 9.5/10 Support : 10/10 Response times for support are reported as within 10-15 minutes. In one year one user has downtime of 2 hours which is almost excellent. They use quality multi code servers for VPS hosting. http://www.vpsreview.com/hosting-providers/eurovps-review/ Support : 9/10 Speed : 10/10 Network speed : 7/10 Their answer support emails within 1 hour in average. Network speed is approx 10mbit, which isn't bad but isn't worse also. One user posted UnixBench score (WHT) of 101, which is very good. http://www.vpsreview.com/hosting-providers/serveraxis-vps-plans-review/ Support : 10/10 Their managed VPS provides really excellent support. Some users have reported they installs even really complicated software for less than 1 hour. Other users have reported resolving their problem within 5-15 minutes. http://www.vpsreview.com/hosting-providers/servint-vps-review/ Support : 8/10 Speed and network : 9/10 For their unmanaged plans they don't guarantee fast support response times, but in overall it isn't bad for support, but sales contacts tends to be slow. Both network and processor speeds seems to be quite ... http://www.vpsreview.com/hosting-providers/solarvps-review/ Price : 6/10 Support : 10/10 Network : 10/10 Bandwidth : 5/10 Almost 100mbit network speed, but they plans don't provide much traffic. Support answers within 10 minutes. http://www.vpsreview.com/hosting-providers/myriadnetwork-vps-review/ Uptime : 10/10 Speed : 6/10 They seems to have decent uptime but some users have reported speed isn't best. http://www.vpsreview.com/hosting-providers/webperonide-review/ Speed : 9/10 Support : 10/10 Network : 8/10 24x7 e-mail support with high-priority option in case of serious problem. Policy : no overselling. Some users from Europe have reported great speed to their servers in USA. User from China have reported high ... http://www.vpsreview.com/hosting-providers/slicehost-review/ Support : 9.6/10 Price : 9.3/10 Speed : 9.6/10 Uptime/Reliability : 9.7/10 Good support, nice network and processor speed, it is hard to find provider which provides better uptime. http://www.vpsreview.com/hosting-providers/powervps-review/ Support : 9/10 Uptime : 10/10 Speed : 8/10 Speed is quite good (Byte Unix Benchmarks version 4.1-wht gives final score 98.5). Their support answers tickets usually fast. There are no many times when network or VPS is down. http://www.vpsreview.com/hosting-providers/host-maven-review/ support : 10/10 network and availability : 10/10 bandwidth : 5/10 They VPS plans tends to have low bandwidth which might become problem to some users, but they support seems to be excellent. Many satisfied users. Support tickets have been answered in http://www.vpsreview.com/hosting-providers/knownhost-review/ server speed : 9/10 network speed : 8.5/10 support : 8.5/10 uptime : 10/10 hardware : 8/10 price : 7/10 Quite frequent server resets or network unavailability but it doesn't last long. Support answers quite fast, seems to be 24x7. They answer emails within 30 minutes ... http://www.vpsreview.com/hosting-providers/futurehostingbiz/ support : 10/10 availability : 10/10 price : 5/10 Live support even during the night. The users haven't experience availability issues. But, they are very expensive comparing to some cheap plans – hosting providers. http://www.vpsreview.com/hosting-providers/slhostcom-vps-plans-review/ support : 8/10 stableness : 6/10 Some users have experience that their VPS sometimes crashes if you have large amounts of requests per minute. They have excellent live support. http://www.vpsreview.com/hosting-providers/tektonicnet-vps-plans-review/ support : 5/10 availability : 7/10 speed : 6/10 They provide support during 8-16 GMT during the working days. If you post your question on Friday evening you might have to wait until Monday 1pm ;). They perform overselling, not just of CPU but ... http://www.vpsreview.com/hosting-providers/hosteuropede-vps/ support : 9/10 availability : 7/10 speed : 7/10 They provide almost immediate support using chat (80% of the time). Sometimes there might be some unavailability of your VPS. They VPS plans seems to be quite fast. http://www.vpsreview.com/hosting-providers/zonenet-vps/ support : 7/10 availability : 1/10 Although they respond to all support tickets quite quickly you might have your VPS down quite lot of time. But some users have also noticed that availability used to be better in some periods of time. http://www.vpsreview.com/hosting-providers/jaguarpccom-vps-plans-review/ support: 0/10 When you ask them support question via email they charge 15$ for each email even if you are expert in server administration ;) Their terms of service doesn't mentioned anything about it. http://www.vpsreview.com/hosting-providers/gatecom-vps/ availability : 6/10 speed : 2/10 They don't say how much memory their plans has. They even said to some users : you must upgrade to dedicated since you are using too much resources. We think you should avoid them, although they are ... http://www.vpsreview.com/hosting-providers/godaddycom-virtual-dedicated-plans-review/ availability : 3/10 speed : 3/10 support : 3/10 There are a lot of complains about Vpsland.com, but some users have opposite opinions. We've seen a lot of complains about them – poor speed, almost no support, support tickets haven't answered, overselling, servers went ... http://www.vpsreview.com/hosting-providers/vpslandcom-review/ Many novice users are confused should they choose managed or unmanaged VPS plan and what does it mean. Unmanaged hosting plan means that user will do configuration, additional software install, customization, maintenance and backup on its own. Managed hosting plan means that hosting provider should provide administration without additional costs ... http://www.vpsreview.com/general-information/managed-vs-unmanaged-vps/ If you are confused should you choose more expensive dedicated server or VPS might suit your needs, this is the article for you. Virtual Private Servers (VPS, sometimes called Virtual Dedicated Servers - VDS or just virtual servers) are becoming more and more popular as hosting choice at the Internet. VPS is ... http://www.vpsreview.com/general-information/why-to-use-vps/ We are considering many issues about Virtual Private Servers (VPS) and Dedicated Servers. Among those issues there are : power consumption, software backups, maintenance costs, network equipment, performances and software licensing. VPSs(Virtual Private Servers) have higher hardware utilization rate. They are cheaper since they have less power electricity costs than physical servers. Maintenance ... http://www.vpsreview.com/general-information/vps-vs-dedicated-servers/