I've been lurking and posting on these forums long enough that I figure it's time for me to contribute something that might help other users: a quick review of 2AM Networks.
I have 2 dedicated servers with them and I couldn't be happier. Network uptime is 100% as far as I can see, the servers are delivered within their given timeframes (despite me ordering during a sales rush both times - I'm clever like that ) and with exactly the specifications requested.
Support is fantastic. I haven't needed it a great deal but all responses have been within 20-30 minutes and the answers are spot on.
You can see how good the prices are for yourselves in the dedicated offers forum or on their dedicated servers page but I'm pleasantly surprised to find that even the add-ons (IPs, etc) are the same price as more expensive competitors.
So if anyone is researching dedicated servers I'd recommend taking a look at 2AM Networks
(I'll report my server IPs to give this review some credibility)
Well it's near 12 months now I've been hosted with Fused Network.
I have nothing bad to say about them. I've been extremely happy with their service. Support: It's true 24/7 I submitted a ticket at 12:30AM GMT+10:00 (approx 4AM USA) and they replied within 5 minutes.
Service: They've lived up to their promises, the uptime is great, never going under 99.9% - my monitor is unreliable though, so they're probably up around 99.99%. Any outages are always announced, and I haven't noticed any downtime.
Price: Their price is amazing, it's not cheap, but it's not expensive either, in this industry you get what you pay for, I was expecting much less for the price, so I am very happy with their pricing structure and support for price. It can only get better.
Overall: From my previous 9/10 they've risen up to a 10/10. It's top notch service, and I have nothing bad at all to say about them.
If you're looking for a great host that cares, go for it. Their affiliate system is unique, a percentage of funds goes out to charity, rather than in the pocket of the affiliate, while it may not be for you, I like it, it's a great idea.
I have no reason to change host, or even get another hosting account elsewhere, why risk a possible bad experience when I have a excellent one with my current provider?
I get like 25 kbps download speeds from my brand new fdcservers server (750+ kbps normally from my other servers) even though I'm the only user downloading from it and my U.S 100 mbit servers get less than 100 kbps too when they try to download from the fdcserver. and quite often there's 100% packet loss for 10 - 30 seconds. Very unreliable network. Also, they first installed the wrong OS in my server. I requested CentOS and they installed FreeBSD. At least they fixed that later on.
They don't have service level agreements and they don't guarantee any amount of bandwidth, they just make empty promises. Now I know why.
I just wanted to take a minute a give a brief update on my experience with LSN. It has been three months since I took the plunge and rented my server with them. Uptime and network conditions have been excellent (1 hour down due to an upstream provider issue) and I have had zero problems with the hardware/support. Well that is not exactly true I am learning as I go and I have had significant problems but they were all due to my learning the server enviornment. Really this is what sets Ryan and his crew apart in my eyes. I have been with several hosts before them and LSN are the most helpful and courteous company by far. I have had to contact them for tedious things like resetting passwords and opening ports I forgot to and they have always done whatever I asked with a smile on their face (or at lease a ':-)' in the chat!). After about a month I had figured all the things out I needed to figure out for day to day management of my box.
Then I noticed they were offering windows at no extra charge for my product line and switched. I began again with the learning curve. They were most helpful and I ended up paying them a fair price to install exchange 2003 on my server and configure it for me (I know when I am licked :-))
All in all you can find cheaper hosts but like others have said you get what you pay for and in my opinion I got a lot more with LSN.
I looked for a few hosts around on the forums it came down to a select 3, and out of them I chose Fused Network because I liked their design and all of the reviews about them were good. Plus the owner ran his own review site, which I thought was nice.
I signed up for Fused Network on the 9th of April for 3 months, and it is now the 2nd of June, and so far I am happy with Fused Network.
To start off I had many questions to ask, and all were responded to in a timely manner, I'd say all questions were answered in under 1 hour if I remember correctly.
I asked about uptime, SLA, affiliate system etc.
Uptime was a guaranteed 99.9% and if it goes below that I would get a free month, so that was their SLA of sorts.
Their affiliate system which is not like others is you get people to sign up, and some of the earnings go to your charity of choice - a good idea and props go to them for that.
During the last month, there have been notices of any downtime that would happen - so you get a notification before it goes down and how long it will be down, which is very good IMO, I am pleased with that. Downtime was minimal.
As for site speeds, my website loads very fast and I am happy with that.
The control panel they use is cPanel, and they have a script installer, not my favourite though, it's installatron, my favourite being fantastico, they don't use it because of security issues. I've had a few problems with installatron - SMF wouldn't install, and the XMB files were missing on the installatron server (a problem out of their hands) and it is still not resolved. SMF however is resolved and I can install that.
The issues with installatron were replied to in a timely manner, I was going to get an install of XMB for free if it would not install.
Their support is fantastic, I have little to say really as I haven't taken the full service of it, so far so good, I like it.
I'm no good with reviews, I always go from one subject to another so I'll keep it simple:
Support: 10/10
Personal touch: 8/10 (I like a bit of personal touch, I haven't seen this from all the support staff handling my issues)
Speed and reliability: 10/10 (+1 for notifications)
Price: 9/10 (I don't mind it, but there are addon domain limitations for the starter packages)
Overall I'd rate them a 9/10 and I am a very happy customer.
My experience at Fused Network has been good. Now I wont be saying extraordinary or out-of-this-world because I'll keep it straight to the point.
Here's my previous review - [url].
My domain remains the same with a new one added to my account, and I haven't submitted any support tickets (minus sales) since then, but they did resolve the issue with XMB forum.
I have noticed some downtime via my site checker, but when I have visited my website all the time I've visited it's never been down. The checker I have is a free one, and checks every 60 minutes. So it may be wrong, probably is. I will have to rectify that problem, it's on my to-do list.
Last night I was contemplating reviving a project, and from memory which I found out was wrong, I was told it would cost $15.00 one time for an addon domain, as one was not included on the plan I was on - the starter plan.
I sent a ticket off, and I was prepared to fight and get one for free, I was told that it would actually cost $12.00 a year. Of course that reasonable, but I count my cents.
I'm very tight.
I was also told that the service they offer is support, and hosting is just a bell to the whistle, in other words.
Ok, back to me fighting the fee, they said they cannot discount it after my reply, they need to cover the costs. I also asked if they could refund it, if I in-fact don't want it anymore, they could refund it, so that was a seller for me.
I replied again and tried to do a little blackmailing, and it didn't work, much to my dismay. They also told me it wasn't as simple as "flicking a switch". I replied then with something witty and said "where would you like this vital $12.00 sent?"
They created an invoice and again to my dismay, I was outwitted!
If $12.00 weren't vital, the topic wouldn't have been brought up to begin with. Well touche Mr. Web Host.
They've got me as a customer for another 3 months: enough said.
For the interested: Support: 10/10 Personal touch: 9/10 - gone up from 8 because of the witty-ness. Speed and reliability: 10/10 Price: 9/10 - remains at 9, because I still had to pay for the addon domain. But it's very reasonable, how ever hard it is to say.
Okay, I have been trying to get a VPN network setup here between our DC and our office for weeks now and have not been sucessful.
Here is our goals:
-use 10.x.x.x/255.0.0.0 as a local backend network at our DC -be able to assign a 10.x.x.x address at the office to all workstations and be able to access any of the local machines at the DC -we have a asterisk server that we use and want to run that on the same network, asterisk box at the DC, phones at the office
We are wanting to impliment this for allot of security procedures and for ease.
But I also want to be able to have this like at my house so I can still be on the VPN. I want to have my house, office and DC always connected and then setup remote ability too to dial in via VPN.
What would be the best way to accomplish.
I have already tried having a few Linksys RV082 and WRV54G but the remote and local networks must be different networks, so this will not work here.
Does anybody know how can I determine which of the IPs within the network are used or not. I know that this can be archived by pinging each of the ips but there are 256 (192.168.1.0 - 192.168.1.255). I am using CentOS 5.
I bought another dedicated server yesterday and it was bought online same day. It was working fine yesterday during a few site transfers but now it would appear that I am losing network packets.
I have done a traceroute and ping tests and attached are the results. Please can anyone help. I think the problem is to do with NTT's network rather than server problems but please could someone else ping from their location to confirm this.
I have some VPS with Knownhost and i use it for hosting purposes.
First, I'm not from USA.
Here in my country we have several ISP but one of them ( i guess the biggest one ) is having problems with their link that connects to another countries ( including USA ).
Many of my customers that uses this ISP complains about their site being down and also slow download speeds ( 10kb/s when they usually download at 200kb/s ). When they run a traceroute i see that the problem is related to the ISP.
I have already contacted the ISP but they doesn't seen to "care" about their clients and i guess they won't solve this in a near future.
My question is if there is a way to solve this problem on my own?
I was thinking about getting a link with another ISP ( the one that really works ) with static IP and route this to Knownhost VPS. I know that this isn't a cheap solution but is it possible?
To make it simple, I am having some bays with dedicated servers. We offer 2 possibilities for bandwidth traffic: per Giga, or per MBit/s but I am having some problems. We currently use the router of our ISP better than buying a cheap low quality router.
- How can I know how much bandwidth does use on customer and how to limit if I have no access to the router ?
- How can I limit my customer from using free IP on the same block than he is ? We do configure server with IP and the same subnet, gateway and broadcast, so one customer could use free IP just so, and I would not even be able to know who is doing.
I've been hosting my personal sites with MonkeyWrench Hosting for around three years now (coming up in January I believe), and I figured I'd share my experiences with them!
I've gone through a few hosts in my time, and some of them have been pretty rough. After using paid hosts, a niche free host started up that I stayed with for around a year before they eventually closed down.
I switched to MonkeyWrench Hosting at that point as a place to host my sites and store my files, and I have to say that I've been impressed throughout the time I've been with them.
Uptime/speed: Fantastic! The sites have been perfectly reliable and speedy whenever I've gone to access them, and I haven't had any complaints from users. I did come across MySQL going down on one of the servers (I have two accounts for different purposes that are on seperate servers) in the past, but it was resolved quickly before I even needed to get help.
Support: I've used the support a few times, but not for anything critical since there's not been the need. However, everything that I have asked was answered promptly in a professional manner.
Pricing: Again, no complaints here. The pricing is pretty cheap, especially for the quality of service receieved. They aren't the cheapest on the Internet by any means, but you generally get what you pay for. I'm aware of what my realistic space/bandwidth needs are anyway, and I'd rather pick a host that clearly advertises what you'll receive over an 'unlimited' host.
All in all, MWH have been a fantastic choice and I couldn't have hoped for anything better.
So, thumbs up to Jonathan, and keep up the good work!
I'll report my domains for the moderators to check them out. =)
This is 4th day i am having network issue on HiVeloCity.
Does anyone else here experiencing the same problem, or its only rack where my server is located?
I am unable to use my server for almost 4 days as i already said, and they still have no solution for me.
Every time i open up a live chat with support, they tell me that they are checking, working on it, having someone see it, etc. but problem is still there.
What should i do?
I am going to post pings from SoftLayer and my home to their main ip (their websites' IP where i see pocket loss as well)
... because of this my websites are opening so slow, and many ppl are complaining about this.
Since there is many experts on this forum i would like advise from you guys. I would like to stay with HVC if they can fix this, if not looks like i will have to look for another provider.
Softlayer: PING hivelocity.net (69.46.24.178) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from hivelocity.net (69.46.24.178): icmp_seq=0 ttl=119 time=30.4 ms 64 bytes from hivelocity.net (69.46.24.178): icmp_seq=1 ttl=119 time=30.0 ms 64 bytes from hivelocity.net (69.46.24.178): icmp_seq=2 ttl=119 time=29.9 ms ...
Let say I have a computer network and the router is 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.1.2 to 192.168.1.10 is using workgroup called HOME and 192.168.1.11 to 192.168.1.50 is using workgroup called OFFICE.
All comp is WIN XP based client.
Now the qustion is, I'm sure that noone from home workgroup can access the office workgroup. But how about virus?
In case a computer which is reside into home workgroup is infected with network type virus, can that virus reach the comp which is reside into office workgroup?
is any software out there on helping me do a network install of centos or any other Linux base OS. I want to avoid downloading and burning CD for centos. And when I want install it on multiple machines I would need to put in the several CD to do a complete install of the OS.
We have two servers, one in our office, and the other in a colocation. There is a site-to-site VPN connection between them. I want to add the server in the office as a network place/drive to the server in the colocation, but I can't get it to work. I tried putting the local ip of the server in the office, didnt work.
Then I tried OFFICESERVERNAMESHARENAME and that didnt work either.
Office Server Local IP: 192.168.0.202 Colocation Local IP: 192.168.1.2
I have one VPS already and I was just wondering what would be the best way to utilise this and if anyone has any suggestions on how I could improve the network and how's best to set it up. I already have cPanel and WHM installed on the existing VPS.
i work on my site... and suddenly i can;t access cpanel whm shh2 all of them
when i made tracert to my site
it gives me the following
Code: 1 30 ms 143 ms 56 ms 10.0.0.138 2 35 ms 7 ms 7 ms ASHAMS-R01C-C-EG [163.121.170.168] 3 69 ms 67 ms 81 ms host-163.121.197.234.tedata.net [163.121.197.234 ] 4 117 ms 16 ms 9 ms host-163.121.183.137.tedata.net [163.121.183.137 ] 5 9 ms 8 ms 8 ms host-163.121.184.209.tedata.net [163.121.184.209 ] 6 9 ms 9 ms 9 ms host-163.121.186.253.tedata.net [163.121.186.253 ] 7 44 ms 66 ms 66 ms host-163.121.202.129.tedata.net [163.121.202.129 ] 8 308 ms 251 ms 188 ms pal5-telecom-egypt-1.pal.seabone.net [213.144.18 1.73] 9 86 ms 85 ms 86 ms mil52-mil26-racc2.mil.seabone.net [195.22.196.18 3] 10 86 ms 86 ms 86 ms ge-0-0-0-0.mil19.ip4.tinet.net [213.200.68.145]
11 91 ms 130 ms 124 ms xe-7-3-0.lon20.ip4.tinet.net [89.149.187.218] 12 91 ms 106 ms 91 ms rapidswitch-gw1.ip4.tinet.net [213.200.79.210] 13 * * * Request timed out. 14 * * * Request timed out. 15 * * * Request timed out. 16 * * * Request timed out.
.... 30 * * * Request timed out.
what is the problem ?
after that site return after 10 minutes it happened 3 times with me today
it happens with more than one people how can i check it ?
both of the VPSs we have with them have been offline for more than 15 minutes now. As usual, their support has been incredibly fast and I have heard back from a NOC staffer that they are experiencing network issues, but want to see if I can find out how widespread this is.
If you have services with ServInt, are your machines currently unreachable?
We're a small company that has outgrown dedicated hosting. We've got 8 servers currently with a well known hosting company, but the servers are starting to get old and we're growing. The cost of moving to colo just seem to make sense to us. We have a bunch of developers, but no network engineers. That being said, we're trying to figure out what we best need to move forward with going colo.
Sometime this month, we'll be purchasing 15-18 servers from Dell. We've already spoken to Colo4Dallas and plan to use their services. So we've got the servers and colo, but have no clue what we need with regard to switches, firewalls and remote-reboot.
1: What type of managed Cisco gigabit switch do we need? We don't know the specific model(s) that would be good for us. We want a hot backup and 24 ports. We manage multiple SSL sites (not sure if this is relevent) and 250+ ip addresses.
1a: Where do we manage ip addresses? We know we'll be getting a block of 250 ip addresses, but how do we assign ip address "a" to server "1"? Can we take that ip address and move it to another server if needed?
2: What type of firewall would be best for us, based on above requirements?
3: DRAC cards are pretty expensive, so we want a IP KVM switch. Any recommendations?
4: Remote reboote -- I've seen power strips out there that do this -- is that what we need, or is there another method we should consider?
5: Is there a company available in Dallas that we could hire to help us with these questions, or in setting everything up once we purchase the equipment?
We're not looking for the cheapest solutions, but the best ones.
