BigVPS Replacement
May 17, 2009We are looking to replace BigVPS after their BigScrewUp this week.
Does anyone have experience with WebProx? It seems they have what we need but we also need some references.
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Putty Replacement
Oct 22, 2009what do you guys use for shell access?
It's been 2 years since last Putty release, so would like to dump it in favor of something else.
My Experience With BigVPS
Aug 18, 2008I dnot know, how this service works, but technical support work very slow and cannot install new service in 5 days. customer service(same as technical support) very bad.
I paid at aug, 12.
36 days later i will receive email: "Got it, thanks. This will be deployed in about 36 hours."
after 2 and half day, after my reminder i receive "It seems we had a communication breakdown over here. bla-bla-bla"
I send couple reminder, if they promice service in xx hours, can i sent one or couple reminders after this time? i think i can.
after one day i received this
Quote:
Thanks for the reminder, though I'm well aware of what time it is. I can't tell by your persistence whether you're simply anxious to start using your service, or whether it's for lack of maturity. I also was not very impressed with your post to WebHostingTalk about the details of cellphones which receive copies of email in our distrbution lists. Rather than deploy your VPS and wonder what kind of questionable (and immature?) thing you might do with your service, I've refunded your payment in its entirety. I'm sorry that we've apparently not loved up to your expectations. If I have any regret, it's that I didn't cancel your order upon reading your post, rather than doing it now.
hmm... I never post full cell phone number, anybody can see it. It was a joke, emails send with confirm recept receive the answer from xxx@txt.att.net
And I think, word like "anxious", "lack of maturity", "immature" cannot be used in business correspondence. even if this escort-service.
I reply "I regret that I lost 5 days expecting your service. and I didnt post full cellphone number, but will correct it to full."
And receive answer "No, actually you won't. Don't be the idiot that you've already made yourself out to be"
I think customer can call service provider idiot, but service provider cannot.
Well, low prices allow to offend the client.
BigVPS Feedback
Aug 9, 2007I'm having a debate with someone over BigVPS.
They're telling me to look at their site, and that it means bad things.
I've only heard such great stuff about Ray and Colo4Jax/BigVPS. Can you guys share your experiences with them?
My Bigvps 36 Hrs Experience
Oct 27, 2007signed up with bigvps service through the WHT offer forum, they promised that next 24hr to 36hr will get my vps account setup.
well at the 36th hour, i got an email from them saying no to my "money". Here is the quote:
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Actually we won't be provisioning this due to an outstanding fraud issue which we're unable to resolve. I have refunded your payment; please seek service elsewhere.
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I asked if it is my payment problem or something else, but no reply so far.
Okay, so i didn't lose anything, my paypal payment is all refunded to me at no time, but I am bit disappointed that after waiting 36 hrs and they just decided don't want my business with a reason that i still not sure who's fault.
Too bad, bigvps seems to have very good reviews here and good pricing, i guess my vps hunting must continue.
Mod Layout Replacement
Jan 20, 2007I'm noticing that apache's mod layout is dead upstream and has been for a while. I'm looking for somthing to use to put ads and a legal disclaimer on free hosted blogs (lifetype).
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Oct 27, 2009I normally use Win32 Clamav for scanning of viruses in servers but now it is no longer being maintained. Where can I find an equivalent? Or is there any step by step instructions on compiling it from source?
View 0 Replies View RelatedComparable Webstrike Replacement
Apr 2, 2009I was a reseller with WebstrikeSolutions for almost a decade and now, sadly, they are gone. Swallowed up by EasyCGI...don't know if they are any good or not but the few opinions I did manage to find haven't been very favorable at all. Plus, somewhere in the transition my credit card info got out into the world and the very next day after being billed by EasyCGI, fraudulant charges showed up on my credit card which I had to cancel! Not sure if it's a coincidence or not but the timing seems odd...so if you believe in signs, I'm thinking that that just might be one saying it's time to move on...
So, I am now looking for a replacement host. Unfortunately, trying to find out anything about the various companies by searching Google results in nothing more than a tangled mess of "review" sites that are nothing more than paid advertising for whichever hosts pays the most to be number one!
I am looking for a Windows host in the neighborhood of <$10 a month. I have been considering ReliableSite.net, m6.net, godaddy.com (except I use them to register my domain names so that might be a bad idea) and **************.com (why is a-c-cuwebhosting.com blocked out?). Any opinions about any of the above would be greatly appreciated. Of course, if anybody (other than a company owner or marketing guy/gal) has any experience with somebody else I would love to hear from you.
Now, as for requirements, my bandwidth needs are relatively low and storage doesn't need to be enormous but once my standard sites are up and running I would like the ability to offer customers individual website packages utilizing oscommerce (possibly) as their storefronts to allow them to sell their own products. Basically online stores that they don't have to code or setup themselves. That's the long term goal. Right now I just want to get my sites back online so that I can maintain and update them without incident.
Replacement For Easy CGI Web Hosting
Dec 9, 2008As many of you may have also experienced, Easy CGI went from being one of the best hosts (I had them for 7 years and they were great), to one of the worst. They migrated to new servers and literally destroyed our site, lost data, did a search and replace of our code (yes, this actually happened), and brought our sites down completely. After about 100 hours of on-line support, chat, phone calls, emails, etc. we have to move on.
The things that were great (prior to the debacle) about EasyCGI was the Windows hosting, fast performance (FTP access was great), and the controls that were available.
I'm finding it difficult to match what we used to have. I've tried GoDaddy's VPS packages and that was a complete bust due to FTP performance (would have literally taken us months to just upload our web site ... about 10 GB total).
I tried Network Solutions, but they are only Linux and although they told us they support ASP Upload, ASP Email, and a number of other controls, now tell us that those are not supported.
I've also tried APLUS.NET and 1AND1. Same peformance issues.
anyone have any recommendations for hosting that would meet these needs?
Windows (Virtual or Shared)
30 GB + disk space
Unlimited Email
Form Mailers (CDONTS or ASP Mail)
ASP / ASP.NET / AJAX
DSN with Microsoft Access databases
Ability to work with SQL Server (not MySQL) databases
ASP Upload (or similar) that can be coded in ASP to upload files
FAST PERFORMANCE
Unlimited FTP accounts (we create a folder and FTP account for each of our customers)
Unlimited (or very high) transfers monthly (~ 1000 GB/MO +)
4 Month BigVPS Review
Aug 2, 2008I've been with BigVPS for four months now, I figured it was a good time for a review.
Network
I have had fantastic uptime there, I had one blip when a router locked up a few months ago. Other than that, no downtime and no outages whatsoever. The network is INCREDIBLY fast. I get 3-4 Mbps plus to Europe, and it's single homed Cogent.
9.5/10.
Value
I have been very satisfied with my hosting there. I have the VPS-512 plan with them. For my $30 a month, I get a pretty solid bit of specifications and a rock solid server and network.
10/10.
Support
This has been my biggest complaint for BigVPS. The support (or more the lack thereof). I have waited 72 hours for a reply to some things, although that is rare. 24-48 hours is not uncommon. This is my biggest complaint with BigVPS. For example, I accidently shutdown my VPS about 21 hours ago (silly me, I thought I was running "halt" on my laptop, not my VPS.) I emailed Ray (BigVPS support) right away and still haven't heard back; so I've been VPSless for 21 hours now.
If they improve their support, I couldn't be any happier. I'm looking forward to this new portal they're coming out with, I hear it's going to be a gem.
3/10.
Staffing
Ray is a great guy, I can't say enough about how nice and helpful he is. He does everything I ask and is extremely polite about it. Keep up the great work!
9/10
Overall rating: 8/10
I'm looking forward to keeping my BigVPS for a long time, I haven't had any reason to move and am enjoying myself.
Quick Bigvps.com Review
Aug 23, 2007We've recently decided to move a sizable web project to a VPS located at bigvps.com (colo4jax). Although I had some initial concerns about them being single homed to Cogent, I have actually been pleasantly surprised at the speeds of the network. I have seen some very good speeds to some of my key servers located on the West Coast and even better on the East Coast (expected). For grins, we even tested a proprietary voip software between the datacenter (It's in Jacksonville) to one of our offices in San Francisco. It was perfect!
The hardware seems solid and support has been quick to respond to any inquiries.
Although we havent moved over the web project yet, the work we have done on the server has been no problem at all. We expect that when we move over the web project, the VPS will continue to hum along.
As with all providers, it's been a short life with them thus far - I'll post back in a few months and let you know how things progress.
SolarVPS Vs Zone.net Vs PowerVPS Vs BigVPS
Jul 21, 2007Guys lots of reviews are there and after reading them many of them i finalized some of these good VPS. So, what your suggestions...
I am currently with PowerVPS and there service is really good except they are costly and if I like to add any Security service management then go out of the budget.
BigVPS (Colo4Jax) Short Review
Nov 8, 2007Let me first start by saying that I have read a lot of reviews on WHT about various VPS providers. I wasn't sure which provider I liked the best and a lot of reviews came to different conclusions. My decision came down to Slicehost. I really liked that Slicehost is a VPS solution made for developers and that Slicehost has solid community support. But the wait is what killed Slicehost chances of snagging me as customer.
I started digging more on WHT and finally came across a promo that BigVPS offered to WHT members. I read more about BigVPS on WHT (their website leaves little to be desired).
I noticed that one of their main employees, Ray, writes with professionalism and was quick to address each WHT concerns and questions regarding BigVPS.
I finally took the plunge and decided to sign up. I signed up for their 512 MB VPS plan with 500 GB of bandwidth. I have been a customer for a little over a month now and I have been very pleased. Just recently, I had an issue with the Xen Debian kernel and IPTables support and Ray was quick to point me in the right direction on how to solve the problem I was having. Ray has always written with clarity and professionalism. I really respect that.
So far I am a happy BigVPS (Color4Jax) customer and I wanted to share my experience with all!
.htaccess Missing Image Replacement
Dec 20, 2007I have been fiddling with an .htaccess file trying to get it to show a default "Image Not Available" image in place of a 404 error. I have found code in other forums that has worked for others, but does nothing for me:
Code:
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI}!-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.*).(gif|jpg|jpeg|png)$
RewriteRule ^(.*) noimage.gif
and this one which several people said worked for them
Code:
RewriteCond %{ENV:ERROR404} .(jpg|gif|png)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^.*$ noimage.gif [L]
Anyone had experience with this? The webserver is Apache on CentOS 5.
100 Day Review Of LiteSpeed (Apache Drop-in Replacement)
Aug 14, 2007(This is the first review I've ever written for practically anything so please bear with me. I feel the need to share my experience to try to help others after all the great advice and info I've received around here.)
If you've done everything you think you can do to improve the responsiveness of your websites like add a mysql cache, PHP opcode cache and various other tweaks, I discovered there is still one more easy thing you can do for a big improvement: replace Apache with LiteSpeed. It's way too easy not to try it and you can leave Apache completely intact to go back to at a moment's notice if you so desire.
I call LiteSpeed a "drop-in" replacement because it uses all my httpd.conf and .htaccess settings without modification. This was critical for me as my sites have some very complex rewrite rules. Other solutions like LightHttpd require extensive work to make changes if you use fancy mod-rewrite rules. LiteSpeed does not need any fiddling. LiteSpeed just adds it's own clean little web interface so you can tweak if you want to, but I didn't really have to change anything. Last but not least, LiteSpeed gets along with Cpanel and DirectAdmin without any conflicts. LiteSpeed's so compatible I can literally do this on my server and the visitors don't even notice the difference (except speed of course!)
service httpd stop
service lsws start
(and visa versa)
I discovered LiteSpeed after reading that the main WordPress.com site had switched to it and had great success (they have a quarter million registered bloggers and of course many millions more daily readers).
The main reason I tried LiteSpeed is because it's roughly twice as efficient in memory use and performance than Apache 1.3 & 2. It runs PHP up to 50% faster than Apache and static files get served several times faster (faster than thttpd & lighthttpd). So this means you can either double the number of active connections you currently max out at now, or make a regular website respond nearly twice as fast, or under heavy loads still respond within a reasonable amount of time when Apache would be completely unresponsive.
The last situation was exactly what I was hoping for and LiteSpeed helped me keep my sanity on a bad VPS node.
Basically a couple months into owning my first VPS (after many years of shared-hosting experience) I started to realise many of the industry promises about VPS are an outright lie. You are far from isolated from your neighbours. Any disk load created by bad neighbours, mysql abuse or otherwise, will directly affect you and you are powerless to stop it. It's the most poorly regulated resource on any VPS node and it can be made worse by slack, ignorant or inexperienced hosts who do things like move accounts during busy periods onto and off a node at the root level which ties up the entire node for an hour or more. Under Apache, I was getting timeouts during peak visitor times and that was very upsetting.
On top of my VPS neighbour troubles, no matter how I fiddled with Apache's settings (with all the helpful guides around here) I could not make it comfortably fit within the guaranteed memory limit of my VPS with Cpanel, which I really wanted to keep as it's much easier for my end-users. Switching to LiteSpeed caused a radical drop in memory use. I've seen nearly 1000 people online within a one minute period on one of my sites and it still fit comfortably within my memory limits and stayed extremely responsive.
I've discovered another plus to LiteSpeed along the way that no-one else seems to mention. It's the only server software that "out of the box" seems to serve web compressed (gzipped) pages properly as chunked output. This means a visitor will start to see the page immediately as soon as the first part is sent vs. on Apache, mod_gzip actually de-chunks all the output, waits for it to finish, then compresses, then sends.
Mod_deflate on Apache 2.0 was supposed to fix this but it usually doesn't work properly and I've never gotten 2.0 to do compressed+chunked output on my sites without alot of fiddling and help from PHP. It also doesn't seem as smooth as LiteSpeed's output which gives you that "silky" watch-the-webpage render effect that's mentally rewarding to visitors.
On the downside, there is one reason you wouldn't use LiteSpeed - if you use highly customised Apache mods. LiteSpeed cannot support custom mod's and their directives. It does have a lot built in however that Apache does not, so you may way to examine if you can accomplish what you are trying to do another way.
I started with LiteSpeed 3.1 and when I found an incompatibility with an obscure Apache feature (ie. ErrorDocument's as plain text output: ErrorDocument 404 "Not Found" was not supported) they fixed it for me in a day or so after I reported it on their forum. The same for PHP support of "Apache_Response_Headers". Note I am not even a commercial customer! They are now up to 3.2 which has a few other fixes.
The free version of LiteSpeed has a limit of 150 simultaneous connections (plus the linux stack of 200 more which will backlog). I've never seen that limit hit. It's so intelligent about closing connections as needed that it's not an issue for me. Perhaps on a dedicated server with many virtual hosts this will be a problem. Up to version 3.1.1 that was the only limitation, however unfortunately in 3.2 they have decided to also limit virtual hosts to "5", so that's something else you'll have to consider if you want the free version, otherwise the commercial version has a free trial and money back guarantee.
Some people were upset with me that I wouldn't name my VPS host when I was constantly complaining of troubles but that's just my style when I have nothing nice to say still have to do business with them, so don't name names. But when I have something nice to say about a company, I like to speak up. So I heartily recommend LiteSpeed and hope other people give it a try - especially if you are on my VPS node ;-)