ClearanceRack.ca: REVIEW - A+ All Around, Look Inside
Jul 27, 2008
I've been using Clearancerack for about 4 or 5 months now and feel I should write an honest review about them considering there really doesn't seem to be too many.
Ever since the start several months ago, I've had nothing but a pleasant experience working with Chris and clearancerack.
So, here we go they get a :
Setup: 10/10
The setup is stellar. The first server I ordered was up the night that I ordered it (only a few hours) all ready to go. The servers even come with a free apc remote reboot port!
Pricing: 10/10
You could not ask for more affordable pricing than that of ClearanceRack, considering the extraordinary support, network, and all around company. Their prices are cheaper than those of the highest quality competitors, yet provide even higher quality service!
Even collocation pricing is very affordable! I will probably be sending up a few nodes in the next several months.
Network: 10/10
There has not been one second of downtime in the month's that I've been there. There was an issue with the network routing once, using bandwidth suppliers that the DC has connections to, yet Clearancerack does not use. This was fixed within several hours as well.
The network consists of a BGP mix of Peer1, All Stream, Shaw Big Pipe, MCI and peering to TorIX.
Almost all of my users experience faster downloads around the globe on the ClearanceRack network, than several of the other networks we've used throughout the US.
Support: 11/10 - Yes 11...
The support is stellar. They provide 24/7 E-mail (it really is 24/7) and REAL HUMAN Phone support (you won't get the usual leave a message, unless they really are busy and cannot take your call).
At any time of day you email them, you'll have a response within minutes, even sales!
We've had one issue with one of our nodes in which Chris had to go into the datacenter to take a quick look. The issue was resolved in 30 minutes at the most.
Any requests we've made, whether it be licensing, IP allocations have all been handled extremely quickly, no matter what time of day it is.
Company:
Many times you'll hear people say, "They're great for a small scale company." Meaning, they're decent, but do have their downs that the higher scale competitors don't. Its not like that at Clearancerack. Every single thing about them is stellar, and the service is MUCH better than service I've received at various considered "higher scale and known" datacenters around the globe.
Clearancerack, ran by Chris - is ran by REAL people, wanting to make a REAL difference in the hosting market, and he/they are doing an amazing job at that.
You don't experience any poor customer service that you'll experience elsewhere. They are 100% honest with any sort of question, issue, or comment you may have. You WON'T get any of the lies, or uninformative information you receive elsewhere when an issue arises.
Personal:
Chris, I will continue to be working with you for many years to come, as I hope many of the current subscribers, and the future do to. Someone like you deserves the very best, and should GREATLY succeed in their business career. - Thank you for everything Chris! - You really know what hosting is all about.
Thats It!
Thanks for taking the time to read this review.
Generally you won't find a honest review with the ratings that I've given these guys, but THEY do deserve it, at the very least. I do not have one complaint about them as I do many other providers, and I've tried many throughout the globe.
I hope you will go ahead and try ClearanceRack for your dedicated solutions needs. They have no contracts, so you can sign up for one month, test out the service and make a final decision (although I can pretty much guarantee you will stay!)
Hostingcon:
If your going to hostingcon, check em' out! They have their own booth there!
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Sep 6, 2008
I've been with clearancerack for a billing cycle now so here is my quick review. Its been a few weeks so I'll be general in my terms as my memory is rough.
The initial pre-sales support was good. I spoke with Chris and we went back and forth for about a day before I signed up. I liked what I heard and read so I signed up.
I waited patiently for a few days for the server to be setup. Around the 3rd day or so (memory is rough), I decided to shoot Chris an email asking where I was in the queue. He mentioned that it was already setup and resent the server setup notification email.
Got the server details and asked Webbycart to setup and harden the server. No issues there.
Regarding the hardware and network. I purchased a basic dual core rig and its functioning as expected. I am using Magento which is a resource hog but it runs super fast. Initial load times are consistently sub 2 seconds, and everything is nearly instantaneous.
My previous host was on the West Coast of the US. I noticed some lag when SSH'ing and in the front end of the cart. So that prompted me to move to a Canadian provider. So far no lags whatsoever... btw, can anyone tell me what would cause putty/ssh to lag?
Customer support. Not too sure yet as my management company has done everything for me thus far. The one time I did email Chris, I got a reply back within minutes from his blackberry... so thats reassuring. Honestly, I hope I never find out if the support is good or not.
Backups. Not really part of the review. Just a note to myself to make sure I setup a backup plan to ensure that hardware issues won't affect me too much,
Constructive criticism: Never got the server setup email and in my account under "View Server Details Email", the email still is not there. There appears to be a bug. Please fix it. It affects at least one customer, me, so I hope its important enough to address.
Also, no bandwidth graph in my account? Not sure how I can safely monitor b/w.
Lastly, when you change your company name, please communicate this with your customers. As a business, this complicates my books as my accountant won't know that clearanceracks = carat.
On my scale of things, I'd give them a 9.5 out of 10 and will purchase more servers when the need arises. I am a businessman and at the end of the day, all I care about is can my customers get to my online store fast, consistently, and securely.
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Mar 29, 2008
We've been hosting with clearancerack.ca for going on two months now. We feel confident that this is a fair amount of time to credit Chris and his company on how the service is.
For the incredibly low prices they offer the support behind it all is nothing short of fanatical. The clearancerack support team has shown themselves to be a company that while new, are ready for the long haul. Even though we only have one bargain priced server with them we've been treated as if we're hosting alot more. Clearancerack isn't focused on volume, they aren't focused on selling, they are focused on customer satisfaction and im one tough customer to satisfy.
We are a U.S.A based outfit and our clearancerack server is located in canada. In almost every test we run, our clearancerack server outperforms any of our united states based servers. Chris and clearancerack clearly have a vision for the future and the ability to deliver quality service at a very very affordable price.
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why this is happening?
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Below is a cut of some of the PIX501 config that the wireless clients are connected to.
name 10.1.1.2 accessPoint
name 10.1.1.0 WirelessLan
name 100.100.100.1 pix515fw
object-group network WirelessLan
network-object WirelessLan 255.255.255.0
object-group network WebAccessNetwork
network-object pix515fw 255.255.255.255
object-group network InternalAccessNetwork
network-object ..All our local servers here...
object-group service WebAccessUDP udp
port-object eq domain
object-group service WebAccessTCP tcp
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port-object eq ftp-data
port-object eq domain
port-object eq ftp
object-group service InternalAccessUDP udp
port-object eq all our local server ports
object-group service InternalAccessTCP tcp
port-object eq all our local server ports
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access-list outside_access_in permit tcp object-group WirelessLan object-group InternalAccessNetwork object-group InternalAccessTCP
access-list outside_access_in permit udp object-group WirelessLan object-group WebAccessNetwork object-group WebAccessUDP
access-list outside_access_in permit tcp object-group WirelessLan object-group WebAccessNetwork object-group WebAccessTCP
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ip address inside 100.100.100.2 255.255.255.0
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Code:
[2015-04-15 21:03:30] ERR [util_exec] proc_close() failed
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MonkeyWrench Hosting review - Three year review
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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. =)
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First off I have to say the VPS I was using was top notch. It easily outperformed my LiquidWeb VPSs and quickly became my primary VPS instead of my backup like was intended. I took advantage of one of their specials a while back which was a 512MB RAM cPanel VPS for $19.50/month which is a steal since the cPanel license alone is $15/month!
So now to why this is probably my final review of this company. Communication is lacking greatly. It was good at first, but now it's non-existant.
Over the weekend all my sites went down and I had no idea why... because I never got the e-mail saying they were moving data centers (if it weren't for a small thread on WHT I would never have known). I also did not receive any updates on extending their ETA so yet again I had nothing to tell my clients. The only good thing was that I run a free hosting company (Host2x.com for reference) and I offer no uptime guarantee since it's a non-paid service.
Ok, so the sites are back online and everything is working nicely... well I recently hit the 70% mark on my disk space usage so time to start looking for an upgrade. I created a ticket on April 23rd asking if they would allow me to upgrade my plan to their biggest VPS plan and to my surprise I never got a reply. I would think that a billing ticket asking to upgrade to a plan that costs more without the transfer of the discount I'm receiving would be a welcome ticket for them to reply to, but I was incorrect in thinking this. So I ended up purchasing a dedicated server last night because I cannot wait to see if they will assist me with upgrading my account or not.
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What seemed to be a good company quickly turned to nightmares. I purchased a couple domains. All went well. Then paypal emailed me saying they are high risk and wanted me to confirm I made the payment and service was given. So until I did the payment was held. They blame the held on me and threatened me to release it or they will cancel my account.
So they finally gave them the money and all was well. Well I did a stupid thing and decided to get a VPS from them, they have good deals so I thought, whats the worse that can happen. Well shortly after, I get a email saying because your payments are unreliable, we are waiting a week to setup your vps which is complete udder crap.
So I just said screw it and said give me a refund then and about 2 hours ago I try logging into my client center and my account is gone.
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I will keep you all updated.
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Apr 17, 2009
I just want to take the time and review Hivelocity. Boy oh boy, where to start. I am just so pleased with the customer support they offer and I don't even own a single product with them.
I currently own a server with another comapny and I am always looking at other options for cheaper prices, better services and etc.
I found Hivelocity through WHT and I took the time to start up a live chat which was answered quickly from Kevin. Kevin was very nice and welcoming. I was asking about discounts they could provide and etc. Kevin showed me their reseller program which seemed to be something I may be interested in. After a 15-20 minute chat with Kevin, he offered to add me on MSN if I ever wanted to chat which I thought was pretty nice.
After I got off live chat with Kevin, I decided to keep researching Hivelocity. I immediately signed up on Twitter (I never had a Twitter Account). I saw they had some awesome deals. They were offering an awesome deal today it looks like this:
"The next person to go to our site, open a live chat and say "I just got your TWEET" gets a Core2Duo 3.0Ghz e8400 for $5 the first month."
By time I even got onto Twitter, I noticed that this was already taken. I kept browsing their Twitter and hey what do you know, another great deal it followed like this:
"The 1st $5 Core2Duo sold in about 20 seconds so lets do it again. The next person to open a live chat saying "Give me a $5 Server" gets it."
I decided I was going to be late as the last one sold in 20 seconds. Well, it turned out it did get sold but, I got into a Live Chat with David from Hivelocity.
David informed me that the server was sold and I was a bit too late. What do you know, more great discounts! He offered me the same server for $5 on the first month. I decided not to take advantage of the offer as I wouldn't be able to put much use to the offer. I will be moving to Hivelocity within the next 1-3 months.
Overall I am very pleased with the great offers they provide and the support is just amazing!
Based on the sales support and the deals they provide, I did a bit of a rating on Hivelocity.
Sales Support:5/5
Deals:5/5
Overall:5/5
Also, if you decide your interested in Hivelocity's awesome offers, I would follow them on Twitter! They are constantly updating their Twitter and offering great deals. Their Twitter deals are 100% and it's pretty awesome a company like Hivelocity offers products and support so great!
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I joined Limestonenetworks back in 2008 when it was a small company. At the time they offered the best price on the server I was looking for, so I took the plunge. The first 2 months were great, I enjoyed the stable network, and responses from the support team were fairly quick (1-2 hours response time). From there on it was all downhill, my servers were constantly down, and the support team took longer to answer my tickets. I didn't think this was a big problem, so I stayed with Limestonenetworks even though it was having problems with their network. Near December an incident occurred that really pushed me over the edge. My servers had been down for hours, so I opened a support ticket, and one of the agents replied and told me that the downtime was due to an upgrade in their network.
Again, I came to conclude that it could be far worst, so I stayed, one of the reasons was that I didn't want to switch my game servers over. It's important to keep in mind when you are running game servers, IPs play an important part because that's where you get your traffic. Near January the network upgrade at Limestonenetworks was still taking place which caused my bandwidth meter to stop working. This really scared me because I didn't want to get charged for overages due to the fact that my servers were receiving DDOS attacks, and I wouldn't know when to close the ports.
This incident actually turned out to be positive for me because even though I went over my bandwidth quota they didn't charge me for overages. I was very happy because this was like a late Christmas present, so now I was even more happy to give my money to Limestonenetworks. Now you might ask the question, how is this going downhill? Even though they didn't charge me for the overages, I still lost many clients who were angry at the fact that their game server were down.
In the end this network upgrade actually cost me 3 clients who were paying ~$60 per month. I let this slide because at this point I already had two servers with Limestonenetworks and I really didn't want to switch over due to the fact I would lose my IPs. The next month, February, was no different, I had more issues with Limestonenetworks. Starting of this month I was getting large DDOS attacks, which kept pushing my bandwidth over the quota, and I ended up paying close to $200 dollars just for bandwidth overages.
At this point they started to nickel and dime me for every single penny they could get of me. I don't know if they were having financial problems, or if it was due to another reason. Again in March I went over the quota, but at this time they told me that I had to pay per gigabyte which would result in a $500+ charge in bandwidth, and after talking with multiple agents, I was finally able to reach an agreement. They had changed a policy all of the sudden due to the fact that they knew I was a good customer and would keep paying for the overages.
The problem I had here was that I didn't mind upgrading to plan after I knew how much bandwidth was going to be used, since they don't offer any sort of DDOS protection, and game servers result in large DDOS attacks occasionally. I understand that Limestonenetworks was not at fault, but by making me pay per gigabyte was a bit harsh, since I had never been late on a payment, and had multiple servers. Try to remember that I stayed with this company even though I lost multiple clients because of their network outages, but they didn't care about this, all the care about is nickling and diming customers.
From that point on I have been living on the edge because I don't want to pay for an upgrade before hand due to the fact I don't know how much bandwidth my server will be using. Even if I upgrade to a different package it does not offer an insurance due to the fact that if I receieve a large DDOS than I orignally predicted, I would still end up paying per gigabyte.
This company has turned from having potential to just making their customers run away. Now the other problems I had with Limestonenetwork is the support they offer, which has been declining since I joined. The associates are very rude and don't really care about the customer's experience. I didn't include every problem I had with Limestonenetwork because it would make it a very long read.
Network - 10/10
Downtime - 5/10
Customer Service - 2/10
Overall Experience - 4/10
Would I recommend this company? NO, I urge everyone to stay away, unless they like to deal with problems on a daily basis.
Also from reading other topics on this forum, I personally believe that Limestonenetwork is overselling and their network can not handle the load.
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I've got high end server from WholeSaleinternet.I've been with Wholesaleinternet for 4 months now and I am extremely happy with them.Got an awesome server for a cheap price, a Quad-Core Xeon 8 Processor (3.0GHZ), 32GB RAM, 100mbit port link.
Support:
Sales support is slow but tech support is fast!
That you very much Aaron/Wholesaleinternet!, keep up the good work!
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May 1, 2009
I have been with virpus for the past 7 months
I have posted an review earlier as well for 2 month : 2 month review
Let me summarize my experience so far,
Technical Support - 10/10 Really fab. even though I was on semi-managed plan, they never made me feel I was on a semi it always felt as if I was under complete management, they did every task I had asked them to do, which I didn't get on any other semi-managed host earlier.
I have no sort of complaints about their technical team, they tried to solve some problems which were due to the billing dept.
The minimum response for a ticket generally around 10-15mins and the completion with in an hr.
Billing Dept - This is some dept. that has kept me in wonder-land. Some times the replies were so pleasing and most other times the tickets are ignored. From, almost 2nd r 3rd month, the billing dept. tickets don't get regularly replied and used to bump the tickets in order to get a response to the query. Which I got some how, in a apologizing manner (no complaints for that :p)
Now, for the past 1 month we have been having some serious problems.
First, I had recd. some black-listed ip's when we joined virpus, we failed to check them (mistake on our end agreed 100%), which probably even they might not have been aware of.. As, we had a minor mis-understanding with godaddy during domain registration, my friend registered the domain using one of our partner address who resides in Singapore, where as the registration was done from India. Godaddy, assumed this was a spam registration and refunded the amount. So, we had to register the domain through another partner who resided in India. Godaddy was cool after we gave them the complete details, where they wanted some ID proof, and we provided them.
Our ip was on the black-list, we thought since our domain was spam-listed for a day, (until godaddy took it off) it made the hosts to assume the domain was black-listed, so we had manually submitted forms and proofs to most of the anti-spam agencies and mail providers, where they took the ban off the ip with in 15-20 days after we joined virpus.
Our domain was no longer under black-list, but ip was still under black-listed in some sites, such as rediff, it took more than 2 months to set the things straight at rediff, where we did some config added from the tech.dept. such as setting up spf record, and did a few tweaks here and there.
Even after making all these efforts, our ip was still under black-list of some ISP's. Our main domain (the domain which was under bl list earlier) loads well for every user, but our child domains where we have blogs and other activities do not load for lots of users. The ping results in the internet gives 100% but on their particular systems it gives no ping. Some times, the site loads wierdly such as,[url] might load but [url]might not load, and vice-versa, some times local ping fails but site loads, its all wierd and we found the reason to the problem to be ip after some minor confirmation from our end. We were losing our revenue of more than 60% just because of the failure of loading on the site, the tech. dept used to ask the ips which are facing prob to check if they are blocked, but its not possible to give ips of users who visit as guests and others, we have noted reports on other sites that our site wasn't loading for them. We still were able to give few ips for check and found them not-blocked on the ip. The sites are able to be viewed for all from proxy sites such as stage6.info but we can't ask each viewer to go to proxy site to view if they are unable to load, it will become ridiculous and we might lose our entire traffic some day.
We had shifted our domains temporarily to other vps where we noted none of the users had a single complaint, we were there for more than a week, which ensured the problem was not the domains but the ips, again after returning to the virpus hosts, we had created 3 tickets to sales/billing dept. to issue fresh ip's, got 0 reply and mailed to mr.Ken using : kenneth.odem@virpusnetworks.net got no reply after 48hrs.
We have to agreee, Earlier,mr.Ken was so helpful he helped us when we didn't have any funds to issue, since we had an dispute with an item where our payment was delayed by paypal. So, we had paid them almost 10 days later than the due date where mr.Ken was so helpful and saw to it our VPS could stay online despite the payments not been released.
In thanks, we had directly mailed our check we got from an ad-agency, which again made around 5-10 days in the payment, which made our balance stand in the positive note, we have our balance in the account for the past 3 months so that there are no dues left.
But, in the past 1 -2 months the replies have been disappointing.
We planned to leave virpus and join other host, where we burnt our hands, we looked for other reputed VPS and had a few in mind after our staff suggested few good organizations(don't prefer to name them here as it would be mis-leading).
Since, virpus wasn't ready to refund the amount in the credits we decided to continue with virpus atleast as a sideby host. Later, some how our members suggested we used virpus as a main host, so we wanted fresh ip's to get rid of the damn problem we are having but we have recd. no response for the past 1 week.
Now, lately after the maintenance our VPS was down for approx. 26-27hrs on april 25th Saturday, where our traffic is usually on the weekends. We lost the compelete traffic and revenue. When we asked if it come under credits, we got response as : This was the result of scheduled maintenance we cannot, it would not qualify under our SLA. (just giving the main result statment off the entire reply recd. from sales). Its some thing we would like to regret but for sure this isn't some issue, which could make us think to get to a new host.
The reply from the sales dept. has made our staff making funny betting, as one would win if we get a reply and other would if its not replied with in 48hrs, lately the first one is winning () due to lack of communication.
This might be our last month. Our next due date major amount would be taken from the credits, so a very little amount would exist in the account. We will stay with them until our amount with them is spent.
We had enjoyed really good with the tech. dept but the sales dept has been really poor in the recent past. I am forced to say this as even after mailing we haven't got response where, mr.Ken stated if our tickets were lost or some thing, mail to him but either didn't work so far.
Once, earlier when we requested for change of ips we were said some $7 or some thing would be charged for the swap, when we made other enquiries about it we didn't get a response till date
My tickets which lay un-responded:
203497
509467
385781
509467 and 385781 are double-post of the ticket, but got reply for none of the above tickets. Was expecting a reply for 1 atleast.
I was ready to pay excess charge for the new ips as there some mistake from my end in failure to check the ips before getting them but I wanted some concession as the major mistake was from their end while dispatching ips. I am not refusing to pay but I wanted the concession, got no reply and the above tickets are a proof of them.
Our staff online time and their live chat time don't tally, so we can't make any contact to them on live as well.
I am not sure if this is mis-understanding or what, but it has been a mixed experience for me. For sure, their sales crew have to be increased that's some suggestion I would strongly do.
I can recommend this host to any one for the tech. support they provide but can't guarantee them for the sales dept. replies based on my past/recent experiences.
Totally my site down for around ~30hrs including all the maintanence and other reasons, it could be a bit less but I am rounding it off, for sure its more than 28hrs
My over all rating: 7.5/10
Tech. Dept - 10/10
Sales/Billing Dept - 5/10
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I tried to give all my experience on virpus and I am not against any one for joining virpus nor have any fights with virpus team.
May be if we get response from sales we might still consider continuing with virpus but that stands low at the moment.
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I proceed to get everything running and start setting up my domains and then blamo its gone! It was reset they said even though I did not have a remote switch. I asked them why they did that and they insisted it was me. Whatever. So I setup everything again and was getting horrible speeds for my photography site. The hell???? They promised me the world when I signed up with them. I also got to deal with "outsourced tech support" from india that was not helpful.
I finally get things running but its still a slow *** server and they try to tell me I needed to upgrade to a much faster plan and get a better processor and memory. I tell them screw that they are throttling my bandwidth. Like memory and processor are gonna make a difference for 3 websites 1 with forums and 1 for photography then my personal site.
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