Hacked - DDos Attacked, Downtime 1 Week...

Aug 23, 2008

The attack is large enough now that the rules I've put in place aren't really helping much. Mod_evasive and mod_security are also installed, however this doesn't appear to be helping much either. The invalid user-agents hitting the site are filling up the max connections and then apache stops responding. I also tried raising the MaxClients in httpd.conf, however the vps then started hitting its memory limit.

I was on a shared plan and they moved me to a VPS same problem
Host: urljet.com

I have had one host representative thats said "I think we could take care of you but you would have to use this plan with the firewalls"

www . liquidweb.com/cart/content/dedicated/Webmaster/Plan1

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Santrex - 3 Days Of Downtime (a 2 Week Review)

Nov 2, 2009

I've read bad reviews on Santrex, guess I'm just one more in their glut of unhappy customers. I ordered a NL vps 2 weeks ago after being convinced by a friend who has been with them for two months. I was a bit wary, but it was only $10 so I thought what the hell.

Right off the bat when my vps was set up and while I was insalling kluxo, there was some brief downtime. Wasn't that bad, but pretty bad timing for a first impression. Hosting was fine for the next week really, not much downtime, until last week that is.

All NL VPSes were down for more than 72 hours. I didn't pester their support, and it would have been pointless since their support was clueless about the issue. Their reply was that they didn't know how long the downtime would last. Granted it was problem with the datacenter, but thats not what I thought was the worst part.

Normally I'd think that when a host screws up and gives unacceptable uptime, they should at least offer some discount for the next month, if not give it for free. Granted thats not in their TOS, but they shouldn't be surprised at all of these bad reviews and customers leaving from the terrible service. I mean santrex didn't even apologize for this, now I'm not sure if the terrible downtime or the lack of caring by the company is worse.

My VPS hosting ends on the 17th, not gonna do much with it until then most likely, I doubt that santrex expects someone like me to pay them again for the service I got. The fact that these guys have 7k clients amazes me with the fact that these clients stay, and that these guys act as if they have 7 clients.

In closing, you can clearly see this is not a host to bother with, the cheapest vps hosting for sure but even a cheaper level of quality. All Santrex has really provided me is to test out webmin briefly, and it's changed my opinion about the control panel, but really thats it. Hope this review saves anyone from my experience. I may not have had an active site, but anyone hosting a business on one of their NL servers must have gotten big losses from this.

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Being Attacked - DDOS?

Nov 6, 2007

OK well today I found out my server was being DDOS'ed

And I know which domain is being attacked with hundreds of IP's. I am running Cpanel / WHM but I have no idea how I can stop this?

Any ideas or suggestions? Maybe redirect the DNS? to a invalid ip? But I'm not sure how i can go about doing that?

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May 28, 2008

All my websites are down because a Dos attack on port 80. Rackspace basically said they can't do anything to help me unless I want them to install a $1500 a month hardware add on. They tried banning a couple ip addresses and that did not work. They recommended prolexic.com but does anyone have any other advice?

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Oct 22, 2007

I see what IPs are attacking them? OS: CentOS

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Jun 23, 2007

My hosting provider will shut down my server because it was used by a hacker for DoS attacks.

((outging 2090kbits/sec, incoming 29kbits/sec )

Server got Freebsd 6.2 , apache 2.2, php4.4.7 ,ipfw installed

To be more specific, somehow the hacker can upload a script "udp.pl" into the /tmp directory and then execute it through "perl udp.pl".

The script "udp.pl" does mass flooding on the IP they specify.

The header of udp.pl code is attached at the bottom.

After I deleted "udp.pl"

secured /tmp (noexec,nosuid,rw)

chkrootkit/ rootkit hunter, Checked /etc/passwd for new users and users with UIDs of 0 other than root. Checked for the presence of SUID/SGID root files. nothing found.

installed mod_security2
installed Suhosin

Currently Still have lots of outgoing traffic via port 80 (outging 390kbits/sec, incoming 19kbits/sec )

find nothing suspicius process by using "lsof, top" .....

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May 28, 2008

From running smoothly to suddenly going to 900 write requests, my web server crashes.

I don't want to be asking the DC to restart my machine every minute.

They installed Squid which solved the load and seems to run smooth. But my script doesn't function properly as everything is cached.

I then put all my images/css etc on a lighttpd server which can handle all the requests without problems.

So now apache is only handling around 30 php requests per second. But will magically jump up to 600+.

The DC says I'm being syn flooded.

I have APF, deflate DDoS, etc. installed.

Anything else I can do?

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Server Is Being Attacked

Jul 1, 2009

Server info:

Windows 2003 box

Dedicated server currently hosted at the planet.

Problem:

It would appear there has been a security breach into the server recently. This morning we cleared off a Trojan, and also a new user that had been created on the server.

All of our websites we host (around 200) had been affected. Almost every file had new javascript or links to an .swf, they load in iframes and are very malicious, actually giving any vistor to the site a virus.

I tracked down the embed code that I found in most files appended to the end of each file.

Below shows up in most .asp, .cfm, .html files (no spaces, just can't paste a url in here yet)...

<scRipT s rc=[url]
<scRipT sr c=[url]

Below shows up any any .js file (no spaces, just can't paste a url in here yet)...

document.writeln ("<script sr c="[url]
document.writeln ("<script sr c="[url]

So I got a script that opens up every file looking for this code and stripping it out. Seemed to work at first, but now all the sites have been rewritten again..... and again. So obviously something is overwriting this.

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Jul 1, 2009

Server info:
Windows 2003 box
Dedicated server currently hosted at the planet.

Problem:

It would appear there has been a security breach into the server recently. This morning we cleared off a Trojan, and also a new user that had been created on the server.

All of our websites we host (around 200) had been affected. Almost every file had new javascript or links to an .swf, they load in iframes and are very malicious, actually giving any vistor to the site a virus.

I tracked down the embed code that I found in most files appended to the end of each file.

Below shows up in most .asp, .cfm, .html files (no spaces, just can't paste a url in here yet)...

<scRipT s rc=[url]
<scRipT sr c=[url]
Below shows up any any .js file (no spaces, just can't paste a url in here yet)...

document.writeln ("<script sr c=[url]
document.writeln ("<script sr c=[url]

So I got a script that opens up every file looking for this code and stripping it out.

Seemed to work at first, but now all the sites have been rewritten again..... and again.

So obviously something is overwriting this.

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If 1 Website Were To Get Attacked

Jun 29, 2009

if i were to have 1 website get have a DDoS attack to it, would it knock out my server for a while, and can i recover the server by restarting it?

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Jun 11, 2008

I have been consistently attacked by Russia.

When I had apache my server would die and you couldn't even SSH. Now I have Litespeed my site loads but SUPER SUPER slow.

Last night I was SYN Flooded with 125mbps. Though they consumed nearly all my bandwidth and I owe the DC tons of cash in bandwidth now. I managed to block Russia and the load halved to about 50 and the site was still functional but intermittent.

I have been running Deflate DDoS etc to block IPs.

I'm wondering if I get a load balancer with another box, would this fix my problems?

I heard you can modify the settings somewhere to identify syn attacks and auto block them.

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Server Is Being Attacked

Jun 20, 2007

222.216.28.147 - - [20/Jun/2007:06:05:04 -0500] "GET [url]
(compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)"
172.131.255.237 - - [20/Jun/2007:04:41:06 -0500] "POST [url]
172.131.255.237 - - [20/Jun/2007:04:41:07 -0500] "CONNECT mx1.mail.yahoo.com:25 HTTP/1.0" 405 303 "-" "-"

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Dec 25, 2008

Is my server being attacked? Please help.

Is my server being attacked? Please help.
I'm using Linux RedHat el5. Recently, my server down almost at the same time everyday.
I try looking in /var/log/messages, it is flooded by this kind of message:


Dec 25 22:41:16 ls1 xinetd[3958]: START: smtp pid=430 from=173.66.124.249
Dec 25 22:41:16 ls1 xinetd[3958]: START: smtp pid=437 from=92.84.45.130
Dec 25 22:41:16 ls1 xinetd[3958]: START: smtp pid=439 from=173.66.124.249
Dec 25 22:41:16 ls1 xinetd[3958]: START: smtp pid=440 from=173.66.124.249
Dec 25 22:41:24 ls1 kernel: ip_conntrack: table full, dropping packet.

From the log, at "from=xx.xx.xxx.xxx" are not all the same, but the same ip appeared for a while, then change to another.

I'm newbie to Linux, and donot quite understand what the this message is mean. Is this can be a cause that make my server down? Please suggest.

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Oct 11, 2007

My site is getting attacked since last couple of days and the attacker brings it down in 5-10 minutes.I have to restart the apache webserver to bring it back again until he strike again.

I am trying to secure it as much as possible using .htaccess,i am able to stop almost all the perl/php scripts etc but the last time the hacker attacked the site today,i see 100s of these entries in my logs:

Code:
71.181.220.147 - - [10/Oct/2007:21:44:44 -0700] "GET /templates/template/images/content.png HTTP/1.1" 200 510 [url] "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; Embedded Web Browser from: [url] .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; Media Center PC 4.0; IEMB3; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; IEMB3)"

I would like to know what is this "Embedded Web Browser from: [url] and how can i block the hacker from running this using .htaccess?

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I'm Being DOS Attacked By A Gameserver Company!

Dec 20, 2008

My internet connection started cutting out and I found it strange, I presumed it was with my ISP and so I ignored it as they're pretty crap, then it carried on today so I did some investigation (Turned on error logging for my router) so I go ahead and wait, an hour later my internet connection cuts out, to the logs!

Sat, 2008-12-20 22:01:38 - UDP Packet - Source:89.238.152.200,28960 Destination:192.168.1.103,28960 - [Firewall Log-DOS] ....

Am I correct in thinking there are multiple IP addresses "Attacking" my home network? If so, that's mighty strange and should I be worried?

I checked some of the IPs, most go to dedicateds around the world. One is a gameserver admin panel. Have these been hijacked and being used to "Attack" me?

I have a theory, be it probably wrong; The port number 28960 is used by Call of Duty 1 as the "default" port for a gameserver, and I play a lot of CoD1. Therefore, presumably, that port is open by our router, 28960, so somehow they've found this to be open and are "attacking" it. I'm not sure, but it seems possible, not sure why though.

192.168.1.103 is presumably ME on our subnet? Router is linksys

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Mar 20, 2008

Is there a way to determine from monitoring the packets coming in to my IP address what domain on my server is being attacked? Something like Tcpdump maybe can tell me? Having DDoS trouble and I'm trying to identify the domain being hit.

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Jul 27, 2008

I'm Tech admin at Fagex.net

This site has always been prone for attacks on it's servers. At the moment theres been a new owner and so things are not settled back down yet, How ever people are still atacking the site.

The hosting as far as i am aware has no software/hardware firewall i have tould the onwer but has not taken my advice.

This morning i woke up to find it was being attacked, so i went stright to SSH and started blocking them etc.

I was looking around for free Anti DOs tools and came across,

[url]

Seems good, I've only just installed so still need to see the effects.

I also added a block in to htacess which has

Quote:

<ifmodule mod_limitipconn.c>
<cocation />
Maxconnperip 3
NoIPlimit image/*
</location>
</ifmodule>

The server is a dedicated VPS, and the owner has two sites on which both are forums.

What can i do to protect the sites? What can i do to prevent them? What can i do to stop them.

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Jun 1, 2007

my friend's server is being attacked, the http processes shoots up causing the server load to go above 200 in minutes of starting httpd which causes server to die.

this is how the apache web server's access_log would log a normal http request;
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"xx.xxx.xx.xx - - [01/Jun/2007:22:13:21] "GET /folder/name.gif HTTP/1.1" 200 877 [url]"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1)"
------------------------------------------------------

Today when the http load increased we saw hundreds of following requests;
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"xx.xxx.xx.xx - - [01/Jun/2007:22:13:21] "GET /? HTTP/1.1" 200 16305 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)"
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You see the difference between a legitimate http access log entry and the above one is that the legitimate one shows the filename(GET /folder/name.gif) and domain name being requested whereas the second one shows ("GET /?")

Above requests continously originate from 30 to 40 different ip addresses. Most of them russian ips, and many form US and canada to.

When i do a grep "GET /?" in access log there are thousands of these which started just today.

I cannot block each ips because i feel they have hundreds of IPs to initiate these requests from.

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Jul 23, 2009

Alright guys - my server the past two weeks is just freaking ridiculous. It's a Core2Quad Q9300 2.5ghz server with 8gb of ram. It should be fast as hell. I can't move 20 e-mails in my mail client without the server grinding to a complete halt and httpd and mysql going unresponsive. Right now I'm just trying to copy a damned screen shot of the task manager performance tab and it's taking about 3 minutes to paste it - even though the CPU utilization is averaging only 20% at the moment and memory is only 2.5gb.


I restarted WAMP and now it seems to be running smoother. My Outpost firewall, though, didn't show too many connections to the server that it was maxing out.

Here's my ping responses just now while I was typing this - I was watching the firewall connections and I was only having like 60 connections to httpd, 20 connections to mysql, 5-10 to my SmarterTools mail server, and then my remote desktop connection. My network utilization got up to a whole 5% - so it's not that I have too many connections or something. Here's the ping responses:

C:Documents and SettingsBrian>ping mifbody.com -n 99

Pinging mifbody.com [216.245.195.146] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 216.245.195.146: bytes=32 time=70ms TTL=115
Reply from 216.245.195.146: bytes=32 time=73ms TTL=115
Reply from 216.245.195.146: bytes=32 time=81ms TTL=115
Reply from 216.245.195.146: bytes=32 time=78ms TTL=115
Reply from 216.245.195.146: bytes=32 time=71ms TTL=115 ....

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[url]

[url]

One of my users posted this in the forum saying my server is scanning his computer. His this serious? Do I have virus? Should i be worried? Well i am kinda worried. I tried googling it, but i can't seem to figure the right keywords for a good result.

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194.8.75.229

What's so ironic about it is that the ip is from a UK DDOS protection site so i'm expecting some email with their services in the next hour or so. Stay clear of them they are fakes and e-terrorists.

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Mar 16, 2008

I haven't received a response from them yet to figure out what to do with their error.

I bought a server on serveraday.com and paid a year in advance to get the upgrades listed in the comments. When I called to set up my account, the sales guy wrote in the comments about the upgrades.

They were supposed to be: 100Mbit connection (from 10mbit), 250GB hard drive, and remote reboot as listed on the page, but the sales person wrote in: 200GB hard drive, 100mbit, remote reboot. I didn't complain because I didn't really care about 250->200.

I get my server and I check fsdisk: Low and behold they only put the 40GB drive in there.

Now I've spent a couple hours configuring my server only to find that they didn't put the proper hardware in.

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Apr 9, 2009

tl;dr 1.9 thumbs up

I've been on VpsSpeed Mach 2 plan for just about a week. I must say this is my first experience with a vps and first dozen with linux. This has been a wonderful learning experience and one thing I must praise highly about them is that they have a ton of OS images. I started with a centos5 hiab and tried to harden it myself and failed miserably (I ended up having a cron job that kept executing over and over sending emails to an email that didn't exist which caused it to bounce to a default email which didnt' exist etc... shut that down after about 20 seconds ) So I ended up swapping to a hardend version of Cenos5 hiab and we're good to go!

Setup was instant and easy.

Download speeds have been snappy although I have had some slowdowns with data coming into the machine via yum although I think it may be the centos repository as my wgets have been decent.

I've put in 3 tickets, 1 was answered in 45 minutes, 1 in an hour and one in ~8 hours (I marked this one as low priority anyway...) overall for 10 odd dollars a month I couldn't be happier.

There has been a little downtime. Twice the server has been down once for about 3 hours and the second time is right now though they have a network issues page that is kept updated and it shouldnt' be down for long.

Not sure what else there is to go over as again I'm quite new to the vps arena.

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I signed up for WebSpaceDepot's Master VPS plan on January 2nd of this year. I've reached the half month mark today, but after having problems with several VPS providers in the past, I think I've finally found my home for my websites and my customers' sites.

Therefore, I felt I had to post a review as I have nothing negative to say about them so far.

First Day: I found WebSpaceDepot's offer for a free upgrade to 250 GB of disk space on WHT. I saw that they had a phone number on their website, and so I called and spoke with Dave in sales. He is a very nice and knowledgeable guy. He was upfront with me that day and told me that the speeds would be kind of slow for a week or so until they partnered with another company for bandwidth. I didn't care too much about the speed as I had originally planned to get the VPS just to test it out and see whether they were a good provider. I ordered the VPS that night through their website, and it took them about ten hours or so to get me up and running because they were waiting for cPanel to finish installing on my VPS. The next day I tried out their support system to see how well they responded. When they first set up my account, I was not given access to the rebuild feature of HyperVM. I opened a ticket asking for access to this feature since I wanted to try out different OS templates (finally settled on CentOS 5), and they had given me access to rebuild in about 10 minutes. I then opened a ticket requesting that they configure Reverse DNS for me, and that was done in about twelve minutes. On the night of January 4th, I started getting very slow responsiveness from the VPS. I couldn't figure out what in the world was wrong, but after fiddling around a bit I noticed that the resolvers they were using (4.2.2.1 and 4.2.2.2) were responding slowly. I called them the next day and ended up getting connected with Dave again. He thought it was a bandwidth issue because the one week window he told me about during our first conversation had not ended yet. We then began talking about the resolvers, and I told him I thought that was the issue. They setup resolvers in their building (they own their own DC, by the way) dedicated to me, and now everything is flying along. I actually get access to 3 cores of the CPU, something I was not offered at other providers. The speed is excellent, and so is their Technical Support. I couldn't be happier at this point.

I would highly recommend WebSpaceDepot.com to others looking for an affordable VPS provider with great support by e-mail, ticket or by telephone. I hope to be back in three months or so with another positive review.

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All in all I am very happy and have no plans to move. Score: Support 9/10, service 10/10, uptime 9/10. This is only my view based on my experiance with them but when looking for a VPS you should take a look and consider them.

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(Since the board got wiped out recently, I figured I'd repost my review.)

Normally I would wait about a month before I give a review about a web host, but since Sarora recently had a problem where they left the hosting scene for a few months, I figured I'd give a review now to shed some positive light on Sarora.

Recently, I have been searching for a new VPS host to reduce some server costs. When looking through the VPS offers thread, I noticed a new little company called Sarora Hosting. They had some fairly good deals. Plus, them having their servers in the Tampa, Florida HiVelocity Datacenter sealed the deal for me. I did a little research and found out about the recent problem Sarora Hosting had. I decided to take a leap of faith, and I'm glad I did.

My VPS was setup pretty quickly; it was up and running a few hours after ordering. Once it was going, I started configuring my VPS with Webmin. I was having a few problems and contacted the Sarora team. They were quick to respond and helped me fixed my problems in a fast manner.

I am nothing but thrilled with Sarora Hosting. I would recommend them to any--nay--everyone looking for a VPS.

Update: It's been another few weeks and thinks are still going excellent with Sarora. They did take the servers down for a few hours for upgrade but it was done quickly and I was well informed of it happening. Sarora Hosting is sure to become a very well-known host over time.

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Mar 7, 2009

Normally I would wait about a month before I give a review about a web host, but since Sarora recently had a problem where they left the hosting scene for a few months, I figured I'd give a review now to shed some positive light on Sarora.

Recently, I have been searching for a new VPS host to reduce some server costs. When looking through the VPS offers thread, I noticed a new little company called Sarora Hosting. They had some fairly good deals. Plus, them having their servers in the Tampa, Florida HiVelocity Datacenter sealed the deal for me. I did a little research and found out about the recent problem Sarora Hosting had. I decided to take a leap of faith, and I'm glad I did.

My VPS was setup pretty quickly; it was up and running a few hours after ordering. Once it was going, I started configuring my VPS with Webmin. I was having a few problems and contacted the Sarora team. They were quick to respond and helped me fixed my problems in a fast manner.

I am nothing but thrilled with Sarora Hosting. I would recommend them to any--nay--everyone looking for a VPS.

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Jul 4, 2008

In short: stay away.

The long version:

We ordered VPSLAND.com a week ago. The setup was fast, the config was smooth, prices are great (1Gb RAM server for 30 bucks a month, 50% discount for the first month - wow!). We moved our website (nothing special, 15 pages + SQL-Express database)

But then ((

I got up in the morning and saw an alert from "siteuptime.com" that our website is down for 4 hours... I pinged - timeout. Interesting - the web panel said that the server is fine and running... I rebooted the server and opened a support ticket, and after 8 hours the answer was "we had a hardware problem on the host server resolved now".

In the next few days I got another morning alert. Guess what. The site is down for 8 HOURS. God knows haw many clients we've lost... Again - the server is showing up as "running" in the webpanel, but it is totally unreachable. The support ticket answer was "we've updated the Virtuozzo version and restarted the host, it should work fine now"

...ok... I started to look for alternatives. Found "kickassvps" (recommended here) and asked them a couple of presales questions. And while I was waiting for a response - the server was down a couple of times again... Even now, after I transferred my website (runs fine BTW) I want to login to VPSLAND server (to remove my databases and do some cleanup) and guess what? It is f####ng down! )

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Caro.net Two Week Review

Oct 20, 2008

I figured I'm obviously not the most important person here, but I also figured that a review is a review - and it's just as good coming from me.

Two weeks in, not a very long time yet. I've got the deal of a lifetime though.

Server:
Dell PowerEdge
860 1u Single Intel Xeon
3050 2.13GHz Dual Core (Conroe)
2GB DDR-2
250gb SATA
250gb SATA
Windows 2003 Standard
No Control Panel
Free Raid Options
2000 GB Bandwidth

Price; How much do you think they sold this for? I got the actual machine with CentOS for 109.00$ a month, then I upgraded to Windows 2003 Standard for the price of Windows Web Edition cause they are nice =). So 15$/mo for Windows 2003 Standard, which the original price was 25$/mo. Add that onto the crazy discount I'm getting off the original box and it's a great deal.

Support; They've helped me with everything I needed. I have the tech's email/MSN address, so even though I have an Unmanaged plan, they tend to help me out anyway, knowing I'm new to all of this. I haven't needed MUCH support so I can't go into to much detail, but so far everything I needed; they helped me with.

System; So far, I'm using my dedicated to host a few Half-Life: Counter-strike servers. My servers are constant at at least 23 players most of the time. So far, I have five, 32 slot servers. All have been running perfectly as long as I don't mess with them to much.

Usually depending on the mod, but the average FPS is 300 per server. If you're not a gaming fan, 300 FPS is borderline great, right above good. Once again, system runs five 32 slot Counter-strike 1.6 servers flawlessly.

Uptime; Can't really say much about this as I've only had them for 2 weeks, but I guess I might as well say, so far, no downtime .

Network; I'm surprised as some told me to avoid North Carolinas data center, but I'm happy I join with them. Along with the cheap prices, I got a beautiful network that hasn't disappointed me since I have joined them.

Price: 10/10

Support: 10/10 (Remember, I have an unmanaged plan, so anything would've really got me to say 10/10.)

System: 8/10 -- I requested Raid after the Sales Tech informed me it was free. They planned to do it on the same time as my Reformat to windows, but they had no raid cables =(.

Uptime: 10/10 -- Had them for two weeks, no downtime =D.
Network: 9/10 -- It could be better, but it's a lot better then I expected/was hoping for.

I honestly don't know what else to comment on. If you want me to comment on any other aspect of Caro.net please let me know and I will post a response. Thanks for reading. I plan on staying with Caro for as long as I possibly can.

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I have been with KnownHost for just over 2 weeks now and am EXTREMELY happy with the services provided. I recommend them to anyone who cares about customer service/uptime.
The basic VPS that I'm on has been powerful, no issues at all, and support is extremely quick. The reason I am writing this quick review is because I just submitted a support ticket at 1:40AM on a Sunday (Pacific time) and received a response at 1:55AM. When these guys say 24/7 support, they mean it.

I will try to do another review in a few months, but am extremely happy so far. Try them out if you've been searching for a VPS provider - you get what you pay for with KH.

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EpicVPS.com - 1 Week Review

Jul 7, 2008

Well I'm a week into my Entry level VPS with EpicVPS.

My VPS was deployed within about 30 minutes of ordering including LXAdmin. This was pretty darn fast and I have no qualms there.

Upon logging into my shell the first thing I did was run yum update -y, which updated a stack of packages. This leads me to believe that the image that Epic is using is a little older, but no big deal.

Here comes the first problem:
upon updating, the 'udev' package got installed which really borked my /dev/ directory. I re-launched Apache and it barked about /dev/urandom being missing.

So I re-created it with MAKEDEV. This fixed Apache. Though then I logged out of my SSH session and back in to find my tty/pty's were missing (thanks udev!). I had to re-create these via OpenVZ's terminal. However, upon reboot of the server the whole /dev/ directory went wonky again (UDEV! GRR).

I finally removed the udev package (leaving all of it's dependencies on the server) to restore order to my /dev/ directory. I'm not entirely sure where the fault lay with that one.

Second problem: Upon hardening my install with apf/bfd I come to find my iptable modules are missing. I put in a support ticket which gets a response within an hour that they are looking into it. The following morning the modules got moved to my VPS and I could now harden my install.

My only other qualm is that sometimes I'll try and visit my webpage and it will be unresponsive and require a refresh to load the website. But mon.itor.us would lead me to believe there has been no down time and the latency from it's servers to my VPS have been extremely low. This may be my ISP at home, routing inbetween us or some other entity.

In short: I'm relatively happy thus far. The udev thing would be nice to get sorted out so next time that update comes down I won't be in the same situation. They should also figure out why their VPS images are deploying without those kernel modules as well.

So far I give them a . I still have another week to trial the service before I lose my ability to use their money back guarantee. But as long as the service remains in it's current condition I see no reason to need to use it.

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