HostV.com VPS = Amazing
Dec 9, 2008
It takes a lot for me to be impressed, but HostV has done just that.
I migrated my site over a month ago to a new VPS plan. Up until then I was residing on a FFmpeg shared hosting plan(A company here) which was terrible(up, down, impossible slow access, huge memory usage).
My support tickets at HostV have been answered within hours regardless of when I have created them. They have fixed some of my own screw ups without hesitation and in great time and even installed some apache modules for me. My sites load faster then google now a days.
I run two streaming video sites, a few medium size forums and a couple wordpress blogs.
My bandwidth over the past month has been higher then ever thanks to the reliable service of the FFmpeg enabled VPS. 750 gb later I could not be more impressed.
So, if anyone is considering making a switch to a VPS anytime soon look at HostV's plans. They have far succeeded any expectation I had going in considering what I am paying.
they provide a backup service through virtuozo that does not use your own disk space for free
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Aug 9, 2008
this is my sixth post but hopefully one that will make people realize that there are a lot of great webhosting companies out there such as InterServed. One host that I've been using for over two years now, and never had a problem with them.
These guys are really great, they have moved my database from a server to another for no fee, at all! It was all done in a matter of 30 minutes, unbelievable.
They are using the latest technology (in terms of software, hardware) and are using a PHP accelerator that I just love; XCache.
I never had to use their support because their uptimes are very close to 100%, and the fact that they provide you with everything that you will ever need makes their support ticket the least visited page on their website!
I am currently using them on [url]. Surely, that is not the biggest community, I am aware of this but I know another community that uses InterServed.com as well and have the exact same speed rate, see it for yourself:
www.trancesound.net
They even offer custom deals, but you'd have to contact them for this and you'd probably have to pay for some kind of yearly package!
They setup your account almost instantly and your domain is available within a few minutes!
Please note that I am not the owner of this webhosting company and I am not making this post for "comissions", because as you can see I have not posted any referral link and do not intend to.
I just want people to discover a great company that has a lot of potential, but needs customers because contrary to popular webhosting companies, they are actually showcasing the actual technical specifications which scares off the average internet user who is looking for a webhost. Instead of showing "UNLIMITED BANDWIDTH", they are showing the actual amount of bandwidth, but like I said, that scares off the average user, unfortunately.
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May 2, 2009
The company to delete our server without prior warning or alert is to
After the deletion "and not before deletion" says that the reason the server's request to get the money back and that did not happen at all!
Statements of account do not work with! May have been deleted from their
We call back-up copy of the server do not want to give us!
I have lost my website due to the negligence of this company
My position is now after the loss of everything!
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Jun 11, 2009
I would like to ask for any information you can share about the company called hostV (www.hostv.com) and their VPS deals in particular. I would like to know if the company is worthy of dealing with.
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Mar 19, 2008
I thought it was time to post a review about Cirtex and their brother Company HostV.
At first I was at Cirtex with a shared plan. The first month all was ok, reliability ok, speed ok. Then it all went downhill. All sorts of problems started appearing, lots of customers were complaining at the time, anyway they offered to change servers. I switched servers and all was ok again. For a few months. Then they decided to change my server without notifying me. And guess what, everything started breaking again... Downtime, downtime and then some more downtime. After a lot of complaining things sorted out a bit, not 100% ok but on the verge of acceptable... Then I received an abuse notification. I run a vBulletin site that of course uses resources on the server, more than a static website. The forum is active but small. About 300 registered users with 7-15 users online at the same time. Nothing too "heavy" in my book...
Anyway, they said I had to transfer my account to a VPS or a Dedicated server. At the time they had a very nice offer for their VPS plans (50% off) so I thought to give it a try. I thought "Hell, I had problems with the shared plan, their VPS should be ok". How wrong was I.......
The VPS keeps crashing, they have a Virtuozo panel and WHM to manage the server, almost daily the site is down so I have to go in Virtuozo and restart the server. WHM doesn't work when this happens. After restart all is ok.
I am having trouble configuring the DNS for this server, this is a managed VPS so they have to help me fix it. But no, people still have problem accessing the site. Some can access the site in the morning and not in the afternoon. Some users told me that when they can't access it as www.mydomain.com, if they go at mydomain.com (minus the www) it is working. This all seemed odd to me and I thought it must had been an error in the user's computer configuration. But then I confirmed these problems cause these happened to me as well (for 3 different ISPs, 2 locations and various computers).
Oh yes, and their support? My god, childish to say the least! You tell them that the server's url does not resolve to an IP address and they tell you to send them a tracert! If somenone knows how to tracert something that does not resolve please tell me, I'd like to know!
Let me add the latest support ticket I had with them so that you can see the problems I'm having...: ....
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Aug 30, 2008
Unfortunately the original thread has been closed, so I can't post this in there, but I feel an update should be posted, because people do watch this forum for information about various hosts, and the previous thread may well influence their decision. Original thread can be found at [url].
The bottom line is that the original issue has now been resolved, and it's been resolved well. Harry (Cirtex support) spent quite some time on Thursday monitoring the issue, identifying the problem, and fixing it, so that, on Friday, the problem was gone. Permanently by the look of it. We did have a couple of instances of slowness/high load through the day, but nothing of any consequence.
Unfortunately, Cirtex/HostV did make the same mistake that so many hosting/internet providers make, which was to assume that the customer's "Critical" rating meant the problem could be addressed at leisure with an inadequate response (ie. I report "problem occurs at 01:20 and lasts 2 hours every day", I get a response 4 hours later saying "it's ok now, job closed"), and to assume that the customer really has no idea what they're talking about.
It was only when I kicked up a stink that I received anything approaching an adequate level of support, and I felt that I had to maintain that stink until the problem was fixed. Which is REALLY irritating, because that causes everyone stress, and I have better things to do with my time than maintain a high level of indignation.
It's important to say, though, that this is NOT specific to HostV/Cirtex, which is why I'm sticking with them, rather than going elsewhere.
I've experienced it elsewhere, and I've probably even been responsible for causing it when I worked support a few years ago. The fact is that 95% of the time, it IS the customer's fault, and "critical" just means "I don't know what a GIF is and I *want* to know now!", but just as food for thought, it would be so much nicer for everyone if that didn't happen. Seriously, I don't like having to behave like a jerk to get some attention, but it's become a necessary evil.
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Apr 22, 2008
Can you please offer your ideas which type of plan is to be better chosen for a video sharing site www.cirtexhosting.com/shared.shtml or www.hostv.com/virtual.shtml, they both offer this feature, so what would be a better solution if I'm still quite unsure about the number of the visitors to the site?
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Jun 12, 2008
I would like to share with guys the experience I had with Hostv over past 7 days.
After signing up I got some email configuration problem on server side, but I haven't changed a thing on that section. I couldn't send or receive emails for like two days, contacted the support, didn't a reply till 12 hours later (ok maybe that's because it was Saturday ). After about 10 emails going forward and back they then found out the problem was caused by some misconfiguration on mail server, which I haven't NOT touched after I signup. Come on, I thought I purchased a VPS server not a $2.99 shared!. So basically I wasted two days on this email problem! After that I thought ok I can a have break now... but no there's more. The server goes down AT LEAST once a day, and when it's down, everything is DOWN, including the WHM and Virtuozzo. To sum it all up, I have not had a peaceful day since I joined them! Oh and by the way, my server is still down as I'm writing this! and has been so in about 1 hour now!
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Aug 27, 2008
customer of HostV's VPS hosting, and for the past 3 days, at almost exactly 01:20 GMT, CPU load jumps from an average of about 0.10 to 2.5+, stays there for over an hour, then drops back down.
During this time, there are NO processes on my virtual server using any significant amount of CPU time, memory, or IO. No cron jobs are running on my server, etc.
Note the output from 'uptime' below (I was monitoring it waiting for the problem to occur, which it did at exactly the time I expected):
00:32:05 up 22:01, 2 users, load average: 0.09, 0.11, 0.08
00:32:07 up 22:01, 2 users, load average: 0.08, 0.11, 0.08
01:09:49 up 22:39, 2 users, load average: 0.06, 0.03, 0.00
01:10:03 up 22:39, 2 users, load average: 0.05, 0.03, 0.00
01:19:26 up 22:48, 2 users, load average: 0.46, 0.16, 0.04
01:20:42 up 22:50, 2 users, load average: 1.53, 0.55, 0.18
01:21:39 up 22:51, 2 users, load average: 1.40, 0.67, 0.24
01:46:04 up 23:15, 2 users, load average: 3.06, 2.02, 1.52
Also note output from 'top', taken when load average was at 3.06 shown on the last line above:
Cpu(s): 0.1% us, 0.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 91.0% id, 9.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si
My cpu usage is very low (0.1%) but wait time is at 9.0%, and I've seen this go as high as 70% during these times.
So, basically, there is a problem that exists on the host node somewhere that is causing my site to become effectively unresponsive (page load 20 seconds+ - measured), and it happens every single day at the same time.
So, why am I posting it here instead of logging a trouble ticket? I have logged a trouble ticket, but when I encountered the problem yesterday, despite logging it as "CRITICAL", I had to wait nearly 5 hours for a response, which effectively said not much beyond "we noticed the problem and fixed it and we're monitoring it". So I don't have a lot of faith that today's response will be any better.
I moved to HostV because of similar problems I was encountering with shared hosting, and was assured before signing up that the kind of problem I'm seeing doesn't happen. So now I'm outlaying more than 10 times the cost for almost exactly the same problems and a similarly unhelpful response to it.
By publicly posting the problem, I would hope that someone at HostV will ensure the problem is addressed PROPERLY, rather than bandaided again, and that hopefully we will all be able to see just how good HostV's support CAN be (as evidenced in another similar post).
I await HostV/Cirtex's response.
As shown in the uptime information about, server uptime is 23:15, because I rebooted the virtual server yesterday to see if that helped. It didn't. In fact, it took over 20 minutes for the server to come back up, which is why I'm not going to do it again.
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Mar 19, 2008
I signed up with cliffsupport maybe 3 - 4 months ago, and they have been great. The techs really know what they are talking about, and they respond quickly.
The only troubles I have had with them is when they had trouble getting the correct whmcs login, but we straightened that out.
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Jul 25, 2008
I just got a dedicated server with SingleHop and I must say they are amazing. Fast support and their prices are very good. Dan the co-owner is also great helped me set up some things. I recommend them to anyone. So far Caro.net and SingleHop are the 2 best dedicated server providers.
If you want a good deal from caro contact Mark M.
If you want a good deal from Singlehop contact Chris
I will update everyone in a couple of months on how everything goes.
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Aug 14, 2008
I am a webmaster in Hawaii and recently had a massive server upgrade. This was a hugely complicated process, and my host, HIVELOCITY.NET seriously came through for me.
Without any BS extra billing or attitude, they spent 30 days, patiently dealing with my frustrated emails, and ignorance. After 3 years of insanely positive support, they just kicked it over the edge and proved to me that they are the only host I need indefinitely. I have adult and non-adult sites and have required very intensive support.
HIVELOCITY has never tried to tell me "thats not within the scope of our support" like so many other hosts have. (EV1) They always resolve my problems without telling me " I need to learn shell better" or "you need to consider a managed hosting plan or a sys admin" I've heard this from so many BS hosts, it has driven me mad. So I thought i would help everyone looking for a reliable server and post here about my positive experience.
If you want a server thats run by people who care about your business, and show it, try HIVELOCITY.NET
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Oct 23, 2007
Since a couple a days I have a hosting problem (500 error). My provider told me that I have a script who is using more resources then the shared hosting server allows. BUT, I only have 1000 uniques/day for all my sites. From my point of view, that wasn't enough to explain it. So I dug a little bit in my stats:
Last 5 days. Stats from my hosting
Thursday : 483 uniques
Friday : 403 uniques
Saturday : 508 uniques
Sunday : 53,835 uniques???
Monday : 75,964 uniques???
Most of this traffic came from : 163data.com.cn
I don't think it's a "legit" traffic, because Google analystic gave me only 11 uniques yesterday and Adsense +/- 125 impressions.
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Nov 14, 2007
I started a small site on their cheapest shared hosting. Well, it got pretty big and one day blew up. I got 12,000 unique visits(30K actual visits) within about 10 hours. The load this put on the shared server was bogging down everyone who was also on the server. DreamHost disabled my site until the load went down. Thats fine by me, its shared hosting and I was affecting other people. Would have been awesome if DH would have TOLD ME that they disabled my site. I realized the next day my site was offline. Everything within the Control Panel looked fine, I couldnt figure out wtf was wrong. So I send in a support e-mail and Im promptly replied with a generic automated message telling me Ill be helped shortly. About 30 hours later Im finally told my site was put offline due to the suddenly large amount of resources it was taking.
They refused to turn my site back on until I made my coding more efficient. Even after I reassured them that there wouldnt be that many visitors anymore, as the 2 days offline pretty much guaranteed to kill over half my traffic. Nope, I still had to change the site.
Whatever, I made it more efficent, used a cache so it wasnt pulling the page from a DB every time it was visited. Were now at three and a half days offline, awesome.
They still dont believe this is efficient enough. I switch to their VPS service and this satisfied them. They agree to turn the site back on now. 5 days offline. Im getting maybe 100 unique visits at this time.
After about 10 days of their VPS service(WOW their VPS blows donkey balls) I send an e-mail to have it cancelled and just go back to shared hosting. "As your site requires a lot of resources, your cancellation has been denied." At this point Im pretty irritated. My reply is "No offense, but thats wasnt a request. Ive moved to JaguarPC(you guys rock!) VPS service and I would like to go back to my shared hosting. I thank you in advance for doing this for me."
2 days later they say its switched. Oh yea. BTW, you pay daily for the VPS. It just adds on to your shared hosting costs, and yes I had to pay for those 2 days.
Skip ahead 2 months. I get an e-mail saying Ive been billed from DreamHost. This is normal, as my $10 shared hosting account is still active. Only this bill is for $80. Ive just been charged for 2 months worth of VPS and 2 months of shared hosting out of nowhere.
After about 6 e-mails(and 3 days) to their support team Ive finally got a response from a real person, only to tell me that hes forwarding my email to another tech support person that can "better help me". Whatever, do what you do DreamHost. Were now at a week(and 4 more emails asking whats going on, etc) when I get another response. Hey, my problem has been forwarded again. SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET.
So, two weeks later, I finally get my refund with a "We apologize for any inconvenience." e-mail.
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Mar 12, 2008
I just recently registered a friend's site that I did for her on MMHosting, at first I was a bit skeptical of the prices and the size of the storage and bandwidth. However, I was quite surprised to see that the space is actually available on the Cpanel. I doubt we'll ever really use that much space or bandwidth, but it's nice to know the bandwidth is there if we need it.
More importantly, the customer service has been amazing. If I have a question about the hosting, I submit a ticket and it's generally answered within 30 minutes to 2 hours. They have been more than helpful and provided me links and examples of the answer to the question that I had asked.
MMHosting now has one satisfied new customer, and seeing as I make websites for people all day long everyday, and they always ask me if I know of a good place to host, I will now swear by MMHosting.
Also, I do have plans to move my other two websites to MMHosting very shortly.
Thanks for everything guys you're doing a fantastic job!
Customer service is really what makes the difference in picking a hosting company, and as far as I've seen, MMHosting has it down.
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Sep 24, 2008
About a month ago I purchased my first dedicated server from Softlayer. I was originally with BurstNET, but due to some network issues at their datacenter I decided that it was in my best interest to move to a more premium network. Keep in mind that this is a review of Softlayer. It has absolutely nothing to do with my opinions on BurstNET (I actually love BurstNET).
My Review
Before I purchased my dedicated server I spoke with a live chat representative. We went over many things, and I believe we chatted for close to thirty minutes. After making my decision, I ordered the dedicated server. After I ordered the server, the person on the live chat session told me that she would be calling my phone for an order verification. This went very smoothly, it was completed within minutes of ordering.
I believe I waited a few hours for my server to be deployed. I thought it was quite nice that I didn't have to wait a day for it to be ready. That is definitely a plus in my book. After the server was deployed, I explored the Softlayer control panel, which is incredibly useful. I'm glad that I don't have to save my server login details anymore.
Unfortunately, after having my server for nearly a week, I experienced about six hours of downtime. This downtime happened between the hours of 12:00AM and 6:00AM EST. I wasn't really bothered by it (yes, it's downtime, but I know it's not something that happens a lot with Softlayer). I contacted Softlayer about it, and later received 10-15% off my next payment (I'm not sure whether it was 10% or 15%, but it was one of those numbers). I'm honestly not sure what caused the downtime. I think it had something to do with a power failure, but don't quote me on that -- I didn't read up on the outage. Apparently it only affected the servers in the Dallas datacenter, Server Room 4.
Once my server went online I experienced another problem (this time it was my fault). I called the Softlayer support line, and luckily talked to a guy who fixed the problem. I know that Softlayer isn't managed, so this was definitely helpful.
Overall, I'll say that Softlayer has been truly amazing. I love their pricing, their support, and their network. They've got a long-term client.
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Sep 22, 2008
I shifted my website universalteacher.com from yahoo to Medialayer in July 2008 because yahoo has a very bad customer support. You can read my review about yahoo here:
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The support provided by medialayer is excellent. Whenever I contact them, they reply within 1 hour. Mostly I have got reply within 15 minutes. The executives are knowledgeable and very helpful.
I am located in India and Medialayer is in US. I always contact them in odd hours. Please see the following query that I asked when I was testing wordpress MU on one of my sites at 6:13 AM and i got the reply at 6:26 AM. The second query i asked at 12:40 PM and got reply at 12:48 PM ....
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Aug 28, 2008
I've been using these guys for a little over a month. After a couple weeks, i got a 2nd server from them. Their web account panel is very well done, their special offer going on right now is great, they deliver on exactly what they say. Their customer service is also amazing. I'm sorry if this isn't the correct format for a review, its my first time. I just felt the need to tell others about this, easily my favorite dedicated server provider i've dealt with.
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May 12, 2008
reliablesite has filtered 100% of the spam emails
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Nov 10, 2008
I finally decided to go with vectorlevel after my last topic and researching some more and I'm completely amazed by how seamless the process was. I signed up on nov 5th and got my account information in a few minutes. Now I'm pretty knowledgeable about all the new technology stuff such as computers and tvs, but I'm pretty much a newbie in web hosting. I have always wanted to start a personal blog but had no idea what I needed with domains and hosting. Vectorlevel assisted me with getting my own domain (woot) and showed me how to install wordpress with "Installatron" which was pretty cool. My blog loads very quickly almost just like any of those big company websites like google.
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Jul 24, 2009
I am undergoing "amazing" Bandwidth thief issue. My Server is using very high bandwidth from last 7 days -
On Scanning server, i found following
1) Roundcube mail script was compromised and used by some hacking group, so i deleted that directory all together
2) I disabled Hotlinking all together
3) I found "Live Chat" script also being compromised, and found movies (.dat files) in
it amounting to 20 GB++ , i also deleted that directory
4) I have checked for each and every file, with size more than 30 MB on server.
5) I have also switched off FTP service (and there is no other user on server too)
6) After all this, i even installed "mod_bandwidth" and limited bandwidth service to 10 KBPS across domain directory
Then, i installed MRTG graphs to analyze the issue, and to my SURPRISE, nothing changed, it still used very high bandwidth, after few - few hours.
http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/511/indexday.png
^^ the above image shows B/W goes upto 10 MBPS and thus breaks network.
I am now tired and exhausted of this. Can someone here, please give an expert advice on this issue?
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