Signed up and paid the first month for a 'Linux Entry' + 1 GB mySQL around 4:45PM today. It's now 11:21PM and I have not heard anything or received any Emails for remote access. Does it usually take this long?
Reading thru this site they seemed to be one of the best if your on a $30/month budget.
Maybe setting up the Linux stuff takes longer for them than Windows?
I switched to kickassvps.com yesterday. I switched from Zone.net due to down time and other issues. I places my order on their site and had my vps up and running in about 15 mins. Also note that all this happened on a SATURDAY! These guys so far have been very helpful and the VPS is fast. They also offer double the memory of my previous host at the same price!
I would recommended kickassvps.com to anyone looking for a entry level to advanced level vps.
Fast setup/affordable/good customer service
I noticed the lack of KickassVPS reviews, so I decided to try them out (they were nice enough to give me a free trial). The short time I was with them was surprisingly very good.
I didn't notice any downtime at all and the server was very fast, which was pleasing.
They didn't seem to have any trouble in that department (10/10 for uptime and speed).
I contacted support a total of 2 times; the first reply came 8 hours later but they went above and beyond what I asked. I asked for PHP + MySQL installed and they also installed PHPMyAdmin and provided me a test file to prove that they were all truly installed. My previous hosts didn't do this. I sent a request to install Ruby on Rails which was responded to in 9 hours, informing me that although they were new to Ruby on Rails, they would still install it and they wanted to confirm if I was ok with it. That's around when my trial ended. I'd give support a 8/10. It would be perfect if they responded in a more timely manner, but support was very, VERY friendly, helpful and professional. Keep in mind that I contacted support on Labor Day, so they might have been busy that day but still found time to respond to my support inquiries.
Overall, even though the support requests were a bit slow, I'd keep KickassVPS in mind when looking for a reliable Windows VPS provider. Personally, I think they live up to their name for those who aren't in a hurry or who can manage their own Windows servers. Although my trial was only for a week, from my experience I can say these guys seem to be trustworthy. Your server probably won't go down the minute you receive it and support won't leave you hanging for a prolonged period of time. These guys have been added to my list of good VPS providers whom I consider when buying a VPS.
Just in case you didn't know, their website is kickassvps.com
According to the reviews on the Forum. Most of you won't trust an important client/application to a VPSLand VPS.
So I was wondering if you would trust a critical application to KickassVPS?
Why my question?
I am evaluating to consolidate 2 VPSLand based VPS into 1... the load is not so high and KickassVPS seems to provide more features for the buck... not to mention Plesk and Smarterstats...
I currently have active accounts with both VPSLand and KickAssVPS and I am trying to decide with account to keep and which to cancel.
I will provide a side by side comparison of both services.
I had planned on canceling VPSLand due to all the poor reviews, which is why I signed up an account with KickAssVPS but now I am not sure.
THE PLANS
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VPSLand
Plan: Value
Price: $29/m
RAM: 768MB
HDD: 8GB
Xfer: 300GB
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KickAssVPS
Plan: Entry
Price: $35/m
RAM: 960MB
HDD 10GB
Xfer: 100GB
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Setup Time - From placing order to e-mail containing server details.
VPSLand: 34 minutes
KickAssVPS: 5 hours 26 minutes
Technical Details to follow
I have used this forum a lot recently and just wanted to give back.
I had my site hosted with gate.com for about 2 years which had been "OK". I wanted shared windows hosting with a real SQL Server account included and there weren't many options. Gate.com was only $10 at the time for a shared windows site with 100MB MS SQL included. Down time has been nowhere near 99.99%. Several times a year the the site was down for days at a time. I was nearing my 100MB SQL limit and noticed that SQL was no longer included with their new plans, so I started doing some research on this site.
Right after that they migrated to new servers. Based on some domain names, setup screens... that I've seen recently, I believe that they were bought out by hostway.com. Since then, everything has been horrible.
They moved my SQL database to a new server, but kept the old one with the old name visible on the web. Since you can't have 2 computers with the same name and they didn't tell me about the change, the new server had to keep the old name but I couldn't access it with that name. They never told me about this change and never gave me access to the new server. After calling, one tech support guy actually gave me a CNAME as the server name. Like I could access the server using a name ending in hostway. <- yes, not .com, just a dot at the end.
The aliases that were pointed to my domain were redirected to some investment club. One tech guy tried to fix it by deleting the alias from my account and then re-adding it.
The script he used to do this automatically charged my credit card for $10 for each alias and only worked for one of them. He said it was up to me to contact billing to fix this. Three weeks later, the alias that worked was broken again - pointing back to the investment club.
Gate.com also had phone support (originally a plus), but hold times during this transition period could take an hour. Filling out a ticket took 3 weeks for a reply.
I had already decided I wanted to try out a VPS because I had a couple more sites I wanted setup and I didn't want to get nickled and dimed for each one. Again, I wanted Windows Hosting with SQL Server included. Based on some reviews I read here I decided to go with KickAssVps.com. Their Plesk license includes 10 domains for free (I need 6), they have a free SQL Server 2005 1GB coupon (still available on this site until October 1st), and RAM was great at 960MB which I now realize is a lot more than I need.
Have only had the site for a 9 days but so far I am happy. Registered the account late on a Saturday and it was setup by 11PM that night. Questions have been answered in a couple of hours. The KickAssVPS.com site doesn't have the greatest support, but you aren't using any custom tools from them. Help for Plesk, Virtuozzo, DNS setup, IIS... can all be found online and so far I haven't had much of a problem.
I get about 8500 page-views a day and RAM is still under 300MB. Having SQL off server instead of using SQL Enterprise Express is great. Users of the site have commented that the site and chat both respond noticeably faster now. Remote Desktop is also very fast.
Uploading about 1GB of images took a very long time, but not sure if that was on my end or the server.
Sorry for the long rant. Just needed to release some aggression against my old provider.
root@server [~]# replace ns3.host.com ns1.host.com -- /var/named/*
-bash: /usr/bin/replace: Argument list too long
How can I work past this?
Using Centos 4.5 / cpanel
I bought a VPS its taken 18 hours still no setup is this normal?
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Seems excessive, or something wrong, but support just say "It is not uncommon for restores to take this long with the backup software we are using".
Just wondering, have any of you ever needed to ask support to restore from backup, and how long did it take?
The amount of data is approx 30GB.
I just signed up with a new host. How long should I expect it to transfer sites through WHM? I know it depends on the size of the sites but how long does the average 100M site?
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How long did I keep a host denied by BFD?
BFD in my server adds at least 5 hosts to the deny rules of APF every day.
For how long should I maintain that?
There is a limit for this rules?
I have a server running SUSE. dual quad core chips, 16 gigs of RAM.
It's a webserver only running Apache.
We have been having a problem the past few days where page loads take forever yet CPU load and RAM load are very, very low.
I've noticed when it happens when viewing HTOP that TASKS jump from about 350 average to 1000 average. Pages won't start loading until this number drops.
I see no errors in error_log or messages however restarting Apache seems to fix the issue?
I've tried messing around with KEEPALIVE settings with no help.
Any clues on where to start? Pretty lost on this one becuase I see no errors and the load both CPU and RAM are low.
I am rebuilding Apache on my server.
However, it has been stuck at "adding module mod_auth_passthrough.c" for the past hour , is it normal?
How long does rebuilding Apache normally take?
I am using Servint and I am looking for another provider with similar reputation/reliability. I have heard many good things about Zone.net on this forum, but they don't have any reviews older than a few months. Have they been around long, if so, why no early posts?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI signed up with namecheap.com for RapidSSL. I had my hosting provider generate a CSR for me and I put it in namecheap. Then I receive an email from namecheap that says:
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Thank you for your RapidSSL order.
Supplier Order Id: ######
An email will be sent to the designated approver with instructions on how to approve your certificate request for xxx.domain.com.
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This was sent about two hours ago. I need this SSL fast as it is the backbone of my website. Namecheap doesn't have phone support and RapidSSL is closed on weekends. Any insight on when I'll get instructions to move onto the next step?
We are curious to know about other hosting companies
How long do you keep a customer's Data if he has not paid for his invoices?
For shared web hosting.
I have some problems with apache.
As you can see below, long-live httpd processes use a lot of CPU / Ram.
Usually this processes caused high LA - 8-12.
Code:
%CPU CPU NI S TIME COMMAND
0.2 - 0 S 00:00:27 nginx: worker process
0.3 - 0 S 00:00:29 nginx: worker process
0.3 - 0 S 00:00:30 nginx: worker process
3.3 - 0 S 00:04:09 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -k start -DSSL
3.4 - 0 S 00:04:16 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -k start -DSSL
3.5 - 0 S 00:05:50 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -k start -DSSL
3.6 - 0 S 00:05:40 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -k start -DSSL
3.6 - 0 S 00:05:16 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -k start -DSSL
3.6 - 0 S 00:06:04 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -k start -DSSL
3.7 - 0 S 00:06:06 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -k start -DSSL
3.7 - 0 S 00:00:55 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -k start -DSSL
3.7 - 0 S 00:06:10 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -k start -DSSL
3.7 - 0 S 00:06:10 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -k start -DSSL
3.7 - 0 S 00:06:10 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -k start -DSSL
3.8 - 0 S 00:06:12 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -k start -DSSL
3.8 - 0 S 00:05:40 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -k start -DSSL
3.9 - 0 S 00:06:28 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -k start -DSSL
what happened not sure really, but asked volumedrive to reboot the machine like an hour ago and it has still not come online, anyone know or has experience with VD and how long it usually takes them to reboot machine? Or is there any outages anyone is aware that VD is facing right now ?
Damn i got some upset users already ready to shoot the bunny, baah this proxy hosting is kinda harder than one would imagine
Anyone have experience with this company? (Ecatel.nl / Ecatel.net / Ecatel Ltd)
On Pre-Sale the support reply to my tickets very very fast (even on weekend or at night).
After read a few topics here on wehostingtalk, today, at 14h ago i decided to rent the server and pay the bill, since that i dint have a single answer to my questions, i already try to contact suport 3 or 4 times.
This is my first dedicated server, could someone tell me if this is normal?
On ecatel.se (same company) I see a "Server ready 60 minutes after order" but as i say already pass 14h and nothing.
why I have long processes on these two? (time wise)
7712 named 15 0 40088 39M 1688 S 1.1 1.9 50:33 0 named
13 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.1 0.0 29:35 0 kjournald
iowait goes up and down too, along with server loads load average: 2.19, 2.76, 4.31
Do you think I need to change ext3 to ext2?
If so here's my fstab, which bits do I need to change?
LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults,usrquota 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/usr/tmpDSK /tmp ext3 defaults,noauto 0 0
/tmp /var/tmp ext3 defaults,bind,noauto 0 0
Or should I troubleshoot for something else? If so how/what should I do?
I have a few vps on different providers and I was shoring up my hostnames to make them more cohesive for the different servers.
I placed a request with a well-known, premium vps provider this morning at 9am EDT and am still awaiting them to complete the host name change. They came back immediately and said an admin would have to handle and then noting for hours. At approx 2p EDT, I asked for an update and I received a response at nearly 4pm EDT saying they were still waiting for their admin to get back.
Keep in mind this is a fully-managed, not cheap, vps with a very good rep here on wht.
Am I expecting too much?
I'd change it myself, but I'm unable to do so with virtuozzo.
I recently deployed an OpenBSD machine using pf to be a router/firewall for my home LAN, using NAT and sitting between our cable modem and our switch. It seems to work great.
But I just noticed an 'active' connection to a website... It's been open for 19 hours. 12KB of traffic has flowed over the connection, and the machine on the local end that initiated the connection is a laptop that's been offline for hours.
My question is twofold:
- Why hasn't this been dropped, after hours of inactivity?
- Short of restarting everything, is there a way to instruct PF to drop the connection / lose state information on it?
I was wondering if anyone can recommend any LI / NY area colo that offers competitive rates.
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Yes I know at this time the Taiwan problem exists, but this happens all the time year round, and fluctuates at very predictable amounts at various times of day.
I've got a 2.8 Dual Xenon with 2GB of ram. Taking a look at my "top" output I see the following:
Code:
18119 nobody 15 0 20812 20M 9764 S 0.8 0.9 0:05 0 httpd
3388 mysql 16 0 105M 97M 1908 S 0.7 4.8 95:08 1 mysqld
22225 nobody 15 0 18920 18M 9060 S 0.7 0.9 0:02 2 httpd
3391 mysql 16 0 105M 97M 1908 S 0.5 4.8 95:33 1 mysqld
13612 nobody 15 0 16872 16M 7192 S 0.4 0.8 0:05 3 httpd
21871 nobody 15 0 20712 19M 7768 S 0.4 0.9 0:02 2 httpd
I've got MySQL process running 95+ minutes. This isn't the first time it's happened.
I've seen it go as high as 120 minutes. The load average is 1.2. All my sites that use MySQL i.e. Wordpress blogs all run fine.
Looking at "MyTop" output everything looks normal:
Code:
MySQL on localhost (4.0.27-standard) up 37+01:40:24 [20:42:31]
Queries: 39.9M qps: 13 Slow: 211.0 Se/In/Up/De(%): 87/01/04/01
qps now: 9 Slow qps: 0.0 Threads: 20 ( 1/ 49) 64/04/09/09
Cache Hits: 27.5M Hits/s: 9.0 Hits now: 4.4 Ratio: 79.3% Ratio now: 73.3%
Key Efficiency: 100.0% Bps in/out: 571.7/961.9 Now in/out: 941.1/385.6k
Id User Host/IP DB Time Cmd Query or State
-- ---- ------- -- ---- --- ----------
1263533 root localhost mysql 0 Query show full processlist
1263663 gwz3phj_v localhost gwz3phj_va 8 Sleep
1262512 DELAYED gwz3phj_va 9 Delaye Waiting for INSERT
1263618 gwz3phj_v localhost gwz3phj_va 9 Sleep
1263658 gwz3phj_v localhost gwz3phj_va 15 Sleep
1263659 gwz3phj_v localhost gwz3phj_va 15 Sleep
1263617 gwz3phj_v localhost gwz3phj_va 22 Sleep
1263651 gwz3phj_v localhost gwz3phj_va 22 Sleep
1263642 gwz3phj_v localhost gwz3phj_va 37 Sleep
1263640 gwz3phj_v localhost gwz3phj_va 43 Sleep
1263636 gwz3phj_v localhost gwz3phj_va 52 Sleep
1263633 gwz3phj_v localhost gwz3phj_va 53 Sleep
1263630 gwz3phj_v localhost gwz3phj_va 55 Sleep
1263631 gwz3phj_v localhost gwz3phj_va 55 Sleep
1263624 gwz3phj_v localhost gwz3phj_va 74 Sleep
1263625 gwz3phj_v localhost gwz3phj_va 75 Sleep
1263623 gwz3phj_v localhost gwz3phj_va 78 Sleep
1263615 gwz3phj_v localhost gwz3phj_va 79 Sleep
1263621 gwz3phj_v localhost gwz3phj_va 85 Sleep
1263616 gwz3phj_v localhost gwz3phj_va 88 Sleep
Overall my server is running just fine but these odd long running MySQL process have me worried.
I am running phproxy on my dedicated server.
Sometime some process hangs for long.
I want to kill processes automatically when it takes more than 5 minutes.
And is there any tip you will share to optimize my server best for phproxy?
