Is Rapidswitch Any Good
Feb 28, 20081) Is rapidswitch any good? How is the support?
2) How are there speeds from USA and Asia?
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Review Of RapidSwitch
Feb 3, 2009I don't normal right review's about Hosting Companies, and if I do I don't write them so soon, but what I have just expirenced has made me want to write up a review.
I was looking at getting another VPS for a small project, a while ago had some Servers at RapidSwitch and Noticed they now sold VPS server's, so sent off a Sales email.
Sent Sales Email 12:06 GMT
Recieved Reply 12:34 GMT
Sent Reply Email 12:36 GMT
Recieved Reply 13:03 GMT
Ordered VPS at 13:09
Recieved Account Activation email 13:10
Recieved Invoice Email 13:11
Paid Invoice 13:12
Recieve Account details / IP's /SSH info 13:13 and loged straight in to SSH.
The VPS is fast!, ssh conect's in second's ping in the 30ms from the UK, Sent one support ticket so far, recieved a reply in under 10 minute's.
There VPS control planel, built into their MyServer control panel let's you do everything you need to, request Ip's Reboot VPS, Reinstall VPS, Reverse DNS.
If they continue like this, Im defintly going to grow into their Dedicated Server's again as my Website Requires.
Poundhost Vs Rapidswitch
Feb 1, 2009Rapidswitch has their VZ(?) offering, while Poundhost has VMware, with Windows for free too.
Which one would you guys rather use/is more stable/etc?
Rapidswitch Network
Oct 16, 2009my site hosted with rapidswitch
but i have a problem with them
i work on my site... and suddenly i can;t access cpanel whm shh2 all of them
when i made tracert to my site
it gives me the following
Code:
1 30 ms 143 ms 56 ms 10.0.0.138
2 35 ms 7 ms 7 ms ASHAMS-R01C-C-EG [163.121.170.168]
3 69 ms 67 ms 81 ms host-163.121.197.234.tedata.net [163.121.197.234
]
4 117 ms 16 ms 9 ms host-163.121.183.137.tedata.net [163.121.183.137
]
5 9 ms 8 ms 8 ms host-163.121.184.209.tedata.net [163.121.184.209
]
6 9 ms 9 ms 9 ms host-163.121.186.253.tedata.net [163.121.186.253
]
7 44 ms 66 ms 66 ms host-163.121.202.129.tedata.net [163.121.202.129
]
8 308 ms 251 ms 188 ms pal5-telecom-egypt-1.pal.seabone.net [213.144.18
1.73]
9 86 ms 85 ms 86 ms mil52-mil26-racc2.mil.seabone.net [195.22.196.18
3]
10 86 ms 86 ms 86 ms ge-0-0-0-0.mil19.ip4.tinet.net [213.200.68.145]
11 91 ms 130 ms 124 ms xe-7-3-0.lon20.ip4.tinet.net [89.149.187.218]
12 91 ms 106 ms 91 ms rapidswitch-gw1.ip4.tinet.net [213.200.79.210]
13 * * * Request timed out.
14 * * * Request timed out.
15 * * * Request timed out.
16 * * * Request timed out.
....
30 * * * Request timed out.
what is the problem ?
after that site return after 10 minutes
it happened 3 times with me today
it happens with more than one people
how can i check it ?
or have i to change the hosting company ?
RapidSwitch Server
Dec 9, 2008setting up dns, if you have a server with RapidSwitch, have Msn and would like to earn $15.
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Jun 29, 2008Our servers @ RS seam to have gone down, posted a ticket but no response as yet, their phone number seams to be dead!
Anyone around who hosts with them having any problems atm... Their website is up just the servers are not....
Rapidswitch Network
Sep 29, 2008I am currently a technical adviser to a large internet radio station. We are currently able to push over 200mbps+ per day and are always looking for good deals. I see rapidswitch has some good rates on 100mbps unmetered connections and was wondering how their worldwide connections are?
Also, I can't find a network map or test IP, anyone know where one may be?
Rapidswitch (49pence)
Jan 19, 2008provider of dedicated servers in europe, I have seen talk about Rapidswitch/49Pence on many occasions but I want know if it can be considered a good and safe option to use their servers for webhosting.
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Jan 1, 2009We're expanding our services to the UK and Canada. We choose RapidSwitch for our UK based servers. So far, the experience has been superb!
They setup the server less than a day and everything is just very smooth. I asked to register a Reverse DNS and it was done very fast as well.
Excellent service. I would highly recommend them if you are looking for a UK based dedicated server.
I am also setting up servers with iWeb for our Canadian server, I would say things are going manually over at iWeb. It takes a while for them to prepare setup the server.
Maybe since I ordered it during the holidays. I ordered the server at Dec 29, and I think the server won't be ready any sooner than Jan 2.
I hope after sales support won't take this long with iWeb.
I would also like to receive feedback if you can recommend us a good Canadian dedicated server provider.
RapidSwitch 7 Month Review
Apr 17, 2009I'd just like to share the experience I've had with RapidSwitch over the past 7 months.
I ordered a dedicated server with them at around 10am on a Monday morning. At around 11.30am I received an email to tell me that my server was currently being set up by one of their technicians. I was surprised to get an email within a couple of hours after ordering saying it was being set up. The setup took around an hour at the most, this included them installing cPanel for me and having it licensed.
Since that day, I've had no problems caused by them. If I ever request an upgrade they do it at a time to suit me, not themselves. I've had upgrades done at 1am in the morning with full updates to let me know how it's progressing.
As for support, although they offer unmanaged dedicated servers, I've always been able to get help with most problems. Today I had a problem where I needed a reboot every few minutes due to a client overloading the server. I don't think their reboot system is automated yet, but they didn't mind helping me resolve my problems by constantly rebooting the server.
Since moving to RapidSwitch, their network has been excellent. The only downtime was to do some upgrades to their routers and even that was only for approx 10 minutes at the most. I also regularly get emails telling me how fast clients can upload and download from the server, they're amazed at the speed and can't believe it sometimes.
To sum it all up, here's the reasons I love RapidSwitch:
- Very fast and reliable network.
- Excellent support.
- No problems.
I'm sure I've made some mistakes somewhere, but it's 2AM and I've had no sleep yet, but I would recommend RapidSwitch to anyone that requires a dedicated server.
Mistake Moving From Poundhost To Rapidswitch??
Sep 25, 2009I fear i've made a terrible mistake.
I'm currently a Poundhost customer and have been very happy with the service - my server has never been down yet and i've never had to contact them since setting the server up - it just works.
However, i've recently been offered a much better deal from Rapidswitch - a better server for quite a bit cheaper which as a personal customer with no budget makes a big difference.
I did think twice about moving from a provider I was happy with but have heard good things about Rapidswitch and their control panel is much better.
However, since placing my order it seems all they've had is network problems - they were completely down for hours last night, have had problems all day and are now down again. To boot, they said my server would be built in 24hrs and probably less but it's now nearly 30hrs and hasn't been built yet.
I'm really surprised and shocked that such a big provider with a good reputation has a single point of failure like this and doesn't have redundancy built in as well as hot swap spares and even spares from another provider.
It also seems their site and phone system are on the same backbone so that all went down too (and seems their monitoring is within their network so that doesn't register most of the outages).
Have I made a terrible mistake and this is the new Rapidswitch now it's been bought out or do you think it's just a bad week and they will get themselves sorted out and will return to 100% uptime?
Thoughts?
Rapidswitch Slices Bandwidth Allowance
Apr 24, 2008Just noticed Rapidswitch have increased their prices while slashing their bandwidth allowances from 10tb to 4000gb.
Anyone else still trying to offer 10tb servers at a ridiculously low price?
Our Experience With RapidSwitch Managed Rack Hosting
Oct 21, 2009About us first, we do cPanel shared hosting and also (however you want to put it) fully-managed proactively monitored dedicated hosting - due to this we need access to our equipment all the time so we host it locally.
Ed from RapidSwitch contacted us via live chat on our website at the start of September to introduce the company, he offered us a rack from £650/mo, mentioned we could take it upto 32A power (obviously not for that price!).
We're based in Maidenhead (in the town centre), 5 minutes walk from RapidSwitch and 5 minutes drive from BlueSquare, as we use power-hungry Dell PowerEdges and the DC is closer to us we thought we'd have a look.
We arranged a tour. On the tour we were told about their dual diverse dark fibre, diverse power, how their staff support cPanel, how the rack would be fully managed by them but we'd be able to pop in anytime to do work, how they'd let us move in our kit during the night, sounded great.
The following day the whole Poundhost vs RapidSwitch thing went down, soon after RapidSwitch themselves went down too, which was slightly worrying.
We moved in, or tried to First time we asked for DC access it took 1 ticket, a wait of 60+ mins, then an angry phone call from me to get it sorted out, it was sorted out for the following day -- okay, strange? We moved in the next day.
Some days later we decided to move some of our live kit at BlueSquare over to RS for the evening.
4pm - I open ticket saying I need access to rack some live servers as per our verbal agreement when I signed up, and I get a reply saying No, as they don't accept hardware or visitors outside the hours of 8am - 8pm Monday to Friday.
4:30pm - I phone Randeep (sales guy) and talk to him, he talks to a Manager, arranges an exception, says a note will be put in my account regarding tonight and the other server moves we had discussed before I signed the contract.
4:50pm - I follow up this ticket to make sure they're ready.
8pm - Again, I follow up this ticket to make sure they're ready.
8:45pm - I arrive at BSQ after having sent them one ticket.
9:05pm - I leave BSQ after going through security, meeting a BSQ tech, unracking a box from BSQ1 and BSQ3, signing documentation, etc.
9:15pm - I arrive at RapidSwitch, no one answers the buzzer, so I phone. A member of technical staff (seems friendly, etc) takes my hardware, I ask "Can you rack this immediately?", I am told "No we're really busy", I mention that I had arranged this earlier, he replies "Well I wish they had told us!!!", I am then told "Management always arrange maintenance tasks at the same time and never think of the fu****g monkeys (he said this!!) that actually have to do the work, there is no communication at all"... He then goes on to talk about only 2-3 people being on shift in the evenings, how they have too much work, etc. I ask "Can it be done in the next hour?". Am told "Uhhhhh I'll try but Ive got a mountain of jobs to do". Tech then walks off with the servers, forgetting to take the rails, network cables and power cables. I mention this to him, he says "Oh, I'm not used to this Managed Rack malarkey". He then says "I'll update your ticket to say we took delivery of your hardware".
9:28pm - I drive off.
9:34pm - I arrive at my office, no ticket update. I wait around a bit and reply to the ticket asking if it can please be done ASAP. No reply, I then phone and ask what the deal is, am told on the phone "ohh we'll do it in 10-15minutes, when (unaudible) comes back, but usually colo orders are racked within 48hrs, we're really busy!" (so basically am told that what I'm asking isn't acceptable and they're too busy to cope -- not what you want to hear from someone who's supposed to be managing your hardware)
9:50pm - I phone up and ask what the hold up is. Am told your staff are too busy still, am also told that servers are racked within 48hrs of delivery. (So, basically I'm pushing my luck).
10:27pm - I get a reply saying your staff will do it as soon as they've finished their current jobs.
10:40pm - By this time I am getting customers shouting at me as this is taking too long, too right! I sternly reply to the ticket asking again to please rack them, once again explaining my situation.
10:49pm - I get a reply saying the servers will be racked as your tech has finished his other jobs.
11:08pm - I get a reply saying the servers have been racked but not plugged in, asking how I want them cabled - fair question, if not a bit obvious.
11:20pm - Servers are pinging
11:25pm - I have reconfigured the servers to work on the new IP range, so my job is complete, I then emailed them back asking if they're cPanel trained - turns out they aren't, although some members of their team might know bits and pieces - not what I was told on the tour, not useful to me at all.
I had a think about it over the weekend -- I wondered, if we can now only access our equipment 8am-8pm Mon-Fri (30% of each week) and they won't even allow a Dell engineer in out of hours, plus their staff are too busy to handle our requests in a timely manner -- what do we do if something goes wrong?
Worst case scenario is if a server physically broke at 5pm on a Friday and we didn't have the necessary spare part. We have 4hr SLA with Dell so they'd arrive at RS at 9pm but not be allowed in until 8am on Monday.
I decided it would be unwise for us to use a data centre which only allows us access to the building for 30% of the week and we should have been told before we signed our contract that we'd only be allowed in during those times. Being told their staff were cPanel trained bugged me too, especially if what they're selling me is a 'Managed' rack.
I wrote a long ranty email to them to nullify the contract, Paul Tacey-Green phoned me, we had a chat, he said they'd change the access time rules (but he hasn't yet), he mentioned that 2/4 of their staff on that shift had taken the night off sick and offered me some time free to show their commitment, I wasn't interested, I got the contract nullified and arranged to get out of there.
I then called BlueSquare, they provisioned a new rack, got me a new IP range sorted and assured they'd help with whatever I needed.
Getting out of there was interesting, a week later I opened a ticket to go there 19:30 one night, they made an exception to allow myself and a member of my staff in at the same time (only one visitor on DC floor allowed usually as their racks aren't secure).
We got in there really quickly, the tech guy was nice. (But there seemed only to be 2 techs on site, Paul, on the phone told me there should be 4 during night shift) Anyway, we get to our rack and find the servers they'd racked the previous week weren't done properly, firstly they'd randomly been racked in the middle of the rack rather than on top of the existing ones (at the bottom of the rack), and then, quite scarily/hilariously, the bottom one they'd racked (in the middle of the rack), the rails weren't put in at the back, so it was defying gravity and mysteriously HANGING at about a 15 degree angle in the rack!
We packed up our stuff as fast as possible, got out of there. We got into BlueSquare 10mins later, by the time we reached the door there were already BlueSquare techs waiting for us! They immediately took all our equipment out the back of my car and put it next to the rack so we could get it all installed.
Anyway, I thought I'd just share my experience of RapidSwitch - Im sure they have lots of happy customers. I'm just happy we got out of there before we moved in too much kit. I couldn't handle the thought of giving them another chance, them failing and us being forced to move out some busy shared servers at 7:30pm one night! We'll be staying at BlueSquare from now on.
RapidSwitch " Warning Very Important Non-trusted
Oct 27, 2009i toke 3 servers from RapidSwitch , 2 runing from 3 month and one vps yasterday ,
today many one of customers calling me the servers not working !
so i open ticket in rapidswitch to tell them there is problem for one server not working from ssh , they told me we will check it ,
after this is update i see onther ticket open from them sys :
====================================================
Hi,
We have had to suspend your servers because you have not entered a correct address. It is part of our contract that you always enter a working address, please update this as soon as possible - when you have done so we can unsuspend the servers.
Regards,
Ed
RapidSwitch
=================================================
the right way is datacenter or company contact customer first or suspend all servers first
also i updated them and there is no reply from one hour
what the correct way to raise the issue of this company?
and how can get my date from them
Alternative To RAPIDSWITCH - Or Any Provider With Burst Bandwith Beyond 100mbit
Mar 27, 2008I have specific request.
I have client that use around 6-8 TB per month of traffic (nothing unusual really).
The issue is that, at some short hours per week (twice or less per week) - burst goes to 90 Mbit. So basicly, I need a solution, where in near future, if need it - burst can go all the way up to 130-150 Mbit when need it.
Any Gbit providers I seen, they usual say like speed will be around 80mbit or so - and that makes no difference.
I did check RAPIDSWITCH, and in all aspect they ar great (nothing
to complain) - but the offer they have with 10TB data, is good only unless you pass 10TB at some point.
After that, 1 TB of data is $200 or so (depens on exchange rate of $).
At the moment, 10TB of data transfer should be enough but if by some chance, it goes beyond that, it will incresse the cost alot.
Hosted content is pure FLV files, normal videos, nothing special.
My budget is in normal range, but still the less is better.
I will take any suggestion on this, or if someone can push me in some direction (company or point of contat).
List Of Good Hosters With Good TELEPHONE Tech Support
May 6, 2008I'd like to start an ongoing thread here listing the 'Good Hosters with Good TELEPHONE tech support'. In other words, out of the 1,000s of host companies, this may cut it down to less than a dozen.
( And for all you Hosters out there who really want your company to grow, and want to know how, - it's easy: just read here.)
Good telephone support is the #1 ultimate requirement, because:
-It's a lot faster and easier for both the user and the host company, because you can state and answer all questions and clarifications on the spot, you don't need to continually pass new emails with new questions and clarifications, back and forth for days on end, until the issue is solved. It saves tech time and user's time. And saves a lot of nerves.
- It's the best way to sort the good guys from the bad. A bad company isn't going to bother to answer the phone, - or will make you wait way too long, - because they are likely getting endless complaints. The good guys are always ready to answer the phones, with a friendly voice, - because they really WANT to please the customer.
- If a company can't be bothered to pick up the phone, we can't be bothered to even consider them. They're a joke, and so won't be listed here on this thread. (So, before adding or listing any Hosters here, please verfify that they do have Good, quick, friendly, telephone support,; ideally 24/7, but 9am to 10pm might be acceptable, if it was supplemented by some emergency contact.
AND:
- Hoster ALSO needs good EMAIL support (and preferably, Chat online, extended hour availability). (I spend a lot of time overseas). It sems all emails should get a non-automated response within about an hour, - and then support should jump on fixing any problem.
I only need support a few times a year. To answer some questions, or fix a problem, or do an install. That's lesss than 1 hour total, so any company paying maybe $18/hour tech support should be able to handle this. It IS reasonable to charge a custm for extended calls, beyond say, 90minutes a year, IF you don't count the 80%? Of times an issue is the Hoster;s fault of stmg gone wrong, and don't count the 'hold' times.
ALSO IMPORTANT:
- Uptime
- site Speeds
- Monthly plans, no contract (Only a dishonest host will try to force you into a contract, where they can then ignore you.)
- Reasonable price. (? Maybe $12 to $18/month for a basic business site. We don't need massive bandwitdths, - we all know that's an overselling scam, and can't ever be delivered.)
- a good upgrade plan of bigger options. Maybe even VPS.
- Dedicated IP, and availbility of SSL
-PHP 5, mysql, phpMyAdmin, etc
- cPanel ( Some Hosts are using problematic panels, like Hsphere, which are slow to load, slow in operation, require many more clicks, have too many options, spread apart on many separate pages. Time is money, and this really slows down the ability of a small business to manage his own site in effective time. For example, one WHT user wrote somewhere: "I don't feel that HSphere's interface is nice at all, although I have worked with cPanel and DA all my life... I just found it to include un-necessary features or split features up in to different hard to find pages, such as backups - mysql backups you had to find on a completely different page than file backups, and then there were options to have it in the home directory or server-end backup, in which then you had to wait a good 10 minutes before it was ready. cPanel, just hit backup and hit download and instantly it does everything you need...".
I have used several hosters. Currently on Aplus.net and Godad, which have phone support, and mediocre service.
My LIST So Far:
- Liquidweb: a very impressive company with good, 24 hour support. But to get dedicated IP, you need to go with their $25/month plan. Yikes!
- NewIdeaHosting.com. A very small company. My call was returned, and the owner chatted with me for an hour on the phone! Plans have small bandwidth, but promises No overselling, and personalized attention. Extra $5 for dedi IP. He specializes in Small business sites, and small eCommerce sites. He has only 250 accounts, on 3 servers. He rents servers from the Equinox data center of Chicago. Seems exceptionaly honest.
- MegaHosters. Excellent phone support and WHT reviews. But company was taken over by another company, and so may well go downhill in future. Another problem: uses Hsphere.
- Steadfast. Has a good rep on WHT, and seems impressive. Tech answered the phone immediately, but they say they prefer emails. Sales phone has limited hours. Good price on $20 SSL. But, uses Hshhere.
- JodoHost 24 hour phone. But, uses Hsphere. An Indian company with office in Florida, and good rep. I like the idea of outsourcing phone support, if it makes it more available and affordable. But, the accent on the phone was very hard for me to understand, so maybe this might not work.....
- Hostgator. Yes, it's a big overseller, but seems to get good reviews/results anyway, and good phone support.
- ? ThePrimeHost ?? Mostly good WHT reviews; some dissenters. Site says 24hour phone, but when I called on several nights, no one ever answered...
- Can anyone add to this list? Please list only hosts that meet the above minimum requirements of phone support, etc. Especially useful is hosters you've tried.
TO AVOID:
- Avoid Arvixe. I had a horrid experience with them, here: [WHT forum]:/showthread.php?p=5097822#post5097822
- Avoid WebHostingBuzz. This company never returned my phone msessage inquiries.
Good Avocado Really Good
Oct 20, 2008Any experience with Good Avocado and their reseller plan?
What about Thinkhost, good avocado is partnering with?
Wind and solar energy, it sounds all good, the reseller plan is awesome.
Any real life experience?
Good UK VPS
Dec 1, 2008I have dedicated servers - which are overkill as I only host 10 sites (small). I am now looking to move to a VPS solution and would like to know if anyone can recommend a good UK company (that offers true UK hosting) with good uptime and support?
Cpanel and Unix VPS, but may also require windows vps - so a company that offers both will be beneficial, but long term view to migrate over to Linux
The Ny Noc - Good Or Bad
Apr 14, 2008does anyone have any views of The NY Noc they could share with me, before I shift my site over there (and hope for the best) ?
I know they've been around a while, but I heard some bad stuff about their VPS servers,
I want to make sure I'm going for some good hosting..
How Good Is 128 MBs VPS
Jun 7, 2007my web site has about 4,000 pageviews and currently working fine on shared host. i plan to build a forum to support my products. i just want to know if the 128 MBs VPS is good plan for my web site?
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40 GB Disk Space
Fairshare of a Dual Xeon/Opteron CPU
512 MB Dedicated RAM
2 GB Burstable RAM
750 GB Premium Transfer
Fully Managed
I have about 10 sites that run straight HTML and 5 WordPress low traffic sites (which obviously use a database). Will the server above support my needs adequately?
Cheap Vps Is Good?
Aug 22, 2008Is cheapvps a good provider for cheap vps'?
I searched and didn't find anything.
LunarPages VPS Good Or Bad?
Jun 1, 2007I need managed services since I don't know anything about server maintenance and I saw LunarHosts VPS (http://www.lunarpages.com/virtual-private-server/)
The deal sounds pretty good - 1000 GB Bandwidth, 20 GB Space, PHP, MySQL and managed services for $50 a month.
I wanted to know if anybody has tried them out? Are they good? Is their a better value anywhere else?
Is GoDaddy Any Good?
Sep 5, 2008is GoDaddy any good?
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Aug 24, 2009I was looking for a webhost with adwords credit, and cheap.
When I went to Bluehost and Hostgator, the more well-known sites they had $50 adwords credit each but couldn't get their price down to less than 58$ a year. With Fatcow seems to be $44 a year and also have $50 adwords credit.
Does somebody know their reliability? I was searching google and the host seems to be a new person in town and that might be a problem.
Preferably I was searching for $20 a year webplans but I can't seem to find one with adwords credit. I want to use the adwords to drive quick traffic to a new site. I am not sure should I go for the adwords credit+ hosting or hosting seperate + adwords seperate. The keywords I'm gonna use only have 1,000-10,000 max visitors a month. If the credit is only valid for a limited time than I'd maybe better off with a both seperate.
Softlayer Any Good?
Aug 14, 2008i want to know if softlayer will fit my needs?
1) i want to use svn
2) i will only host about 3 small-ish sites with images and maybe one cast-control.
has any used them and what is there up-time like.
Where To Get Good Shelves
May 11, 2009Anyone know where to get decently priced shelves for racks? looking to purchase 10-20 of them.
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Good Resources For EC2
Jun 25, 2009After speaking to a colleague about some major benefits of EC2 for on-demand hosting I've been very interested in learning more.
I've spent the past 2 evenings trolling through Amazon Doc's and blog posts and have a fair assessment about how things work but I'm at a stopping point.
There doesn't seem to be a dedicated EC2 area here on Sitepoint and the Amazon EC2 forums seem geared more towards 'advanced' users.
Are there any reliable communities that are more for the beginner?
I've got a LAMP webserver Instance running on EC2 but I'm very unclear about how to login and begin adding files and managing the data. I'm sure it's pretty simple but the documentation pretty much loses me when they start discussing Security Groups and public/private keys.
I'm not much of a server admin but have grown pretty comfortable on our FC4 dedicated boxes that we currently host on.