Slicehost Vs Ubiquityservers
Feb 9, 2009
I need a VPS server for a gaming server that requires an uber/good upload connection speed. Packet transfer speeds range from 4 Kbps to 40+ Kbps for each player and I have about 300 players on the server at any given time. RAM/Processor isn't that important just ~1 GB of RAM would be sufficient. I heard good reviews about slicehost and ubiquityservers and I'm having a tough decision on who to choose for my gaming server.
U's Infinity VPS and Slicehost's 1GB slice plan are the same price.
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Sep 23, 2007
Pacificrack seems have very good ping result from my country. It's just around 216ms all the time I tested, meanwhile some other central vendors ping results can go up to 330-400ms. I know it will add more because the location, but I would expect around 30-40ms only. So, the ping result from Pacificrack seems very good
Another vendor is Ubiquityservers. After searching, it seems a good vendor too. I am waiting for their LA IP for testing.
My concern is
- Pacificrack seems a new company. Is this real that they get huge bandwidth from many providers? Traceroute to their site give me the result to SPN network. However, from a thread here, Alex made traceroute, and his IP is inside oc3networks. From this [url], oc3networks seems not good at all. Is there anyone facing to issue with them?
- any idea about Ubiquityservers colo in LA infrastructure? How about their support policy? I am not in the US, and in different time zone, so I will need 24/7 support with staff in datacenter, not on-call
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Oct 24, 2008
itâs been about 8 months since I first started doing business with ubiquityservers.com so I thought Iâd give a review of my overall experience with them. Even though I did sell my GSP in the past few months (cannot disclose the company name due to NDA), I still do have one dedicated server and a VPS with them.
||Sales||
Before even speaking to any of their sales reps, I was impressed with the amount of locations they had and had already liked the reputation that the Mzima network had. Back in February I was looking to expand my GSP and was able to get in contact with Michael Gazzero, one of their sales representatives. Michael was able to answer every question I had regarding their different locations, prices, bandwidth and hardware they had available. Luckily around that time they were leasing out servers they had overstocked, so I was able to get a deal on an overstocked server setup in Dallas. As I expanded, Michael was very responsive in negotiating new deals for other locations and stayed past his clock-out several times just to help me out.
I also decided to get a VPS through them while their 55% deal was going on. There was an issue with getting cpanel/WHM properly setup, but it was still done within an acceptable time.
||Setup||
Mostly all of the servers I had to get setup through them were done within 48 hours of time with no problems at all. On one of them, there was an issue with the current hard drive that was in it so it took an extra day to get setup but their staff was very nice and understanding and compensated me for the extra time it took to get setup.
||Security||
Their staff took every precaution to protect my security as well as theirs. I did have an issue with one of my servers getting hacked into (which was my own fault for changing the pass they supplied me with to an easy pass that was then brute forced.) Their support staff instantly caught it, helped me secure it up and gave me some advice. This was done even though it was an unmanaged server. They also take every precaution to verify your information if you are requesting an important thing to be done which let me sleep a bit better at night.
||Support||
Their support is literally 24x7. Often times in the GSP business, you will find kids that will complain about a 10ms jump in ping. As much as I hated to, I called up Ubiquity a few times between the hours of 2am-5am regarding the ping jumps just to make sure there was no major issue happening within their network. Without even a grumble or a sigh, their support staff would look at the tracert my customer supplied me with and made sure to get in contact with the peer that they felt was the culprit. A few of the times it was fixed within the hour, and other times it was fixed within the next day. I know that some times companies do not have full control of where their network peers through once it gets local, but I was happy they at least attempted to point out the problem to the peer that was responsible.
||Uptime||
If there was any downtime, it was always my fault. But with just a simple submitting of a support ticket, it was back up in minutes.
Overall this is a great company to work with. I was happy to be able to work with just one company and have the availability of several locations. I wish I was able to keep running my GSP so that I could do even more business with them, but maybe in the future when I have the time to delve myself into another business endeavor, I will definitely purchase more servers through them.
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Nov 1, 2007
All my slices at slicehost and slicehost.com are down! any similar experience? anybody knows of a planned network outage?
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Jan 12, 2009
What experience do you guys have with slicehost?
It pretty much allows you to do whatever you want with a RAM limit, completely from scratch.
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Jul 15, 2008
I am wondering what the difference between Linode and Slicehost is they both seem pretty solid (However linode's real monthly billing is more appealing.)
Also when someone has a VPS (the cheapest (256mb ram...)) Do you find it easy to run your own Sql server and Memcached while running a webserver?
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Nov 19, 2007
My service at Slicehost recently got very slow so I don't think their network management is the best it could be. So I'm preparing to leave if it remains like this for anymore than a few days. Is there any VPS people could recommend with comparable service catered to developers with an active community and good connection speeds?
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Nov 11, 2008
I have been using DreamHost for several years and for the most part it has been a good experience. The price is cheap, you can host an unlimited number of sites, and I have not experienced much downtime.
But now that I am hosting a lot of sites based on WordPress, server performance has become an issue. It can take anywhere from 10 to 30 seconds for a site to appear in a browser. In comparison, the static HTML sites that I crank out in Dreamweaver pop up almost instantly.
I have done some research on companies offering virtual web servers and it appears that a lot of people like SliceHost. I am aware that I will now have to administer my own web server and no longer have the benefit of using c-panel. This doesn't scare me as I have been playing around with Linux and Apache since RedHat 4.0 and now use Ubuntu at work.
Before I sign up for a $20/monthly account at SliceHost, I am wondering if I will notice a significant performance difference between them and DreamHost? Has anyone on this forum ever made this switch and if so, did they think it was worth it?
Right now, I have about 25 domains on my DreamHost account that I will be moving over. About 12 of them are WordPress and I plan to eventually convert the remaining static sites over to either WordPress or Joomla. I also have about 12 sites on BlueHost that I would like to eventually transfer to the virtual hosting plan as well. So I will eventually be hosting about 40 sites. (As a side note, it seems that BlueHost's servers have a slight performance edge over DreamHost. But it doesn't seem to be that great.)
Obviously, the ultimate solution would be to get my own server at a co-location place like RackSpace, but right now, I don't want to spend the additional $$$ and want to become a better website admin before I make this jump.
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May 7, 2009
I have a Magentocommerce shoping cart presently hosted on a dedicated server (2.40GHz , 28 KB Cache celeron processor - 512 MB RAM) and the processor is running on full steam when customer accesses certain pages. This is because the shopping cart is processor intensive. I see that my MYSQL hogs the processor and am looking to VPS to provide me with more power for less cost.
I have slicehost and Linode on my list of VPS providers.
1.Linode offer only RAID-1 against Slichost's RAID-10. Does this matter that much? How do I decide on this?
2. From what I see, on VPS, a 256 MB plan would mean around 40 sites sharing the quad core processor which means, I would get worst case, 250MHz guaranteed from VPS provider. Will this still be better than my present celeron processor. I am unable to compare them.
3. I would like to hire someone reliable to get the VPS server installed with basic LAMP setup and extensions required for Magento. Will someone be able to help me on this? Where do I look for such a service?
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Sep 4, 2008
A friend and I both recently purchased VPS "slices" for various reasons. I joined linode.com and he joined slicehost, agreeing that we'd share opinions and experiences with each other to see which one was the better deal.
Up front, slicehost gives a better first impression - but that's subjective - so we were at first both inclined to buy from them. That's when we learned about linode through WHT.
We both got a low-end slice - he got the 256MB slice from slicehost, I got the 360MB slice from linode.
After about 2 months of service with both companies, I can definitely say that they've lived up to both their reputations. We haven't experienced any downtimes from either of them, performance has never felt sluggish (although the extra ram from linode certainly helps!), and support has been quick to respond from both companies.
I think the thing about our particular situation, though, is that we're both very familiar with linux systems, so apart from the initial set up phase where we wanted to make sure we got the right distro (CentOS 5 users here), we haven't heavily used either administrative web apps. Most of our access after day 1 has been ssh to our machines to install various components, mostly ruby, rails, mysql, rubygems, apache, and the rest of the web app stack.
For our situation, both these companies met expectations, and I give them a thumbs up to potential customers that are on the fence for whatever reason. That said, I'm giving the slight edge to linode, because you're getting basically the same service but with more RAM at the same price.
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May 6, 2008
I have a client that I would call my 'primary' client, and as such he gets some leeway with me. Sunday he called and wants some new business venture of theirs to have a preliminary site up by Thursday so they can sell the idea to their initial prospects.
All fine & dandy. Now the present issue is that this morning he decided that it's time to get a new/different webhost for this venture. A bit of background...
Now this client has close to a dozen websites spread out over various hosting facilities that he's randomly found over the years. Ie, he's the sort that will pick the first or 2nd google result and call to give credit card details and let whoever is doing his IT at the time sort it out from there. So at this point he's got close to a dozen different sites (mostly focused around 4-5 business that revolve around their 'core' business) spread out all over, and it's a pain to administrate when issues arise.
Needless to say the randomness with which he does his IT decisions (he doesn't understand that web hosting isn't the same as buying off the shelf software for MS os's) is part of the reason for the randomess of the results he's gotten. I've slowly taken over more & more of the out-of-office IT related activities for their companies as a result, and have at least kept things stable the last year or so.
So for this new venture they're doing, I also want to get hosting I can eventually move all of his sites to (over the next couple of months). I think what I want for him is something equivalent to a reseller account somewhere that offers good support and acceptable uptime, because none of his sites generate incredible traffic counts or bandwidth counts, but it sure would be nice to have them consolidated into a single location that I can administrate them from. Most of the smaller sites can be moved as easily as ftp'ing things into place, doing a bit of quick database work and then moving dns, but one or two sites have enough traffic and custom rolled php so that will take a bit longer.
So the difficulty comes because I need to find something by this evening, get it up & running with a domain currently registered (dns) at godaddy, and have it be something I can migrate the rest of his sites to over the next 2-3 months. I do *not* have an LLC for my personal business so I don't want to resell hosting to him (I'm assuming that the liability isn't worth it for my dba status) but I do want to find something we can have dozens (maybe 50 eventually?) of sites hosted under. Typically I see this advertised by hosting companies as reseller accounts.
And I'm relying on info gathered here to supplant my decision making, as I did my last round of looking into hosts several months back and garnered a short list that I can't post here because of my new account status. So I'll just name them:
wiredtree
rackspace
slicehost
joyent
(these next 3 I have reseller hosting specifics from)
mosso
a2hosting
mediatemple
bravenet
dreamhost
More or less in the order that I perceived them to be at the time. Mosso is one of the ones that specifically lists reseller hosting, but I'm reading mixed things about them here and elsewhere on the net. Wiredtree looks interesting, but I'm not trying to move his sites to a single facility with independant plans per site,
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