Does anyone have input on either of these VPS hosts? Their plans are similar and prices are nearly identical, and I'm trying to figure out whether I should just flip a coin, or whether one edges the other out.
View 8 Repliesif anyone has insight or comments about Fusion-io's ioDRIVE versus their ioXtreme drive. If you do, I would appreciate reading your thoughts on this.
The ioDRIVE is their enterprise product while the ioXtreme drive is being marketed to the consumer market. Both seem to be extremely impressive products.
My main question is whether or not an ioXtreme is suitable for web server use. The ioDRIVE is made for server use and is much more expensive, so is not only a bit less attractive because of the cost but also a bit out of my reach, financially, at this point.
So, what do you think about the ioXtreme being used in a web server? Any reason that this might be a bad idea?
Would Intel's X25-E be a better solution than the ioXtreme? The ioXtreme is PCIe based & the X25-E is a SATA drive.
I have a 'complex' situation, if you will. The site I run has free access to a variety of server hardware. Sitting under my desk, I currently have:
1. Dual Xeon 5345 (quad core, 2.33GHz) with 8GB memory, mid-tower
2. Quad Opteron 8xx (dual core, 2.2GHz) with 16GB memory, 3U
3. Dual Xeon 5160 (dual core, 3GHz) with 4GB memory, mid-tower
We also have the appropriate licenses for Windows and MSSQL (which is what we use).
I am currently on a shared host that we'd like to move away from. We would like to have the ability to run both a production and a development environment. We'd also like to be able to offer web-hosting to a couple of other small sites...
So what I'm wondering is whether it really makes sense to colo. Honestly, it seems like we'll get a lot more bang for our buck versus dedicated. Most dedicated servers that are under 200 could only be described as sad and pathetic. However, they may be enough for what we need....
I am doing my mail and DNS through easycgi... and I wake up this morning to discover that I cannot access anything from them. Is anyone else able to access their website? or having similar hosting problems at the moment?
View 1 Replies View RelatedDoes anyone have experience with them? I am considering using their advanced hosting ($7/month). I am looking at real feedback before buying.
View 3 Replies View RelatedReview: EasyCGI - Worst Webhost Ever
I've been web designing for quite awhile now and been through a variety of webhosts, but never, ever, have I seen such a lack of caring or complete ineptitude that EasyCGI showed.
I was with them for quiet a few months, preparing the launch of my website. Mid October, I noticed how slow the website was... but since EasyCGI was announcing a server change, I stayed by them and hoped for the best. I launched my website November 1st.
Basically, since it's launch.. every few days, my website would go down.. I'd file a support ticket and magically it'd be fixed. This went on for the first few tries, until I figured out that the culprit was the MySQL database behind my website (using Joomla).
What was happening was every few days my database was getting overwritten with someone else's data... and in turn, I could go and browse their entire database (yes with credit card tables, usernames, ability to change passwords, the whole nine). I pointed this out to EasyCGI, where they admitted this was what was going on... and did not seem to care too much that someone else's database was compromised.
This overwriting of my database went on so long... that even my backups (backed up 3 days) were backed up with the wrong database... leaving any regular backups I downloaded from them, useless. Finally, my only hope? That they could retrieve a decent back up, an older backup, from the older server before they began to overwrite mine.
Their answer... they'd closed that server down and it was not possible.
They lost my entire website database, the core of the website.. meaning I had no functioning website, at all, on their server.
Their responses seem as though I'm not the only one, nor do they care that I'm the only one as well.
Posting this (along with attachments as proof below) so people can avoid them.
Attached Files
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US located VPS firm Tektonic is not workin today..
Their .net extension domain is expired.
This is unbeliveable. We have 40-45 domains had places their network (vps)
is there anyone know what happened to Tektonic ?
I cannot access them
Tektonic: Support Go Above giving my VPS a quick once-over to check for rootkits, and then pointing me to the place of infection.
If anyone's looking for a VPS, I'd definately recommend Tektonic for their prompt support, and willingness to go out of their way to help. It was well out of the scope of the support package that I have with them.Thanks Rocky, and thanks Tektonic!
I have a few questions about tektonic, I talked to their costumer service but maybe you guys out of experience can tell me a bit more.
Also if anyone knows of a XEM server that is located near Atlanta, that provides the same as TekTonic I would appreciate the info. and if anyone has one of those lifetime promo codes, that would be apprecialoved.
ok I plan to get 2 VPS from tektonic ( this is my top choice so far ) I want to have one 100% dedicated on the intranet for MYSQL, the other for apache and all the other stuff you know.
I also Need cpanel to move things around, so I need that one ( however someone told me I can buy a cpanel license separately )
ok I am going for the 294MB one for the Mysql and the 1178MB one for the apache and all that.
they say that they warantee the CPU 2.6GHZ on the 294MB one and 7.x GHZ on the 1178MB one, is this for real they really guarantee this CPU, or that's what you can burst.
the costumer service guy told me that CPU is guaranteed, and you can't burst, however they work on virtuosso and all virtuosso VPS I have worked do allow bursts, I would like to know from experience how fast are those servers processing, I mean for real.
because if I get 300MHZ of CPU and I can burst to 2.6GHZ, that would suck because I already have CPU intensive apps on my other VPS, and I plan to move.
I have been a happy customer of Tektonic for 2 years now. If you search my posts on WHT you will see that I have recommended them many times. That's all different now.
I use my VPS just for my personal email and a few *very* low traffic web sites that get only a few dozen hits a day at most. I am very experienced with Linux, and I know that for a barely used server w/o any control panel you really don't need much hardware: I have a 128MB plan and usually my memory usage was around 50-60MB. I never had any alerts in Virtuozzo about resources, and I was happy.
Earlier this week Tektonic sent me an email saying that my VPS would be migrated to a new server, and this would switch my virtualization method from Virtuozzo to OpenVZ. I have had OpenVZ VPSs before, and was not happy with their performance for small systems such as mine (which is one of the reasons I chose Tektonic). A few hours later my migration was complete and then the problems started.
My webmail kept giving me IMAP server errors. I logged in with SSH and couldn't even execute a single command because my VPS had reached its maximum process limit. I rebooted via the HyperVM control panel, and logged in again. My /proc/user_beancounters file lists the maximum number of processes as 50, which obviously isn't enough. So I disabled my Apache and MySQL servers, and now I can only use the VPS for email by logging in and using Pine.
I sent an email to support. In the past their support has responded within an hour, maybe 2. But this response took maybe 8 hours or more. They responded that I am trying to do too much with my plan, and I needed an upgrade...even though I have been using the same plan for 2 years with no problems! The problem is not me trying to do too much, it is them imposing artificial limits on my number of processes.
I replied and said I wanted to be moved back to a Virtuozzo server, since I never had any problems with it in 2 years, plus I NEVER ASKED TO BE MOVED TO OPENVZ ANYWAYS! It's been 36 hours since that email to support, and there has been no response. I sent a follow up about 18 hours ago, and no response to that either.
Sad to say that I will probably be leaving Tektonic. I have always had good things to say about them, but right now my VPS is practically unusable and they really don't seem to care one bit.
I feel like i made the mistake of signing up for a VPS host way too quickly and without good judgement.
I took the plunge and signed up for westhosts Summertime special deal which gave me this: $16.95 (x12 months) -free domain name - 25gig, 500gig transfer, pls all the goodies you can expect from a good plan but not. westhost.com/package-compare.html
They use a special control panel custom made as you may know called Site Manager. Its sorta limited really to install software they tailored for you.
The "root like access" is pure crap. but then again what would you expect? you can even run the top command.
It would have been better to go with shared with shell access!
I wont go deep into the issue; you can find my post on their forums:: forums.westhost.com/showthread.php?p=36727
What i want to know about today is this:
I found a company called TekTonic.net and they seem to have some good prices.
What i am confused about however is their UM1 (unmetered) vs their Linux-1 (Unmanaged) plans.
for example; in the Unmetered UM1 plan it says: 1.0 Mbit Unmetered (equiv. 320GB)
while for Unmanaged Linux-1 it says: Transfer Fully Burstable to 100Mbit
My question here is: for UM1. Is it really unmeterd and if so why does it say equiv to 320gb? .. then what does the "Transfer Fully Burstable to 100Mbit" mean?
also, what OS choice should i go with if i pick these guys? CentOS or Debian, Ubuntu? I know Ubuntu IS debian with crandy on top.
My budget isnt really high. I am trying not to go beyond $25 to a max of $28 per month).. and yes i do have my own domain!
Because my current VPS is so crappy, I'm considering changing to a new VPS and move my sites there. My sites are pretty low traffic, but they're in PHP and my MySQL DB is around 30 MB I think. I have two candidates:
www.turbovps.com (Unmetered or unmanaged $15 plan)
www.tektonic.com ($15.99 plan)
I've been with Tektonic now for 7 months - and they have to be the best VPS provider
I've used for higher end un-managed VPS'es.
Their support is very quick, and if I need quick questions answering, I know I can nip onto their live help pretty much any time of the day... I've never had a time where live help hasn't been available.
As I'm leaving TekTonic after having service with them for over a year (almost a year and a half), I figured I'd post a detailed review about that time spent with them.
At the beginning of last year, I decided that I wanted to move to a VPS instead of the shared reseller hosting I had with Dathorn at the time (had been with them for 4 years... excellent service by the way) as I wanted to try out some stuff that Dathorn didn't offer (e.g. Ruby on Rails, plus run a small Ventrilo server).
So, I began looking around and found TekTonic. Wasn't a big fan of the idea of unmetered bandwidth, but after inquiring about when they would begin to offer metered plans, I decided I would sign up for their "UM2" plan. When they did finally begin to offer the metered plans, I asked their support about switching my account over to a "LINUX-2" plan (basically equivalent to the "UM2" but metered instead of unmetered), they informed me that in order to switch, I would have to make a new account, order a metered plan, and then close my old unmetered plan account... not exactly my definition of "easy" as when I had initially asked about it on their forums, but not too big of a deal in the end.
Anyway, my new metered plan account went live on May 16, 2007.
Setup time was very quick for both the initial unmetered account and the new metered account. However, not even a few hours after receiving the "welcome" email for the metered account, I had to submit a ticket as my VPS became completely inaccessible. The support team responded 4 hours later and had to issue my VPS a new IP. Problem solved.
VPS plans with TekTonic come with the HPSComplete control panel, which offers a lot of functionality. I was pretty satisfied, even though I knew I wasn't going to touch the control panel much, as this was also partly an educational process for me (teaching myself how to set up a Linux server... I wanted to do mostly everything from scratch).
One feature I did know I was going to use was the "Server-Side Backing up and Restoring" feature in HSPC. If I screwed something up as part of the learning process, I could just restore a previous snapshot. Nice and easy.
So as the months went on, I had set up e-mail, DNS, HTTP, MySQL, PHP, Ruby, the free version of Ventrilo server, etc.
Around September or so, a couple friends who used the Ventrilo server had been complaining that quite often, it was unusable due to lag. Sometimes it would even completely die and they would be unable to reconnect. I was also getting a few people telling me that they had been unable to send me e-mails (only 1 or 2, but even still....). This wasn't a constant thing however... it would come and go, but usually once every 1-2 days anyway. I probably wouldn't have really noticed if it hadn't been for the Ventrilo server which people would use for some prolonged periods of time.
Anyway this continued on for quite a while, until I finally decided that this was getting ridiculous, and that I would ask support about it. The response was basically that they had suffered a DDoS attack recently... well that must have been a pretty long DDoS attack... anyway, the problem did seem to go away until a little while after the new year (2008). Same deal again, slow network speeds and occasionally completely losing connections. After a little more thorough investigation, it seemed I was getting about a 30% packet loss. Asked support again about it, and same deal yet again... DDoS attack.
In both cases however, I had to give credit to their support team, as tickets were answered very quickly, and the resolutions they implemented were done pretty quickly.
Not impressed that the problems happened in the first place... but well, **** happens I guess.
No other issues until April 26, 2008, when I receive an e-mail in my inbox detailing this little problem. This was basically "the end" for me. Not because their hardware crashed (as I said in the preceding paragraph... **** happens), but because of how it was handled on the support team end, and how it opened my eyes to the fact that the server-side backup feature in HSPC is not really that safe (though I was never told this, and there is no warning of any kind).
How was it handled by the support team and why would I have an issue with it? Well let's analyze the aftermath from my end:
I had been following the thread on the TekTonic forums where Matt was posting updates as they worked on the issue, and the day after he had posted a message saying that the VPS's on the server were starting back up, I noticed that mine had still not started back up. I figured that given that there was a serious issue with hardware crashing that they probably should have contacted everyone who's VPS was not booting back up. Guess they didn't agree. Anyway, I contacted support, and was told that some of the data in my VPS was corrupt. Specifically, the error my VPS was throwing was "Error: Unable to execute bash: No such file or directory. Container is unmounted. Container start failed". I was given the option to either merge an OS template into my VPS so it would boot, or just copy all the uncorrupted files from my VPS to a /old directory on a few OS template install. I chose the /old option. The following day, the reinstall and copy to /old was done, I looked at what files I was left with, and to my dismay, found an empty directory.
I will take this opportunity that at this point I realize this is my own fault for losing my data in the end, as I was not taking regular backups... in fact the only backups I had been taking were with the aforementioned server-side backup feature in HSPC.
However, I couldn't even login to HSPC as there was something wrong with my account yet again and had to contact support to fix the problem. Luckily it only took an hour. When it was finally fixed I started to feel in a much better mood when I looked in HSPC and still saw my last server-side backup still listed! Went to restore it, and nothing happened... no error message, nothing.
So... I sent in a support ticket! The response: .....
I am writing this Testimonial and review about tektonic because i am very happy with them here are some reasons :
1. Account setup In a minute
2. 50% Off first month
3. Creditcard or paypal payment
4. sales support friendly and helpfully
5. I have problem with a VPS payment and they refund it to me
6. Support ticket responded Less than Hours (working day)
7 Server Uptime Greatest i ever had
8. i almost never had problem on installing cpanel with in their VPS setting
Tektonic.net - This is a great host. They have excellent service and awesome uptime. The speeds are fast and you never need to worry. Also very cheap. They've only gone down once for me, and that was due to a DDoS attack. Domain: txitcs.com
VPSLand.com - Another good host. Excellent service, good uptime, very fast speeds, and very cheap. They were a little bit of a pain when I first registered with them, saying that it _could_ take 24-48 hours to create the VPS (which I know is BS) but it was done within a couple of hours so I didn't complain too much. Best bet for a good, cheap windows VPS host. IP Address: 65.75.252.33
joesdatacenter.com - Great webhost. Very awesome prices on dedicated servers. He doesn't have live chat, but he usually responds to emails within 10-15 minutes. Servers are fast, and so is the speed. Domain: thetestingdomain.com
godaddy.com - Overall they're not a bad web host. Customer service is definitely pretty good. Server speeds are a little slow at times. IP Address: 97.74.65.198
Kindly provide the Webhosting comparison between EasyCGI Hosting and WebFaction Hosting.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am getting into the dedicated server market and have a question...
I would like to get access to an entire Class C so 111.111.111.xxx - is that standard or should I assume someone offering a dedicated server with 1 IP only is giving say 111.111.111.1 ?
What would be the cost of being able to allocate different sites on the same class C?
We just recently were kind of forced to go from a true dedicated server to a VPS type server and my question is a simple one.
When it comes to SQL databases is the VPS powered server just a secure as a dedicated type server?
For a server with Xeon 3060 + 2 Gigs of RAM, which setup result would you choose to run at?
This is the normal load. At peak times, they would be more like:
Server Load: 0.07 / Memory Used 50%
Server Load: 0.40 / Memory Used 30%
Would a slightly higher CPU load be a better choice than having 50% of RAM used? We can choose either scenario based on installing eAccelerator, a PHP cacher.
I visited the colo space (1 cabinet) we obtained through an Equinix reseller. There was some confusion as initially we were going into DC2, but they put us into DC3 as that's where they had the space (they have a lot of cages in both DCs).
In the past, I had visited DC2 and it's clear the facility was purpose-built for Equinix. You can tell just by looking at it from the outside, but also inside.
Driving up to DC3 (on Chillum Place), I was first surprised to notice glass windows on the outside of the building (they have the reinforced walls inside of that I was told).
Apparently, the building was some other company's datacenter or offices, which Equinix then refitted their standard-build datacenter inside the building. They also have different man-traps (like a rotating door) compared to DC2, raised flooring (which is not used I was told), and lower ceilings.
I drove around the DC3 building, and the other half of it appears to be some other company's datacenter (based on the generators on the roof). Any idea who that is?
Is DC3 the same quality as DC2? It didn't quite "feel" like the quailty of DC2, but that's just an impression and not based on any empirical evidence. It's also a bit further out there, while DC2 and its new "siblings" (DC4/5) are all adjacent to each other (on Filigree Court).
With the reseller we are using, most of their bandwidth in DC3 cross-connects to their network equipment in DC2, and that's where they peer. That's another thing that makes me feel like DC3 is quite secondary.
Are my feelings unfounded, or should I push our reseller to find a cabinet for us in DC2?
I was wondering which location is better for colocation?
Is one better than the other as far as bandwidth, power or accessibility?
How much faster is a Raptor 74GB 10,000rpm compared to a Seagate 250GB SATA-II 7200rpm? Both are priced the same. I'm comtemplating on which one to use for a database..go for more storage or a faster drive.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI'm in the process of preparing to install CentOS 5 on my server, and was wondering whether most people recommend going with the 64bit version or sticking with 32bit. My server's CPU is 64-bit capable (Xeon 3060 at SoftLayer), and I have previously run CentOS 4.4 64bit on it, though I did have some struggles from time to time getting things to work (following setup guides that tend to assume 32bit more often than not).
I'll be running just a standard setup of PHP 5, MySQL 5, and Apache 2, powering several moderate-traffic sites that run on the Drupal CMS (e.g. about 7000-10000 visitors per day total, though hopefully more in the future of course). I don't plan on running a control panel other than Webmin, though I might get DirectAdmin or similar in the future to make hosting some friends/clients a bit simpler.
Will going with 64bit offer any worthwhile advantage with this setup?
I am having trouble working out which host to choose for a new project.
I usually opt for Webmania or Heart Internet - they are excellent providers but Webmania now applies a bandwidth cap that may be too low and Heart's cheapest package does not provide sub-domains. I can't be sure whether 12GB will be big enough for a site that will contain galleries of high-res images (I have no prior experience with caps and traffic predictions are impossible at this time) and to get sub-domains from Heart means a £90 per year package (too much).
Streamline is one of the few good-value providers that do not cap bandwidth, but I have concerns about the effect that this may have on server speed given that it is bound to attract the kind of sites that are really heavy on bandwidth. This point was mentioned in an article recently.
If I take the last option, will I be hampering the performance of my site?
I'm having a tough time finding a discernible difference between the 2810 and the 2848, beyond the $1k price premium on the 2848. Can anybody speak to the benefits of the 2848 over the 2810?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have a lot of experience with VPSs and recently have been working with dedicated servers but my partner and I are going to be providing VPSs and my main concern is securing the node the VPSs will be on. Would I secure it like a normal dedicated server?
I'm worried that if I secured it like I would my dedicated servers it would affect the VPS clients hosted on there. Any assistance is appreciated, even if it's just a recommendation for a management company or single user who could assist us.
price wise I could switch server.
Currently:
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6700 @ 2.66GHz
2 core
Ram: 2GB
to:
Harpertown E5405 2.0GHz
4GB
quad core
RAM: 4GB
I'm not sure the quad core runs with 2.0GHZ versus 2.66GHz.
CentOS 32 bit.
all sites currently on the 6700 using mysql, server load in WHM shows ~1 (2).. just full weekly backup pushes it over 4.
Would be nice if somebody could comment.. would be the E5405 with 2.0 GHz faster, worth switching?
Pentium 4 2.8 versus Core2Duo E2180
Both are 1U machines with 1G of memory, 2000G of bandwidth, 160Gb harddrives.
Is there a significant difference in cost between these two servers?
Is there a significant diffence in power consumption between the two?
Is there a signifcant difference in cooling between the two servers?
Is there a signifcant difference if rackspace requirements?
I have seen quite a few users stack all their desktops together in the datacentre racks instead of using rack mounted servers.
Actually between rack mounted servers and desktop servers (with the same motherboard and parts) which will be better in the racks and why?
I usually use APC power strips for 1U applications. I usually mount them in the hot aisle, with the outlets facing out (into the aisle).
But Tripp Lite has a few models that APC lacks (like a 1U 30A 120v with 24 5-15 outlets, or a 1U 208v 30A with both C13s and C19s).
Does anyone use the Tripp Lites, and if so, can the mounting ears be flipped around so that you can mount the outlets facing the aisle, flush with the rails?
Any other comments on relative features/quality between APC and Tripp Lite?