VistaPages Web Hosting "Highly Recommend Them"
Apr 2, 2008
I wanted to share a little about my experience with VistaPages Web Hosting. I have a wonderful experience with them as a client, I started a new website last year and searched for a server host for the site and I came accross VistaPages and I am so happy I did. Their service is by far the best I have experienced so far, they really care about their customers, very professional. I ran into a little problem with the script I purchased from another Company for the website, they wanted to charge me again for a reinstall and I didn't really want to do that, so I contacted VistaPages about the problem I had with the website's script and told them that they wanted to charge me again, to my surprise VistaPages went out of their way and reinstalled the script for me at no cost, I couldn't believe they would do that for me but they did, they really care about their customers. The support staff always respond quickly and take care of any problems that arise. They are very courteous, professional, and most importantly very caring to your needs and concerns. One of the most important features of a web hosting company is their knowledge, VistaPages is the best that is out there, they really know all the aspects that is required of a web hosting company. I just started another website and I contacted them immediately to host the new site, with VistaPages hosting your websites you can;t help but have success! I would highly recommend them as a web hosting company for your websites.
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May 30, 2008
i want know if everyone used them?How about their uptime etc?
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Jul 1, 2008
A while back I signed up for Vistapages.com PH-100 hosting, supposed to be virtually partitioned server, but fully managed. I started using it, and it was ok, nothing facny, a decent server, i even checked "myipneighbors" to see who else was hosted on the server, and i was the only one! Well, i developed my site and launched it, ... and now my sites dead. We were getting GOOD traffic and the server is down and has been down for a while, i tried their online chat, NO OPERATOR ANSWERS, ever, and im not about to try calling, they'll put me on hold for about 20 minutes. And if someone does get on live support they just tell me to open a support ticket.
So we're losing a bit of money because the people at vistapages decided it would be great to give me a ****** server that im also paying 50usd a month from, i know people on shared hosting with a lot better service and a much faster site.
im so damn close to dropping this joke of a hosting company, im not asking for much here, im asking for a FUNCTIONAL server, not looking for the best high end server just one that works, its been down when most people visit the damn site to, evening-night. so this is just great..
and when the server is working, takes bout a minute to load the first page. we get frequent downtime, this is such a waste of money and time.
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Apr 2, 2008
I am an administrator of ialumno.com a spanish NGO to promote the use of Tablet PCs in education.
Yesterday I received an email from one of the guys in Vistapages telling me that they are going to suspend my account because my Joomla software is too heavy to be hosted. And say that I must upgrade to an 49 dollar account, way out of our little budget.
I am not happy of that. I have no intention to drag down other users websites. I do not know what legal options do I have. Because they canŽt just suspend you on no basis and on no aid from their admins. please tell me what I have to do. I just need some aid or IŽll think this as a way to force us pay more money.
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Oct 20, 2009
I have recently built my first database application.I used SQL Server 2005 Express edition because it is free. The drawback is that it can only hold 4GB of data. But the database is also compatible with any SQL Server edition.
I'm wondering what my options are - a lot of hosting companies seem to offer a greater storage capacity and then limit the actual size of the SQl database. i.e. 10GB of online diskspace with a 600MB SQL database.
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Jan 2, 2008
can any one recommend me a uk hosting company.
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Feb 11, 2008
Basically my requirements is as followed.
2 Accounts needed.
- Outlook Web Access
- Outlook Access (On the PC itself)
- 1 GB minimum per account
- only 1 account require blackberry sync.
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Oct 6, 2008
There are diverse salespeople who sell my wife's artistic services and those of other photographers like her. They are looking to replace their currently self-hosted calendaring system with a hosted service. Can anyone here recommend one or a place for me to look? Here are some of the features I imagine they are looking for:
1) Individual calendars by photographer.
2) Easy color coding of items on the photographer calendar. They color code based on which salesperson found the job and if the job has a hold or a confirmed status.
3) Integration with iCal on the Mac. At a minimum, iCal users should be able to subscribe to calendars on the service.
4) Various levels of security. All salespeople should be able to update all photographers' calendars. Individual photographers should be able to see only their calendars and may (or may not) have permission to change them (this is determined on an individual photographer basis)).
5) Reliability. This is at the heart of their operation.
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Jun 3, 2008
I ideally want to use Fasthosts as the hosting provider, on a shared hosting account. Are there any CMS's that install and work well in such an environment?
I dont need a CMS with bells and whistles, just one that is template driven, and has 'friendly' URLs.
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Oct 31, 2007
Can anyone recommend a good hosting company based in the UK. As most of the one's suggested in this thread are American.
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May 8, 2008
can you recommend dedicated server hosting outside USA for adult sites?
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Aug 12, 2008
It should support jsp/jdk6.0/tomcat6.0/mysql5.0 or higher, and SSH is prefered.
Your advice will be highly appreciated.
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Sep 2, 2008
I am currently on shared hosting (i will not mention who with) however since I have been with them my site has been down about 4 times. The good thing is my site hadnt launched it was just a placeholder page so nothing critical.
Due to the above issues, I need to change host, it is essential there is no downtime, its a new site and I dont want our reputation to suffer due to downtime.
What hosts would you recommend from the UK, thank you.
I started another thread in the VPS section but i do not know how to close it,
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Jan 28, 2007
While there's no problem in our server sometimes loading increases extremely ( over 100 ) While my checkings i stopped the apachi and check the logs , i've seen the lines above
Quote:
[Sun Jan 28 14:26:33 2007] [error] [client 88.243.102.59] File does not exist: /home/xxxx/public_html/404.shtml
[Sun Jan 28 14:27:12 2007] [error] [client 88.226.41.159] File does not exist: /home/xxxxxx/public_html/Themes/colatesi_v3/images/exp.gif
[Sun Jan 28 14:27:12 2007] [error] [client 88.226.41.159] File does not exist: /home/xxxxxx/public_html/404.shtml
[Sun Jan 28 14:34:21 2007] [error] child process 20292 still did not exit, sending a SIGKILL
[Sun Jan 28 14:34:21 2007] [error] child process 20105 still did not exit, sending a SIGKILL
[Sun Jan 28 14:34:21 2007] [error] child process 20287 still did not exit, sending a SIGKILL
[Sun Jan 28 14:34:21 2007] [error] child process 19964 still did not exit, sending a SIGKILL
[Sun Jan 28 14:34:21 2007] [error] child process 20298 still did not exit, sending a SIGKILL
[Sun Jan 28 14:34:21 2007] [error] child process 20106 still did not exit, sending a SIGKILL
[Sun Jan 28 14:34:21 2007] [error] child process 20278 still did not exit, sending a SIGKILL
[Sun Jan 28 14:34:21 2007] [error] child process 20279 still did not exit, sending a SIGKILL
[Sun Jan 28 14:34:21 2007] [error] child process 20299 still did not exit, sending a SIGKILL
[Sun Jan 28 14:34:21 2007] [error] child process 20281 still did not exit, sending a SIGKILL
[Sun Jan 28 14:34:21 2007] [error] child process 20110 still did not exit, sending a SIGKILL
[Sun Jan 28 14:34:21 2007] [error] child process 20111 still did not exit, sending a SIGKILL
[Sun Jan 28 14:34:22 2007] [error] could not make child process 19022 exit, attempting to continue anyway
[Sun Jan 28 14:34:22 2007] [error] could not make child process 19077 exit, attempting to continue anyway
[Sun Jan 28 14:34:22 2007] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down
exim: SIGTERM received - message abandoned
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Jan 28, 2009
Who can recommend a secure/affordable video streaming hosting site to me?
Setting up a members video site.
Best if the web host can come with a ready members template and shopping cart/payment service where I can just upload my videos.
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Dec 17, 2007
what to look out for in the log files, but a couple of things jumped out at me over the weekend:
I had 5 of these, I followed the link (I suppose is the referrer) but it takes you to a polish-hosted russian webpage that tries to infect your browser. So DONT VISIT THE WEBSITE unless you're virus checker is fully up to date!
Code:
shop.######.com: [15/Dec/2007:02:52:43 +0000] 87.118.120.23 - - "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 21466 [url] (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.2; Win64; AMD64)"
As this is only a GET, I'm not sure what the purpose of this really was.
Also I seem to be getting loads of these recently:
Code:
shop.######.com: [17/Dec/2007:08:21:41 +0000] 82.19.60.98 - - "GET /_vti_bin/index.php?main_page=page_not_found HTTP/1.1" 301 5 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; InfoPath.1)"
Which I read is an automated hacker-bot checking for an unpatched MS server.
So my question is this;
What's the most effective thing we (as webmasters/hosts) can do to combat and report this sort of thing so we fight back against what's likely to be related to organised crime?
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May 18, 2007
We're currently looking into migrating a two-server HA setup to something VPS-based, mainly because we'd like to leave the HA stuff (data replication to hot-standby server, fail-over) to the hoster.
We hope to find somebody that hosts VPSs on a cluster of machines, replicates the VPS filesystems to a hot-standby node and, in case of cluster node failure, simply reboots the VPSs that the failed cluster node took with it on the hot-standby node. To us from inside the VPS this would then simply look like a single highly available server. No more database replication, etc.
The only company that offers this seems to be thomas-krenn.com. If I understand them correctly, they build two-server Linux clusters, run Virtuozzo on both servers and replicate the filesystem of the VPSs by means of DRBD from the active cluster node to the hot-standby node. In case of failure of the active node the VPSs are booted on the hot-standby node. So, I should be up and running again in a matter of minutes, probably after a filesystem check.
This sounds pretty intriguing to me and I wonder whether this is as good as it sounds. Does anybody have any experience with thomas-krenn.com and their clustered VPS offering?
Do you know of anybody else that offers something like this? Sounds like a logical next step in VPS hosting to me, so there should be other people with the same idea.
I guess that the grid/utility computing people out there do something similar.
However, most reviews of these companies that I've read were pretty devastating.
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Apr 11, 2009
I posted a review about Tailor Made Servers (TMS) back in December of 2008 however it was wiped out during the infamous "WHT Incident" but I see that it has returned, although in a very incomplete state. Here is a repost of the original review along with a few minor changes to celebrate our 2 year anniversary! (Changes made to original review will have a red font color.)
Technical Support [10/10]:
First things first, TMS are an un-managed provider so don't expect any hand holding if you run into some obscure software or operating system problems. That's not to say TMS wouldn't help you, I'm sure they would to some extent, but it should never be expected from an un-managed provider.
We have a total of 74 tickets recorded with TMS since April of 2007. Twelve of those tickets were high priority requests to either manually reboot a server or check the console. Three of those high priority tickets were false alarms, but the other seven tickets were all answered within a few minutes at the very most.
When I say the tickets were answered, I don't mean a canned reply of "We're looking into it!" then an hour later someone decides to start working on it and then another hour later it's finally resolved. If you submit a high priority ticket, it's given immediate attention and resolved as fast as humanly possible.
Manual reboots take on average 10 minutes, some have been performed in a couple of minutes while the longest we ever had to wait was about 15 minutes which is what they advertise. There have only been a couple of hardware issues, a failing NIC was recently replaced in under 15 minutes, a server died last month and a chassis swap was done in under 3 hours. Hard to find any faults here - the technical support & response times are very reassuring and above average when compared to a lot of other un-managed providers.
Network & Uptime [10/10]:
TMS are located in the prestigious Colo4Dallas facility and using an impressive blend of InterNAP, Level3, Time Warner and XO Communications for bandwidth providers. There are also InterNAP FCP devices in use to attempt to provide the most efficient routing possible and also work around any problems thanks to its intelligent routing capabilities. This differs from BGP in the sense that BGP will always provide the shortest path possible - not necessarily the best path.
The latency and throughput are what you would expect from a reasonably multi-homed provider in Texas. Typical response times to my location in Ontario, Canada are about 60ms while response times to the United Kingdom are around 110ms. Average response times to other parts of the US are nothing short of impressive, 25ms to Chicago, 35ms to Los Angeles, 20ms to Atlanta and 50ms to Seattle.
There was a network blip on March 31, 2009 that caused some instability due to an apparent network upgrade that went wrong. These things do happen, however I feel that communication could have been a bit better in terms of notifying clients in advance. Outside of that one issue the last significant outage was in May of 2007 when a faulty router module had to be replaced and the downtime was a little under 1 hour. TMS clearly has a solid network and should satisfy everyone from web hosting providers looking for maximum uptime to die hard gamers looking for the lowest latency possible.
Hardware Quality & Deployment [10/10]:
All of the newer servers are Dell so you know you're getting quality hardware. The hard drives are a mix of new and old, but they all work perfectly fine with no S.M.A.R.T errors detected using multiple short & long tests. Some people would prefer to always have brand new hard drives, but that's not very economical for a lot of providers and I'm totally OK with that.
Servers are deployed extremely fast during business hours. In most cases if you order a server in the morning, it'll be setup later that afternoon. I've never had to wait more than 6 hours for a server, but I tend to order in the morning so I can't comment on how fast deployments are later in the day or on weekends.
The best deals for TMS are listed under the Dedicated Hosting Offers forum and not on their website, so be sure to check them out. Ordering a server from TMS is completely hassle free and straight forward. You pick the server configuration, pay via PayPal or Credit Card and wait for deployment. There's no faxing or scanning of documents and what not for verification of orders - but I'm sure JoseQ does his own fraud screening.
Overall [9/10]
I can't say enough good things about Tailor Made Servers! The staff is very knowledgeable and genuinely shows that they care, the response times are nothing short of incredible and I can honestly say I sleep better at night knowing our servers are in good hands if something goes wrong.
It truly is a great feeling not always having to worry about network problems, or how long it's going to take to get a manual reboot done, or replace failing hardware if need be. TMS are on top of their game, definitely one of the most underrated and under mentioned providers on WHT!
Why did I rate TMS 9 out of 10 after this glowing review? Well, there's always room for improvement and I don't think it's realistic to rate any provider a 10 out of 10. So what can be improved? When I first posted this review last year, I mentioned that KVM access would be nice and I believe they have since been added - perhaps JoseQ can clarify on that. You know, I honestly can't think of anything major I would like to see improved at this point.
That's pretty much it; if you're looking for an unrivaled dedicated server provider definitely take a look at Tailor Made Servers! Their best deals are always under the Dedicated Hosting Offers forum so be sure to check that out or send TMS - JoseQ a message to see what they can do for you. You have my word, you will not be disappointed and the only regret you'll ever have with TMS is not signing up earlier.
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Dec 1, 2008
Tailor Made Servers - TMS - 1 Year and 8 Month Review - Highly Recommended!
Here's my long overdue review for Tailor Made Servers [url]
and I'd like to urge everyone looking for a high quality unmanaged provider to take a few minutes to read this. I'm terrible at writing long posts, so I apologize if this review is a bit all over the place - it's just so hard to contain my excitement!
Technical Support [10/10]:
First things first, TMS are an unmanaged provider so don't expect any hand holding if you run into some obscure software or operating system problems. That's not to say TMS wouldn't help you, I'm sure they would to some extent, but it should never be expected from an unmanaged provider.
We have a total of 57 tickets recorded with TMS since April of 2007. Ten of those tickets were high priority requests to either manually reboot a server or check the console. Three of those high priority tickets were false alarms, but the other seven tickets were all answered within a few minutes at the very most.
When I say the tickets were answered, I don't mean a canned reply of "We're looking into it!" then an hour later someone decides to start working on it and then another hour later it's finally resolved. If you submit a high priority ticket, it's given immediate attention and resolved as fast as humanly possible.
Manual reboots take on average 10 minutes, some have been performed in a couple of minutes while the longest we ever had to wait was about 15 minutes which is what they advertise. There have only been a couple of hardware issues, a failing NIC was recently replaced in under 15 minutes, a server died last month and a chassis swap was done in under 3 hours. Hard to find any faults here - the technical support
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Jun 26, 2008
Can anyone recomend a VPN in the UK I can use?
I will have a firewall/router on my end and vpn into the UK. I am not tech savvy and was told this was the setup I needed by who I thought i was going to be using.
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Feb 12, 2008
I'm looking to purchase either vps or a dedicated server with cpanel/whm included in the price.
Must be uk based and have great uptime.
No real budget but obiouvsly i am looking for the best deal.
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Oct 29, 2008
what do you think of godaddy? and what os do you recomand?
what do you think of godaddy? and what os do you recomand?
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Mar 14, 2009
Is it recommended to use a VPS for online gaming like the mmorpg? Any recommendation on which hosting shall i get from for the VPS?
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Oct 29, 2008
Please recommend a firewall
I need a firewall which could do the following:-
- Run in transparent mode
- With bandwidth control and reporting based on IP
- Intrusion detection and prevention
- Open source
I am trying Clark Connect but I could not make it to run on transparent mode, else this product is good enough for me.
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Apr 8, 2009
Does anyone have experience with a good IRC VPS provider? I want to run an couple of BNC's. Unmanaged is fine. My budget for this would be $20/month.
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Oct 20, 2009
can anyone recommend a decent nl host with offers at present on dedi servers, looking to purchase in next week
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Oct 2, 2009
I've been thinking about getting a dedicated server in the EU, as the UK is just to expensive to rent a dedicated server.
I've read reviews of the two hosts I found on the net (OVH and 1&1) and none were all that favourable. (Especially 1&1 heh)
anyone recommend some alternative EU providers? or perhaps any reasonable priced UK services?
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Sep 2, 2008
I am currently on shared hosting (i will not mention who with) however since I have been with them my site has been down about 4 times. The good thing is my site hadnt launched it was just a placeholder page so nothing critical.
Due to the above issues, I think i might want to get a VPS, it is essential there is no downtime, its a new site and I dont want our reputation to suffer due to downtime.
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Jun 13, 2008
Can you guys recommend a few providers? My requirements are as follows:
100 MB unmetered dedicated
750 G HD
8GB Ram
Linux
I looked at Iweb and Choopa, but I am trying to see if there are better, more economical, options out there.
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Mar 8, 2008
I'm running a pretty large site that brings in about 80k unique each month, what would be a good setting to lower sync floods settings in csf configuration?
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Oct 16, 2007
Recently I bought Kingston and supertalent 2GB DDR2-667 UNB memory. Both of them don't work on supermicro PDSMI+.
When I run memtest86 and windows application, they keep giving me a lot of error message.
Anyone have this experience before.
memory that can work on this supermicro board?
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