burst.net dedicated, review
Intel Celeron™
CPU: Celeron™ 2.4GHZ 400FSB
Memory: 512MB DDR RAM
Hard Drive: 60GB IDE or 36GB SCSI
Bandwidth: 2000GB/MONTH
IP Addresses: 5
Port: 10/100MBPS SWITCHED VLAN
Management: BASIC MANAGED
DDOS Protection: TOP LAYER NETWORKS™
FREE SETUP $49.95/MONTH
I am a current customer of Burst for more than 6 months already and so far I am loving their service. There are very, very minor issues but it gets resolved in a timely manner. I have 7 servers with them and looking forward to expanding more. Their sales support Shawn and Benj are very considerate and their technical support Brian is very helpful, knowledgeable, polite and treats customers the right way.
Burst live chat support (AIM) is also the best I have seen with a host.
I recommend them to everybody who's looking for a reliable network and good support!
When we first got our server (named Angelina) from Burst we were very happy with the server and managed service. However, for the last few weeks we have been experiencing downtime almost daily and sometimes twice daily. Now it has become daily and for hours at a time.
There reason is another server was flooded and was causing the others on the same block to fail. Seems reasonable enough and everyone makes mistakes and has problems. But almost every day for a few weeks now and still no permanent fix?
Our clients are threatening to leave us and we are losing money because of this. I've lost sleep debating whether to post this or not. Since we know that we will not be reimbursed for our losses we hope to prevent others from falling into the same trap.
We are currently looking for a new server/datacenter to more all of our clients from that server. We actually tried to purchase another server from them awhile back but was told they we could not keep up with orders. I'm glad we didn't get it. We cannot continue to let our clients experience this.
Want to move away from burst.net.
Cheap server wanted.
We are pleased to make the following announcement. All dedicated services clients will now be directly serviced by BurstNET Technologies, Inc. We have worked a comprehensive deal in order to provide you our consumers with both the technical and billing support.
All dedicated services clients will now be directly serviced by BurstNET Technologies, Inc., the data center your service is currently provided in. Nothing needs to be done at this time on your part; however we would like to make you aware of just a few things.
All contact/billing information has been released to BurstNet in order to efficiently service your account. There are just a few urls that I would like to make you aware of at this time as well.
ordered at 5/28/2008
No response yet
have set up a server at burst.net.But burst.net said they will not transfer my data from Dreamhost.com to my new server.I think it's a bad idea to download all my data from dreamhost to my computer and then upload them to the new server.So,is there any easier way to transfer the data from Dreamhost.com to my new server at burst.net?
It seems dreamhost has no SSH and cPanel,but my server has both of them.I heard that I can use the get/mget command to do that,
I am new to VPS and am trying to get my head around it. What I am trying to figure out now are the pros and cons of Guaranteed and Burstable memory.
Assuming everything else is equal, and both options are in the budget, and that there is a requirement (at least at times) for more than 768mb of RAM, which option is better:
1152mb Guaranteed (SLM)
or
768mb Guaranteed / Burstable to 2048mb
Obviously, a big factor would be whether or not their is RAM available to burst to, and as I understand it, that is completely dependant on the server, other VPS's running, number of VPS's, etc.
However, what I am trying to figure out is which approach is typically better. If for the same money you can get 768mb w/2048mb burst or 1152mb SLM w/no burst which is the best option.
If my current requirements are important, then I listed them in a thread titled: "If I go with VPS would vB performance suffer greatly if I add multiple sites to VPS?"
I can't truely link to it, because I have less than five posts, but here is a quote of that thread, so you can hit the button in the quote to go there:
Quote:
Originally Posted by tnedator
I am leaning towards one of these three VPS accounts that all cost roughly the same:
I am aware of the horror stories and pretty much 99% negative rating for 1&1 on this forum – where its related to lack of high level support I agree most other relating to billing I believe the majority is user error (aka incompetence).
With that disclaimer out of the way here is my review
Currently 6 dedicated servers with 1&1 for 1 year now
Downtime in 1 yr due to 1&1 network (less then 1 hr – 0 downtime in last 6 months+) – not sure there is an ISP on this entire board that could claim/match that
Support – have used on occasion and yes it is horrible and virtually non-existent. My theory has always been that in a critical/helpless situation support will cost me $99 which is the setup fee for a new server with them and I will use current backup to restore failed server. In this 1 yr and across 6 dedicated servers (all windows server 2003) I have had one such critical – machine down situation that appeared to be hardware/OS related. Well it was about 5AM in the morning and I panicked and thought OK here we go I am going to be paid back for all this time putting my trust in 1&1 (this occurred about 1 month ago). I thought OK let me at least give support a try (I had not spoken to them in months) – I checked and found out they had a new number so I though OK new number maybe there is a glimmer of hope. Called it spoke to Philippines, calmly explained the server down situation – they verified it and said it would be sent to data center and I would here back via email – not real comforting but I decided to at least breathe easy for an hour or so. Within 15 mins I noticed via my serial connection (an awesome 1&1 feature) that someone was on my server and attempting a rescue image restore, I was kind of stunned with the response time so just waited and monitored it.
Cut to the chase within 1 hour my server was back online no lost data OS running fine and I was informed via email all was restored, no explanation but hey this is 1&1 how much do you expect. I have since called on another non-critical issue and noticed I got right through to a semi-high level technician in USA so maybe just maybe things are turning the corner in this regard.
1&1 PROs after 1 yr experience
-Features/power available in 1&1 control panel – yes I know most hate it and its not the most intuitive but once you find your way around boy does it have some power not the least of which is the immediate hardware reboot option not only to a normal reboot but to a rescue image if needed. This has been a life saver for me countless times.
-Direct serial access to server at all times – once again extremely powerful and allows to you run fully interactive disc check, metadata defrags and more during boot sequence as you have serial access to machine via telnet right from power on sequence.
-Full ftp backup included that is on their lightning fast network
-Full server reimage capabilities
-Full featured firewall configurable from control panel- we’ve never had any ddos attacks others constantly get hit with.
-Full RAID configured dual drive on all machines
-Bullet proof fast network
1&1 CONs after 1 yr experience
-The aforementioned support experience is always a nerve racking experience but so far I’ve been fortunate.
-Lack of ability to upgrade the server components (not a biggie as you can move to a new server if you want to upgrade but would be nice)
That’s it a real review from a 1&1 dedicated server customer, suffice to say I am a competent server/network professional so know how to configure a server correctly so have not needed 1&1 in this regard. I merely need them to maintain the network and hardware integrity nothing more nothing less and that is what they have done for me to this point.
Frankly, I follow this forum almost daily and covet being a Hivelocity customer as in my assessment of the feedback on here they have outstanding customer support and certainly light years better and more professional then I have now but if I had of been a customer of them for last year I would have –
-Paid a lot more per server and still not got some of the features I have standard now (direct serial access, default raid, free ftp backup, immediate reboot and re-imaging power)
-Had considerably more downtime (Freaks me out that they do not operate fully all their data centers and are at the mercy of Sago Networks and their relentless power outages which will always be the case in Florida)
-Slept uneasy every night during the summer whenever a hurricane came within 1000 miles of Florida
I'll share my experience with ComfortHost.NET {dedicate box} with your Guys.
I have now been with them for good 2-3 months.
They have a great support. Quel is a great person.
I'm using a their lowest package for the time being, but I never had any problems with it, no crashes, no nothing, not a single downtime on the ComfortHost.NET side.
They have cheap dedicated servers with high bandwidth. Ive not had any problem with my server speed. It was just amazing.
I havent any problem with it. Even having a low-end server, it had worked on its best performance. Ive not had any security problems.
I am overall happy with them, their respond time is 30-120 minutes on the support tickets.
Conclusion
In conclusion, ComfortHost.NET is an excellent dedicated server provider. If you're looking for a cheap yet reliable server provider for web hosting, then look to [url]
I can recommend ComfortHost.NET to anyone who wants uptime on their server and network.
Well, this is my review.
On approximately March 28th, 2009 I signed up with CreativeVPS for a dedicated server. The Specs were a Core2Quad Q9400 w/ 4GB DDR2 RAM, 250GB HD, 2000GB Harddrive.
I spoke with Joseph(r00ter) for over two hours and he was very helpful with every question I had regarding service and support. He even worked out a special deal for me that eased the wallet for the first month of service.
Pre-Sales I give an A++ it was excellent
Upon having my server setup, I made custom nameservers and then had to submit a ticket in order for rDNS to be setup. I submitted a ticket and it was taken care of within 30mins by a Tech named Todd Abrell who responded by confirming that they were pointing correctly.
I then submitted another ticket to have my site migrated from GeekStorage onto the new server again the ticket was answered and completed within 30mins. HOWEVER the tech Todd Abrel did not bother to put in the website in the browser to make sure everything was correct and my site would not load.
I issued another ticket at 3:01AM and did not recieve a response until 7:41AM the issue was completed at 8:00AM. My site was down for 5 Hours.
Once the site was finally up I proceeded to email the community members and had all AOL, GOOGLE, and YAHOO emails bounced back to me due to them not finding a reverseDNS which was supposed to have been setup previously. The owner Joe(r00ter) and I worked through this issue and he got the rDNS setup correctly, but Yahoo had blacklisted my IP's due to the original issue so now im having to create a privacy policy, and TOS among other things to show them that I am not a bulk email soliciter. Sure they may be smart things to have but they were originally unnecessary for my little community of drunken gamers.
This is all in the matter of two days. So im finally all worked out except Yahoo when I recieve a server message that my harddrive may possibly be failing soon. WOW! Great! Talk about putting a cherry on top. Issued a ticket at 7:44AM and did not recieve a response until 4:30PM. Almost 9 hours. During the business day.
The other day I went to pay my invoice and I notice that my 4GB server is actually a 2GB server. I ask Joseph about this and he tells me to run a command in Linux shell to make sure its not just a typo on the website. No it is infact only 2GB. Joseph responds that he will check into it, "when he has a chance"
24/7/365 Fully Managed Support: D I give a D because there was support, however if it was after midnight I was forced to wait until atleast 7:00am for a response, and on the quick responses neither of the issues were handled correctly. Another issue sent in during the day again waited 9 hours. So there was support but it was horrid.
So I contact Joseph today after paying my bill for the coming month and wanted to tell him that if unless these issues could be resolved this would be my last month with the company. I relayed him the above information and was basically told that im the only one having these kinds of support issues(Really?) the last 25 Tickets and some were overnight were answered in a timely manner. (of course they were)
And upon further talking he disappeared on the phone for 2 hours evidently with a Level 3 Admin about a new bandwidth contract.
I was offered a $20.00 credit for the time my server was without the other 2gb of ram. Nothing in the terms of my issues with support. Which I was not looking for monetary credit. I was looking for assurances that these things would not happen again. I got none.
I hear that CreativeVPS is a great VPS provider, and I cannot comment on that service. however my stay with them as a Dedicated Customer has been horrible. They claim to be 24/7/365 Fully Managed Support and it is anything but that.
I will say that my site(only thing on the server with less than 100 visitors a day) is blazing fast lol.
Just my .02 if you are going to go with CreativeVPS/CreativeRACK I suggest making sure you can do your own managing at all times.
I had posted the review a week back but for some reason everything went bazook with WHT.
I lost all my posts but am making an attempt to write the review again of my exp with HG.
Well, I had been with these guys for close to 14 months. I never knew there was bright world beyond HG for dedicated server untill I came to WHT. I had taken a xeon 2.4 with 2 gb ram for $219 everything was fine untill the server started giving me problems off late. It was supposed to be a managed server but these guys had just no clue whatso ever on any kinda problem. The took like close to 12 hours just to figure out the problem which was an issue with fan.
Imagine they were putting the blame game on me till they figured out it was a problem with the hardware(fan). When I went to claim refund for meeting the SLA, they told me that it was my fault and the onus was on me to ensure the server is up and running. WTF? How do you expect me find and why do you think I took managed service if the onus was on me to make sure the server is up and running.
That wasn't the end of my horror story. I don't remember the number of times I had to suffer with restarting the Apache / Mysql and downtime and when I did goto them, they said my RAM usage is too much. Hmmm when I further digged out and I felt cheated when I found out that they gave me a cheap DDR-200 MHZ RAM which is way outdated technology. I was like WTF? All those problems were because of that Cheap DDR-200 MHZ RAM for which they were charging me a bomb.
Imagine they gave me a trash Hardware and charging me a bomb for that crap and they kept blaming me for it.
I scrapped my Xeon 2.8 to Q9550 for a bit more but it was worth it.
I read a lot of bad reviews about that companys, but all of that reviews are of shared hosting and vps. I want see a review of someone who buy a dedicated server from they.
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I help a not-so-much-tech-savy friend running a busy wordpress website (50-70.000visitors each day) and a bit busy vbulletin forum (100 to 350 users online, 957 record), which is hosted at LiquidWeb since a month.
I got the server with a WHT special, is a AMD X2 5000+ , 4gb ram, dual sata raid1 hardware + third backup disk, cpanel fully managed.
I am not usually in the market for fully managed dedicated servers, because I am quite expert in running unix boxes, but as my free time begins to decrease I had no longer the time to help my friend every day, even for a simple httpd.conf vhost configuration change, so I thought to switch to a control panel fully managed server, so when I am not available he could write to support to have issues solved, without him waiting for me.
I decided to choose LiquidWeb for this project for several reason:
1) Sales person (M.Leven) replied to my pre-sales question very fast, and in a convincing way.
2) Network speed test was good
3) Price was very affordable. I used to pay 260$/mo for a dual core, 2gb ram, 2x160gb sata disks (raid software), unmanaged, no control panel, hosted in the UK.
For 1$ less than the previous price at LiquidWeb I got:
- Slightly slower cpu
+ Double Ram
+ Control Panel license
+ Hardware Raid and an addictional backup disk (3disk total)
+ Fully management.
And the network differences with europe DC are not so big like I thought before.
4) It's a big solid company, they own all their equipment. While this is not a factor by itself (look at some horrible big companies like godad and 1und1), it's a plus if you're already sure of the quality, compared to a smaller/personal company.
So, order process went smoothly, I have got my server in maybe 8 hours after a phone call which welcomed my friend to liquidweb (and verified the identity).
We have been happy to not need to provide a ID scan (as most previous hosters who lost my business did), because we are afraid of identity thefts and I won't ever send my IDs overseas. A phone call is enough (landline phone number is on the white pages anyway so it would easy to match with a name and more secure than requesting a easily-fakeable ID digital copy).
After I got the server I have begun setting everything up, and moving the data using rsync. I enjoyed the PIMS user area where you have a complete breakdown of your server load, bandwidth graphs, reverse ip control and else, with stats updated every minute.
The day after (once the rsync was done) I tried to setup the websites, and this is where I encountered my first (and unique at the moment) problem with LiquidWeb.
Their server "custom engineering" was not so good as I expekted.
Mysql was very slow to run, even at importing files, because was using default settings (very conservative on a 4gb ram server!) so I created a custom my.cnf file and everything went smoothly (I hope they're able to do this on request for customers, since they're a full managed provider).
After I switched DNS, I realized SuPHP/PHP-cgi was causing extremely high loads, from 7.00 to 15.00 ... So I compiled Apache 2.2.8 (now updated to 2.2.9) and PHP5.2.6 dso (mod_php) with my custom options, and cpanel built-in eaccelerator support, now my average load is 0.60-0.70
I understand that if you want a more secure php environment you need to bear a performance tradeoff, but this was too much (10-20x)!
I think that the only liquidweb fault is not stating clearly that if you choose their sever-secure package with su-php / php-cgi, and you run an intensive PHP application, then your performance would be severely degraded.
I hope this is not a way to upsell better hardware to customers, but I am confident it's not the case as most people won't buy a load balancer and a couple of addictional servers for sure, they will simply go away, so it's not in their best interest to provide slow servers.
I think they should provide a choice or at least a complete information if you want an hardened server:
1) Slightly hardened (apf+rkhunter+someotherstuff), but with mod_php and without those very restrictive mod_security rules: best for performances and compatibility.
2) Highly hardened, with php-cgi, strict mod_security, with a warning for the user of the possible performance problem if they run really busy php websites.
Anyway, once I optimized my apache and my websites, I had not any further problem, and my website is running smoothly. So that's the only negative thing i can warn any users about Liquidweb.
Support: Always very responsive, fast and competent answers. Unlike most provider claiming "fully managed" this is really proactive. Once I was upgrading apache and forgot to turn 80port monitoring off. They proactively contacted me in less than 5 minutes to ask what was going on, and to request my (changed) root password if I wanted them to check.
When I reboot my server or shutdown apache for a while I often see their ssh login from a .liquidweb.com box.
Network : Well, the surprising thing is I am really happy with the network. It's surprising because I live in southern europe and I am never happy with most USA locations (why not host in Europe? Because is too expensive indeed, dollar is so cheap nowadays). Liquidweb facility is amongst the fewer ones I have been happy with in several years (the other ones being Ashburn, VA; NAC, NJ and Fortress ITX, NJ), so I hope they keep a premium network this way. I push 3.5mbit/s on average, with 12-20mbit spikes.
So in the end I would raccomend LiquidWeb for the overall price/quality ratio, if you are in the market for a fully managed dedicated server with a control panel.
I hope our experience will keep being good as it is. If this will not happen you will be the first to know ;-) I have almost never been sweet with hosting providers in the past on this forum, but at the moment really I have nothing to complain about LW service, so let's hope it all keeps that way.
I figured id share in my experiences as a host and a client. For the last several months we have had a dedicated server with apthost as well as a VPS, I must say even as a host myself they are very good on their word and what they say they will do. I am not one to post about any host they are in the top of my list as far as Customer Service, Performance, Price as well..
Now i have heard good an bad about them but you know what only my experience can tell me what is tru and what my experience tells me about them is they got there stuff together.
And just like they said FFmpeg came on the dedicated box all setup with cPanel and ready to go eve Red5 as well.
we are planning to expand our business by purchasing 1 more server and i
have found that iweb.com is providing some very good deal in dedicated server
but i tried to find some review about them,unfortunately i didn't got any.so finnaly i
thought to post a thread here....
so guys come on tell me howz iweb.com are they reliable? good in support?
Today Im Going To Write My Review About Iweb
So Here We Go....
Network - 10/10
According To My Experience iweb provide a great and top notch services , their
Network rocks , Its almost over a Month With them, and i never had a single second downtime with them , my sites runs like butter on their servers.
Sales - 10/10
iweb sales is also very Good i really get prompt answers of my queries,never had any issue with my account manager , he always reply me with in 30 Min of my email , also their sales person are very friendly and helpful and always ready to figure out any solution
Reliability - 10/10what should i say now.... iweb rocks , like 2 months back i was searching for a host which can provide me best solutions , so that i can sleep with peace in my mind,and i was always unable to find that.but atlast i found all those features in iweb.and now i must say , i have peace in my mind,i sleep properly in Nights.iweb gave everything what i was searchings from long time
Support - 9/10
iweb really had a very good support i always get my request/tickets solved very quickly, i never got any negative answer from iweb.they are prompt in replies , but the reason why i gave 9 marks here out of 10 is because, they lack in live chat , live chat normally leaves in between.and that is what i don't like,its really annoying that we wait for 20,30 min and then they leave us without any notification.rest ticketing system is really good
Staff - 10000000000/10 ( yes they deserve This )
The is the best thing in i web Is , Their staff is soo friendly.means u will never feel that you are doing business with them,they deal like they are our very old friends,this is the best thing in iweb. i can assure you if once you joined iweb then you cant even think to change iweb...even not in your dreams
As they are rocking in every field
Suggestions
Some Of My Suggestion for iweb
1) please Try To start allowing proxy to
2) Please Try to improve Live chat system
MyConclusion
So All and all i can say that iweb is a great and reliable company it gave me a great platform to stay online in my business.and i can proudly say that Yes Im A iweb customer i really suggest everyone to try once iweb in your life, i can assure you that you will never regret
At The same time i would like to thanks Mr Martin Leclair He is the man with golden heart , he always help me , when ever i email him he replies me in under 10 min with best possible solution.when ever i ask him for any discount he never refuse , he is always ready to help everyone.i would really like to say
Could someone explain in layman's terms a point on RAM for VPS? I always understood that you are allocated an amount of RAM with each plan. For example, 256MB on most lower packages. You are then allowed to reach some limit in case their is some spike and memory is required. That is called Burst RAM limit/amount. Like 1GB. I asked about this to my new host and they responded below. I'm not following it.
Quote:
SLM is a method of using dedicated physical RAM (RSS) versus a guaranteed (unknown) / burst (VSIZE). SLM is only accounting physical memory usage and you are silently swapping on the host (the VSIZE) -- in short, if you are running out of RAM it is because your VPS is physically trying to use more than your dedicated RAM limit.
SLM implements a 2nd-level out of memory (OOM) manager. In the event a VPS uses all of its physical RAM SLM will first delay the execution of processes to wait for more RAM to become available. After this it intelligently decides which processes to kill to maintain a running system.
On the kernel level it decides itself what should be preempted to swap in the system and which data is most rarely used. This is more efficient from overall performance point of view than having a separate swap space assigned to each VPS and used when VPS has exceeded their RAM limit which cause disk I/O bandwidth which is used for swapping is a scare resource, therefore it is not worth swapping out something when there is global RAM available still.
After being down for hours last weekend, my server with burst is presently timing out. Is it a general issue again?
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With softlayer current promotion, I get it for 224$
With Burst.net reseller - I get it for $180
So is paying $44 more and going with softlayer worth? or is Burst network as good as softlayer?
It had an Abuse Incident over the last 24 hours and missed the deadline they gave to clean it up. Being in Australia the time differences can make it difficult to always catch an Abuse Incident. Anyway so the server is disconnected and we have to pay a reconnection fee, ok fair enough.
As soon as the server went offline I became aware of the issue and contacted their support.
They said I need to pay the Abuse Invoice, so I said ok and went to my Client Area and there was no Abuse Invoice. So I tell the technician that there is no invoice in my account, he says, oh ok there must be a billing problem and passes it over to "Customer Service".
Hours later there is still no response from customer service and my server is still offline.
I shouldn't have my server OFFLINE while waiting for them to sort out their billing problem. Them getting their Abuse Invoice paid is NOT A TIME CRITICAL matter.
A server outage is a TIME CRITICAL MATTER.
Here I am still waiting and nothing is being done, my server is still OFFLINE. I have no problem paying the Abuse Invoice, but the server outage just goes on and on because they can't seem to generate the Abuse Invoice that they require me to pay.
Is anyone else having trouble with name resolution at Nocster being really wonky? Sometimes it works fine, sometimes it times out, sometimes it takes a couple seconds.
My resolv.conf:
search hostnoc.net
nameserver 66.96.193.2
nameserver 64.191.0.2
is anyone else having trouble with burst.net at the moment? from two locations, i'm having problems where anything that will elicit a large response just hangs indefinitely. i can ping my server just fine, i can shell into it... if i do "top" or "dmesg" or anything else that might dump back more than a few lines of response at a time, the ssh session hangs. i can do "ps x" as a regular user, because i only have two processes running. "ps ax" will hang ssh.
none of my websites work, and i can't get on the burst.net website from either location. i tried calling but no matter what sequence i try for (even tried reboots) i can't get ahold of a live person, but then again it is almost midnight.
anyone else experiencing this?
I do alot of reading of select forums and contribute here and there, I am a huge contributor on Digital point. With lots of Itraders. I came here to try and find some info as to what was going on with burst.net when I stumbled across the merged thread here and started seeing what was going on.
I don't want to say it's typical but more often than not these days the server have been more miss than hit. Coupled with the fact that things like RAM upgrades carry a setup cost and a higher than avereage monthly fee. 512mb costs more than what 1GB does at most hosts.
On top of that, the upgrade time is 1-3 DAYS not hours, DAYS. My Ip address have to change for a bandwidth upgrade which caused 24 hours of downtime as the DNS propagated again.
Server was suspended 9 hours into an abuse report when it is promised 24 hours to solve the issue and I had agreed that the account needed to be suspended. We went back and forth with them about replying to the ticket that referenced the abuse issue. I was told that I needed to reply to the ticket. If they had bothered to look at the ticket themselves then they would have seen that I had a 3 to one ratio of my posts to theirs in trying to get this solved. $50 abuse fee talk about nickel and dimeing a guy. I know, I have heard it before, read the tos, aup, billing, and privacy policies. It's all in there somewhere but you just get to that point where if they charge you one more little BS fee then I'm going to go postal. Plus they can't keep their end of the bargain up when it comes to the network. Received a cpu / mobo upgrade expected upgrade time48-72 hours, after it was all said and done now the server sits still with 4GB or ram that it can not full recognize. On a happier note I did have other servers there (that's not the happy part) I knew in my gut that something had to be done. I've spent alot of time getting quotes with other providers, I even added one to my contact list from here on WHT, it was sales@hivelocity.net. I got several quotes from them and never pulled the trigger on a configuration on any of them, I tried out a few other smaller hosting companies with no luck and finally after a month or two of Dave asking how I was doing on a daily basis, I decided to go with a test server. Setup was decent, I had a problem with my ip when I first signed up, but the support staff is great, no hassles no fuss, no paying to upgrade, unless there is a price difference, NO DOWNTIME, NO ABUSE FEES (never had an abuse case yet) but it's not in any of their policies that I can read. All the chips seem to have fallen into place for me when I signed up with them.
I call Dave on a regular basis I get calls from him every so often. My server is up and better than ever. I get answers to my questions that are beyond the normal realm of technical support which I find odd because I see all over WHT that they are an unmanaged host. There are no per incident fees or nickle or dimeing. I was told by a tech that there would be a $65 per hour fee to install a 3rd party piece of software that they did not support but that to me is in the same realm of taking your car to the shop when you want a performance part installed. You want it done right and you want it quick. I still have a server with burst that I am almost finished with. I'm glad I had the courage to follow my instinct when it came time to switch or else I would be completely stuck. I ended up with burst because I was re-acuired through a reseller named Vagu. I am starting to see that there were problems between Vaguhost and Burst some time ago, about the time of that switch is when I started having second thoughts that I may need to add another provider. I am happy referring people to Hivelocity and I also resell their services. I am not too familiar with the other account representatives for Hivelocity, I believe that there are 4 total, but if you have been left high and dry by burst then give them a shout. I believe that one person even called themselves a "refugee."
I am planning to purchase a dedicated server (managed)from burst.net. Anybody having any experience with this company?
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I've come across a XEN based plan that offers additional 256MB swap space, and a few others Virtuozzo based plans that offer bursting capability (some even upto 8GB).
Which would be the better option?
Also, in Virtuozzo, will SLM allocation be significantly more beneficial than UBC for a small VPS?
Another question ... DirectAdmin officially claims to be able to run on a minimum of 64MB RAM. How would it perform on a 128 MB VPS ?
I'm not really looking to do much, only to host a few (5-6) small sites along with some other non-webhosting applications (which is the reason for getting a VPS instead of a reseller).
I've seen most people suggest atleast 256MB for DirectAdmin, but that is beyond my budget. (I'm also seriously considering the option of employing vi as a control panel to further conserve my limited resources)
I thought I would write a quick review of Corenetworks.net!
I've had a server at Core networks for about a year now, and have worked with support as well as billing.
Support
Lets start off with the most important thing, support. I am not one to need hand-holding from support, but every once and a while I need things like IP-KVM access, hardware upgrades, hardware replacements, etc. I've put in four requests for IP-KVM access via their ticketing system since I started hosting there, and each request was fulfilled within 30 minutes. I have to admit that 30 minutes is impressive for a dedicated hosting company. It must be remembered that they are unmanaged hosting, and managed hosting services cost extra. I find this scenario fits most technical people well because more resources are put into *real* requests such as hardware, kvm, etc instead of resources being used for hand-holding (i lost my root password, my apache process is not starting, etc)
Hardware
The price compared to the hardware you get is exceptional. A lot of hosting company's out there will push overused hardware on you. (some larger companies reuse hard drives over and over, check the smart drive lifetime with smartctl) The hard drive I was provided had a usage time of 3 months. That is VERY good compared to the average active drive life time at other hosting providers of 2-4 years. The hardware has been reliable and fault free (i have 2 machines now with no problems)
Uptime
This is the greatest part, every other budge dedicated hosting provider i've been with has had horrible power (sometimes reboots every few days, and the occasional downtime of a few hours) I have not had a single power outage or reboot since I first started at core networks! One of my severs has an uptime of 355 Days.
Network
The network is not blazing fast... with the package I got. I decided on the metered 3Mb connection (no extra cost) There is also an unmetered connection with a bandwidth limit, if anyone can chime in on this it would be great . I do know that I have always had a 3Mb full pipe on this plan (up and down) which is more then enough for my hosting purposes.
Features
Core networks has all of the features of the big-boys: Remote power management, bandwidth mrtg graphs, network status page, Free IP-KVM, etc.
Cost
The company does utilize it's cheaper servers as a bargaining tool for sales. It seems they unleash their $24/mo servers for a week or two to drive sales and then mark them as sold out. Currently I have the $49/mo servers (with a bit extra oomph) and I am ecstatic with the price. If you can catch the $24/mo servers, get them when you see'em!
Overall
Overall I would recommend corenetworks.net to anyone who is seeking a quality server for personal use or small business use. I am not sure how the service would meet enterprise level businesses, but they do have more expensive plans and I see no reason those would suck.
"Offical, im a reviewr score": 9 out of 10'
what better DC Gnax/NetDepot or Burst.net ?
View 12 Replies View RelatedI am considering burst and webnx for dedicated server deal.
I found burst customizeable and some of good features
webnx is also good but cant see customization there I v sent them mail didn't get answer yet.
burst quote I got
$154 for
Core2Quad Q9300 Quad Core
8 g ddr2
2*1 tb sata raid 1 software
1*250 G sata
whm/cpanel included
ddos protection network level
basic support
on other hand webnx offer is $99
Intel i7 920, 6GB ram, 1x 1TB RE3 drive only $99
Quadcore 2.66ghz w/ HT
6GB DDR3 Ram +$25 ($150 for the 6mo term)
1TB WD RE3 hard drive
2tb/100 mbps port
in one of there special offer
but if I customize to above situation I think they will reach the same or higher.
webnx are unmanaged and dont know about security level of both providers too.
My major concern is uptime, security and helping support whenever I need them.
my ideal budget is 100-150$
