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2014 Q1 top providers community pool (take two, without "jokes" and private voting)
OK, since the other "official" poll is going crazy, lets organize a real community one.
Rules:
1. Only people registered 6 months ago can vote and with at least 10 relevant posts (i will check it, but if there are people to help me, please PM).
2. Split vote is allowed, i.e. 5 points can be attributed to anyone you like, however, if more than 20% of people give negative votes, the entry will be rejected.
3. Negative voting is allowed, put up a list of maximum 3 hosts of which you think are scams and should not be allowed to take part in this poll and if 20% of the people nominate the same, will be discarded and their points lost. This cannot happen to top 5 unless the negative vote is 50%+
4. Vote change is allowed within 24 hours (normal edit time) so you can see the "jokes" and act in time before it spirals out of control.
5. Voting will last 3 days only.
6. You can give at most 3 HMs. 3 of them will be converted into 1 point, so you effectively have 6 points to give.
I hope this will ensure fair play to the best of my knowledge and keep it simple and fast enough.
Go! Go! Go!
P.S. I have the right to ask people to vote in a different poll with different rules, if they do not want to, will not vote, in the end we will be able to compare results and reach some conclusions. This is the unofficial, community poll.
P.S. 2 Since I am not a mod unable to delete junk, it will float around, but the results will not be influenced, so dont be discouraged, prove you want your vote to count, not diluted by haters and jokers and other agendas. The idea is to give a view to whoever the community thinks is a good provider with reasonable accuracy. If you do not believe me, count for yourself at the end, this is the point of transparent voting, I cannot modify posts, so it should be even more credible.
Comments
Why not?
VPSDIME: 5
HM: IPXCore, Prometeus, LowEndSpirit
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OK, I repost the vote I withdrew from the other thread:
2 Serverian and his brands;
1 Edis for the number of locations, some are stable;
1 ChicagoVPS, better than what people say, but dont need mail and only used the chicago location;
1 DO, very good for a free service, I think they are worth the money also;
HM BlueVM, used to be better, but the prices are worth it anyway;
HM Vultr no service with them, but it looks very promising;
HM GVH I am very modest regarding quality and will be testing them regarding traffic and stability, the prices are certainly right!
P.S. last time I give points to hosts without IPv6, next poll will probably be after ARIN runs into last /8, it is high time to wake up and stop this crazy race for more allocations.
This thread is lolcats. 5 votes for Michael Jackson's 'Bad' album please.
5 votes to Daft Punk - Discovery
No HM ? Come on, you can do better than that! Help mpkossen rig the votes with a HM to Jean Michel Jarre!
HM: Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Also, the guy who's just stood next to me on the train fucking stinks. I think he's been washing in crack.
2.5 : volumedrive
2.5 : greenvaluehost</strike?
NO! NO FRACTIONS!
HM Justice - Cross
3 - LowEndSpirit (Inception Hosting)
1 - Prometeus (thanks as always Mao)
1 - Crissic Solutions
HM: Nodisto (Serverian), INIZ, Cloud Shards
Negatives: 123Systems
My 5 points go to the best VPS host out there, Green Value Host. Green Value Host is possibly the best host I have used. Amazing customer service, XTREME SPEED VPS! You can tell how speedy the VPS is when it takes over 30 seconds to ssh in! Doing a DD test on my most recent $7.50 VPS gives me a result of around 23MB/s, not even my RamNodes pure SSD VPS can beat that! You get what you pay for and I am getting amazing quality.
HM: Stone Temple Pilots - Creep
(To back my post up:
(Control+C'd the command once I seen the enter password prompt)
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Being a bit more serious now:
RamNode - 3
BlueVM - 2
Crissic - 1
HM: DigitalOcean (Thanks for all the free credits!), MyCustomHositng (Nice support and a speedy VPS, no complaints), HostNun (Amazing support, Matt is a very nice guy.)
Awesome choice mate, awesome choice.
Did you really think this was gonna work? Why bother ,-,
Always meant to ask, are you from The Netherlands?
edited
2 : volumedrive
3 : greenvaluehost
5 - Dewlance
I vote for @jcaleb to be struck off as a moderator. Behaviour like this is unacceptabobble.
Don't worry, valid votes will be counted.
Good job, nekki, jcaleb, admins, mods and other haters. I am curious if you will manage to stop this
It was one of the last good things LET had, you are working overtime to destroy it.
1 each for the following:
HM: James Hadley/Loading Deck (thoroughly enjoyed his services whilst still active)
Negatives:
SouthBendServers/Sustainable Datacentres (was good until Zach disappeared)
As this a hilariously terrible idea, I honestly thought you were doing this for a joke so I just joined in the banter. I mean come on, a provider running a top provider's poll? Has to be a joke, right?
Calm down. @jcaleb is just joking.
You guys sure know how to create drama without asking questions first. Step 1) throw a tantrum, step 2) create a "community poll", step 3) ask me why and allow me to explain stuff. In the normal world, things go the other way around.
@Nekki
I don't see why that is a problem, the points are all open so there is no way he can cheat. Besides that, I think if there is one person that you can trust on this forum it is @Maounique
No more a joke than this being run by CC. Besides, I am no mod so cannot delete any junk or adjust anything, the rules are made to avoid the kind of stuff that goes in the official poll. Votes are clear int he open, everyone can do the math, so, what is the problem?
The private voting part was not asked by the community, was introduced by you. There is no reason given UNLIKE the explanation for the 5 points which can be allocated freely in break with tradition (some ppl disagree with it, but I think it is cool and others too, at least it was a debate on it).
You cannot just change the rules and say 4 words about it buried well so I didnt see it at first and I bet the vast majority, there is also no clear reason we could guess, spirit split the topic without giving an explanation either even tho I am sure he read IRC. I may be paranoid, but you really dont see an issue here?
I never said it was a problem, it just added to the sense that it was being done for a laugh.
The last good thing here turns into ridicule.
Really? This was just an overreaction to someone not getting a response fast enough. Private voting has been nulled on the 'official' voting thread now, so this is unnecessary.
Mao, there's not a conspiracy on every street corner. You have to take my word on that. All this drama while you could have just simply asked me 'why?' first.
Spirit split the topic because discussion was getting in the way of voting. There's nothing wrong with that. I think that was a good move.
It's my job to explain the poll as I am the one that put it up.
buyvm
vultr
digitalocean
He did, but you didn't respond quick enough. Shame on your for not having 24/7 cover on the forum to deal with urgent queries like this.