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Top Provider Poll Q4 2016
trewq
Administrator, Patron Provider
Hi everyone!
Lets get the ball rolling on the quarterly top provider poll! This poll is for Q4 2016! Please remember to vote based on this time period.
Sorry it's taken so long to get sorted, I was hoping to automate the vote counting but as always life got in the way.
Rules for eligibility to vote:
- Account must have been created before 1st October, 2016.
- Account must have at least 5 posts.
- Providers can vote, but cannot vote for themselves.
Rules for the votes:
- You get three standard votes.
- One vote is one provider, no “I give three votes to _____.”
- You can use less than three votes.
- You get one additional vote, outside of the other three, for “Best New Provider” Vote for someone new that you think shows promise.
- Honourable mentions will not be tallied but feel free to post them.
- Votes will end at 11:59 PM AEDT (Sydney, Australia time) on February 22nd. The results will be posted on March 1st.
Prizes
This year a total of 41 43 prizes are up for grabs thanks to the generosity of the providers in this community! The winners will be drawn randomly from the voters list.
Using all three of your votes does not give you a better chance of winning. You must pass the providers normal account verification process and abide by all ToS. You can only win one prize, once you win you are removed from subsequent draws.
- 2x $50 account credit at ZXHost ( @AshleyUk )
- 2x $100 account credit at ImpactVPS ( @Awmusic12635 )
- 3x $15 account credit at ExtraVM ( @MikeA )
- 3x VDS-1 for a year at Clouvider ( @Clouvider )
- 5x KVMSP1024 for 6 months at WebSound ( @WSCallum )
- 1x $100 and 3x $50 account credit at VortexNode ( @VortexMagnus )
- 3x $48 account credit at HostUS ( @AlexanderM )
- 2x Dual L5420 16GB 500GB SATA dedicated server for 6 months at Stealthy Hosting ( @StealthyHosting )
- 3x $50 account credit from Host Kana ( @jholliher )
- 2x VPR-KVM3 for 1 year from Vapornode ( @vapornode)
- 2x 2GB RAM KVM VPS with 15GB HDD Storage, 2 Cores, 500GB Bandwidth on a 1Gbps Port, 1 IPv4, hosted out of Dallas, Texas, USA for 3 month from SSDBlaze ( @SSDBlaze )
- 5x KVM HDD Limited free 3 months from WisHosting ( @exception0x876 )
- 2x $100 account credit from Digital Ocean (Note DO account activation requires either credit card or initial PayPal deposit, and this credit will not be a way to circumvent that) ( @jarland )
- 3x CDN-X 2 TB plan at CDN.net for a year & $100 in credits to Cloud.net from OnApp ( @OnApp_Terry )
- 1x VPS Small for a year from OnACloud ( @OnACloud )
- 1x Unmanaged E3 in Buffalo, NY for a year or a physical E3 server shipped to you within the US, or abroad if the winner covers shipping. Minimum specs guaranteed: E3-1240, 16GB RAM, 1TB HDD from VirMach ( @VirMach )
If you are a provider and would still like to offer a prize, it's not too late! PM me!
Comments
Votes:
xHostFire.com
NetBreeze.net/MyVPS.ru
Online.net
Best newcomer: ContraWeb
BandwagonHost
InceptionHosting
SecureDragon
best new provider - VortexNode
honourable mentions - OnePoundWebHosting, vStoike, Vscale, LunaNode, LiteServer, GinerNet
Top Provider
Ramnode, have solid vm since 2013.
OVH, i dont need support, but its really stable.
Virmach, use their DS and so far its stable.
Best New Provider
Virmach, i dont know this provider new or not, have couple container. and DS too that im grabbed last BF, so far so good.
Honorable Mention
Lunanode, love their features and have many plans.
Dacentec, affordable DS with good price point.
VPSDime, only have 1 vm but performance is nice.
HostUs, use for storage backup.
SpartanHost, use for storage backup.
DO and Vultr, i use for development only, solid and have good performance.
GoMach5 - "it just works", and when things do go wrong, it's sorted very quickly and very efficiently
NorthHosts - name a host that goes out to the hardware store at 9:30am to buy HDDs for you.
OpenVZ.io/Iniz - hasn't dropped a heartbeat. My 500gb in LA just works, and is under 1ms from my GoMach5, enabling speedy nightly backups.
Honourable mention: VortexNode - the 2 UK atoms are very nice, but their Buffalo operation hugely lets them down.
Best new: NorthHosts, for the reason they got my point. Jon is brilliant to deal with, and "gets stuff done"
Votes: VortexNode, HostUS, Inception Hosting
Best New Provider: ContraWeb
Honourable Mention: Lunanode (Never got the chance to try them for long periods, but love their features.), Wishosting
Votes: Incero, VirMach, BuyVM
Best New Provider: VortexNode
Honourable Mention: Time4VPS, HostUS, Clouvider
Votes: HostUS, RansomIT, vstoike
best new provider: vortexnode
Votes:
VortexNode. Always-on chat support, and decent people like @VortexMagnus. Need more MAGS BIDDING WARZ please. They do have minor screwups, but I think I'm getting very decent pricing for locations outside of ColoCrossing.
Clouvider. Awesome network, no downtime so far. @Clouvider has been very professional throughout discussions and in communications with me and they started to have decent KVM slice deals.
Dediserve. Got @dediserve's earlier KVM deals and everything is snappy. Their support has been very flexible and were patient moving my stuff around.
Best new provider:
Honourable mentions:
ExtraVM. @MikeA nice guy, thanks a bunch for custom offerings. The 3-minute support ticket response times are just unbelievable.
ImpactVPS. Nice concept and control panel, and I personally have a little love for Incero.
BuyVM. But @Francisco you said NJ slices come in November
.
VPS247. Also use them, diverse locations. @kcaj FART MOTHER.
BuyShared/Frantech - steady uptime, quick support (<1 hour support response time, request resolved in 2 hours in a recent ticket), service works well.
LES/Inception Hosting - the exotic little green circles still glow brightly.
DeepNet Solutions/GDBI - solid disk and network speeds, decent uptime. Support has been consistently prompt and amenable.
New provider: ImpactShared - not really a stranger to LET now, but almost approaching a year of service here so until then it could be considered new. Aside from an incident at the Dallas DC last month, service has been fine. SSD for snappy db and page loads.
BEST NEW: VortexNode. Cheap, good & fast support.
Honourable mentions -
VortexNode, virmch, TragicServers
ImpactShared, virmach, tragicservers
Best new: vortexnode
Votes:
Best New Provider:
@trewq What do we do about providers who run multiple brands?
Remove the "if".
Thanks, should have proofread it again. As done in previous polls all brands owned by the same company will be added together.
Votes:
VortexNode
VirMach
INIZ
Best New Provider:
Votes:
Best New Provider: VortexNode
Honourable Mention: ZXHost
Votes: BuyVM, Virmach, OVH
Best New Provider: Vortexnode
Honourable mention: ImpactVPS
Votes: Ramnode, VirMach and VortexNode
Best new provider: I would love to see more from Contraweb.
My votes go to :
OVH
Online.net
Impact VPS
Best New Provider : Vortex Node
Best New Provider: VortexNode, the super deals are amazing.
1.ovh
2.online.net
3.hostus
in no particular order
Votes:VirMach,RamNode
Best New Provider:VortexNode
Honourable Mention:HostUS
Top Provider
VirMach
BudgetNode
Top Provider:
Liteserver
HostSolutions
wishosting
Best new provider:
VortexNode
1 x vote to OVH, 1 x vote to Hetzner, 1 x vote to Vultr
As @Nekki I do not need to be a part of the Prize draw. I have what I need.
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