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2017 Provider Of The Year
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Hi everyone!
It is that time of the year again. It is time for the 2017 Q4 Provider Poll. However, this is a bit of a twist. Instead of just doing Q4 2017, this is covering all of 2017.
Here are the eligibility criteria for voting:
- Your account must have been created no later than September 2017
- Your account must have at least 5 posts.
- Providers can vote, but cannot vote for themselves.
Here are the rules for voting:
- You get 3 votes.
- One vote per provider, so no "I give all 3 votes to BobsSmallTownHost"
- You can use less than 3 votes.
- You get ONE additional vote for "Best New Provider". Vote for someone who is new, maybe unknown, but is showing good promise.
- Voting will end on Saturday the 6th of January 2018, at 11am, UTC.
- @Tom is giving me a hand with the spreadsheet this year
Prizes:
As always, we have prizes! The winners will be drawn randomly from the voter list. Providers, we are still accepting prizes. There is a post in the Provider forum with more details. Here is your chance to show off and be featured right before people vote! There may also be more to come.
Subnet Labs - @Awmusic12635 - 4x $100 of account credit.
3x @GestionDBI 128MB NAT Servers for 1 year, 2x DNS-OVZ-1024 Plans for 1 year and 5x Shared Hosting "Intermediate" account for 2 years. 10 prizes here, 10 lucky winners!
3x $48 Account Credit from HostUS. - @AlexanderM - 3 chances to win!... and Dedicated Server - dual l5520, 4x1tb, hw raid - free for 1 month. Yet another chance.
10x @VirMach SSD512's for 1 year.. 10 chances to win. 5x SSD4G for 3 months. 2x SSD32G for 1 month. To top off the VirMach "FUCK IT, LETS BANKRUPT OURSELVES" edition... lets add an Unmanaged E3 for a year $490 a year
5x 256MB VMHaus instances, in each of their locations... London and LA.
5x $100 HetrixTools monitoring credit from @HBAndrei
5x $10 WisHosting credit from @exception0x876
5x VPS512 at IonSwitch for a year - @nation
Have fun everyone!
Comments
Clouvider,LiteServer,AlphaVPS
Best newcomer: vmhaus
Deserve to be mentioned:
ITL,UrDN,HostHatch,Netcup
(random order)
Best New Provider: @mikho / mrVM
Best New Provider
Honourable Mentions (I need more votes :[ )
I vote for:
Mzungu because they recently upgraded to two bonded dial up lines.ServerHand because they gave me brownies!My actual votes:
Best new provider:
Honorable mentions:
Update: VMHaus just came in with 4x256MB VPSes for a year
Clouvider, BuyVM and Inception Hosting.
Best new provider: no doubt, VMHaus.
Best newcomer:
VMHaus
All right, all my balls are with Clouvider and Inception Hosting.
Deserve to be mentioned: vmhaus
Clouvider, BuyVM and Inception Hosting in no particular order.
VMHaus for best newcomer.
Honorable mention to @jarland's MXroute - easy to use/configure email has saved me a considerable amount of time this year.
I read no constraints as per offers posted, so
@Hetzner_OL (even if the long-awaited 2017 offer within the acceptable LET range did not pop up so far)
@LiteServer
@Prometeus (even if they're not any more so active in the Offer section on this board)
I'd like to mention @Clouvider and Netcup as well; I think it's reasonable to vote only for providers registered here and with whom I've had a somewhat long-term relationship
VOTES: Virmach, Vultr, OVH.
Best new host: none.
Clouvider, Inception Hosting and BuyVM
@hawc small correction. That is supposed to be 4 x that reward in quantity
My apologies. All done
1: Clouvider
2: Inception Hosting
3: BuyVM
Newcomer: VMHaus
@Virmach - I have many services with them, working fine, Virmach's answers on the forum are like Encyclopedia Britannica articles. Also did you see those crazy offers? Solely responsible for awesome BF.
@Clouvider - for tolerating my jokes about his Cartel.
@MaikoB - because I feel we sometimes take OVH for granted. Loving my Kimsufi.
For 2017, I'm going to hold my votes to ACTIVE MEMBERS OF LET:
1) @AnthonySmith of InceptionHosting. I've never had a problem on a node that wasn't outside of his control- and he still took care of it. Dude cares more about my hosting than I do.
2) Although I might almost be considered a shill at this stage, I was quite impressed with the @VirMach deals on BF/CM, and their new team, although green, handled my transfer requests pretty quickly for loss-leaders. The dark humour was just the frosting on the cake..
3) @KuJoe is not a new name here, but Wyvern as a solution is. It's no longer painful to use, and is at least on-par with many iframe solutions. He's still working on bettering things, and that's well worth a nod.. Also, his BF "KILL ALL HUMANS" deal was second to none.
NEWB) As everyone knows, it's going to be @vmhaus. That's just how shit tumbles, and their setup is damn usable, despite only having one presence and a homerolled admin system..
Honourable Mentions:
@Cam has recently moved from CPanel hosting into VPS hosting, and he seems to be doing rather well with his NAT offers. Guess what? @mikho, The Viking, has too. They're both LES-candidates more than LET, but I look forward to seeing what they offer in 2018. Thanks for the cheap bits and bytes, guys!
All rock solid and ran by knowledgeable people with a lot of love for this community.
Best newcomers is VMHaus imo. I wish them all the best and if they keep this up they might enter my shortlist
Best New Provider: FreeCpanelSharedHosting/mrVM / @mikho
No particular order. My votes are:
Newcomer: budgetnode (not so new but something little over a year existence)
And some honorable mentions (aka, I wish I had more votes):
VMHaus
BunnyCDN
BuyVM
Best new provider: VMHaus.
Honorable mentions:
I think the Cloudcone and the SystemOnGrid guys are doing very well.
I wish I had more votes for: Ramnode, InceptionHosting, Vultr, DO.
VMHaus
Inception Hosting
VirMach
@hawc How about a "Must be really good but too expensive for me" category?
v--- Also new to you: 2017.
Tragicservers
hostmybytes.
x3host.
New (to me): liteserver