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Longest standing cheap vps provider
CoastHosting
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Team,
Who do you trust with your data/website/uptime... if you could back it up to one provider who do you trust?
I'm looking for Top 5 budget providers that have been around for a long time and if i invest in them they're not going to disappear
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https://www.panix.com
They haven't raised prices in 15+ years, and they have been around nearly 30
@Francisco - BuyVM, INIZ, Inception Hosting. Have seen them here for a long period of time.
You can see more here
Have used them in that period 2013-2014 and not recently but I'm sure many will vouch for them here.
They don't really qualify as a "budget provider".
Their 1 GB Ram, 24 GB Storage VPS is $15/month.
here my list since i join LET.
Ramnode, BuyVM, InceptionHosting, VPSDime, HostUS, MCH, Dediserve.
OVH is my favourite. Powering my projects since 2013 or so
Don't forget bandwagon host, mate..
My vps is still up, for almost 4 years.. never have any issue at all..
This has to be a bleeding edge Kernel running on your VM
DigitalOcean or Vultr
VMHaus! We are around for more than a year now. Affordable nvme vps
What's the longest term plan you've sold?
https://virmach.com
other than few names mentioned already, I consider it reliable in cheap provider category. server runs fine and good.
https://tinykvm.com/ seems to around since 2009.
DigitalOcean looks very promising.
might be Xen whiz Luke Crawford's https://prgmr.com/ (2005-2006ish til now), which was the first truly 'cheap' provider when Linode's $20/mo plan was still the hot "budget" option around
from 2006
https://web.archive.org/web/20061108232117/http://prgmr.com:80/xen/
Monthly price Ram Minimum portion of one CPU Mirrored Fibre-channel disk space Transfer $5 64Mb 1/32 1G 10Gbit $9 128Mb 1/16 2G 20Gbit $13 192Mb 3/32 3G 40Gbit $17 256Mb 1/8 4G 80Gbit $33 512Mb 1/4 8G 160Gbit $63 1024Mb 1/2 16G 320Gbit $120 2048Mb 1 32G 640Gbit $214 4000Mb 2a 73Gb 1280Gbitalso of course BuyVM, who has been here *roughly since this site's founding
Johncompanies.com may go back even further than prgmr.com--I'm not sure. They advertised on kuro5hin.org if anyone here remembers that site. I became aware of VPS because of them but stayed skeptical until buying a 192MB OpenVZ from alienvps on LEB a few years ago. It was crap but it showed me that the concept was workable. So the addiction started.
in no particular order
prometheus - eu
finalhosting.cz - eu
ramhost.us - us
vpsdime - us/eu
buyvm - us/eu
iniz - us/eu
ramnode - us/eu
quickweb.co.nz -usa, new zealand, eu
citynethost.com - egypt
urpad.net - us
virpus - us
123systems.net - us/eu
nocser.net - malaysia
openvz.ca - canada
inceptionhosting - eu, uk
anynode (formerly hostigation) - us
edis - eu, exotic
servarica - us
cinfu - eu, exotic
kazila - us
semoweb - us
fitvps - eu, exotic
dogado (alvotech) - eu
vps.co.za - south africa
hosthink - turkey
corgitech - eu, us
ghesi - eu, exotic
hostinginside - eu, us, taiwan
ipxcore - us
ip-projects - eu
bluevm - us
gbservers - uk
virtio - us, eu
chicago vps - us
hudson valley host - us
please note;
being around for a long time is not always a sign of reliability and good business.
list does not serve as promoting or advising these companies, this is merely a factual list of long time companies in this market that i recall, it is not an exhaustive list, and it does not imply these companies are reliable. in fact some just are not. but there are reliable ones as well. it is only meant as information regarding aged players.
again, to reiterate, i do not see a necessary correlation betweenreliability and trust and long history.
it is possible that companies currently not have low end plans as in let guidelines. but at least at some time they used to.
who would i trust right now to put data in and considering long term? probably vultr.
but imho there is no long term in the vps business, at some point there is bound to be a nuisance, like company sold or servers outdated so they update hardware or move dc etc and your ip may be changed etc etc. i wouldn't make long term hands off plans relying on vps.
finalservers.cz - does not exist.
fixed. it was supposed to be finalhosting.cz. (https://cp.finaltek.com/cart.php?language=english)
I guess in their sales meetings they decided this was probably good to keep the prices high so things get paid for and well, the company can be around for longer.
lol @ all the kiddies from the last 3-5 years name dropping some quarterly poll winners
I think SecureDragon deserves that.
This...
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For me, Linode and DigitalOcean looks very promising.
Wow! thanks guys for the responses. OVH has had a rep and is super large along with Digital Ocean and Vultr.... Vultr network seems a bit buggy. I am trying OVH lets see how we go
EDIS should have 20+ years now (as same company), some others have similar/near.
Age of company is less important than people think if it is owned by something larger as OVHs things anyway.
LFCVPS has been around a long time. This offer is still valid:
https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/5544/lfcvps-1gb-xenpv-vps-for-6.50month
They offer rotating backups with full automated restores for this price.
Great support but they don't really seem to be active in the low-end market anymore. I've had a great experience with them.
Hard to go wrong with BuyVM as everyone knows, however...
Ramnode
Since 2010 here.
who is the best from all ?
MzunguHosting - http://mzunguhosting.ml/