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Reliable Arizona VPS provider? (low to medium pricing)
I'm looking for a reliable VPS provider in Arizona (Arizona because the place has to have similar pings from Seattle and Chicago. Any other location that qualifies on this count will also do).
It's to host a database server, and hence has to be from a reliable host (I would call the likes of DO, Linode, Ramnode etc as reliable).
Need only 1 or 1.5 GB RAM at most.
Would prefer if it's monthly $10 or so. Anyone comes to mind?
I know that VirMach has a location there, but it's not billed by the hour, so I can't spin it up and see if it's good. I can't make use of deadbeat CPUs, since it's for the database. At least a medium type E5 core would be needed.
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I can sure do this for you in Phoenix.
Sorry, I'm on my phone or I'd post a direct link.
@anthonysmith?
Francisco
20 GB SSD
1 GB RAM
1vCore (E5-2680)
$10/mo
https://www.spryservers.net/clients/cart.php?a=add&pid=209
**Open a ticket and I'll throw in a gig port upgrade
Intel Xeon E5-2680v2
1 Dedicated vCore @ 2.8GHz
3GB Dedicated RAM
30GB SSD
60GB HDD
1 IPv4
1TB Bandwidth @ 1gbps
Phoenix
£5/m | £55/y
https://clientsarea.hostdoc.co.uk/cart.php?a=add&pid=853
^ that @HostDoc deal is pretty nice. I've been using it since it came online in June - so far it has been 100% all there in terms of uptime, network, and performance. Can recommend. Note that they are a small shop and have been in business as such for just about 2 years now so would be certainly be a different category than Linode or DO, but are tl;dr: legit quality as far as I'm concerned.
Also have good experience with the InceptionHosting 400 GB storage deal in Phoenix for about 10 months - it has been perfectly reliable but CPU is generic QEMU clocked at about 2.2 GHz (possibly a dedicated vcore if I remember correctly) - and I'm not sure the hard drive would be all that well suited for database stuff. Perhaps @AnthonySmith has other options available in Phoenix as well?
I don't have direct experience with @SpryServers_Tab in Phoenix but they do seem to know what they're doing - and have apparently priced their offer accordingly. I personally would still be inclined to take a closer look at that one if there might be some expectation of a superior SLA / premium network / possibly a dedicated core or similar value added to suit your databasing requirements. Looks like they've been in business since 2013 and are a professional outfit.
Thanks for the mentions: Link to Phoenix packages: https://inceptionhosting.com/vpsusakvm.html
I think there is a small mistake in one of your package here:
https://inceptionhosting.com/vpsserversall.html
I believe price of following package is incorrect because there is another one with double RAM and 15GB SSD cache and it is €3.50/3months.
UK - London
OpenVZ
1 CPU
256MB
10GB SSD cached
500GB
€3.50/months
We should fit the bill there with our Denver CO or Las Vegas NV locations:
KVM NVME SSD Linux VPS - DETAILS
10GB NVME SSD Disk Space
1GB RAM
1000GB Bandwidth
1vCPU (E5-2670)
SolusVM Control Panel
Fully Customizable Resources
CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, Fedora, & more...
ORDER NOW - Starting at $2.95/monthly
You can significantly upgrade the resources from the default plan listed above, and still stay below your budget.
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He did state Arizona; If vegas was a choice, buyvm woulda been mentioned already by fran.
I didn't miss anything. You missed this part though: "...similar pings from Seattle and Chicago. Any other location that qualifies on this count will also do"
Vegas would be suitable for that need. ;-)
Actually, our Denver CO location may even top them both, as that is more central to the two locations and quite a bit less distance/latency...
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Just speaking from my experience since i get subpar 11-12 to frans, but 7-8 to servers here.
KVM vs OpenVZ
Wishosting has this for $4 in Phoenix
1 vCPU core Xeon E5-2680v2
Unlimited CPU core 3.1GHz Turbo
2GB ECC RAM
20GB SSD
Bandwidth 250Mbps
Traffic 2TB
(resources stackable in openNebula right? @exception0x876 )
The 250mbit shouldn't be an issue for a medium DB host. The actual latency matters more.
I strongly recommend Parkside Tech. We’ve been using them for a windows VPS at work that 10 RDP clients connect to nearly everyday as a workstation. Extremely reliable and great performance.
They aren’t low end price but worth every penny knowing a great team is behind you. Anything critical I’ve moved over to their services.
Both are OpenVZ
UK - London
1
256MB
10GB SSD cached
500GB
€3.50/months
OpenVZ
UK - London
1
512MB
15GB SSD cached
500GB
€3.50/3months
OpenVZ
By the way some of your packages are very tempting.
Ah ok, sorry, will take a look.
Thanks guys. I ordered from one of you guys, and checked via looking glasses on the networks of a couple of others.
Turns out that the physical distance doesn't always correspond to network distance. The pings to IL, VA and OH are about 40-50% longer than those to OR from Arizona, while the situation is quite the reverse from Dallas, another location I checked.
That leaves me with options like Denver (and possibly Nebraska and Dakotas, but I'm not sure they have server farms out there).
This is the only looking glass I found in Denver http://lg.exabytes.com/
And it gives me 53 to OR and 40 to VA/OH. It's sort of doable, but exabytes doesn't seem to have VPSes in Denver. Does @SmartHost have an LG?
I think @KuJoe has services in Denver too, correct me if I am wrong.
We could do this eventually in Dallas, if its of interest.
I too am missing @KuJoe , been a while since hes been around here I feel like.