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LankaPartnerHost Review (aka. How I changed my mind about "shady" hosts)
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So I see they offer USA and Romanian VPSes, and not from their local country DC...
@ rsk & rm You can think what you want but 600+ of our clients not think like you. Its your private idea,. not everyone like you 2
@DomainBop Thank you for showing the errors in our new template
Bizarre country? So you thought your country was prosperous and well economically built strong before? You do know the fact the Asia is falling behind in terms of internet & social connectivity all because it's developing. What about the people who aren't born to silver spoons and wanted to do the same stuff you are doing at similar expenses? That's a barrier not where you come from or what time zone you are in. Finally it's all about dedication and how far you are willing to support your company.
There are various reasons, for example the two you mentioned - language barrier, access to the local company in the same timezone, for the local clients that is.
KVCWebhost did as well.
Pardon my French but do those Windows VPS plans have legit license?
@rm_ I am not trying to be hostile here, but have you seen bandwidth costs locally? The country itself is prepared for all kinds of IT services, but heck we can't sustain a business if we have to pay $1900+ per node with only 50GB of traffic. Yes 50GB.
Many of our clients prefer to take us on due to the fact that they can contact us within normal business hours (locally), and because we can offer many locations and points of presence for them globally.
Its a pity that some shameless people are trying to discourage a host or asking others not to buy something from them because they are from some other country.
1.If your point is they are middlemen then better dont buy services from any host as 99.99% lease servers from others & resell them.
2.Language is a barrier? I am not from an English speaking country but many hosts from English speaking countries contact me to correct grammatical mistakes from their pages, TOS & AUP.
3.Timezone is a problem? The host can adjust his hours of working according to the timings of the region where most of his clients live
So I think whoever said such things is either a troll or an extremly biased person who just hates others on basis of their nationality.
Based on the VPS plans Hostware is offering (512MB RAM, 5GB monthly bandwidth, for 125 euros), I'm guessing that bandwidth in UAE is even more expensive than it is in South Africa.
Okay now i changed my mind. -_-
@rm_ ? :P
I'm surprised you ask this. It's so obvious. They cater primarily to customers from their own country in their own language(s). Few - if any! - USA or Romanian providers have websites and offer support in Sinhala, Hindi, Arabic, Turkish or Chinese
Next step up is to leverage their low cost backend and go global, offering their services to the community at large. English proficiency aside, radical cultural and business environment differences make for many weird offers and marketing strategies, like this Twitter SNAFU here.
Exactly. This I can understand. What gives me a major WTF, is (for example) when a USA citizen goes to a Sri Lanka, UAE, etc, company to buy a USA VPS.
Low cost backend = competitive (read: undercut) pricing = many customers. Economics 101
I'm a perfect example of someone who buys US VPS's from non-US companies. I have 7 US VPS's: 4 are from a UK company, 1 from an Italian company, 1 from a Nicaraguan (company is incorporated in US but owner lives in Nicaragua), and 1 from a US company. My decision to buy the VPS's was based on the location of the VPS's, the plans and services offered in those locations, and the trustworthiness/reputation and reliability of the companies that offered VPS's in those locations. The nationality of the companies wasn't a consideration.
Bring your own. http://lowendtalk.com/discussion/16842/windows-vps-for-remote-desktop-7-m-xen-openvz-dmca-free-zone-for-6-93
Dont try to twist facts and make excuses for a totally shady host by interpreting criticism as racial, or regional. It has nothing to do with their country, and everything to do with unethical business practises. Read the comments again.
Three pertinent facts come to light. In case you didn't shrug it off on purpose, they are.. A relatively new provider who was using hidden whois for two years makes a foray into LET without reading the basic rules. He then, serves a test ip which was hosting a porn site, as his own. He tries to advertise himself off as a reputable host by buying Twitter followers. He engages an LET member to write a review for him. The member in question was someone who has posted in LET just 7 times including the so called review. For the past seven months, he had gone to earth, and suddenly woke up one fine morning and decided to write a positive review for an unknown host, whom most people have never tried.
Trust has to be earned the painstaking way-by providing quality service and receiving genuine accolades from real customers. Taking a devious shortcut by making someone write reviews, and social media jinx (read stupidity) is not ingenious. None of us around here has the IQ of a moron (no offense intended to the mentally subnormal segment of population).
Whether the provider uses the DC of a US based company though he is himself based in Sri Lanka or India has no relevance for me. I'd buy a @Leapswitch VPS as quickly as I'd buy one from @serverian or @prometeus or @iniz, if they provided the same specs, and had a track record of trustability.
I was not refering to you but some others here who obviously want others not to buy from non-US providers, if you go through all posts you will realise it.Such people are really shameless morons and if it was WHT they would have been banned by now.
What is your point? I didn't tried to prove that "local companies are not good" I was just stating the point that I'm in the web hosting scene for the past 6+ years and I only got to know your name when browsing through some wht threads.
I'm not a provider so why should II be jealous of you? It doesn't matter that fact that you are from my country if you have shady business practices. writing "whats your budget do you have a preferred location?" on every other thread is same as buying twitter followers from fiverr etc to boost your online cred. That's simply shady.
But then again, we both know a guy from Russia who prefer to get russian VPS for some reason from non russian company :P
@rm_ some of us offer descent, "hand holding", personal support
Trust me, it sets us apart.
You don't need to build your trust, especially for a person that skeptical.
I can vouch for @rsk's team's customer friendliness and personal support. It sets them miles apart from crappy providers like Greenvaluehost who behave like spoilt 6 year olds.
I start business since 2012 but only got 200 twitter follower
@ Ruchira blog you are talking what you dont know., you may be joined here before few years ago and WHT as well, but thats not the whole hosting world. We advertised long time on srilankan magazine called "pariganaka" , when we come to hosting business.
Also we rarely asking whats your budget & do you have a preferred location as others do same, you cant say its spamming , if its spam WHT never allows that.
Twitter followers not giving business to you , you dont know that because you not provide hosting services as u saying. Ex - http://fdcservers.net/ how large company them but have 549 FB likes. We get twitter followers for free as we do some help to the person who provided that, You only know fiverr to get twitter followers, sad about that.
If you not have jealous why you jump here and commenting bad on thread started by other country person (even they saying we are good ) ? Also you saying we are not famous in srilanka, may be yes, but atleast people like you know we do spamming on WHT, lol, on that mean we famous. You are trying to discourage people from your country doing online business.As I said erlier srilanka will keep as developing country till the people thinking like you.
Every developing countries have difficulties to compete with many developed countries due resources limitation in certain aspects.
People like @Ruchirablog , @ErawanArifNugroho , @Asim , @jcaleb and many more, are among those who endure to make a good impression of their country origin, good reputation on the web and especially to gain respect within the international community.
To enable us compete, good impression and reputation is somewhat important and doing a decent business becomes an essential part of it.
I guess I should stop replying to your assumptions
@lankapartnerhost
You would have looked a lot more dependable if you straight up admitted your mistakes. Sri Lankan or not, citizen of a developing country or not, hiding WHOIS information, providing a test IP to a porno site, losing x% of Twitter followers per day, trying to guilt-trip a critic using the nationality card for not helping you scam foreigners, and spamming "I've sent 28500 IMs using @digsby!" to your Twitter "followers" doesn't allow anyone but a retard think you're unprofessional and untrustworthy.
You can get angry all you want but your actions show who you are.
@vRozenSch00n
We are in the second decade of the 21st century and I don't think that the "developing country" mantra applies anymore because we now have a truly global economy. If anything, I would say that less industrialized countries are more fortunate because they have to deal with less pollution, less processed foods, less consumerism and less debt per capita. Not to mention that these countries offer the world some of the most talented people like engineers, scientists, doctors, software developers and so on, simply because these people have higher aspirations and want more from life than those who live in the "developed world" (whatever that means these days).
I understand the need to impress during the 90's and earlier, but these days I think that many people in the western "developed world" have woken up and realized that they need to impress people in other countries just as much if they want to be able to make a decent living in this global economy.
The bottom line is that we should treat each other well, regardless of our background.
That is one of the problem, the economy is global, cost of living is also global, but the income is local
I truly agree to that.