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AlexHost experience?

gxdzgxdz Member

Have you used AlexHost recently? How's your experience been?

I don't want to start bashing a provider until I know if the issues I'm encountering are isolated or widespread, but let's just say that I am amazed.

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  • I haven't used them (as far as I can recall at least) but I remember this thread from last month: https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/179158/alexhost-cc-ing-all-their-clients-emails

    Accidentally leaked their entire customer database.

  • gxdzgxdz Member
    edited July 2022

    @Dupondt said: Accidentally leaked their entire customer database.

    Yes, I know about the leak, but about that I couldn't care less.

    (edit: withdrawing the rant for now because it seems like an isolated issue)

  • I am using them for almost 2 years. No issues so far.

    iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):

    Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed
    | | |
    Clouvider | London, UK (10G) | 80.6 Mbits/sec | 77.5 Mbits/sec
    Online.net | Paris, FR (10G) | busy | 78.2 Mbits/sec
    Hybula | The Netherlands (40G) | 82.3 Mbits/sec | 78.2 Mbits/sec
    Uztelecom | Tashkent, UZ (10G) | 79.4 Mbits/sec | 76.2 Mbits/sec
    Clouvider | NYC, NY, US (10G) | 74.1 Mbits/sec | 75.6 Mbits/sec
    Clouvider | Dallas, TX, US (10G) | 45.0 Mbits/sec | 68.6 Mbits/sec
    Clouvider | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 72.9 Mbits/sec | 72.2 Mbits/sec

  • gxdzgxdz Member

    @imgmoney what range were you assigned?

  • imgmoneyimgmoney Member
    edited July 2022

    37.221.0.0/16

    I checked the UpTimeRobot notification for the downtime alert. I saw it only two times.

    1) 1 minute, 8th August 2021
    2) 2 minute, 17th September 2021

    And no alerts since then.

  • mjcoliveira90mjcoliveira90 Member
    edited July 2022

    My Vps almost every week has some down time. The last time was yesterday
    https://hetrixtools.com/report/uptime/2022-07/e0f1141f90fa97fcb89a5c6b620db520/

  • gxdzgxdz Member

    @mjcoliveira90 said: My Vps almost every week has some down time. The last time was yesterday

    You have 99.95% uptime. I have 94% according to UptimeRobot.

    Actually, according to the ping metric I have 0% uptime, because none of the servers on my range respond to ping. You know, standard practice.

  • HostMT3HostMT3 Member
    edited July 2022

    I have using them for Warez and freedom of speech (right-wing) no issues so far.
    https://alexhost.com/vps/ I'm using their 2 package unmanaged VPS

    With incognet both are great, here is the uptime of my vps in alexhost
    https://i.imgur.com/e81avNB.png

    @gxdz said:

    @mjcoliveira90 said: My Vps almost every week has some down time. The last time was yesterday

    You have 99.95% uptime. I have 94% according to UptimeRobot.

    Actually, according to the ping metric I have 0% uptime, because none of the servers on my range respond to ping. You know, standard practice.

    That is when Anti-DDoS Protection is ON, the ping is disabled by default. And if you check looking glass ping is also disabled most of times. Of course when you ping to it, uptime tools will report "offline" when isn't.

    @Dupondt said:
    I haven't used them (as far as I can recall at least) but I remember this thread from last month: https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/179158/alexhost-cc-ing-all-their-clients-emails

    Accidentally leaked their entire customer database.

    Not entire.. partial of some 1 Node. Not more than that.

  • gxdzgxdz Member

    @HostMT3 said: That is when Anti-DDoS Protection is ON, the ping is disabled by default. And if you check looking glass ping is also disabled most of times. Of course when you ping to it, uptime tools will report "offline" when isn't.

    That's funny. I too blame DDoS protection because the outages are kinda periodic. The support is completely clueless. Any idea how to turn it off? Don't see a way to disable it in the control panel.

    Actually, after lowering UptimeRobot interval I get even lower uptime - 90%. Also the network chart shows that I went through 400 GB incoming bandwidth in less than a month, while I have nearly zero logs for the services I run on that VPS. Somebody pounding the server with insane 250 kilobytes per second DDoS attack is enough to bring the whole system to its knees?

  • D3n3yD3n3y Member

    using it for 1 year. I haven't had any big problems.

  • Using it for for almost 1year. Mysql server getting down most of the time for 3-4minutes. But server become unreachable for 1-3% in every month. And i saw cpu Steal % is high sometime everyday. 1£/monthly is suitable for the service. I think best at price. I would like to use there upgraded packages soon.

    Thanked by 1JasonM
  • DonkeyDonkey Member

    @bdspice said:
    Using it for for almost 1year. Mysql server getting down most of the time for 3-4minutes. But server become unreachable for 1-3% in every month. And i saw cpu Steal % is high sometime everyday. 1£/monthly is suitable for the service. I think best at price. I would like to use there upgraded packages soon.

    How do you measure cpu steal?

  • @Donkey said:

    @bdspice said:
    Using it for for almost 1year. Mysql server getting down most of the time for 3-4minutes. But server become unreachable for 1-3% in every month. And i saw cpu Steal % is high sometime everyday. 1£/monthly is suitable for the service. I think best at price. I would like to use there upgraded packages soon.

    How do you measure cpu steal?

    Sar

  • been with them for months. so far so good. Hosting adult and warez with no problem

  • vladimirleninvladimirlenin Member
    edited July 2022

    @securer said:
    been with them for months. so far so good. Hosting adult and warez with no problem

    From where have you bought domains? And what precaution steps need to be taken?

  • use a domain that is not part of ICANN. make your VPS locked down where only cf and your personal IP can access it and everyone else is blocked. I have a forum so i use another server as my smtp with some privacy tweak so it will only show my SMTP IP and not the real IP of my VPS.

    That makes my VPS ddos protected, invisible to IOT scanners, unreachable by everyone except for myself and cf ip's and etc.

    @vladimirlenin said:

    @securer said:
    been with them for months. so far so good. Hosting adult and warez with no problem

    From where have you bought domains? And what precaution steps need to be taken?

  • @securer said: That makes my VPS ddos protected, invisible to IOT scanners, unreachable by everyone except for myself and cf ip's and etc.

    in general this is applicable to my vm also, ty

  • As long as you know how to set it up. Yes it is.

    You or anyone can try to scan my site as much as you can and if you can extract my vps real IP. I will give you 8gb ram 4vcpu vps :)

    @ElonBezos said:

    @securer said: That makes my VPS ddos protected, invisible to IOT scanners, unreachable by everyone except for myself and cf ip's and etc.

    in general this is applicable to my vm also, ty

  • JasonMJasonM Member

    no major downtimes on alexhost.
    but the network speeds are terribly low for production-usage.
    I'll post speeds later here today!

  • jarjar Patron Provider, Top Host, Veteran
    edited July 2022

    Alexhost is a spam operation. Alex runs Contrust Solutions which is a 100% spam network and can be seen under his ASN: https://www.ripe.net/membership/indices/data/md.cseurope.html

    https://bgp.he.net/AS200019#_prefixes
    https://bgp.he.net/net/62.68.73.0/24#_dns
    https://bgp.he.net/net/77.90.190.0/24#_dns

    If you see Contrust Solutions there is a 100% correlation to spam and a 0% correlation to any other activity. RIPE associating Contrust with "alex" and Alexhost delegating ranges to Contrust, I can only reasonably conclude that Alex is a career spammer. Doesn't look much better if you break out of Contrust Solutions and just look at any other Alexhost range: https://bgp.he.net/net/176.123.2.0/24#_dns

    Don't give him your money. Don't financially support spammers.

    Thanked by 2SinV Erisa
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