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We have Had a lot of mentions about Hardware.
Which are the hardware causing bottleneck for your usage?
Here are some factors:
Trusted hosting provider
24/7 Support
Bandwidth
Uptime
performance
Totally agree with you well said.
Just on the Google rank, it is not that simple anymore and SEO is becoming more and more complicated even though Server speed is still a factor
Support
Uptime
Port speed
CPU
Refund
Price
Its always nice to have forums rather than rely on who comes up first on google search or advertisements.
You are less likely to get scams with offers on LET as people will heavily scrutinize that company especially if they are less than a year old.
Most companies here are also pretty transparent with their modus operandi, which is great for gaining immediate trust. Although I still take it with a grain of salt.
I agree with you, especially in the last couple of months google results are not stable and sometimes very random sites are showing on top!
in my opinion:
1. check the necessary requirements. Don't get a shortage of resources or an excess of too many resources.
2. From the first point, you can determine the need for CPU, RAM, and others
3. Server location. This is quite important because it also affects the speed when accessed by the client. Although there are technologies like cloudflare that can help lower latency as well.
4. Reliable. Of course I don't want my server to be down frequently.
5.Support. Speed in responding is also very important. Especially if there are problems related to problems on the server. The availability of Live Chat will also be very helpful especially if it can be resolved through Live Chat.
6. Finally and no less important is the price. It's useless cheap if the five points above don't exist. But if you get a cheaper price from an existing provider, of course you will choose the cheap one.
The name of the company.
Thank you for mentioning these important points
Do Advertisements and Google results affect you or do you do your own Research?
ISO27001
I lean towards deals that have extra IP's for free or not so expensive.
I agree with what most people said.
A great network, hardware, etc....
For me most important thing is:
32GB RAM
8 core Ryzen 7950X
1TB NVMe
Unlimited bandwidth @ 10gbps
$1/year
For me I like:
Support... for anything "important to me" I go for managed, I find you normally get "decent support"
Communication .... if their is an issue, why? What are we doing about it?
Reasonable hardware.... I don't need blazing fast hardware, but I also don't want bottom of the barrell stuff
Good prices.... I don't want to pay over the odds but I also don't want to pay nothing and be an "unsustainable customer"
Resources.... modifiable ... some hosts are very strict on resources and won't move/allow addons .... this I get is because that's their model ... but when you just need a "little more" ... its over kill to have to go to the next package up ... and my stance would be if you want to pay for it I will give you whatever you want (disk/ram/bandwidth wise)
Good base packages.... Good resources, reasonable priced
include 365 day money back guarantee as well
Not a very appealing offer yet maybe + a PS5 can fix the deal
No spammy threads
Like for me The after sales support is most important part bcoz now a days every provider says 99% uptime and so and so but real challenge comes when any downtime comes and that provider really there to listen to my problems bcoz many provider stopped giving us replies and do not even hear what we’re saying so yeah uptime, staff support, help us whenever we need them.
This is quiet true - it's always good to have a reliable and prompt support from the hosting provider.
Friendly and prompt technical and account support
Reliable network
Good hardware for your buck
A good reputation
Good differentiators
Shout out to @Francisco - You and the team do great work!
As a client?
I tend to take virtualization type, link speed, transfer limit, pricing and performance into account, but most of my (or rather, our) use case involve large transfer limit within a set budget. So I guess transfer cost is the one thing I care most.
What would be your preferred Hypervisor?
Xen (full virtualization) first, KVM second, LXC third. Since KVM is the most common type of full virtualization, that's the one I'll always prefer.
I always avoid OpenVZ like plague as it's way too restrictive.