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What Makes a Great LET Provider?
What are the top things the LET community looks for in a provider here? Curious what people think.
1) Lowest Prices?
2) Great ticket time responses?
4) Easy to order and put in tickets?
5) Giveaways?
Maybe those are just a few.
Thx
Danny
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Not deadpooling.
~ SMARTHOST
it all starts from a Black Friday in any year.
Some great crazy offers and then the provider remains strong and gives sustainable offers.
i think 2-5 are 100% valid.
just add no pants.
6) Not deadpooling
7) Not creating threads like this
What happened to
3)?I would say the providers who are easy to reach either via tickets or on LET and also interact with the community are the gold. It's often more important than cheap deals.
It's easier to trust such provider at least with non-critical stuff we host.
Being able to hook it up is pretty important too
This always leads to Top Host (many votes from fellow LET readers)
Routed /48 and BGP session, all within $7/month with 2GB RAM.
Hi,
just a wild guess from me.....
3)
7 USD/y
3.1)
recurring 7 USD/y until the end of days ( of the galaxy )
... before recession....
hope it fits!
... but i added it back for you
Who is doing this?
🐴
@Rubben
As long he hook it up with me when needed
Yeah what’s up
Not fighting on the forums (unless the product is solid).
I can hook it up.
I like providers that have a soul, and seem like someone I can talk to. For example, @crunchbits
I like providers who have strong will and do not yield to blackmail temptation from @Rubben like @MikeA
Effective, in-house support.
Seeing as it's lowend and cheap, I'd prefer a provider that has no support over one that has dumb, outsourced support.
You should see his direct messages
Provider that customer feel they can reach (when needed), not some sort of god that the customer would never have touch of.
transparency in offers
1.) Reliable, working services (uptime, uptime, uptime!)
I try to do what I can on my side. Usually I open a ticket only if the services unavailable, problems with invoices, payment gateway or something not available on the control panel, like rDNS setting.
2.) Long time operation (no deadpool, no owner change, no rebranding, no IP changing...)
3.) Acceptable (low) but sustainable pricing (I preferred: monthly payment).
4.) Reliable support:
If the "1.)" is available, I don't need the fastest support but if something goes wrong, I can get help, co-operation from human. I have many-many VPS average with 0-2 tickets for years
5.) Honor the original offer's conditions/terms (pricing, VPS plan specification, location, etc) as can be possible..
yapping a lot
That your discount is recurring and the price is not raised. No excuses which amount to a bait and switch.
I would like an ex aws sysadmin
I’m surprised nobody has posted “provides $3/yr deals” yet.
But yes I concur with most posts here, no deadpooling, reasonably priced deals, and support that will respond within a few days (though the providers I have all respond in 1-2 hours…).
thats realistically unrealistic.
$7 / year is the mandate.
i like providers where i don’t have to resort to blackmailing with gay porn to get a good deal
1) Shouldn’t be a Summer Host,
2) Good Uptime,
3) Easy Accessible to Customer Care Services,
4) Sustainable Business Model,
5) Once in a Blue moon, crazy offers for Existing Users,
6) Support to Open Source Community.
7) Transparency with Customers.
Keep Moving Forward mate
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Good Luck @DediRock
bro... all i asked was if you could price match and your reply was sure i can price match $1050/m azure