Features VPS companies should add

raindog308

There are a number of companies that offer outsourced support on a pay-per-ticket model.

subigo

@taipres said: Heh, do you really pay per ticket?

Yes.

Asad

Anyone looking for cPanel licenses, HostDime offered $14 cPanel licences for new customers, goes down to $13 after five purchases.

BuycPanel offer an API and WHMCS plugin I think to manage licenses, so customers can provision/modify licenses themselves. There shouldn't really be any tickets about it, it's pretty simple.

jcaleb

@taipres you reduce concerns, you reduce cost/energy of the provider.

other topic: from your original list, i really have no problems paying extra for additional services. because those things help a lot when you want to consider your box for production.

jcaleb

btw, do we have stats on how many percent uses their leb's for web hosting? If good, can we list features/setup specific for such usage?

joepie91

@Jack said: I don't really like the way TOR's used. so I'd say no.

Uhm, what?

MrAndroid

@taipres said: Cheaper cpanel offering - the standard $15 a month is way too high, I know budget VPS providers don't have a "in" like shared hosting giants such as Hostgator, so can't offer at their prices, but something lower than 10 would be nice. Maybe a big discount if a user rents the VPS months in advance, so that cpanel is actually an option. Cheaper the better

You expect the impossible.

@taipres said: Better resource monitor - SolusVM unfortunately isn't accurate and is very misleading on memory usage and most likely BW. Also making it accessible via phone app would be great. Lastly I know you providers are using quality stuff behind the scenes, share the love.

SolusVM has mobile apps.

AnthonySmith

Great list, a good target to work with, cPanel however is not a realistic expectation given the $7 IN TOTAL budget limited.

Maybe someone should start up allthatandabagforchips.com with a $20 limit and rather than a cost p/MB competition its a feature list and the resources are pre defined by the site.

William

@taipres said: Allow Tor(entry/middle nodes at least) and proxies(private at least) - Only Tor exit nodes risk getting notices from gov, copyright groups etc.. for abuse, Tor entry/middle nodes don't.

No.
ANY Tor node (Entry, Exit, Middle, Bridge) can be currently used to send out FULL BW reflection DDoS attacks - Very unsafe to run at the moment until this is fixed.

Source: I run a few Gbit exits

MrAndroid

You know, why not at the same time offer a free Ferrari with all VPSs, and maybe throw in a free house too!

birdie25

@taipres said: Allow Tor(entry/middle nodes at least) and proxies(private at least) - Only Tor exit nodes risk getting notices from gov, copyright groups etc.. for abuse, Tor entry/middle nodes don't. All they do is relay encrypted data anonymously, so basically just bandwidth contributors. In terms of private proxies, they have a lot of uses like doing what a VPN does only without the hassle of setting that up, or dealing with some of its flaws.

Maounique, is that you?

joepie91

@Jack said: It's mainly used for illegal activity for what I have seen it used for.

Ever considered that that may have to do with the fact that for example a Syrian activist can't really shout off the rooftops that he's using TOR?

Seriously, according to your logic you'd have to ban e-mail because it's "mainly used for illegal activity".

JTR

@taipres said: Free/cheap DNS hosting

What's wrong with Cloudflare?

@taipres said: IPv6

Quite a few providers have this now.

@taipres said: Free/cheap file backup

Hard drives are still crazy expensive, so no.

@taipres said: Free domain

You'd need to be making quite a bit of profit from your users, and lock them in for a year at least for this to be a profitable perk.

@taipres said: Allow Tor(entry/middle nodes at least) and proxies(private at least)

Tor is shady, I don't blame them for banning it. Proxies, I agree.