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AFAIK, they both have advantages:
CPU: H(E31270)>B(L5520)
Network: B(1000Mbps)>H(100Mbps)
Disk: B(15G)>H(10G)
Network connectivity (for Asia): H(LA, Quadranet) (slightly)>B(SJC, Coresite)
Personally I prefer BuyVM since it's slightly cheaper. But Hostigation is awesome too.
Well I never compare prices but QoS (Quality of Service). I have 128MB KVMs from both providers, let me share benchmarks
BuyVM 128MB yearly KVM
Hostigation 128MB Monthly KVM
So my experience with both is amazing, up till now.
Hostigation has 2 locations unlike BuyVM. The extra $5/year for Hostigation is worth it considering Rock Hill, SC is less than 50 miles from my house (I have been within 2.5 miles of the DC) instead of over 2,500 for BuyVM.
@dmmcintyre3 : why is the distance between your house and the DC an important parameter (for you)? The distance in "ms" might be interesting, although I would think that for most people a lower "ms"-distance between the DC and their "customers" is mostly important (and not to their house).
If this was about rented rackspace then I would understand....
@dirk You would think logic would dictate distance from datacenter to customer would be the most important factor, but rarely the actual case. I've been doing this for 15+ years now, and I'm always amazed by webmaster to data center concern over the visitors. Now, in dmmcintre3's defense, while he is hosting freevps.us on his VPS, he is using it mostly for a personal VPN I think, and he has stated from his home to my SC location, 25ms latency.
As for the topic, have at it, there are strengths on both sides of this coin and I'm not getting into it.
@mitgib - i think the only way to settle this is that we both agree that nordicvps has bes- sorry i couldn't finish that with a straight face.
(too soon?)
Francisco
looking at my traffic stats, it's mostly (eastern) US and then half UK and half asia, but more of the active forum members are from Europe than Asia. But yes, I do use it as a VPN server.