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Looking for /another/ UK host.
First I was with Evorack, but was having trouble with them and decided to leave (didn't answer my tickets or attempt to resolve any of my problems, that were to do with their network).
Then, I moved to Inception Hosting, and within the first month the VPS went down twice (and is still down now, along with their site).
My usage is production, which means that everything has to run flawlessly and have as much uptime as possible. It's for running a busy IRC server, and it really needs to stay up.
I only need 512MB RAM, for anywhere between €8-€14 and it must be either Xen or KVM. 500GB minimum b/w, at least 100Mbit connection and 10GB disk space. And of course, it must be situated in the UK.
If anyone can strongly recommend a host to me other than the ones above, or if any providers feel they can work out a deal like above, I'd love it if you could reply. Thanks 
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Hi Fionn
I can do:
10GB SSD RAID10
512MB RAM
500GB BW
KVM/OnApp
£10/month
10GB SSD RAID10
512MB RAM
500GB BW
KVM/OnApp
£10/month
Vouch for this guy
Well, when I last checked it was down. But either way, this is twice in less than a month and it's unacceptable for my use.
10GB SSD RAID10
512MB RAM
500GB BW
KVM/OnApp
£10/month
Sounds good! Could you perhaps provide me with uptime stats from your nodes? And whereabouts in the UK?
Why Xen, or KVM? will OVZ not suffice?
Well, let me know if you found one! I tried NCES, OpenITC, HttpZoom and NodeDeploy: all of them had one problem or the other. LoveVPS is one I haven't tried (not sure if they offer KVM), but they don't have IPv6. UGVPS was going to open UK KVM offers but I don't know the status of that.
-Virt.io comes to mind, but they may be over your budget (I can't reach their site atm).-
My experience with OpenVZ hosts has been generally bad, with hosts overselling resources and my VPS ending up slowing down, going down or becoming unusable in some cases.
Ah yes, IPv6 is also a must for me. I'll look at those too, thanks!
http://www.sysadmin.co.uk/vps-hosting/ - he merged it with this website.
Hmm. It honestly depends on the provider, but if you would like to give it a try, we've got a seven day cooling off period, during that time a refund is possible. But even after the seven days I wouldn't have a problem refunding it during the first month should you not be satisfied with the service provided.
(And you can hold me to that).
Could you perhaps provide me with uptime stats from your nodes?
Node 1 (up the since it was bought 6 months ago)
[root@MAI-R1-DED28 ~]# uptime
17:37:55 up 195 days, 6:31, 4 users, load average: 5.80, 5.22, 3.30
Node 2 (up since it was bought 1 month ago)
[root@MAI-R4-DED24 ~]# uptime
17:38:44 up 23 days, 18:26, 3 users, load average: 0.59, 0.87, 0.98
And whereabouts in the UK?
Custodian DC in Kent
IPv6 available
Also vouch
Crystal is a great guy and am sure he would work out stuff with @sean if he did owe anything.
[root@MAI-R1-DED28 ~]# uptime
17:37:55 up 195 days, 6:31, 4 users, load average: 5.80, 5.22, 3.30
[root@MAI-R4-DED24 ~]# uptime
17:38:44 up 23 days, 18:26, 3 users, load average: 0.59, 0.87, 0.98
Nice! Seems like a viable choice then. Would you be able to set me up a VM with those specs and I could test it for 7 days to see how it runs? If I'm happy I'll stick with you after that
Ah, i'll drop Crystal a note to this thread for yas
@mpkossen What issues are you having barr then little ddos attack we experienced? It's been stable ever since (and before)
Out of curiosity - what problem did you face with those two companies?
@Fionn there's also always excellent AllSimple Xen http://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/6385 (IPv6 available).
@dominicl Last time I checked, Crystal was a girl. cmiiw
@Fionn I like NECS. They can provide you
1x IPv4, 5x IPv6
25GB HDD RAID10 (plus 15GB free backup space)
4x vCPU cores
512MB RAM
1750GB BW
KVM
with a 1gbps connection for £10/month.
http://www.necs.co.uk/kvm-vps-hosting/
Hello,
We can offer you the bellow:
512MB Ram
25GB HDD (Hardware RAID 10)
500GB B/W
1x IPv4
KVM
Custodian DC, Kent UK.
$7 / ~€5.30 / ~£4.50
Upgrades in line with the price listed above.
I can give you a 7 day MBG but not a trial I'm afraid.
Awkward moment, when crystal is really a woman.
Ah, no problem. I've bought one, first name is Fionn. Could you boost the SSD to 10GB and the b/w to 500GB?
All done. Thanks!
Cool, thanks!
@jhadley: perhaps you can redirect virt.io there? It seems like you're gone now.
@Fionn Indeed the node is down, sadly on both occasions it is down to hardware but I agree any customer on node 10 has had a rough month.
Data is being recovered on to a new node now, sorry for the issues and I understand why you are moving on, I would probably do the same.
Anthony.
Another company will likely be buying that domain very soon as they operate brands called VirtIO in a few different countries.
Thanks for your understanding. I must say though you were very helpful and giving me a month free was very generous of you
Good luck in the future!
Not sure why, but I am unable to set up a VM. I keep getting this error message: http://d.pr/i/pnPE
I'm using FreeBSD as the OS and setting things up as per your intro video
You're the only one I didn't have performance issues with. I found the no SSL a little disturbing (the responses to that ticket even more so, even though the intentions were good). Other than that the service I had was just fine: proper ticket responses and a good server. It's just that providers that don't get SSL (before me telling them about it) are ones that I usually don't recommend.
OpenITC had the poorest disk performance I've ever experienced. I don't know what kind of disks they are using, but I always had less than 25 MB/s write speeds. Also, order validation (my first order ever to be held for manual review) and support responses were slow. Their control panel, pricing and server specs are superb though. It's just performance & support that weren't good.
HttpZoom didn't have Ubuntu 12.04 at the time (it was like 6 months back or so) and the image they pulled for me wasn't working. Also, the SSL story.
News to me...
Is that when you click the final create button? Email me at [email protected] and I'll look at it.
@mpkossen Ah right on solusvm AFAIK. Self signed is completely fine, but a valid one always looks better.
Yep, SolusVM it was
Self-signed is fine, but scares off most people. A link to the non-SSL version in the welcome e-mail is less fine, but that has been correct (AFAIK).
Maybe you are on wrong node or your configuration is not best. My VPS is on kvm01 node and it gives more than 70 MB/s.