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Quarterly Top Provider Poll
jar
Patron Provider, Top Host, Veteran
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Hi everyone!
It's time to jump-start the quarterly provider poll on LET! This is for Q3 of 2016. Who were your favorite providers during this time?
Rules for eligibility to vote:
- Account must have been created no later than August, 2016.
- Account must have at least 5 posts.
- Providers can vote, but cannot vote for themselves.
Rules for the votes:
- You get three standard votes.
- One vote is one provider, no “I give three votes to _____.”
- You can use less than three votes.
- You get one additional vote, outside of the other three, for “Best New Provider.” Vote for someone new that you think shows a lot of promise.
- Votes will end at 11:59 PM US/Central on October 15. The results will be shown on November 1st.
Prizes:
Winners to be drawn randomly from the voter list. If providers would like to offer any prizes, feel free to contact us at the helpdesk. This is your chance to be featured right before people vote, and to give back to the community!
Prize #1: One year of VDR4 from ImpactVPS ( @Awmusic12635 )
Prize #2: $48 account credit with HostUS for 3 lucky winners valid on any service with no expiry date. Vote for your chance to win!
Prize #3: 5 x DNS-OVZ-1024 plans free for 1 year from DeepNetSolutions (GestionDBI). 5 lucky winners will be picked at random.
Prize #4: 20 x KVM HDD Limited plan for 3 months from wishosting ( @exception0x876 )
Comments
VirtWireInceptionHosting
InceptionHosting, Time4VPS and MXroute
Mightweb, Dediserve, Time4VPS
For new provider, Impactvps
vultr
digitalocean
prometeus
Providerservice. They were on LEB only twice, but I had ZERO problems with them for 4 years straight.
Ramnode for providing very stable service and fast network connectivity
Hosthatch for the same reason
How new should be provider to participate in Best New Provider? YourServer is relatively new, so if this counts, I'll vote for them.
All the people I currently use for services.
BuyVM, Ramnode, SecureDragon.
Best new provider: TragicServers. Not exactly new, but new-ish compared to others and I think shows promise. OK to remove if you have different time criteria in mind.
To be honest, I'd add DO and Vultr to best provider, but that's like voting for Wal-mart for best grocer. Shop local. Even if local is, well, Luxembourg or something.
Best new provider: Budgetnode
@jarland: Thank you very, very much for overtaking the duty to manage this poll!
ImpactVPS, Ramnode, Vultr
Best New Provider: ImpactVPS
Best new provider: Budgetnode
Dediserve, impactvps, ramnode
Prometeus, Arubacloud, Hostforce
InceptionHosting
Securedragon
Dacentec
Best New Provider: Hostforce
ZXHost
ArubaCloud
Hetzner
HM: Virmach, Delimiter, HostUS, Prometeus, TransIP, online.net, OVH
SecureDragon,
BuyVM,
Dediserve.
Best new: BudgetNode
In no particular fucking order:
No vote for a new provider because with existing providers as fucking good as these, I don't fucking need them.
Best new provider = BudgetNode
Best new provider: BudgetNode
Prometeus
BuyVM
SecureDragon
Without licking asses:
One vote for InceptionHosting
One vote for VPSDime
One vote for OVH
New provider: Dedistation
Other that aren't part of the vote but still worth to mention, Virmach, Infinity's, Trabia.
Try it sometime. It's not as bad as you might think.
In no particular order. I'm just not using many others right now.
Time4VPS, Trabia, BuyVM.
Well, difficult to chose. But, let's try:
1.InceptionHosting: Despite the Miami issue, Ant is doing an excellent job having very stable nodes, great performance for less money and, as a plus, he has to be honored for his LES movement he started and continuing be the leader to it! Kudos!2.BuyVM: Those guys certainly know their job! Fran and his partners are running one of the most stable platforms out there for a very low price. They are in my list, not so for their (excellent) vps line, but for running the best shared hosting platform, comparing to what their clients are paying! 20€ per year for a reseller hosting with dedicated ip, stable as rock, well, this is an achievement!3.WholesaleInternet: OK, this is not the most quality provider. But, still, I'm impressed! Paying peanuts (25$) for an E5220 with 24GB memory, 3TB HDD and a gigabit line with no cap in bandwidth is, well, not bad! If you know how to use it (having backups, disaster plans, know the limits of the service in connectivity etc.), it's very good. Even the speed! I get -speedtest.net- almost always ~50MBits upload to Athens (9380.74 km away!) and over 750Mbits download to closest server or ~500Mbits to Kansas Packet Layer. And, despite what they are saying about their support, everytime I wanted something, I got answer in minutes and if it was about an issue, they resolve it in minutes or a couple of hours, much more sooner than other expensive providers. Even for their 10$ range! And we are talking for dedicated servers!If I had more votes, I would also include Prometeus/IWstack (they are not in the first 3 only because I didn't use them a lot for the last 6-8 months but they are the best small real cloud out there), ArubaCloud (their 1€ line is just incredible), RamNode (my small backup box is there just running, excellent service from them), HostUS (I have 2 boxes with them, very good performance and uptime).
New provider:After a long time I didn't, I bought services from 2-3 new providers but the time frame is too small to have an opinion. I'll be back to this on the next poll!