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DatabaseByDesign's Freedom Day Dedi Special
Have a hankering for some freedom? Looks like Database By Design's $17.76/mo E3 special is back!
The catch is you have to pay annually, so it's 213.12 freedom dollars for the year. I picked up one of these last time around (Jan or Feb) but with an hdd. I've had zero downtime - hardware, network, power, or otherwise. They are based in Philly and if I'm not mistaken have direct fiber to NYC.
Specs are:
- E3-1230 or better
- 16 gb RAM
- 240GB SSD
- 1Gbps /w 10TB BW
- 1x IPv4 with IPMI + /64 IPv6
Had to pick up another this time around. Delivery took a few days last time around so I'd imagine it's the same this time too.
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If their SUPPORT services weren't so lacking, I'd really want DbD to get a ton of sales. That you have to basically beg them to take your money, welp..
I also have their $218/yr special from Christmas.
I would also vouch for these guys as I have a server with them and everything is going smoothly. Like WSS said however, I quite literally, had to beg them to put my order through.
I understand, their support leaves much to be desired. But with all things considered they are still the most reliable host that I have servers with.
I can't argue with that. I should have said SUPPORT services. I have production stuff with them.
I want it. I don't need it. But I want it...
C'mon, pull the trigger. In a couple weeks after your first ticket, you'll never need to contact them again.
So tempting. If I can't control my impulse buying, I decided to stop going for (bi-, tri-)annually deals, at the very least! This looks very tasty
Gonna sleep over it and wait until this deal is over. I'm saving my wallet for OVH USA simply because it will take them awhile. Postponed spending - saved monies
This will probably be available around the same time. Just keep your tickets up to date!
Very bad support.
What do you guy's say is bad support? Slow, not helpful, arrogant, slow hardware failure replacement? Im asking because I'm interested in buy and never work with them before. I will almost no need any support... so what is so bad?
Also anyone knows what datacenter are they using?
They are in their self-owned datacenter based in Philadelphia, PA. Address is 401 North Broad St, Philadelphia PA, 19108, if you want to look it up on Google Maps or something.
Their support is definitely helpful and they seem like nice people, it just getting their attention that is the issue. I put in a ticket and never got a response, even though it was low priority (adding another IPv4). You might have to bump a ticket once or twice to finally get a response. I'm sure if it's something that's an emergency like failing hardware and the like, they'll be much more receptive and get you squared away quickly as per their SLA.
If you're confident in your own abilities to self manage your server, then you should have any issues. Like I said before, their infrastructure is top notch and I've never experienced a minute of downtime (5-min ping checks) in the six+ months I've had my server.
Thanks for your feedback! Can you or someone with a server there make the bellow simple bench so I can see their network speed? It's a anual deal and I want to make sure network speed will meet my needs.
wget freevps.us/downloads/bench.sh -O - -o /dev/null|bash
I really appreciate to anyone who can make the test and past it here. Thanks!
Here ya go!:
Thank's a lot! Is your hard drive SATA or SSD?
And I know it's maybe too much to ask, but can you just make one more speed test:
wget --no-check-certificate bench.sh && mv "index.html" "bench.sh" && chmod +x bench.sh && ./bench.sh
I'm asking this because according to your previous test, USA speeds seem excellent! I just want to make sure that speed to Europe is also good.
So if you can please run just this final test. I would one again really appreciate! Thanks!
Your shell excerpt won't work. Go away, DbD is slow for management, but their shit is solid. We don't need you there.
E: The joke being that they'd actually make it past the first stage: "Send us your ID, two forms of bills, semen, and some fingernail clippings."
It's a HDD. If you have a specific location/test file you want me to try I'll do it but that script just stalls out on me.
Did you get fraud checked by them? I think I remember someone else saying too that their verification was pretty ridiculous.
Yep. I got fraud checked, called from US phone number, gave them address that matched prefix, sent bills, ID, and semen/blood combo (don't ask), and it still took another week before I got out of stasis.
My heartfelt condolences.
If they fraud checked me I would have just drove over to say "hey fuckers," since I was living close by at the time.
If you have a specific location/test file you want me to try I'll do it but that script just stalls out on me.
Maybe you can try this: https://k4y5.github.io/ServerBench/
I would be very helpful. I'm asking this because it's a anual deal.. Thanks once again!
That one was stalling out as well. Do you have specific countries in mind?
Mine, too. I figured "Holy shit these guys know what they're doing." Follow up to two weeks later and I'm still waiting for IPMI access info.
I love your show!
On the next Dirty Jobs - A day in the life of a LET mod
It'd just be the same shit-show every day.
UK (London) / Germany / Spain / France
vmhaus - UK London - 18.2MB/s
QHoster - Germany - 14.5 MB/s
GinerNet - Spain - 12.3 MB/s
QHoster - France - 15.0 MB/s
Thanks helped a lot! I think I will buy one, Thanks
taken from WHT,
do they support windows server os (trial/licensed) ?
non-related question: do they give out invoices automatically or do you have to ask for it? (Thinking of buying it, and reimburse the cost)