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[RECOMMENDATIONS FOR NEW MEMBERS]: Most trustworthy, reliable, over all BEST LET providers?
Hello fellow stoned people and not so very stoned people,
In your expert opinion and personal experience, as well as time spent on LET, and having used various providers, based on various criteria such as uptime, server quality, network, support, deals, reliability, and good reputation for good business practices, etc. etc. etc., whom would you recommend to any new comer on LET and why?
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Yours truly, the stoned guy.
Comments
@Mr_Tom @LowHosting Wishosting
One can't have stability, performance, and low price at once.
I prefer stability and low price at the cost of performance, so I would recommend VirMach for personal use.
When I do business, OVH or AWS with Cloudflare might be a choice.
BUYVM is going to be a close one.
Hetzner, inceptionhosting, letbox, liteserver. Those are premiums while not charging leg and kidney.
It really depends on what you value more. But overall, it's gotta be the german hosts like hetzner, netcup, phpfriends etc.
Letbox, buyvm, hosthatch, greencloud all good providers
If you get past Karen!
SpartanHost、AlphaVPS、GreenCloudVPS、HostHatch、CloudCone、RackNerd
Yep, it's all about what matters most to you. VirMach has been great for low price and had good stability, but definitely isn't top performance on anything I've got. That's great, I've got tons of stuff that doesn't need much power and I don't want to spend much money on, I've got a handful here. BuyVM has fantastic performance and stability, but you pay a bit more for that performance. I'm coming up on 3 years here, zero complaints.
buyvm and nexusbytes are my favorites, and despite the all the controversy surrounding them, racknerd was solid for me
I recommend mzunguhost to you.
https://mzunguhosting.ml/
OVH, SoYouStart, Kimsufi
Just wish their support was better
In no particular order:
OVH (SoYouStart, Kimsufi) - Support is Hit or Miss
BuyVM - They are often out of stock
Netcup
PHP-Friends
Hetzner
Might be missing some, sorry for that.
RackNerd is an upcoming provider, but currently lacks the age to get a recommendation. Support, Boxes and Network are great though.
I recommend Buyvm , Racknerd, NexusBytes , Hyonix(Windows Only), Virmach
Can't go wrong with @Clouvider for dedis (and UK VPS).
PHP-Friends and netcup.eu - best VPS hosting
companies in EU
Hetzner - best dedi servers in EU
ReliableSite - best dedis in NA
OVH - if you want solid DDoS protection even in $5 VPS then just go with them. Slow support, but great offers and uptime.
Cant recommend other companies.
I Hope Too
Hetzner - big player with almost lowend prices, support knows what they're doing
HostHatch - very good deals, performance, ease of use
UltraVPS.eu - reliable services, good support
Wishosting - good perfomance, and the guy really listens to you
InceptionHosting (now owned by Clouvider) - you won't easily find such support anywhere else
myw.pt - decent shared hosting, and you can count on Miguel's support
mxroute.com (bring-your-own domains email host) - maybe the most recommended service here on LET
Disclaimer1: the listed pros don't mean that everything else is a con.
Disclaimer2: this list is not to say that all other services and companies aren't as good, only that I'm not in the position of having tried them or being able to vouch for them.
Hosthatch - Super good deals, fast VMs, very fast networking
Virmach - Insanely cheap (I have some $5/year KVM plans), stable, lower performance but still fine for a lot of tasks
mxroute - absolutely incredible, massive fan, recommend it often
OVH/SYS/Kimsufi - Pretty good network, support is awful but issues (for me) are pretty rare.
Been "using" (idling) BuyVM and Ramnode for over 8 years, no complaints. Actually using a Linode for 5.
I have high hopes for Racknerd but they don't have a long track record yet.
BuyVM, Ramnode, and Racknerd have all been #1 favorites here, although Ramnode doesn't have a presence any longer.
https://www.hivelocity.net/ i have 1 DS's
https://hostslick.com/ i have 2 DS's
https://catalysthost.com/ i have 1 VPS's
https://naranja.tech/ i have 2 VPS's
https://racknerd.com/ i have 1 Vps
https://virmach.com/ i have 11 VPS's
https://mxroute.com/ $5/year (4 yr old account)
For VPS and Shared hosting: Racknerd
For Cloud VPS: Ramnode
For KVM VPS: Buyvm
For Directadmin Shared: Myw @MikePT
For Server Hivelocity/OVH
https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/165392/let-provider-poll-hy1-2020-results/p1
just search for let-provider-poll
I am curious why BuyVM is considered so good with their prices. For the same price you could get something with much better specs!
I recommend @InceptionHosting
GreenCloudVPS, Alwyzon and Mxroute
php-friends, alwyzon, hetzner
In my experience people reward providers who offer not only reasonable prices, but do well in all sorts of other hard-to-measure ways. People give positive reviews for support, transparency, the public face shown in forums like these, long-term overall satisfaction with service, and so on. The polls may be in part a popularity contest for reasons stated or who knows why. Nevertheless, BuyVM in this case offers some pretty decent tech (e.g. anycast) that many don't, they have a good track record compared to most, and of course Francisco is a very active participant in many threads. He provides lots of straightforward professional responses, insight, and answers as they relate to BuyVM since people bring them up often knowing he is watching and will likely respond. I think people like what they see represented here. I think the answer to your question is essentially that simple.
To @stoned, you can see the list in my signature for all the providers I use, but many of them, maybe most of them, I would never recommend to friends for general use. I sometimes refer some of them to people who have specific needs (e.g. location), but very rarely do I tout or promote any of them.
The answer to you again my friend is it depends, but the providers that consistently top the polls here probably wouldn't be the worst ones to start with.
Good marketing, good long-term reputation, relatively low availability of plans resulting in extreme FOMO.