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My experience with HostSlim (my first LET provider!)

zGatozGato Member
edited October 2024 in Reviews

As the title says, this is actually my first ever LET provider, and overall one of the first hosts I've ever used, outside the obvious giant ones like Hetzner or OVH.
Registered back in April 29th to be exact. Joined LET on April 2nd.
It took me a while to make this review due to various circumstances like waiting for their new Tallinn 🇪🇪 location to be launched, so I could do a full review of their whole location suite.
As always, this review is not endorsed nor pre-approved by @VPSSLIM by any means. I've not gotten free stuff or anything like that for making this review, this comes out from real :heart: as I consider small (or not so small) providers doing good stuff should get more attention.

As a TL;DR, it's been an almost flawless experience with them. There have been some hiccups over time (as per my monitor, currently, there are 554 days registered) due to several circumstances, but overall, it’s been a much better experience compared to most providers. There are clearly some points to improve, such as support waiting times or the PayPal double-vat situation, but honestly, I've barely had to worry about my server, since it has barely given me any issues over almost 2 years.

Now here it comes the detailed review with shill-proof screenshots. The stuff marked as spoiler are the relevant screenshots.

My first interaction with @VPSSLIM was from an offer they posted back in April 2023 in their only location, Lelystad 🇳🇱 at the time. Initially there were some deployment issues that, including myself, didn't get deployed at all, or got deployed to different nodes. However, after less than 24h, the issue was solved, and I got deployed.
Unfortunately, I don't think I really have any old YABS of the box, since I put it to production instantly after getting it. I was kinda new to hosting stuff, so didn't have much idea of benchmarking VPSs.

They also released some new offers a few months later, the well known €13/yr deal, for which I got a 2nd VM with them. This one with a 10Gbps port.

Up until now I can't really remember about any outage or any overall issue, aside of some small network hiccups or some other network-related issue which they told me it was their upstream's fault. Probably there was an outage related to a DC migration since they migrated from Lelystad 🇳🇱 to Woerden 🇳🇱 which never really got announced?

I only had to open a single ticket to get rDNS set up. It took 9 days to get resolved, quite a lot for a simple rDNS record honestly, however it wasn't really critical to me, so I didn't bother much. Support seems to have improved, since my last tickets haven't taken much time to resolve. Ralph is also very active on Telegram.

I also unfortunately got my 2nd VM with them (the 10Gbps one) CPU capped for abuse. I kind of messed up and moved quite a heavy project there, and eventually it got capped. Opened a ticket which got a reply in less than 24h and after a few days Ralph removed my CPU limits. As per bandwidth, I've never had any issue with them, and most likely one of the best hosts for high-bandwidth applications you'll ever find. Their allowance is extremely high. I've used close to 40TB for months and never got a single ticket, suspension or limit. I'd assume if you're constantly using over 50TB for months, you would eventually get asked what are you doing on those VMs, since they made it very clear they don't want €13/yr plans to be used as streaming servers.

A few months later they announced their new Tallinn 🇪🇪 location, and a few weeks later they posted offers here on LET. I dug into their network and found out they use RETN there, which IMO is quite good to nearby countries, and specially CIS countries. Got one of their 100G SSD VMs in the offer which I will be using it for the same purpose as the other one.
They also posted their well known €13/yr deal and got 2 of those too. Now, redundancy-wise, they're all probably on the same node since I'm not entirely sure if they have multiple KVM nodes there, but based on my experience, I went all in regardless.

They had some network-related issues there (high ping spikes & IPv6) but those seem to be fixed now. Not entirely sure about IPv6, since I don't really bother with it. A new location launch is not easy, and I'm thankful they got it sorted out very quickly. Tallinn 🇪🇪 is also a very good choice IMO.

I recently had an issue where somehow my VM's IP got assigned to someone else. However, this time Ralph was able to quickly solve it for me.

I've stopped using UptimeRobot a while ago, and I'm still in the middle of getting Nezha set up, since having this many servers is not an easy task. However, I have the following uptime report (554 days) of my first VM with them (In Woerden 🇳🇱).

My 2nd VM has had some issues but overall, the experience has been the same as my first one. All of my Tallinn 🇪🇪 VMs have been flawless without any downtime recorded on my end, aside of the initial network hiccups.

Benchmarks of the VMs:
YABS for all VMs and locations.
nws.sh test for Woerden 🇳🇱 (10Gbps) (GLOBAL, ASIA and EUROPE). (will post in comments since VM died mid-test :/)
nws.sh test for Tallinn 🇪🇪 (10Gbps) (GLOBAL, ASIA and EUROPE).

And lastly, here's all the paid invoices for all the above servers


These reviews take a while to make, so thanks to everyone who read all this. I have a few more pending, so please bear with me.
Overall I must say that @VPSSLIM is a solid choice, but things like support could really improve.

Comments

  • I also bought hosting from them, €1/yr is an unbeatable price.
    However, when I ping their hosting IP 69.12.83.3 from various IP ping services, many regions are not working (no ping response).
    That's why I haven't dared to use the hosting for web services.

  • @bytheWay said:
    I also bought hosting from them, €1/yr is an unbeatable price.
    However, when I ping their hosting IP 69.12.83.3 from various IP ping services, many regions are not working (no ping response).
    That's why I haven't dared to use the hosting for web services.

    That IP is ICMP rate limited.
    Give 69.12.83.26 a try.

    Thanked by 1bytheWay
  • Can you tell history about those 300+ servers? That’s pathological number of idlers and there should be a reason for that. Are you on any medications? (Serious question).

  • allthemtingsallthemtings Member, Megathread Squad

    @Levi said:
    Can you tell history about those 300+ servers? That’s pathological number of idlers and there should be a reason for that. Are you on any medications? (Serious question).

    Maybe he is just a professional idler

  • zGatozGato Member
    edited October 2024

    @Levi said:
    Can you tell history about those 300+ servers? That’s pathological number of idlers and there should be a reason for that. Are you on any medications? (Serious question).

    Those are actually not idlers :p
    Just small boxes, with a few exceptions. For heavy jobs I just use my home servers.
    I could probably save a bunch of $$$ if I leased a /24 and just used a few main providers, but I need servers in those specific countries for reasons. CDN servers, public proxies, ...

    No, I'm not on any medications, I just love servers.

    Thanked by 310thHouse satorik loay
  • @zGato said:
    I could probably save a bunch of $$$ if I leased a /24 and just used a few main providers, but I need servers in those specific countries for reasons. CDN servers, public proxies, ...

    Bypassing Twitch ads... ;)

    Thanks by the way <3

    Thanked by 1zGato
  • zGatozGato Member
    edited October 2024

    @Xrmaddness said:

    @zGato said:
    I could probably save a bunch of $$$ if I leased a /24 and just used a few main providers, but I need servers in those specific countries for reasons. CDN servers, public proxies, ...

    Bypassing Twitch ads... ;)

    Thanks by the way <3

    m y i m veryfy you are right <3

    Some specific countries are just for my personal use, I still love exotic locations. Iceland was not cheap for example. Neither Bangladesh, Peru, Chile, Sao Paulo, ...

    Thanked by 1Xrmaddness
  • @zGato said:

    @Levi said:
    Can you tell history about those 300+ servers? That’s pathological number of idlers and there should be a reason for that. Are you on any medications? (Serious question).

    Those are actually not idlers :p
    Just small boxes, with a few exceptions. For heavy jobs I just use my home servers.
    I could probably save a bunch of $$$ if I leased a /24 and just used a few main providers, but I need servers in those specific countries for reasons. CDN servers, public proxies, ...

    No, I'm not on any medications, I just love servers.

    What’s your yearly budget for those servers? Do you earn money from them to cover costs? What OS used in them?

  • @Levi said:

    @zGato said:

    @Levi said:
    Can you tell history about those 300+ servers? That’s pathological number of idlers and there should be a reason for that. Are you on any medications? (Serious question).

    Those are actually not idlers :p
    Just small boxes, with a few exceptions. For heavy jobs I just use my home servers.
    I could probably save a bunch of $$$ if I leased a /24 and just used a few main providers, but I need servers in those specific countries for reasons. CDN servers, public proxies, ...

    No, I'm not on any medications, I just love servers.

    What’s your yearly budget for those servers? Do you earn money from them to cover costs? What OS used in them?

    I'm a mess, and I just don't really calculate the total cost, so can't give you a rough estimate either. But they're sustainable.
    I solely run Debian on those. Some exceptions have Ubuntu because of provider's EOL on that product. I still run ESM on there though.

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