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Which servers are the most reliable? Share your monitoring stats

jndjnd Member
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Cheap deals are nice but let's face it, for some key services I'd rather have rock solid availability record. Which provider has the best uptime, short to no unannounced downtimes?

I'll start with my best results so far:

  • UltraVPS.eu, 25Y-Special-1: 9 months, 100% uptime so far
  • Couple OVH KS line dedicated servers: super stable for months, my only downtime is rebooting after updates
  • Netcup basic VPS (non root in their terminology): about 3 minutes down last week, otherwise up for months
  • Hosthatch Stockholm, 3 year budget plan: only couple short downtimes measured in minutes, didn't personally experience problems with it
  • Advinservers, Germany KVM Premium S: 99.9688%, up for the last 100 days

Honorary mention:

  • Famesystems, cheap Epyc deal: generally sems very stable, only issue comes from their prepaid account loading. They have option of Automatic payments but that seems to work only from already loaded credit, so if you forget to top it up, the unsuccessful renewal takes your VPS down instantly. At least you can resume anytime in the next 7 days and don't lose your data.

What's your experience?

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  • zhujisouzhujisou Member

    wanzhuji.com
    my status panel.but there are many CHN provider.
    ALIYUN is the best,over 1years without shutdowm

  • ElaineLiElaineLi Member

    Coudcone也非常喜欢 https://status.jiang.li/server/2
    运行时常大于180天

  • DrNutellaDrNutella Member

    First 2 comments must be a scam

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  • tentortentor Member, Host Rep

    @DrNutella said:
    First 2 comments must be a scam

    First comment has Skhron VPS so not a scam, trust me

    Thanked by 8oloke dedipromo COLBYLICIOUS fluffernutter NHNHNH000 emgh Marx sh97
  • olokeoloke Member, Host Rep
    edited September 2025

    I restart my VPSes rather frequently (I do kernel updates and stuff).

    Most of my providers are solid, however the "big providers" are the most reliable I've had.
    Digitalocean and Oracle over 100 days without an issue.

    @tentor said:

    @DrNutella said:
    First 2 comments must be a scam

    First comment has Skhron VPS so not a scam, trust me

    Skhron appears to be very reliable as well, 40+ days uptime in SE location without any kind of outage or performance issues :)

    Thanked by 3tentor lukast__ Heron
  • jndjnd Member
    edited September 2025

    @oloke said:
    I restart my VPSes rather frequently (I do kernel updates and stuff).

    Most of my providers are solid, however the "big providers" are the most reliable I've had.
    Digitalocean and Oracle over 100 days without an issue.

    @tentor said:

    @DrNutella said:
    First 2 comments must be a scam

    First comment has Skhron VPS so not a scam, trust me

    Skhron appears to be very reliable as well, 40+ days uptime in SE location without any kind of outage or performance issues :)

    Yeah the big guys got it to perfection, from redundant connectivity to live migration of VMs which keeps them very stable and reliable. I do restart my servers too, I set my Hetrixtools monitoring to maintenance mode if I don't forget about it which keeps the uptime ticking or it's unused idler where I don't care that much. More performant VPS will be fully up less than a minute after system update and restart which is nice too. My point was about external downtime not caused by my tinkering.

    Thanked by 3oloke lukast__ WyvernCo
  • dedipromodedipromo Member

    My OracleCloud free tier. Up for 5.7 years already without a single restart.

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  • lukast__lukast__ Member, Megathread Squad

    My most reliable VPSes are from those providers; all have over 99.99% uptime (according to HetrixTools, TCP port pings with a timeout of 3s and no retries, whenever I had to reboot due to a kernel update I enabled the maintenance mode, so only real downtimes were counted). I excluded VPSes that I only had for a few months.

    • @host_c in Romania, monitored for 11 months, basically no CPU steal and very constant performance as well
    • @gigahost in Norway and Amsterdam, monitored for 12 months
    • Strato in Germany, monitored for 1 year and 5 months; CPU steal reporting is disabled, however the performance is also rather constant. Not that surprising since it's quite a big provider, still IMHO quite nice for 1€/mo.
    Thanked by 5oloke jnd truemagic host_c jsg
  • harrisonharrison Member
    edited September 2025

    For me, RackNerd has been very reliable. One of the VPSs I had from them last year, had a 100% uptime! At least it was the case whenever I checked my uptime monitor with a 3 months history.
    P.S. I actually remember the uptime was 1 year, so no reboots, and don't remember any networks outages in that one.

    Just checked another instance from them, up 40 weeks till now.

    Thanked by 4jnd dedicados truemagic dustinc
  • JohnFilch123JohnFilch123 Member

    Love it :love:

    up 546 days

    Thanked by 1oloke
  • igcttigctt Member
    edited September 2025

    basically it means the provider don’t oversell too much, and they have enough human resources to maintain it. so we see a longer uptime.
    for business, we won’t believe in that a server would not down often, nowadays most apps are built on the fact that servers could be dead anytime .
    for personal using, generally big companies perform better.
    sorry for gibberish.
    netcup, they are as steady as a rock.

  • jndjnd Member

    @igctt said:
    basically it means the provider don’t oversell too much, and they have enough human resources to maintain it. so we see a longer uptime.
    for business, we won’t believe in that a server would not down often, nowadays most apps are built on the fact that servers could be dead anytime .
    for personal using, generally big companies perform better.
    sorry for gibberish.
    netcup, they are as steady as a rock.

    Some apps are built for high availability clustering but those are often enterprise solutions which can also eat a lot of resources for basic use. Many smaller apps don't have such option and it's easier to rely on single solid machine than setting up arcane failover solutions.

    But in general yes, i want to keep runing even if any provider goes suddenly offline. Some are too big to fail. Can you imagine if gmail suddenly stopped working?

    Thanked by 1igctt
  • NeoonNeoon Community Contributor, Veteran

    @dedipromo said:
    My OracleCloud free tier. Up for 5.7 years already without a single restart.

    Oracle is fine, until they just remove your IPv4 or they reboot your VM to nuke your uptime.

    Thanked by 1COLBYLICIOUS
  • MannDudeMannDude Patron Provider, Veteran
    edited September 2025 
     17:15:03 up 826 days, 11:35,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.05

    Will soon take this out back and Old Yeller' it. It's replacement is already halfway ready...

    BuyVM, solid as a rock.

    Thanked by 2jnd JohnnySac
  • fluffernutterfluffernutter Member

    My Misaka VMs have been rock solid, I restarted one of them for kernel upgrades but it had 2 years of uptime before that.

    Thanked by 1ssssteveson
  • conceptconcept Member

    OVH and Hetzner has been the most reliable for me.

    Thanked by 1Hetzner_OL
  • WyvernCoWyvernCo Member

    @oloke said:
    Most of my providers are solid, however the "big providers" are the most reliable I've had.
    Digitalocean and Oracle over 100 days without an issue.

    Same; Of the big providers:

    • Digital Ocean has been extremely reliable. I cannot remember the last time there was a downtime that impacted me
    • AWS Lightsail generally good, but I do sometimes have a brief couple minute downtime ~once a quarter (though hard to tell -- it could literally just be the system is so overprovisioned it lagged up 😅).
    • Linode regular random reboots and brief downtimes (not long at a time, but usually ~one 5min downtime per month). I'm guessing they don't do live host migration during host reboots due to the regularity of reboots I see. Even with that, it's still pretty reliable compared to a lot of providers out there

    Definitely a trade-off though; performance per dollar is way lower on these guys but you're paying for the reliability of it.

    For comparison, my local colo has had pretty much constant uptime but some bouts of degraded performance. And one of my low end providers has had probably cumulative ~10hrs downtime this year x.x

    Thanked by 1oloke
  • gremeyergremeyer Member

    I have 6 of the cheapest Hetzner auction servers with close to or more than 900 days (2.5 years) of uptime.

    Thanked by 1Hetzner_OL
  • routes3eroutes3e Member

    48TB dedi from @GorillaServers

    ~# curl -sL https://yabs.sh | bash -s -- -frig
# ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #
#              Yet-Another-Bench-Script              #
#                     v2025-04-20                    #
# https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script #
# ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #

Thu 04 Sep 2025 08:39:09 AM CST

Basic System Information:
---------------------------------
Uptime     : 541 days, 12 hours, 47 minutes
Processor  : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1240 v3 @ 3.40GHz
CPU cores  : 8 @ 1899.989 MHz
AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM        : 31.3 GiB
Swap       : 0.0 KiB
Disk       : 43.6 TiB
Distro     : Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
Kernel     : 5.10.0-28-amd64
VM Type    : NONE
IPv4/IPv6  : ✔ Online / ✔ Online

IPv6 Network Information:
---------------------------------
ISP        : GorillaServers, Inc.
ASN        : AS53850 GorillaServers, Inc.
Host       : GorillaServers, Inc.
Location   : Ogden, Utah (UT)
Country    : United States

YABS completed in 1 sec
  • jure12jure12 Member

    From the time I bought it until today

  • plumbergplumberg Veteran, Megathread Squad

    https://mzunguhosting.ml/

    Thanked by 1JohnnySac
  • zedzed Member

    ovh & racknerd.
    hostsailor.

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  • dustincdustinc Member, Patron Provider, Top Host

    @harrison said:
    For me, RackNerd has been very reliable. One of the VPSs I had from them last year, had a 100% uptime! At least it was the case whenever I checked my uptime monitor with a 3 months history.
    P.S. I actually remember the uptime was 1 year, so no reboots, and don't remember any networks outages in that one.

    Just checked another instance from them, up 40 weeks till now.

    Hi @harrison -- thanks for sharing your experience! Always great to hear positive uptime results and long streaks of stability. We work hard on consistency, so feedback like this means a lot :)

    Thanked by 1harrison
  • dustincdustinc Member, Patron Provider, Top Host

    @zed said:
    ovh & racknerd.
    hostsailor.

    Hi @zed -- appreciate the mention! Always nice to be recognized in these types of threads, uptime and reliability are things we put a lot of focus on :)

  • ebietsyebietsy Member

    Gigahost dedi from 2024 BF (NO):
    10:00:06 up 279 days

    Gigahost vps (NL):
    10:02:09 up 188 days

    Thanked by 1gigahost
  • silicomnetsilicomnet

    • CloudFanatic (Registration Date 06/18/2020) - uptime monitor: 2 brief outages (2 or 3 minutes) in 5 years, Chicago location.
      up 286 days, 25 min, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.09 (last outage 286 days ago)

    • Netcup - Root servers (Registration Date 02/15/2024) - billing system, status page, uptime monitor, help desk, etc): 100% uptime AT/NL/DE. Packet lost in US location which was resolved after two hours. No incidents after that.

    Thanked by 1jnd
  • HBAndreiHBAndrei Member, Top Host, Host Rep

    Just checked our dashboard out of pure curiosity and found one of our old dev vps servers running on DigitalOcean for more than 7 years straight, 99.9969% network uptime:

    Thanked by 9COLBYLICIOUS jnd loay sh97 sipe OhJohn JohnnySac FairShare Heron
  • jndjnd Member

    @HBAndrei said:
    Just checked our dashboard out of pure curiosity and found one of our old dev vps servers running on DigitalOcean for more than 7 years straight, 99.9969% network uptime:

    It belongs in a museum! :D

  • BastionBastion Member

    BuyVM and DigitalOcean remain undefeated for me.

    Thanked by 1jnd
  • ailiceailice Member
    • Misaka (ZeptoVM) I didnt send any ticket regarding issue VPS since first buy for prolong time (3 years+)
    • Hosthatch, this kinda controversy but I have long standing 3 VPS on them (In SG node especially), 3 of them running fine ~1.5 years before network incident which resolved quickly without I raise the ticket.
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