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What's your best/worst purchase on LET?
After 2 years and two handfuls of purchases, i would like to pick my best and worst service providers so far.
Best:
@Chunkserve (Client for 11 months): has been WAY above my expectations. Excellent service, they're my best purchase on LET considering the price/quality ratio so far, hands down. Knock on wood they stay this way.
Worst:
@HostSlick (Client for 1 year + 1 year offer, as i would never renew): they were THE WORST! Jesus Christ... terrible service... not even with backup services and quick recovery deployment workflows i felt good with them...
Honourable mentions:
@RamNode - cool guys, not the cheapest, but fast support , snappy machines: overall , nice;
@balhost - not the snappiest but good consistent service;
Dishonourable mention:
@netcup , what a joke of a company!! You pay a VPS for 6 months that renews for another 6 months automatically, you have to cancel 31 days in advance otherwise it renews, even though its not a contract but rather a prepaid service. If you wait 5 months and one minute, you're in for another 6 months. Say what? You don't want to pay? They'll keep billing you to infinity and beyond and when you notice you get a bill of hundreds!!!!
You want out? You must cancel a 6 months service when you hit th 5 month mark, 31 days in advance, but alright , just be diligent and don't miss the day, right? Sure, and lose 1 month of service as it cuts off access to the VPS as soon as you cancel it. What clowns they are....
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I bought a Japanese house from @mach3db
Aren't japanese houses really tiny and crammed?
typical German style
virmache. He showed me the Low end way. Of course this was before ' the event ' .
Are we counting flash sales? Or is it only normal deals/regular priced plans.
Best:
Bero 9950x 4core 8gb for €69/year
Host c Pioneer 5TB storage $45/year
Layer7 5 TB storage $50/year
Worst:
Naranjatech: Genoa 2 core 100GB
It has a mind of its own. Shuts down out of no where. It was so frequent that the server is unreliable and I won't continue after November. $35/year.
Actually my best and worst ones were both flash sales. The other ones mentioned were regular deals.
Event? the Y2k one?
Honestly the best were probably servers i bought and then got to know the owners/workers there, met a lot of good hard working people and actual friends through servers I tried. For example but absolutely not limited to Crunchbit, Terabit, Host-c, Layer7, Kuroit and a lot more. Wonderful people.
I value my experience with the people working at the hosting companies WAY higher than the actual value of the server itself. Which is why I don't and probably will never use corporate robotic companies like hetzner and ovh.
The worst? I commissioned a drawing for my 5yo niece who is obsessed with horses from an artist here on LET and he sent me this
She cried for 2 days straights
nope. Lets just say at one time Virmache provided good low end vps which ran on colocrossing hardware. Probably the same hardware in use today by major advertisers here. What happened after that is unknown to mere mortals such as us. Someone else will have to offer up a perspective. I wouldnt buy his offerings now. So he could be entered as the 'Best' and the 'Worst' . LOL
I'll take a look at @host_c and @layer7 for sure as i need a storage unit. But i'm eyeing @labze for quite a while, he seems a nice guy and reliable , even if i have to pay extra, i hope to catch a deal from him this next Black Friday.
But 5TB for $45/$50 is great deal if hybrid (With a small SSD for booting the OS)
Both the storage servers are hybrid.
While Pioneer (discontinued) had 20 GB ssd but layer7 has 120 GB SSD (IIRC).
The Pioneer has been changed to some other package and now it is $57/year.
I had a hostbrr storage server but download/uploads were very slow from my region so I didn't continue.
My experience with Crunchbit is that they're always... sold out
Granted you paid at most $500 for that drawing , i call it a win.
Best: @DediRock 's $7/yr plan, what could you ask more?
Worst: when I was newbie, i bought virmach 1TB storage VPS for very high cost.
Better sue the artist and seek damages
Oh and grab 'em while you can
All my purchases on LET have been great so far
Not sure if it was from LET, but Dyjix lifetime VPN for €2. It was one location in France only.
Lasted about 6 months, before they shut it down. I'm still alive, and so is Dyjix, so eh.
BEST: DEDIBOX® KIDÉCHIRE
Best definitely is my $1.75/mo server (was $2.10/mo until a recent sale) that runs incredibly well. The power this thing packs is insane.
Worst is CloudCone. Slowest speeds on a server I’ve used, network is incredibly slow, and when reaching out to support and being escalated to their network team (something of that sort, a higher up team), was told to run some trace routes and sent a link on how to, with no actual help on my issue.
Back to the best, it’s from MadCityServers and here’s the I/O part of the YABS (for the Los Angeles location) to show it off:
Basic System Information:
Processor : AMD Ryzen 9 9950X 16-Core Processor
CPU cores : 1 @ 4291.928 MHz
AES-NI : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM : 967.3 MiB
Swap : 0.0 KiB
Disk : 19.6 GiB
Distro : Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie)
Kernel : 6.12.48+deb13-amd64
VM Type : KVM
IPv4/IPv6 : ✔ Online / ✔ Online
fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/sda1):
Block Size 4k (IOPS) 64k (IOPS)
Read 310.55 MB/s (77.6k) 3.91 GB/s (61.2k)
Write 311.37 MB/s (77.8k) 3.93 GB/s (61.5k)
Total 621.93 MB/s (155.4k) 7.85 GB/s (122.7k)
Block Size 512k (IOPS) 1m (IOPS)
------ --- ---- ---- ----
Read 4.97 GB/s (9.7k) 5.04 GB/s (4.9k)
Write 5.23 GB/s (10.2k) 5.38 GB/s (5.2k)
Total 10.20 GB/s (19.9k) 10.43 GB/s (10.1k)
worst: hostlim / vpsslim
best: buying vps from tarisu, worst: not buying vps from tarisu
best: @dataforest @FameSystems @jar @layer7 @Enzonix @MannDude @advinservers @CraneMailEU @Francisco
🙏 Thank you.
Best:
@onidel since Welcome Onidel Promotion. I used to have seven VPSs, but now five.
@serverpoint and @HostDZire who fill up the blank for my bandwidth intensive loads.
I cant remember the provider anymore, but it was a hobby host and they had single OVH dedicated server with tons of storage and they resold that single node to insane amount of people. It took ages to even type anything to the SSH client, thats how slow it was lol.
Maybe @Francisco remembers the provider.
Worst: c1vhosting and hostslick
Best:
Berohost
Prohosting24
Liteserver
A few excellent purchases, in no particular order:
Linveeo 8c8g (Ryzen 7950X, got free upgrade to 9950X), for $100/yr
Host-C: Pioneer, (5TB storage), for $45/yr
Hosteroid: 2c4g in Vilinus for €21.87/yr
AvenaCloud: 1c1g, (DMCA ignore), for €11/yr
Hostbrr: Various deals where the price/quality has been really good.
I've also bought some absolute shit. The worst being HostSlick, but there's other providers where the price was too good to be true, and over time the service has degraded to the point where I've abandoned them, (because I'm not opening a ticket over a $7/yr server).
Best: MXRoute $3/three years.
Worst: C1V, Dasabo
Best: @ComputeBox ; none can beat this Turin beast
Worst: @host_c false positive bot resulting I’m not getting the flash deal.
Not a purchase
But a ahit executed release of serververify.com on LET