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What's your best/worst purchase on LET?

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  • rcy026rcy026 Member

    Best: Namecrane @Francisco, MXRoute @jar, Hosthatch @hosthatch , Gigahost @gigahost, Chrunchbit @crunchbits. They all just work, simple as that. Get a promotion or sale and the value for money is insane.

    Honorable mention to Racknerd @dustinc . If they could get their ipv6 sorted they would be very competitive.

    I could make a very long list of the worst ones. :lol:
    To mention just a few I decided to join "the family" and moved a shitload of webhosting to Nexusbytes just weeks before it went to hell, that taught me to never put to many eggs in one basket.
    I think I still have a vps with Hostslick, but I have basically just abandoned it since it is useless. Same with Massivegrid, I think I have 3 vps's there. Don't even have the energy to fight about it over a few $/year, I just drop it and move on.

    Thanked by 3Skelter gigahost mandala
  • jsgjsg Member, Resident Benchmarker

    Best - hard to decide with quite a few decent providers here nowadays. I'd say @host_c who basically brought insanely low pricing and really good quality together in a beautiful marriage. And @HostDZire who offers plenty locations globally with Leaseweb, very tasty prices, and good support.
    And of course I have to mention @Hybula who are in another league of their own IMO.

    Worst - Yep, I agree, [whatever]Slim; pretty much a shit-show since years. And @MassiveGRID who IMO just stopped a millimeter away from a scammer tag. And I think that they intentionally (as scammers do ...) distributed the first few hundred customers over all their nodes so as to get some decent benchmarks and once some trust was created they mercilessly overcrowded their nodes. To be fair: it seems that they try to improve (as far as that's possible) but I've pretty much stopped to occasionally benchmark my VPS from MG because it's so painfully slow. Yuck!

    That said what really pleases me is the fact that nowadays there are quite a few really decent providers with tasty and decent quality offers, like to name just two examples, @Hosteroid or @DeluxHost.

    Thanked by 6Hybula DeluxHost Skelter gbzret4d HostDZire mandala
  • topgamertopgamer Member

    None, but hope to purchase soon.

  • WildlandOperative62WildlandOperative62 Member

    Best: @hosthatch Flash sale vps and storage vps. Great specs at a great value. Top notch support.

    Worst: @MassiveGRID Bought their 4 year vps that is very slow and disconnects often that I've pretty much abandoned it. Haven't check how it is lately, but I imagine it is still the same deal from what I've heard.

  • davidedavide Member
    edited September 2025

    I still have this @LowHosting plan for 1€ / month (1x Ryzen 9 5950X):

    top - 18:25:05 up 19 days, 15:32,  1 user,  load average: 0.04, 0.02, 0.00
Tasks: 196 total,   1 running, 195 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
%Cpu(s):  0.0 us,  0.0 sy,  0.0 ni,100.0 id,  0.0 wa,  0.0 hi,  0.0 si,  0.0 st
MiB Mem :   1967.5 total,     92.5 free,   1907.0 used,     92.9 buff/cache
MiB Swap:   2951.3 total,   1239.2 free,   1712.0 used.     60.5 avail Mem

  PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU  %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND
    1 root      20   0    3296   1464   1428 S   0.0   0.1   0:14.39 init
    2 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0.0   0.0   0:00.28 kthreadd
    3 root       0 -20       0      0      0 I   0.0   0.0   0:00.00 rcu_gp
    ....

    Tiny and cute, but is faster than the Xeon-based GreenCloud that I also have.

  • highlightingshighlightings Member

    All good so far.. namecrane (multiple services), cloudblast, netdynamics (minimally used..), limitlesshosting (cancelled, but can't blame for the price)..

    Waiting for Black Friday for my the first dudd purchase..

  • a2razora2razor Member
    edited September 2025

    No regrets on any purchase, even with providers that wound up "tragically" dead-pooled. (sometimes with ironic names, cough)

    You only live once!

    To be a bit less more useful despite the point that most providers on here are great frankly. I've especially been fond of my backup-server deployed with BuyVM. Main Channel Bonder for home-office ran with Hive-Velocity. Company site, mail, etc, with US-Dedicated.

    I've had a great experience with GorillaServers (will be buying from them again in the future), and currently with ReliableSite. I've been using NFO-Servers for years (also a very solid provider, despite not being involved on LET).

  • owrbitowrbit Member, Patron Provider

    MxRoute - Still using it personally.
    Bought NameCrane lifetime email also, but haven't used it much.
    Both are the best.

    Worst is a list, lost a very high paying customer due to selling those servers of them.

  • magicvpnmagicvpn Member

    Best for me is definitely mxroute and @alwyzon pretty much always stable, worst is hard, but I think hostmaze but I don't think that was through LET.

    There was also another host which I don't think was through LET but I ordered a very cheap dedicated server, it didn't boot so they gave me a VPS instead which was almost the price of said dedicated server, I don't think I wanted that VPS instead, but I kinda just let it go and forgot about it.

    Meaning I also forgot to cancel the thing I didn't want in the first place, and after the fact they kept adding late fees it's probably at 100+eur now, I wish them luck collecting it :)

    Thanked by 2alwyzon Skelter
  • SaragoldfarbSaragoldfarb Member, Megathread Squad

    Best, The same old really, like the more established LET providers. We all know who they are.

    I bought about 50 servers past year, most from hosts I wasn't a client of before, just trying new things.

    @Hosteroid @gigahost @SolidSeoVPS really stood out to me. It's set and forget. Bonus are the locations they offer.

    Performance wise racknerd impressed me the least. Support is great but performance/specs mediocre, not bad but not special either.

    Honourable mention to virmache. I'm about to cancel some but my oldest servers have been running without issue for years. Gotta face the fact my luck will run out someday so I'm going to replace them.

    Thanked by 4gigahost SolidVPS Skelter vastness4594
  • DigikaDigika Member

    NatVPS

    I learned too late it is the same offshoot trash of WebHorizon.
    Terrible support, no refunds even if you articulate and explain that the service perfroms poorly and they dont even offer the ability to move to other, same priced, location as a means to potentially alleviate said issues and and you a fee for that.

    I will get my refund via paypal but if I knew before hand it has WebHorizon I would never ever touch this shit.

  • hyperblasthyperblast Member

    so far best in 2025:

    @berohost bday offer 2025

    Thanked by 2berohost gbzret4d
  • vpsricvpsric Member

    Worst @kuroit 24 Euro for a junk CPU deal

    Thanked by 1kuroit
  • JasonMJasonM Member

    a vps from defunct Virmach :'( their support was dead even when they took orders!

  • PlatonksPlatonks Member
    edited October 2025

    Here is my experience and personal opinions (I have 10 servers spread across these providers):

    Best

    @ProHosting24 By far, a year with them, no downtimes (200 days+ the highest before my manual restart) no slow disk disk io speed and stable performance, good support, and great pricing! I safely migrated my SaaS and monitoring servers to it. I have some VPS with Epyc Genoa and Milan with them.

    @PrepaidHost 2-3 months with them, it is similar to ph24 like a brother (hardware and pricing wise) but also true for their uptime and performance. So i think it will be a relatively similar experience to ph24, but not enough with them in time to really be sure. I have an epyc milan vps.

    @labze (hostbrr) 6 months with them, no downtimes, but a slight decrease in performance as the node was getting filled with users (birthday epyc Turin), but still quite capable.

    Good

    @DeluxHost is good for hobby stuff like personal blog (4 months with them), but not quite enough stable in performance (which can get really bad) and uptime for me (few restarts, and minutes to 2h of downtime, so they are trying to fix uptime issues). But they have the fastest ticket response i ever had, and you will not find cheaper for what they give you. So i keep it for my personal blogs and websites that don't need much horsepower. I have 3 vps with them (one is ryzen).

    And of course, OVH dedicated servers for the uptime price and performance (not quite for their support and billing/refund issues when ordering multiple servers for lottery on their black friday and other deals :p ). Now waiting for their new black friday offerings.

    Honourable mentions (testing since recent purchase)

    @berohost I just purchased a Turin server with them; I will see later, but according to a previous review on lowendtalk, they also have a good reputation, uptime, and performance, so I will stay with them to test all that.

    @HostDZire A month with them for a cheap storage dedicated server for backups. It is a leaseweb reseller and they have really good uptime and network, so I think this will also be very good.

    Worst

    HT-Hosting by far (server not in panel, shutdowns few hours and manual restarts, insane amount of CPU steal and io bottlenecks, and at the end, they got hacked and were out of business 3 months after I created my account :# )

    And some 2 other French providers that are now out of business (with the same reasons as upper: a lot of CPU steal, ...)

    Thanked by 9PrepaidHost HostDZire sh97 berohost DeluxHost ProHosting24 nick_ untitled ernie88
  • nokstarnokstar Member
    edited October 2025

    best
    @netcup (bad rules but rock stable servers), @ProHosting24 @jar @Francisco

    Thanked by 3jar ProHosting24 Francisco
  • ProHosting24ProHosting24 Member, Patron Provider

    @Platonks said:
    Here is my experience and personal opinions (I have 10 servers spread across these providers):

    Best

    @ProHosting24 By far, a year with them, no downtimes (200 days+ the highest before my manual restart) no slow disk disk io speed and stable performance, good support, and great pricing! I safely migrated my SaaS and monitoring servers to it. I have some VPS with Epyc Genoa and Milan with them.

    @PrepaidHost 2-3 months with them, it is similar to ph24 like a brother (hardware and pricing wise) but also true for their uptime and performance. So i think it will be a relatively similar experience to ph24, but not enough with them in time to really be sure. I have an epyc milan vps.

    @labze (hostbrr) 6 months with them, no downtimes, but a slight decrease in performance as the node was getting filled with users (birthday epyc Turin), but still quite capable.

    Good

    @DeluxHost is good for hobby stuff like personal blog (4 months with them), but not quite enough stable in performance (which can get really bad) and uptime for me (few restarts, and minutes to 2h of downtime, so they are trying to fix uptime issues). But they have the fastest ticket response i ever had, and you will not find cheaper for what they give you. So i keep it for my personal blogs and websites that don't need much horsepower. I have 3 vps with them (one is ryzen).

    And of course, OVH dedicated servers for the uptime price and performance (not quite for their support and billing/refund issues when ordering multiple servers for lottery on their black friday and other deals :p ). Now waiting for their new black friday offerings.

    Honourable mentions (testing since recent purchase)

    @berohost I just purchased a Turin server with them; I will see later, but according to a previous review on lowendtalk, they also have a good reputation, uptime, and performance, so I will stay with them to test all that.

    @HostDZire A month with them for a cheap storage dedicated server for backups. It is a leaseweb reseller and they have really good uptime and network, so I think this will also be very good.

    Worst

    HT-Hosting by far (server not in panel, shutdowns few hours and manual restarts, insane amount of CPU steal and io bottlenecks, and at the end, they got hacked and were out of business 3 months after I created my account :# )

    And some 2 other French providers that are now out of business (with the same reasons as upper: a lot of CPU steal, ...)

    Thanks for your exceptional feedback, looks like we are still on the right path!:)

    Thanked by 3PrepaidHost Platonks nghialele
  • ShadowLurkerShadowLurker Member
    edited October 2025

    best: @jar (MxRoute) @NDTN (Greencloud) @host_c @DartNode @PrepaidHost (solid uptimes, amazing support etc)
    worst: @c1vhosting (unusable VPN) @HostSlick (massive downtimes)

    Thanked by 2PrepaidHost jar
  • WatsonWatson Member

    Thanks for sharing

  • mkvmkv Member

    After nine years, I am finally quitting Liteserver. There was never a single problem, just solid, reliable service. I am leaving because my friend, the actual server user, died suddenly, and the server will not be needed any more. Earlier, I also ran a web server at Liteserver for a few years, but now I am on enjoying my small pension. Full recommendations from an old geezer :)

    Thanked by 3BasToTheMax loay LiteServer
  • routes3eroutes3e Member

    Best - gorillaservers storage dedi :)

  • xvpsxvps Member

    I bought a shared service offer and prepaid for two years. When I started using it, I noticed a serious security issue. After looking into it further, I realized the problem was much worse.

    I sent a detailed report, including six major vulnerabilities and proof that I had root access, as a support ticket, since there was no other secure way to contact them. They simply closed the ticket. I reopened it to express my concerns, but they closed it again.

    The email I received as receipt for the support ticket came from a different domain (TLD), so I couldn’t trust it. I then reached out to LET support and asked them to contact the provider, but nothing happened.

    In the end, I cancelled my service, yet the provider still has their Host Rep tag on LET and make offers as nothing happened.

    If I warn about this company in public, several of their servers will get hacked in no time, if it hasn’t already happened.

    If I don’t, at least 100 of their customers’ data is still at risk.

    Gordian knots can be frustrating, and some providers just suck.

  • defaultdefault Veteran
    edited October 2025

    My best purchases from advertising on LET (still going strong):

    • Virmach $1/year VPS (with IPv4 included) during Black Friday 2018.
    • Servarica Mouse storage server with 500GB storage server during Black Friday 2019.
    • Storage server in Norway, 1TB plan from HostSolutions, which was inherited by Terahost, which was inherited by Gigahost - first obtained in 2020 pre Black Friday event.
    • MXRoute - awesome email service plan, active since 2019.
    • Cloudcone server running stable since July 2020.
    • Lifetimes: FastestVPN, KeepSolid's VPN Unlimited, Getflix VPN, PureVPN, Koofr storage.

    More Recent yet good purchases after the war crisis launched:

    • Crunchbits - great Christmas and Easter server plans.
    • HostBilby - still playing with a stable server since this spring; looks quite promising.
    • HostDZire - server offers during the summer of 2025, because... India.
    • NameCrane - I did not test it much in the past, so I thought to give it a try. So far I find it great, with awesome human support (I just love the fact that @Francisco does not intend to use AI for support).
    • RealToxMedia - initially it was to test it, but then started to really like it.
    • HOST-C - almost a year old server which so far works good, but they don't have a website with proper terms - still playing and testing it.

    Still under testing after more than 1 year:

    • George Datacenter - a little storage server which works, but this is still under testing because I did not like the fact that he migrated clients from VMWare to Virtualizor, forcing deletion of customer data, while also removing a backup feature which initially attracted me. However, I still test it, and so far they survived the economic crisis - maybe @georgedatacenter can do better than this, but I know it is hard in times of worldwide turmoil.

    My worst purchases from LET posts:

    • Repuc server - this was a "turkish delight" scam.
    • iHostArt server - I don't think there is much to say about this one, besides a good teenager drama.
    • C1VHosting - I still don't know what was I thinking back then.
    • Boomer - This was a joke, it worked a bit, and then failed spectacularly like their beer in logo.
    • Others that failed in my view: AnyNode, VPSDime, HostVDS, Quick Click Hosting, vpsAO, System On Grid, LunaNode, Time4VPS, Nazwa.pl, VMBox, ITLDC, JustHost, Cloudit, AboveClouds, VortexNode, ContraWeb, Hadrill, VikingLayer, TransIP, RunAbove, NexusBytes.
    • Lifetimes: CloudAtCost servers, MyW hosting plans.

    More recent:

    • Nuyek - started going south over the past month.
    Thanked by 8oloke FAT32 david maverick Francisco Harambe jolo22 amaurobius
  • diwakerddiwakerd Member

    Some of the best and currently using
    @ColoCrossing
    @linveo
    @NameCrane
    @TNAHosting

    Worst
    @hostthebest
    Another one I forgot the name

    Thanked by 3TNAHosting Francisco Harambe
  • sitepapesitepape Member

    Best - @NameCrane & @dustinc
    Worst - @HostSlick

    Thanked by 2Francisco Harambe
  • sitepapesitepape Member

    Sorry> @sitepape said:

    Best - @NameCrane & @dustinc
    Worst - @HostSlick

    Some of the provider i still using & consider in best @gigahost @jar

    Thanked by 1gigahost
  • defaultdefault Veteran
    edited October 2025

    @sitepape said:
    Worst - @HostSlick

    I have not put @HostSlick in my list, because I have no idea what is going on with them. I can't consider them best, but I can't really consider them worst either. My services with them are up.

  • FranciscoFrancisco Top Host, Host Rep, Veteran
    edited October 2025

    Thanks everyone :) even more goodies coming up.

    Francisco

    Thanked by 3oloke FAT32 mikei
  • mbjonesmbjones Member
    edited October 2025

    Best:

    • Terabit ( @SilverCreek ): Great set it up and not have to worry about it product. It functions really well and the deals they've made here are top notch. There support has been great too, between comments here, their portal and discord. They are the provider I consistently find myself recommending.

    Good:

    • @host_c : Great deals and community engagement here. They really go out of their way for folks. The only reason it's not in the best category is some storage issues in July and my VPS just hasn't functioned quite as well since. Their support was great during said incident though and I still recommend them for storage VPSs to those who have asked me.
    • @Chunkserve - Great starter or development VPS. The random reboots kept it from being production for me and I"ve let those VPSs go but don't have any ill will toward the provider.

    Worst:

    • MassiveGrid: It's....sooooooo.....slooooowwwwwwww. It's hard to run anything on it. Definitely oversold, would not ever recommend.
    • CharityHost: They were pretty open about scanning drives which wasn't great plus they sent lots of emails for reviews and such. I moved what I had with them to a Terabit machine and haven't looked back. Wouldn't recommend.

    Honorable Mentions:
    So far @systemfreaks S3 has been a great service. I don't feel like I've used it long enough to classify it any more than honorable mention though.

    Opinions my own - Everyone's experience might be different.

    Thanked by 5wadhah maverick oloke mandala systemfreaks
  • defaultdefault Veteran

    @Francisco said:
    Thanks everyone :) even more goodies coming up.

    Francisco

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