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Best Dedicated Server Companies for Price, Network & Support?
Hey everyone,
We're doing some market research to better understand where people in the LowEndTalk community prefer to purchase dedicated servers. Our goal is to grow our market by learning what makes certain providers stand out and what customers value most when choosing a hosting company.
We're particularly interested in providers that excel in:
- Competitive pricing
- High-quality network performance
- Strong DDoS protection
- Responsive, knowledgeable support
We're especially interested in hearing about smaller or independent hosting providers rather than the large corporate brands. We want to understand what they're doing right, what keeps customers loyal, and where we can improve our own services to better meet the community's expectations.
If you have a favorite provider, we'd love to know:
- Who they are
- What made you choose them
- What keeps you with them
- What you think they do better than the competition
Any feedback, recommendations, or insights are greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for helping us better understand what the community is looking for!
Comments
Any input helps, thanks!
I can give my input to this part. There are essentially two reason I'm loyal to a provider. Either their service is soo cheap that everything else doesn't really matter or I have a direct line to a human on phone, who can give me a quote for new hardware like instantly and understand at least the minimum and can get someone ASAP to fix problems.
Gotcha ok, well we cover both of those things! I do get that’s the main reason and honestly we just have to get out there better.
On LET, only the $3–$7/year plans are worthwhile; the other providers charge prices that are too high and aren't recommended.
Look closely at the offers—the most popular ones always come from providers like Summerhost, but a few months later, they announce they're quitting the business, and the backlash begins.
If you're building a long-term business, analyze your sector carefully and stay focused.
Take ReliableSite, for example; people are complaining about their price hikes now, yet there are still options like ColoCrossing offering servers for a good price—$16 a year.
Just remember that no serious, stable, long-lasting company offers its services on LET, because the crowd there expects prices lower than the cost of a cup of coffee.
Also, if you offer IPv9, you'll be in the hall of flame @yoursunny
@DediRock @SolidVPS @crunchbits are my go to. Check em out
In Europe AlphaVPS / @AlexBarakov clearly is in the top range and matches both of the criteria you mentioned. Really good price and exceptionally great support. Their connectivity also is decent.
Quite the contrary/ NOT recommended: @Clouvider whom I saw playing (not at all) "funny" games. Current example: I purchased a VPS in Dallas from them, but
The VPS is not crappy but neither is it a great performer. I was looking for a Dallas VPS with really great connectivity. Well that Clouvider thing was "good mid-level" at best and definitely not good enough for what I had in mind, a reference server.
FWIW I currently use a @kuroit VPS for that purpose which is much better - and much cheaper as well.
@RoyaleHosting for premium network and ddos protection in AMS NL and @HostDZire for their unbeatable budget 10gbit pricing in AMS NL
@RoyaleHosting I never tried so far but wrt @HostDZire I fully agree. I didn't know they also sell dedis in NL, AMS but I like their VPS a lot.
Clouvider is generally beyond the lowend budget here.
Never used their US services, but their London service is premium.
That may well be but my Dallas VPS from them Clouvider certainly isn't premium.
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Wdym the service isnt premium? Are they advertising like a low end cpu as premium?
What makes them stand out to you?
(a) is your interest in defending certain providers (for whatever reasons) or what the title suggests?
(b) it isn't premium due to the connectivity of the Dallas VPS being not premium at all.
Awesome thx @DrNutella I am adding Ryzens here very shortly
Thanks!
I was just curious, my goal here is to understand other peoples perspective on other providers so we know what clients look for in a provider.
Consider this
Drama means sales happened
More drama == More sales
Drama Driven Deals
There's no better sales indicator than drama excl. deadpool
Here's the list of drama that I remembered for roughly 7 months
tempdeleteand turns out it's not supposed to be deleted (see also their spamhaus delisting effort)I gotcha
I for one look for
As for (b) above I already wrote it: my kuroit VPS offers better connectivity at a significantly lower price.
Never been 100% sure about Kuroit. They have a habit of relocating, which is a stability concern.
Would you mind taking a look at our vps prices - https://centrixnodes.net/vps-hosting
I just wanna get your perspective as if its reasonably priced, I think they are pretty competitive but I like to get others peoples perspectives.
Often but not always
Depends. Can also translate to less sales.
And here's my view on some of them (and others deleted because (a) I don't know/have no experience with them or (b) to trim clutter (no offense intended, no judgement)
Current status to the best of my knowledge: everyone who played half-way fair in that thread and had a VPS at not ridiculously unsustainable price still has their VPS but likely has to pay more at renewal.
And their product and connectivity seems to be really decent.
BS! That was a wanton created yadda yadda. @HostDZire is known for playing straight (and in fact, is one of my favourite providers - and for good reason)
WUT? How dare a provider to react to the market and to decide for themselves instead of running a poll here!!!
That one in my view is double BS. host_c is a top provider for a reason and btw well liked here too.
Yes, PulsedMedia overdid it with his ai zealotry but he got punished (too hard IMO btw)
I don't know about that and I want to make a clear statement: xHosts is one of my favourite providers (in the UK).
I don't know about that either and I want to make a clear statement: (a) Greencloud/NDTN is a provider I like and appreciate a lot, and (b) botting (or pretty much anything else that's hurting) MJJs is perfectly fine in my books and in fact a fat plus.
Yet another provider who just like that decides how to run his business and which products to continue or not! Un-be-liev-able!! Crucify him! (I'm a happy customer of him)
Yep. The above two are particularly evil. I happen to know that they decide for themselves what their favourite colour is!!! (I respect and like both of them, no matter how much noise some make here)
Didn't notice. But I betcha that he inserts spaghetti into the drives to make them slower when we sleep and nobody looks!
Thanks. Didn't know about that nor care much. I'm quite happy with them so far (but have only a single VPS).
Can and will do.
Absolutely, true.
The more you sell, the more there is drama, guaranteed.
That Celebrating Väinämöinen has got us shadow banned in LET. Yet another thread seems to have been deleted in manner of minutes (Zero AI use).
We got all the pages archived tho, should release one of these days. I guess it's time to let go of our provider tag since we are not allowed to post anything that provider tag should allow us to do by the looks of it.
Perfect to know you consider a someone being taken into hospital without warning with serve chest pains a cause of your "drama"
Sorry, next time I will book in advance with you
I'm not sure what having a provider tag has to do with becoming the watchmojo LET Spampost machine but you go I guess.
lmao
By and large, the people who come looking for dedicated servers are hit-and-run users. They come here because they have a project that needs certain requirements met, posts a request, buys a dedi, then disappears. They don't stick around to make themselves part of the community. The community itself, i.e. the regulars here who are are going to read any thread other than their own request thread, is primarily focused on low-cost VPSes. The overlap is not huge.
That's not to say no one here is going to have a dedicated server, but the majority have far more experience with the VPS offerings than the dedicated server offerings of providers here, with the notable exception of VPS providers who use dedicated servers from another provider here.
I disagree. I'd say that there are many non-serious, short-lasting summerhosts who offer their services on LET and they may be the most popular in promo threads, but there do exist providers here that I would host production on.
Don't forget C-servers terminating everyone on a NAT node because one person spammed and he couldn't figure out who did it, so punished everyone collectively. Also FOSSVPS needing to blacklist NS clients because MJJs abused the free service.
And, of course, the never-ending MJJ complaints about sub-standard providers who become known for frequent downtime or extremely slow ticket responses. That's not really a single drama event though but a series of mini-dramas always centered around the same set of providers who are generally well-intentioned but naïve and overwhelmed with the reality of business.
There are a lot of customers that want the best deals and lowest prices but its not always realistic.
I am personally interested in providers who run their own infrastructure and not just reselling other brands. Why should I buy yours if I can go direct?
There are some providers that run their own datacenter or have a private cage/full rack in a large datacenter. It has to be unique in some way. I like when providers serve regions or countries that less common or rare. It's a plus if you can do it at a reasonable price too.