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Which VPS providers should one keep an eye on for Black Friday?

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  • MaouniqueMaounique Host Rep, Veteran

    @dustinc said: and a lot has changed since then in terms of our platform and internal processes

    It would appear so... I haven't checked you in a long time and it does seem things have changed. Still IPv6 is a dealbreaker for me and I am looking for EU locations mostly, but I am glad people are happier with your service and it improved :)

  • lovelyserverlovelyserver Member

    Deluxhost, Veloxmedia, Chunkserve, MuzunguHost

  • krawed21krawed21 Member

    @lovelyserver said:
    Deluxhost

    I hope this is a joke

  • RoxyrexRoxyrex Member

    @ShadowLurker said:
    Veloxmedia, charityhost

    Oh, I cannot wait to see what Velox guys will pull out this year. Last year was legendary

    Thanked by 1oloke
  • networknetwork Member

    @krawed21 said:

    @lovelyserver said:
    Deluxhost

    I hope this is a joke

    Do you not know about Veloxmedia?

  • carlos001carlos001 Member

    @donov said:

    @carlos001 said:

    I'm a data scientist, and I was a bit traumatized by the snooping, as it involved my own research that I was working on. You've lost me as a customer forever.

    one suggestion for future endeavors , if you are a data scientist or if you care about security of some important data , you should NEVER upload that type of data to a shared hosting enviroment .

    Absolutely true. I don't usually upload these files to the cloud, but back then, I had no choice: either I uploaded them or I would lose them. At the time, I had plenty of options: Google, Amazon, Oracle. But I was afraid their AI might take a peek at my files, so I thought to myself, "I'll upload them to my low-budget shared hosting instead. I bet they won't even have the budget for an AI to spy on them. Who would possibly spy on such important files hosted on cheap shared hosting?"

    MY MISTAKE.

    By 2026, I've managed to reduce the size of those videos by 95% without losing any quality or needing to compress them, so 1 TB of NVMe storage will last me for many years. And if it fills up, I'll just buy more physical drives. What was inside was the result of 10 years of obsessive research.

  • lovelyserverlovelyserver Member

    @krawed21 said:

    @lovelyserver said:
    Deluxhost

    I hope this is a joke

    It is a joke, of course

  • SaragoldfarbSaragoldfarb Veteran, Megathread Squad

    QDE and Zappie are on my wishlist. QDE cos i could use a premium cheap NL server and Zappie cos I wouldn't mind another small chicken in an exotic location.

  • WasabiHostingWasabiHosting Member, Host Rep

    We will be participating on Black Friday ;)

    Thanked by 1DartNode
  • krawed21krawed21 Member

    @network said:

    @krawed21 said:

    @lovelyserver said:
    Deluxhost

    I hope this is a joke

    Do you not know about Veloxmedia?

    I used their server, I didn't see any problems. I would be grateful if you enlighten me :)

  • averagedatahoarderaveragedatahoarder Member

    @carlos001 said:

    @dustinc said:

    @carlos001 said:

    @dahartigan said:
    Racknerd, greencloud and colocrossing are the ones I'm watching for this year.

    I don't recommend RackNerd. About two years ago, I had a terrible experience with their shared web hosting service. They advertised 50 GB of storage, so I uploaded a 20 GB MP4 video containing 10 hours of important internal processes from my company.

    Around 15 hours later, my account was suspended. Their initial excuse was that I was storing copyrighted material without authorization, which was completely false. The video was simply a backup of important business processes belonging to my organization.

    Once they realized their accusation was unfounded, they lifted the suspension but insisted that I purchase a VPS just to store that file, despite advertising 50 GB of storage with their shared hosting plan.

    At that point, I immediately decided to leave RackNerd, but I never told them about my decision. I just wanted to walk away quietly because I didn't want their staff snooping through my organization's private data any further.

    I'm currently using GreenCloud and GeorgeDataCenter, and I'm very happy with both providers. However, this Black Friday, I'm looking to try out some new providers for backup servers. Servarica, Netcup, and AlphaVPS are currently at the top of my list.

    Hi @carlos001 -- Thank You for sharing your feedback. I do want to provide some clarification here, particularly regarding video content on shared hosting.

    Restrictions on unrelated backups and video streaming are very common within shared hosting environments in the industry, and you'll find this to be quite the norm, be it with RackNerd or elsewhere. By the way, most of the other providers you've mentioned in your post focus on VPS hosting (not shared hosting), which is likely why your experience felt different there. Those same restrictions don't apply to our VPS services either, and backup storage and video streaming are allowed on our VPS product line.

    Our Terms of Service specifically state:

    Shared and Reseller Hosting Customers are expected to reasonably utilize their hosting space in a manner that is needed to host their public facing website(s) and its core website functionality only.

    It also states:

    Additionally, streaming video content is prohibited on shared/reseller hosting environments. If you are looking to store backups, set up a cloud storage locker service, host video content to stream, etc - please consider doing this on a VPS instead. These types of activities are allowed on our VPS and Dedicated Server product lines, so long that it is legal content and abides by the rest of our policies.

    Legal video storage and streaming are allowed on our VPS and dedicated server product lines, which is why we recommend those services for this type of use.

    Regarding your privacy concerns, we don't snoop through customers' files and have no interest in doing so. On shared hosting, these checks are handled by automated scripts on our shared hosting platform, and flagging a video file does not require our staff to watch it.

    If you can share the original ticket number via DM, I'd be happy to review the correspondence, including the copyright concern you mentioned, though I realized this was more than 2 years ago (and we've since heavily improved our internal processes/procedures, and also hired on a lot more talent in the past 2 years as well).

    As for VPS services -- our VPS services are unmanaged KVM instances. You control the operating system and software within your VPS, and we don't perform these shared hosting file checks inside customers' VPS instances.

    By the way, quite a bit has changed with our shared/reseller hosting product line since you last used us. We've continued investing in this product line, including the introduction of our next-generation platform powered by Ryzen, NVMe, and CloudLinux 9. You can read more about that here.

    As for our VPS product line, we've innovated there as well, including the recent launch of RackNerd ctrl, which has been very well appreciated and received by the community and our customers: https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/221357/racknerd-launches-ctrl-a-proprietary-platform-built-for-ai-vps 👊

    How did you come to the conclusion that I was using that video.mp4 file for streaming?

    The file was never downloaded, not even once. It was uploaded to a well-hidden location and was never played. It could just as easily have been a .bak or .zip file. The only reason I couldn't encrypt it was that I had run out of storage space.

    As I explained to your support team at the time, the real reason was that my SSD was completely full, and I was planning to install a new 1TB drive as my primary drive. However, I needed to free up enough space to download the Windows ISO file and create a bootable installation drive.
    That is why I temporarily uploaded that video file to my web hosting account: simply to free up enough storage space to download the Windows ISO. Instead, I ended up having my private files snooped through and getting banned. They eventually lifted the ban, but the damage had already been done. I quietly walked away.

    This is the photo I uploaded to your support chat back then to demonstrate that the video in question was just one of the many video files I had stored on my PC.

    You accused me of streaming, yet you never provided any evidence that I had played or streamed that file even once. You also accused me of copyright infringement, despite the fact that the data displayed on the screen was original work created by my own organization.

    I'm a data scientist, and I was a bit traumatized by the snooping, as it involved my own research that I was working on. You've lost me as a customer forever.

    CharityHost take notes

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