Comments on: Cloud Hosting: Slicehost, VPS.net and Media Temple Comparison Review

By: Ray Chalaban

Ray Chalaban — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 19:43:16 +0000

VPS really are a must-have item nowadays for me. Thanks for the info.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 15:18:54 +0000

I made this comment before but I will do it here also:
VPS.net is the worst host I ever tried, every week my websites have downtime and it cost me a ton of money. I have no idea when any of the websites I host with them had a full week of uptime.
Today they broke one of the vps and my website was down all day because they corrupted the database also.
I started moving my websites from them and I wouldn’t advise anyone to host with them.

By: Robb

Robb — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 08:55:46 +0000

I feel the need to say that you deserve a thumbs up for your efforts.

By: vpn gateway

vpn gateway — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:59:47 +0000

Might be something wrong with the VPN connection itself. Reset the tunnel (If its cisco stuff – clear crypto ipsec sa peer ip). Initiate traffic from one end to bring it back up.

By: VangelisB

VangelisB — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:22:52 +0000

I tried MT a couple of years ago but was very disappointed. Even a simple FTP upload took a long time. I’m on my way to VPS.net as I’m very disappointed from resellerzoom where I currently host my sites (uptime issues).

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 06:36:55 +0000

Why did you omit Engine Yard from your final selection?

By: Francis

Francis — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 15:21:49 +0000

This is a very good review. I use ressellerzoom.com VPS and its quite good their support is very nice. In terms of scalability they start from 25GB onwards not like VPS.NET. Am comparing different VPS hosting and this review was really helpful.

By: David Korman

David Korman — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 22:20:10 +0000

This is an awesome review. One host to add to the list is OpenHosting. They use KVM and VServer and do have backups and overall their approach seems slightly different, with more on the functional side. I found that they really understood my needs and didn't have flashy features that I didn't care for in the first place. It's been fast and reliable and my support emails were always answered very quickly and replies were helpful and to the point. I do also have one Slicehost and two Linode VPS's, BTW, and I like Linode better, but over the years seems like my OpenHosting ones are the best, actually.

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:02:46 +0000

Hello,

This is a great comparison of features between VPS.net and Slicehost. Media Temple, too, but I consider Virtuozzo somewhat inferior to Xen, so I wasn’t really looking for more reviews about them.

That being said, I’d like to know if you’ve had a chance since this post was originally written to try out Linode’s servers as well. I was under the impression that they did have a backup solution coming, and last time I remember reading somewhere that they were already in beta.

I ask because they’re usually also highly recomended, especially among Rails application developers, so to not see them in this comparison (as a reader) was a little disappointing. Not that this is your fault, of course, since, like you said, they didn’t have backups available at the time, and it was a feature you required.

Perhaps if you decide to do another review again of VPS host providers you would consider including Linode in your future comparisons? It would be very helpful to developers like me who don’t really have the resources to try out each service on our own without spending a small amount of our very limited fortune.

Again, thanks for your review, and I hope this didn’t come out sounding like a demand :) Please, excuse my rudeness if it did.