Comments on: ServerADay.com

By: Marcelo Sanches

Marcelo Sanches — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:14:39 +0000

Tynan, you are right about slhost.

I had a VPS at SLHost too, payed 6 months in advance and used just 4.

The support at slhost is good until you do not need them.

I had several problems (weeks …) cause DOS attacks at they central IP, and support was not able to correct the issue.

After several days having a poor support was forced to move to another host.

By: moltar

moltar — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 11:02:08 +0000

That is so weird. I have a completely opposite experience. I’ve ran that benchmarking tool myself every 3 hours for a week straight (cron) and averaged out the numbers and they were amazing.

And support had fixed some pretty complex problems for me a few times. And I consider myself an advanced user, I know linux pretty well and I just couldn’t figure certain things out, and they did it for me without questions asked.

By: Tynan

Tynan — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 03:33:18 +0000

Actually I had a VPS at SLHost first. Overall it was much slower than my server, and several times it went down totally because someone else on the server had pegged the CPU. After this happened three times, I decided to go dedicated.

Their support was also totally useless to me. I had some questions that should have been very basic to anyone who has configured a server (now that I’ve done it I could answer the questions within a few seconds), but they kept giving me dumb stock answers.

Control panels do make things easier, but I personally prefer not having one. They don’t do things quite as cleanly as could be done if you do it manually.

Tynan

By: moltar

moltar — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 02:17:33 +0000

And another benefit of VPS is that it’s much easier to “upgrade” the hardware on them. If lets say you are outgrowing the setup, all the hosting provider needs to do is just allocate more RAM/space for you. If there is no more space on the server, they can simply move your entire VPS in minutes to another server. Eventually you might even have just your VPS taking up entire server.

By: moltar

moltar — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 02:13:23 +0000

I think low end hardware servers are overrated these days. If you are going to spend this much, then you might as well opt-in for a VPS. You get the same full control, except that you get burstable hardware which is of a much higher grade than what you got.

Check out slhost.com – you get a dedicated VPS, but it’s also managed for you if you need help. E.g. you can’t figure something out and don’t have time – shoot an email. I’ve emailed at all times of day and night, and got personal resposnes in 10 minutes EVERY time. I have 3 accounts with them.

Check WebHostingTalk.com for VPS benchmark thread and compare to other VPS.

They also have deals posted on WHT forums.

And notice that their servers come with control panels as well. Especially my fav – Plesk :)