Affordable managed VPS server?

19ninety

19ninety

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I've got a small XenForo forum, my current shared hosting is struggling with the cache rebuilds the forum does (takes a very long time) so I'm looking for a cheap (I'm mean affordable) managed VPS host.
Is there anything around for £10-15 p/m that can be recommended as I dont know exactly what I'm looking for other than managed as I just want to worry about my forum not faffing with installing CPanel etc.


Have seen these but not sure how good they are:

http://vpsdepot.com/virtual-private-servers.html
http://www.knownhost.com/managed-vps-hosting.html

Looking as the very base plans.
 
I'm with greenvaluehost they had a few offers on so i got about 40% off when i purchased it. cant really complain, certainly good value.
 
I can vouch for Knownhost. I've had a managed VPS2 for around 3 years now (the spec has got a lot better since I had mine). It hosts about 10 client websites (PHP/MySQL). Mine is in Dallas Fort Worth (primarily because most of the client sites are for US audiences).

This is the top command from my VPS:

top - 16:06:00 up 1288 days, 4:43, 1 user, load average: 0.60, 0.28, 0.10

Tracert from UK to my VPS

Tracing route to myvps
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms <1 ms 1 ms 10.0.1.1
2 28 ms 27 ms 27 ms
3 27 ms 27 ms 27 ms
4 27 ms 27 ms 27 ms ge-2-1-0.mpr1.lhr2.uk.above.net [195.66.224.76]
5 * 27 ms 27 ms ae1.mpr2.lhr2.uk.above.net [64.125.27.149]
6 100 ms 125 ms 100 ms ae4.cr1.dca2.us.above.net [64.125.20.73]
7 136 ms 126 ms 135 ms ae5.cr1.iah1.us.above.net [64.125.20.186]
8 135 ms 159 ms 134 ms ae0.cr1.dfw2.us.above.net [64.125.20.197]
9 134 ms 134 ms 134 ms ae5.cr2.dfw2.us.above.net [64.125.20.206]
10 148 ms 133 ms 134 ms ae1.er2.dfw2.us.above.net [64.125.27.82]
11 152 ms 133 ms 134 ms 64.124.196.226.t00876-01.above.net [64.124.196.226]
12 139 ms 139 ms 138 ms 72.249.129.125
13 136 ms 135 ms 136 ms vz89-tx.privatesystems.net [72.249.97.89]
14 138 ms 138 ms 137 ms myvps


I've not had cause to contact support that often, but when I have it has always been very fast and they have always sorted things to my satisfaction.

Knownhost have a good rep on http://www.webhostingtalk.com/.
 
Cheers chaps, giving GVH a try for a month to see how they fair for the money, £16 a month and they install cPanel too sounds quite good.
Here is the spec I ordered:

Managed VPS Hosting - MV-Standard
80GB SSD Accelerated RAID Disk Space
3000GB Premium Bandwidth @ 1Gbit Port Speed
3072MB Guaranteed DDR3 RAM
2 IPv4 Addresses
FREE cPanel/WHM License
FREE WHMXtra License

If they doesnt work out I might have to cough up a bit more for knownhost as I've seen heaps of good reviews for them.
 
p1rate, just out of interest how long do they take to get the hosting ready for use?

Edit
Just mail a PayPal email saying they refunded me... No explanation though so have raised a ticket.
 
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Signed up with KnownHost instead.

Your recent order was cancelled and refunded because of some technical problems. You should have received a refund on your PayPal. We have re-enabled your order and set it to pending. Your server will be activated once the invoice is paid. To compensate for the inconvenience, we are going to provide you a 20% discount on the second month's payment.
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Mine was set up overnight and was ready for me the next morning with everything installed and working. I think it was all done in a few hours or so. Its a shame about the cancellation. Knownhost looks good anyway so i am sure you will be fine :)
 
The response put me off a bit (doesnt look right, to me) and the lack of reply to my follow up query. I'm sure they are a great host, once in a while someone will have a bad experience with even the best company.

So far KnownHost have been outstanding, fast setup, sub 5 minute Ticket responses and putting up with my questions as a first time VPS user. Quite a bit different from cloud hosting to set up, at my experience level anyway :D
 
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