Best VPS host?

NathanE · 19 Jan 2012 at 22:05

Looking to spend about £50 ex vat / month.

Apparently Fasthosts are utter utter crap?

NathanE · 20 Jan 2012 at 09:45

Ovh/Kimsufi looks too good to be true. Though I really wanted a VPS as they're more reliable than a dedi. Their VPS pricing seems to be fairly uncompetitive. 4GB RAM costs £84.99/mo.

Linode seem to be ridiculously priced. And doesn't seem to support Windows.

I really want to avoid non-UK companies. I find pretty much every USA host are fly-by-night operations that just disappear after a year or two and take your money with them.

What do people think of Tagadab? Seem to be a Claranet group company, and I have a soft spot for Claranet from the 56k days and their UT server that gave me 90ms ping.

NathanE · 20 Jan 2012 at 10:53

Okay that's OVH/Kimsufi out the window then: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=672553

I thought those dedi prices were a bit keen.

Got to have a sixth sense around you when buying server space these days.

NathanE · 20 Jan 2012 at 15:51

Yeah but I need better service that than. I need at least three nines SLA really.

This isn't for web hosting simple stuff. It is for hosting bespoke application servers.

NathanE · 20 Jan 2012 at 20:54

stefanb said:
I use Rackspace for my proper projects and they've been brilliant, the tech support alone is well worth the premium. Fasthosts and UK2 were both pretty crap, UK2 especially, support is nonexistent. Just signed up for 123-Reg's to sample it and it seems decent enough (for the price) but it has only been a day so who knows how good it'll end up being.

I want to like Rackspace but I can never work out if they're homepage has been hacked or what. Their prices are just so lol.

£164/mo for a 4GB RAM virtual cloud server (they don't seem to do barebones VPS).

And they have the utter cheek to charge more for Windows OS even though it makes no difference to them what you install on it!

NathanE · 26 Jan 2012 at 13:48

Well we went with Tagadab in the end. So far, very impressed. Excellent customer service too. Tracert reveals it is definitely hosted inside a Claranet datacenter, so can't get much better than that IMO.

NathanE · 26 Jan 2012 at 13:53

arty said:
Would AWS EC2 be a silly suggestion?

Not silly at all. We're using a micro instance of EC2 for some web hosting. But the costs escalate very quickly after that. And the application we're hosting is fairly RAM heavy - which is something I'm looking to solve in future versions. EC2 would end up costing us an absolute fortune.

The VPS isn't permanent. We just needed a short-mid term solution to get us started. As soon as we pass about 20 customers we will need to start thinking about dedi hardware and colo. But that's fine and is what we did for the last venture which is now up to >80 customers.

NathanE · 27 Jan 2012 at 18:59

How nice is this traceroute, guys?

Code:

Tracing route to sms1.world-text.com [83.138.133.122]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  95.172.7.233
  2     1 ms     1 ms     1 ms  g1-7-tcl2-ar2.router.uk.clara.net [195.8.78.133]
  3     1 ms     1 ms     1 ms  g1-1-1-t40-cr1.router.uk.clara.net [195.157.6.178]
  4     1 ms     1 ms     1 ms  ten0-0-0-t40-br3.router.uk.clara.net [195.8.68.86]
  5     2 ms     2 ms     2 ms  linx.edge3.lon.rackspace.net [195.66.224.116]
  6     2 ms     2 ms     2 ms  vl911.core5a.lon3.rackspace.net [92.52.76.203]
  7     2 ms     2 ms     7 ms  aggr310a-core5a.lon3.rackspace.net [92.52.76.111]
  8     2 ms     2 ms     2 ms  sms1.world-text.com [83.138.133.122]

Trace complete.

NathanE · 27 Jan 2012 at 20:50

No, Tagadab/Claranet

Our partner appears to be with Rackspace though.