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Good hosting? (mbin.grits.dev)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Does anyone have recommendations for good VPS Linux hosting places? I used to recommend DigitalOcean, but I'm having a subpar support experience currently that sets off some slight alarm bells such that I might want to look elsewhere. What's good?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Digital ocean sucks, bluehost sucks, GoDaddy sucks.

Two cows was great. Idk these days, no Intel there. Namecheap. Namecheap. Namecheap.

Go to namecheap.

Theyve been solid for like 10 years.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah. For years I was happy with DigitalOcean and had no issues, but this is the interaction I'm currently in the middle of:

I can't reach some particular other server; both of us can reach everyone else on the internet, just not each other
Contact support sending traceroutes
Support asks me to send mtr output (I mean... it's a little more detailed than the traceroute I guess, sure what the hell)
I do
Support asks if I'm running a VPN on my Linux server
Support tells me to disable my VPN
Support asks me to provide mtr output from a third place on the internet (which... he could do himself... I consider telling him to do it himself but decide not to). I send the mtr output
Silence for 2 days

I mean, it's far from an emergency but it doesn't inspire a ton of confidence. 🙂

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Digital ocean changed the IP of a VPS I had like 30 clients on without my go ahead.

...

Yeah.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Namecheap is kind of obscure and doesn't have transparent pricing

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Idk man namecheap has been doing it for a LONG time. 24 years.

Not clear on Vps probs because they want to know if you're trying to run a home server, or a web hosting business where you're going to house 47 clients, or if you're trying to run a fucking public education system or something.

Name cheap ain't obscure. Two cows was obscure. They were fucking awesome. But again I have no current Intel on them.

Edit: I don't know man, I just checked, the pricing seems pretty clear to me

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Maybe I'm just out of the loop. The pricing page seems clear but I still don't trust it. Additionally I don't care if the server is running on Raid 10 or not.