FDC Servers or some other host?

I'm a small business owner and developer since 2003. We have a few dedicated servers, each one with a different host. One of these hosts was sold and the new owner wants us to use a new server in a new location. We are considering switching to another host. This server runs some important client web sites, our own site, and web apps we're developing.

What we're looking for:
- unmanaged bare metal dedicated server, Intel Xeon 4c/8t minimum, 6 or 8 core preferred
- 16GB RAM, 32GB RAM preferred
- 1TB (or 960GB) SSD, 2 x SSD software RAID preferred
- FreeBSD 11 or 12 (our other servers are FreeBSD 11.4)
- $140/month or less (we're paying $130/month now for the current server, no SSD, 16GB)
- US data center, east coast preferred

Obviously we want a decent data center and good customer support but we also want a company who is going to be around for the next 10 years and isn't likely to be bought up by some Wall Street investment firm who doesn't care about the customers of the smaller hosting firms they're purchasing.

Hosts I'm researching:
- Vultr
- OVHcloud (the US branch)
- Linode
- Hivelocity

So far, OVH seems to have the exact hardware, price point, and data center but their billing system worries me.

If you have any experience with these hosts, good or bad, please share. If you work for one of these hosts, I'm open to offers.

thanks,

Robert

Has anyone bought form them? They have v4 servers which I have been looking for for ages at a good price and alot of other sites just go out of stock so often.

Hello,

I'm looking for a good host to host a Tor exit node relay, is Psychz a good match? About the complaints? Do they listen or do they shut down the server at the slightest suspicion?


Thank you!

Hi All,

Any good suggestion on east coast, USA host? I normally hosting gaming server and have been with constant.com (vultr is their sister company) but their constant incompetence in blocking 1Gbps DDoS is bother some. We don't get DDoS often, may be random once every few months because of script kiddies. Same bug exist at gameservers.com or their sister companies because they block all UDP packets rather then blocking bad ones and allowing good ones.

I have noticed my colleagues using OVH and have good feedback from them. How's the Virginia location of OVH? Also any another good host which anyone can recommend? Not a server hopper. Been with constant.com since 2011, I think but every year, I have to chase them to fix the issues and their delay of 2 years in fixing DDoS issue is bother some.. I believe it's about time, I make a decision.

Thanks

I have some servers at Hivelocity, since 2017.

No network problems, 100% uptime, excellent hardware and support.

Yesterday, after 2 or 3 years, one of the backup disks on one of my servers, failed.

I opened a ticket asking how to change to a new HDD. To my surprise, the support offered the possibility to clone the disk to try to recover the data. Despite being a backup disk, it would be good to recover, as I had left some old accounts there.

Then they removed the HDD and cloned it in 3 hours, for a new HDD. And it worked! all recovered data. Of course, it will not always be possible to recover, it will depend on the problem that the HDD presents.

And during the whole process, the Hivelocity support team was very active, I scheduled to shut down the server after 7PM (so they can insert the new drive) and minutes before they wrote saying "we are ready to install the new HDD, you just have to shutdown the server". Never, but never, have I seen this type of concern with the customer, in the datacenters where I have been. I'm in this market this 2004, I had servers at The Planet, Layered Tech, Host Dime, LiquidWeb, and so many others that don't even exist anymore.

I've had servers in other companies, which were managed, and I didn't have support like that. My servers at Hivelocity have no management, but they go beyond what was expected, gave me all the support from beginning to end of the process, offered the data recovery service for free and even warned that they will save the old HDD for a week, for any emergency.

Thanks Hivelocity, I only have one thing to ask: keep it up, "this is the way".

I'm looking for dedicated servers (6-8 servers) with the following configurations:

CPU i9-9900K
RAM 64GB
SSD 500GB / 1TB
Unmetered network / no limits
Possibility to install my own OS by rescue system
KVM access (if possible)
No setup fees
Collocation Germany

Do you guys know any providers who offers such at a decent price?
I would go on hetzner, but, their setup fees of $670 would kill me
Lets say I had a budget of $40-50 per server, any providers with that range?

Hi there!

I currently have 3 Proxmox servers in a cluster with OVH, but their customer service is shocking to say the least.

I've been trying to find a similar provider, but I can't find anything near as comparable for the price/spec I'm after.

The spec for each server is:

AMD Epyc 7351P - 16c/32t - 2.4 GHz/2.9 GHz
256 GB ECC 2400 MHz
2500 GB SSD NVMe
UK (This is a must)
Proxmox VE 6

I don't need any managed services, just access to the bare metal.

Can anyone recommend a provider who can provide me with a similar spec and price to these? I currently pay around £200/month per server.

Thanks!

Hi

I'm looking for an AMD Ryzen server these days. My requirement is stated below.

AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Hexa-Core
64 GB DDR4
2x 512 GB NVMe SSD
40TB Bandwidth

I got a good price from Europe. It was 40.00 . But I'm looking for a server from USA / Canada. Anyone can match this price in US ?

Hi Guys,

I guess they deserve to have this feedback, I've been using wholesaleinternet dedicated servers since 1st of January 2013 over 8 years damn! I am getting old

I used to have dedicated server with expensive providers before I met wholesaleinternet, believe or not I have less problem with wholesaleinternet after I changed from previous dedi provider. I have 0 problem last 5-6 years. These guys knows what they are doing from management to support, they have backup power, backup internet providers etc to maintain servers in good shape.

Price: I don't think you would find better pricing than wholesaleinternet I also have ovh budget dedicated servers close to wholesaleinternet prices they are also good after wholesaleinternet.

Support: When I had dedicated server with expensive service providers, response time of tickets around 2-12 hours. believe or not every time I create ticket with wholesaleinternet they response and make it happen solution nearly in an hour. My last interact was I need to have KVM and they installed within 30min. I have no words with these guys they are not only fast but also proactive.

Hello,
We're looking for three unmanaged servers, each in a different datacenter within the US - preferably two coasts and central US. Outside of the US is not an option. We will expand this to 3 at each location eventually.

Minimum specs:

24 Core Xeon (2.0 GHz or faster)
128GB DDR4
200GB SSDs in RAID1
3.84TB SSD
100TB on 10Gbps port
IPMI is a must (We must be able to power off and on at will)
Clean IPs /29 on each host
While this is unmanaged, we want 24/7 US based support for hardware replacement
Budget is ~$250 USD/Mo for each host.
Use case is for deployment of a large web app. Datacenter redundancy is essential for uninterrupted access to at least one host at all times.

Note that we were using Purevoltage, which is an exceptional company and provided excellent service to us. However, at this time (soon to change), they do not have IPMI access or the ability for us to manage powering off/on the hosts via their KVM. We are doing multiple reloads of various virtualization options to find what we want to go forward with, which we discovered cannot be handled efficiently through ticketing.

Thank you for any recommendations.