What are your thoughts and experiences?
If one's customer base (and most site visitors) is in the USA, does it matter if an overseas dedicated server is used for most website hosting?
Any countries better to host in than others?
Any to absolutely avoid?
Is a 10% cost savings worth it to have an overseas server for a USA user base?
Hello, my name is David, new member
I'm recently learning about using server hosting or providing services.
And I realized that server hosting should also be provided to meet customer needs.
Below are the Top 5 picked from our own survey to learn more.
Server's stable operation, security, price, quick response, and data center location seem to be important values.
What do you think is most important in a dedicated server??
Please feel free to share your opinions and reasons. I would appreciate it
Im searching for a dedicated server(s) with the following specs:
CPU: Any 6 core + ryzen cpu OR dual xeon E5 with atleast 16 cores / 32 threads
RAM: 64GB+
Storage: Atleast 512GB non hdd
GPU: Any nvidia gpu with atleast 1-2GB will do the job, i dont have any use for quicker and more expensive ones
Network: Dosent matter
Location: Dosent matter
Budget: The lower the better, im also looking for multiple servers at once
I am looking for a dedicated server with 25 TB - 100 TB SSD, location doesn't matter. need a good internet port.
I am looking for and set up my server in European countries, I don't really know about many European providers, Please recommend me server providers in European countries
- Euro ( UK, DE, FR, RU, LV, NL,........ all )
- Bandwidth >100mbs
- Lowest cost: 50$->150$
Thank you, please leave a comment to help me <3
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Hello,
We are looking for a dedicated server in UK with a bit softer DMCA policy (as we know absolute DMCA ignore is not possible in the UK). We have been working with redstation for the last 5 years without any problems, however, recently we have been a target of DMCA. We host media content mostly (no pornography or any graphic content. mostly indian media content uploaded by users). Upon a DMCA notice, we quickly find the targeted content, inform the user and take down the content. Recently happening quite often. Have worked with some good hosting companies in NL, however, the connectivity is not always that good to UK and having a big part of our client base in the UK requires us to have a local dedicated server. The configuration we expect is:
Intel Xeon E3-1231 V3 or higher
8 to 16GB of ram
240gb SSD (1tb hdd will do as well if no ssd option)
Bandwidth: we do around 50-60TB per month maximum. Would prefer 80 to 100TB monthly on 1gbps just in case.
Looking for recommendations.
Thank you in advance.
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 $130/month now for the current server, no SSD, 16GB)
- US data center, east coast preferred
Obviously we want a decent data center and good customer support but we also want a company who is going to be around for the next 10 years and isn't likely to be bought up by some Wall Street investment firm who doesn't care about the customers of the smaller hosting firms they're purchasing.
Hosts I'm researching:
- Vultr
- OVHcloud (the US branch)
- Linode
- Hivelocity
So far, OVH seems to have the exact hardware, price point, and data center but their billing system worries me.
If you have any experience with these hosts, good or bad, please share. If you work for one of these hosts, I'm open to offers.
thanks,
Robert
Not sure if this is the right category.. I want to know what makes a server speedy. My issue is, I tried about 6 servers the last 6 months.
Reseller Hostmantis (5$ a month)
VPS cloudcone 10 core 16 GB ram (50$) a month + cpanel (15$) + litespeed (30$) a month
VPS from a dutch guy, 8 core, 16GB ram, directadmin (70 a month)
Cloudcone VPS: 10 cores, 60GB ram, Cpanel + litespeed = like 70 a month).
Wpprovider (claims to have to fastest dutch hosting): 25,- a month.
Neostrada magento hosting (6 core, 8GB ram, cpanel = 20,- a month)
Believe it or not, but the freaking 5$ per month SHARED (!!!!) RESELLER (!!!!!) is the fastest of them all. And I really don't understand how that is possible. Is there anybody who can explain to me what makes a server fast? First I thought it was litespeed, so i bought a litespeed license for by VPS'ses. Then I thought it was the lack of RAM, so i went to Contabo with 60 freaking GB of ram WITH litespeed. And even that is slower if I 1:1 compare it with a 100% duplicated site on that Hostmantis reseller package...
Then a guy from Asia who tried to improve the pagespeed for a webshop copied the site to his dedicated server and the results were INSANELY fast. I asked him his config and he said:
2 X Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650
32 Cores
64 GB ram
2 X SSD Drive
He said he didn't had Litespeed, only Memcache installed.
Is there anybody who can tell me what makes a server fast? Is it the RAM? the CPU? The managing? The location? The LITEspeed/Memcached/Redis? And when does it make sense to get a Dedicated server instead of a VPS?
About me: As side job I build websites. Most of them very easy, 3 page wordpress sites with no visitors. I host about 60. They don't really care about speed, cause they are happy if there are There are some bigger clients (3 with a woocommerce webshop, 1 with a magento webshop) for which speed IS important.
What I would like is
THE FASTEST Server possible for my amount
At least 500GB SSD storage
Managed
Backups remotely (and something like JEtbackup)
Softacalous
Cpanel + WHM (100 accounts)
Budget: Under like 180$ for all (if that is anyway possible).
Hello,
I apologize if I'm not using the right terminology or if I am really new to this.
A few months ago, I started a website where people can upload short videos (50 MB max). Unfortunately, some users have complained that the upload speed on my website is lower compared to similar websites. The upload speed on my website only reaches 8mbps but the two similar websites have upload speed between 12-16 mbps. After talking to the host about the problem, they told me the following: There's still an issue which we'll be resolving in the future with our network that when there's a high latency between the server and the client the connection will slow down for some reason.
I have tested my website and the 2 similar websites from my home internet and the internet of several other friends, and I have seen similar results for the upload speed.
I am currently using a VPS from Scalahosting and their customer service has been amazing, but I do want to change providers as I would like my users to have a higher upload speed when uploading videos.
I wanted to see if anyone has any suggestions on what host I can use for either a dedicated server or a streaming server? I am really new to this so I would need a managed services. The budget is not a problem so any server with a high upload speed for the users will be good.
Any help would be appreciate it.
oneprovider.com
This is based on my experience buying & using dedicated server at oneprovider.com
Following points make this host a perfect AVOID case:
1. No proper communication - you will not get answer when your server will be ready, just keep waiting
2. No Phone support at all - this is the worst thing to face as a client. No Telephonic support at all. Even for the greatest issue like server down, you have to raise ticket and start praying almighty.
3. Chargeable support - They have 2 paid support categories and to promote them, regular customers are treated in the worst manner.
4. Unreasonably Longer time to respond tickets - For server outage, network failure, their support took more than 8 hours to respond and again, they simply asked some choices and once you make one, another 8-10 hours.
5. IP issue - If for any reason, your server is to be replaced, they are unable to provide you same IPs even for same location ! Hence, DNS propagation and all will be the headache for clients.
6. Unfriendly Refund Policy - I have NOT received refund yet. For their own faults as well, they are not willing to refund customers. Rather, they want to make proportionate refund. They considered Time wasted on their support tickets as services used by customer!.
In nutshell, at oneprovider - Dissatisfaction Guaranteed!
I can also provide tickets' snaps in support of my views above.
You are advised in your own interest to AVOID crappy host oneprovider for any serious work.
Hello,
I don't know if its right category to ask such question, please pardon me if i am at wrong place.
We want to host site on https://vsys.host as per their claim on DMCA free hosting. I didn't find much reviews about this Hosting provider so wanted to ask if this provider is legitmate and should i pay them to rent the dedicated server?
Regards.