VPS hosts that aren't useless!

I'm looking around yet again for vps hosting. Current host has failed to fix problems properly. Support is slow. VPS has been down all day which is hopeless if you're trying to run anything of any importance.

So far I have looked at mochahost - lots of complaints
Hostgator - maybe.
Webhost uk - seem to be the same as eukhost
Webfusion - ha
Daily - maybe but they seem to be the same people as above and 123-reg.

Hosting must be decent bandwidth (500GB min). Reasonable memory 500mb min.

Current host is just under £30 a month with plesk power pack and 100 domains.

Cpanel/WHM isn't any good as I detest the Cpanel interface!

Any ideas on any host which isn't rubbish? Every one I have tried has deteriorated into being hopeless.

I've got VPS instances with Nethosted who are Very good if not likely to offer a VPS in your budget at the specs you state, however I've got several instances with Linode who are also utterly reliable and within budget and I'm also having decent service from a new startup called ThrustVPS who have hosts on the RapidSwitch network in the UK.

In reply to a post by RoadRailer_Pilot:

I'm also having decent service from a new startup called ThrustVPS who have hosts on the RapidSwitch network in the UK.

Might be worth making sure you have your own backups with that one as it seems to be run or managed by the same chap who was in charge of Vaserve/FSCK when it had a slight security issue leading to the developer of the software being used; committing suicide.

Matt

The linode idea looks kind of cool. I've got a heart reseller account too that I was going to move everything to but the interface is so dreadful I haven't got far with it.

I was going to resell space but the problem with that is you get the hassle when it is down. If I'd resold anything with my current host I'd have been barbequed by now....

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In reply to a post by RoadRailer_Pilot:

I'm also having decent service from a new startup called ThrustVPS who have hosts on the RapidSwitch network in the UK.

Might be worth making sure you have your own backups with that one as it seems to be run or managed by the same chap who was in charge of Vaserve/FSCK when it had a slight security issue leading to the developer of the software being used; committing suicide.

Matt

Cheers for the heads up. I have DDoS resilient DNS hosted elsewhere and am a little OCD about backups! Since I rolled out de-dupe on my ZFS storage box I'm able to scatter my sites around various VPS/Dedicated providers with nightly backups of the busy sites with failover to another provide should the VPS vanish into the etherr. Belt and braces!

How much client churn did you have when BSQ took over the VaSERV/FSCK accounts? I am halfway through the 100+ page thread on WHT.

To be fair though - the host performance isn't bad at this price point, one would assume being linked to the suicide of a developer would make one raise ones game entering the arena again...

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How much client churn did you have when BSQ took over the VaSERV/FSCK accounts? I am halfway through the 100+ page thread on WHT.

Us? Neither have anything to do with us - just giving you a heads up.

Matt

In reply to a post by teabelly:

The linode idea looks kind of cool. I've got a heart reseller account too that I was going to move everything to but the interface is so dreadful I haven't got far with it.

I was going to resell space but the problem with that is you get the hassle when it is down. If I'd resold anything with my current host I'd have been barbequed by now....

To be honest the linode instances are running a variety of GPL control panels including Virtualmin, ISPconfig and GPLhost (sandal wearing beard stroking *nix enthusiast!) and I'm very impressed by the ability to deploy my own OS configurations in any of the linode datacentres and reboot/modify DNS/mount different drives etc for the nodes from the linode app on my iPhone.

Well worth a look.

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In reply to a post by RoadRailer_Pilot:

How much client churn did you have when BSQ took over the VaSERV/FSCK accounts? I am halfway through the 100+ page thread on WHT.

Us? Neither have anything to do with us - just giving you a heads up.

Matt

My apologies, I looked into your own VPS offerings, noticed you were at BlueSquare added 2+2 and got 5.

Thanks again for the heads up!

Ah ha!

Bluesquare are just the facility, (colo racks) etc.

As far as I know from el reg, fsck et all was bought out by Bluesquare due to situation that the owner was in after the massive hack.

Matt

It's a toss up now between going with a linode or using valuevps and maybe going for a dedicated as they do them for £35 squids a month. So tempting to have my own server then I won't have to share with gimps mucking them up! Downtime due to my own stupidity I can live with