I've decided to get a cloud but stick with plesk as some of the issues were down to other people's vps' making mine wonky.

this should not happen if you have a good VPS provider!

what technology did you have? openvz? xen?

sounds like the classic case of an oversubscribed system.

I wouldnt really recommend either CP, if you *need* a CP directAdmin is the way to go - its secure and can be chrooted properly etc, unlike cpanel.

agreed. I have a customer on a managed VPS with HA/failover paying upwards of 50+/pm.

VPS provides an excellent half-way between a full-blown dedicated and shared hosting, especially if its setup right - too many providers out there that do not know what they are doing!!

Edited by deleted (Sat 07-Aug-10 09:23:56)

The vps provider said they could impact on each other but with their sooperduper cloud system it wouldn't happen..... think my vps was using virtuozzo. It is the parallels one anyway.

Switched to 1and1. Annoyed about finding all the negative reviews after I've switched! 1and1 use xen which I think is the same as the old host does on their clouds.

Also all their first line telephone people seem to sound like daleks. I'm almost convinced they aren't real and they're voice recognition devices!

For some though, we even see them as replacements for whole dedicated boxes as you can do the same but have the added HA/failover and pretty much unlimited* storage.

*yes, there isn't such a thing but money not being a factor, you could just scale up to whatever you needed on what would appear a single machine.

Matt

dont believe all the hype! openvz / virtuozzo is often oversubscribed as it allows the provider to over sub the memory and disk space/cpu etc often 3 or 4 times over.

ive seen providers that have 50+ virtual machines on the one server - with horrible results!

xen performance will be much better for you.

as for the 1st line drones - thats what happens when you go to a big company!

I wouldn't attempt to run "anything of any importance" on a VPS, particularly when dedicated is so cheap these days for basic boxes.

I run a VPS for development sites only with Poundhost, the box is OK; there was a period of downtime a while back which lasted a couple of days [at the weekend] thanks to the failure of the shared HP disk drive unit (the name of the thing evades me at the moment) however the current offering appears to be SAS storage:

http://vds.poundhost.com/template.aspx?ID=4

It's fine for development, but I wouldn't put any production sites on it or indeed any VPS.

In reply to a post by MarkHampshire:

thanks to the failure of the shared HP disk drive unit (the name of the thing evades me at the moment)

HP Storage Works?

Matt

Going the dedi root is the long term plan really.

Backup plan on 1and1 is also a comical 60 quid a month. Going to get a live drive account for a tenner and do ftp

Hyper-V

Knew it would come to mind eventually