I just got recommended to Servint by a friend, signed up for a VPS. How are they?

Maybe you should have asked how they are BEFORE signing up?

Well I am :)

Well, if you would have looked around the forums, you probably would've seen almost all positive reviews. :P

Use Search:

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/search.php?s=

>How are they?
They are fine.

Heard lots of people like ServInt.

ServInt is excellent. You will be amazed by their lightning fast support responses. If you search ServInt you will find my review.

Will you be happy with a ServInt VPS?

The answer is a resounding, screaming YES.

hth

been happy since last september/october when I moved to them :-)

It's been almost 6 month I joined them and no complain so far.
They are great!
:cool:

Servint good #@!#@???

Yeah =).

Their support is pretty fast and efficiency.
They offer avg VPS plans, neither too expensived, neither too cheap.
And enough resources on your VPS to run some heavy sites.

hehe.. i think that i will try it too :) so many "positive voices" ;)

Servint rock :) They never fail to suprise me with how damn fine they are.

I can honestly say that ServInt Internet Services is one of the best companies I've ever had the pleasure of doing business with, either on or offline.

I also just recently signed up for a VPS through ServInt, they have been really friendly so far, and have provided more than enough help to get started.

After being with another popular VPS provider, I've been very happy with Servint. They strike me as refreshingly professional and well-managed. I think you'll be very happy!

LoL. Now I Feel Like Buying A VPS From ServInt. But I Don't Have A Need For One.. Yet

when you do get it from them...

Originally posted by NVarra
I can honestly say that ServInt Internet Services is one of the best companies I've ever had the pleasure of doing business with, either on or offline.

What do you get to do with them off-line? :eek:

I just signed up with Servint a few minutes ago and after dilegently researching providers I believe I found the best one for my needs. This forum, and especially Carlos' thread and spreadsheet really sped up the process and I'm sure helped me reach the right decision. I found many less expensive providers but they all skimped somewhere.

His tip to check the forums of providers helped also. I almost signed up with a cheaper company that promised dual xeon 3.06 processors, but in the forum I read where clients were getting stuck on PIII 700 MHz machines. Now I couldn't get into servint's forums without signing up, but the professionalism and thoroughness of there site along with the many sterling reviews on this forum convinced me.

I've been at this research project for a couple of days and its mind boggling to say the least. I'm very glad I found WHT, kudos for what you all do here.

With servint, which is better for a vps? linux or windows?

What do you get the most speed out of, in general?

Originally posted by rabbitracer
With servint, which is better for a vps? linux or windows?

Is there a reason why you absolutely must use a Windows server? Like, are you planning to run any applications where a Windows server would be better? And, uh... I wasn't aware that ServInt (https://www.servint.net/vps/compare.php) provides Windows servers. :eek:

I am in the minority here but my experience with Servint was bad. They just dont help you, they talk techie talk if you can understand it great. but if you are a novice dont go with servin find a managed solution like liquidweb or something from. If you know how to install a firewall and iptables and all that then Servint will be good for you.

Hmm... I don't know any of that stuff, and my experience there has been very good.

Originally posted by rbrowme
I am in the minority here but my experience with Servint was bad. They just dont help you, they talk techie talk if you can understand it great. but if you are a novice dont go with servin find a managed solution like liquidweb or something from. If you know how to install a firewall and iptables and all that then Servint will be good for you.

What did you need help with? :)

just installing any type of security or firewall, servint refused to offer any type of help and also servint does not offer ANY TYPE OF REFUND so if you go with them be prepared to be a long time customer.

They have in the past installed anything Ive asked them to install if it was possible, other servint customers also have KISS installed on their vps's so it would seem you didnt have a typical experience.

Originally posted by rbrowme
just installing any type of security or firewall, servint refused to offer any type of help and also servint does not offer ANY TYPE OF REFUND so if you go with them be prepared to be a long time customer.
I'm sorry you're so upset with us. I'd like to straighten a few things out, however. First of all, the only reason our sales team doesn't market that we will install APF is that we still have a couple dozen host machines running 2.6.0 which doesn't allow it. We'll be completing our upgrade to 2.6.1 shortly, and then all VPS accounts will be support to the extent Virtuozzo allows.

Also be careful not to confuse "APF" with "security." APF is not the end-all of security. In fact, most anything you can do with it can be done with IPTables directly, which our NOC will be happy to help you do. We have hundreds of novice customers, none of whom are required to understand how to implement firewalls and IPTables.

Instead of going back and forth, I'd simply like to wish you the best of luck wherever you go.

a little too late to ask, but yes.

They're a great company, and will bend backwards to make you happy.


Originally posted by WS Alex
I just got recommended to Servint by a friend, signed up for a VPS. How are they?

I signed up for a Servint about a week ago - I've got mixed reviews :)

What I absolutely love is their lightning fast response from both the Sales and Tech side. I live in a different time zone, so to get a reply within minutes is really impressive to me. With all my experience with hosts, I haven't had one reply this quick. The longest I've had to wait was say 15 mins.

My grip (so far) is that like mentioned above was the "Techie talk". The VPS is my first time playing around with root access (I've been using a reseller all this while) and getting my feet wet with it, so there are plenty of terms I don't quite understand yet. So sometimes the reply comes in, and I'm like "HUH?! What on earth is that?"

Also, I've gotten a few conflicting answers before. I emailed Tech to ask if how many IP's I could add (I couldn't find the info on the VPS site itself) and the first answer I got was that "You can add as many as you want, but it doesn't show up in CPanel". When I still couldn't add it, I emailed them again, and someone else replied "You can purchase extra IP's for $1 a month each".

Besides that, the staff there have been very helpful (I've emailed like 20 times since I moved it about 1+ week ago). They're quite small minor issues for me, not enough to warrant a thumbs-down in their favor :)

Originally posted by roulade

My grip (so far) is that like mentioned above was the "Techie talk". The VPS is my first time playing around with root access (I've been using a reseller all this while) and getting my feet wet with it, so there are plenty of terms I don't quite understand yet. So sometimes the reply comes in, and I'm like "HUH?! What on earth is that?"

I really like ServInt as well, but I definately understand what you mean. It took a bit of adjustment when I moved from VPScolo. At VPScolo there were some things I would simply ask to have done and they would do it, no questions asked. At ServInt I realize that sometimes instead of just doing/fixing it for you they send back instructions on how you can do it yourself. Now I'm all for the "teaching a man to fish" philosophy, but sometimes you just need something done right away.

Originally posted by Moni-Q
I really like ServInt as well, but I definately understand what you mean. It took a bit of adjustment when I moved from VPScolo. At VPScolo there were some things I would simply ask to have done and they would do it, no questions asked. At ServInt I realize that sometimes instead of just doing/fixing it for you they send back instructions on how you can do it yourself. Now I'm all for the "teaching a man to fish" philosophy, but sometimes you just need something done right away.

Simply reply to the email asking them to do it and they will :) I was away from home and my smartphone was playing up and I asked them to do an upgrade for me and they sent a reply saying just doing it now and then another to confirm it was done.
I agree their nocs emails are technically blunt (and accurate) but to me it says Im dealing with real technical staff rather then frontline grunts like another large whitebox flogger i could mention who have the same level of technical ability as Boris my Banana plant. Id rather feel the techs were smarter then me then feel they were stupider then me (as thats pretty damn stupid).
Cant wait for the virtuozo upgrade!! more toys

It's almost been one year since I've completed my research using these forums and decided to try VPScolo.com.

The support has been great, Russ has surely gone out of his way many times to ensure his customers are kept happy and despite the fact I had low page generation time for my site pages (average 0.9 sec), I still thought I'd take the chance because of the dedication and professionalism they showed.

Today, and after 12 months, I've decided its time to start looking around for new offers that will help me avoid the dedicated server solution since my website has grown to over 1 million hits per month and I'm now starting my own company, where I'll also be hosting sites for my customers.

The only problem I've had with VPScolo is the CPU power they have provided me with, and it's understandable considering the price I paid a year ago.

Since I've been reading a lot of positive comments from ServInt customers, I've decided to check out their offerings and discovered some great deals which do look tempting.

However, I noticed that nowhere on their site do they mention anything about a guaranteed CPU cycle or MHZ you will get for each package, which has left me scratching my head.... The CPU cycle is perhaps the 1st or 2nd most important parameter for any PHPnuke powered site and it's missing from their list!

The only information given, is that the machines are powered by a Intel Dual Xeon 3.06Ghz , but this doesn't mean much if there are 50 customers trying to share those millions of CPU cycles! (VPColo clains upto 16 customers per real PC.

VPSColo offers 150 Mhz+/192 MB ram/6 GB space for $38.90 per month with their starter package, while their 2nd package give you 275 Mhz+/256MB ram/10 GB space for $58.90 per month.

ServInt seems to offer a bit more memory (256 MB) and space (10 Gig) for something between VPSColo's 1st and 2nd plan, but do not mention anything about CPU cycles;

I'd love to hear what people have to see about this and I'm impressed it hasn't been mentioned before on this thread - or atleast I haven't seen it yet!

Cheers,

Take a look at this thread:

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?threadid=308055&perpage=15&highlight=unixbench&pagenumber=7

I got slightly better result but still three times slower than my current shared account. Obviously benchmarks are not the most important thing but in my case I found compiling stuff to be slow as well and I tend to do this quite frequently.

I am considering trying PowerVPS which according to the unix-bench results people posted should be about the same speed as my current shared account at 1and1 and of course much more flexible. They also offer
30 days money back (minus control panel license fee).

Originally posted by roulade
My grip (so far) is that like mentioned above was the "Techie talk". The VPS is my first time playing around with root access (I've been using a reseller all this while) and getting my feet wet with it, so there are plenty of terms I don't quite understand yet. So sometimes the reply comes in, and I'm like "HUH?! What on earth is that?"
lol I agree with you, their answer is clean and simple :emlaugh: