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11-28-2009, 09:28 AM #1Newbie
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RAM-host 3 months review
Hello,
I have signed up for the Nano plan(80 mb ram with 128 mb burst) of RAM Host. My expectations were low but I was quite surprised with what I got so far.
I have to say, the biggest problem with such low ram is you can't run "yum" to install new programs. However, a solution to this was their Kloxo Host-in-a-box VPS image.
After a few days of installing everything, I had a few of my scripts get into infinite loop which caused 100% cpu usage. I was sleeping when this happened but when I looked at my e-mail, I saw that I received a personal e-mail from staff saying that I have to lower cpu usage and after 2 hours my VPS was taken down. I was actually very happy the way they handled this problem.
The same thing happened again and they again shut my VPS down after 2-3 hours of 100% cpu usage.
I can't blame them for my errors but I was overall happy with the way they solved this problem.
Their control panel is very dull and you generally have to raise ticket to get things solved. Their response times are very fast, so it does not create any problems.
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-I get around 100 visitors and 300 pageviews everyday.
-I have a script that does some heavy work and updates database every 1 minute.
P.S.
If you are not familiar with linux and installing using RPMs, please don't consider this plan.
Price 10/10 , 3$ a month is very cheap.
Performance 10/10 , I didn't have any problems so far.
Support 9/10 , Only minus would be their control panel.
Overall 10/10
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11-28-2009, 10:02 AM #2Web Hosting Master
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Thanks for your review
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11-28-2009, 10:55 AM #3Support Facility
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Nice review. Glad to see a happy customer. Thanks for sharing the review with all.
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11-28-2009, 12:32 PM #4Web Hosting Master
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Glad to see that your experience with them has been positive so far. Thanks for sharing. Also you can report a domain or IP hosted there to get your review verified; if you have not done that yet. Follow up this review in future.
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11-28-2009, 05:05 PM #5Newbie
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11-28-2009, 09:02 PM #6Web Hosting Master
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Good to see a nice review
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11-30-2009, 08:22 AM #7Web Hosting Master
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11-30-2009, 08:20 PM #8Web Hosting Master
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Ramhost is my favorite budget bare-bones host ATM. Not for the noob but perfect for dev/project/budget needs.
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11-30-2009, 09:42 PM #9Virtually Flawless ;)
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Thanks for the review (yes this is one of our customers)
Originally Posted by Nnyan
vi /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/fastestmirror.conf
You will see something like this:
Code:[main] enabled=1
(we're going to have this setting by default on our next CentOS image rollout)Last edited by ramnet; 11-30-2009 at 09:46 PM.
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11-30-2009, 09:46 PM #10Newbie
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11-30-2009, 09:51 PM #11Virtually Flawless ;)
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Off topic, but I'll respond anyway:
1) traceroute will reveal where the server is (and usually who runs it)
2) some providers publish a list of all ip's allocated (our's is here)
3) whois (less useful with vps providers but still an option).
In any event, the provider stating that said reviewer is a customer usually suffices (which is the case here).→ RAM Host -- USA Premium & Budget Linux Hosting
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12-01-2009, 02:28 AM #12Junior Guru Wannabe
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Yeah, I wish ramhost provided 100mbps port speeds. My micro has been great and would love to just upgrade to the biggest plan.
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12-01-2009, 01:15 PM #13Virtually Flawless ;)
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Thanks for the feedback.
We'll probably never offer full 100mbps access as we have lots of clients running things that require stable network connections (like irc clients and game servers).
We are, however, looking into increasing everybody's port speed by 250% from 10mbps full duplex (20mbps in+out) to 25mbps full duplex (50mbps in+out) - we'll likely start to deploy that next year (it's a compromise between raw speed and network stability).→ RAM Host -- USA Premium & Budget Linux Hosting
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12-01-2009, 01:20 PM #14Web Hosting Master
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@ramnet
Not that it matters but it was the OP that had issues running Yum on the 128. = )
@herbyscrub
For the price point I don't think expecting a 100mbs port is reasonable but that's just my opinion.
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12-01-2009, 02:15 PM #15Newbie
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12-01-2009, 02:31 PM #16Virtually Flawless ;)
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12-01-2009, 05:46 PM #17Web Hosting Master
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12-01-2009, 06:01 PM #18Web Hosting Master
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If your plans and pricing were the right excuse to have an added point of failure, if I happen to see what you are mentioning ( at current pricings or even a few nickels more) I'll grab a handful of boxes in a heartbeat
whats your control panel? ( OP mentioned something about it like not beint THAT intuitive IIRC)
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12-01-2009, 06:11 PM #19Virtually Flawless ;)
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It's a custom creation (which is ugly to look at but functionally works quite well).
http://secure.ramhost.us/vps/
Demo Account: user demo / password demo.
(demo account basically let's you do everything except ssh in or rebuild the system).
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12-03-2009, 09:21 AM #20New Member
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I've hosted with them in the past and I agree, they do handle 100% CPU usages very well. Plenty of notice for you to fix it.
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12-04-2009, 05:05 PM #21New Member
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You can always switch to Debian. apt-get is more efficient than yum ;-)
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12-04-2009, 08:16 PM #23Virtually Flawless ;)
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After a few days of testing we are pleased to announce that all vps port speeds have been increased from 10mbps to 20mbps (tests were much more successful than we expected so we're rolling this out earlier than planned).
We've also bumped up the data transfer quotas too (bandwidth is really cheap out here).
To give you an idea how fast vps's connections are now:
Code:# wget http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test -O /dev/null --2009-12-05 00:24:56-- http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net... 205.234.175.175 Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net|205.234.175.175|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream] Saving to: `/dev/null' 100%[===============================================================>] 104,857,600 2.69M/s in 36s 2009-12-05 00:25:33 (2.74 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]
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12-05-2009, 08:49 AM #24Junior Guru Wannabe
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12-05-2009, 12:34 PM #25Web Hosting Master
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I d been wondering if you offer or could make a custom unmetered BW (5 Mbit would cut it) plan with 512 megs of ram.
Thanks
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