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05-19-2011, 07:04 AM #1Junior Guru Wannabe
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LCN.com - Any thoughts?
Hi,
I just purchased a VPS from LCN - speeds seem incredible for a UK server (~50MB/s) - much faster than my current BurstNET VPS (~12MB/s).
Support seems awesome too - phone support definitely go out of their way to help you out, and tickets are answered quickly too.
Any other users that have been with them for a while? What are your thoughts of their service?
Thanks
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05-19-2011, 08:47 AM #2
Never used them. They sound like a good provider though. Let's hope it isn't just temporarily due to you being a new customer.
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05-19-2011, 08:59 AM #3BEST.CSM.EVER
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My first thought is that you're comparing apples to oranges. We charge ~$8.00 for our VPS, and they charge $38.25.
So, for about 5x the price you're getting 4.5x the throughput. Seems about right, but I would like to see where you are relative to their and our data centers (centres).
But were you on a VPS1 of ours? Becasue to even start to compare you'd have to be at a VPS4 to come close to their setup at $28.35 (Our price for VPS4 is $37.10).
At that point we have 2.5GB mem (They have1.0 + 2.0 Burst), but we offer 3x the disk space. They don't mention their cpu speed, so we can't compare that.
So if you could provide more data about what you have from us and what you have from them, I think it would be more fair to all reading your review.
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05-19-2011, 09:41 AM #4Web Hosting Master
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We're on Burst's network and here is a speed test a customer did on one of our VPSs:
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1300312057.png
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05-19-2011, 09:47 AM #5Junior Guru Wannabe
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I think you're jumping to conclusions. I wasn't making any review of your service whatsoever - I was mentioning that the speed I get now in comparison to what I got from your service (which IMO was still good). It is better which justifies the cost difference. I was inviting opinions on the support of LCN.
Price I pay at BurstNET: £10+VAT Price I pay at LCN: £25+VAT.
To make it fair (to BurstNET), my review on BurstNET is still valid (http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1010392)
Please don't jump to conclusions, BurstNET_CSM.
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05-19-2011, 10:21 AM #6
@BurstNET_CSM - The OP is in Manchester and LCN appear to be located in St Albans north of London. Given that they appear to take their feed from BT Wholesale, if the OP also uses an ISP here that use (or resell) BT then he's a lucky boy as he'll be routing pretty much direct from Manchester -> Birmingham -> Ilford -> St Albans.
For him (and me) to reach our stuff in BurstNET Manchester, even though we're both in the Manchester area, we have to route on our respective ISPs down to London to pick up your pipe back up to Manchester.
This isn't a criticism or complaint, just an explanation. There seems to be very little peering goes on in Manchester (or other major UK cities) with the available carriers in the UK. If you were to peer with BT, Level(3), VirginMedia and Hutchison 3G in Manchester you'd probably knock spots of "the opposition"... But then you'd probably have to (at least) quadruple your prices to cover it!
On the plus side, BurstNET do have a nice link from Manchester through Liverpool to the New York area which I haven't seen any of the other Northern UK hosts pick up
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05-19-2011, 10:24 AM #7Junior Guru Wannabe
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05-19-2011, 10:26 AM #8
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05-19-2011, 10:27 AM #9Junior Guru Wannabe
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Is it not rolled out in your area yet? We're pretty far away from the centre of Manchester (about 30 mins) - was surprised they'd put it in our area so quick!
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05-19-2011, 10:29 AM #11Junior Guru Wannabe
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05-19-2011, 11:02 AM #12BEST.CSM.EVER
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05-19-2011, 11:05 AM #13Junior Guru Wannabe
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After reading over my initial post, I can understand your concern - hope everything's cleared up for everyone now
Would you (BurstNET_CSM) consider using a native UK supplier (such as BT) as an additional route so it speeds it up even more for the UK people?
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05-19-2011, 11:07 AM #14BEST.CSM.EVER
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05-19-2011, 11:20 AM #15
If you're passing things on, could you also please mention te-4-2.car1.Manchester1.Level3.net? If you can get hooked into Level(3) in Manchester you'll get the bonus of a nice direct hop to AMSIX too.
(Meantime I'll just go order everything we're likely to need in Manchester for the next couple of years and get the prices grandfathered in, cos' this is gonna cost a bomb LOL)
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05-19-2011, 11:40 AM #16Web Hosting Master
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05-19-2011, 11:43 AM #17Junior Guru Wannabe
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05-19-2011, 11:45 AM #18Web Hosting Master
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05-19-2011, 11:47 AM #19Junior Guru Wannabe
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05-19-2011, 11:48 AM #20Web Hosting Master
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05-19-2011, 11:50 AM #21Junior Guru Wannabe
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Google Maps
Neither locations are anywhere near . Plus, the "Server:" is the one they are downloading from to test the speed.
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05-19-2011, 11:52 AM #22
If you read jtodd's web site it all becomes clear
Our offices are at the Knowledge Business Centre at InfoLab21 within the grounds of Lancaster University. From here, we maintain close connections with our main network in Manchester Science Park.
(And now I'm jealous of both of you)
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05-19-2011, 11:54 AM #23Junior Guru Wannabe
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Ah Ok. Still can't really understand the speedtest however, as the maximum speed for broadband in the UK is 100MB/s . They're probably locally routed, and the client on the same network (ie. The Universities).
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05-19-2011, 11:59 AM #24
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05-19-2011, 06:40 PM #25Web Hosting Master
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The only reason is says Lancaster University is because they provide us with IP space. The transit is provided by Burst which is what I was trying to show.
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