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03-10-2012, 11:53 PM #1Junior Guru Wannabe
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burstnet.eu, redstation, rapidswitch, - a clear winner
I can't decide between them.
This is just for the webserver/db part of my site. Not for any kind of BW intensive stuff.
They all look good, i like that burstnet.eu has some basic management and some basic ddos protection. Not that i have ever needed any of that - but cool they include it with their 100tb plans (which i would choose since they are hardly any more expensive that the 5tb plans).
So leaning toward them. But the other 2 look very good too. Redstation perhaps even the best value, but read a few threads of £60 charges to do even the smallest thing, and for some reason bill middle of the month nothing wrong with that i guess but a little strange. But they do have 24/7 phone support, and the prices are very good for hardware, even at full price not just the 3months reduced rate.
Rapidswitch look great too, although their website doesnt really allow you to customise the server much either.
Which has the best network or are they pretty much the same?
Do Uk hosts treat DMCA correctly i.e give you 24 hours to remove the offending material? I usually only get perhaps 3-4 per month but dont want my server cut off for just getting one issue with that?
Are their SLA pretty much the same, i could not really find the SLA options here.
Is there a clear winner here or would any of them be a pretty good choice? My sites uptime is important to me over the small variations in price between the 3.
Who would you go with and why? are there any others to look at?
thanks
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03-11-2012, 12:03 AM #2Web Hosting Evangelist
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BurstNET is a great choice. One of the nodes in our DNS cluster is hosted with BurstNET, and aside from a single random reboot, it's been completely satisfactory.
Don't expect too much from their management or DDoS protection though. Their ticket replies are slow (to be expected from a budget provider) and the DDoS protection doesn't seem to do much.
I can't comment on the other two as I have no experience with either.██ miscis.com - Providing domains and premium hosting solutions at an affordable price
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03-11-2012, 07:19 AM #3Junior Guru Wannabe
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thanks thats good to hear, yeah they look pretty good.
When you say ticker response is slow are we talking a few hours or longer than that even? can they be called on the phone?
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03-11-2012, 07:25 AM #4Web Hosting Master
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BurstNET is an excellent choice. They're very reasonable guys with a good network and great prices.
Support can be a bit sporadic, but that's one way they save you money. If you know what you're doing then you'll be fine.
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03-11-2012, 10:10 AM #5Web Hosting Guru
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03-11-2012, 10:51 AM #6Disabled
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We have quite a few customers come to us from Redstation with numerous horror stories, personally I would stay away from them.
Rapidswitch seem to have a much improved reputation nowadays, out of the three I think they would be my choice. Own datacentre, own techs onsite 24/7 etc.
If you consider burstnet I would make sure you stay clear of their Dual Xeon 3.06GHZ w/HT server as this hardware could be nearly ten years old..!
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03-11-2012, 12:46 PM #7Junior Guru Wannabe
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Thanks for the reply, and fair comment on rapidswitch, also your deals look pretty good. Is there a possibility to add ssd drives to your Dedicated 200 series?
How many drives can be added? and what would be the cost?
Also what kind of practice to you follow on DMCA? we get a few from people uploading copyrighted pics etc. Do you give 24 hours for removal? Obviously we do have a dmca report button next to all of our files.?
We tend to get a few per month not many really just dont want have the server slammed down like 100tb have done to people in the past.
Looks like a great service there though, 10 min tickets is awesome.
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03-11-2012, 12:49 PM #8Web Hosting Master
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03-11-2012, 12:51 PM #9Junior Guru Wannabe
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03-11-2012, 01:13 PM #10I route, therefore I am
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As far as I'm aware, providers are allowed to answer questions about their own services as long as it was directed towards said provider.
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03-11-2012, 04:06 PM #11Junior Guru Wannabe
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The Uk hosts are actually very reasonably priced, i always had assumed they would be more expensive that the eu hosting companies. But for hardware at least they seem actually less expensive.
More of them should really allow more options on their websites though for varying the specs of the machines.
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03-11-2012, 04:10 PM #12WHT Addict
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I would check out racksrv.com, Jon runs a great business.
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03-11-2012, 08:21 PM #13Junior Guru Wannabe
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