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[Rorax]

Aynone gave them a try?


Any impression? they are new company, but seem serious, they have their own database.


Any expierence with them?

[Maxo]

I do not have personal experience with them, but did some research. As it seems they have been in business almost 1 year, but it is strange that there is no feedback regarding them on WHT.

After viewing their price offering for VDS, I would recommend going on with more reputable company like EV1, as far as they have been in the business quite long.

I would not recommend purchasing VPS at the company, you can not find any feedback about.

[IvialisJonathan]

It is odd that they don't have any feedback after a year.

I did just see a banner ad for them here so they seem to at least want to advertise here.

[mshowman]

For the past year we've actually been building out our data center in Denver and migrating our enterprise customers from our Level3 colo. Prior to launching Executive ASP we were actually an IT consulting company and most of our business to this point has been hosted Exchange, Project Server, SBS, etc. for larger companies so I doubt there would be any feedback here. It's only been within the past couple weeks that we have started to market our consumer level products including VPS and Shared hosting plans.

[bryonhost1]

Hi!
My biggest concern is this 100 VPS's on one box thing. I have two VPS's elsewhere...and there are 20/box...and that seems about right.

Putting 100 of these on one box scares me greatly. I just can't see it...even for the $19.95/month ones.

If you can pull it off..fine. I would like some feedback on that if you don't mind.

Bryon

[mshowman]

We actually doubled the memory on the VPS boxes and dropped the max to 60/box after we did some stress testing. Each VPS box only houses customers on the same plan to keep the load even. Our server specs actually exceed what SW-Soft reccommends for a 60 VE box. The older Linux VPS we use are dual XEON 3.6Ghz with 8GB ram and from this point forward we will be using dual Opteron 246+ boxes with 16GB ram for Windows and Linux VPS.

We did real-world testing before we decided to go with Virtuozzo and loaded a box with 60 VE's and intentionally ran defunct scripts inside several VE's which maxed their cpu utilization and found the other VE's were still running happily. The thing to remember though is that VPS's in general are optimized for web hosting and any VPS probably won't do to well if you want consistently to run an intensive application like a game server.

We do actively monitor the resource utilization on each box (our monitoring application automatically polls the CPU and memory utilization on each box every 60 seconds) and balance out VPS's that consistently have high memory utilization. If customers notice any performance issues we are more than happy to migrate them to an alternate box (which is a quick and seamless migration).

[bryonhost1]

Hi!
Great. Glad to hear. VIrtuosso is very impressive indeed. I love it.

The most impressive thing I noticed about the VMware was the claim:

If the physical server dies...we can move your VPS to another box in minutes.

That sounds impressive indeed.

Bryon

[mshowman]

The good thing about VMware is the filesystem and machine config resides on a machine-independant virtual hard disk that we back up every day (to a media server each day, and to a tape once per week). If the physical box dies, we can swap the hard disks or restore the virtual machines to a new box from the previous backup if the core filesystem gets corrupted. If a users virtual machine OS gets corrupted, get can restore the backup of the virtual disk and re-mount the VM. Since it's a disk-to disk restore, most VE's take only about 5-10 minutes to restore.

[bryonhost1]

Hi!
Well..I don't know about exectuiveasp.com now. It's very odd.

He's got the make a good first impression down..no probs. But..ummm...execution needs a lot of work, it seems.

Because of this thread...I Pm'ed him and asked him if they offered a simple free trial to take one of the VMware servers for a test drive.

He replied No..not those servers. We only give trials for the Virtuozzo. Later...i reealized that his VPS's come with Plesk..something I don't have yet. Hmmm..a trial of Plesk would be nice...so I pm'ed him. No response. I emailed them. No response. I tried to call..nobody picks up.

How very odd. ?????

Bryon

[bryonhost1]

Hi!
Ouch! My email of this morning got a response, all right. Somebody has some very serious issues indeed. Hmmm. If I invested 2 million dollars in a company, I would expect a phone that would be answered on the first ring...and hopefully better than a 48 hour response to even a "low priority" email message. Red flag-o-rama folks!

Oh well. So much for executiveasp.com. Next!

Bryon

[mshowman]

At the risk of sounding negative...

The trouble is since we released our advertising, we have had a lot of serious inquiries about our services and it's hard to take someone seriously who wants free trials of everything we sell, especially free trials of $100+ dedicated servers that have to be set up manually. Our sales people just cant devote that kind of time to someone who has given us every indication that they wont ultimately purchase any kind of service from us.

As we have said to you, the answers to your questions can be found on the VPS information pages and the only free trials that we offer are the on ones listed on those pages. If you actually want a free trial, all you have to do is click the order link and the option for the free trial is right there.

[bryonhost1]

Hi!
Hahahaha. "Everything we sell", Hmmm?

The VMware servers were the most interesting...of course...I'd never even heard of them before.

Your lengthly explaination was more than necessary...all you had to do and say was, "No."

I was not aware that the free trials were even available off the website...or I wouldn't have even bothered you or "sales".

The questions I asked were not, in fact, answered on the web pages at all. But that is neither here nor there, is it?

I see. You have added the free trial info since I not only looked at those pages...but printed them all..that's SOP with me...BTW.

99% of buyers of such a plan will need more than 10 licenses for Plesk. Yet...there is no info anywhere how much additional licenses are. You might want to add that too, if you want.

Goodbye...and good luck.

Bryon

[Rorax]

Originally posted by bryonhost1
Hi!
Hahahaha. "Everything we sell", Hmmm?

The VMware servers were the most interesting...of course...I'd never even heard of them before.

Your lengthly explaination was more than necessary...all you had to do and say was, "No."

I was not aware that the free trials were even available off the website...or I wouldn't have even bothered you or "sales".

The questions I asked were not, in fact, answered on the web pages at all. But that is neither here nor there, is it?

I see. You have added the free trial info since I not only looked at those pages...but printed them all..that's SOP with me...BTW.

99% of buyers of such a plan will need more than 10 licenses for Plesk. Yet...there is no info anywhere how much additional licenses are. You might want to add that too, if you want.

Goodbye...and good luck.

Bryon

Actually, the 10 domains license is perfect for me and i think lots of people that want a more stable and powerful plan that regular shared hosting can use it, not everything are going to resell


The plan they are offering is the best for price i've seen so far:


* OS - Linux Fedora Core 2
* 7 Gigabytes Disk Space (RAID)
* 100 Gigabytes Monthly Transfer
* 2 IP addresses
* Guaranteed 128Mhz+ CPU
* Up to 8GB Memory available
* Plesk 7 Reloaded Control Panel - 10 Domains*
* Full root access to your VPS!
* Silver support package


All this for 20$ , i haven't found anything cheaper...usually you pay around 20$ bucks only for 100gb bandwidth, and here you get a VPS.


I'm waiting until they'll finish to upgrade their billing system to support paypal, then i think i'll order one and tell everyone about my expierence.

[bryonhost1]

Hi!
Yes...it is a good deal. Don't get me wrong...I have nothing against this company. I just was taken aback with the professional introduction...and then...!!!! Perhaps they can learn something from this. I'm not sure, though.

I don't think any company can afford to make assumptions that just because a person wants a free trial...they are automatically a freeloader...wanting something for nothing...which is precisely how I was treated here.

His reply that I "asked for a trial of everything" is false. In fact, If there had been a way to demo a VMware server..even for a day..that would have been the end of it.

Plesk is something I have not had a chance to use and really play around with. When I looked at his reply to the first message...
he told me they gave trials on the VPS's. When I got looking at the specs of the other servers..the Virtuozzo ones like the two I already have...Plesk was available on that...so there was the second and last request for a trial account.

If you have no desire to "waste time" with free trials...don't offer them. I don't understand any of this.

Add the fact he shared with me that his operation has over $2 mill
invested in it...and it only has two sales people...and even they don't answer their fancy virtual (or real) PBX system with music on hold? Unbelieveable.

That's why I said red-flag alert. Something's very wrong with this.

Bryon

[BiGWill]

Originally posted by mshowman

[...] the only free trials that we offer are the on ones listed on those pages. If you actually want a free trial, all you have to do is click the order link and the option for the free trial is right there.

i just can't find the option for these "free trials"
can you help me locating these?

Thanks!