Web Hosting Talk : Web Hosting Main Forums : Dedicated Server : AmenWorld.com Review

[daveys110]

Hello All,

I just thought it was about time to share my experiences with AmenWorld.com. I have seen many bad things about them in this forum but personally have never had a problem with them.

I have had their cheapest dedicated offering:

AMD Duron 1600
256Mb RAM
80GB HDD
1024GB/mo
10Mbps connection
Plesk Control Panel
1 IP

since July 2004 (over 8 months now) and had no downtime. There was some network maintenance carried out for which I was forewarned but this didn't effect our server.

We've pushed over 300gb/month (yes i know this isn't a lot to some of you!) and can often hit over 2MB/s in europe:

12:46:30 (2.40 MB/s) - `LFSBOOK_ED1.iso.gz' saved [166461440]

Speeds to the US are usually a lot slower averaging around 200kb/s but for our needs this doesn't really matter.

The sales process was easy and the price was one of the cheapest i'd seen. If you're after a budget unmanaged server then I'd highly recommend them.

They don't provide any sort of upgrade ability although they do have higher spec servers.

They now provide online bandwidth usage tracking in their customer area so you know if you're going to go over your 1tb alotment. They do have lots of extra services which can be tagged on such as remote reboot ports etc (otherwise its an email to tech support who normally respond within 15mins but usually faster).

In short this was a really economical way to get into dedicated servers. There are slightly cheaper options out there but i'd highly recommend amenworld so far.

Hopefully i've answered many questions as there wasn't a specific review of them on this forum.

Any questions, post in here.

Thanks,
David.

[ttk_2k]

Well, like many people said, there're always something good for someone, but as long as *IF* many people are saying bad things about them, then I'd rather follow them.. That's how we follow the world.

[dkitchen]

Interesting, I tried a VPS with them at one point because i thought it was too good to be true, and it was really dreadful.

Dan

[Chrysalis]

what puts me of amenworld is they only have one OS and its a poor OS outdated and cheap version of redhat.

key thing they missing is customer choice.

[dkitchen]

I'm guessing its like that because it means they can have servers on the shelf up and ready to go...

Dan

[USABIZ7]

Have you seen their financials ?? They are weeks away from closing the doors unless they find some fix ... They are wholly owned by ViaNet and are apparently filling bankruptcy ...

[TulipSystems1]

thanks for digging up old threads to post that

[BSD2]

Cant say same about amenworld, thier network has got to be the worst I've ever seen. One of the IRC servers linked to my network is on amenworld and it enjoys loosing peering to both the usa server it was initially linked to, and the UK one its on now (and its the most unstable of all the servers with ping time outs).