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[chopin2256]

I am narrowed down to Liquid Web, Servint, and Powervps for a VPS account.

Besides reliability and support, I also would like a super fast website...so out of these three, who is the fastest? I want my website to be protected, secure, fast, have fast downloads, and reliable...which company is best suited for my needs?

A few things that make me hesitant to purchase from Servint and Liquid Web:

I read alot about how Servint has a slow network speed, when a Unixbench test was performed..the average is 14 (i know nothing about unixbench really, just repeating what I read about). A few people said there was lag as well. I want my website to be on a fast server, because I am predicting increases in bandwidth every month, and I want pleasant and fast surfing for my visitors. Furthermore, I have mp3s on my site, so I would like fast downloads.

About Liquid Web...I read about downtime issues. Lots of people were complaining that they didn't honor their 99.999 percent uptime, which I think is stupid really. No one is perfect. Maybe some people are just fanatics when it comes to their site being down for a few hours. The thing that scares me though is the thread seemed to have alot of angry people. I dont know why people get so angry, lots of bad things happen to me but remaining calm is the best way to run a business. There are infinite solutions.

Powervps...The only bad thing I read was some guy whos site went down at 3am every morning. Seems that it was his fault, how can the network go down every time at 3 am and the company stay in business?

[richy]

Yes it would seem servint does perform slowly with that benchmark, however, that isnt network speed but the level of machine resources. Servint are looking into the matter I believe and trying to find a solution. I cant speak regarding the other companies, all I could say is Servints network is blazing fast to the US and Europe (I havent tested from Asia), theres no lag, no slow dl rates (my vps easily saturates a 2mbit line when I back it up to my home dsl) and I ve yet to have any performance issues whatsoever. On top of that the staff are excellent.

[The West Win]

How fast is a VPS ??? Depend where in the world you are man ?? Are you one of these people who thinks The USA IS the world ??

For what its worth....The Planet DC pings fastest for me here in New Zealand (220)....GNAX 270 , Servint 270 ish. This latency is mostly due to poor International bandwith.

I moved from The Planet (220) to Servint (270).....Clients are very happy....sites are fast and I sleep great at night.....I detect no speed loss.

Dont sweat which is fastest....any of the three will be fine....people tend to be anal about speed....setup & config your VPS correctly...That is where the speed is at

[dkitchen]

I think hes talking about physical performance here, rather than connectivity. You'll find that the major bottleneck on a VPS is CPU/resources, and that's what will kill your download, not connectivity. All of the providers you mentioned have pretty solid networks.

Have you tried looking at the (rather huge) benchmark thread, which includes lots of VPS benchmarks from the market leaders.

[chopin2256]

I think hes talking about physical performance here

Correct, when people click through my site, I don't want any lag or loading time. I want the pages to load ultra fast.

The benchmark for Liquid Web was about 60, and Servint was about 20.

[richy]

True lack of physical resources will prohibit speed but I certainly havent had that issue with servint, as I said it saturates my dsl line at 2mbit, I havent pushed too much dynamic content and yes it certainly seems based upon unixbench that servint doesnt score well. How well that translates into real world I couldnt say. Theres more to a package then raw speed, what use a score of 60 with no reliability for example. Why dont you give them a whirl for a month each with a test site?

[mkc]

modernbill on my servint account was painfully slow. it ran better on my powervps account, but its sitting on a dedicated box now.

[layer0]

Originally posted by mkc
modernbill on my servint account was painfully slow. it ran better on my powervps account, but its sitting on a dedicated box now.

From my understanding ServInt is working on increasing speed =)

Cheers

[wise]

Originally posted by mkc
modernbill on my servint account was painfully slow. it ran better on my powervps account, but its sitting on a dedicated box now.

This would also depend on the cpu / ram you were allocated, what time of day you were accessing your account (US versus EU) and also what other clients you were sharing your server with .

We could also get into the burstable ram, control panel, services running and many other factors.

You cant compare VPS by saying "modernbill ran faster on xx server" as they are not dedicated to you - they are shared between several clients.

You can however with a dedicated :-)

I can however say that Servint do offer a first class VPS and superb support.

[chopin2256]

I should rephrase my question. Out of the VPS offered by LW, Servint, and Powervps, which one is the fastest?

For just $10/more per month with LW, I can get an extra 10 gigs of space, and 1 more Gig of burstable ram than I can with Servint. Furthermore, the benchmark test indicated that LW was faster than Servint, however I really was hoping I could get actual experience with this. I think I am pretty close to choosing LW over Servint. Is this a good decision?

The reason why a fast server is important to me is because I want my users to have a pleasant surfing experience. I also want my pages to be indexed quicker by Google, Yahoo, and MSN, and I am thinking server speed may play a role in this.

[Downloadinn]

powerVPS is the fatest for me. Servint 's VPS has been slow since day one they launched their VPS, however their netowrk is fast for sure. I would personally choose liquidweb because they provide more supports than Servint(They don;t do server iniital security hardening) and similar to powervps. Big adavantages is that LW owns their DC which powerVPS don't. Who knows maybe next month powerVPS will be sold to someone like VPScolo is sold to dedicatednow.

However, check dedicated servers specials forums, many servers out there are only 60usd and you have FULL capacity of server to use

[richy]

I dont think servint would have any issue with doing security hardening if you asked them, their noc seem to do virtually anything you ask of them, although I am still waiting on that pizza.

[wise]

Servint do actually harden the server - what they dont do is setup things like logwatch etc, which is really down the the user.

If you want anything installed - simply email the NOC and it shall be done.

[chopin2256]

Would LW install things if I ask them to, if I happen to need anything? The only thing I really would need at this point is AWStats. Would they install this for me if I have trouble?

[HasGreatDane]

Originally posted by chopin2256
Would LW install things if I ask them to, if I happen to need anything? The only thing I really would need at this point is AWStats. Would they install this for me if I have trouble?

I thought AWstats came with a standard cPanel install.