Web Hosting Talk : Web Hosting Main Forums : VPS Hosting : Any experience with Hostgator VPS?

[zionchild]

I have a shared hosting account with Hostgator and I do not discount the possibility that one day my sites will grow so big I would need a VPS. But I want to know first whether HG's VPS is any good. Thanks.

[ControlVM Technology]

never used before.
But you can take a look on this:

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=905755

[zionchild]

There's no review in that thread. Thanks though.

[icethundernet]

judging by their shared hosting image they might be OK. Plus they are among the few who tell you [trough their HELP or ? options on h] what web site is suitable with what VPS - in other words - what a VPS can and can't accomodate.

[thebook]

Yes, we had a server at ThePlanet for about $160/month and were looking for something cheaper. Went for a Level 3 VPS account with Hostgator, about $49/month. Ran some basic unix benchmarks and the performance was comparable.

They use a "Virtuozzo" control panel. I got the impression a lot of their tech support wasn't that familiar with it. The real show stopper was memory problems. We were running Apache/PHP/MySQL and when we added some Python stuff for Mailman, got memory faults -- which I thought they would have some swap capability.

The VM Hostgator uses does not support any type of swap, or burst access. I learned that from other postings. Their are VMs that do allow it. So..... if you can live in limited memory you should be fine!

[zionchild]

Oh so, Hostgator is not a better option for me. I am currently hosted with Knownhost but lately I just don't understand that cpu load average is very high even if no one visits my one forum site. Hostgator is canceled from my mind. I am still looking for reviews about wiredtree.

[XTremo]

Originally Posted by zionchild

Oh so, Hostgator is not a better option for me. I am currently hosted with Knownhost but lately I just don't understand that cpu load average is very high even if no one visits my one forum site. Hostgator is canceled from my mind. I am still looking for reviews about wiredtree.

I've got a US VPS with KnownHost and I don't have that problem. It just runs like a well oiled machine....nothing fluctuates to any degree.

My UK VPS is with FutureHosting and is pretty much the same as well....so you could check them out too if you're making a list of possibilities.

[agustan]

I am currently hosted with Knownhost but lately I just don't understand that cpu load average is very high even if no one visits my one forum site.

@zionchild : Have you reported that issue to KnownHost support team? just curious if they could find something or any issue related with it, and maybe they could fix it?

[latejustice]

Hostgator reminds me of an old spyware program called gator... Bad marketing strategy.