Where to get a good VPS?



I've had a linode for almost 2 years now. About a year and a half ago they gave everyone 40% more disk space for the same monthly cost. A couple of months ago they upped everyone's RAM.

Good performance and the support is good too.
 
I can tell you, from my experience with two VS-4 VPS"s from known host, they are overselling their resources on each node. The server was slow, not the connection speed but its processing abilities. I have heard this from about 3 friends in the industry as well. Liquidweb is a great choice, except you pay a premium out the ass, love their dedicated servers though. Give IonVz a shot, karl is good to work with and the speed of this VPS is on par with my dedicated, if not a little snappier (different control panels though).
 
Linode seems to be a popular choise.

Everyone seems happy with them.

Did anyone have any problems with them?

What plan would you guys recommend if i have about 100k visitors per day on the sites i want to host on the vps.

Thanks in advance,
Robert
 
Thanks PurePursuit, will look at ionvz aswell. For what I've seen so far I'm going to check out more closely linode, ionvz and jaguarpc.

Thanks a lot guys for the help, really appreciate it.
 
robertdotcom said:
Linode seems to be a popular choise.

Everyone seems happy with them.

Did anyone have any problems with them?

What plan would you guys recommend if i have about 100k visitors per day on the sites i want to host on the vps.

Thanks in advance,
Robert
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The 768 is probably enough if you have decent caching. I manage someone's 768 (or whatever it was before the latest round of upgrades), he has a Wordpress site about Twitter that got linked from Ashton Kutcher's twitter feed. We sustained 11mbps with no problems. If it turns out to be too small it's easy to move anyway.

The only thing I'd caution you about is to avoid the Dallas datacenter. It's had a couple of outages over the past year while the others have been fine. The site I just mentioned is in the Atlanta DC and it's been great.

Sean
 
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gutterseo said:
Linode ftw. cheap and minimal downtime.
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+1. I might try Zen because he's on WF, but I see no reason to leave Linode. GREAT team, huge IRC channel, great articles (see the redundancy stuff they've been putting out), awesome dashboard, and cheap.

Yeah, and they upped the RAM on all services for their 7th birthday. How nice

Wouldn't mind them letting me have more IPs though, but I am due to get more VPS's anyway
 
+1 for knownhost, support is just excellent.. Linode looked great but I didn't have the time to manage the slices..
 
Oh..just researched some more and i wont be able to get the linode thing because i cant manage it myself(don't have the time to do it). Is managing the server even hard? Don't know this either.

I'm thinking to go with knowhost . They seem pretty solid.

Thanks for all the suggestions. Haven't decided it yet tho.
 
clyde said:
6sync will take care of you.

and this is coming from someone who's hosted with godaddy, hostgator, iweb.ca etc
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I gotta agree with this. Was with HostGator for 5 years and hated every minute of it. Used a variety of others (Hivelocity, The Planet - sheesh, I joined the planet and a week later they had a fire and lost half their data center, my servers were down for a week). Came across 6Sync in September last year - nearly a year. Inexpensive, very quality servers, and the support is amazing. I don't have to manage the server myself, Rav takes care of anything I need. He even installed Munin and others without me asking.

Lets me focus on my sites and not worry about my server.
 
robertdotcom said:
Oh..just researched some more and i wont be able to get the linode thing because i cant manage it myself(don't have the time to do it). Is managing the server even hard? Don't know this either.

I'm thinking to go with knowhost . They seem pretty solid.

Thanks for all the suggestions. Haven't decided it yet tho.
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If you don't know how to lock down a server I highly recommend going with something managed. When you get a new VM from linode, slicehost, rackspace, whatever, it won't even have apache installed, let alone a control panel. You have to install php, apache, mysql, setup virtual hosts, iptables, keep everything up to date, etc etc etc.
 
tvmatt said:
I use RackspaceCloud for mine - prices are cheap, service is generally reliable (except when my host server went down once). I now use a failover DNS service (dnsmadeeasy) and mirrored servers so downtime isn't an issue. Nice thing about RackspaceCloud is that you can spin up a new server instance at any time - for testing, I take my main VPS image & clone it to another server within about 5 minutes.
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CloudServer or CloudSites?

I'm thinking about moving from dedicated servers at Softlayer and CloudSites is looking pretty good. I want something that's fully-managed.
 
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