Hostbrr reviews?

ukhan

Hi,

I'm looking for host to some production sites, looking for recent review about Hostbrr?

I need DirectAdmin hosting which must have Git manager

somik

@ukhan said:
I'm looking for host to some production sites

Production sites on low end hosts? Good luck!

Hitori0221

Actually, they are only suitable for personal applications, meaning low-load use cases. Given such low prices, overselling is definitely a serious issue, and with a one-person support team, response times are bound to be slow.

So if you are planning to run production workloads, I recommend going with a more reliable provider. But for non-critical workloads, their value for money is still very high.

Hitori0221

edited due to duplicated post

skorous

@Hitori0221 said:
Actually, they are only suitable for personal applications, meaning low-load use cases. Given such low prices, overselling is definitely a serious issue, and with a one-person support team, response times are bound to be slow.

Yeah, it really matters how you're defining "production".

rpqu

Unpopular opinion. But, having multiple home is much secure than a single home

import math
def hosts_needed(desired_uptime, host_uptime):
    return math.ceil(math.log(1 - desired_uptime) / math.log(1 - host_uptime))

def main():
    desired_uptime = 0.99999
    host_uptime = 0.999
    print(hosts_needed(desired_uptime, host_uptime))

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

ukhan

@Hitori0221 said:
Actually, they are only suitable for personal applications, meaning low-load use cases. Given such low prices, overselling is definitely a serious issue, and with a one-person support team, response times are bound to be slow.

So if you are planning to run production workloads, I recommend going with a more reliable provider. But for non-critical workloads, their value for money is still very high.

Any recommendations?

ukhan

@skorous said:

@Hitori0221 said:
Actually, they are only suitable for personal applications, meaning low-load use cases. Given such low prices, overselling is definitely a serious issue, and with a one-person support team, response times are bound to be slow.

Yeah, it really matters how you're defining "production".

Do you have any recommendations for production sites?

stupidgenius

@ukhan said: looking for recent review about Hostbrr

I use 2 of their storageboxes (which are DirectAdmin based) but made for storage as backup targets. I also have 1 hybrid VPS with block storage attached for a different backup use case. So these aren't truly production, they are redundant backups.

I have had these only since earlier this year, but so far they have been fine. Support response time varies I usually get a response within 4-12 hours, for low priority queries, sometimes a bit longer if the ticket goes in during overnight (EU) hours. I have not had any urgent support tickets to gauge response time.

I am not telling you to use them that is up to you, just letting you know my experience.

Also if you use their older ordering page you might find a few deals, but most of these are mirrored on the new fancy site.

poei

I can only speak to having two (BF 2024) storage boxes with HostBRR for personal use. They have been rock solid for me.

bjo

I'm having a "EPIC-EPYC Anniversary" with additional 1TB HDD since April, using it for Immich/Opencloud etc. Mostly it runs fine, had a network outage about 1h 20min end of June, 40min some weeks ago and from last sunday the load on the box was much higher then before. According to iostat sda had 100% utilization all the time, but no iowait. I created a ticket on monday morning and got an answer in the evening that some mdadm resnc was in progress leading to the issues which was finished then.. According to LinkedIn Labze works at Rackhosting Full Time since March, so maybe he has no time for hostbrrr during the workday.

risturiz

My Reseller is from (Sep 02, 2023)... Only like 3-4 high priority tickets... For me the support is +A and the servers are stable ( actually have Jetbackup reported bug, but i sync backups to another server too ).

mjjcjb

I’d also like to hear some recent feedback, especially about DirectAdmin stability and support response times.

bjo

And it's down again. Hopefully layer7 will get some capacity at the end of the month or I'll find a KS-LE

jaden

I have a StorageBox with them and several times I've had an SSH connection time out, then I tried again and it connected. I just added the IP to HetrixTools to see what the uptime is like.

bjo

@bjo said:
And it's down again. Hopefully layer7 will get some capacity at the end of the month or I'll find a KS-LE

It seemed to be a network issue again which was gone after 30min.

elliotc

@skorous said:

@Hitori0221 said:
Actually, they are only suitable for personal applications, meaning low-load use cases. Given such low prices, overselling is definitely a serious issue, and with a one-person support team, response times are bound to be slow.

Yeah, it really matters how you're defining "production".

for my personal production project, I always vibe directly on my vps and deploy after goal is done. The project have like ~20 user using it. good luck for them.

jaden

@jaden said:
I have a StorageBox with them and several times I've had an SSH connection time out, then I tried again and it connected. I just added the IP to HetrixTools to see what the uptime is like.

So far it's at 100% availability. I thought there would be some timeouts.

stupidgenius

@jaden50+ Karma said: So far it's at 100% availability. I thought there would be some timeouts.

For what it is worth, they have network status page: https://hostbrr.com/status.html

bjo

@stupidgenius said:
For what it is worth, they have network status page: https://hostbrr.com/status.html

All network outages I had weren't listed there.

jaden

@bjo said:

@stupidgenius said:
For what it is worth, they have network status page: https://hostbrr.com/status.html

All network outages I had weren't listed there.

Same (when SSH connections were timing out)

rubenmdh

I have a budget storage VPS and it's been going strong for several years already. IOPS are low at times but that's taken for granted on HDD-only shared environments. Though I must say that, at least in my case, service has vastly improved (better IOPS, upgraded from NAT IPv4 to public IPv4) while the price remained the same. Kudos!

stupidgenius

@bjoUser said: All network outages I had weren't listed there.
@jaden50+ Karma said: Same (when SSH connections were timing out)

When you report the outage to Hostbrr what do they say?
@Labze (IDK if you check this place) maybe you need deeper monitoring than just IP connectivity?

bjo

@stupidgenius said:

@bjoUser said: All network outages I had weren't listed there.

When you report the outage to Hostbrr what do they say?
@Labze (IDK if you check this place) maybe you need deeper monitoring than just IP connectivity?

The first time he told me it was an issue on their side, the other times I didn't ask. But it seemed to be "just" IP connectivity as the VM itself was up. But the control panel was also unable to connect to it.