List your coveted top 5 VPS hosts for 2019
With reasons if you please.
1) PHP-Friends
They first broke the price barrier on deals for "dedicated" core VPSes with generous ram and SSD. The nodes in recent months have had better IOPS so it's quite well balanced.
First-Colo network prem.
2) letbox
Best provider at Psychz LA. A+B power , 10gbps, superb value block storage VPSes, powerful available cores. 1gbit at any time, any day.
3) UltraVPS
Their SAS specials are as good , if not better than many SSD providers. Stable and uneventful. Leaseweb NL network prem.
Had their SSD for a year and no downtime.
4) NexusBytes
Their Ryzen deals are superb speed demons at good value. my speed demon for 2019 if I wanna thrash things fast.
5) inceptionhosting
Liked their NVMe VPS in UK and finally got a yearly deal this BF. Very good balance of power, disk latency, network connectivity. This big triangle of performance is quite hard to come by at that price.
Also for setting up this forum and being helpful towards other providers.
I bench YABS 24/7/365 unless it's a leap year.
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1) Either/both of PHP-friends or Avoro 4GB-6GB KVMs in the ([$28-$36]/yr range)
2 shared vCpus minimum.
Low end Frankfurt/Falkenstein/Nuremburg K8s/rancher cluster dreams are coming back.
Let me practice on Hetzner cloud first before next sale.
2) A cheap monthly/quarterly 4-8GB KVM in Nuremberg (Hetzner) probably via AlphaVPS sales.
This year, I'm cutting back and using Vultr and Hetzner cloud for 4 hour 'experiments' . (yay snapshots)
If by 'coveted' you mean 'tried and trusted for me', this is my top 5:
For 2020 I hope that my recently purchased NVMe HostDoc VM will make it to this list. And I certainly have to try a service from Inception Hosting.
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Honorable Mentions -
Oops I took the thread title to mean hosts I want to dip my feet into in the coming year.
Brain Fart.
The only new VPS provider I've used in 2019 is Mythic Beasts, and so far so good lol.
In terms of what to try in the coming year, not sure. SmartHost offer VPS in Wolverhampton UK but other than that I might pickup a Clouvider Amsterdam dedi, as I seem to be ending up with more dedicated hardware and dropping VPS numbers.
Any upcoming VPS deployments will be through providers I already know to be reliable - Clouvider, Inception, BuyVM, etc.
Is that on the official "exotic" list of locations?
My top 5 would be:
PHP-Friends
LiteServer
NexusBytes
BuyVM
HostHatch (Until they improve their support)
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Inception Hosting: He is the owner of this forum, so, I try to be a bootlicker to the boss!) On a serious note, he offers excellent services in top-notch price, both vps and shared.
Netcup: Top-notch performance for the price with dedicated threads and lot of resources. Especially the dedicated thread part!
Contabo: Really good performance for the price, compared with tons of HDD. 700 GB HDD for €8 per month as normal and not "offer" price on a KVMvps? I have three of them, they are on line for long. Not so fast as some competitors, but for a small fraction of their price.
Hetzner: Their vps series are really fast. I mostly have dedis with them, but I used this year for a lot of months a small vps from them.
• If a program actually fits in memory and has enough disk space, it is guaranteed to crash.
• If such a program has not crashed yet, it is waiting for a critical moment before it crashes.
These are the only 5 providers I have services with currently:
Artnet - Poland (Gdańsk) based instant setup express dedicated servers & cloud VPS
ExoticVM.com - Find VPS in exotic locations!
NexusBytes: Great performance on the server, and super friendly support. Have only used for about a month, but hopefully we'll be family for a long time.
HostHatch: Great performance and location for my needs with their Stockholm and Norway location. Support can be slow, but have not have any major problems or outages in over 2 years now, and I think they'll be more responsive if something major happens.
Terrahost: Great and super friendly support/sales.
I've been winding down idle servers (or trying to) and didn't get anything on this year's BF/CM aside from the ServaRICA Mouse offer. However, I wanted to put in another mention to Inception Hosting for terrific service throughout the year. Renewed servers from last year's BF with solid uptime and network, works well.
Recommend: SmallWeb|BuyVM|Linode|RamNode
Oh, it's like the old quarterly Top Provider contests!
Shout out to WisHosting: I haven't used him for long yet, but the "unlimited CPU" policy is friendly.
Also shout out to DRServer, whose Atom dedi I am looking forward to relying on as a complement to the Kimsufi.
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Still, it has been the only incident so far. I never noticed CPU steal on my VPS's with them.
I don't list Hetzner because I have only dedis with them at the moment. I've... consolidated into dedis quite a lot lately.
It has to be said that most of my focus is on continental Europe.
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