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Rob Hecker2
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December 3, 2016
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OT: Changing VPS provider

  • December 3, 2016
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After seven years with ServInt, I am researching other VPS providers. Over the past four days, My server has been down about 15 times, for periods of a few minutes to over an hour. My clients have been furious with me, and I have in turn unleashed that fury at ServInt. A serious problem like this should never persist for four days.

Although ServInt has promised me that the problem is resolved, this disaster has eroded client trust in me and caused huge headaches for the clients, who use my web application in their daily business transactions.

I am strongly considering Amazon Web Services as an alternative. They have a bewildering collection of services, and their pricing is difficult to grasp, but they have an "introductory" product called Lightsail that provides basic packages at less than half what ServInt charges. It also seamlessly ties in with the Amazon CloudFront CDN, which is attractive to me because I have clients in Asia and Europe.

(Lightsail package example: 8GB memory, 2 core processor, 80GB SSD, 5TB transfer for $80/mo.)

I don't want to spend a lot of time test driving Amazon or any other provider until I narrow down the choices to two or three. If anyone has an alternative to Amazon to suggest, or any experience with AWS to share, I'd like to hear about it.

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    October 3, 2017

    Most of the people tend to change their server hosting providers frequently. I think they have this right to do so. Everyone is looking for quality services & affordable prices. Inspite of this, I know some people who stick to their service providers for long.

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    Rob Hecker2
    Legend
    December 14, 2016

    UPDATE:

    I have decided against AWS. Hidden costs in their confusing pricing structure scared me off.

    I have started working with Linode and will use cloudflare for CDN support.

    Nancy OShea
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    December 14, 2016

    I have decided against AWS. Hidden costs in their confusing pricing structure scared me off.

    Understandable.  Their pricing calculators are very confusing.   I struggled with that myself.

    Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
    Nancy OShea
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    December 3, 2016

    My experience with Amazon has been very good so far.  Although I'm not on a VPS. 

    Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
    Rob Hecker2
    Legend
    December 3, 2016

    Thanks, Nancy. What do you use amazon for? Are you using AWS?

    Nancy OShea
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    December 3, 2016

    I'm using AWS to host media for digital download / streaming.  Customers are all over the globe.

    Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert