I’m currently running CS-Cart on my shared web-hosting with GoDaddy. But I definately want to upgrade to a VPS solution? I’m currently lokking at two providers.
(mt) mediaTemple (Linux)
1and1 (Linux)
Which one do you think offers the better service in USA?
Also, installing CS-Cart on shared hosting was easy. Is it hard(er) to install CS-Cart on a VPS?
I have never gotten a direct answer from for anything, they will give you a copy and paste answer from malaysia, their support use to be good some 4 or 5 years ago
I will be switching soon to www.CyberLNC.com (S-Combs on this form)
[quote name=‘truem’]I do shared hosting with 1and1
their support is ****
I have never gotten a direct answer from for anything, they will give you a copy and paste answer from malaysia, their support use to be good some 4 or 5 years ago
I will be switching soon to www.CyberLNC.com (S-Combs on this form)[/QUOTE]
I’ve heard bad things about 1and1. But do think they’re okay for just domain registration stuff?
I currently use Knownhost. I decided to go with them after reading many glowing reviews on Web Hosting Talk. In just under a year of service, I’ve been very pleased with them. They have a 30 day money back guarantee and also offer occasional specials when you sign up.
I’m seeing some people recommend www.CyberLNC.com as a host. What does he do different than other shared host providers? Our problem we’re having is the shared environment we have it takes forever for service, MySQL is taxed out of its mind and too often our website comes to a crawl at around 7-10 people on the site.
Also, if I was going to go to a VPS, what type of memory requirements should I look at as a minimum?
[quote name=‘tweaker’]I’m seeing some people recommend www.CyberLNC.com as a host. What does he do different than other shared host providers? Our problem we’re having is the shared environment we have it takes forever for service, MySQL is taxed out of its mind and too often our website comes to a crawl at around 7-10 people on the site.
Also, if I was going to go to a VPS, what type of memory requirements should I look at as a minimum?[/quote]
You get what you pay for… and a large bit more.
Scott knows his hosting servers and constantly maintains to be the most secure webhost around. Quote from website
[COLOR=#fdb901][COLOR=Black]Where other hosts concentrate on client quantity and volume sales, we pride ourselves on offering quality less congested, better performing servers and personal client support.[/COLOR][/COLOR][/quote]
You can check cyberlnc’s plans on their website. You’ll notice that prices might sound hefty but with consideration you are most likely NEVER to have an issue server wise. To date I’ve only had 2 hours downtime over 3 years?
My ability to sleep at night is worth the cash
If you enquire he maybe able to assist you with obtaining a VPS?
A few things regarding CyberLNC hosting that sets us apart from the budget hosts.
Unlike most other hosts, we are selective about who we host on our servers. Most of our clients run either X-Cart, CS-Cart or a custom PHP application that we are very familiar with. Our client to server ratio is also very low intentionally in order to sustain adequate resources for each account as needed.
Other info:
Security:
Network level DDOS protection
Hardware and Software Intrusion Detection Systems
Hardware and Software Firewalls
Anti-Virus and Anti-Spam software
We run very tight security rules on our IDS systems and this has proven invaluable to our clients because of it’s ability to block most malicious hacking attempts such as, Dictionary Attacks, SQL Injections and Cross Site Scripting.
Data Backups:
We retain both daily and weekly backups of our client sites on a secondary drive. This protects your data from both user error and equipment failure. Your site can be fully restored from one of these backups within minutes if ever required.
Performance:
We run only Multi-Core Opteron and Xeon servers equipped with the latest available hardware. These servers run commercial RedHat Enterprise Linux for the Operating System and have cPanel control panels with Fantastico for client interface. They are located in the Softlayer data center in Dallas Texas who’s network and security is as good as it gets in the US and is also quite stable to European countries.
Application Tuning
Most larger web hosts use default values in the configurations of MySQL, PHP and Apache and these can cause big problems with resource demanding functions within applications such as e-commerce packages. Our servers are configured with these needs in mind and resource limits have been adjusted to support these applications. Also; by knowing the needs of our client sites, it allows us to lock down some unnecessary functions to further improve security.
Sorry VelocityMicro for the thread hijacking, I was just answering a question above.
We may soon be offering managed VPS solutions and I’m currently researching various related options. Since we are not yet ready, I do strongly suggest that you only look into ‘Managed’ VPS solutions unless you are quite fluent administrating and securing Linux servers remotely.
Once the server is setup completely, your site maintenance will be exactly the same as it is on a shared host with the added benefit of SSH access as needed. Be sure to deeply study about SSH administration as, one slight typo as the root user can wipe out a complete server in a split second (trust me, I’ve done it)
I have been using Steadfast Networks (www.steadfast.net) for over 3 years now and haven’t had any issues with them. Their support is fantastic and the pipe they are on is amazingly fast. I don’t think I could even think of a negative if I had to. Tried a few vps hosts prior and had issues ranging from support to network speed. After 2 years of searching, It’s nice to not worry about these issues any more.
I have been with www.servint.net for over 2 years, tech support is top, I’ve upgraded from their smallest to one of their SuperVPS’s, just kept upgrading as I grew, had zero downtime on all the upgrades.
Between you and me, who needs a network that works if the server your site is down? :mrgreen:
I think “99.99% Uptime” is more clear and more honest, because this claim includes hard disk, memory, cable, power, OS, firewall, etc… with, of course, network uptime, rather than only “Network Uptime” to “forgetting to simply speak” of server uptime…
Between you and me, who needs a network that works if the server your site is down? :mrgreen:
I think “99.99% Uptime” is more clear and more honest, because this claim includes hard disk, memory, cable, power, OS, firewall, etc… with, of course, network uptime, rather than only “Network Uptime” to “forgetting to simply speak” of server uptime…
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Lee Li,
You may want to read your link more carefully as for a native speaker of English, Wired Tree’s policies are clear and honest. Hard drives and other items are clearly addressed as limitations.
However, marketing claims are easy to make, as a practical matter I do not know of any unscheduled downtime in more than 2 years and I have been with them on a VPS account since shortly after they started.
Twice they had scheduled work to do and they clearly sent out emails weeks ahead and so on…
if you want to include what is clearly not a network problem in the uptime numbers they are probably in the 99.96% range for uptime.
If you know of a host with 24 hour toll free support within 5 minutes by level 3 admins that has a better uptime with a lower cost please let us know.
You do not get mystery problems or excuses related to factors beyond their control.
When we are ready to upgrade to a dedicated server not a VPS I might consider rackspace as their support may be slightly better as their staff is much bigger with more security specialists.
At the higher end of hosting the network uptime and hardware used is not a big issue as it is expected to be good.
Instead the quality of support becomes more important.