I’m decided to use Rimuhosting as my new VPS provider. In my last post, I gave a comparison table for the VPS providers that made my short list.
I really spent a long while reading and researching my choices. Please keep in mind that my priorities are almost certainly not yours. For me, Rimuhosting was definitely the best choice. Let me explain my thinking:
First, I made a “gut-level” cut.
No-Go:Anything with less than 148 megs of ram, which had (in my very subjective opinion) a lesser rep, or which had a lame website. Out: Powervps level 0 (memory), VPSLand (spotty rep), XELHosting (clueless, uniformative website), Jaguar Discovery (memory), Liquidweb (Price), Solarweb (memory, rep)
Next: I assigned points based on features.
- Cost: 5 points for under $40-49, 10 for $30-39, 15 for $20-29.
- Reputation: 10 points for “great” reputation, as judged by me from reading reviews on other sites.
- OS: 5 points for Debian
- VPS: 7 points for Xen
- Memory: 5 points for 256 megs or better
- Space: 2 points for 10gigs, 5 points for more
- Panel: 5 points if included for free
- Bandwidth: 5 points for greater than 100Gigs
- Backups: 5 points
- Rimuhosting: 37
- JaguarPC: 34
- A2B2: 32
- PowerVPS: 32
- Hosteasier: 32
- DEHE: 28
- ServInt: 27
Scores:
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4 responses so far ↓
1 Brad // Apr 11, 2006 at 3:23 am
Enjoyed your post.
Finding a good host is definitely a priority for any blogger.
Especially with the noise going on right now about open dns servers being open to denial of service attacks.
I see Rimuhosting don’t have open dns - great.
But I ran them through dnsreport.com and did get a few warnings.
Do a check up at dnsreport.com
I also host one site with Myriadnetwork who are run out of the equinix datacenter.
So far so good - Blazing fast servers, and great support.
I’ll probably host a new site with serverint, I don’t like to host multiple sites with one company.
2 Tracey // Jul 30, 2007 at 12:54 pm
Rimu hosting might be OK - but don’t expect speedy customer service - they don’t even give you a phone number to call…and when a server goes down and a client’s website goes down with it, trust me, you don’t want to wait hours for a ticket to get a response. Trust me!
3 Margie // Aug 29, 2007 at 1:28 pm
Great post. This is really helping me find the right hosting service. Thanks for sharing!
4 Akshay Surve // Nov 14, 2007 at 4:43 am
Wondering how would you rate serveraxis.com?
http://serveraxis.com/vds.php?ps=2
# Cost: 10
# Reputation: 5 - (average)
# OS: 5
# VPS: 7
# Memory: 5
# Space: 5
# Panel: 0
# Bandwidth: 5
# Backups: 0 (didn’t check so)
= 42
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