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
- VPS Comparison Table I spent hours and hours yesterday deciding on a VPS...
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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.
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!
Great post. This is really helping me find the right hosting service. Thanks for sharing!
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
Try to take a look at yourshelter.net.
When I calculated their Linux VPS P2 it got 42 points!
FYI, Rimu’s support caused a client to switch to rackspace. They were pretty patient the first three outages, but the 4th one as an intermittent issue that took 72 hours to track down. After the lost revenue rackspace didn’t seem as expensive.
Bullshit…
Rimuhosting support rocks…
I’ve been a Rimuhosting customer from 2005. Every issue is solved in no more than one hour, at every time of the day…
As soon as I post tickets (and I post lots) they get assigned almost real-time. They give free support most of the time even for pains caused by my lack of real linux knowledge. They could ask for money but they simply don’t. Rimuhosting is the best VPS service provider I have ever experienced.
Look no further. Honestly yours.
I’ve been using Rimuhosting since 2006 (maybe 2005? I don’t remember). I have only used their support maybe three or four times and they answered in less than 30 minutes (I was impressed). So, I’m surprised to read a couple of comments above about Rimuhosting support being slow or unreliable. Maybe those were exceptions and not the rule (I hope so).
I’ve been tempted to change VPS provider, but after doing the math I would not change Rimuhosting just to save a few dollars. (Of course, I’m talking about unmanaged VPS, which is what Rimuhosting provides.)
Regards,
MV