Servercomplete vs Wholesaleinternet

[earl]

Hi, just curious with everyone's experience on Servercomplete and Wholesaleinternet..

I recently purchase two servers with identical specs one from SC and another from WII.. I'm thinking of only keeping one, they are basically priced about the same, with WII costing $4 more, the Specs are as follows..

Dual Quad Core Xeon 5520 (8 physical cores, 16 virtual cores)
24GB RAM
1TB SATA Hard Drive
100Mbit Unmetered Port
5 usable IPv4 IPs

IPMI

SC Pros:

- Awesome Support! replies are pretty quick and they are very helpful

- The billing/server manger panel is pretty neat similar to OVH with provisioning for automated OS reload and a panel which list all the specs of your server / monitor temp , reverse DNS etc

-Will allow you to send in your own Hard Drives

-IPMI will be on a VPN

-Offers a managed service option for a fee

SC Cons:

- No IPV6 at the moment should be available in 1-2 months

-No IPMI at the moment should be available in 1-2 months since they are working on a VPN solution for IPMI access.

-The 100 Mbit is really limited to 100Mbit cannot download more than 11MB/s

-Need to associate MAC to IP's  for it to work in KVM not necessary for OVZ

WII Pros:

-Probably on a 1Gbit port even thought it states 100 Mbit, see lots of folks get way over 11MB/s

-Free DA

-Cheap cPanel VPS license

-IP's on private vlan no MAC to IP association required

WII Cons:

-Sales/billing takes ages to reply

-Iffy tech support depends who you get really, but overall acceptable

-No server management service offered.

Not sure if SC is considered a premium host but they do feel like it to me, WII is definitely more so a budget host but I've had pretty good experience so far.. let me know what you guys think..

 

[KuJoe]

SC gets my vote. Daniel is awesome!

 

[NodeBytes]

WII gets my vote! I'm a sucker for good bandwidth.

 

[earl]

Daniel is awesome!

I agree Daniel is super AWESOME!

 

[KuJoe]

GoRACK's bandwidth used to be good. I hear they have 2 networks now (normal and premium) so I don't know what it's like now.

 

[earl]

WII gets my vote! I'm a sucker for good bandwidth.

Honestly I'm weening more towards WII cause they seem to give you more bang for the buck! bandwidth being a big factor.. I can do 50MB/s on my C2Q at WII where looking at 11MB/s at SC is a real killer!

 

[earl]

From the offer page at WHT they mentioned "Our network currently consists of nLayer/GTT and TeliaSonera." and "Route Optomized Network" not sure what that means? premium network maybe?

 

[NodeBytes]

The only downside for me is the support, I've gotten some really short responses from them. I'm currently waiting for a response from them on a hard drive upgrade and it's been a full day so far.

But the server is amazing for the price

 

[earl]

The only downside for me is the support, I've gotten some really short responses from them. I'm currently waiting for a response from them on a hard drive upgrade and it's been a full day so far.

But the server is amazing for the price

YUP.. depends on who you get really, one time I think they restarted the wrong server, definitely was not mine they restarted

but really after it's all setup I don't really need support so not a biggie..

but they really should do something about billing it's like trying to talk to OVH! where they take two days to reply back and closed on weekends!

 

[NodeBytes]

I know. It's freaking terrible sometimes. The actual tech support is very willing to help though!

 

[earl]

The actual tech support is very willing to help though!

Tech support is ok.. but I do get the feeling that "if it ain't broke don't fix it" type thing with WII,  where with SC I don't get that! they seem pretty competent but then again it's only been couple of days

 

[NodeBytes]

Well, just go with the one that fits your needs the best. That just happens to be WII for me.

 

[SkylarM]

Daniel is a great guy, prices are awesome. Network is great, Have had servers with him for a while now. No direct support requests via the support portal though so cannot comment on that.

 

[earl]

Daniel is a great guy, prices are awesome. Network is great, Have had servers with him for a while now. No direct support requests via the support portal though so cannot comment on that.

Network does seem to be good.. I think I was disconnected from a VNC session at WII while VNC was still up at SC, but again 11MB/s compared to 50MB/s at WII is kinda hard to disregard..

 

[KuJoe]

Speed is always nice but I prefer stability.


Number of threads I've ever seen for SC down: 0


Number of threads I've seen for WII down: At least 1 a month

 

[NodeBytes]

@KuJoe - Really? Interesting. I've had mine for about a month now and not had a single outage of any type that wasn't/isn't planned.

 

[KuJoe]

I don't have any servers with them so I don't really have any experience, maybe people just keep bumping the same threads.

 

[earl]

Number of threads I've seen for WII down: At least 1 a month

Yes I've noticed this.. it's not hour long outages but short spurts long enough to disconnect a session.. one time I think they accidentally pulled the power plug to the switch which my server was on.. at least they were honest and told me..

Also I noticed that at SC I get download speeds of 95Mbps but my upload speed never gets past 65Mbps at WII I'm getting 250 Mbps upload & download

 

[NodeBytes]

Hahaha. Wowwww. Interesting. Will report back later if anything does occur.