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Umm, which part of this is news? I though it was common knowledge.

Yes RAID can fail. But more often it provides a fallback. When a single drive fails, there's no fallback, nada, nothing, zip. RAID isn't a 100% solution but it's a damn site better than a single drive for catastophic failures. For some buyers this offer might be attractive, for others, not. It...

Fine. That allows consumers to decide. Don't forget the POOF! bit :)

OK, thanks. Then I think it your success depends on how you plan to market it. RAID is a standard, even with most lowend hosts. So if you offer something without RAID then you need to clearly state: "warning: your VPS could go POOF! at any moment, and you will need to rebuild from your backups."

Well I'm confused. Will my VPS be RAIDed or not? The topic of your post says "single SSD" but now you're talking about RAID5...

Doesn't sound like a good idea to me. I make my own backups, so I can restore if need be. But any reputable host today needs to provide some level of raid to avoid single-disk failure being immediately catastrophic.

https://github.com/clearcode/Google2Piwik Haven't used it myself, though I do use Piwik quite a bit. I'd really recommend you put it on it's own box and read all the stuff about tweaking for high traffic...

Yes, approximately 150 clients at last count. All panels suck.

Every VPS that I've purchased in recent history has worked fine when first deployed. The real test of a provider is consistency and reliability over time. The truly valuable reviews are those that span months. Buy > Review is IMO pretty much meaningless.

A useful metric for measuring the performance and "busyness" of a VM is iowait. You can grab it from the first line of /proc/stat and compare the values over a time period (e.g. 5 minutes) to get a measure of recent IO performance. http://www.linuxhowtos.org/System/procstat.htm

8086 processor Dual 5-1/4 floppies No harddrive 12" monochrome ('amber') monitor PC-DOS (an IBM release, pre-Windows) WordPerfect Ventura Publisher dBase Later got a 10MB harddrive and a copy of Windows 2.0, installed it and toasted the system. Took 2 days to recover. Later still, downloaded...

Bought one in Detroit a few days ago. It's been perfect. If every OVZ provider could deliver service like this the world would be a better place :)

I don't know how you define "reliable", but I suggest you strike BlueVM from the list after the recent & ongoing NY KVM fiasco.

An MX record should point to a hostname (A record), not an IP address.

Maybe it's backing up :lol:

Probably a waste of your time. If the host is overselling this much, you're going to encounter all kinds of disk i/o problems. 100 GB of disk space "reserved" on a container with crappy i/o is useless. Just go get a better vps.

At an SSH login: 1. Setup an iptables firewall, particularly for SSH. 2. Set a new root password. 3. Review installed services and remove those I won't be using. 4. Update. 5. Configure for the intended use. 6. Use :)

Someone help me, I don't understand: Your VPS goes down You enquire to the company Based on the response, or lack of, you make a decision Wait... Restore elsewhere from backups CVPS is a budget company. Don't expect the world on a budget.

God what an embarassing thread. Shovehost, I've defended you in the past at LET, but never again. Mostly what pisses me off in that you launch this "BetterVPS" brand with copious promises, when in fact you don't have a clue what you're doing. It's blatent false advertising. This is the kind of...

Sign of the times. Hopefully we'll see more security-aware offers like this. I've been with Crissic for a month or so with an OpenVz VPS and it's been stellar. Good luck with the KVM offer. Wish you had a 128 low-end deal :)