As some people know, our monitoring network is made up over 20 low - mid range VPS services and a couple small dedicated servers. This is the 12 month review of the companies chosen.
In all reports outages / packet loss less than a few minutes is not reported due to difficulty in recording and human verification. As this is hosting a monitoring system uptime and stability is what we are reviewing not performance. There is a bit of fudge in that we dont get to manually confirm all outages and hence they aren't included here.
EDIS
Apart from some issues with setup (AT node not provisioning correctly) pretty solid. A few outages here and there but not regular and usually not for too long (less than an hour or two). Nothing to write home about but by no means poor.
Has not had any decent outages in ~3 months that I have noticed
.Given EDIS hosts 8 of the nodes thats pretty impressive.
They also have a really great Looking Glass system
INIZ
Apart from some issues with NL when we first signed up have not seen many / any outages since. No problems
sshVM
Not a single issue since sign up, none or not many outages seen. Most painless host, paypal subscriptions + always online
Joes Datacenter
More outages than the rest (excl CVPS), around 1-2/week usually short. Feels like host node restarts. Accepts payment in Bitcoin which is convenient
CVPS
Unfortunately the only host we will not be continuing services with. 2 months of packet loss incidents (with traceroutes, just-ping screenshots etc), to their credit we received an offer to move nodes but any host who cant actually fix issues isn't really a host I want to be with. This node is being replaced with another company.
The previous 10 months were relatively issue free but with a lower quality than the other hosts.
BuyVM
A few outages, a couple decent sized ones. Day to Day reliable. On average reliable.
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Look forward to finding some additional companies to replace CVPS and to build some more nodes this year.
In all reports outages / packet loss less than a few minutes is not reported due to difficulty in recording and human verification. As this is hosting a monitoring system uptime and stability is what we are reviewing not performance. There is a bit of fudge in that we dont get to manually confirm all outages and hence they aren't included here.
EDIS
Apart from some issues with setup (AT node not provisioning correctly) pretty solid. A few outages here and there but not regular and usually not for too long (less than an hour or two). Nothing to write home about but by no means poor.
Has not had any decent outages in ~3 months that I have noticed
.Given EDIS hosts 8 of the nodes thats pretty impressive.They also have a really great Looking Glass system
INIZ
Apart from some issues with NL when we first signed up have not seen many / any outages since. No problems
sshVM
Not a single issue since sign up, none or not many outages seen. Most painless host, paypal subscriptions + always online
Joes Datacenter
More outages than the rest (excl CVPS), around 1-2/week usually short. Feels like host node restarts. Accepts payment in Bitcoin which is convenient
CVPS
Unfortunately the only host we will not be continuing services with. 2 months of packet loss incidents (with traceroutes, just-ping screenshots etc), to their credit we received an offer to move nodes but any host who cant actually fix issues isn't really a host I want to be with. This node is being replaced with another company.
The previous 10 months were relatively issue free but with a lower quality than the other hosts.
BuyVM
A few outages, a couple decent sized ones. Day to Day reliable. On average reliable.
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Look forward to finding some additional companies to replace CVPS and to build some more nodes this year.
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