FlipHost offsite MySQL database

[wlanboy]

Provider: FlipHost
Plan: Offsite MySQL database
Price: 1$ per month
Location: Austin, TX

Purchased: 03/2013

I do not have a FlipHost VPS yet, but I am using their offsite MySQL package.

1$ a month for a MySQL database service is a fair amount. Currently my own nodestatus/ip scripts, my twitter archive, two wordpress blogs and four cms sites are using this database out of 4 locations.

Network:

• ping from London
  
  ping -c 5 23.29.xxx.xxx
  PING 23.29.xxx.xxx (23.29.xxx.xxx) 56(84) bytes of data.
  64 bytes from 23.29.xxx.xxx: icmp_req=1 ttl=55 time=109 ms
  64 bytes from 23.29.xxx.xxx: icmp_req=2 ttl=55 time=109 ms
  64 bytes from 23.29.xxx.xxx: icmp_req=3 ttl=55 time=109 ms
  64 bytes from 23.29.xxx.xxx: icmp_req=4 ttl=55 time=109 ms
  64 bytes from 23.29.xxx.xxx: icmp_req=5 ttl=55 time=109 ms
  
  --- 23.29.xxx.xxx ping statistics ---
  5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4003ms
  rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 109.152/109.191/109.231/0.418 ms
  
  
• ping from Tampa
  

  ping -c 5 23.29.xxx.xxx
  PING 23.29.xxx.xxx (23.29.xxx.xxx) 56(84) bytes of data.
  64 bytes from 23.29.xxx.xxx: icmp_req=1 ttl=55 time=31.3 ms
  64 bytes from 23.29.xxx.xxx: icmp_req=2 ttl=55 time=31.3 ms
  64 bytes from 23.29.xxx.xxx: icmp_req=3 ttl=55 time=31.3 ms
  64 bytes from 23.29.xxx.xxx: icmp_req=4 ttl=55 time=31.3 ms
  64 bytes from 23.29.xxx.xxx: icmp_req=5 ttl=55 time=31.3 ms
  
  --- 23.29.xxx.xxx ping statistics ---
  5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4005ms
  rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 31.307/31.352/31.379/0.196 ms

• ping from Atlanta
  

  ping -c 5 23.29.xxx.xxx
  PING 23.29.xxx.xxx (23.29.xxx.xxx) 56(84) bytes of data.
  64 bytes from 23.29.xxx.xxx: icmp_req=1 ttl=56 time=20.4 ms
  64 bytes from 23.29.xxx.xxx: icmp_req=2 ttl=56 time=20.8 ms
  64 bytes from 23.29.xxx.xxx: icmp_req=3 ttl=56 time=20.3 ms
  64 bytes from 23.29.xxx.xxx: icmp_req=4 ttl=56 time=22.6 ms
  64 bytes from 23.29.xxx.xxx: icmp_req=5 ttl=56 time=21.9 ms
  
  --- 23.29.xxx.xxx ping statistics ---
  5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4004ms
  rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 20.383/21.250/22.609/0.899 ms

• ping from Chicago
  

  ping -c 5 23.29.xxx.xxx
  PING 23.29.xxx.xxx (23.29.xxx.xxx) 56(84) bytes of data.
  64 bytes from 23.29.xxx.xxx: icmp_req=1 ttl=53 time=33.5 ms
  64 bytes from 23.29.xxx.xxx: icmp_req=2 ttl=53 time=33.5 ms
  64 bytes from 23.29.xxx.xxx: icmp_req=3 ttl=53 time=33.6 ms
  64 bytes from 23.29.xxx.xxx: icmp_req=4 ttl=53 time=33.5 ms
  64 bytes from 23.29.xxx.xxx: icmp_req=5 ttl=53 time=33.5 ms
  
  --- 23.29.xxx.xxx ping statistics ---
  5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4004ms
  rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 33.504/33.557/33.640/0.124 ms

• ping from Buffalo
  

  ping -c 5 23.29.xxx.xxx
  PING 23.29.xxx.xxx (23.29.xxx.xxx) 56(84) bytes of data.
  64 bytes from 23.29.xxx.xxx: icmp_req=1 ttl=53 time=44.4 ms
  64 bytes from 23.29.xxx.xxx: icmp_req=2 ttl=53 time=44.5 ms
  64 bytes from 23.29.xxx.xxx: icmp_req=3 ttl=53 time=44.3 ms
  64 bytes from 23.29.xxx.xxx: icmp_req=4 ttl=53 time=44.5 ms
  64 bytes from 23.29.xxx.xxx: icmp_req=5 ttl=53 time=44.5 ms
  
  --- 23.29.xxx.xxx ping statistics ---
  5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4003ms
  rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 44.389/44.495/44.572/0.200 ms

Support:

No tickets, no issues.

Overall experience:

I am a very happy customer. The cPanel is fine. I can select single IP addresses which do have access to the database. MySql dump is fast too. Execution time and transfer rate are perfect too.

And if you look to the ping times the network connection of this service is out of question.

 

[Awmusic12635]

Thank you for the review.


We try hard to provide a powerful service at a reasonable price


Do remember that if you ever get a vps with us the offloaded SQL becomes free (just open a ticket).


I hope you continue to enjoy your SQL.

 

[vanarp]

Even I am enjoying Fliphost's off-loaded MySQL service that I got for free being a beta user. It definitely is helping my plugin heavy WP blogs load quite faster. Even though I am not really consuming a lot of resources, I do not think there are any limitations on number of databases or their size.