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Who was your first VPS provider?

MannDude

MannDude

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Who was your first VPS provider? Are they still around to this day?

I'm not 100% certain but I do believe my first VPS provider was AlienVPS... chosen at the time due to price. Their website appears to be spitting out a DB error at this time so I am not sure if they are still in operation or not.

What about you, who was your first VPS provider?
 
DomainBop

DomainBop

Dormant VPSB Pathogen
My first VPS provider long ago (2002?) was the first Linux VPS provider (they starting offering services in 2001), and they're still around.

2002 offers: http://web.archive.org/web/20020212054820/http://www.rosehosting.com/virtserv.htm

their original offer in 2001: http://web.archive.org/web/20010924043306/www.rosehosting.com/virtserv.htm

I'm not 100% certain but I do believe my first VPS provider was AlienVPS... chosen at the time due to price. Their website appears to be spitting out a DB error at this time so I am not sure if they are still in operation or not.
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TL;DR: tried to sell the company late last year, nobody wanted to pay the asking price (130K), bye bye via a disappearing act soon after

sale attempt: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1438312

R.I.P.: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1439399
 
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Jive

Jive

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I think my first would have been from vzlayer.com or jumba.com.au.


VZLayer appears to be dead from my end, but Jumba is still going strong. Know a few people who still stick wIth and recommend Jumba for their own personal stuff, but I couldn't comment on their service as it's been years since I even thought about them.
 
KuJoe

KuJoe

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Verified Provider
My first was HostV (VPS side of Cirtex) in December of 2007. They were bought by A Small Orange/HostNine a few years back.
 
drmike

drmike

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Ahh a good one...

I was late to the VPS world.  My interest in VPS waned quickly with lots of foolish providers.  I tried MANY.  I can't even remember who was first at this point :(

AlienVPS was a company I noted very early on.  Never bought from them but considered it more than I should have.

Mid 2014 we had a thread about them re-appearing like the aliens they were:



Shame that the carcass of AlienVPS died like that.  Owner clearly must have owed bills and had a drop dead date.   It was a great design and theme that rivals the best of today.  Sure the brand and image was badly damaged... Oh well.
 
Scopehosts

Scopehosts

Member
Verified Provider
My first host for vps was guardhost.net in 2007. Where we started providing hosting services to only selected webmasters ...

Had my first experience with the virtuozzo control panel there to monitor and control VPS.. Now they have long gone..
 
R

rds100

New Member
Verified Provider
My first was a VPS from gandi.net. Had it since 2008. Only used own servers and coloed servers before that.
 
B

bizzard

Active Member
I am late to the party. My first provider was IntoVPS and they are still going strong, but not much visibility in the Low-End market. Their support has always been great. They have a easy to use custom panel too.

Started of with the 512MB OVZ plan and then my resource needs increased. In search of good providers led me to BuyVM, RamNode, Crissic and few others.

Just checked IntoVPS again and they have doubled their RAM. Considering the quality of support I received, I'd always recommend them.
 
MartinD

MartinD

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Verified Provider
Retired Staff
Memset...back in 2001/2


Before that it was all shells. Ukshells and Infra.
 
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NetDepot-KH

NetDepot-KH

New Member
Verified Provider
I never realized 24shells was my first provider who provide the VPS for IRCd and Shell back to the year 2007 wow!
 
Tyler

Tyler

Active Member
Does anyone remember shells, like IRCD shells? For me the first thing I bought was an IRCD shell so I could run an IRC network.

In terms of VPS, the first one for me was SliceHost. I think I might have bought a VPS or two from BlueVM (not sure though... they were horrible, but they had Blue in the name but wasn't BlueHost). Also DamnVPS/ThrustVPS was one of the first ones I bought from.
 
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