| The VPS market is crap if want to look at the low end market. This comes from my own experience running my own small scale VPS host for a few years, with a purposely small customer base (mostly people I knew personally). Look at WHT and follow it for a while. That market is crowded, a race to the bottom in pricing AND support, and is full of drama. Some examples I've seen: * Lack of experience in production systems with no backup procedure... some systems go down, they loose all data, entire business caves. * Super tight margins and low capital... fall behind on a build, their provider shuts them down (most these guys are leasing dedicated servers or reselling from another provider) * Don't know who really is in control... reselling from someone and don't know who? On dedicated servers with a provider who is known for a problematic network? * They're some 16 year old and their dad grounds them from the computer so they can't answer support tickets. * Don't understand the technology they're using for virtualization and get noisy neighbors, don't properly secure exploits, don't understand the inner working of their COTS control panel, etc. * Look up the history of Lxadmin. VERY popular control panel package, company behind it, but most coding/knowledge behind the CEO. Big exploit found, 100k servers exploited, CEO commits suicide. Company is dangling. Believe licensing servers went offline. All providers using them were screwed. They were using COTS software, didn't know their own stack, left scrambling. Stick with providers that are a real company. Employees of their own, support staff of their own, own their own equipment, etc. Linode is great, EC2 is great, and there are several other providers. |
Run away.