I am not happy with Alpharacks after being them over a year. You have to keep a close watch on your VPS as it will randomly be shutdown in the middle of the night. They will also suddenly suspend your VPS without warning, then ask you check your system somehow without being able to access it.Will report back on this current AlphaRacks KVM offering: https://www.alpharacks.com/myrack/link.php?id=331
This is still less than $2 a month with 1GB RAM, 20GB RAID10 SSD, 2TB bandwidth, 1000Mbps uplink port, and KVM platform (NOT OpenVZ)...
Reviews here. Company has been around 5+ years.
We're trying to keep the Nerd Vittles article on VPS alternatives current. Keep the reviews coming. Thanks.
They have a symbiotic relationship with ColoCrossing although we’re not quite sure how it works
@KNERD: Our articles are based upon factual evidence. If you have proof of any of the assertions you have made, we would welcome you to share the data here. But, on paper at least, these are separate companies that rent servers from ColoCrossing at dirt cheap prices and pass some of the savings along to end users. Some obviously do it better than others, and some go under. As to the ownership of LowEndBox site, we have no independent evidence of the actual site owner although many have made similar assertions to yours.
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Today's new release of Incredible PBX 13-13.10 was specifically engineered to support redundant platforms. ... And a simple rsync script run regularly for /var/spool/asterisk/voicemail can take care of the missing voicemails as well. ....
I have all of my extensions configured to email and delete voicemails, but what I don't want to make people setup twice is the voice greeting. Can you rsync the greetings (unavail, busy, etc.) folders?
You have not bothered to look on the Low End Box for that information? It is posted right on there at the bottom. "2008-2019 © LowEndBox. Part of the VSNX Family of Companies."
VSNX is a link which redirects to Colocrossing.
Then visit Hudson Valley Host site. also at he bottom of the page it states, "2014-2019 Velocity Servers Inc, DBA Hudson Valley Host - All rights reserved."
Click on the Velocity Servers Inc link and again, guess where it takes you.....yeah, again to Colocrossing. That is direct evidence.
@mainenotarynet I use iRedMail. It is an open source script which will setup an email server (and SoGO caldenar) for you in a few minutes. The site also has a lot of how-tos on setting up a SSL Certificates (and other things) which only take a few minutes, though you have to combine the certificate and bundle in one file which it not stated on the site. I finally got my email server off of Alpharacks yesterday afternoon. The worst part of doing that was the DNS change over which can take a day, or longer to go into full effect. In the meantime you see all kinds of errors due to DNS not propagating fully.
Thanks for the update. Bottom line for us is we really don't much care who owns these platforms. We don't trust any of them to be around for the long term with the exception of sites like Hudson Valley Host that are owned by ColoCrossing. Problem is that HVH's annual pricing is about six times the cost of the ones we've identified. For that money, we can buy six VPS servers from six different providers. Chances of all of them going under at the same time are pretty slim. And, with good backups scattered across the platforms, a VPS disappearance isn't a big deal. Plus, PayPal gives refunds for up to six months.
@AndyInNYC reply gave me an idea.
With all these people in here wanting/needing stable VPS service. how about starting a non profit cooperative? I know Hurricane Electric in San Mateo, CA has inexpensive co-location service. You can get a whole rack (42U) with a GB connection for only $400 a month. There are lots of rack mounted 1U servers available for dirt cheap. People could install Proxmox on them and have as many VPS as they needed. Maybe even resell some of their server availability to help pay for their share of the cooperative fees? How does that sound @wardmundy ?
Sure, but won't they get picked up in the nightly backup??
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