Hello.
A few of you might have probably read my post about RubyRingTech. That host hosts my hosted sites data, and there are no problems with them. This review is in no way affiliated with their service, and focuses only on the UptimeVPS company (just to avoid confusion).
A few of you might have probably read my post about RubyRingTech. That host hosts my hosted sites data, and there are no problems with them. This review is in no way affiliated with their service, and focuses only on the UptimeVPS company (just to avoid confusion).
Name and URL of hosting company: UptimeVPS (uptimevps.co/.info)
Hosted URL(s): www.rocketslice.com
Description of service(s) used: UT-128 Yearly ($10/yr)
How long have you been using the service(s): 2 Months
Detailed review:
These guys are rip offs. Although I don't blame them for the super-obvious $10/year shady promo (I only bought that for a small site anyway), they are jerks. First of all, when I newly bought the VPS, my IP pointed to xxx.your-server.de (obviously I was on a Hetzner-based node). Then I noticed in the WHMCS Support Ticket section in secure.uptimevps.co that there was an "RDNS Change Request" department, so I submitted a request. They replied within 24 hours, saying they changed it to main.rocketslice.com and I should wait for 24 hours. Guess what, 1 week has passed and the server still points to xxx.your-server.de (xxx cause I forgot the real server name), and all e-mails are still going to Spam Folders (I asked RDNS change to avoid that in the first place).
Second, I submitted another ticket with them. My hard disk was full, while I was only hosting a MyBB-based forum, plus a static HTML homepage. They answered again within 24 hours, saying it is fixed. Then it is. But, during that 24 hours, MySQL failed to make socket connections, thus leaving my forum down in the dirt.
Third, I submitted YET ANOTHER ticket with them. (Take note that these events happened in 3 weeks time) The server was down. I submitted tickets about their servers being down like, 5 times that week. It was too horrid.
Now, UptimeVPS.com/.co/.info won't load, so I can't pay for invoices or get more support, plus I can't login to http://solus.uptimevps.info/ for managing my VPS. My VPS remains up however, but I HIGHLY CONSIDER the fact it being destroyed within this month (considering that the main site and login URL is down, I consider this host dead)
And now, for the last part of my review. Right now, I am trying to get a backup for my VPS. Obviously SolusVM won't work (as their Login URL is down, as stated above) so I wanted to tar up everything and backup the SQL Databases. I am using NginX and PHP-FPM with MySQL 5.5 on the server, and guess what. Memory usage (via free -m) Used: 132M, Free: 105M. But I can't do any function. SSH always times out and disconnects, so does connecting via HTTP and FTP (I have Pure-FTPd in it too)
If ever these guys get back up, NEVER EVER EVER go with them. Although I have to admit it was partly my fault for going with a "so-cheap" $10 a year VPS plan which was very shady.
Pros: Absolutely none that I could think of.
Cons: My entire post explains it all.
Would you recommend this company to your best friend? NOT EVEN TO AN ENEMY.