Anyone Using VPS from Verio?

[Jani]

They have reduced the price up to 50% on their VPS plans and are also advertising heavily on blogs and other sites.

I was wondering why they reduced the price, are they not good or they just wanted to heat up the competition?

Have you ever tried Verio VPS?

[G.C. Admin]

Not a comment on the VPS. Just a comment on Verio in general.

I noticed a few months ago that they have entered the overseller market stratagy.
Up to that point they were pretty much a regular non-overselling company.

They are however a very large company. After all they are Verzion

[Jani]

Originally Posted by G.C. Admin

They are however a very large company. After all they are Verzion

Can we trust them for good VPS experience since they are very large company?

Just trying to get idea. Because I was thinking to buy VPS from Namecheap (they are offering unmanaged VPS for $19.95) if I can get managed VPS from Verio for only $9 extra ($29.95) so why pay to namecheap for unmanaged VPS?

[G.C. Admin]

What sort of specs are coming with that 29.99 VPS?
And what applications do you plan on running?

[Jani]

They are giving 10 GB space with unlimited bandwidth.

Quoted from VERIO website

You Manage

* Your Applications, your customers through control panel, any Website Content, Server Logs, CGI or Other Scripts
* Adding email, FTP and Subhost Users
* Customizing Core Services, Add-Ons or Installing Custom Applications
* Adding Domain Names
* Any Additional User-related Tasks

We Manage

* Admin Tools: Utilities, Control Panels & Documentation
* Managed Services: Backups, Monitoring, Security, DNS, System Administration
* Server Software: Updates, Upgrades and Patches
* Core Services: Shell, HTTP, FTP & POP, IMAP or SMTP mail
* Verio Value Add-ons: ecommerce, databases, multimedia, statistics, CGI-library
* Server Hardware: purchasing best-of-breed hardware for nearly all components, configuration, power, uptime, monitoring, immediate repair and replacement of faulty components
* Network: OC3, OC12 & OC48 Backbone, private and public peering, monitoring, redundancy, paths and peering points
* Data Center: secure, state-of-the-art environments owned and operated by Verio, exclusively, fire detection/suppression systems, redundant uninterruptible power supplies and backbone Internet connections

I am going to host this forum there because I am starting to get annoyed from Namecheap because this forum often gets slower server response than my other sites hosted on hostgator (hostgator has been pretty stable for the past 3 months).

[G.C. Admin]

No I meant server specs. What are you getting?
and besides this forum? what else?

[Jani]

Oh sorry. Well, all I am seeing on their site is they are offering 10 GB space, unlimited bandwidth, 256MB ram (max: 512) 5 domains, and 1 IP address.

I don't find info about what kind of servers they have

May be you take a look? Virtual Private Server plan information from Verio

And I will just host this forum on that VPS, nothing else. I want to give FULL server speed to this forum

[G.C. Admin]

The way VPS works is just like a server. You still need to have all of the services needed to serve a page on your server. It looks like verio will load those services on your VPS.

Thats not alot of Ram there. If you are running any sort of control panel you are looking at trouble. and from what I have read you VPS does come with some sort of control panel.

Remember all services on your VPS will feed from your Ram and CPU from time to time. From the page it does not even say how big of a CPU resource you will get.

Personally, I think you wasting your Time and Money by getting a VPS.

[G.C. Admin]

Proof is in the pudding.

Load times:
WEBMASTERS GOSSIP

Download Times*

Connection Rate- Download Time
14.4K------------ 160.03 seconds
28.8K------------ 83.81 seconds
33.6K------------ 72.93 seconds
56K-------------- 46.80 seconds
ISDN128K-------- 19.60 seconds
T1 1.44Mbps----- 8.64 seconds



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Download Times*

Connection Rate - Download Time
14.4K----------- 236.06 seconds
28.8K----------- 122.13 seconds
33.6K----------- 105.86 seconds
56K------------- 66.79 seconds
ISDN128K------- 26.14 seconds
T11.44Mbps----- 9.76 seconds

Site On Factory Server with about 400 users online

Download Times*

Connection Rate- Download Time
14.4K----------- 9.90 seconds
28.8K----------- 5.05 seconds
33.6K----------- 4.36 seconds
56K -------------2.69 seconds
ISDN128K------- 0.96 seconds
T1 1.44Mbps--- -0.27 seconds

That my friend is the difference between a Overseller and G.C. Solutions