Looking for a good managed VPS

Hosting
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Is it possible to get a reliable, fast VPS in the $30-60/mo. range, preferably a managed VPS?

Ideal specs:

  • Full root access
  • Plesk or cPanel
  • 10+ GB storage
  • 512MB+ RAM dedicated and guaranteed
  • 500GB+ bandwidth

Even more ideal:

  • Midwest datacenter, or short hops to Milwaukee
  • Fast, reliable, redundant, no single points of failure
  • Good backup system, preferably disk snapshots, preferably handled by host
  • Cloud option/Metered resource usage, pay for what you use
  • 99.9%+ uptime and an SLA that means something (credit for downtime) without a bunch of excuses for all the things that cause downtime.
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That is a good suggestion about WHT. Moreover, you can use their option and put your requirements including data center location and get offers from the companies which subscribed there.

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Without the control panel, you can do that budget. MediaTemple’s cheapest VPS is $50/mo and meets your specs. But Plesk and cPanel licenses cost around $30/month – for the provider that resells it to you – so you’re not gonna have that thrown in for $50/mo total.

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Looking for a good managed VPS
Is it possible to get a reliable, fast VPS in the $30-60/mo. range, preferably a managed VPS?

Ideal specs:

* Full root access
* Plesk or cPanel
* 10+ GB storage
* 512MB+ RAM dedicated and guaranteed
* 500GB+ bandwidth

Look for coupons/special offers over at www.webhostingtalk.com, in the VPS offers section. You may be able to get all that, and maybe even more, and from reputable VPS providers too.

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Your budget definitely seems reasonable and you shouldn’t have any real trouble finding a fully managed solution with either Plesk or cPanel.

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I have a small VPS with IGXhost and have been very happy with their service. They seem to meet your needs too.

Jack

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I believe you will be able to get good VPS at that price.

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Your budget is excellent but the only issue I see is potentially your 500gb/month bandwidth request. At SoftLayer 500gb of bandwidth is $50/month by itself and that doesn’t include IP addresses, control panels, management, etc…

You can probably get it at a provider that’s overselling their bandwidth (not necessarily a bad thing) or a provider that’s using a lower to mid-grade quality network.

Good luck and let us know where you end up.

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1and1 has 50% off on their VPS deal for the first 6 months, and it’s within your price range.

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I think you can find good possibilities to find a Vps plan for 30$ at months.

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i tried out inmotionhosting. They seem to be good although i have witnessed my account using a lot of CPU load. Do not know why that is… do you think they have over-sold some of the servers??

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If it is a VPS, then you are looking at your own CPU usage, not anyone else’s.

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EASY, hostforweb.com. $40/mon, or $33 if you pay for full year:

fully managed 24/7 support
hdd 20GB
band 500gb
ram 512mb (burst 1gb)
WHM
cPanel

My experience with them has been absolutely phenomenal. No downtime, no waiting whenever I open up chat to ask for help. Once I asked them to update my php from 4 to 5, took them about 15 minutes to finish. A week ago had them look into a timezone thing, they had looked into it and got back to me within 10 minutes.

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If you measure ‘CPU Load’ using the 3 interval ‘load average’ values returned by top/uptime, these are strictly speaking the run queue average of processes running/waiting and could be affected in an oversold OpenVZ environment by ‘bad neighbours’.

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Load/CPU usage can be influenced by I/O saturation on the node itself - while it generally won’t cause a load if you’re not actually doing anything it can cause anything you are doing to cause more load than it would if I/O wasn’t saturated.

That being said the more you get for the cheaper price the less likely you are to be on a node that isn’t overly saturated.

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That is what i thought. It makes sense. If my account is using 90% CPU allotted then the others will feel that pressure… it is now way it can allow others to use 100% for each slot.

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Guess I’m not used to the low-end VPS providers that don’t allocate CPU resource guarantees :slight_smile:

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Even if you’re guaranteed 16 cores at 2.66ghz each… that doesn’t mean that you are the only one that is going to be using those 16 2.66ghz cores :slight_smile:

The only time I’ve seen the load influenced by other VPSs on the same node is when it was an I/O issue.

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By a long way WiredTree is the best VPS out there.

Just in case anybody else is looking.

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Wiredtree was also good to me with the couple of test servers I set up with them :slight_smile: I only had each one for about a month but they were rock-solid while I had them :slight_smile: