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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 02/03/2014 09:38 AM, Tim Tisdall
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 2:15 AM, Evan
Leibovitch <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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<div>I've been a long-term customer of <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://VPS.NET">VPS.NET</a>
for about 3 years now. I hate them. :) But I also still
use them. In the past I had a lot of issues with downtime
and just a few weeks ago I had two instances be down for
over 12 hrs. I'm not hosting any critical applications
with them (where I did in the past and lost a lot of
money). They have a SLA that basically says if they're
down long enough (and you reported it quick enough), you
can get your money back. But getting back $20 isn't much
of a comfort if your mission critical site is down for
20hrs.<br>
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If your site is really "mission critical", you should be prepared to
spend the money that it takes to increase reliability and
durability. $20/month gets you cheap and cheerful hosting with no
fault tolerance and minimal support. You get what you pay for and
don't get what you don't pay for. To get increasingly higher levels
of reliability, expect your costs to increase exponentially. Like
almost anything you look at, the last tenth can be exorbitantly
expensive so you have to decide how much down time you can actually
tolerate. Clearly, tolerating outages of 20 hours is fine for you
because you're still there.<br>
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Clifford Ilkay
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