<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 2:15 AM, Evan Leibovitch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:evan-ieNeDk6JonTYtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org" target="_blank">evan-ieNeDk6JonTYtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>After spending a good chunk of time on culling from the crowded hosting field it's down to two providers who offer fairly similar services: <a href="http://VPS.NET" target="_blank">VPS.NET</a> and CirrusTech. Both offer good specs, good prices, support Ubuntu and (important to us) have Canadian datacentres.<br>
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<div><br></div><div>Does anyone here have experience with either of these companies, positive OR negative?</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Hopefully I'm not too late for a reply to this...</div><div><br></div>
<div>I've been a long-term customer of <a 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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I just checked the site again, and <a href="http://VPS.NET">VPS.NET</a> is charging $25/month for using their Montreal data center. This is a lot better than in the past where they were charging closer to $40/month. I also don't know what the uptime track record is for the Montreal center as I've only used the 3 data centers in the US.</div>
<div><br></div><div>So, in conclusion... I use them because they're fairly convenient and cheap. I try to mitigate issues by making offsite backups as well (though losing data hasn't been an issue yet).</div><div>
<br></div><div>Incidentally, <a href="http://VPS.NET">VPS.NET</a> uses <a href="http://onapp.com/">http://onapp.com/</a> to power their cloud instances. You can check out their website and see other companies using the same software as well as finding Canadian ones. Sometimes it's easier dealing with a smaller company.</div>
<div><br></div><div>If you're willing to cross the border, digitalocean is only $5/month for a basic instance.</div><div><br></div><div>-Tim</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>