Genuine VPS.Net Review Based On 5 Years Of Hosting

Blog: We had many good and bad experiences at VPS.Net in the last 5 years. Before I start with the review let me tell the reason I decided to write this review. There are many hosting review websites but I decided to write this review here for a reason.

Also I would like to request you to read this fully before making assumptions because I had many good and bad experiences throughout. While I am writing this review we are still hosted on VPS.Net but moved to a different plan within VPS.Net.



This week we had many problems with our Cloud Sites server at VPS.Net and we were looking for a similar range managed VPS or Cloud. When you google “web hosting” or “vps hosting” or “web hosting reviews” you get so many appealing results. Out of about 200 websites I checked 50 sites in detail. I did not see a single review that I felt as genuine, the majority of them came with affiliate links and looked like you were getting some benefits for writing review. So, I wanted to write a genuine review hoping this would save time for people looking for VPS.Net alternatives and people who would like to join VPS. I spent more than 24 hours in reading reviews and testing webhosting providers. I felt I wasted a lot of unwanted time due to lack of genuine reviews.

Several years back we started at VPS.Net with a small Cloud Server. After sometime moved to Cloud Sites as it was found faster. Cloud Server is an unmanaged VPS with root access, it is scalable accordingly to VPS.Net but I never had to use that feature. Managing virtual private server was no easy for us because we are not Linux experts. Cloud Sites is a shared premium hosting, we paid $20 monthly and speed was incredibly good. We were very satisfied with that and spent few years. Every few months the server got down and we had to open ticket to which the replies were quick (less than 20 minutes) but actual rectification of problem usually took like an hour or two in most cases. In the past month the accumulated traffic from all our websites went remarkably high and we started facing a strange problem with our shared server at VPS.Net. We had problems with email. Email client software generates authentication frequently every single day for like a week. At times emails work flawlessly with the same configuration, so it was not a configuration problem. We created ticket to VPS support and verified that configuration was correct, despite that our emails were getting on and off. Most of time problem came in smtp while trying to send email. Some emails that was sent successfully were not reached to recipient when we physically checked from receiver end. VPS said there was nothing wrong with server emails. So, we are confused of what was going on.

After few days our local IP address got blocked by server. I created a ticket and was quickly added to whitelist. Next day the same happened, my IP got blocked twice in two days. I was furious that VPS.Net refused of any problem with their server and yet it was blacklisting my IP which was dynamic. At the same time one of our clients on my facebook messaged me that she could not open my website. I immediately knew her IP got blocked too, she probably read about a dozen articles, not more than that and she got blocked. I was so furious, not because there was a problem but because of VPS’s denial of having problem and their failure to clarify the reason. I immediately sent a shoot of several tickets along with the request to whitelist our client’s IP.

One of the support technicians actually said the blocking happened because of parameters in the firewall settings. To me that was obvious and I expected him to look into that.

Having had a very bitter taste in my throat I decided it was time to leave VPS.Net and move out for good. That’s when I spent whole day and sleepless night looking for VPS.Net alternatives, managed VPS or fast clouds. Dedicated VPS was not in our budget range, also we definitely required a managed server.

While analyzing premium webhosting companies I was thinking to my self “what was the reason VPS.Net was so fast in speed and very few couple reach that level”. Then I remembered was a monthly pageview limit on the Cloud Sites plan in addition to bandwidth in which we used less than 20%.

We had VPS.Net Cloud Sites Business Plan and we were paying $20 per month. It was designed for 25,000 pageviews per month. Maldives Finest and sister sites accumulated more traffic than this. I believe this was the cause that server got in tension and started blocking IPs of repeated visitors. VPS.Net support technicians did not explain this as the cause, but I remembered when I bought this hosting years back the technician at that time said it was not a strict package policy but they estimated the resources were ideal for 25,000 pageviews.

Now the picture was clear for me. The incredibly awesome speed in VPS.Net Cloud Sites was not only their advanced technology but also management of resources in a way that shared servers do not get overloaded. Having this configuration in firewall nobody could take advantage and stress out the servers affecting websites of other users. But, I had a real bad experience with VPS.Net because their support engineers could not tell me exactly what was wrong. This was something that the system itself could have sent us an alert about increased traffic rather than blocking repeated visitors from accessing the site without a hint being given to us. When our IP got blocked we thought it was because we spend a lot of time on the site these days.

After analyzing so may hosting providers we picked an unmanaged VPS that looked like easy to deploy. Because Maldivesfinest uses SSL encryption we bought a dedicated IP as well. While we were doing the setup a VPS support technician suggested the option of moving to virtual private server at VPS. Net instead of Cloud Sites shared environment that would give us the control of firewall. I thought “what an incredible suggestion”.

I was extremely happy about the speed of our websites hosted with VPS.Net and their customer service. From my experience with VPS.Net for about 5 years I know there is room for technicians to get better. But they replied 95 of our tickets within 15 minutes, may be 70% within 10 minutes. That’s any time of the day or night, weekends and workdays. I felt peace of having a technician to attend and reply to my ticket quickly which is not the case with some of the other hosting providers, including the one we just bought to move out. I personally don’t know about the support technicians in other hosting providers, but my assumption is they probably won’t be any better. I could be wrong.

Now we are staying with VPS.Net with SSD VPS with following specs.
• RAM: 2GB
• SSD Storage: 50GB
• CPU Cores: 4
• Transfer: 4TB
• OS: CentOS
• Control Panel: cPanel
• Backup: Daily
• Dedicated IP: 1
• Cost: $41 per month

We are expecting this new SSD VPS Plan will be even faster and sufficient even if we get twice more traffic. This is a genuine review of VPS.Net. If you found this helpful kindly share the post to encourage good quality hosting reviews that are not attached to affiliate links.



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