Good morning fellow Babiatoians!
Yes.... yet another VPS Hosting referral request! But with a catch.... and that is I'd be happy to use your referral link/account if we go with your recommendation. And it's not just me, but I have several clients that I am moving to cheaper and more affordable VPS services. A few of them are decent size and are currently spending $1000+ / month.
I have been with Linode for 8 years but since being acquired by Akamai, the pricing has increased significantly and the quality of service and support has gone down. I'm not going to accuse Akamai of having crap gear, excessive downtime or even slow speed as they have been a leader for years. But I am pretty sure when they bought Linode they assumed existing customers would just happily bend over and accept the 20-40% pricing increase because of the pain associated with moving all of your setups. And for the first several months, this was largely true. But enough is enough and I feel partly responsible for all of the clients I referred to Linode over the years and even have offered to drop my migrations fees once I have found a new VPS host. I also have several WP Engine clients looking to move and I am going to set them up on VPS servers and help them to manage them. I know the premium extras like unlimited staging and dev environments will be sacrificed but I believe that there are now a lot of alternatives.
Okay, rant over...
I am using the following base specs when just comparing price across providers:
• 4 vCPUs
• 8 GB memory
• 160-200 GB storage
• 4 TB transfer bandwidth
• OS Ubuntu 20.04
Also, I am fine with going under contract up to 2 years if that drops the price. Obviously price isn't everything but until we here in the US get a better grip on our national debt and rising inflation, it's 99% of the equation.
Using the above specs and already researching more than 15 hosting providers it looks like vpsserver.com is in the lead at $35.83 USD per month with a two year contract.
Do I hear < $20 anywhere??
Cheers~
Billie
Yes.... yet another VPS Hosting referral request! But with a catch.... and that is I'd be happy to use your referral link/account if we go with your recommendation. And it's not just me, but I have several clients that I am moving to cheaper and more affordable VPS services. A few of them are decent size and are currently spending $1000+ / month.
I have been with Linode for 8 years but since being acquired by Akamai, the pricing has increased significantly and the quality of service and support has gone down. I'm not going to accuse Akamai of having crap gear, excessive downtime or even slow speed as they have been a leader for years. But I am pretty sure when they bought Linode they assumed existing customers would just happily bend over and accept the 20-40% pricing increase because of the pain associated with moving all of your setups. And for the first several months, this was largely true. But enough is enough and I feel partly responsible for all of the clients I referred to Linode over the years and even have offered to drop my migrations fees once I have found a new VPS host. I also have several WP Engine clients looking to move and I am going to set them up on VPS servers and help them to manage them. I know the premium extras like unlimited staging and dev environments will be sacrificed but I believe that there are now a lot of alternatives.
Okay, rant over...
I am using the following base specs when just comparing price across providers:
• 4 vCPUs
• 8 GB memory
• 160-200 GB storage
• 4 TB transfer bandwidth
• OS Ubuntu 20.04
Also, I am fine with going under contract up to 2 years if that drops the price. Obviously price isn't everything but until we here in the US get a better grip on our national debt and rising inflation, it's 99% of the equation.
Using the above specs and already researching more than 15 hosting providers it looks like vpsserver.com is in the lead at $35.83 USD per month with a two year contract.
Do I hear < $20 anywhere??
Cheers~
Billie
