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Used a series of Liquid Web dedicated servers for 18 years and is moving on, citing outdated hardware, cPanel price rises and doing more maintenance with an AI assistant than with their support.

Has run a VPS on Leaseweb infrastructure through a reseller and reports no problems with it.

Has been a Leaseweb customer since 2019. Finds it never the cheapest but consistently better on support response and assistance, which matters for their business.

Says Leaseweb is raising prices and that support is poor, and is migrating away from it.

Was with Liquid Web from the start and left two years ago. Says the company went from a favourite to one that made them sick after the private-equity buyout, and recommends looking elsewhere.

Left Liquid Web over poor service and saved $100/month with a DigitalOcean droplet and RunCloud.

Has been migrating sites off their Liquid Web hosting for the last few months and plans to cut ties as soon as possible.

A RISE-S dedicated server had a faulty RAM module corrupting memory, and standard support would not replace it without a pricey 12-month support upgrade that wouldn't cover the weekend anyway.

Moved dedicated servers from OVH, IONOS and Arsys to Hetzner and calls the flexibility the best decision in over 20 years.

Finds Hetzner support not useful and only contacts it to request a KVM.

Hetzner price increases made dedicated servers ridiculously expensive, about 5x before.

Hetzner dedicated servers are still cost efficient for long-held servers, but new VMs are not.

Got a 256 GB auction server with lots of disks for 130 euros a month and runs Proxmox on it.

Quit Hetzner dedicated servers over what they consider ridiculous setup fees and uncompetitive pricing.

A 2022 server was throttled from 100 Mbps to 10 Mbps with no explanation, so they cancelled it and will not return.

With 3 Hetzner servers and 3 elsewhere for redundancy, Hetzner uptime is about 100 percent over two years.

OVH raised the price by 47% a month after the provisioning fee was paid.

Longtime customer since 2015 and hardware provisioning has always completed within minutes to a few hours alongside fast tech support.

Nearly a decade on a personal dedicated server went smoothly across multiple plan swaps and hardware migrations.

Paid in full for an OVH dedicated server in Singapore, but nothing was delivered for 40 days with no updates.

Seven years leasing bare metal at OVH Quebec; any problem gets solved with a quick ticket or chat.

Nearly ten years on OVHcloud: the service works and hardware issues get handled, despite slow management site and opaque monitoring.

Used OVH dedicated servers since 2011, up to 40+ nodes, and calls them pretty solid apart from lead times.

Has also waited long for OVH servers in the past, but still thinks they are Europe's best dedicated server provider.

Low prices are tempting, but personal experience across their hosting services has been the worst.

They went with OVH for several bare metal servers (SYS-1 at $30 a month) and found DDOS protection good and support good so far, though NVMe stock is harder to find.

They have used Cherry Servers for a while and found the value pretty good for bare metal.

Very happy with Leaseweb as a provider; also suggests OVH Kimsufi and SoYouStart offers and Hetzner server auction deals as alternatives.

They used Kimsufi for their lab for a few months with no issues, but region availability was poor, they waited about a week for 3 servers, and there is no private network or BMC.

They say Cherry Servers has been reliable for their team.

Currently in use and judged faster and more stable than Hetzner.

Nearly two decades of experience using their servers leaves zero recommendation for the provider.

Small i7 8th-gen boxes that used to cost about 25 euros a month now start at 75 euros.

An auction i7-6700 64 GB server went from about 32 euros to 73.42 euros after the price rises.

NVMe VPS suffered 4-to-8-second disk latency spikes, and after a four-day wait support refused a refund or early contract cancellation.

Zero CPU steal and strong Geekbench 6 multi-core scores across 4-vCPU and 6-vCPU VPS instances.

Had almost 10 OVH servers and frequent issues; support was so slow they had to ask a friend at OVH to nudge it.

Hetzner phone support was unhelpful and refused to escalate, though the sales team was nice.

A startup spending 16k a month was blocked from ordering servers after abuse reports and got only generic support replies; resolved after a week.

27 years on Hetzner dedicated and colocation; never suspended and always reached real humans.

AX162 went from 317 to 614 euros.

After Cherry, Hetzner, OVHCloud and Netcup, OVHCloud has the best price/performance and easy console/KVM access.

Ordered an OVH Rise 3 eco server on 5 July and after about 15 days had no delivery ETA on the ticket.

Rented a SoYouStart (OVH) server in Canada with a good experience until good deals moved to the global branch.

Only used OVH dedicated servers without billing problems, though some of the servers are very slow.

Their managed dedicated server (Xeon E3-1230 v6, 16GB, cPanel) costs about $238 a month with UK tax, which they call ridiculous for the specs. Support was great initially but tickets now take days.

Could not reach some Hetzner bare metal servers during a June 2026 FSN1 connectivity incident.

AX102 used to cost about 100 euros and the cheapest AX102-1 now costs 500 euros.

After 15 years as a customer they left when Hetzner demanded more money mid-period, never missed it, and call the server auctions scammy.

Running four dedicated servers there since 2017 with terabit-scale DDoS protection included at no extra charge, provided you know how to manage Linux security yourself.

An AX42 rented a year ago for 50 dollars now costs 217.

Used an auction server from 2019 to 2025 for seeding with no issues except when a drive died.

OVH repeatedly took their dedicated server offline; support took over three hours to say it was a DMCA complaint about a client site.

Dedicated hardware also saw a crazy increase and configurations now force doubling storage to get more memory, after very cheap 5950X boxes before.

Happy with a 70 euro a month auction server that packs a punch.

Moved many cloud VPSs to a few auction servers running Proxmox and can create and rescale VMs freely.

A standard AX102 now costs 450 euros a month, four times a year ago.

AX41 used to cost about 30 euros and is now double, and the AX42 went from 46 to 189 euros.

Hosting was expensive but the support was legendary, which made the VPS pricing acceptable until they shrank their site, no longer needed a VPS and moved to shared hosting elsewhere.

Their startup runs on Hetzner dedicated servers. The problems they have had were never Hetzner related, and the setup was just a server handed over with SSH credentials.

Support was fabulous for many years and worth the extra cost, but over the last year it turned mediocre while prices stayed high, so they have begun moving to another host.

Has never had an outage on their Hetzner dedicated server, though they accept the tradeoff of no real SLAs or reliability guarantees in exchange for cheap prices.

Standalone hosting and support used to be great, but after the Nexcess merger you couldn't even spin up a basic WordPress site without filing a ticket for bugs.

On Hetzner dedicated servers since 2015 with no unplanned issues, though support will not help with software.

Their yearly rented server vanished from their account and support only cited a fraud alert without details. They got no refund and opened a card dispute.

They currently run a dedicated server with Hivelocity and report no issues so far.

Has had 100 percent uptime on a dedicated server and a cloud machine.

Old AX101 auction servers had insanely bad CPU failure rates, so they decided to sunset them all.

Five DX182 servers for two years without a single failure.

They own an OVH dedicated server and say it is pretty good.

They are a current Liquid Web customer looking for another provider because support, once amazing, is now terrible.

Around 50 AX101 servers suffered frequent custom-cable failures for six months until they switched to Dell.

Ten bare metal servers with a single disk failure in two years on the most write-heavy machine.

Across 30-plus servers only one motherboard and one RAM module failed in three months.

AMD platform servers tend to drop NVMe drives after some time until the server is power cycled.

Managed about 50 servers for seven years with only wear-related failures and one lost device.

Across 90 AX102 and AX162-R servers, a bad month of drive drop-outs was mostly fixed within 30 minutes of a ticket, and they still say pricing cannot be beaten.

With 500-plus bare metal servers, 2-3 die per month, mostly disks replaced with non-new ones.

A cheap OVH dedicated server works without any issues.

Cancellation buttons for an OVH server did not work, requiring support tickets twice, so they moved to Hetzner.

After moving from Hetzner, OVH billed both servers during an upgrade, raised prices and the cancel button stopped working near renewal.

Moved all personal stuff to a Hetzner bare-metal box and hasn't touched cloud since.

Looking to move off Liquid Web because the cost is too high for their institutional WHM/cPanel use case, on top of other reasons raised in the thread.

Uses OVH Canada Eco dedicated servers and finds them fantastic, with excellent performance compared with the VPS route.

Runs dedicated servers on Hetzner in Helsinki and Falkenstein from San Diego and calls it great.

Runs dedicated servers with Proxmox for clients and says Hetzner helped the business grow.

The server auction is a brilliant way to get heavy-duty resources cheaply.

No close second to Hetzner bare metal for video transcoding.

Locked self out of a server and Hetzner sent an 8GB USB stick with the backup free of charge.

Moving a GitLab runner from cloud to an AX102 cut pipelines from 60 to 15 minutes.

Hetzner dedicated server died within the first year when another server tripped the switch.

HA Proxmox cluster across three Hetzner DCs worked fine once optics were replaced.

They used Cherry Servers as a middle ground and found the VPS and bare metal options stable and predictable. They say snapshots and backups are easy to set up and the hardware and network are reliable.

Eleven years on an auction server with no hardware issues apart from one disk replacement, though the price crept back to the original after two changes.

Started with a root server for a gaming community, later ran family business workloads on it, super satisfied for over 10 years.

Moving about 5k a month of AX162 dedicated servers to OVH since Hetzner is no longer the best performance-to-price provider.

Hetzner auction servers got only a 3 percent increase in 2026.

Benchmarks show Hetzner dedicated servers up to midrange are still best value, though CX and CCX cloud tiers are not.

A 45 euro Hetzner auction server got 1.30 euros more per month in the 2026 price rise; acceptable.

Hetzner dedicated server rose from 35 to 36 euros in the 2026 adjustment.

Auction servers rose only 3 percent; Hetzner has always provided quality service and the adjustment is acceptable.

Dedicated server used for years going up 21 percent with 64GB DDR5 RAM.

Auction server price went up even though the hardware was already installed.

Finds quality and support plummeting with node-down problems and hardware failures that are not replaced.

Auction servers rose only 3 percent and provide very good hardware for website projects.

Better than most providers but setup fees are ridiculous on anything other than auction servers.

Runs a fleet of servers with Hetzner and will stay despite the monthly price increase and higher install fees.

Dedicated AX162-R went from 1700 to 3200 euros a month and the setup fee from 100 to 650; they are looking at other solutions.

Customer for a decade facing a $2200 yearly increase across dedicated servers, calls it roughly the third or fourth price hike, and may leave.

Two very old dedicated servers cost 1 euro more each after the adjustment, which feels unfair since the hardware was already paid for.

Dedicated servers went from 200 to 250 euros a month, nearly 600 euros extra per year that must be explained to clients.

They moved from a RackNerd VPS to an OVHcloud dedicated server at about $30 a month running Proxmox. They report noticeably better performance and more visitors handled.

They moved from A2 to Liquid Web and are very happy, calling support fantastic. They run 3 VPS there.

Five years on Hetzner dedicated; a Kubernetes project runs under 80 dollars a month versus 60 a day on OpenShift.

Used 3 Hetzner auction servers to process many terabytes with no setup fee.

An 80 euro Hetzner auction server with 128GB RAM beats equivalent cloud instances.

Migrated a 100 TB Elasticsearch cluster from AX-42 to auction servers for twice the resources at the same price.

An auction server running ClickStack has been fantastic.

Dedicated server hardware and built-in DDoS protection have been solid for years, though the control dashboard and customer support are awful.

Inbound and outbound port 25 are open, but traffic on port 25 is throttled and STARTTLS is blocked, forcing SMTP relay workarounds.

An agency fed up with WP Engine and Kinsta moved its ~30 WordPress sites to Hetzner dedicated servers in Germany, managed with their own stack.

Has a KS-5 dedicated server at OVH (E3-1270v6, 32GB RAM) and says it has worked pretty well.

Blocked account was restored after replying to the email; support was great apart from slow replies, and the dedicated options are pretty great.

Account with a dedicated server and referral credits was terminated while travelling and canned responses block any reinstatement.

Ten-plus years painless with Hetzner across personal and business accounts, with about 5 VPS and 10 dedicated servers.

Hetzner auction servers had drive failures but dead drives were replaced within a day.

Even with a managed server they found setup difficult and staff rude and unhelpful.

A few dedicated servers and shared VPS on Hetzner are all running smoothly.

Runs 40 dedicated servers for over a year with no real problems and anything minor solved quickly.

Ten-year customer with several root servers had them taken offline after a lapsed card and the account cancelled even after paying, with no call or letter.

Chose Hetzner as the best company for renting dedicated servers and VMs.

Nearly a decade of auction servers for offsite backups; 40 TB for about 60-65 dollars a month beats any cloud provider, though hardware is old.

They say Liquid Web has become very expensive at over 126 dollars a month for a VPS. They found the same specs at IONOS for about 15 dollars a month.

They use Cherry Servers for dedicated hardware and say it has been reliable. They note it also has US options for moving off AWS.

Picked for being reassuringly expensive, but the host will rip you off, and the managed side is either one-size-fits-all or needs someone who knows how the machine is configured.

On an OVH Kimsufi KS-5 with 2x2TB drives running OS, services and media together, it feels kinda slow.

Got a KVM at 3 in the morning in about an hour.

Support, stock server delivery and pricing are unmatched, although hardware RAID controllers on SX machines fail fairly often.

Technical support responds within an hour with a plan for whatever is needed from the DC.

Support handled a drive failure incident well after business hours, even arranging to deliver the drive after imaging.

Hardware support is fast, 15-30 minutes, across about 20 uses over 10 years.

Support requests handled professionally; a dying disk was replaced and cable work fixed another underperforming one.

Their company has many SX servers with disk failures every couple of months and swaps need a server shutdown.

A really disappointing experience; IP reputation was the only top-notch thing and not worth it, so they went on to Vultr and then settled on Hetzner.

Eleven years on OVH, VPS then dedicated servers, hosting 500+ client sites with no problems and lots of SSD capacity.

Runs five OVH Eco dedicated servers in a Proxmox cluster; one keeps pegging at 100% CPU and crashing, so they are migrating away.

Vouches for Hetzner dedicated servers all the way for production, and values the server marketplace, while VPS and domains cost more.

Their OVH dedicated server performed really well for over three years apart from one hardware outage that took about 24 hours to fix.

Runs OVH Kimsufi KS-B and KS-5 dedicated servers; the KS-B has run strong for six months.

Runs a couple of auction dedicated servers and cannot find anything better priced; switched from Contabo and loves Hetzner.