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Used a series of Liquid Web dedicated servers for 18 years and is moving on, citing outdated hardware, cPanel price rises and doing more maintenance with an AI assistant than with their support.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