Reddit · r/Hosting · 3 days ago
Used a series of Liquid Web dedicated servers for 18 years and is moving on, citing outdated hardware, cPanel price rises and doing more maintenance with an AI assistant than with their support.
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Reddit · r/webhosting · 5 days ago
Has run a VPS on Leaseweb infrastructure through a reseller and reports no problems with it.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 5 days ago
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.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 5 days ago
Says Leaseweb is raising prices and that support is poor, and is migrating away from it.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 5 days ago
Hit a ghost keyboard input problem installing an OS through Hetzner's KVM on a dedicated server. Support swapped the KVM, which partly fixed it, though a USB image error remained and they finished the install another way.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 8 days ago
Is moving a 100-site plan away from Nexcess after a year of decline: the price rose from $638 to $849 a month with no added benefits, PHP patching took over a day with little communication, and the included CDN and automatic updates did not work reliably. Says the speeds are still great but would not recommend it.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 9 days ago
Has a dedicated server with Liquid Web bought in 2024 and was told it would rise about 51% on 17 days notice. The old price can only be kept by paying twelve months up front, which they find hard to afford as a self-employed customer.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 10 days ago
Was a Liquid Web customer for close to a decade and had several frustrating support experiences. When the renewal email threatened a 12% increase unless a one-year commitment was signed, it confirmed the decision to move to another host.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 10 days ago
Got the same Liquid Web renewal email but their increase is only 5% on a good original deal. Notes the price freeze now requires paying twelve months up front instead of monthly, and they do their own monitoring and troubleshooting anyway.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 11 days ago
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.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 22 days ago
Left Liquid Web over poor service and saved $100/month with a DigitalOcean droplet and RunCloud.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 30 days ago
Has been migrating sites off their Liquid Web hosting for the last few months and plans to cut ties as soon as possible.
Reddit · r/OVHcloud · 35 days ago
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.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 38 days ago
Moved dedicated servers from OVH, IONOS and Arsys to Hetzner and calls the flexibility the best decision in over 20 years.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 38 days ago
Finds Hetzner support not useful and only contacts it to request a KVM.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 39 days ago
Hetzner price increases made dedicated servers ridiculously expensive, about 5x before.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 39 days ago
Hetzner dedicated servers are still cost efficient for long-held servers, but new VMs are not.
Reddit · r/VPS · 45 days ago
Got a 256 GB auction server with lots of disks for 130 euros a month and runs Proxmox on it.
Reddit · r/VPS · 45 days ago
Quit Hetzner dedicated servers over what they consider ridiculous setup fees and uncompetitive pricing.
Reddit · r/VPS · 48 days ago
A 2022 server was throttled from 100 Mbps to 10 Mbps with no explanation, so they cancelled it and will not return.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 49 days ago
With 3 Hetzner servers and 3 elsewhere for redundancy, Hetzner uptime is about 100 percent over two years.
Reddit · r/sysadmin · 58 days ago
OVH raised the price by 47% a month after the provisioning fee was paid.
Reddit · r/homelab · 59 days ago
A company had to move all international customers from OVH to AWS because of kernel panics, flaky connectivity and unhelpful support; Email Pro tasks got stuck for hours or days and API changes broke automation without notice.
Reddit · r/OVHcloud · 59 days ago
Longtime customer since 2015 and hardware provisioning has always completed within minutes to a few hours alongside fast tech support.
Reddit · r/ShittySysadmin · 59 days ago
Nearly a decade on a personal dedicated server went smoothly across multiple plan swaps and hardware migrations.
Reddit · r/sysadmin · 59 days ago
Paid in full for an OVH dedicated server in Singapore, but nothing was delivered for 40 days with no updates.
Reddit · r/sysadmin · 59 days ago
Seven years leasing bare metal at OVH Quebec; any problem gets solved with a quick ticket or chat.
Reddit · r/sysadmin · 59 days ago
Nearly ten years on OVHcloud: the service works and hardware issues get handled, despite slow management site and opaque monitoring.
Reddit · r/sysadmin · 59 days ago
Used OVH dedicated servers since 2011, up to 40+ nodes, and calls them pretty solid apart from lead times.
Reddit · r/sysadmin · 59 days ago
Has also waited long for OVH servers in the past, but still thinks they are Europe's best dedicated server provider.
Reddit · r/VPS · 60 days ago
Low prices are tempting, but personal experience across their hosting services has been the worst.
Reddit · r/VPS · 60 days ago
Very happy with Leaseweb as a provider; also suggests OVH Kimsufi and SoYouStart offers and Hetzner server auction deals as alternatives.
Reddit · r/VPS · 60 days ago
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.
Reddit · r/VPS · 60 days ago
They have used Cherry Servers for a while and found the value pretty good for bare metal.
Reddit · r/VPS · 61 days ago
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.
Reddit · r/VPS · 67 days ago
They say Cherry Servers has been reliable for their team.
Reddit · r/VPS · 76 days ago
Currently in use and judged faster and more stable than Hetzner.
Reddit · r/VPS · 79 days ago
Nearly two decades of experience using their servers leaves zero recommendation for the provider.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 87 days ago
Small i7 8th-gen boxes that used to cost about 25 euros a month now start at 75 euros.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 91 days ago
An auction i7-6700 64 GB server went from about 32 euros to 73.42 euros after the price rises.
Reddit · r/VPS · 99 days ago
NVMe VPS suffered 4-to-8-second disk latency spikes, and after a four-day wait support refused a refund or early contract cancellation.
Reddit · r/VPS · 99 days ago
Zero CPU steal and strong Geekbench 6 multi-core scores across 4-vCPU and 6-vCPU VPS instances.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 102 days ago
Had almost 10 OVH servers and frequent issues; support was so slow they had to ask a friend at OVH to nudge it.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 105 days ago
Hetzner phone support was unhelpful and refused to escalate, though the sales team was nice.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 106 days ago
A startup spending 16k a month was blocked from ordering servers after abuse reports and got only generic support replies; resolved after a week.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 106 days ago
27 years on Hetzner dedicated and colocation; never suspended and always reached real humans.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 114 days ago
AX162 went from 317 to 614 euros.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 115 days ago
After Cherry, Hetzner, OVHCloud and Netcup, OVHCloud has the best price/performance and easy console/KVM access.
Reddit · r/VPS · 117 days ago
Ordered an OVH Rise 3 eco server on 5 July and after about 15 days had no delivery ETA on the ticket.
Reddit · r/sysadmin · 119 days ago
Rented a SoYouStart (OVH) server in Canada with a good experience until good deals moved to the global branch.
Reddit · r/VPS · 121 days ago
Only used OVH dedicated servers without billing problems, though some of the servers are very slow.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 127 days ago
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.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 139 days ago
Could not reach some Hetzner bare metal servers during a June 2026 FSN1 connectivity incident.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 147 days ago
AX102 used to cost about 100 euros and the cheapest AX102-1 now costs 500 euros.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 147 days ago
After 15 years as a customer they left when Hetzner demanded more money mid-period, never missed it, and call the server auctions scammy.
Reddit · r/ovh · 150 days ago
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.
Reddit · r/VPS · 150 days ago
OVH repeatedly took their dedicated server offline; support took over three hours to say it was a DMCA complaint about a client site.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 150 days ago
An AX42 rented a year ago for 50 dollars now costs 217.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 150 days ago
Dedicated hardware also saw a crazy increase and configurations now force doubling storage to get more memory, after very cheap 5950X boxes before.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 150 days ago
Used an auction server from 2019 to 2025 for seeding with no issues except when a drive died.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 150 days ago
Happy with a 70 euro a month auction server that packs a punch.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 150 days ago
Moved many cloud VPSs to a few auction servers running Proxmox and can create and rescale VMs freely.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 151 days ago
A standard AX102 now costs 450 euros a month, four times a year ago.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 151 days ago
AX41 used to cost about 30 euros and is now double, and the AX42 went from 46 to 189 euros.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 158 days ago
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.
Reddit · r/devops · 167 days ago
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.
Reddit · r/Proxmox · 187 days ago
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.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 187 days ago
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.
Reddit · r/Hosting · 188 days ago
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.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 196 days ago
On Hetzner dedicated servers since 2015 with no unplanned issues, though support will not help with software.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 200 days ago
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.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 200 days ago
They currently run a dedicated server with Hivelocity and report no issues so far.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 205 days ago
Has had 100 percent uptime on a dedicated server and a cloud machine.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 206 days ago
Old AX101 auction servers had insanely bad CPU failure rates, so they decided to sunset them all.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 207 days ago
Five DX182 servers for two years without a single failure.
Reddit · r/VPS · 208 days ago
They own an OVH dedicated server and say it is pretty good.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 209 days ago
They are a current Liquid Web customer looking for another provider because support, once amazing, is now terrible.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 209 days ago
Around 50 AX101 servers suffered frequent custom-cable failures for six months until they switched to Dell.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 212 days ago
Ten bare metal servers with a single disk failure in two years on the most write-heavy machine.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 213 days ago
Across 30-plus servers only one motherboard and one RAM module failed in three months.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 213 days ago
AMD platform servers tend to drop NVMe drives after some time until the server is power cycled.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 213 days ago
Managed about 50 servers for seven years with only wear-related failures and one lost device.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 214 days ago
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.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 214 days ago
With 500-plus bare metal servers, 2-3 die per month, mostly disks replaced with non-new ones.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 215 days ago
A cheap OVH dedicated server works without any issues.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 216 days ago
Cancellation buttons for an OVH server did not work, requiring support tickets twice, so they moved to Hetzner.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 217 days ago
After moving from Hetzner, OVH billed both servers during an upgrade, raised prices and the cancel button stopped working near renewal.
Reddit · r/webdev · 218 days ago
Moved all personal stuff to a Hetzner bare-metal box and hasn't touched cloud since.
Reddit · r/webdev · 220 days ago
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.
Reddit · r/VPS · 235 days ago
Uses OVH Canada Eco dedicated servers and finds them fantastic, with excellent performance compared with the VPS route.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 238 days ago
Runs dedicated servers on Hetzner in Helsinki and Falkenstein from San Diego and calls it great.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 241 days ago
Runs dedicated servers with Proxmox for clients and says Hetzner helped the business grow.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 241 days ago
The server auction is a brilliant way to get heavy-duty resources cheaply.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 241 days ago
No close second to Hetzner bare metal for video transcoding.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 242 days ago
Locked self out of a server and Hetzner sent an 8GB USB stick with the backup free of charge.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 242 days ago
Moving a GitLab runner from cloud to an AX102 cut pipelines from 60 to 15 minutes.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 243 days ago
Hetzner dedicated server died within the first year when another server tripped the switch.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 243 days ago
HA Proxmox cluster across three Hetzner DCs worked fine once optics were replaced.
Reddit · r/webdev · 249 days ago
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.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 252 days ago
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.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 252 days ago
Started with a root server for a gaming community, later ran family business workloads on it, super satisfied for over 10 years.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 252 days ago
Moving about 5k a month of AX162 dedicated servers to OVH since Hetzner is no longer the best performance-to-price provider.
Reddit · r/VPS · 262 days ago
Hetzner auction servers got only a 3 percent increase in 2026.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 262 days ago
Benchmarks show Hetzner dedicated servers up to midrange are still best value, though CX and CCX cloud tiers are not.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 263 days ago
A 45 euro Hetzner auction server got 1.30 euros more per month in the 2026 price rise; acceptable.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 263 days ago
Hetzner dedicated server rose from 35 to 36 euros in the 2026 adjustment.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 263 days ago
Dedicated server used for years going up 21 percent with 64GB DDR5 RAM.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 263 days ago
Finds quality and support plummeting with node-down problems and hardware failures that are not replaced.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 263 days ago
Better than most providers but setup fees are ridiculous on anything other than auction servers.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 263 days ago
Runs a fleet of servers with Hetzner and will stay despite the monthly price increase and higher install fees.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 263 days ago
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.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 263 days ago
Customer for a decade facing a $2200 yearly increase across dedicated servers, calls it roughly the third or fourth price hike, and may leave.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 263 days ago
Auction servers rose only 3 percent; Hetzner has always provided quality service and the adjustment is acceptable.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 263 days ago
Two very old dedicated servers cost 1 euro more each after the adjustment, which feels unfair since the hardware was already paid for.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 263 days ago
Dedicated servers went from 200 to 250 euros a month, nearly 600 euros extra per year that must be explained to clients.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 263 days ago
Auction server price went up even though the hardware was already installed.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 263 days ago
Auction servers rose only 3 percent and provide very good hardware for website projects.
Reddit · r/Hosting · 272 days ago
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.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 276 days ago
They moved from A2 to Liquid Web and are very happy, calling support fantastic. They run 3 VPS there.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 289 days ago
Five years on Hetzner dedicated; a Kubernetes project runs under 80 dollars a month versus 60 a day on OpenShift.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 289 days ago
Used 3 Hetzner auction servers to process many terabytes with no setup fee.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 289 days ago
An 80 euro Hetzner auction server with 128GB RAM beats equivalent cloud instances.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 289 days ago
Migrated a 100 TB Elasticsearch cluster from AX-42 to auction servers for twice the resources at the same price.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 289 days ago
An auction server running ClickStack has been fantastic.
Reddit · r/VPS · 301 days ago
Dedicated server hardware and built-in DDoS protection have been solid for years, though the control dashboard and customer support are awful.
Reddit · r/VPS · 304 days ago
Inbound and outbound port 25 are open, but traffic on port 25 is throttled and STARTTLS is blocked, forcing SMTP relay workarounds.
Reddit · r/Hosting · 307 days ago
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.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 329 days ago
Has a KS-5 dedicated server at OVH (E3-1270v6, 32GB RAM) and says it has worked pretty well.
Reddit · r/VPS · 336 days ago
Blocked account was restored after replying to the email; support was great apart from slow replies, and the dedicated options are pretty great.
Reddit · r/VPS · 336 days ago
Account with a dedicated server and referral credits was terminated while travelling and canned responses block any reinstatement.
Reddit · r/VPS · 337 days ago
Ten-plus years painless with Hetzner across personal and business accounts, with about 5 VPS and 10 dedicated servers.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 340 days ago
Hetzner auction servers had drive failures but dead drives were replaced within a day.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 347 days ago
Even with a managed server they found setup difficult and staff rude and unhelpful.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 360 days ago
A few dedicated servers and shared VPS on Hetzner are all running smoothly.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 366 days ago
Runs 40 dedicated servers for over a year with no real problems and anything minor solved quickly.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 366 days ago
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.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 387 days ago
Chose Hetzner as the best company for renting dedicated servers and VMs.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 388 days ago
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.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 394 days ago
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.
Reddit · r/Hosting · 407 days ago
They use Cherry Servers for dedicated hardware and say it has been reliable. They note it also has US options for moving off AWS.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 424 days ago
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.
Reddit · r/VPS · 424 days ago
On an OVH Kimsufi KS-5 with 2x2TB drives running OS, services and media together, it feels kinda slow.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 424 days ago
Got a KVM at 3 in the morning in about an hour.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 424 days ago
Support, stock server delivery and pricing are unmatched, although hardware RAID controllers on SX machines fail fairly often.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 424 days ago
Technical support responds within an hour with a plan for whatever is needed from the DC.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 424 days ago
Support handled a drive failure incident well after business hours, even arranging to deliver the drive after imaging.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 424 days ago
Hardware support is fast, 15-30 minutes, across about 20 uses over 10 years.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 424 days ago
Support requests handled professionally; a dying disk was replaced and cable work fixed another underperforming one.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 424 days ago
Their company has many SX servers with disk failures every couple of months and swaps need a server shutdown.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 427 days ago
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.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 440 days ago
Eleven years on OVH, VPS then dedicated servers, hosting 500+ client sites with no problems and lots of SSD capacity.
Reddit · r/VPS · 442 days ago
Runs five OVH Eco dedicated servers in a Proxmox cluster; one keeps pegging at 100% CPU and crashing, so they are migrating away.
Reddit · r/VPS · 442 days ago
Their OVH dedicated server performed really well for over three years apart from one hardware outage that took about 24 hours to fix.
Reddit · r/VPS · 442 days ago
Runs OVH Kimsufi KS-B and KS-5 dedicated servers; the KS-B has run strong for six months.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 442 days ago
Vouches for Hetzner dedicated servers all the way for production, and values the server marketplace, while VPS and domains cost more.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 444 days ago
Runs a couple of auction dedicated servers and cannot find anything better priced; switched from Contabo and loves Hetzner.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 444 days ago
The server auction has crazy low prices for very performant machines for heavy workloads.
Reddit · r/homelab · 455 days ago
Runs Nextcloud and Immich on an auction server and finds it very cost effective, with 4 TB RAID-1 for under 40 euros a month.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 483 days ago
Runs a Liquid Web dedicated server hosting about 200 sites at roughly $250 a month with zero downtime in about 15 years, though support staff is not great.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 487 days ago
Runs an AX-102 game server but wants to leave because it lacks proper anti-DDoS protection.
Reddit · r/VPS · 511 days ago
A custom GPU server came with solid support, including emails whenever a RAID disk failed, which happened multiple times.
Reddit · r/sysadmin · 511 days ago
They have used the provider for a while for blockchain projects and dev workloads and found it solid. They like the deep hardware customisation (CPU, RAM, storage, GPU) compared with other EU providers.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 518 days ago
They had several dedicated servers and hundreds of sites at Liquid Web and say service declined over the years. They moved away, have one server left and plan to shut it down.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 519 days ago
They have a Liquid Web VPS with root access and found support slow and snarky on a question about virtual sound cards. They say for the price they expect better service and want to leave.
Reddit · r/VPS · 524 days ago
Loves their Kimsufi dedicated server with an iGPU and 4TB storage for 11 dollars.
Reddit · r/VPS · 524 days ago
Four OVH Advance and Rise servers for about three years with some daytime maintenance downtime.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 542 days ago
Only dedicated servers, some at 19-25 euros, and always more than satisfied with price performance.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 544 days ago
Two years in; 100 and 150 terabyte servers are an amazing value, with just a couple of drives crashing.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 546 days ago
Server auction compute is very reasonable, easy and fast with no network limits, but with occasional hiccups that required more retry logic.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 546 days ago
Five to seven years with no complaints and faulty hardware replaced in 5-10 minutes.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 550 days ago
Runs their machines on Hetzner for about $50 where the equivalent would cost around $900 on AWS, keeping CloudFront, Route53, S3 and RDS on AWS linked by VPN; the only downside is instant autoscaling, which they don't need.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 550 days ago
While trialing hosts they found Hivelocity phone support kept going to voicemail.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 555 days ago
Customer since 2007 who says reliability is still fine but support is declining: phone support is gone and a simple question took over eight hours. They are leaving and moving their clients.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 568 days ago
Liquid Web is their own server host, and they say its prices have been rising since the private equity purchase.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 570 days ago
More than ten years a customer; a week-long migration to a third dedicated server had just finished when phone support was dropped in favor of 24/7 chat and email.
Reddit · r/sysadmin · 570 days ago
Their team runs a hybrid setup with half a rack plus bare metal cloud at the provider. They want to move fully to bare metal cloud but say the provider cannot cater to their needs.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 572 days ago
After years of calling support, the phone line now asks for an account number, which it did not used to, and they wonder whether a spend threshold decides who keeps phone support.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 573 days ago
A long-time advocate since 2007, when the same tech often handled several tickets and a datacentre tour was offered, but now in the middle of moving away.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 590 days ago
They ordered a bare metal server, got a blacklisted IP that could not be replaced, and had to destroy the server. They finally got a refund after feeling poorly helped.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 590 days ago
Always returns to Hetzner for stability and support after trying Contabo and Netcup, but DDoS protection is weak and servers get blocked when attacked.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 590 days ago
In 2015-16 they were flagged and banned after a ToS change yet still billed for the remaining commitment, which went to debt collectors at about four times the amount.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 590 days ago
Three years across dedicated, storage box and cloud: everything just works, support is nice and helpful though sometimes slow, with the best performance for the money.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 590 days ago
A 38 dollar a month auction server with 1 TB SSD, 64 GB RAM and an i7 has been responsive and solid.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 591 days ago
Long-time customer whose two VPSs were left outdated because they would not upgrade them without a paid backup add-on. They also faced a 12 percent price rise unless they accepted an annual contract.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 619 days ago
Nearly ten years with Hetzner without an issue; support was timely when an auction server drive failed.
Reddit · r/VPS · 634 days ago
Signing up from India with a credit card went through, but a day later the order was rejected and refunded even though the details were correct.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 683 days ago
Eight years on a dedicated server were fantastic, with WHM, Imunify360 and LiteSpeed available and always super helpful support; the switch away was only because it was overkill for their needs.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 689 days ago
Running three-node high-availability Kubernetes clusters on bare metal delivers noticeably more hardware resources and zero virtualization overhead compared to cloud VMs.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 690 days ago
The AX41 ran almost three years as a spectacular experience with no problems, but a disk vanished from the RAID on the AX42 after three months, so they moved to Hetzner cloud VPS for better availability.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 726 days ago
Chose OVH dedicated server for its Singapore datacenter and has had no downtime so far.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 726 days ago
Uses a cheap Kimsufi dedicated server with 2 TB HDD as an offsite backup and static site host for 10-12 euros a month.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 726 days ago
A 15 euro a month 4 TB OVH dedicated server has very good performance and OVH quickly replaces failed hardware.
Reddit · r/VPS · 734 days ago
They have had KS-2, KS-4 and KS-LE-E servers and found all of them great for performance, though availability varies by region.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 762 days ago
Has hosted close to 100 clients at Liquid Web for 10 years with zero issues and consistently good support.
Reddit · r/VPS · 766 days ago
Their Hivelocity VPS is treated as legacy, so the host would not reload the OS template and told them to install the OS manually through the console.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 769 days ago
Years on Hetzner dedicated servers without issue; dedicated servers are great.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 771 days ago
Their dedicated host passed through several acquisitions and ended up under Hivelocity, after which they say support became spotty.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 799 days ago
Went with an AX52 for a medium-size shop after leaving poor customer support elsewhere and is happy so far.
Reddit · r/sysadmin · 803 days ago
OVH dedicated servers are very good with a stable network and always-connected IPKVM.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 807 days ago
After a price hike at the old provider they got a much faster Hetzner dedicated server with more RAM and a better CPU for less.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 807 days ago
Moved two companies entirely to Hetzner and stays for bandwidth, support speed and price.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 808 days ago
Found Hetzner searching for a reasonably priced dedicated server and stayed for the prices and support.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 808 days ago
Switched from OVH for the price and stayed for the support, network, hardware add-ons, auction deals and uptime.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 808 days ago
Got a Minecraft server from the Hetzner auction with the best offer and loves that it is truly dedicated.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 808 days ago
Moved game servers off shared hosting to a Hetzner AX42 after everything else was too expensive; amazing prices.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 808 days ago
After a 80 dollar DigitalOcean VPS ran at 50 percent CPU with 20k daily visits, moved to a Hetzner AX42 and has stayed a customer.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 808 days ago
Fourteen years on Hetzner for stability and pricing and would not switch even now.
Reddit · r/webdev · 809 days ago
Their company has run a cheap dedicated server on Hivelocity for 15 years with WHM and cPanel sites. They say they never had any problem and are happy with the control it gives.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 820 days ago
A long-time Nexcess account moved to Liquid Web brought a push toward a server costing over twice as much, repeated price rises, and a site down almost weekly with hours-long support waits.
Reddit · r/VPS · 833 days ago
They ordered a KS-16 dedicated server with 3x2TB HDDs and were satisfied with the price and overall performance. They found the HDD disk throughput quite slow in dd and sysbench tests.
Reddit · r/Hosting · 849 days ago
Good experience with Liquid Web for client sites; its support has been pretty good.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 888 days ago
Client since 2018 with five auction servers; built a 24 vCPU, 128 GB machine for 58.70 euros a month.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 889 days ago
A 112 dollar a month AX102 replaced four GCP servers costing 780 dollars, and migrating took 30 minutes.
Reddit · r/webdev · 899 days ago
They have used a roughly 50 euro/month Hetzner dedicated server for years without problems, and a missed payment only brought a polite reminder email.
Reddit · r/webdev · 899 days ago
They moved from a DigitalOcean VPS with RAM limits to an OVH dedicated server in Singapore at about $70/month, running sales and accounting software for 5000 users.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 911 days ago
Mostly good business and great service in business hours, but you always pay setup fees.