Sadly i’m still with Hivelocity as I cant find a company that doesn’t have all these same sort of problems, and it would be a mission to try and move our websites, but the moment i do find a better company… were off!

Advice? Avoid Hivelocity at all costs!

Paying your monthly fees are even a chore, their payment system is often down. Tech support’s answers are correct about half the time. I have been the one to inform them of server issues before they were even aware of it.

I cannot wait to leave.

Relative to the other server companies I’ve used, by now I’d have been on multiple support problems, so much better.

I’d like to have remote reboots just in case, but so far only needed it once. I asked about it and support said it was on the list of things to add, but no date and since I’ve not had problems, not asked again.

With regards managing the server, got someone I know helping me out, though I’ve not needed much help. We installed Virtualmin/Webmin as the control panel and if you know what your doing with it, it’s easy to keep the server up to date.

All I have to do is type

yum update

At the command prompt and most software updates.

Ran into an issue the other day, it was 6 of 1 half a dozen of the other sort of problem between how Virtualmin works and how it was installed (meant to install Virtualmin first, we installed Webmin first) and this caused a problem with Virtualmin automatically updating.

Lots of people are reporting the same problem, but we found a fix and Virtualmin are looking into fixing the update issue.

Anyway, so can’t recommend anyone for managing the server as it’s a friend who doesn’t do it as a service (just knows more than I do :))

David Law

Months ago I was researching Reg 1-2-3. So I sent them a simple email asking them about their service. It was only a simple question as I couldn’t find their pricing and it was just as difficult trying to find their contact us details.

You know what; seeming as that was a bog standard question, it took them weeks to reply. During that time I found your posts so I’m glad I gave them a wide birth.

So Dave, I’ve been following your posts for sometime now and wondered if you still recommend Esecuredata and who is your choice for managing your server.

All the best
Denise

I use Dedicated managed servers, saves me the pain of having to try and fix any server issues. Support is 100% worth every penny you pay, never again will I run unmanaged servers.

One site in particular was struggling badly on the Hivelocity server (35,000 recipes in a WordPress blog database). On the Esecuredata server (which now holds all the sites that was on the old server and a few more) is handling the strain, site loads a little slow, but think that’s to be expected as WordPress isn’t designed to hold 35,000 posts!

Control panel wise went with Webmin/Virtualmin which I like. Very easy to use when you know how.

Still too soon to recommend them, but my AdSense income has increased about 20% which can’t be a coincidence :-)

Concerns.

No server support, so if you screw up your on your own.

Reboots made through email with a time frame of 30-60 mins which is slow (not needed one yet though). Apparently management is planning to add remote reboots so look forward to that feature as it’s very important.

Have to say I really need to stop assuming dedicated sever companies will offer the most basic features as standard!

Like before not going to recommend Esecuredata dedicated server before trying it out a few months to see how it goes, but have read a lot of positive stuff about Esecuredata dedicated servers.

Also read some of their staff apparently signed up on popular web hosting forums and pretended to be customers recommending their servers! Fortunately for them their infrastructure is sound (very impressive) so they aren’t some fly by night dedicated server company that will disappear next month.

Generation 5 Junior Esecuredata Dedicated Server Specs

Intel DUAL CORE E2140
2GB Ram
500 GB SATA HD
$0.75/GB for extra bandwidth
2 (plus one per domain, $2/month for each IP beyond the first 2)
Unlimited reboots

Whatever comes with the OS you specify is included. Most Linux distributions come with PHP 4, Perl, CGI, SSI, Apache, MySQL, Sendmail, FTP and others. Windows comes with IIS and ASP.NET. Any software beyond whatever is installed during initial setup must be installed by the client.

I’ve gone with CentOS 5

They also have the server below for $149 a month, but I figured if I run into problems with the server above (say 2GB ram doesn’t cut it I can either upgrade to the one below or purchase a second server for another $79).

Generation 5 Esecuredata Dedicated Server Specs

Intel CORE2DUO E6600 4M
4GB Ram
2x500 GB SATA HD
$0.75/GB for extra bandwidth
2 (plus one per domain, $2/month for each IP beyond the first 2)
Unlimited reboots

Esecuredata servers don’t come with a control panel (so researching control panels, see if there’s a good open source one) and has zero technical support (beyond hardware problems) so got someone on standby to help out if anything goes wrong with the server software**

**Have come to the conclusion that the unmanaged dedicated server companies that offer some server support do so by charging extra for their dedicated servers. Esecuredata’s server is cheaper ($79 a month!!) than any others I’ve looked at and is by far better specced, better data center etc… Since I’ve received poor quality support in the past from Server4you, Hivelocity it makes sense to have zero server support from Esecuredata and arrange for someone to help out if needed than hope over worked support staff who don’t give a rats ass if my sites are offline or not are going to spend more than 5 minutes trying to help keep a server running correctly (previous experience tells me their first line of defence is a reboot which is not the way to solve problems!).

Wish me luck with Esecuredata and I’ll post my findings in time.

David

Practically overnight 123-Reg Google SERPs-

123-Reg Dedicated Server 1st
123-Reg Server 1st

Not bad for editing an existing article.

Also doing well for these-

reg-123 14th
reg-123 hosting 4th
reg-123 domain registration 9th

Which my dedicated server page barely mentions.

Still waiting for a response regarding a refund from 123-Reg. At least I’ll get some traffic from the time wasted on them!

David

Will update what they do regarding the refund. If they don’t give a full refund I’ll do a chargeback on my credit card as they have no supplied the services I paid for.

I’ve threatend many companies with a credit card chargback, so far never used it, so this might be a first.

David