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  scotty on 30/11/2014 - 22:18

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  Chicago VPS? Can't be serious…

  Anyway I have a VPS with another company that's affiliated with ChicagoVPS / ColoCrossing / VelocityServers. 2GB RAM for ~$25/year and I hardly get any uptime due to the network being DDoS'ed all the time.

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    [Deactivated] on 30/11/2014 - 23:07

    I'm assuming you have a server also hosted by ColoCrossing? This doesn't directly mean it's anything to do with ChicagoVPS; they're entirely different companies.

    Yes, ChicagoVPS is hosted by ColoCrossing in certain locations, though how they as a company deal with customers abusing high uplink speeds, go about DDoS protection, etc may differ to other companies also hosted by Colo. Keep that in mind.
    I personally haven't had any down time in the year I've had my server with Chicago so far, the whole time it's sustained a connection speed of 850-1000mbps, both up and down. Doesn't seem over sold, resource intensive applications seem to still run fine without any kind of lagg. I may have simply got lucky and got on a good rack though, who knows.

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    downhillmtbr on 30/11/2014 - 23:24

    Do you mind sharing who is currently hosting ozbargin?

    Also, is there a wiki or forum article anywhere explaining ozbargin's technology stack?

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      [Deactivated] on 01/12/2014 - 00:11

      Credits

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  pbear on 30/11/2014 - 22:25

  I have also heard that they have been hacked 2 times in the last year so not sure what will happen to your data on the VPS. I guess you get what you pay for and I definitely won't be using them even if it is $25 for the year.

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    [Deactivated] on 30/11/2014 - 23:10

    There was a problem in their support ticket system, nothing to do with their servers themselves.
    There was a field which allowed customers to provide their root passwords in support tickets, their support ticket system was then leaked (presumably by a support worker) containing provided plain text root passwords. This was due to terrible management of the support department; there's no major security breaches or cases of servers being 'hacked' that I'm aware of.

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  internet-stranger on 30/11/2014 - 22:27

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  Don't buy, I have a service with them, down more than its up.

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  [Deactivated] on 30/11/2014 - 22:33

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  I have one with them and the uptime is excellent. It's only used for testing stuff out but I wouldn't use it for production as you can tell they're oversold.

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    [Deactivated] on 30/11/2014 - 23:15

    Currently only use mine for testing as well, was quite happy with it. Mine doesn't seem to be oversold; nothing (even resource intensive) applications seem to have any problems on it. However I would still have to agree with this, due to the nature of the servers, I would still avoid using these servers for professional purposes.

    That been said, I think it's already a given to pay more than $1.33/mo for professional level hosting. As a more general rule, avoid OpenVZ all together for professional use; save it only for testing purposes.

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  bjdchwr on 30/11/2014 - 23:01

  I would not take the risk as it's on OPENVZ platform. Had a VZ host from other suppliers before and it's not really well performed.

  Would go if it is KVM.

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    [Deactivated] on 30/11/2014 - 23:11

    Both are sadly OpenVZ.