Need a dedicated. What's the most reliable + reasonably-priced? Came across Datapacket.com, which seems pretty good. All insights welcome. I'm sure many will benefit with this info!
They're cheap because they're older hardware and they sell out to email spammers. Works great as long as you don't need a good IP reputation for email delivery.
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Cheapish, okay support, reliable in my experience:
I have used hivelocity for a few servers over the last 10 years and overall has been solid. Their support used to be much better than recently as they grew and became much bigger but they are still decent with support. I can definitely recommend them if you want a reasonably priced dedicated server.
I've been using OVHCloud for 8 years for running a dedicated server for personal use, for about $30/mo. Had zero issues, it just works for me, can highly recommend.
I'd rent a server and make a couple support tickets and see how that goes (time until replied, time until fixed, if they have any clue what you are talking about?)
What is that one company that bought like dozens of other hosting companies? I'd avoid all of them.
btw I block all of datapacket's ips from most of my websites, not that that in of itself would be a problem for you, but ips from dpacket, ovh, digital ocean, and similar are blocked en masse from several places I control - I can't be the only one that puts trust things from them on a lower tier for reasons with whatever effects.
Of course if you don't send email, you just need something that can serve files fast and stay online, but the support you get or don't get can cost more than the dollars you save in some cases.
Isn't Datapacket considered high-end? I mean, it has glowing reviews from top-tier companies. And would a bad IP address even matter for a SaaS app? Perhaps only if my server was interacting with your server, or sending mail, correct?
"Perhaps only if my server was interacting with your server, or sending mail, correct?" - yep I believe you can run email through a different service and be just fine,
I don't know if datapacket is considered high end at all, it might be.. my only knowledge of it is seeing it's ip addys regularly used in failed admin login attempts and being used to send contact form spam..
Of course they are not the only ones being used for such things.
FYI, I have come across OVH, which is something I want to avoid. Why? Among other things, I find the UI of the console terrible. It really is bad; Hetzner on the other-hand is incredible. But they have no US-based dedicated boxes.
The UI is really bad. That said, it’s not something you really have to use more than a couple times every few months. Only when you install a new server, restart and cancel
I recently discovered these guys and they had Black Friday specials up until about a month ago... Their support has been top notch. I ended up switching 5 pretty decent sized VPS's to them and 1 dedicated server.
They're cheap because they're older hardware and they sell out to email spammers. Works great as long as you don't need a good IP reputation for email delivery.
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Cheapish, okay support, reliable in my experience:
https://www.xlhost.com/
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If you just need storage, this is some of the cheapest out there on a shared host:
https://www.interserver.net/storage/