Quarterly Top Provider Poll

jarland

Note: Discussion may be permitted but posts not containing votes may be deleted at random. So if you ask a question and get an answer, both posts may be removed later.

Hi everyone!

It's time to jump-start the quarterly provider poll on LET! This is for Q3 of 2016. Who were your favorite providers during this time?

Rules for eligibility to vote:

1. Account must have been created no later than August, 2016.
2. Account must have at least 5 posts.
3. Providers can vote, but cannot vote for themselves.

Rules for the votes:

1. You get three standard votes.
2. One vote is one provider, no “I give three votes to _____.”
3. You can use less than three votes.
4. You get one additional vote, outside of the other three, for “Best New Provider.” Vote for someone new that you think shows a lot of promise.
5. Votes will end at 11:59 PM US/Central on October 15. The results will be shown on November 1st.

Prizes:

Winners to be drawn randomly from the voter list. If providers would like to offer any prizes, feel free to contact us at the helpdesk. This is your chance to be featured right before people vote, and to give back to the community!

Prize #1: One year of VDR4 from ImpactVPS ( @Awmusic12635 )

Prize #2: $48 account credit with HostUS for 3 lucky winners valid on any service with no expiry date. Vote for your chance to win!

Prize #3: 5 x DNS-OVZ-1024 plans free for 1 year from DeepNetSolutions (GestionDBI). 5 lucky winners will be picked at random.

Prize #4: 20 x KVM HDD Limited plan for 3 months from wishosting ( @exception0x876 )

OpticalSwoosh

VirtWire

InceptionHosting

cassa

InceptionHosting, Time4VPS and MXroute

Junkless

Mightweb, Dediserve, Time4VPS

For new provider, Impactvps

gongyi

vultr digitalocean prometeus

ValdikSS

1. Providerservice. They were on LEB only twice, but I had ZERO problems with them for 4 years straight.

2. Ramnode for providing very stable service and fast network connectivity

3. Hosthatch for the same reason

How new should be provider to participate in Best New Provider? YourServer is relatively new, so if this counts, I'll vote for them.

clarity_64

1. Catalyst
2. BuyVM
3. MXRoute

All the people I currently use for services.

raindog308

BuyVM, Ramnode, SecureDragon.

Best new provider: TragicServers. Not exactly new, but new-ish compared to others and I think shows promise. OK to remove if you have different time criteria in mind.

To be honest, I'd add DO and Vultr to best provider, but that's like voting for Wal-mart for best grocer. Shop local. Even if local is, well, Luxembourg or something.

Ndha

1. dediserve
   
2. hostus
   
3. xvmlabs
   

Amitz

1. Prometeus
2. Hetzner
3. Leaseweb

Best new provider: Budgetnode

@jarland: Thank you very, very much for overtaking the duty to manage this poll!

kaflo

ImpactVPS, Ramnode, Vultr

Best New Provider: ImpactVPS

jiggawattz

1. G Suite
2. Ramnode
3. BuyVM

Best new provider: Budgetnode

PremiumN

1. BuyVM
2. DigitalOcean
3. HostUS

TheOnlyDK

Dediserve, impactvps, ramnode

ErawanArifNugroho

Prometeus, Arubacloud, Hostforce

mikho

InceptionHosting
Securedragon
Dacentec

trvz

• Hexodo
• LoveServers
• Vultr
• Best new: Budgetnode

FrankZ

1. MyCustomHosting
2. ZXHost
3. HostUS

Best New Provider: Hostforce

Falzo

ZXHost

ArubaCloud

Hetzner

HM: Virmach, Delimiter, HostUS, Prometeus, TransIP, online.net, OVH

busbr

SecureDragon, BuyVM, Dediserve.

hawc

1. OVH
2. MXroute
3. BuyVM

Best new: BudgetNode

sin

1. Leaseweb
2. MikroVPS
3. Liteserver.nl

heachhog

1. BuyVM/BuyShared
2. Online.net
3. VPSDime

Nekki

In no particular fucking order:

1. Fiberoute, because they're fucking awesome.
2. OVH, because they're fucking amazing value.
3. Inception Hosting, because they're fucking consistently great.

No vote for a new provider because with existing providers as fucking good as these, I don't fucking need them.

BeardyUnixGuy

1. BuyVM/BuyShared
2. Servarica
3. Inception Hosting

Best new provider = BudgetNode

Tom

• MXRoute
• BuyVM
• Hetzner

Best new provider: BudgetNode

rds100

Prometeus
BuyVM
SecureDragon

MikePT

Without licking asses:

One vote for InceptionHosting One vote for VPSDime One vote for OVH

New provider: Dedistation

Other that aren't part of the vote but still worth to mention, Virmach, Infinity's, Trabia.

jarland

MrGeneral said: Without licking asses:

Try it sometime. It's not as bad as you might think.

1. BuyVM
2. OVH
3. Incero

In no particular order. I'm just not using many others right now.

xaoc

Time4VPS, Trabia, BuyVM.

jvnadr

Well, difficult to chose. But, let's try:

1. InceptionHosting: Despite the Miami issue, Ant is doing an excellent job having very stable nodes, great performance for less money and, as a plus, he has to be honored for his LES movement he started and continuing be the leader to it! Kudos!
2. BuyVM: Those guys certainly know their job! Fran and his partners are running one of the most stable platforms out there for a very low price. They are in my list, not so for their (excellent) vps line, but for running the best shared hosting platform, comparing to what their clients are paying! 20€ per year for a reseller hosting with dedicated ip, stable as rock, well, this is an achievement!
3. WholesaleInternet: OK, this is not the most quality provider. But, still, I'm impressed! Paying peanuts (25$) for an E5220 with 24GB memory, 3TB HDD and a gigabit line with no cap in bandwidth is, well, not bad! If you know how to use it (having backups, disaster plans, know the limits of the service in connectivity etc.), it's very good. Even the speed! I get -speedtest.net- almost always ~50MBits upload to Athens (9380.74 km away!) and over 750Mbits download to closest server or ~500Mbits to Kansas Packet Layer. And, despite what they are saying about their support, everytime I wanted something, I got answer in minutes and if it was about an issue, they resolve it in minutes or a couple of hours, much more sooner than other expensive providers. Even for their 10$ range! And we are talking for dedicated servers!

If I had more votes, I would also include Prometeus/IWstack (they are not in the first 3 only because I didn't use them a lot for the last 6-8 months but they are the best small real cloud out there), ArubaCloud (their 1€ line is just incredible), RamNode (my small backup box is there just running, excellent service from them), HostUS (I have 2 boxes with them, very good performance and uptime).

New provider: After a long time I didn't, I bought services from 2-3 new providers but the time frame is too small to have an opinion. I'll be back to this on the next poll!

doghouch

1. BuyVM as always. Reliable service, gifts from the pony @Francisco, and etcetera. They are my #1 recommended provider, even though I don't have an service with them anymore. When I was with them, the I/O was excellent, everything was snappy, and the server didn't swap. (unlike EthernetServers - who WAS first on my list last year, service has gone really downhill)
   

2. I've been with RamNode for a bit, uptime is pretty good, apart from the short downtime a few months ago. For what I pay, it's still one of the most reliable servers I have.
   

3. OVH. Not only do they provide a good dedi to beat up for dev, the network is pretty good. Anti-DDOS provides mitigation to basic attacks, and the support is reasonable (emphasis on reasonable), if you can speak French.
   

4. I haven't signed up with any new providers. Hope I can before Q1 next year.
   

... as for VirtCrap, yeah... I didn't expect them to last this long.

Honorable mentions: DO, Hostigation (FreeVPS) and @cociu :D

jaden

1. RamNode
2. Digital Ocean
3. SecureDragon

black

ramnode, vpsdime, quickpacket

Best new provider: Virmach

Setsura

• Lunanode - Still baller
• SecureDragon - Also still baller
• Time4VPS - 8TB storage server pls thx

Honourable mentions:

• BuyVM - If I had 4 votes they'd get the 4th honestly
• OVH - Still good for the money

frankb

1. SecureDragon.net
2. Hostigation.com
3. QuadHost.net

AdamM

NodeServ RamNode

thatix

• Dediserve

Have issue with them but still believe they are a decent provider

• ZXHost

LET Special offer is great

htun

1. Leaseweb
2. Dediserve
3. BuyVM

Best new provider: BudgetNode

Kobe

1. RamNode
2. BuyVM
3. HostUS

Best new provider: BudgetNode

jcaleb

Prometeus, catalysthost, speedykvm

Rhys

1. Hetzner
2. BuyVM
3. RamNode

Best new: Definitely BudgetNode

lontong

Ramnode, Dediserve, GoMach5

doughmanes

OVH, BudgetVM, HostUS. Best new: HostUS (been around 4 years)

rivermigue

1. OVH
2. Hetzner

yomero

• Inception Hosting
• Lunanode
• Afterburst

isaacl

Incero

ImpactVPS

Catalyst Host

(Honorable mention to MXRoute - I just use the others more at this point)

Best New Provider: ImpactVPS (Alex has gone above and beyond to help, has been a pleasure to deal with, and the service has been fantastic)

Laxenade

• OVH
• Dacentec
• Online.net

Best New Provider: ImpactVPS

varwww

• RamNode
• DigitalOcean

evilghaleon

Ramnode

DrServer

DigitalOcean

robohost

Dediserve
Time4vps
Vpeasy