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There is a lot of hosting providers that use bitcointalk to advertise their services. This thread will provide everyone on what providers are good, what they offer that makes them better than the rest, and to gain reputation as the best hosting provider on this forum. Here is this threads rules as follows:

• service must be recommended by another bitcointalk member. Must be in public view on this thread. I will ignore any pm's regarding adding your services
• Their is 3 Sections Good Reputation, Bad reputation, the old stuff is located here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=39251.msg2917708#msg2917708 and will be cleaned and removed as i go through it. Any service not mentioned in this thread will be removed from that list
• The more recommendations the higher it is on the list or has a +1,+2,+3 and so on.
• accepting bitcoin is a must.
• Users must be Members and above. Jr.members sorry.
• People recommending must provide a link to the website and reasoning to why they gave the review and what they feel was good about that service (or bad)
• I only act as a information collecter. Posting what bitcointalk reccomends or doesnt reccomend.
• All old posts before this change will count in the new change.
• Can offer members a free trial for review of services if wanted.

Good - providers in this list have had good reports about them in this thread

• https://bitronictech.net/vps-hosting.php bitronictech +2 Link1 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=39251.msg1372992#msg1372992),Link2 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php? topic=39251.msg2941991#msg2941991) (Allow's CPU intensive processes EI. CPU Mining. Request first so not flagged as abuse)
• http://www.exoware.net/ Exoware +1 Link1 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=39251.msg483654#msg483654)
  
  • http://crowncloud.net CrownCloud +1 Link1 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=39251.msg3093676#msg3093676)
    
    
  Bad - providers in this list have had bad reports about them in this thread
  
  
  • momentoVPS -4 Link1 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=39251.msg1372985#msg1372985),  Link2 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=39251.msg1374014#msg1374014), Link3 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=39251.msg1470484#msg1470484), Link4 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=39251.msg2884335#msg2884335)
  • Synwebhost -4 Link1 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=39251.msg3093676#msg3093676), Link2 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=151104.0) (Multiple negative reviews on second link)

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My opinion is a bit biased of course, so I will only add that FrozenOnline.com offers a full 5 day refund. So you could try us out for a few days. If it doesn't work out, you get your coins back. We would of course appreciate you sharing with us what problems you had so we can improve our services.

Your offer looks pretty cool, some questions:

• Can I cancel service at any time (monthly)?
• Can I upgrade at any time (increase storage / cpu) without having to re-setup?
• Is first publicly accessible IPv4 address included?

Yes, service is provided month to month



Yes, with a few notes: 1) The upgrade can only be performed with the system offline, 2) It may require moving the system to another node, 3) while you can add additional storage space, the geometry of the initial disk cannot change without doing another setup. In other words, if the upgrade includes additional disk space and you wish to claim it, we can add it as a second disk to your system.


No. Many of our customers don't utilize or require a static address. If you want an external/static IP address, it is an additional cost.

Thanks a lot for you answers. Maybe you could make this more clear on the webpage. Such information not being easily accessible can really stop people from making a purchase in my mind.

Especiall the "month to month" provision of service really makes it a lot easier to buy because it reduces risk and tends to increase service quality, thanks for that, I might buy from you but will do more looking at the others first.

Thanks for the comments.

Directly below the prices is the following text: "BTC prices are subject to market fluctuations. Listed prices are for month to month service."

The static IP question is addressed on the FAQ. The upgrade question is not addressed, it isn't something that I have been asked with any frequency except for after a customer has already signed up and they want to upgrade.

Europhase and Exoware are the only ones I can recommend, being totally honest.

http://www.bitcoinvps.net/ have good prices, but the order form is not working. http://leetnet.net/ have similar prices and looks good but... they should care more about the look of their site. Does exist a bitcoin e-commerce CMS?

By the other site they have no history knowed before bitcoin. Being cheap doesn't imply to be "ugly" facing (future) customers IMHO.

 

It would be interesting to know which ones you tested and can therefore not recommend. Surely you didn't test the whole list.

I would like the see my VPS service:

https://bitronictech.net/vps-hosting.php

listed in this thread if possible. I'd even be willing to offer a risk free trial for a review.

Xen:
https://clients.microtronix-tech.com/cart.php?gid=17

OpenVZ:
https://clients.microtronix-tech.com/cart.php?gid=5

Service is month to month, so yes.

Yes, and disk space can also be upgraded without problem's. Just requires shutting down your VPS unit. We can take away and add to your VPS disk space at any time. So upgrades are fully available, without extra partitions ;)

1 IPv4 included for free, additional IPv4 are $2 a month ;)

Any other questions? We offer a 30 day money back guarantee ;) There has to be a "real" reason, as we have had some use it abusively for 30 days then come back in and say nope, it just doesn't do what I want, and won't explain what it is ha ha. But we do offer it.

Add www.yokuhosting.com (http://www.yokuhosting.com) to that list.   ;D  Check it out.

Be very cautious when buying OpenVZ/VMware VPS, overselling is very common!

We are running on Hyper-V, works great if you plan on hosting Windows desktops along with Linux.  We had some issues with Windows vm's when testing the free hypervisors listed.

thanks guys for all your replies, I really appreciate it (albeit a bit late for my case ;)

I included your links in OP, tell me if you want changes...

I'm sorry I have neglected this thread and also to say that I'll probably continue to be doing so due to lack of time.

I think it would probably be best to setup a comparison table in the wiki. Suggesting to include at least the following info:

• url/name/description
• possible to use anonymously (yes/no)
• cpu upgradable without reinstall (yes/no)
• storage upgradable without reinstall (yes/no)
• ipv4 address included (yes/no)
• billing/cancellation cycle (monthly/weekly/...)
• price of small (define) VPS per month
• price of largish (define) VPS per month
• ... ?

Maybe someone can do it and link here?

CINFU just suspended my 9 servers!!!!!! just because I was downloading torrents on one of them!  >:(

with no warning?

I have been using cinfu for over a year. they are great. (I never downloaded torrents there)

http://www.bitvps.com/ not mentioned?

also https://www.kalyhost.com/, ran by magicaltux (mtgox).

And stay away from https://momentovps.com/.

But I don't use any of them anymore at least ... I recommend a non btc operation, http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver-produktmatrix-ex

I have been using Bitronictech for a month and did have a few problems initially - I must say that Bryan though has provided good after sales service and I am gaining more confidence in their VPS (I would not recommend anything other than their "gold" VPS service but my server demands are probably higher than most as I am regularly using the GCC compiler among other things).

You will soon be seeing the launch of a new open source project from CIYAM with the VPS service that I have with them so perhaps checking on how that goes will be a telling sign.

thanks, added.


why?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=60943.60

There are more testimonials scattered around the forum.

MomentoVPS is a very VERY cheap service. (It's over 50% cheaper than any of the competition).

This is really an instance of you get what you pay for.

there are applications for crappy cheap service, though. joe23 used momento, I think, for findmeifyoucan.eu ;) (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=120918.0).

Yeah there certainly are, i host a bunch of useless shit on momentovps.

They aren't that much cheaper then Bitronic Technologies! I just need to add some smaller packages.  ;D

The vast majority of people on momentovps are paying HALF what you see on the home page.

I recently went through the list looking for a decent provider and ended up using Cinfu - currently a handful of servers with them.
They're decent, fast responding to support questions and offer both down/upgrade & refunds within 7d.

One of the tests I ran was installing bitcoind & downloading the blockchain - tells you a lot about the quality of how they setup their hosts & their network.

Cinfu gave a the best bang for your coin and were one of the fastest - weighing in at 1.5 hours from 0 to full download of the blockchain.

I was stupid enough to send my coins to MomentoVPS before reading messages on forum. SHIT!

One thing is that it wasn't 'momento' at all, coins were credited to my balance like a day later. I decided to choose momentovps because I neede server ASAP. It is definitely not a problem on my side, balance was 0 after 12 confirmations (this is what I remember).

Now I'd rather get a refund, I don't really need it anymore. (I haven't purchased anything, I simply added coins to balance.) Ticket is unanswered for two days...

So I think dude which runs it deserves scammer tag, and also it should be removed from en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Trade

As for cheapness, it is bullshit. According to price on the front page,  VPS with 1 GB RAM and 40 GB disk and 1 IP costs about 18 USD per month.

I currently rent a VPS from prgmr.com, it costs $16/month when paid for a whole year, ($20 per month when per month), and it's really high quality service. Say, currently I have uptime of 453 days and I don't remember any network outages.

If you have shitty services simply advertise it as such, do not assume we would infer it from price!

I made a "Bad" section and put momentoVPS into it because it received multiple very bad reports.

No love for Fennec (http://www.fennec.name)? :o

I was renting a server from Fennec. Can't say it was perfect, there were some connectivity issues likely on some switch in datacenter, but they were quickly resolved.

So, flawless: no; legit: yes.

Note that price is fixed in BTC, which is cool, but BTC crawled up a lot in past few months so it's now a bit too pricey.

I fixed the price in USD with Bitronic Technologies, so if the cost of Bitcoin went up the BTC/mo would go down, just because my worldly operation expenses are in USd so I think that makes logical sense.

Adding to the "Bad" list for momentovps. I'm locked out of my account and there's no way to email/contact the owners of the VPS. A very bad service indeed :(

the fuck kind of service is that? that horrible. lol


Also on another note codingagency.com would be willing to offer a services for review as well on our vps's. We maintain a 24/7 monitored ticketing support center for all issues.

Do not mine on VPS and download/upload torrent without reading TOS or they will terminate/suspend your account ;/

There's a ticketing system.

Your account isn't locked or anything.

Did you just forget the password?

Molecular:

I love the idea of this thread and the concept behind it. Something you should really do, though, is add in links to posts or something for praise/complaints. For example, in the OP you state that complaints have been made about Momento, but without going through the posts there's no way to tell what those issues were. Even something as simple as saying like:

MomentoVPS - Link1 (#post_), Link2 (#post_)

would go a long way...

would anyone be willing to take over this thread? We could probably have a mod change the owner. I don't find the time to maintain this adequately.

I would be willing to take it over. besides me owning a hosting company, i am always purchasing and testing hosting services. The vps i provide will not be included in this post at all unless one of my clients freely post here.

I don't see too big of a problem even if you include your service as long as these facts are transparent.

how to find out who is a moderator here?

lol, obviously you've never worked with DCs before.

If you are running something that has ANY chance of getting them or their network flagged, compromised, they are going to put a stop to it immediately as it's a violation of the ToS you accepted.

If your machine was compromised and used for something fishy, they would shut it down (or isolate it), alert you, and then there'd be some ugly work to do...but if you had been doing torrents regularly, they would probably just put an end to it completely.

John K. should be able to do it.

thats why you choose a service that is more friendly torwards those things. They way my service handles these things is when a issue like this arrises we dont just cut the client off, we would/will work with the client to either move their services to a more friendly place for waht they are doing. (game servers, torrents, stuff like that). Our ToS is  very lenient on these types of things. we do not own any servers on U.S soil but we do own some in canada, so if a client wanted to particiape in such activities they might like our other servers located in europe and asia which laws are more favorable to them.

As a user for hosting as well I would rather the service i am using try and work with me to figure out a way to resolve the problem that arose instead of just cutting off service.


But as with any services you should always read the ToS and if the ToS doesnt answer your questions and you feel that something you are doing is sketch i highly recommend that you email the company or put a support ticket in. Most staff's are more than happy to reply and let you know exactly what you need

I PMed him.

allright ownership of this thread has just been transferred to johnnyfla123, who will manage the list from now on.

thanks to theymos and John K. for the transfer.

I will be going over the current lists to make sure they are active as well as getting it ready for new hosts to be added to this list. I will be doing this over the next few days.

Hello,

Please add Seedmybox.com to the list. We SPECIALIZE in ultra fast VPS servers (check out Reviews online).

We used to provide VPS's until the amount of clients using the VPS's for illegal purposes became too much of a liability to our other clients.

VPS's unless hosted in a cloud environment are not really efficient - you can get more for your bitcoins with cloud hosting configured for your resource requirements.

Location changes a lot of laws :) but it is a downside to vos's and good priced ones. They are very easy to use for purposes that they shouldn't be used for.


Also to update everyone, I will have this thread revamped by Tuesday night. With instructions and a new approach to have members recommend your services. I have received tons of requests and I believe I have come up with a solution that includes bitcointalk members in deciding if your services are either good rep or bad rep based on the community as a whole.

Updated the main post with new rules. If you would like your service added as good rep or bad rep please follow these rules to have it added. :)

updated

If a service provider wants me to add a note next to their service to help promote specialties that they provide i will do so and add it next to their links of reputation

We do allow CPU intensive processes, however we request that the customer inform us so it doesn't get flagged as abuse. I/O intensive is more the issue with VMs at any rate.

Thanks for the clarification on this. I have added a note next to your service.

That could get you some business ;)

Bumping Thread

The amount of CPU I/O that bitcoin mining requires is huge, far outweights the profit ratio to resources assignment factor - You would need to run huge racks of i7's..

You are right here. Although i do have a couple servers at home that have dual cpu's I am planning on using them to give out to cpu miners, I just have a few things to work out before i can do that. The power costs to do this also are WAY high and lower the life of the CPU's by alot. Also the problem with cpu mining on vps units is that it makes it so you can’t fit as many clients on a server. More likely to oversell and can cause other vps units to have a less quality service because of it. I also do love your posts about hosting services, I enjoy seeing them :)

what about scrypt-based coins, primecoin?

Few questions regarding the list:

1) Can we list our own hosting? Ie. those that we run ourselves?
2) Are only those that accept Bitcoin allowed, or any?
3) Are affiliate links allowed with our review/posting as well?

I like Bluehost.

The main post answers all these questions

Please provide reason to why you like it

Bumping

Ooo, this is a good thread, I had a shitty experience with Synwebhost and now I know better to do careful research, be sure to avoid them guys, there clearly seem to be some webhosts out there who will be nice to you for the first couple of months or so and then once they have their money or the moneyback guarantee runs out they turn into complete bastards.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=151104.0

+1 for CrownCloud (VPS). I have been a few days with them and have had no problems so far. Their prices are very good as well.

Main post is updated with most recent remarks :)

Negative review of synweb is FAKE 

our competitors try to bash us, but we are still no #1 in offshore web hosting industry

we have thousands of happy clients  :D

Just a heads-up: exoware.net actually links to crowncloud in the OP, might want to change that ;)

web hosting company (codingagency.com ) owner started thread to bashing for multiple competitors...
this all reviews are fake and posted by Fake IDs. still no proof lol

All of the reviews are made by real respectable individuals. No fake accounts.  Look at each member's post history. Also for those of you that don't know sampathneo owns Synwebhost which recently received multiple negative review. The links to that are:

 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=39251.msg3093194#msg3093194

And

 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=151104.0

also on a side note since you mentioned my hosting services id  like to point out that nowhere in this thread do I ever mention or promote my services.

And lastly the reviews cannot be fake because each review is from a real member of bitcointalk. Check the links, check the accounts.  They all have recent activity regarding their own interests around the forums. This thread is unbiased on my end. I am just updating it from the posts I receive, nothing more.

Bashing....  :D

it was your script issue (bitshop /admin.php file). I had to fixed it for confirm it. but we do not provide support for website code issues as our terms.

johnnyfla123, you own a web hosting company, so you do not have right to run this type of thread to bashing your
competitors like us. its not fair.

And again ill just quote the post I said above. Also please stop flaming this thread. Just because your customers are unhappy don't complain about it do something about it. Get positive reviews and your thread can be the most recommended one. Fix the flaws in your operation to make positive reviews come in about it.

that thread started, March 09, 2013, 12:10:41 PM by Lethn, its old thread. and you just started bashing using this thread by linking old thread. ???

The information collected there was provided by Lethn. here is the link to that post it was dated september 6.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=39251.msg3093194#msg3093194

Also that post was updated with more recent reviews it seems so i included them.

I know, he is still our client, but not other members, they do not contact support / provide any details / request refunds.

Indeed this thread is clearly a conflict of interests.

One company running a thread about themselves and other companies ... and down promoting one of those other companies ...

Doesn't matter if you are right or wrong, in a market where you compete for income, it's quite simply a conflict of interests.

Uh, I don't think his company is even listed there.

... in his sig...

I mean in the thread. What is the problem of having it in the sig? Other providers posting here do as well. He isn't using this thread to his advantage in any way. His service is not listed in the OP or given any reputation or such.

Its impossible for me to promote my webhost because the way i have this thread setup is that this thread is a member ran thread. The only thing i am doing is putting the information posted here in this thread in the main post with a direct link to the member that said such statement. So that the people can use it as a reference when buying my hosting. I  also took the time to pm all hosting providers i know on bitcointalk to tell them about this thread and to get other bitcoin members to add reputation to it to help members choose a decent host.

Now i would understand if i had my webhost listed on this thread which i don't. I have my signature but my signature is my personal space that i use across the whole forum.

Just what I meant.

he started this thread for bashing multiple web hosting companies...(competitors )

as a web hosting company owner he wants to bashing for competitors, got it ?

Not really. I'm not bashing anyone. Other members are. Also I didn't create this thread. Molecular did

Also sampathneo is mad because he had bad reviews from multiple members i contacted the guy that posted the feedback to his server because of sampath's whining and i was looking for a way to resolve the issue. this was my response from Lethn:



I cannot add it as another bad review because Lethn already submitted a negative review here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=39251.msg3093194#msg3093194 and also this was sent in a pm and was not publicly posted by Lethn. All reviews and evaluations must be public to be added to this post as a negative review

OK here's another (VERY WELL KNOWN) VPS supplier you can bag also :)

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=295692.0
(Kalyhost)

johnnyfla123 is find our reviews and post them here, he still need to bashing to our company. please stop it

don't lie. your the thread owner. you created it

I created this thread. Ownership was transferred to johnnyfla123 by theymos upon my request.

People in this thread agreed it was ok if johnnyfla123 manages this thread as long as he doesn't exploit his power unfairly.

As far as I can tell johnnyfla123 doesn't misuse his power.

Yes, I agree it's not ideal, but he's clearly doing a good job. As long as there are no other volunteers who are free from such conflict of interest... I suggest to keep things as they are.

Expect some sock-puppets to volunteer now ;)

Yes, I might look for a replacement. just have to find a reputable member now : P

good idea, but you should reset site list too

Actually that first post does seem to be rather bias ...

It ignores my report of Kalyhost in this thread and if you search the forum it seems that my report is not the only one with regard to Kalyhost ...

Seems like these 2 guys are against the thread owner. In this thread's defense, if the owner is changed, don't let the website list be reset. It would hurt hosting services with good reviews and bump back up those with bad reviews.

You didn't review Kalyhost, you just said he could "bag it." Didn't say anything either good or bad about it.

i gave a forum link - clearly too difficult to understand to click on it?

I believe you have to post it here. As for me, I'm out of here, this is more like a trolling than anything else, especially by samp- whatever his name is.

Yet the 2nd link on Synwebhost is not to here ...