A few words about hosting again, this time about JaguarPC
During last two years I have been jumping from one hosting company to another and actually I've got pretty tired of that. Through all this time my own personal development in the field of internet money making was actively progressing especially during last half a year, resulting in a very comfortable state, when the sites I am dealing with are finally able to pay for themselves, so I have decided that these sites can afford themselves something better.
Cyber Ultra Network was the best hosting so far and still is, their price/performance level was superb, so I am still recommending them to everybody who is searching for a good shared inexpensive hosting... It has a lot of features and still not expensive (3.95$/month)
As I needed more control and also perfect uptime (say, 99.99% a year), the idea of some good VPS hosting was always flying above me, so during last three months I was actively researching this area of internet.
That wasn't an easy task - the market is full of VPS hosting providers!
Another thing is that I had no idea what kind of difficulties I could ran into after I would transfer my sites to VPS, but man, sooner or later it had to happen! So after a lot of research there was a winner
And the winner was the JaguarPC Hosting Company and their VPS discovery plan.
They are affordable, they had mostly good recommendations and what I liked the most, they have their own helping community! This is the only web hosting company I have seen, that has this feature.
The last drop for me was the promotion they had for the last week of august, which I almost missed, there was only two days left but yes, that has really made the final drop.
Originally for the price 19.97$ per month you get fully managed service, 10Gb of space on hard drive, 150Gb bandwidth, 128Mb RAM and 100% uptime guarantee.
The promotional package was a "little" better: 192Mb RAM, 20 Gb HDD and two free months. Impressive? I thought so too, so I decided to try and if something goes wrong they have 30 days moneyback guarantee.
First two weeks I was playing a bit here and there, trying the shiny new VPS, exploring plesk panel and checking whether I could do at least the same I could do in my shared hosting account.
The overall impression is like you own your own server somewhere there on the other side of the world (I live in Europe). You can do whatever you like and nobody on the same physical server hosted together with your account can influence you either by memory, bandwidth or even processor. The response time comparing with shared hosting is superb. Database speed is unbelievable. I am hosting a number of Drupal sites including this one and I can say they are flying now!
By default JaguarPC gives you 3 dedicated IPS, and you can do anything with them! Typically one IP is for hosting and the other two are for your own private name servers. That was something new for me. With the private name servers you can do any DNS operations including setting all DNS records (A, MX, etc) and even changing their life time, very useful when you plan some big change!
That is the power, I personally think that I can not live without anymore!..
I have moved all my sites to this VPS hosting and so far the functionality, quality and also support team were very good. If I exclude the downtime caused by my own lack of DNS knowledge the sites have had 100% uptime.
If you liked this VPS review and want to try yourself in "god mode" :) My recommendations!. You'll definitely like it!
Updated. They have a promotion again! It is even better than the package I currently have. It includes: 25 GB diskspace, 300 MB bandwidth, double guaranteed RAM (256 MB) for -10% of price ($17.97 /month), (I am talking about beginner's package, there are more). The promotion expires pretty soon, so try it now, especially if you're new to VPS! (Use JaguarPC coupon code "VPS10YRS")
Please feel free to ask questions, as the person who has learned something a month ago will answer them more enthusiastically than the one that had been using VPS for years! :)