I've been looking at cheap VPSes over the last few months, as I don't really want to spent $20/mo on Linode anymore for a static site and VPN. I've tried a number of different providers, and they've all had issues.
Things I've experienced:
- being rebooted without notice
- poor performance (IO and / or CPU)
- provider being DDOSed
- provider moving to a new DC and telling people not to give out IPs (???) due to being DDOSed
- hosts running old virtualisation software which doesn't support recent versions of Linux, so I'm can't use an OS newer than Ubuntu 10.04
- provider being banned by PayPal then suspending my account being I couldn't pay then
- provider going out of business
I liken it to poor quality manufactured goods. Take the Android tablets you can get for less than $100. If you can afford it, you would never buy one just to save money, because it is much less hassle to spent another $100 and get something that works well.
It just isn't worth it, especially not for a business. I would love to see someone who can make a proper fault tolerant system that works on these type of machines though :)
Things I've experienced:
- being rebooted without notice
- poor performance (IO and / or CPU)
- provider being DDOSed
- provider moving to a new DC and telling people not to give out IPs (???) due to being DDOSed
- hosts running old virtualisation software which doesn't support recent versions of Linux, so I'm can't use an OS newer than Ubuntu 10.04
- provider being banned by PayPal then suspending my account being I couldn't pay then
- provider going out of business
I liken it to poor quality manufactured goods. Take the Android tablets you can get for less than $100. If you can afford it, you would never buy one just to save money, because it is much less hassle to spent another $100 and get something that works well.
It just isn't worth it, especially not for a business. I would love to see someone who can make a proper fault tolerant system that works on these type of machines though :)