Trustworthy Server Host

[mrman198]

I have been hosting my server from my personal PC for a year now. It's worked great, but I figured it's time to move on. I was looking at server hosts and I saw "akliz" on the Technic home page. I went to look at it, and it looks great. But sometimes the ad or the website doesn't always tell the whole story. Does anyone know if this is trustworthy? If it isn't, then can you recommend another good Tekkit Server Host that comes with MySQL, custom IP, and all those good things?

[Djinnii]

I can't speak for Akliz, usually if a host is advertised anywhere its because they paid for it, not because the site owners actually recommend them.

I would on the other hand highly recommend a VPS service like the one CreeperHost offers, otherwise you will find yourself missing a good deal of the control you have gotten used to. I personally use CreeperHost and have done so for about 3-4months now, to the extent I now actually have two VPS's from them to host both my Tekkit server and Feed the Beast server. They have amazing staff and actually take the time to communicate with the customer. At the moment they are currently looking at running an IRC server specifically to streamline real-time communication.

The control panel can install a MySQL server on your VPS for a small one off fee, or you can freely install it yourself. They put no limitations on what you can or cannot have on your VPS.

I currently have 1 of my VPS's running Tekkit, my website and my MySQL server.

Some pro's:

Great Staff,

Great Service,

No Lagg,

Good choice of server locations,

Great Control Panel,

Good range of options to control your server, (You can connect via FTP, SFTP, SCP, SSH and HTTPS),

Useful applications to download so you can see and use your server console on your home PC like you can normally when hosting it at home.

Useful API you can use to dynamically update your website, or even create your own Control Panel.

Great Backup/Restore service from the control panel, It even allows you to perform Remote Backups to one of their secured off-site servers in case of "catastrophic failure"

They are constantly upgrading their control panel and hardware to get better performance.

They actually listen to their customers. (I have asked for 3 "new" features, all of which were added to their system within 12hours of the suggestion at no cost.)

Some con's:

Each VPS is initially limited to 30GB local storage (although you can usually negotiate for more)

[mrman198]

I can't speak for Akliz, usually if a host is advertised anywhere its because they paid for it, not because the site owners actually recommend them.

I would on the other hand highly recommend a VPS service like the one CreeperHost offers, otherwise you will find yourself missing a good deal of the control you have gotten used to. I personally use CreeperHost and have done so for about 3-4months now, to the extent I now actually have two VPS's from them to host both my Tekkit server and Feed the Beast server. They have amazing staff and actually take the time to communicate with the customer. At the moment they are currently looking at running an IRC server specifically to streamline real-time communication.

The control panel can install a MySQL server on your VPS for a small one off fee, or you can freely install it yourself. They put no limitations on what you can or cannot have on your VPS.

I currently have 1 of my VPS's running Tekkit, my website and my MySQL server.

Some pro's:

Great Staff,

Great Service,

No Lagg,

Good choice of server locations,

Great Control Panel,

Good range of options to control your server, (You can connect via FTP, SFTP, SCP, SSH and HTTPS),

Useful applications to download so you can see and use your server console on your home PC like you can normally when hosting it at home.

Useful API you can use to dynamically update your website, or even create your own Control Panel.

Great Backup/Restore service from the control panel, It even allows you to perform Remote Backups to one of their secured off-site servers in case of "catastrophic failure"

They are constantly upgrading their control panel and hardware to get better performance.

They actually listen to their customers. (I have asked for 3 "new" features, all of which were added to their system within 12hours of the suggestion at no cost.)

Some con's:

Each VPS is initially limited to 30GB local storage (although you can usually negotiate for more)

Thank you for the great information. I am highly considering this one because of its great price range. Akliz is still a possibility but I'll have to see what happens. The one thing I do not like with Akliz is how you have to give away your phone number, and address. That is why I made this post, to see if it was trustworthy, because I don't want to be recieving garbage phone calls, and people coming to my door. :P

[mrman198]

I can't speak for Akliz, usually if a host is advertised anywhere its because they paid for it, not because the site owners actually recommend them.

I would on the other hand highly recommend a VPS service like the one CreeperHost offers, otherwise you will find yourself missing a good deal of the control you have gotten used to. I personally use CreeperHost and have done so for about 3-4months now, to the extent I now actually have two VPS's from them to host both my Tekkit server and Feed the Beast server. They have amazing staff and actually take the time to communicate with the customer. At the moment they are currently looking at running an IRC server specifically to streamline real-time communication.

The control panel can install a MySQL server on your VPS for a small one off fee, or you can freely install it yourself. They put no limitations on what you can or cannot have on your VPS.

I currently have 1 of my VPS's running Tekkit, my website and my MySQL server.

Some pro's:

Great Staff,

Great Service,

No Lagg,

Good choice of server locations,

Great Control Panel,

Good range of options to control your server, (You can connect via FTP, SFTP, SCP, SSH and HTTPS),

Useful applications to download so you can see and use your server console on your home PC like you can normally when hosting it at home.

Useful API you can use to dynamically update your website, or even create your own Control Panel.

Great Backup/Restore service from the control panel, It even allows you to perform Remote Backups to one of their secured off-site servers in case of "catastrophic failure"

They are constantly upgrading their control panel and hardware to get better performance.

They actually listen to their customers. (I have asked for 3 "new" features, all of which were added to their system within 12hours of the suggestion at no cost.)

Some con's:

Each VPS is initially limited to 30GB local storage (although you can usually negotiate for more)

It looks like I went with your idea. I'm loving it!

[Djinnii]

It looks like I went with your idea. I'm loving it!

Great!

Don't forget to take advantage of the creeperhost community forums.

[Deimos161]

CreeperHost

I like how you used your affiliate link. How much did you get?

[Djinnii]

I like how you used your affiliate link. How much did you get?

£0.35 off my next bill. But really that's just a bonus, the more customers I send their way the more money they have, the more likely/sooner they are to upgrade their hardware.