Introducing ServerPoint.com to LES!
A Quick Introduction...
Hello everyone! So, we've been reading posts on this forum for some months now. I know that as a new provider, we need to do at least 5 posts before we can post any offers, but we honestly don't want these posts to be silly posts just to reach 5...
But for a first post, we'd like to introduce ourselves.
The Basics
We've been around for more than two decades now; we started offering web hosting but over time transitioned more towards serving the needs of clients offering more technical and custom setups. In fact, that has been the majority of our revenue for many years: large clients that need hardware and software setups that other companies do not normally provide.
This has given us a lot of technical expertise over the years on building large infrastructures.
Our Platform: ColossusCloud
Many years ago, after the constant frustrations from platforms such as Virtuozzo and OnApp, we decided to just design our own, since we have expertise in hardware, network and software development.
Thus, ColossusCloud was born, and over the many years, we've hosted tens of thousands of clients using our virtual server infrastructure.
Low Prices
We will be posting some great deals here at LowEndSpirit in the near future, much lower than our published prices.
But to be honest: we won't be the cheapest, but the prices will be quite good for the quality of service.
Sorry, there will be no $7/year offers.
Our Six Data Centers
- Las Vegas, Nevada: Our main facility, hosted by Flexential, with network provided by Cogent and Zayo
- Ashburn, Virginia: Hosted at RagingWire (now NTT), with network provided by Cogent and NTT
- Amsterdam, Netherlands: Hosted at Interxion (now Digital Realty), with network provided by NTT and Cogent
- Singapore: Hosted at Equinix, with network provided by Telstra, PCCW and public peering via SGIX
- Santa Clara, California: Hosted at Equinix, with network provided by Zayo and Cogent
- Dallas, Texas: Hosted at Equinix's Infomart facility, with network provided by Cogent and HE
Download tests
- Santa Clara, California: 500MB test file
- Las Vegas, Nevada: 500MB test file
- Dallas, Texas: 500MB test file
- Ashburn, Virginia: 500MB test file
- Amsterdam, Netherlands: 500MB test file
- Singapore: 500MB test file
Ping tests
- Santa Clara, California: 216.108.231.98
- Las Vegas, Nevada: 216.108.236.117
- Dallas, Texas: 64.235.35.28
- Ashburn, Virginia: 216.108.230.112
- Amsterdam, Netherlands: 64.235.37.123
- Singapore: 64.235.43.60
Production quality service
We offer a quality virtualization platform at great prices.
Our virtual servers are production quality, where stability and performance are a necessity. Your server will be hosted by a company that is here for the long term.
- Free DDoS Protection: Powered by Path.net
- Six Data Centers: Silicon Valley, Las Vegas, Dallas, Ashburn, Amsterdam, and Singapore
- Servers by: Supermicro and Dell PowerEdge
- CPUs by: Intel E5v4 and Intel Xeon Gold
- BGP Multihoming: At all of our locations
- Network Infrastructure: Dual routers and core switches at each location
- Experience: We have operated our own ASN (26277) for over two decades
- Internet Providers: Zayo, Lumen, Cogent, NTT, Telstra, PCCW, and HE
- Data Centers by: Equinix, Flexential, Ragingwire (NTT), and Digital Realty
- Ownership: We own all of it - network, servers, routers, and manage our own support team
- Disk infrastructure: Disk infrastructure: Powered by Ceph, a distributed data cluster with non-mechanical disks
A Reliable Infrastructure
All our hypervisors have dual fiber network connections to individual switches, so that if any switch fails (or we have to reboot one of them), your virtual servers will not lose connectivity.
All these switches are connected to our core routers, each with their own Internet connection from different providers, so that, again, if a router or network provider fails, your virtual servers will remain connected to the Internet.
And, thanks to Ceph, we can easily live migrate your virtual server to another hypervisor when we need to do server upgrades, or a cold migration in the rare case of a hypervisor failing. And if any disk or Ceph node fails, your server's disk I/O will continue operating as if nothing ever happened.
We'd love your questions!
Please, ask us anything below! We'll reply as soon as possible.
Comments
Hi. Don’t send us a link. Please answer direct.
Do you snoop and ban to take advantage of customers?
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Waiting $6/year dealz.
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I'm honestly not sure I know what that means... take advantage of customers in what way?
$7 debian, thx
Recommended. I have 3 vms in Dallas for 3 month. No issue at all.
Internal Monitoring every 20 second. few outages are on my fault.
I don't think they snoop and ban.
CharityHost has been exposed looking at private files and banning customers. Do you do this? That simple.
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hmm I'll have to go read on that gossip!
But the answer is, we don't.
We give you X amount of storage in your VM and that's yours to use as you please. We have plenty of storage capacity.
Our virtual servers are KVM based with RBD disks on Ceph. Our staff can't access them. For us to access them, we'd need a system admin to copy the customer's entire disk, then manually mount the copied disk onto another Linux/Windows system and then go through the files.
Honestly, we don't have the time for that. We are too busy.
But if you upload files for public access by the Internet and we get some kind of legal complaint or subpoena from law enforcement, then we have to act on that.
Thank you. Another honest host. We appreciate your business
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welcome to LES!
I bench YABS 24/7/365 unless it's a leap year.
Welcome to LES
Welcome to LES
The link: https://lowendspirit.com/discussion/9480/us-kvm-ipv4-vps-2-mo-with-recurring-50-off-all-orders-free-ftp250g-storage-account/
Wait, you are telling us it is not normal for a host to look at files in "public_html" folder of a customer? @CharityHost_org says it's fine, since it's "public_html". Are you sure it is not? And mind you, it was not a shared hosting, but a VPS. So you are a proper host that does not breach the "trust" between customer and host?
On a side note, welcome to LES. Hope you get your provider tag soon. We clearly need "honest" hosts here!
Never make the same mistake twice. There are so many new ones to make.
It’s OK if you disagree with me. I can’t force you to be right.
welcome and good luck!
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I'd say it's certainly not normal.
Our platform is our own custom design and we take security very seriously. Only 2 people here at ServerPoint have root access to servers; the rest of us don't, thus, we can't go around browsing through files.
And those 2 people are non stop busy. We have so much work and projects going on that there isn't much free time around.
We are right now testing network cards with smart DPUs (Mellanox BlueField), implementing IPv6 in Dallas, TX for testing, testing HVs with AMD EPYCs for power efficiency, planning a major renovation of our Las Vegas data center, currently preparing servers to ship to Amsterdam, testing SONiC NOS in bare metal switches, etc, etc. It's non stop crazy here at ServerPoint
There's no time to sit down and just browse around files... plus, it's not something that we do.
We've been at this since 1998 as A+ Hosting, and since 2001 under the ServerPoint.com brand. A+ Hosting was causing confusion with aplus.net (and their bad reputation at the time), and thus, we adopted the brand we use now.
Thank you for welcoming us!
Not yet; routed IPv6 is something that we are now starting to test and will implement at all of our locations this year.
Looks nice, looking forward to the deals and giving it a shot.
Personally, currently I buy VM's primarily for the CPU and bandwidth(20TB+ ideally), 1 or 2GB of ram is fine.
We have some plans with bandwidth allocations of 20TB+.
Which CPUs do you normally seek? We do 2.1/2.4Ghz E5v4s as well as 3.4Ghz Xeon Golds in our high frequency packages.
We also plan on introducing virtual server packages with dedicated CPUs...
High freq, preferably. Unless you allow ~90% cpu usage on E5's or could offer 2 cores.
I'm looking for more vps to host I2P routers, currently have ~30 VPS with different providers for it, and a dedi, pushing 2 Gbps.
One router usually is in ~30Mbps range.
That's an interesting project! We'll check it out.
We don't let continuous 90% cpu usage on shared plans, but we certainly will on dedicated CPU plans.
Let me see if we can create a dedicated CPU offer that matches such needs... how many CPUs do you usually need in those VMs?
Knowing such needs is good feedback for us
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