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SimpleDesk! => Site Comments => Topic started by: Afro on March 15, 2010, 04:00:45 PM

Title: Who hosts this site ?
Post by: Afro on March 15, 2010, 04:00:45 PM
This site is running very smooth.
The severs are pretty Cool and fast.

So is it possible to know the hosts ?
Title: Re: Who hosts this site ?
Post by: Gruffen on March 15, 2010, 04:04:57 PM
SolarVPS ultimately I believe.
Title: Re: Who hosts this site ?
Post by: Afro on March 15, 2010, 04:15:08 PM
Thanks.
I have checked on the solarvps.
Some good packages but a little higher than what i get from Inmotion.
25GB Disk Space @43USD is not fair.
Inmotion gives 40GB at that price.
Title: Re: Who hosts this site ?
Post by: Gruffen on March 15, 2010, 04:22:25 PM
Do you really need that extra 15GB first of all?

Secondly, and this is the key thing from my experience... what's their support like?

I personally use a Linode for my stuff (I didn't set this forum up), though I think here's a managed VPS, I pay somewhere in the middle but again the support is excellent.
Title: Re: Who hosts this site ?
Post by: Afro on March 15, 2010, 04:32:35 PM
My forum is kind of beginning to get 300 to 400 posts daily.
I think i will need the spaces some day.
I also plan to add some more heavy mods like this SD.
I am already running Arcade and Media mods.
I was with some vpsland.com whose CS is the poorest i have seen.
Plus i hate plesk which is the only thing they offered.
My new host offers good CS and Fast too..
Title: Re: Who hosts this site ?
Post by: Douglas on March 16, 2010, 12:49:58 AM
While this site may be powered by a SolarVPS system, it's not hosted directly by SolarVPS.

VPSLand is a joke.  I should write up a blog entry about oversold VPS hosts one of these days.  Can't tell you the number of customers that Solar's gotten from VPSLand... but I can tell you that a sybstabtual majority of them are still with Solar a year (or longer) after switching.  :)
Title: Re: Who hosts this site ?
Post by: Gruffen on March 16, 2010, 05:07:19 AM
Hey Douglas, nice to see you around here!

I'm not familiar with the exact hosting details here, but AFAIK it's a Solar box it's running on, whether it's resold through someone else or not, but I tend not to get into the things like that...
Title: Re: Who hosts this site ?
Post by: Trekkie101 on March 16, 2010, 07:56:28 AM
It's a Solar box alright :)

Paying the extra a month is worth it for ticket response times with Solar, always within 10 minutes.
Title: Re: Who hosts this site ?
Post by: Douglas on March 16, 2010, 02:08:03 PM
Thanks, gents.  Arantor's right... the site isn't hosted directly by us, though it is through one of our customers.  And yes, this is a customer that I am rather fond of working with (I've worked with him for almost three years and love giving that bugger grief, hahaha).

I don't want to identify who it is, HOWEVER, if you do a DNS lookup on the IP that this site is hosted under, you'll see who it's hosted with.
Title: Re: Who hosts this site ?
Post by: Afro on March 17, 2010, 11:08:26 AM
Quote from: Douglas on March 16, 2010, 02:08:03 PM
Thanks, gents.  Arantor's right... the site isn't hosted directly by us, though it is through one of our customers.  And yes, this is a customer that I am rather fond of working with (I've worked with him for almost three years and love giving that bugger grief, hahaha).

I don't want to identify who it is, HOWEVER, if you do a DNS lookup on the IP that this site is hosted under, you'll see who it's hosted with.

Who is the customer Doug, Any link to reach him/her ?
Title: Re: Who hosts this site ?
Post by: Douglas on March 17, 2010, 01:04:12 PM
I can't reveal customer contact information.  I gave a hint on how to find it, though.  :)

Solar's got one of *the* strongest customer privacy policies around for any hosting company... almost as tightly controlled as Swiss banks and their customer information.  :D
Title: Re: Who hosts this site ?
Post by: Trekkie101 on March 17, 2010, 10:09:22 PM
Boo its on my SolarVPS :P