What is a make-or-break feature you require of your Dedi Provider?

TMS - JoseQ · Apr 4, 2017

Greetings,

We just recently completed our migration into a brand new Datacenter and we are looking to shift focus into expanding our services.

I am curious what are the top three make-or-break features your provider must offer. I'm not really looking for 'stable network' or 'good hardware' but add-on services that you look for that will make you look elsewhere if X or Y provider doesn't offer.

Can you list your top three things you look for in a provider?

Thanks!

JoseQ

Kaz Wolfe · Apr 5, 2017

TMS - JoseQ said:
Can you list your top three things you look for in a provider?

It is quite different if you are asking for providers that offering shared, reseller, VPS, cloud or dedicated server only.

If your question is for VPS providers, I would consider top 3 things when looking for a VPS plan

RAM
CPU
Support

TMS - JoseQ · Apr 5, 2017

Well, it is the Dedicated Server forum, so that is what I was asking about... =)

VirtuBox · Apr 7, 2017

At first the storage. Hardware RAID with 3 or 4 disks.
IPMI or KVM/IP to be able to install the server from an iso
Affordable external backup storage with nfs support

TMS - JoseQ · Apr 7, 2017

Interesting. Thank you for the feedback VirtuBox.

SenseiSteve · Apr 10, 2017

One extremely important thing that I find everyone asks about is DDoS protection. In today's world, it seems you can't survive without it.

SolaDrive · Apr 19, 2017

Apart from hardware, I'd say support and network. If you can't have a solid network, there is nothing good hardware is going to do to help. DDOS protection is a good thing to have, but we have found that 95% of our customers don't need it. And if they do, we offer it as an addon service. People who feel they do, we have them use CloudFlare that protects them from such attacks.

Sonwebhost · Apr 24, 2017

When it comes to dedicated servers, most important always on, then ips easy to get, billing that is fixed hope this helps

radwebhosting · May 3, 2017

Customizable Hardware and Software. Many providers offer prepared configurations, which, quite frankly, don't work for many applications. They may serve well for a specific use case, but the scope is limited.

Dedicated providers with available hardware and willingness to build custom solutions are ideal for companies handling a variety of hosting requirements.

radwebhosting · May 3, 2017

Overall, the ability to configure processor(s), memory, and hard drives are the most critical in terms of hardware. We use the Limestone Networks data center in Dallas for colocation of our owned hardware, but also for purchasing leased servers when there is unexpected requirements, such as to fulfill unique client requirements or to scale out our virtualization clusters on the fly.

This has played a huge factor in our decision to do business with this company and their platform is perfect for our requirements.

TMS - JoseQ · May 4, 2017

Thanks for the info. I assumed just about every provider out there allowed CPU,RAM & Storage these days.

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