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The performance/price is good but the server is not reliable at all. Pingdom tracks many 1-minute downtime during the week. I think they have problems in the ne

by sondh 13y ago

The performance/price is good but the server is not reliable at all. Pingdom tracks many 1-minute downtime during the week. I think they have problems in the network, maybe because of the growth? Their support is very good though, I once got $50 credit because the machine/cluster that hosts my VPS was broken...

Afforess 13y ago
I've also had the pingdom monitoring on a droplet for the last 2 months and the only downtime I've been alerted to was my fault. Maybe it's on your end?
- sondh 13y ago
  I used the LAMP stack (in beta) with a low traffic site running PHP5 + MySQL5. Nothing too fancy.
  - Afforess 13y ago
    I'm using a 1gb droplet, ubuntu 12.10 with a LEMP stack, PHP5 and MySQL 5 for a low traffic site (Xenforo-based forum) as well. Maybe the difference is nginx vs Apache? edit: I also added an additional 1gb as swap space, which helped prevent my mysql instance from falling over with low memory at times.
  - jacques_chester 13y ago
    Apache defaults to using prefork on Linux. Prefork is pretty much Apache-speak for "please munch all my memory and then lock up if more than a handful of people turn up at once". Nginx or Lighttpd + PHP-FPM behave almost as badly if you choose dynamic mode and don't pick the right values.
xur17 13y ago
I have had 0 downtime so far (2 months), and I've been monitoring with Pingdom with 1 second granularity. Which data center are you in?
- sondh 13y ago
  Mine is in New York. Pingdom is configured to 1 minute resolution and I had 54 minutes of downtime in the last 30 days. Maybe I need to take a snapshot and spin up another instance. Thanks for your reference point.
  - xur17 13y ago
    No problem. I've been quite happy with them so far. I was using BuyVM for my side projects, but was getting annoyed with dealing with constant downtime, and other issues. I was starting to consider Linode, but ended up going with DigitalOcean due to the price. I really hope they can keep up the reliability that I've been experiencing.

by sondh 13y ago

Afforess 13y ago

I've also had the pingdom monitoring on a droplet for the last 2 months and the only downtime I've been alerted to was my fault. Maybe it's on your end?

sondh 13y ago
I used the LAMP stack (in beta) with a low traffic site running PHP5 + MySQL5. Nothing too fancy.
- Afforess 13y ago
  I'm using a 1gb droplet, ubuntu 12.10 with a LEMP stack, PHP5 and MySQL 5 for a low traffic site (Xenforo-based forum) as well. Maybe the difference is nginx vs Apache? edit: I also added an additional 1gb as swap space, which helped prevent my mysql instance from falling over with low memory at times.
- jacques_chester 13y ago
  Apache defaults to using prefork on Linux. Prefork is pretty much Apache-speak for "please munch all my memory and then lock up if more than a handful of people turn up at once". Nginx or Lighttpd + PHP-FPM behave almost as badly if you choose dynamic mode and don't pick the right values.

xur17 13y ago

I have had 0 downtime so far (2 months), and I've been monitoring with Pingdom with 1 second granularity. Which data center are you in?

sondh 13y ago
Mine is in New York. Pingdom is configured to 1 minute resolution and I had 54 minutes of downtime in the last 30 days. Maybe I need to take a snapshot and spin up another instance. Thanks for your reference point.
- xur17 13y ago
  No problem. I've been quite happy with them so far. I was using BuyVM for my side projects, but was getting annoyed with dealing with constant downtime, and other issues. I was starting to consider Linode, but ended up going with DigitalOcean due to the price. I really hope they can keep up the reliability that I've been experiencing.