Comments on: Server Pronto Sucks? Not your ordinary ServerPronto review https://www.hostingsthatsuck.com/serverpronto-sucks/ Searching for Web Hosts that Suck the Least Thu, 18 Apr 2013 21:43:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=365 By: JBAlaska https://www.hostingsthatsuck.com/serverpronto-sucks/comment-page-1/#comment-4855 JBAlaska Sat, 07 May 2011 01:28:14 +0000 https://www.hostingsthatsuck.com/?p=597#comment-4855 I have a dedicated server with serverpronto. I had some initial problems getting the advertised 100Mbit speed (They limit you to 10Mbit on creation of the server, and you have to put in a ticket to be upgraded to 100/100Mbit) Initially the speed did not come up, but they are prompt on trouble tickets and after 3 e-mail exchanges with there tech support I got the advertised 100Mbit full duplex.

Note1: These are unmanaged servers, If you are not familiar with Linux and or dedicated servers, you might go with a different company that provides managed boxes. I however use Linux 100% at home and work and had no trouble configuring my server, including installing Gnome desktop environment.

Note2: The automated billing system did try to charge my card every day, I put in a trouble ticket, and they cured this for me in 4 hours. Also, I would recommend using a re-loadable debit card to avoid any over-billing issues.

Other than the above, my server is at 100% uptime and I can achieve 11.5MB/s, 24/7′s to eu or us.

The server is very stable and for $41.25 a month and 5TB b/w I believe they are the best bargain on the market today.

So if you know Linux, remote server administration and want true 100Mbit @ 5TB b/w a month, see my notes above and you should have no problems with them.

Also, I installed a full GUI, if you do that, your on your own to know how to configure and manage your server, as their tech support is not very Linux savvy when you add a full desktop environment. So basically if you have little experience with Linux and try to create a remote GUI box, expect a somewhat steep learning curve and doing a bit of googleing, or you may brick the box and have to pay $69.95 to have them re-image your OS to default.

I got the starter package and the processor speed and memory allocation is very good for the specs offered with that package.

Overall I’m very happy with a server that I would have, and have in the past, paid over $100.00 a month with other server providers.

Just make sure you harden your server against hacking (Google-Non default Open-SSH and VNC ports, SSH2 tunnel your VNC (remote desktop) connections, use SFTP (SSH) file transfers and enable iptables (firewall). Also change your root password and you will have a very secure server.

Note: I am in noway affiliated with infolink or serverpronto, just a satisfied customer!

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By: Constantin-Alexandru Tabacu https://www.hostingsthatsuck.com/serverpronto-sucks/comment-page-1/#comment-3445 Constantin-Alexandru Tabacu Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:43:39 +0000 https://www.hostingsthatsuck.com/?p=597#comment-3445 I have an account with them since 2004 and I’m quite pleased. I have the cheap 33$/month system.
Their customer support is very fast at any time of the day and quite helpful. I receive replies from them within 5-10 minutes using the web forms.
The server uptime and the speed are excellent.
I never had any problems with them during so many years, and having a cheap server my expectations are not high anyway, so they deliver more than I expected.
I didn’t find any other provider to offer the cheap reliable servers that they do.

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By: Aleksa Todorovic https://www.hostingsthatsuck.com/serverpronto-sucks/comment-page-1/#comment-3352 Aleksa Todorovic Wed, 03 Mar 2010 07:42:34 +0000 https://www.hostingsthatsuck.com/?p=597#comment-3352 ServerPronto is worst out there! They don’t have proper Customer Support, they bill you after they close your account. They are hard to communicate to. Their servers are slow. I’ve been using it for 6 months, and now, 6 months later, I still have to fight with them! They SUCK!!!!!

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