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SWVPS Hosting Review

When looking for a reliable vps hosting solution, never just look at the bandwidth allocation and space that you can make use of because if the host doesn’t have the hardware that you need to handle your site, your website performance will dramatically decrease once you experience heavy traffic loads. Oftentimes dedicated hosting solutions handle the problem since all the resources in the server are directed towards a single website allowing webmasters to fully manage their website with root access and all. However, they are quite expensive and that is why Virtual Private Server hosting or VPS is becoming more used by people that want control of their site in a shared hosting environment to save costs. SWVPS is one of the solutions that offer such services.

About SWVPS Hosting

SWVPS is an US hosting company that offers one of the cheapest vps plans with servers located in both US and UK. It supports both Linux and Windows VPS and offers four general plans to choose from. The first plan is a special hosting offer which costs .95 a month and comes with basic specifications plus the root access. The LVPS-1 plan offers additional disk space, RAM, and bandwidth without significantly increasing the cost. The most expensive plan at 5 per month includes a server with a quad core processor and fairly high specs to power any large website with flexible operating system choices.

Pros

The attractive specifications alone make SWVPS a rather nice hosting solution to choose at first. Each plan is highly detailed and the flexibility comes on with a variety of 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems supported ranging from CentOS to Fedora Core, Debian, Ubuntu, and Gentoo. Additionally, operating systems are supported in 2003 and 2008 flavors. The software included with both Fantistico Deluxe and Plesk an option also add to SWVPS’s attractiveness.

Cons

The potential of SWVPS is quickly brought down with rather poor uptime and mediocre technical support. Recent customer reviews indicate that SWVPS often goes into monthly maintenance periods in bad time periods such as one instance where the site went offline for maintenance on a Friday morning. Even though the support does address these issues, downtimes can be pretty long - up to 45 min - when rebooting or installation of new software is in progress.

Customer support differs depending on the situation where the live support is taken offline during crucial moments of the downtime. What they manage to do is explain the nature of their downtimes, but suddenly afterwards, disappear for a few weeks leaving the customers clueless on when the problem will be solved.

In general, the price and features of SWVPS are good, but good hardware features turn useless unless they are being used to their maximum. There is no point in having a fast running site that will often go offline unexpectedly. This may improve in the future if new software and hardware are actively installed, so you can come back to it once more positive reviews show up.

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