At first, it was true love.
The storage screamed, CPUs leapt to process your commands, and the network made you feel like you were in the datacenter. You raved to your friends. You recommended…sometimes without an affiliate code even!
But then there was an outage. A double-billed invoice. You opened a ticket to ask a question and got a brusque, borderline rude response.
Soon you realized things just weren’t the same. And then one afternoon, an offer on LowEndBox caught your eye and you decided it was time to move on. Cancellation Type? Immediate. Reason for Cancellation? Don’t get me started.
So of the services you have used in the past, which of the following reasons was the cause for your breakup? Mark as many as you like, but let’s base it on your actual experiences not what you might do in a hypothetical.
What are the main things that cause a LowEndDivorce? Let’s find out!
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Raindog308 is a longtime LowEndTalk community administrator, technical writer, and self-described techno polymath. With deep roots in the *nix world, he has a passion for systems both modern and vintage, ranging from Unix, Perl, Python, and Golang to shell scripting and mainframe-era operating systems like MVS. He’s equally comfortable with relational database systems, having spent years working with Oracle, PostgreSQL, and MySQL.
As an avid user of LowEndBox providers, Raindog runs an empire of LEBs, from tiny boxes for VPNs, to mid-sized instances for application hosting, and heavyweight servers for data storage and complex databases. He brings both technical rigor and real-world experience to every piece he writes.
Beyond the command line, Raindog is a lover of German Shepherds, high-quality knives, target shooting, theology, tabletop RPGs, and hiking in deep, quiet forests.
His goal with every article is to help users, from beginners to seasoned sysadmins, get more value, performance, and enjoyment out of their infrastructure.
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I am a C@C survivor…
I’ve switched providers in the past when I found servers closer to me, from a respected provider, at a similar cost.
can’t buy extra BW when needed, every 2 to 4 months i need an extra 1 t0 3 TB of BW, Provider said to upgread sever package, so they got the boot.
one case of terrible support incompetence, one case of overcomplicated service management (required to change IP in a weird manner to setup rDNS correctly), one case of provider’s cessation of operation
ex-AlphaRacks user here, well… you know why I don’t use them anymore.
had my mail server running on a machine from hyper expert. I was really happy. then they started tunneling all smtp traffic through their own smtp server from one day to the other without warning. I tried to get an exception for my servers(considering i had been a customer with them for over a year, follow best practices when it comes to sending mail, thus have no abuse complaints and am not featured on any spam blacklists(mostly because my business doesnt spam). Was a shame I had to relocate, but being forced to send my email through their relay is a no go. Its enough that the NSA grabs them at the router :-)