It’s really easy to appear to the outside world as a leading hosting provider.

Start with a decent template, and populate it with the usual verbiage about being enterprise-grade.  Stick in your 24×7 99.999% SLA, a few pages about your world-class datacenters, and add some blurb about how your team of experts has centuries of experience.  Top it off with some fake testimonials from enthusiastic subscribers, and wah-lah!  You’re a leading provider.

You can even go further by stuffing reviews on TrustPilot.  And while a lot of shady providers seem to use the same googled images for their testimonials, why not use AI?

But there’s one place that has been awful hard to fool…

LowEndTalk

We see a fair number of reviews on LowEndTalk, and they either have the ring of truth or are very quickly outed as shills.  It’s very hard to deceive our readers’ prying eyes, given their deep experience with all kinds of offers.

Members also share stories, and never hesitate to call out a bad host.  They sometimes heap praise on good ones, though this is less common (human nature).

Here’s some recent examples:

• A readers’ private porn stash was rummaged by a provider, who booted him.  662 comments later, the full story emerged.
• Caasify was called out for “terrible service and support,” with lengthy evidence.
• One user was severely disappointed by packet loss at MassiveGRID – and has some nice charts to show why.
• On the other hand, there was a recent thread in which a couple members said they were quite happy with HostBrr.

There’s 34 pages of reviews on LowEndTalk, and you are always free to start your own thread if you’d like to ask about a provider.

Before you buy, come talk with the community that can’t be fooled!

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raindog308

Dread Lord of LowEnd Content at LowEndBox

I'm raindog308, techno polymath and long-time LowEndTalk community Administrator. My technical interests include all things Unix, perl, python, golang, shell scripting, vintage operating systems such as MVS, and relational database systems such as Oracle, PostgreSQL, and MySQL.

I also enjoy using LEBs! I have an empire of little guys for VPNs, larger guys for apps, and big guys for databases and storage. When I'm not in front a screen I'm into German Shepherd dogs, quality knives, target shooting, theology, tabletop roleplaying games, and forest hiking.

I enjoy writing technical articles here on LowEndBox to help people get more out of their systems. You can find me on LowEndTalk @raindog308

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