Can anyone recommend a UK based VPS host? I've been with 2 so far this year and both have been terrible, the first one I was with for 6 months when I suddenly lost the ability to send emails to external servers, and I had no response from customer support for 2 weeks, so I cancelled the monthly Paypal payment and moved on.

 

The second host, the one I'm currently with were fine for a few weeks, then at the beginning of august my VPS was down for 4 days. A week after it came back online I got an emergency message from the guy who owns the hosting site saying they need to move me onto a new node because the one I was on was old and they were shutting it down, and I had 3 days to backup my old node and move everything over to the new one, which I did, then a few days after that the VPS on the new node went down for a couple of hours, apparently someone tried DDOSing their servers, and then again this morning, it’s gone down again, so that’s three periods of downtime in the space of a month, and I've had enough.

 

So I'm looking for a good, reliable UK based Windows VPS host, preferably under £20 per month, £25 at a push, I currently get 2gb RAM, 100gb HDD and 1tb bandwidth for £15 a month, and I've seen a few similar packages at similar prices but after looking into reviews they've put me off, so I was wondering if anyone on here had any recommendations?

 

Thanks in advance.

I've used http://www.bluelighthost.com/ in the past

I've used http://www.bluelighthost.com/ in the past

 

They look good, thanks.

 

I've had a look round their website, but cant find a way of choosing a Windows OS when ordering, it does say it offers Linux and Windows though.

 

I assume there's remote access available to the VPS too?

 

Thanks

Once you have ordered, you have a choice of OS that you can install on a VPS and you do have remote access to them, however you may need to setup the firewall to allow this.

Someone was DDosing one of my blog website, I diagnosis and close all ununsed ports and now I no longer receive any attacks.

 

Prevention is better then cure. For UK Windows VPS you can try virtualservers.host

I'm just curious... why is it a Windows VPS that you want as opposed to a Linux one? I have to use Windows Servers from time-to-time and they frustrate me much more than Linux ones do.

Without knowing OPs situation I would guess the reason for chosing Windows Servers is to run ASP/.NET web applications. I'm rather sure that is almost imposible install .NET services on Apache servers, probably because .NET is proprietary software. The other way around is much easier (though it has caused you frustrations). Just think how many of us who is running PHP/MySQL on our local Windows machines every day.

Edited September 13, 201510 yr by Nillervision

 

I'd guess at this too but was just wondering. I have stacks of PHP based websites running on Windows servers but I do prefer Linux ones.

Yeah I know it can cause some headaches. The worst thing is the whole uper/lower case problem.

I mean on windows File.txt and file.txt is the same file and it and you can reference it in upper or lower case.

Where on Linux (or UNIX in general I suppose) File.txt and file.txt would be two different files and you will have to mach the exact case when referencing the file. Moving the two files from Linux to Windows would cause one of the files to overwrite the other. GRRR!!!

At least it used to be like that don't know if things has gotten better.

Edited September 14, 201510 yr by Nillervision

 

That's still, very much, the case. I think that there are bigger problems with switching from a Windows to Linux server if the developer has been a bit slap-happy with casing of things.

 

For me .htaccess is SO much better than web.config, that alone is a massive time-saver in my opinion.

Yeah I'd imaginge that could cause some problems to. I have seen coverters like this http://tohtaccess.com/ and this http://cbsa.com.br/tools/online-convert-htaccess-to-web-config.aspx

They might be helpfull. But it will not fix all problems. Eg. to support url rewrites I think you need to have some special module installed on Windows servers. Do you know anything about that?

^ Good to know

The reason I'm using Windows Server is that one of my websites is written in asp.net, its actually my girlfriends website, but I learnt asp.net to help her look after it better.

 

Personally I'm more of a PHP developer, so Linux/Apache would have been first choice, I know I could use mod_mono to get some asp.net compatibility, but when I started my business and got a VPS I wasn't aware of mod_mono, so I exclusivley went looking for Windows options.

 

I've been considering going to Linux, but I'd have to start from scratch with learning how to set it up correctly and install everything required, so I decided to stick with what I already knew, which was Windows.