SWVPS Hosting Review

When looking for a reliable hosting solution, never pay exclusive attention to the bandwidth allocation and space that you can make use of because if the host doesn’t have the hardware that necessary to handle your site, your website performance will dramatically fall once you come across 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 service provider that offers cheap vps services with servers located in both US and UK. It supports Linux OS as well as Windows and offers four general plans to choose from. The first plan is a special hosting offer at .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 shows up 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

Poor uptime and unsatisfactory technical support quickly cut down the potential of SWVPS. Recent customer reviews point out that SWVPS often goes into monthly maintenance periods in bad time, giving an example of one instance where the site went offline for maintenance on a Friday morning. Although the support addresses these issues, downtimes can be prolonged up to 45 minutes due to rebooting or installation of new software.

The support varies depending on the current situation where the live support is taken offline during crucial moments of the downtime. They do manage to explain the nature of their downtimes, but then suddenly disappear for several weeks leaving no information about when the problem will be solved.

Generally, SWVPS has affordable price and good features, but those prove useless if not used to their full potential. No need to have a fast running site that often goes offline during unexpected periods. This may improve in the future if the team is really actively installing new software and hardware so consider this solution when more positive reviews are piling up.

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