Interserver VPS Review
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Interserver.net is a webhosting provider that can easily compete with other big players on the market. Or even more than that – We’ve got an eye on this hosting provider due to their outstanding price-performance ratio. They have exceptional technical features and as a hosting provider they operate on a level that is second to none.
The company was founded in 1999 by high school students whose aim was to create a hosting service at low prices yet maintaining a high level service.
The company still keeps consisting of a young and motivated team doing their best to serve all customer needs. They run their services with the greatest possible professionalism.
What they do in the background is securing high speed and network performance by using a wide range of backbone providers.
This tricky concept ensures an especially high server uptime and consistence performance.
The US company runs 4 large data centers within the United States. Although they are a US company, the service accepts customers from all around the world, so they are not limited to US citizens only.
Technical Features
The professionalism of Interserver is also reflected in the large number of technical features provided by the service. One-click-installs allow you to make use of 480 different Apps (scripts) such as WordPress, Open Blog, Joomla, Drupal, PHP-Fusion, Magento, CubeCart, osCommerce and many other CMS, blog or ecommerce systems. So no matter what kind of project you’re running, Interserver.net is more than up to the technical requirements.
In the case of unexpected situations their network system ensures that there is always a spare router available to keep your traffic running without notable delays. Their facilities guarantee 100% power uptime and 99.9% network uptime, which is an indicator for a quality hosting provider. An unreliable server uptime and technical issues such as hardware problems or network overload are terms you should hardly ever hear related to Interserver.
The opposite is the case: When you read through reviews on rating platforms such as Trustpilot or others: What you mainly find about Interserver is that their hosting service is highly praised from a technical point of view, closely followed by praise for customer support.
Interserver Product Range
As already indicated, Interserver is a very special hoster that offers much more than others.
This includes, for example, their Inter-Insurance service, which means that they clean up hacked accounts containing malware free of charge. As a WordPress expert, they clean up infected accounts and get their customers websites back online, so non-tech-savvy customers don’t need to worry about viruses in their ftp directories. The Interserver developers look for system gaps to know the origin of the problem, then restore the healthy state and prevent further compromises.
With other hosting providers infected accounts are handled very differently. With most oft them you just get an email with a complicated technical case description followed by a request to clean up the account immediately. If you’re not an expert, you might not have a plan what to do right away, right?
System stability is also ensured in the event of very high traffic volumes: Websites that generally or temporarily have high traffic are cached using inter-proxy caching, so the site always remains easily accessible. In addition, CloudFlare provides protection against DDos attacks. In DDoS attacks, attackers attempt to paralyze a domain by artificially overloading the technical infrastructure of the website. If there are too many page requests, websites can only load very slowly or even go completely offline. Interserver specifically prevents such failures.
Price-Lock is another great feature of Interserver. This means that you are always guaranteed the price you paid from the start. If you have received one of their services at a discount price, you will only pay that price forever. The price will never be increased.
Web Hosting
Web hosting packages start as low as $5 a month. Customers have super fast SSDs, unlimited email accounts and 450+ cloud apps at their disposal. Interserver’s staff is also happy to move your website free of charge. Content caching and Intershield protection are of course included.
Among the many Cloud Apps is the One-Click-Install for WordPress as well as Joomla, Meganto, PrestaShop, Drupal, Joomla, Mambo and many more.
It goes without saying that an easy Website Builder program is included in hosting packages.
And, Web Hosting is unlimited in terms of storage and bandwidth, which makes all of the Web Hosting packages an unbeatable deal, especially for the price of currently $4, if you take it for 3 years. Otherwise it’s $5, which is still an incredible deal for an unlimited Hosting package with all the included features of Interserver regarding security, reliability etc. The Web Hosting is very comfortable to manage via easy Control Panel, by the way.
So even if you don’t have much technical knowledge and simply want a hosting service where everything runs smoothly and securely and where you can rely on very strong support, you shouldn’t host your project with the next cheapest provider, but with a high quality service like Interserver.
Besides standard Web Hosting they also offer a product called “Pro Hosting”, which is suitable for agencies or developers who resell web space. For example, a new cPanel account can be created for each additional customer, keeping everything separated nicely.
Such Pro Hosting accounts cost between $20 and $70 per month which again isn’t expensive for what you get. Especially in regard to reselling parts of such packages.
Dedicated Servers
The range of dedicated servers also seems to be much more advanced than with other hosting providers. Interserver has dedicated servers that are optimized for different needs. There are servers that primarily store enormous amounts of data. The “Large Storage Servers” have up to 12 x 10TB SATA hard disks.
The “10GBps Dedicated Servers” are for projects that require a particularly high bandwidth. These servers offer unlimited traffic at the highest possible data transfer rate. This service has its price, but is also a technical masterpiece and enables companies to carry out certain projects that would be inconceivable with other servers.
“GPU Dedicated Servers”, on the other hand, are aimed at customers who need a system with particularly high computing power. With GPU servers enormous amounts of data can be processed faster than with only CPU. With these servers the customer can put together a suitable offer because GPU types are selectable and resources scalable.
For people who need access to a dedicated server more or less right away, say instantly, Interserver offers a product called Rapid Deploy Dedicated Server. This is kind of a mixture between Interserver VPS and Dedicated Server, like virtual dedicated server. It offers the capacities of a dedicated server, but it runs through virtualization.
Colocations
Interserver even offers colocations to companies, which means that companies can operate their data center externally at Interserver. Companies install their hardware in the hosting provider’s data center and take advantage of the technical benefits of the data center, such as bandwidth, air conditioning, power, etc. This, too, is a special feature of the especially professional hosters that others do not offer.
And now let’s take a look at what we are most interested in – their Virtual Server offers:
VPS
The ambitious vps provider offers self managed high performance Cloud VPS for just a few bucks a month.
One thing that goes without saying with a quality service like Interserver is the fact that they don’t oversell their servers. This means that the number of users sharing a server is always limited, so resources are never overloaded. Other than with some other providers, where it can happen that your website fails because some other user of the system overloads the CPU or similar.
Packages & Pricing
Interserver Linux VPS
Server plans start at $6 per month for Linux servers. There is no plan with less than 1 GB RAM, 25 GB storage and 1 TB monthly bandwidth, which is the cheapest package. For each higher plan you pay $6 more step-wise. For $12 a month all features are doubled. The 4 cheapest plans all run with 1 CPU, from $30 a month you get 2 CPU cores with 5 GB RAM, 125 GB Storage and as much as 5 TB data transfer.
As mentioned earlier, this vps hosting service has great reputations regarding their server performance. If you have an important project you want to run on a VPS, like a business website, shop system, or something else that needs a stable server, than experience, reliability and an engaged customer support should be on top of your priority list regarding your hosting provider.
Interserver is one of the best choices when it comes to vps hosting for businesses.
Pricing:
Interserver Windows VPS
Windows servers are a bit more expensive and start at $10 per month. That’s normal since Windows servers are more expensive at all hosting providers, likely mainly due to the required Windows licenses. The image below shows the 6 smallest packages the company offers, but they go up step-wise till the highest plan with 4 CPUs, 16 GB RAM, 400GB storage and 16 TB bandwidth for $160 per month.
The hosting service offers a 30 days money back guarantee so customers can sign up and try out a VPS at no risk. Furthermore customers are free to cancel their server rental every month. So there is no long-term contracts customers will be stuck in which is also a sign of trustworthiness.
Their virtual private servers come with standard Features like 1GB port, a static IP address, SSD disks, automatic updates at managed servers 99.9% uptime guarantee, instant activation and more.
Pricing:
Worpress VPS
If you want to use a VPS for a more sophisticated WordPress project, you can take the special WordPress VPS package from Interserver. Here you will find some preconfigured features that are very useful for WordPress. For example, you will be assigned a unique IP, the fastest cache plugin as well as FastCGI and nginx caching will already be preconfigured, the system will also be optimized for WordPress Cron.
WordPress VPS start from $6. The server packages are highly customizable, so you can choose the platform (virtualization system), such as OpenVZ, KVM oder HyperV, you can choose one of three server locations within the US, 1 to 16 slices, the distribution (several Linux distros or Windows when using KVM are available), OS version, billing cycle and whether you want cPanel. However, cPanel costs $15 extra.
Payment Methods
Payments can be processed by credit card (Visa, American Express, Discover) or quickly and easily per paypal. We are curious whether in the foreseeable future also Bitcoin payments will be established. More and more hosting companies have started adopting the most famous cryptocurrency within their payment methods, so it’s likely just a matter of time till we see it at Interserver.
Security
The hosting provider’s four large data centers are secured by biometric entry into the building.
Furthermore, the company has an excellent in-house system to fight viruses and malware. They call the system “Intershield Security” and it is included in every package for free. System backups are also a matter of course.
Interserver Customer Support
Clients reach the engaged customers support 24/7 not only via ticket support but also through live chat and even by phone. The customer support is one of the best in the industry. Especially at the beginning they are super fast in helping you setting up your project. Later communication gets a bit slowed down, but they will still respond within an adequate time.
As mentioned earlier above, there is also the Inter-Insurance service cleaning infected accounts free of charge.
Customer Satisfaction
The vast majority of customers who provided a review rated the service 5 stars. However, also in the area of reviews, as always, there is a certain percentage of users where something went wrong. All in all, it’s noticeable that certain things are rated especially positively at Interserver: The technical features, which are really outstanding for them, the quality of the hosting, stability, reliability, uptime etc., then also the extremely good support. It is best to contact them by phone, they are great on the phone. And even the prices are rated as good, although the service is rather a high-end hosting provider, it is by no means expensive. Especially not for what they offer.
Bottomline
Interserver is a company with almost 20 years of experience and a good name within the branch. As their plans deliver a really high performance at relatively low cost, and as they can be cancelled at any time, the service might be worth a try for your project. One of the most remarkable things about Interserver is, that they have the best online reviews in general, posted by hundreds of customers on numerous independent review platforms. So we’re definitely not the only ones who swear on Interserver.net.
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