Introduction
I was looking for a permanent host. After trying out BoltVM and it being a pretty good host, but after seeing how much the owner cares about it I decided to migrate to a brand new host.
So I found Ellipsis Node and contacted Matt(owner) to create a personalized plan for me. After everything went smooth I got myself a virtual private server and it's been pretty good!
The OVH ddos protection is very good, I was being attacked and Matt was able to help me out by enabling permanent protection which is perfect.
They also recently added a help desk, and they also have email support which is what I use most of the time. Uptime is very good, but once in a while there will be a restart either for an update of OpenVZ or something.
Specifications
CPU model : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-1620 0 @ 3.60GHz Number of cores : 4 CPU frequency : 3599.945 MHz Total amount of ram : 2048 MB Total amount of swap : 512 MB System uptime : 4days, 0:25:34
Benchmarks
Download Speeds:
---------------------------------------------------------------------- CacheFly 205.234.175.175 19.0MB/s Linode, Tokyo, JP 106.187.96.148 12.0MB/s Linode, Singapore, SG 139.162.23.4 8.09MB/s Linode, London, UK 176.58.107.39 4.99MB/s Linode, Frankfurt, DE 139.162.130.8 5.20MB/s Linode, Fremont, CA 50.116.14.9 27.3MB/s Vultr, Dallas, TX 108.61.224.175 32.0MB/s Vultr, Seattle, WA 108.61.194.105 23.8MB/s Vultr, Los Angeles, CA 108.61.219.200 23.8MB/s Vultr, Frankfurt, DE 108.61.210.117 3.80MB/s Vultr, Tokyo, JP 108.61.201.151 6.01MB/s Softlayer, Dallas, TX 173.192.68.18 36.3MB/s Softlayer, Seattle, WA 67.228.112.250 26.8MB/s Softlayer, Frankfurt, DE 159.122.69.4 2.97MB/s Softlayer, Singapore, SG 119.81.28.170 4.99MB/s Softlayer, HongKong, CN 119.81.130.170 9.90MB/s ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I/O speed : 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 12.8155 s, 83.8 MB/s
Ping:
PHP Benchmark
-------------------------------------- | PHP BENCHMARK SCRIPT | -------------------------------------- Start : 2015-11-15 00:55:24 Server : - PHP version : 5.3.29 Platform : Linux -------------------------------------- test_math : 1.859 sec. test_stringmanipulation : 1.722 sec. test_loops : 1.201 sec. test_ifelse : 1.135 sec. -------------------------------------- Total time: : 5.917 sec.
Conclusion (tl;dr)
My experience with Ellipsis Node was very joyful, great uptime, and fantastic support. They do say they've been in business for "2.29315068493" years (as of Saturday, Nov 14, 2015) which is always a plus in my book.
So if you're looking for a VPS for a really good price, then I highly recommend Ellipsis Node.