Hi all,

Am currently a IPB license holder I have been experiencing a rather high level of DOWNTIME with my current hosting provider and are thinking of moving my hosting to IPB Hosting therefore do you or anyone you know currently using IPB HOSTING if so how are the downtime and if you do experience downtime at all how often is it.

I know from time to time they will be downtime but not an entire day, week, or weeks.

Thank you,

I've been using it for over a year now. It literally has had 0 downtime for me. Unless I missed it (and I'm online A LOT) it hasn't gone down at all. And as for any slowness even it's happened for a minute or two maybe two or three times.

The support level is amazing. I have absoultely nothing bad to say about them, it's worth the price.

I've used IPS Hosting in the past, the service and uptime level is excellent.

I don't think I experienced any downtime at all in the time I was with them.

I had some minor downtime once during a DOS attack, but other than that it has been perfect.

For the price it is, i'd expect nothing but top quality service from them

Which hosting, the forum hosting or the website hosting? I was talking to a guy about transferring his installation of Invision Power Board from Invision's hosting to GoDaddy's, he said that he wanted to strangle Lindy many times. During the transfer, his website was down quite a few times, every time we turned around he had another PHP error on his hands, it wasn't satisfactory considering he was paying just under $300 a month. Everyone will probably hate me now, but that's how it was.

You're talking about a server transfer service not hosting service there :-) ... server transfers hardly ever go smoothly because of the huge data involved.

If it was working fine on IPSHosting... then it's GoDaddy's fault.

Thank you all for the advice you have all given so far just keep it coming, after about 20-30 reply's with all good comments I will then be able to make a solid decision.

Once again that you all for giving your positive and negative FEEDBACK.

As of 1 August, I will have been with IPS Hosting for two years. I think the only downtime of any significance was during a server move, so I can say that the service is pretty darn good. The techs are efficient, friendly and helpful.

Are you sure? He had a dedicated server hosted with you, and he was looking for somebody else to transfer his files and database from your server to his new one.

In my own personal experience, I wouldn't want to pay $14.95/month and not get access to the source files. I'd rather host it myself, and pay less monthly. Just my opinion, though.

Yes it is very good, Had no problems.

The only issues I've had recently on IPS Hosting were with server slowdowns due to DDoS attacks, which obviously are out of IPS's control. No downtime really, as in hardware / software failures.

Jesus! What services did he get for that? I could buy a stupidly large rack on a damn good line in .NL for that a month! Considering I was only paying $60/mo for my US 100mbit 80gb/1tb box, it better be something special!

Wow, all completely positive reviews... how strange...

The service is top notch, what you'd expect from Invision. The uptime however isn't so great... maybe once every 2-3 months it goes down for a few hours. When it's up it's great, and that's most of the time... but man, I get pissed when it's down.

I know at some point I'd just like to drop the $185 or whatever for a perpetual license, and find a better host. The problem with IPS Hosting is you get crap for space... I didn't think a forum would use so much space, but it does. I don't have much in the way of needs, but if I had a 500MB hosting account, I'd allow member uploads, upload better and bigger arcade games, and occasionally throw a video clip up there that I got off Bittorrent to let people have a look at. But for now IPS Hosting is affordable, and the service is great...

BTW, I have access to the source files, but then I joined before they encoded them. I wouldn't consider IPS Hosting for a second if the source files were encoded. Kinda silly if they're concerned with possible piracy, people getting IPS Hosting, basic package, and then being able to download IPB... is that why they're encoded? That'd be my guess... but I keep seeing IPB on Bittorrent (yep, reported it) so it's not like you can't get it. (But pirating software that runs on the Internet is dumb IMHO... talk about asking for trouble. )

Keywords there are "transfer" and "your server to new one"

Mathematically speaking, that is around 99.9% uptime, I believe. I personally wouldn't consider that bad at all.

Excellent. Just fantastic quality. The IPB is only a bonus IMO, I'm paying for the quality of the hosting. There was a time when there was definite trouble and regular downtime, but they worked through it pretty well and kept us in the know.

Ditto. Great service, and really good tech support.

in oct. or soon i may move to IPS Hosting but i want to know i currently have a reseller with cPanel/WHM is there a plan for that with IPS or some kind of reseller for the hosting


the main reason why i may move is my current host apache fails 5-6 times a day due to 3 accounts on the server using 12-20 server load daily

the other reason is look at who mainly runs the hosting side

Lindy--> excellent person to deal with
Ryan--> best server admin. i have seen and most knowledsable
William--> i beleive he said he works on hosting tech support as well

sorry if i might of left out 1 tech


oops then you have Charles he does the billing of it with Debbie so i will not leave them out

You forgot Blake.

Blake is the man.

Blake answered a load of my tickets. Ditto what Keith said.

yep i did not know BlakeC did hosting section as well

So you don't know everything then?

:-"

Wow, this thread had a lot of good feed back that is very reassuring to me, I just purchased invasion power hosting earlier today. The hosting I have now with another company runs out at the end of the month, not to mention this month, I’m almost 3GB over on bandwidth usage and got an email from them saying that my site will be turned off for the remainder of the month if excessive bandwidth usage continues without me purchasing more for the month.

The pricing wasn’t bad with the host I was using, but their support sucks, when ever I submit a support ticket with them it takes 48 hours to get a reply, and normally it isn’t helpful or what I was looking for and I have to reply again and wait an other 48 hours. For example of bad support, when I needed to restore my mysql database from a back up, I couldn’t do it through the phpmyadmin, it timed out every single time. When I asked them to do it for me and gave them my backup file, they replied 48hours later and told me I can restore it though my phpmyadimin… I had to go back and explain heavily that it was timing out and not working, and they finally did it a few days later.

The main reason why I moved to Invision Power Hosting Is I love there support and know there service is top notch.

If you're asking what kind of control panel you get with IPS, then yep they use cPanel. If you're asking if they are in the reseller market I have don't think so. I'm sure Lindy or someone can answer that.

I've had times where one of my sites been unavailable due to server load, but it isn't all that often. Another site I have here has never had a problem that I've seen.

well mine it is very often like right now lets say hmmm 15 times i have counted since i got up at 9AM that it has been down

In the end it is up to you to see if the hosting is good to you and your standards, not what others might say.

i personally would love to know how current IPS Hosting Customers feel and if they are staicfied with it

You could always sign up for a monthly plan and cancel at the end of the month if it doesn't go well.

Well, the rest of the thread might be a start?

For me, whenever the server has gone down due to DDOSs, the status page has always been updated, and I don't think it's ever been down for longer than an hour. I requested a server change to get away from the server in question, which went perfectly, and I haven't had a problem since.

Thank you all again.

Hello...

All I have signup for the service but I can not login to my cPanel I was able to before but now I can not, is it not working or is it just me http://server18.ipslink.com/cpanel as IPS status page are saying all server are online.

Please try connecting and let me know if you can access it anyone on server18.

The page is working for me, if that's what you're asking.

OK, thank am at work so am guessing my job has access to such sites (cPanels) block. Dam, so when I have to work and need to work on my forum on my downtime I can not dam again, but other than the dams its working fine for me at home.

Actually the price is very competitive. I realize it's higher than most hosts out there for the bandwidth IPS is providing, but you also have to realize you are using it for a php + db intensive application. At first glance 49.99 may see ridiculous for a 60 gig package but try running 60 gigs of bandwidth on a 9.95 host. It's not always JUST about the bandwidth. Utilizing 60 gigs worth of bandwidth exclusively for a forum requires a decent amount of cpu/io usage. I would almost guarantee you any $9.95 host will cancel/suspend your account for "excessive resource usage". It's a WHOLE LOT EASIER to provide to 60 gigs of static content than dynamic content which also happens to be db demanding.....

Not to mention you are getting people who "KNOW" the particular product to support your application as well as the hardware/software backend.... The price is totally fair and reasonable.... I've never had any experience with IPS hosting as I run my own dedicated servers for a myriad of things but I would definitely agree with their pricing parameters....