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Man I am a research nut when it comes to searching for hosting providers. Especially when it concerns my business presence on the web for vAusTek, Cretec Solutions, and BizBuzzed (coming soon). With a solution like BizBuzzed which will be a Business Directory service as well as a B2B Referral Networking site, I had to also be cautious to server load. So a shared host or a low end VPS provider would not do it.

So I looked all around the normal places to get real reviews, not the faked sponsored ones put on by the fake review sites. One name kept coming up and it was VPSlatch. Now looking on Web Hosting Talk, a great place to find user reviews and deals, I found many positive and a few negative reviews and posts on VPSLatch. Most of the negative were cleared due to either end user issues or the solution just not being a fit in which both sides agreed in the end.

A big question mark for me was that VPSLatch is a fairly new company. I wanted to make sure that they were not going to go out of business. What I found was that the owner and his team had a lot of experience and had broken off from another host. I also found looking through WHT the same information that made me feel much better.

Another thing I was looking for is Managed service. For those that do not know Managed Hosting means they will do almost anything for your service. They make sure the server is up and running, keep it secure, monitor it, etc. They will even help troubleshoot scripts. Un-Managed is the opposite, you handle everything on the server including the OS. Now I am comfortable working on Linux servers and web servers, but being a Owner/CEO of a business I do not have the time. In the end that is what it comes down to.

VPSLatch only offers Managed VPS hosting so that fit the bill. The other great thing was that the cost for Managed Hosting on average was much lower than many other VPS providers. I found a few that were cheaper, but did not have a glowing reputation. I could have got a much cheaper deal if I went Un-Managed, but I already mentioned why that was a no go.

In the end after reading though everything the choice was an easy one. Starting a new business where I have a low budget VPSLatch was the no brainer. There are host out there that charge 2-3 times what VPS Latch does and a lot of it is based on name recognition. Now I am still keeping an eye out, because I am always concerned that new companies may not have a solid business model. However to me it was worth the risk.

Now after the purchase I want to comment on what I have seen so far.

Support

Wow these guys are amazing when it comes to support.

They helped me get the server setup properly and secured.

Moving my business sites over was a bit of a hassle, mainly because I had some complicated setups. We did have some issues getting everything properly set. However they were there at all hours until it was corrected. I never had to wait long, many times minutes, to get responses from their support team. It was refreshing to say the least.

I do not mind have some issues during a migration, that happens. Having great support that works really hard to get everything corrected is worth its weight in gold.

Performance

They do not oversell their servers. Being VPS you still have to worry about other people on the same physical server.  Not to the level of shared hosting, but another badly written script can cause problems or overloaded servers.

That is not the case here. I can look at the load on the physical server and the CPU is generally around .08 – 1.1 during the busy times. That is on an 8 CPU server.

My memory is reserved so that is only an issue if I need to buy more memory.

Overall

Extremely happy!  That is why I am posting this on my blog.

So if you are looking for solid Managed VPS Hosting I can honestly say I recommend VPSLatch.

esch  Sep 20 EschWeb