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So after all the DRAMA of Dedipath closing down without notice and how we survived without downtime, we have expanded a lot. Until now we were just offering Regular KVM VPS (Ryzen and Intel) and OpenVZ VPS from 5 Datacenters, but now after we survived the DP Drama, we have expanded not only our Line of Product but we have also expanded to 7 Datacenter Across US and 2 Locations Coming Soon (Within a week) even Europe, guess which locations ?
Paris (France) and Frankfurt (Germany) are our new upcoming locations in Europe
So right we are offering our VPS Service from these 7 US locations + 2 in EU
US Locations:
Los Angeles
New York
Salt Lake City DC 1
Salt Lake City DC 2
Dallas
Miami
Portland
Upcoming EU Locations:
Paris (France)
Frankfurt (Germany)
Until July 2023 we had just close to 100 VPS Nodes, but now have 170+ VPS Nodes and lot more are on the way.
Until July 2023 we were just offering Ryzen KVM VPS, Intel KVM VPS and OpenVZ VPS, but now we are offering:
Ryzen KVM VPS
Intel KVM VPS
OpenVZ VPS
3950x Based VDS
7950x Based VDS
VDS = Virtual Dedicated Server or some even call it Hybrid Dedicated Server
With VDS you can basically use 100% CPU 24×7 without restriction as CPU Cores are assigned dedicatedly to your VPS/Server
Our Ryzen 7950x based VDS Starts at just $7 per month and available across 3 locations:
As posted in our previous POST, that how and we had to do emergency migration of all our VPS Nodes and Shared Web Hosting, but now once all the data has been migrated, we even need to utilise our Colocated Servers that were there with Dedipath, today we were provided access and were able to pickup our Servers from their Los Angeles, location, though other location is still pending, but to utilise these servers, we have taken a full 42U RACK in Salt Lake City, this is different from our current Salt Lake City Datacentre, this location also has very good network, along with DDOS Protection provided by PATH. This new location has very good network globally including China and Asia.
These servers just landed at the new facility in Salt Lake City, we plan to use these servers for our regular Ryzen VPS nodes as well to offer Virtual Dedicated Server, i.e. with Dedicated CPU Cores and all resource, with these package you will be able to max out your CPU without any restricitons
We will post an update about once its ready for production, hopefully in next 3-4 days
Below is a snippet of our sudden announcement of migrating all our servers to a different datacentre:
We made this announcement on 6th of August, though we started planning for it in July itself, but it was just a hunch hence we could not make it public as we have yet to find a reliable provider, arrange for 11000+ IP, arrange for close 100 Servers, find locations that are suitable for our clients etc…
But what made us take this decision as we have been using DEDIPATH services for over 5 years without any trouble ?
There were few warning signs:
Their CTO Left the company
Support tickets were delayed a lot
Nobody from management was approachable
Then I think in July end two of their facilities went offline for over 3 hours – NJ and LA, this was the biggest warning sign, but then after asking repeatedly they finally sent RFO
This RFO was the final NAIL in the COFFIN and forced us to take this decision of migrating out of Dedipath. This RFO said the reason behind the outage was routing issue, but how can two different locations have routing issue at the same time ? I tried to inquire a lot about it to know the actual reason, but everybody at DP was behind NDA hence could not utter a word, but this made us decide to finally migrate out.
This sudden Emergency Migration was not appreciated by all clients, but we even could not tell the clients that we are doing it on the basis of a hunch that things are not alright at DP hence we had to migrate out, but most of the clients did not complained but still I know it’s a lot of trouble for clients to change their IP in the web server, mail server, DNS Servers, proxy, vpn or for whatever services they were using their VPS.
We appreciate patience shown by all clients during this migration, but whatever we did was in the best interest of our clients, their data and also for survival of Hosteons.
Usually providers physically move servers to another Datacentre as it saves a lot of costs, though it causes downtime but still it’s the most economical way to do migration especially if you own the servers/hardware, but in our case even this was not possible and also we did not wanted to cause hours of downtime and sometimes servers do break during transport that could again cause more problems and data loss.
If we move the servers physically it has many risks:
Server Damage During Transportation
Hours of Downtime as it’s takes lots of time if you have to UNRACK 100 servers, then transport them, then again bring them online in the new datacentre with new IP, new network configuration
Not only this how do we change IP of 9000 VPS all at once ? It could take days before we do this, so this just means downtime of days or even weeks
Moreover there were rumours in Forums that Remote Hands is at HOLD in DP, as the Datacentre “EVOCATIVE” is not doing it, I won’t get in details what exactly is the problem, so we could not expect that we will be actually provided access to our servers
So this option was OFF the TABLE
So how exactly did we migrate 9288 VPS Safely ?
We decided that we will first get the following:
Our own ASN – If we use ASN of our Datacentre it causes lots of problems like if the Datacentre has abusive users it even affects our IP Reputation. So we got our own ASN before migration – AS142036
Our own IP – We have some of our own IP Blocks from APNIC, we used them along with, we directly did contract with IP Vendors and got IP on long term contract, so that we don’t need to change IP every now and then as we had to do when IP are provided by Datacentre, because if Datacentre wants they change or pull back their IP blocks anytime they want, so this time we got IP Directly from IP Vendors and used our own IP
We got new servers, but new server hardware delivery takes time it is not instant, so this took almost 10 days and even in these 10 days we did not got all the servers, even some servers failed hardware diagnostics, we had to get them replaced, rack etc… it was a period of sleepless nights that just finished today earlier with our FINAL Server migration without any DATA LOSS to any client.
It was not easy to apply and get ASN, get new IP, arrange for new servers that too in locations that are similar to what we currently have and above all, all these things require a lot of CASH.
But we have a solid business plan and we keep our business profitable unlike many low end providers who just keep discounting their prices to get sales and ultimately end up shutting down, but due to our SOLID BUSINESS PLAN and over 2 decades of experience in HOSTING INDUSTRY, we were able to pull through this tough phase.
But AGAIN YOU MUST BE THINKING WAS THIS EVEN WORTH IT ?
YES ABSOLUTELY, JUST READ THIS ANNOUNCEMENT BY DEDIPATH:
This is just a partial announcement but they did shutdown with less then 24 hours notice, and if we had not migrated out in time, then we would have lost data of almost all clients by now as it was not possible to arrange for 100 Servers in such a short period and also migrate data of 9000+ VPS within 24 hours, as I know it take us over 20 days to migrate out data of 9000 VPS
The best part is our clients had close to ZERO DOWNTIME, the reason being we did a live migration of VPS, just the IP was changed, so it all depends how quickly they start using the new IP
So this is how we DODGED the DEATH BALL just on the basis of a hunch and over 2 decades of experience in HOSTING INDUSTRY
By default our OpenVZ VPS Packages comes with unmetered 100 Mbps Port but if you need Gigabit Port, need not worry now we even offer Gigabit Port, not only this we have even updated our VPS Packages to include more bandwidth or tranfers
OVZ256, OVZ512 and OVZ1 Comes with 2 TB Transfer @ 1Gbps Port Speed
OVZ 2 Comes with 3TB @ 1Gbps Port Speed
OVZ 3 Comes with 4TB @ 1Gbps Port Speed
OVZ 4 Comes with 5TB @ 1Gbps Port Speed
OVZ 5 Comes with 6TB @ 1Gbps Port Speed
OVZ 6 Comes with 7TB @ 1Gbps Port Speed
OVZ 7 Comes with 8TB @ 1Gbps Port Speed
Earlier all packages had only two options either 100 Mbps Unmetered or 2TB Transfer, but now have updated packages to give more bandwidth and not only this 100 Mbps unmetered is still available as default option.
Also existing customers can also request an upgrade to 1Gbps Port Speed
Not only this, you can even get more bandwidth @ 1Gbps, for new orders you get option to opt for it in the order form and existing customer can request upgrade via support ticket
We are constantly trying to improve quality of services and as a part of this process we have now started offer Backup Service for our Premium Ryzem KVM VPS, Budget Gigabit KVM VPS As well as OpenVZ VPS across all our locations
You can order Backup Service while placing order for your VPS and existing customers can submit a ticket for the same if you need backup service.
We are currently offering two options:
1) Monthly Backups : $2 Per month
2) Weekly Backups: $5 Per month
Our backup service will keep rotating your backups and keep two copies of backups.
Also you even get an option for manual backup, you can use this option to manually backup your VPS which is very useful when you need to make some changes in your VPS or just want to try out something which may cause trouble later on, so you can take manual backups in this way and restore from your backups anytime directly from your VPS Control Panel.
If you have any doubts feel free submit a support ticket
In this video you will learn how to setup your own private L2TP to IPSEC VPN Server using a KVM VPS or a Dedicated Server. I’ve used a Ubuntu 20 based installation but this same script or command even works on Debian, this is a fully automated setup for a VPN Server. I’ve used a Budget KVM VPS from https://hosteons.com/kvm_vps.php for this tutorial but this same script should work with any other providers’s VPS as long as it’s a KVM VPS and the OS is Debian or Ubuntu. This is a one click or one command setup to have your VPN Server ready almost instantly.
Command to install your L2TP VPN server is:
wget https://git.io/vpnsetup -O vpnsetup.sh && sudo sh vpnsetup.sh
NOTE: Please make sure to backup your data before running this script as hosteons will not be responsible for any data loss.
All our Budget Gigabit KVM VPS Nodes have following or similar specs:
Dual Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2690 v2 (Or Similar minimum, 2.5 Ghz)
128 GB RAM
RAID 10 SSD
10 Gbps Network Port (Some of our VPS Nodes are still on 1 Gbps Port, but they are in process of being upgraded to 10Gbps Port for more info Click Here)
Free IPv6 /64
IPv4 as per your package and option to add upto 16 additional IPv4 IP
Free Windows 2019 License with annual payment
VPS Control Panel
Custom ISO Support
Full RDNS control
Reboot and Reinstall Support
Free DDOS Protection
Moreover our VPS services are activated instantly upon payment and we have 24×7 Real Human Support
Also if you want to check our Dallas Network check out our Network Looking Glass at https://lg.dal.hosteons.com