Recent content by systeminplace

I think this relies on a few things. What qualifies as best may be different from different point of views. For example, I generally have people who are new to the industry who are overwhelmed by panels with excessive amounts of options. Then we have those who are veterans who can navigate...

I think its important to note the way that some providers use the terms unlimited and dedicated. Unlimited is often twisted into a version of an oversold "shared" connection. The terms of this "unlimited" bandwidth offer is a misnomer and is used to mislead you into signing up and moving your...

Yes, we switched to DirectAdmin from Cpanel. To be honest their panel is nearly the same and support and addons for it have grown to meet our business needs. With support for Wordpress/Softaculous and their amazing support we are more than happy. Now will they also increase price? That is...

I think bigred's reply here is pure genius. Personally, I see advertising for clicks on places like google as a loss leader. Right now we spend about $400-$600/month on click advertising to get around 60-70 conversions, of which about 80% of those purchase a product. For some products we lose...

Hello, I think I have a good view on this topic as we have been in business over 20 years. During this time we have grown from starting with a single server to over 400 servers. During this time, we have found the following: Advertising is great, but its also expensive. And we have found that...

My backup strategy has changed over the years and I will share my horror story so you can see why. Back in 2020 I thought I had a great backup solution. I setup a home server which had two separate raid cards with two separate JBOD enclosures. I used JBOD one for my primary data and I mirrored...

In addition to cost vs value, there is one very important thing to consider that I do not see mentioned. The actual budget you have. Is what you plan to purchase and spend sustainable? As a provider, it would be great to sell every customer the biggest most profitable server possible. But in...

Benefits to co-locating your server: You own the hardware and as such you are only paying for space, power, and bandwidth. You can stuff it with as many options as you have the space and power for. You can upgrade at any time and are not limited to what the provider has in stock. Spec to Spec...

Hello there, We use SolusVM2. Now with that being said there are some major pros and cons in using this software. Pros: Sleek, simple and fast. Their support is honestly at the top of the market, and its free. Someone is always there to respond quickly and in our experience, 99% of the time...

As others have mentioned you should have a clear refund policy listed on your site. I find it is far easier to just offer fair refunds. Fair is the keyword. If a customer signs up and uses the service for two days and wishes to cancel then give them a refund minus the (2) pro-rated days. Now...

I also tried using openvpn for enterprise vpn/routing but we also had overhead limits. The solution we came up with was the following: For most of our enterprise users who want to do on site location hosting, we issued them a Edge Router ER-4 with custom OS running WireGuard. Doing this we are...

People adapt. We evolve and modify things to make them work for our current needs. An example of this is years ago you had to have a dedicated IP for each SSL, now you can have as many as you want for 1 IP. NAT has become so wide spread that a single public IP can host hundreds if not...