They were seriously great for a while; I've had a Baseline MC server for about 6 months. As with most recent reviews, they've had loads of uptime issues recently and have now basically "blacked out" their Discord, meaning nobody can message for support, or open tickets.
They say open tickets on the website, which would be fine! ... If their website wasn't down for the past 2-3 days, at least for me. I haven't been able to reach my server panel for the same amount of time; I'm glad I got my cancellation request in, and downloaded my server data before I was unable to access anything. I don't even know if my "request" will be granted... Thankfully, there's still 2 weeks before there's my new payment cycle, but I honestly doubt they'll be able to fix their uptime and communication issues in that time. If I'm billed, I won't pay a cent since I think 3 weeks for a request is more than enough.
Before this, the hardware was REALLY good for the price, consistent 20 TPS unless I added a plugin that was too dirty/badly coded, which is of course my fault. Opening tickets via Discord I got quick, friendly replies and they want above and beyond.
It's a shame to see the company reviews go from 4-5* to 3*, and my own to 2*. I really hope they pick up again soon; I have nothing against the people in the company really, it's just the decisions made RE Discord and sudden drop in quality of service that has caused me to write this review.
Final Edit: Sad to see they've completely shut shop, and even more saddened to read about issues Rihan refused to rectify. I hope everybody can find good replacement services.
HP
Harrison P.
Terrible
Terrible, I even lost my files for my discodd bot because they had randomly upgraded the bot hosting package.
FA
Faris A.
Web hosting is unreliable and support is terrible
Web hosting has been experiencing massive issues lately and is currently completely unreachable. After it coming back up today, after nearly 24 hours of downtime, it went back down 2-3 hours later. A statement from the management is yet to bee seen.
Due to them not knowing how to handle the situation and angry customers, they've had to completely restrict users from sending messages in their general and support channels on Discord - where support is primarily offered. Both management and support staff have gone completely silent while this is occurring.
I have gone ahead and updated my review to a 2-star one, after receiving some information and clarification from one of the management staff.
LJ
Luke J.
Had a pretty poor support experience
Had a pretty poor support experience. Was going to buy but decided not to due to the idiocy of support staff.
HA
hades1234
Don't go with Deploys.io
Don't go with Deploys.io, owned by 17/18 year old, The commands (apt..) take days to display on the console, uncommanded disconnection, long reinstallation, random bandwidth, logically in SSD I find myself with an HDD of 60 GB with poor performance.
The founder boasts that his services are superior to those of OVH, for example.
But it would nevertheless seem that OVH remains leader in the market and clearly above in terms of quality, I have just verified it, having several years experience on Linux and server management. I think I know the field at a minimum.
Moreover, the company is very recent, probably while waiting for the transition to the majority of the founder (1 year.)
Although they praise the expertise of servers and the novelty of equipment, it seems that OVH is always in the lead and clearly competitive in terms of server quality. I am on a VPS, the Game 4 precisely, I suspect that I do not have all the power of the machine, which is logical for a VM, but it is difficult for me to know which processor we have, since we are on a virtual machine. Just like the promises of the SSD disk, the processor may not be the right one, at least a low-end processor.
Concerning the CPU, It was 50% constant, after a new reinstallation of the machine, no process, absolutely nothing. Little concern of virtualization?
The Discord support is reactive, but unprofessional to be sincere, we have the impression of talking to friends of the counter, with the respect that goes with it. Not amazing for a service said professional to go through a Discord, yes it allows to discuss in real time, but I prefer a more formal and serious way, tickets for example and very long support as say the majority
I noticed with amazement on her discord, on the other opinions, tons of positive emojis for the corresponding opinions and a kind of tarp for the negatives. It is absolutely unspeakable.
And also, they remove too negatives opinions, censuring discord..
Nevertheless, I must admit that in the rare periods of server stability, with a good internet connection and a mastery of Linux for years, the performances are present. I have to say it.
But the bandwidth the ping-pong server, the recent appearance of the company (I suppose for the majority of the founder), the HDD disk and a potential instability, I do not recommend this host, at least for the moment.
Oh and also, like others, my Minecraft server brutally crashed, with no reason. All is fine on other hosting (Online.net, OVH and others..)
The connection what interrupted brutally, with 1.14.2 version and Paperspigot well-optimized, with absoluty nothing on the server, just my Minecraft server, good for the players...
French Review :
Je viens à l'instant de le tester, avec un serveur VPS Game-4, je vais éviter de recopier le gros pavé formulé à leur égard. Pour faire simple, l'hébergement est très récent, le disque SSD indiqué sur la page est en réalité un disque HDD de 60 GO avec des performances minables.
La bande-passante joue au ping-pong, des crashs, des instabilités (bien qu'étant habitué à Linux depuis des années) et le ping s'envole au Niagara, avec une bonne connexion fibre Orange, l'Allemagne et la France sont pourtant bien reliés.
Il n'y avait rien sur la machine, le processeur était à 50%, sans aucun processus après une réinstallation, absolument rien. Puis, intervient le crash de mon serveur de jeu, la connexion est brutalement interrompue, le néant.
Le fondateur de l'hébergeur vient tout juste d'avoir 18 ans, l'entreprise n'existe que depuis 1 an, (sans doute pour attendre le passage à la majorité du fondateur.) ils n'ont encore que peu d'expérience dans le domaine, raison de plus.
Le support via Discord n'est pas professionnel, nous avons l'impression de parler à des amis de beuveries, avec le respect qui va avec. Je préfère une méthode plus conventionnelle par ticket, et de ce côté, ils sont plutôt lents.
Nous ne savons rien d'autre concernant le datacenter, les équipements et j'en passe.
Il y a une zone d'ombre sur tout cela, sans compter que le support Discord supprime volontairement les avis trop négatifs, une forme de censure apparente. (Ou des petits smileys moqueurs..)
Je n'ai pas pu tester la protection DDos, mais de là à concurrencer l'Anti-DDos Game..
Brefouille, il n'existe effectivement aucun autre hébergeur en France qui propose le même genre de service, je vais rester encore un peu avec mon chouchou OVH.
Response from Venelium HostingJun 17, 2019
Hey there!
Thanks for reviewing us.
Here are some of the responses to some of your points.
- "The commands (apt..) take days to display on the console" I'm not sure if this is exaggerated or not, but we do thorough testing of our services often and have not encountered any issues.
- "Long reinstallation" Reinstallations have to destroy the current disk and clone a template. The larger the VPS's disk, the longer it'll take. There's not much that can be done to improve this as it is as fast as possible already, nor do we see reinstalls happening often at all.
- "Random bandwidth"
We're not quite sure what you mean. VPSs get 1TB of useable bandwidth, and more can be purchased. This is mentioned when ordering.
- "logically in SSD I find myself with an HDD of 60 GB with poor performance." All of our Game VPS nodes run high-quality solid-state drives which operate in RAID 1 and offer great performance.
- "Moreover, the company is very recent, probably while waiting for the transition to the majority of the founder (1 year.)"
We've been around since March 2018.
- "I suspect that I do not have all the power of the machine, which is logical for a VM, but it is difficult for me to know which processor we have, since we are on a virtual machine. Just like the promises of the SSD disk, the processor may not be the right one, at least a low-end processor."
Our new Game VPS nodes run Intel Core i9 9900X's, as mentioned on the product page. We use (KVM) for virtualization. It may show Common KVM Processor in lscpu.
- "Concerning the CPU, It was 50% constant, after a new reinstallation of the machine, no process, absolutely nothing. Little concern of virtualization?" ""I have just verified it, having several years experience on Linux and server management. I think I know the field at a minimum"
Do you have a screenshot of htop? We're not sure how you got the value, as I have just booted up a fresh VM and the CPU usage is tiny. Our images based on cloud images designed for OpenStack.
- "The Discord support is reactive, but unprofessional to be sincere, we have the impression of talking to friends of the counter, with the respect that goes with it. Not amazing for a service said professional to go through a Discord, yes it allows to discuss in real time, but I prefer a more formal and serious way, tickets for example and very long support as say the majority" If you'd like more professional support, you're more than welcome to use our website for tickets, but support won't be as quick. We choose to be more friendly in our support messages, as one, it's on Discord and the target audience that uses the platform for support expect replies that fit with the platform, so full welcomes and signatures per message doesn't really work. We've had other clients suggest feedback for us to be more friendly and human, so we've taken that on board. We love all of our clients, and we feel like we can talk to them like people, to make our service more convenient for them.
- "Oh and also, like others, my Minecraft server brutally crashed, with no fucking reason. All is fine on other hosting (Online.net, OVH and others..)" Is this on our Minecraft baseline or enterprise series? Both services are heavily tested and optimised for Minecraft servers.
- "1.14.2 version and Paperspigot well-optimized, with absoluty nothing on the server" At this time, 1.14.x isn't the most stable server version to be using. That's outside of our control. We're looking forward to Paper 1.14.3.
Thanks,
deploys.io
IO
Ion
I had a lot of issues with random…
I had a lot of issues with random timeouts (down time),and the bandwidth 1TB limit is hidden (i can't find anyting on website about this). I can not recommend this hosting..
Response from Venelium HostingJun 17, 2019
Hello,
Thank you for taking the time to review us!
The traffic limit is mentioned clearly in the product description as you order.
Thanks,
deploys.io