I am customer since last month, and I have no problems with Heavy Node, they have a good support team and usually responds to tickets in a couple of hours.
Previously I was client from another Hosting company (Sparked Host) and after some network issues (and they have an egocentric posture as they always thinks that their services are ok no matter if the customer complains for the service) I have decided to try Heavy Node, and I am happy with the decision that I have made, so I have switched all of my servers to Heavy Node. At now, I have 5 services with Heavy Node, and all of them are working with no issues and with a good performance.
The services that Heavy Node offers are great with good hardware, professional support, and with an excellent uptime! I am surprised because Heavy Node is one of the few companies that offers transparency with a detailed status page of all of your services.
Thanks Heavy Node for the excellent customer experience that I have.
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Arl
The WORST hosting *BAD SUPPORT, BAD SERVERS*
The WORST hosting company I've bought from. Their prices are truly too good to be true. Our server purchases web hosting, Discord bot hosting, and MC hosting all from HeavyNode. The server was only 2 GB to test out the quality of the hosting company, and it was UNBEARABLE. The server constantly crashed after any mediocre WorldEdit operation, and the TPS was far below 20. We requested a refund, and was quickly granted our money back, but the support team did not hesitate to explain that the lag was because we did not buy their top plan, and were running a high-intensive server, when we were just running Vanilla.
We moved to MCProhosting, who do indeed have very steep prices, but is worth it. In a comparable plan in terms of memory and ram, our server runs flawlessly, meaning the problem with the lag was not with our playing on the server but rather their subpar hardware.
As for the webhosting, it was sufficient for a while, but when we needed FTP credentials, it took 2 days for their Support Team to respond with the info. Then, the website broke unexpectedly, right after we requested our refund for our Minecraft server. I'm not making claims, but thats suspicious to me. Anyways, we requested support and their team responded that it is out of their scope of support and that we should upgrade our plan for increased support, yet we already were on the topmost plan, showing that they pasted a generic response without reading our problem or looking into our info.
As for the Discord bot hosting, it was sufficient at first too, but came with no information on limitations or usage, so even for our experienced system administrators, it was a lot of guessing and testing to get our bot setup on the server.
Continuing, our website was broken for over a week, and our support tickets were ignored. We finally requested our money back again, and they responded by banning our account from creating tickets. We tried joining their Discord server for more explanation, but we were instantly banned from the server without even saying a word. We tried friending a support rep but it was declined.
The support team, which quite literally seems to only be one person (a Rodrigo), is horrendous. There is no sense of respect, expertise, or care in regards to their relations with customers.
Do not believe all of the 5 star reviews posted here, I'd be surprised if they were truly real. Do not purchase anything from this server hosting company. They will provide services that aren't even worth their low prices.
Do more research on other hosting companies, but once again, we went with MCProhosting.
EDIT: went on their discord on a different account to show them this review and tell potential customers to reach out to me for my personal experience and was quickly banned :)
seems they are hiding truthful testimonials and refuse to rectify their mistakes.
this company has to be the most unprofessional organization I've dealt with.
Response from HeavyNodeMay 2, 2020
Hello,
There are multiple points on this review, so I'm going to go over them in the order they were written.
First, as for the Minecraft hosting service, the customer ordered a 2GB plan, and then proceeded to try running a Minecraft: Java Edition 1.15.2 server on it. It is well known that modern Minecraft versions (namely past 1.12) require a considerable amount of memory due to Mojang's lack of optimization and poor coding technics. This was explained as such to the customer and it is also frequently mentioned in all our communications channel.
It is important to note that the customer requested a refund OUTSIDE of the moneyback guarantee period, which, as per our terms of service, is handled at our discretion. (Policy 4.1 at https://heavynode.com/terms). It is also important to mention that the customer threatened us with a message which we will quote below:
"I'd like to request a FULL REFUND for my Hub server. It's been two weeks, yes, but I am a new user and did not know within these 2 weeks that this could happen. I'm sorry, and you may not accept this refund, but I would like to request it either way. If I do not get a refund, that is fine, however I will leave a bad review wherever I can, therefore that the hosting for minecraft is terrible - cheap, but bad. I'm sorry for this"
After evaluating this request and the fact that the transaction was under $10 ($5.50 on this case), our management team took the decision to issue a refund as it was not really a big loss for us and we wanted to keep the customer happy.
Please note that at absolutely no moment the customer was asked nor suggested to purchase our top plan or similars. We simply adviced them that the minimum amount of memory recommended for Minecraft servers past 1.12 is of 3 to 4GB depending on the intended load.
Now, going onto the second subject, we do not provide 24-7 support in any form, nor we offer an SLA policy for our support service. We receive and handle support requests in a pre-defined schedule which can be found on our site, and even so, no guarantees of any kind are provided.
It is also important to note that the details requested by the customer had been already sent to their email at the time of purchase, and that it was advised to store that information in a safe place.
Our web hosting plans come as UNMANAGED solutions, which means we do not provide any support other than for the hardware, environment and panels. It is the customer responsibility to set up, configure and maintain the applications that they may wish to host on their services.
Furthermore, the customer openly admitted in a support ticket that they were trying to install a custom theme/some other modifications to the software running on their service, and that due to their lack of experience on it, they had caused an issue which took their application offline.
Please note that we do NOT offer any kind of management plan on our web hosting plans, and that it was never offered to you in any kind of form or shape simply because it does not exist, it's not something that we offer. If you feel like you received a canned response, it is because you submitted the same request multiple times after being explained that it's something that we do not offer support for.
Related to the Discord bot hosting, the customer seems to have never reached us out to inquiry about any of your concerns and/or questions. If the customer does not reach us, we are simply unable to help.
Continuing on the web hosting matter, if the customer's site was unavailable it was simply because of their own mistakes and lack of experience in the matter (and in fact, they even admitted it when they first reached us out for help). No ticket was ignored "for a week", you received a response in less than 24 hours on each ticket.
It is IMPORTANT to note that at some point you started insulting our support team, which is something that we we do not, and never will tolerate at any degree. We believe that everyone should be treated with respect no matter the situation, and even so, the customer had no reason or justification to disrespect our team.
Your customer account was indeed closed. However, this is because a) You ignored our request to be respectuflly with our team and b) You started a PayPal claim to reverse one of the payments for your services.
Please note the following:
As per the policy 5.1 of our Terms Of Service (https://heavynode.com/terms), any chargeback, dispute, or claim filed against us will result in an immediate and permanent termination of all products and/or services associated to the customer's account and the account itself despite of the outcome of the chargeback, dispute or claim.
As per the policy 3.1 of our Terms Of Service (https://heavynode.com/terms), we reserve the right to shut down, suspend, terminate or deny access to any product and/or service with or without reason, with or without advance notice. We are not responsible for any data loss related to the termination of products and/or services
The customer did not join our Discord community guild/server/chat until all of the previously explained events had happened, and when they did, they joined along with a bunch of their friends in a "raid-like" (a term often used in Discord to describe when a lot of users join at the same time to a determined guild/server/chat in the spite of causing a disturb/drama on it) mode.
Furthermore, it is not true that these users were banned from our Discord community guild/server/chat after "not even saying a word". Shortly after joining, they started trying to create a situation of "drama" by talking about false claims regarding our services between them, simulating what would have been a legit conversation between a customer and people interested in buying services (which of course was totally fake). We have a strict policy of zero "trolling", "drama", etc, in order to keep our community as a safe, friendly and secure space for everyone on it.
Finally, we have never disrespected the customer in any way, shape or form. They were treated with respect at all times and under all their requests despite they were disrespectful with us and proceeded to insult our team in multiple occassions.
Customer satisfaction is our primary goal and we are - and will always be - committed to work to meet this. However, on this case, this review has been built out of a bunch of fake claims and is totally unfair.
Best regards,
The HeavyNode Team
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Sreejith S.
You just gotta love this host
You just gotta love this host. I always use trust pilot to check out the reviews of different hosting companies but i've never written a review on anything before and this is my first time. THIS HOST IS JUST AMAZING. Like just take a look at their prices , its super affordable. it was too good to be true. I've bought a 5gb ram premium server from heavynode and its just amazing.
Lets talk about their support , its literally one of the best in the industry. i've troubled them soo much with all the server node change requests multiple times and they did it for me without any complains and it was quick.
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OKhan
Wonderful pre-sales support via…
Wonderful pre-sales support via Discord, they were able to answer a lot of specific questions I had about features of their panel that are critical to my setup (eg. automated backups, dedicated IP, specific ports).
The performance is fantastic! Better than other host I have used in the past, and all my players are reporting better pings since switching over to heavynode for our host.
EDIT: they have discord/support in Spanish as well.
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Gabriel A.
El mejor servidor para proyectos
Estoy coordinando la parte técnica de un proyecto de construcción de universidades de Cali en Minecraft por medio de HeavyNode para hosting, es de gran agrado decir que estas personas son extremadamente confiables y entregadas por ofrecer un buen servicio, la velocidad de respuesta es impresionantemente rápida, así como la solución de problemas y sus servidores ofrecen una gran estabilidad y rendimiento calidad/precio.
Si tuviese que recomendar un servicio de hosting para proyectos así de importantes o incluso para un servidor casual de juegos, recomendarìa HeavyNode sin pensármelo dos veces.
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Misty
My FAVORITE host ^-^
I'm extremely happy with HeavyNode's hosting for all their products/services. Honestly their servers are amazing and are super fast! When I needed support asking a few questions about their hosting Rodrigo A. was very helpful in answering all my questions and providing me with helpful support. I highly recommend to everyone that they use HeavyNode for server hosting. ^-^
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Ty P.
Beyond happy I found this host!
I am beyond thrilled with not only the physical servers provided by heavynode, but as well as the customer service who have well exceeded my expectations. Highly recommended for anyone looking for an actual good host who cares about their customers and who have the hardware to support their customers needs! This has been the most pleasant hosting company I've dealt with.
