Hivelocity HostingReviews of hivelocity.net

I was happy with their service, but when their hardware started failing it took almost 2 months from the first fail til the hardware replacement and the hardware replacement happened in business hours so we are moving to another provider.

I've gotten several "instant" servers that are claimed to be provided in 7 minutes. One time they took about 15 minutes. The other times several hours, and two days so far. It's hard to add ssh keys to a batch of servers. You need to do it manually one by one. You also need to add to cart individual servers, even if they are in fact the same server, or the same but in a different location, due to constraints in the UI that say there are no more available. Overall the process of requesting a server to be provisioned is very long both before and after purchase, and if you make a mistake and need to get a server refunded or reloaded, that also takes a long process of back and forth, chats, and paperwork. It's also impossible to set a single password for a batch of servers, which also makes it much harder to automate the process of adding the ssh keys on your end. Overall, adequate for a small number of servers if you're not in a rush (1-3). Provisory update: they have a great attitude in trying to solve things despite many things not "just working" at the first attempt and requiring manual checks and processes. Again I stress the very positive attitude but we agreed a certain number of servers deployed by today, paid for it, and so far at end of day I have gotten about a third of them and an "I don’t know that we have any capacity left. Will of course refund whatever we can’t provide." I've been a difficult user but if they make you pay and can't rely on availability quoted and committed two days ago it's obviously a problem.

I run a social media site with ~60 active users on my server. Recently, one of the more well-known users on my site was revealed to have been grooming minors and abusing their partner. They were swiftly banned, and the community was informed to break contact with that individual, including anonymous testimony and censored evidence from some of the victims. Unfortunately, that individual filed an abuse complaint to Hivelocity, with links to the posts, claiming harassment despite the posts specifically saying to disconnect from the individual. My belief was that because Hivelocity is considered a white-glove service, they'd thoroughly investigate the abuse complaints and recognize that the abuse reports were made falsely. Unfortunately, this was not the case. Despite providing explanations, the Hivelocity Abuse Team would only reply to me with the simple reply of "Case remains open pending removal of posts." This happened repeatedly over the last month. Any time a survivor would even mention the individual, a new abuse report would go to Hivelocity, and Hivelocity would tell me to take the post down. This is a VERY dangerous precedent to set, and basically makes it an unsafe provider, considering anyone is capable of forcing me to remove content, simply by falsely reporting a post to Hivelocity. +1 star because their tech support is genuinely good. But... I can't trust Hivelocity.

The support team is not good, they always put in my face that I have some few hours of support and I need to pay more to have more support, but I never know how many hours I have, it's not clear. Many times I lost time because support team not read all the ticket to understand the problem. I avoid ask help, because, almost always I have headache. The service is stable, only the support need to improve.

Poor Network to/from Asia and Poor Dashboard.

I have Linksys router connected to AT&T modem. Router is using Hivelocity.net. I found that download speed is slow. The upload is fine but download speed is 10 to 15% of download speed in comparison to modem speed. To clarify - it is not a problem of Hivelocity,nef and it is not a problem of AT&T modem. It is the problem connected with flashrouter that I bought.