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I was running my website on their Advanced Web Hosting (shared hosting for 4 domains) plan for a month. I was getting 508 Resource Limit Reached errors after opening lots of tabs simultaneously, being heavily limited by their IOPS limit, according to cPanel. Also, their cPanel is very unstable, either throwing me out of my account every 2 minutes or pouring lots of red errors at me, stacked on top of each other the way they're not even readable. This plan would probably fit a very lightweight website that doesn't have anything more than text and a few icons stored on it, but not anything heavier than that. Again, that's an Advanced plan for 4 domains, not the Basic one for a single domain. I can only imagine how the Ultimate plan with unlimited domains would perform if you put a few websites on it. After the first month, I switched to the VPS plan from Hostwinds. And it performs almost perfectly. Maybe only the client area UI is a bit outdated, but it's not that important when you visit it once a month. It has every setting you might need, such as firewall profiles, lots of Linux distros, IP management, logs, a simple graph for memory/CPU usage, SSH keys manager, and some other little things. I've had no 508 errors since then, and, combined with Cloudflare, my website is as responsive as it should be. I'm running it with a cPanel alternative called CyberPanel, but they offer cPanel as a paid option if you need it. The point is, I can't recommend their shared hosting, but I do recommend checking their VPS plans if you're confident with this type of hosting. Only because they provide a good VPS service I'm raising the rating to 4, as of the shared hosting, I'd probably put 2 or even 1.

I was asked to provide more info but missed the arbitrary deadline (busy with work). I'm happy to provide Hostwinds with the ticket number (which was the first of a long and unproductive series of tickets): Ticket ID: #06272022817-4979227. I hope this helps. ----------------------- Customer service employs some of the nicest, most polite, and most helpful people I've ever dealt with--and I've been around this industry for twenty plus years. However, when it comes to effectiveness and getting the problem solved... not so great. I gave up switching from our current provider to Hostwinds after a frustrating experience with their VPS and their best shared hosting business plan. Both didn't get set up properly and the cs folks spent an inordinate amount of time trying to figure things out, opening a new ticket at every turn. I ended up with over a dozen tickets and no resolution. Gave up.

Nothing special to tell yet. All works fine for the moment. Thanks much!!!

After I had initialized the (unmanaged) VPS instance, and logged in 3 or 4 times via ssh (without problems), suddenly I got authentication error from ssh, ---- Received disconnect from IP-address port 22:2: Too many authentication failures Disconnected from IP-address port 22 ---- I opened a ticket with support and I felt they were not helpful at all and they demanded that I bought managed support before they would help me. I guessed that some program (e.g. fail2ban) running on the VPS instance was reacting to ssh attacks on the VPS, and banning all connections. I could not verify that, since I could not log in. Support did not comment on that. I reinstalled the VPS instance but that did not help (at least not yesterday) so I shut the VPS down and wanted to try later. I desided to try a last time this morning and reinstalled the server and tried again but initially with the same result as before. But suddenly I got a password prompt and could log in and have no idea what caused that. Since than there have been no problems. I decided to upgrade OS to the latest version (from Fedora 32 to Fedora 36) and that was painless but time consuming. I will now continue to set up the server and will continue to be a Hostwinds customer, given that there are not any further problems of this sort.

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