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Servage.net hosting expereince?

safknw - April 5, 2007 - 21:18

I'm looking for hosting company.
I want to host my site and my clients sites.
I want to what is ur experience abt http://www.Servage.net
Servage provide provides 3ooGB+ space.
Pls suggest me any good hosting company for drupal related sites.

I want to keep clients site totally separate from my site.

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Sharique

I use Servage for one of my

newms - April 5, 2007 - 23:17

I use Servage for one of my sites. They have an auto installer for D5. In terms of support, they use an email ticket system and they reply within a couple of hours at most, sometimes within a few minutes. Their servers' speed are comparable with Dreamhost, at which I also have another Drupal site - most times Servage is faster than Dreamhost. Servage is also good at rolling out new services. Since I've been with them (less than 1 year) they've reduced their cost from $7.50/ month to $6.45/month, while raising the space from 75GB to 310GB, so I'm pretty happy with what I get for the money I pay. Servage doesn't give you ssh access though, which Dreamhost does. You have to ftp everything with Servage. If you want a coupon from Servage for extra webspace, let me know.

newms

I use Servage.net

Sverre - April 6, 2007 - 19:11

I use Servage.net for hosting. They have an impressive range of features which are listed on their home page: http://www.servage.net/?coupon=cust15086 (If you sign up via this link you'll earn an extra 25GB space for yourself, and 2 months free hosting for my Scout Group, otherwise you can use this link: http://www.servage.net/)

The biggest point I'd make is that their customer service is second to none! They are very quick to reply, very quick to fix problems, and very friendly! They also constantly seem to be adding new features to their, already comprehensive, custom control panel. They have Drupal 5.0 available for automatic installation, and offer easy to configure cron jobs.

With Servage.net you are able to add additional ftp accounts, and restrict access appropriately. You can also host unlimited domains, so if you are building for separate customers who would like their own ftp access, this can be set up easily.

If you want to try out a Servage.net hosted site use our link below. (You may wish to disable javascript to get true speeds as the Miva Ads we use cause a slight delay.)

Hope this helps. Feel free to ask any more questions you have about Servage.net. :-)
--
Sverre Sverresonn
Group Scout Leader
21st Medway Scouts, Kent, UK
http://www.21stmedway.org.uk/

Servage coupon

testhosts - October 8, 2007 - 22:18

I have a 30% off for life coupon: NURA
This was given to me sometime ago, but I don't earn any commission from it.
Maybe someday :(

If you want more coupons, for other webhosters, please check: http://www.coupons.fm

We using Servage hosting

safknw - April 28, 2007 - 11:20

We using Servage hosting since 1 month.
We are with happy with there service. They have a good support.
If somebody need coupon pls visit this link.
http://www.servage.net/?coupon=CUST34239
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Sharique uddin Ahmed Farooqui
IT head, Managefolio.com

Servage is the Worst Host I've Had

blackbook - October 27, 2007 - 19:56

I have used a few different hosts and id have to say that Servage is the worst host i have ever had. Constant down times, slow connection speeds, i frequently get cant connect to the db error messages. Recently they were down from Friday 6 pm to Monday with very very few times in between i could get on my site.

Save yourself the headache and dont use servage. they may offer a ton of goodies but they are far from beig able to actually fullfilling it.

There answer is

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Hello Jeff,

Can you check after few hours it should be working fine.

Kind regards,
Peter, Servage Hosting

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VERRRRYYYYYY disapointed!!!!

I am new to Drupal and to

mathieusanders - October 30, 2007 - 19:11

I am new to Drupal and to Servage, but not to web design or hosting. I'm just like everyone else, I HATE to go looking for new hosts. I did a bunch of research and asked them a bunch of questions. I decided what the heck and went with Servage. Since then, I've been VERY happy. The D5 autoinstaller worked great, and I'm well on my way to creating my first site, without the headache of setting it up and trying to troubleshoot the install.

They also offer SSH now, (To the comment above), and a million other things I'll probably never need. I'm pretty happy with them.

Oh, and stop posting the coupon codes - that's just sad. (To everyone else, with servage you can get two months free and extra storage space if you get someone to use your coupon.)

Traffic?

WithoutaDoubt - November 7, 2007 - 08:54

What kind of traffic are you hosting on your account? Anybody really taxing a servage.net account?
Their AUP is vague, and they only have a 5 day cancellation policy. I wish hosting companies would try to post reasonable figures for actual usage. I doubt if you could ever get the 360GB 3600GB they offer. All the hosts are doing it, and it sucks. What you really want is CPU time and query performance/volume. Could we start a thread that forgets about disk space bandwidth and rates the host for killer AUP's?

Servage.net may be just fine. I have not tested. It is just promising a lot of space and bandwidth with a clever and all too common caveat: Don't use much of the CPU or we can terminate you with no refund!

Network Performance

Servage accounts operate on shared resources. Excessive use or abuse of these shared network resources by one customer may have a negative impact on all other customers. Misuse of network resources in a manner which impairs network performance is prohibited by this policy and may result in termination of your account. You are prohibited from excessive consumption of resources, including CPU time, memory, disk space and session time. You may not use resource-intensive programs which negatively impact other customers or the performances of Servage systems or networks. Customers are not allowed to resell our services without permission. Servage reserves the right to terminate or limit such activities.

-Tom

Hi, I've been rather

SabbeRubbish - January 8, 2008 - 21:38

Hi,

I've been rather unsatisfied with servage lately. When working with drupal (many modules, but little activity and small userbase, about 50 people and some bots of course), but sometimes pages laod at MORE THAN 16s... Average of about 4s per page, which is way too much for the small pages I host (php in drupal yes, but with little content). It took their support team a week to figure out that they might try migrating to the newest cluster. Well fine by me, but the problems started again after 3 weeks. Now, nothing like migrating helps as I'm on the newest server already... After reading this thread, could it be CPU time I'm lacking?

SabbeRubbish

Servage = no worries

Matt B - January 11, 2008 - 05:53

SabbeRubbish

It sounds like I have a similar setup to you, but if anything, apart from a glitch a month or so ago, my servage hosted drupal site is running faster than ever. And now they've increased everyone's webspace to 510GB!

Matt

Testing and analysis...

Sverre - January 15, 2008 - 12:49

Hi SabbeRubbish,
I'd suggest that you take a serious look at what's going on behind the scenes of your site. I think the Devel module gives a query break down, times and that sort of thing (but don't hold me to it) and might show you where the problems are. I agree with you, I wouldn't stand for the page load times you're talking about, but I've never experienced them with Servage.
Try using the boost module for annonymous visitors too. It made a tremendous improvement on some of my sites.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Sverre :-)

--
Sverre Sverresonn
Group Scout Leader
21st Medway Scouts, Kent, UK
http://www.21stmedway.org.uk/

Servage

CharlotteDK - January 12, 2008 - 13:30

I had been using Servage.net for about two years and was quite satisfied - until my site got too big! I got the problem that the monthly bandwidth limit was enough for me - but my site unfortunately used more in weekends than in weekdays, but overall it would fit with the monthly bandwidth. However Servage did not accept that I used a lot in the weekends and less on weekdays - their monthly limit was devided equally on all the days! So in the busy weekends my website would normally go down in the middle of the afternoon because I had used my daily limit! People would then have to wait until after midnight when Servage would reset it and start on a new day's limit. I tried to get Servage to understand that the monthly bandwidth limit was fine - I just needed the daily bandwidth limit not to exist so that it would not go down on the busy days, but that was not possible.

And the end I found another webhost without this daily bandwidth - but Servage could not accept that. They got tucows to lock my domain. After some fight about that I agreed to pay Servage 3 ekstra months of compensation despite that I didn't owe them anything, but I was tired of fighting and just wanted to be able to use the domain I rightfully owned. They got the money, but still didn't unlock my domain! My website was down, my domain locked and for 4 months I tried to sort out the mess, but got nowhere. When it expired I couldn't renew it and I lost that domain. So despite that Servage for nearly two years was a good host for me I can only conclude that I will never again have anything to do with them.

I have one site with them

newms - January 15, 2008 - 03:37

I have one site with them and this is absolutely scary. Hosts do not and should not 'own' your domain name. This is really bad, really really bad. Make a note for future reference or for anyone reading this: Never, ever register your domain name with your host. Use a domain registration company separate from your host. Can save you a lot of headaches.

EDIT: For what its worth Servage does allow you to transfer your domain from their control panel.

Different Registrar

Sverre - January 15, 2008 - 12:31

I have to say I totally agree. Although I host with Servage, all of my domain name registrations are done through 1&1. All I have to do is set up the DNS for my domains on 1&1 to point at the Servage nameservers. Both Servage and 1&1 provide good instructions on how to do this.
Should anything ever go wrong with Servage (not that I've had any problems) I can have my domains pointing at a new location in about 24 hours.
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Sverre Sverresonn
Group Scout Leader
21st Medway Scouts, Kent, UK
http://www.21stmedway.org.uk/

Servage is a total FAILURE

bizaro - February 16, 2008 - 20:27

I have a hosting account at servage.net and it turned out to be a big SCAM, they took my money and suspended my

account.
Reason: " At this time today our servers have
served more than 428456 requests for your account."
That's nowhere in the terms of service, and they even don't want to refund me.

This service is only ok for small websites, when you have more than 200-300 users daily, they will surly suspend the

account to keep their servers running.

I advice other hosting purchaser to STAY AWAY from servage if you want a professional and reliable hosting service

and not a service that shuts down your service when they want to.

Are YOU taking your website seriously?

Sverre - February 18, 2008 - 18:46

Hi Bizaro,
Just an observation, but if your website is getting the use you suggest, why are you only prepared to spend £4.50 a month on it?
The Servage bandwidth usage information is about half way down their terms of service page. They quite openly state that if you expect high usage then you should look elsewhere.
I have six small society / group and personal blog sites (plus a whole load of development and testing sites) running quite happily within the allowed bandwidth, each receiving around 200 unique visitors and 1000+ page views per day. I think I'm getting pretty good value for money!
When I've set up intranet applications for the number of users you're talking about, they get a dedicated database server, load balanced web servers and their own backup servers and storage. Compare the cost of those to the £4.50 a month you pay for hosting with Servage... You get what you pay for!
Please don't take this as an attack on you personally. You are to be congratulated and commended on producing what has obviously become a very successful site, but (just like drupal.org a short while ago) as your site increases in popularity, you have to be prepared to increase your hosting infrastructure and budget.
Regards,
Sverre :-)
--
Sverre Sverresonn
Group Scout Leader
21st Medway Scouts, Kent, UK
http://www.21stmedway.org.uk/

Servage is no longer good

safknw - February 17, 2008 - 15:30

After using for more than 10 months, now servage is no longer good. performance of site is getting down and down. Even fresh install of drupal takes more than 1 min to load.
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Sharique uddin Ahmed Farooqui
Web Developer
http://it.Managefolio.com

I've been with Servage.net

gestroud - February 21, 2008 - 14:27

I've been with Servage.net for 3 months, as of February 2008. My sites have been innaccessible 5 times during that period. Entire sites were "unable to be found on the server. SITES, not files.

Responses to support tickets say, "We're aware of the problem. Please be patient."

Once I couldn't access any sites for over 8 hours.

Whenever I have asked them what caused the problem, I get no response.

There are also frequent database connection problems.

Another negative is their 5-day money back guarantee. There is no pro-rating. Once you sign up with them, you're stuck - unless you get smart and decide to change hosts.

I am changing hosts.

Bottom line. Servage is a webmaster's nightmare.

"Servage is a webmaster's

SabbeRubbish - February 21, 2008 - 21:30

"Servage is a webmaster's nightmare."

I agree :(

I had one of my site hosted

drupaloSa - February 24, 2008 - 11:41

I had one of my site hosted by Servage.net a few years ago. I did know they were overselling but in addition to that fact, they were cheating with bandwith usage statistics (multiplying the actual usage by x 10). However, i didn't have other problems and since my site didn't get much traffic, bandwith usage wasn't a serious problem for me.

Just yesterday I've had to

SabbeRubbish - February 24, 2008 - 20:26

Just yesterday I've had to move my account to another cluster again, because the load on one cluster got too much to keep supporting my (low-load) site...

Awful :(

Can anyone suggest an alternative? Preferrably in Belgium or nearby for low costs?

Thanks! Mail is fine.

B E W A R E Of This Frud Host

lion21 - March 8, 2008 - 17:26

I have a hosting account at servage.net and it turned out to be a big SCAM, they took my money and suspended my account.
Reason: " At this time today our servers have
served more than 428456 requests for your account."
That's nowhere in the terms of service, and they even don't want to refund me.

I advice other hosting purchaser to STAY AWAY from servage if you want a professional and reliable hosting service and not a service that shuts down your service when they want to and put there own site in place of your site .

Do not host with Servage

prxbl - March 28, 2008 - 10:07

here i wrote about the problems i had with servage on my blog, if you want to stay away from trouble dont host with them
http://www.proxyutza.com/today-i-ended-my-servage-problems/
http://www.proxyutza.com/exploit-iframe-trojan-infection/

$1.55 or 1.55€ discount per month, forever

guykelly - April 25, 2008 - 17:22

If anyone is interested in opening an account on this great hosting provider and wants to save a few bucks, he can use the CRA100 coupon code. This coupon does not expires and gives a $1.55 or 1.55€ discount on the monthly fee (found on retailmenot.com).
Here is the direct link to use it www.servage.net?coupon=CRA100

On retailmenot.com there are other dozens of coupons, but they all give only 25GB of more space or they are fake
http://www.retailmenot.com/view/servage.net

If you really want a good

SabbeRubbish - April 26, 2008 - 10:02

If you really want a good coupon code (I think 20% or 25% off) use NURA.
Found this from some other guy's site, don't remember, was months ago.

concerning

dman - April 26, 2008 - 10:40

The features list is very good, the control panel quite useful, cost is great, and the support responses are FAST
BUT
the service responses seem to be only first-level and in all my requests regarding actual issues I've never got any admin-level response from anyone who can read logs, identify problems, or even access the server files. It's feel-good service only.

I've seen a few serious security compromises of the accounts I manage and manage for others there. No satisfactory explanation from the support tickets.
Performance is just adequate ... and I've not even tried running anything with serious turnover.
I've had total inaccessability at times, and last week my folders disappeared entirely for a few days!
My files have been infected with web-bugs several times!, using permissions stronger than my account or my web process could have done via exploits.

Altogether, it's certainly nowhere I can trust without regular backups.

.dan.
How to troubleshoot Drupal | http://www.coders.co.nz/

Servage didn't work for me

Steve Lockwood - April 28, 2008 - 17:38

I hosted a website on Servage for a short time. They were pretty good at setting the service up and the performance was OK at first. After a few days the performance got worse and worse - despite the fact that there were four load-balanced servers, queries would time out (that's if I got any response at all). Complaints to the help desk were met with vague responses and the poor response continued. I paid 18 months in advance and it was a waste of money.

Never

roturkiye - April 29, 2008 - 14:28

never go with Servage

dont go servage, worst customer service there is

pyrorain - May 6, 2008 - 06:38

worst customer service, useless technical support. Lying sales people, oversellers, daily broken dbs,

Pre-sales girl lied to me, she said i could host an image host, as long as no abusive material was used.
I get package, 10-12 days later I get a Tos violation notice: I wasn't allowed to have an image host, I told them about my presales inquiries, and 3 days later, no response, So i decided to move, I asked them for my moneyback, since i was lied to, they said no, because they only refund within 5 days of getting the package. Then they make the stupid sales girl respond tot he suppor tticket and she claims that she never assured me for "file hosting anyways", after I paste the email she herself sent me.

presales email:

fromServage - Julie topyrorain@gmail.com

,
dateThu, Apr 17, 2008 at 1:27 AMsubjectRe: websitemailed-byservage.net
hide details Apr 17 (12 days ago)
Reply
Hello Pyrorain,
Thank you for your reply.
Yes you can host also picture hosting website. But according to our TOS no
abusive links or materials or not even copyright materials are allowed here.
Thank you :)
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same girl responded to me in support ticket

May 05 - 07:27 GMT
Servage - Julie
Hello Angel

Our admin has suspended for file sharing free images. and made that comment "We ask you to remove the file sharing service within 48 hours.". I never assured you for file sharing anyway.

Thank you.

Kind regards,
Julie, Support Team Member
Servage Hosting

never go servage.

I've just transferred my

superjacent - May 6, 2008 - 09:03

I've just transferred my sites from Servage.net. My sites are not mega huge but I was experiencing extreme slowness and numerous downtimes. About four weeks ago I mentioned to them re - slowness of my site. They offered to transfer my account over to a new cluster which should speed things up. I agreed to the changeover. As far as I could tell the speed of the site was the same. Also, I still had downtimes (Murphy's law, they always happen at the most inconvenient time).

I started with Servage in Jan 2007 and my account expires about Dec 2008.

Whilst researching hosting companies I also found that the download speeds from Servage (for 20mb file) were up to three times slower (sometimes longer) (no exaggeration) compared to my short-listed hosting companies. I conducted these tests numerous times over a few days.

For me here in Australia, ping times were slower with Servage than my short-listed hosting companies based in the US. I think that is beyond Servage's control but is a factor from my point of view.

I can't be overly critical of their help system. I don't think I over taxed them with technical issues (not that I'm a pro) but in the main my queries were answered promptly. Out of about 20 support tickets entered I only rated their support service as unsatisfactory once. The unsatisfactory support was in relation to the setting up of Google Apps (Mx records & CNAME changes).

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