Servage.net hosting expereince?

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

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

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 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.)

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 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.

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.

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 .

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

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/

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.

I've reviewed servage.net in details and included a 5 MB file for you to download to let you test the download speed.
you can read the review at http://servage.serverbrowser.com/review

I have tried working with Servage.net. It is a miserable failure... because THEY are a miserable failure. NO ONE should EVER use them.

The web pages were so slow and cron and php would crawl, so I resorted for a while just using them for IMAP and FTP.

And then I backed up my office computers to FTP, on an account ONLY ever used by me... it took a lot of time. And then some Servage sysadmin went through my files and randomly deleted some (not all) and then sent me a message that I was using too much disk space (I was paying for and credited with bonuses that gave me 750GB, and I used 400GB for backups) AND they were going to delete anything they thought was copyrighted material.

They are friggin amateurs.

There are also wild differences in their different IMAP/POP servers. For example, srv15 will NOT work with iPhones, but srv9 and srv11 will.

There is also no SSL for email, they use vulnerable and antiquated ports to send and receive. They might as well just forward copies of all your emails to the myriad of Eastern European hackers that sift through their servers every day.

They also suffer from routine and inexplicable service outages. If you can access your email via webmail when client access fails - which happens to be about 4 hours of every week - and contact management, all they say is that "there is not problem so you must be doing something wrong".

Their customer service is a combination of keeping their head in the sand and outright lying to their clients.

There is no phone number to call, and their customer service email system (actually a web interface, which does no good when their own site goes down along with yours, which is often) is just full of emoticons and NEVER provides a real answer. They either deny there is a problem or give a :( like that is going to help your business and communications.

Furthermore, there is a glaring security problem with their client login. To wit, if you:

Log in the the CP as Domain A, then go to a different web page or even close the browser and then log into the CP as Domain B, you are taken to the the CP for Domain A even after Domain B's login being accepted. ONLY if you log out and quit the browser will you be limited to the CP for Domain A. This happens on all my Macs, running Safari OR Firefox 2.

I wrote into Servage about this very problem months ago... and they told me that it was impossible. Yet I still do it. I jacked into a client's website and created an paralell FTP account for myself to access his private files just to demonstrate. And Servage still denied that I did it.

In short, Servage should be run out of this business. They don't deserve at all to even be in the industry.

I quit my account AND I am posting this review/tip in as many places as I possibly can.