ServerBeach

ServerBeach dedicated server hosting reviewed.

The good life

After using RackShack for several months and being sorely disappointed, I spent several days researching several dedicated servers.

My shopping list looked like this:

cPanel

WebHost Manager

500+ GB of Bandwidth Per Month

Super Fast Connections

1GB RAM for under $150 Per Month

I also wanted a dedicated host who had a good reputation. RackShack had been one huge circus of incompetence. As the CEO of V7 Inc, I guarantee 99.9% uptime. When RackShack incompetence took my server offline for days and even weeks at a time, I knew I wasn't going to make the same mistake twice.

While researching ServerBeach, I also looked into several other dedicated hosting providers - Hostway, ServePath, Hurricane Electric, RackSpace, Dialtone, ValueWeb - and by the time I made the decision to go with ServerBeach, I had every confidence in their professionalism.

Unmanaged Servers

ServerBeach provides low cost unmanaged servers. That is to say, if you don't know anything about server administration, go elsewhere.

Because there is some confusion surrounding the support issue, let me take a minute to clarify.

Being unmanaged, ServerBeach charges $15 per trouble ticket. But this only applies to issues that are your fault. Free support includes:

Network problems

Hardware failures

DNS via the DNS Tool in MyServerBeach

Operating system reloads (hardware related)

Reboots

Licensing inquiries and issues

Billing Issues

ServerBeach is right for you if you are a compentent server admin, or employ a competent server administrator. If you don't know DNS from MSG, you might want to think about a shared hosting service, or managed servers from RackSpace.

ServerBeach provides you with the hardware and a basic OS install. You provide the rest.

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