Anyone have a dedicated server with BeyondHosting? (22)
Hey guys,
Would any of you with a tracker hosted on a BeyondHosting dedicated server be kind enough to post the results of a quick Blitz.io test?
I'm doing some server shopping and am considering making the switch to them from LiquidWeb. It all comes down to how well they perform.
For comparison's sake here are the numbers I got on my LW box through
Specs on my LiquidWeb box are an E3-1240 V2, 30GB ram, 460GB SSD in RAID10 running Nginx, php-fpm and MariaDB.
The BH servers I'd be most interested in comparing this would be the DVS 12 or 24G running Litespeed. But if you have any box over there, please post your results as well. Thanks! 
I know Beyond hosting is a reputable company, but it's also well known that it's huge with affiliates.
I know there's a skype group where a user scraped a TON of Ip blocks that Beyond were using, and reverse IP'd them all for landing pages/trackers..
Food for thought..
worth checking these too.. I have a great fast one here http://www.reliablesite.net/default.aspx
Originally Posted by dynamicsoul
Funny you should mention those guys, I was just on their site last week configuring a box. I found them on WHT and was really liking their pricing, although ended up with LW as I needed to decide quickly and didn't know how reliable they were.
Had I read this post of yours then, I might've gone with ReliableSite instead. I'll keep them in mind as I may have a use for a server there regardless.
And the reason I was curious about BeyondHosting benchmarks specifically, is because after a recent conversation with Tyler, he explained how their dedicated server lineup are using this as storage. So I'm pretty curious to see how well that affects tracker performance, vs. traditional SSD drives on other places. But I totally get what you're saying about them being an "easy target."
hi. do you know if any of datacenters mentioned is "bulk email friendly" ?
i usually work with 32 ips dedicatedserv setups . thks
Originally Posted by integrity
Yeah, I'm sure Tyler is on his game. The company wouldn't have lasted this long otherwise, in what is the cut throat world of server hosting. Was just pointing out what I know, first hand, has happened at least once. He threw a good handful of lander urls into the skype group. I actually took one myself lol. Sorry if it's anyone from this board!!..
Originally Posted by dynamicsoul
Originally Posted by dynamicsoul
I know were paying the absolute bottom dollar on quality gear and bandwidth... those prices will yield a 1 year+ ROI on a box alone.
Not complaining here 
.. I've had an 8 core dedi with them for about a year, and must say out of the 5 dedis I've owned it's been by far the most reliable (no pun intended) and fastest bandwidth/port connection I've had.
Say compared to one I picked up for $64 a month in black friday deals at https://fliphost.net/
Which has 16 cores, 24GB ram.. and the connection is far far slower.. but its a good backup/place to test.
Maybe it's an outlet for their surplus stock, I read on WHT that Reliablesite is an offshoot of some company that has a big gaming server division.
Originally Posted by BeyondHosting-Tyler
Okay, so I decided to jump in myself after chatting with BH support for a bit. They even offered to set up a test box for me, but after speaking with Tyler and seeing how well their support team had handled my inquiry, I decided I should just give them a chance to earn my business.
Went ahead and picked up the DVS 12G box, as it was pretty similar to the LW box I benched in the start of this thread. Took about 6-8 hours to get the server set up with all my trackers and work out a few bugs that popped up here and there. Throughout, their support team was excellent. I can say that every support ticked I made during my server setup was handled extremely quickly. So far so good.
After everything was set up I ran the same Blitz.io benchmark as seen in the OP. Results:
Needless to say, I'm not impressed by these initial results at all. As it was, the server was supposed to be optimized to handle this load. It's even slightly more overpowered than the LiquidWeb box I benched earlier.
I have a tech looking into this as we speak. Will post updates as soon as I get them.
I'll check it out and clarify your questions in support.
Blitz.io results are going to be skewed because Litespeed throttles per ip request, blitz test from a single source and is being held back.
It's not an accurate benchmark of any server.
I'll work with you in this ticket to make your server look good on blitz.io, I can't recommend setting any of these throttling values for production as a single rogue system could take your webserver down.
Thanks Tyler, I'd appreciate that.
To be honest, I was just about to change the DNS info back to LiquidWeb for this test server. I understand Blitz may not be an accurate benchmark, but it's what I've used for all my servers and been able to get the results posted above. I've ran that test with multiple servers, multiple trackers, including hosted ones like
By adjusting the LS connection limits we were able duplicate the other test results.
I still stand by the fact that blitz.io (an apache ab front end) is a very poor representation of performance.
Originally Posted by dynamicsoul
You won't be able to do that soon with IPv6, the network ranges will be so massive, and each customer will get a /64 of ip space for their own usage. Pretty neat stuff! :-)
So I gotta say, I'm really impressed by BH so far. Tyler personally took over my ticket and optimized my server himself. I haven't hosted in many places where the CEO does that for you free of charge--none, actually.
After everything was said and done, here are the results:
Night and day from the previous run we did. Needless to say, I'm a very happy customer right now. And while it performs pretty similarly to my LiquidWeb unmanaged box (slightly faster, actually), it's cheaper (30% off coupon) and includes all this support.
Impressive stuff, Tyler.
Here's a transcript from our conversation in the ticket (in case you think this is just a marketing ploy to get you to buy from BH--it's not )
So in a nutshell, Beyond is a solid host with stellar support. If this comes off as too salesy, that's my inner marketer speaking. But when I get service this good somewhere, I have to make it known.
And as far as people sniffing BH IP ranges to find landers.. I'm honestly not worried about that at all. Your stuff will get picked up anyways from spy tools, similarweb, affiates snooping around, ect.. If it's such a huge deal, get Cloudflare like mentioned before and swap out your domains on a regular basis before they get crawled.
Tyler, would be nice if you guys got some servers over in Europe.
If anyone knows a really reliable colocation provider that has good english speaking noc hands we would happily deploy services there.
I've just not came across any reputable providers that I would willingly send gear to.
Would london be of any interest?
+ 1 for servers in Europe .
+ 100 for Tyler and BH, we've been recommending them for years.
Well we've gotten a lot of interest, we will have cloud servers available in london soon.
Waiting on colocation contracts, bandwidth and gear to ship.
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