Drupal.org: I have been with DVH since

Sun, 03/09/2008 - 15:01

Found at: http://drupal.org/node/201606#comment-727427


I have been with DVH since
The Fiddler - February 13, 2008 - 18:21

I have been with DVH since late November/early December, hosting www.opentk.com (the homepage of a game programming library). Things have been running great so far: server response times are excellent (testing from Europe), the pages are generated and served fast (generally under 1s on this site), and support tickets are answered promptly (haven't needed many of those, thankfully ;) )

My users were genuinely surprised by the response times when I moved to DVH. Granted, the site was hosted on sourceforge.net before, and it doesn't take much to surpass those servers in speed, but DVH was much faster than, say, NearlyFreeSpeech (which I tested at the same time).

My only "gripe" with DVH so far (gripe in quotes, since I am content with the service) is that the site hangs while performing a backup through cPanel. This can be a problem because the cPanel area is being throttled, making the backups take a long time. I'll have to check whether you can do live backups through phpMyAdmin or SSH, but this is something you need to be aware of.

Uptime has also been excellent so far. The only downtime I've ever observed happened 12 Feb, for a few minutes (a faulty hard disk was replaced on a server, no data lost).

Edit: phpMyAdmin can perform live backups, so the backup is a non-issue.

My last observation is that DVH has been steadily growing since November, with functionality being added and refined continuously (a good sign!). I'd say the only thing left for DVH now is the test of time, and, judging from their performance so far, things are looking great!