Performance is obviously not has good as any dedicated machine would be but is just as good as any shared hosting account. I ran phpspeed which is a nice quick MySQL/PHP server benchmark on the VPS right after it was setup. The score I got was about 25% higher than when I ran the same test on my existing shared hosting provider. I’ve clocked the bandwidth I’m currently getting at 7 MBps with a simple process of downloading a large file from burst.net to a dedicated host I have access to.

Uptime has been pretty good. Over the past year and a half there have been a few power failures resulting about 8 hours of downtime. A couple of times I’ve been migrated to a new node with just a few minutes of downtime. So it’s very good for a host at this price. Support requests have been handled in a timely manor usually just a few hours. They were very knowledgeable too especially with usually problems like when I was using too much Disk I/O running Squid Cache Proxy software.

There other products are very reasonably priced with dedicated hosting starting less than $50. So unless you need absolute 100% uptime and support that will hold your hand and set everything up for you I highly recommend burst.net

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