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Been a customer since 2010 with multiple vps instances, currently renting a 1GB OpenVZ vps, the uptime has been virtually 100% for a few years, possibly five nines, or 5 minutes down per year, mostly during reboot. I've had two ultra-cheap vps instances, both had an overcrowded host and were unstable, but the more expensive ones work fine. The specs for my current vps are adequate for running several NodeJS instances. Kernel version is 3.16.x. Excellent bandwidth (1Gb/s down). 50GB of storage sufficiently fast for light I/O. This is a low cost provider so not much to expect from support. Customer care is adequate relative to the price, but in absolute terms it's lacking. Caveats: 1) Obsolete operating system images. Some OS'es allow to self-upgrade, so not necessarily an issue; 2) The kernel does not support some basic netfilter directives, so firewall remains disabled; 3) Memory overcommitment is expected. This hasn't been an issue with my constant/predictable memory usage. 4 stars in relation to the price.

Since Orange Inc purchased ChicagoVPS and Velocity Servers again in July 2018, it has gotten a whole lot better! The VPS servers are always working, staff are very polite and will help you with any issue. The servers of ColoCrossing are hosted on OCVPS and are very responsive.

They provide very fast VPS servers, they have good support now and they'll help you with anything and work out almost any problem you have.

I'm their client for a year now and I'm more than satisfied. I came from years of Linode, where the price wasn't good and the reliability either (too many resets for maintenance); I've got the 2016 BlackFriday 5 bucks OpenVZ sale and it was the best think I did: no downtimes so far! Would recommend to my friends (like I already did in this 2017 Black Friday) and anyone looking for a good VPS.

Cheap. Generally ok VPS service, have had issues with being on nodes with abusive users, and have had issues with support erasing my container when I only asked them to unmount the installation iso (as the control panel is a bit broken)