Excellent Service at a Great Price Excellent Service at a Great Price I can't speak more highly about the tech support. This is the key differentiator between hosting companies in my opinion. Without exception, they have in-depth knowledge and diagnose and solve issues that come up quickly. On top of that, they are on-site so they can pop over to check the hardware anytime. Server and networks are high-speed and well-maintained, and all this for a great price.

I've gotten several "instant" servers… I've gotten several "instant" servers that are claimed to be provided in 7 minutes. One time they took about 15 minutes. The other times several hours, and two days so far. It's hard to add ssh keys to a batch of servers. You need to do it manually one by one. You also need to add to cart individual servers, even if they are in fact the same server, or the same but in a different location, due to constraints in the UI that say there are no more available. Overall the process of requesting a server to be provisioned is very long both before and after purchase, and if you make a mistake and need to get a server refunded or reloaded, that also takes a long process of back and forth, chats, and paperwork. It's also impossible to set a single password for a batch of servers, which also makes it much harder to automate the process of adding the ssh keys on your end. Overall, adequate for a small number of servers if you're not in a rush (1-3). Provisory update: they have a great attitude in trying to solve things despite many things not "just working" at the first attempt and requiring manual checks and processes. Again I stress the very positive attitude but we agreed a certain number of servers deployed by today, paid for it, and so far at end of day I have gotten about a third of them and an "I don’t know that we have any capacity left. Will of course refund whatever we can’t provide." I've been a difficult user but if they make you pay and can't rely on availability quoted and committed two days ago it's obviously a problem.

My best experience with servers In the last 6 years I used the services of Amazon Cloud, Google Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, Microsoft Azure, OVH, RamNode, Digital Ocean, Vultr, TurnKeyInternet, Velia, and another one so cheap run by 1 guy which I don't remember. Even if I can say those services were good with a good support team, I must say Hivelocity gave me the best experience, with an extremely FAST an useful support. I'm not a IT professional but honestly I prefer to do everything by myself, and with their services I could go from an empty drive to a custom compiled kernel/image on a bare metal machine "overclocked" in the BIOS with recent Intel CPU. No downtime, at least the machine was up for months and I logged in 2/3 times a day and I never had any problem. And what made the difference is the PRICE for the VALUE. One simple Hivelocity bare metal server did the job of 23 Digital Ocean's VPS I was using when I chose to move.

Worst customer service. IPs are cheap but worst customer service. Multiple issues with upgrades and server changes with things they don't allow us to do like with IPs edits. They don't read tickets or replies on tickets, mostly skim over them resulting in having to repeat multiple times. Messages to upper management who told be to reach out to them if we had another issue was also filtered and/ or ignored.

Abuse Team Did Not Actually Investigate, Sided With a Groomer, Silenced Victims I run a social media site with ~60 active users on my server. Recently, one of the more well-known users on my site was revealed to have been grooming minors and abusing their partner. They were swiftly banned, and the community was informed to break contact with that individual, including anonymous testimony and censored evidence from some of the victims. Unfortunately, that individual filed an abuse complaint to Hivelocity, with links to the posts, claiming harassment despite the posts specifically saying to disconnect from the individual. My belief was that because Hivelocity is considered a white-glove service, they'd thoroughly investigate the abuse complaints and recognize that the abuse reports were made falsely. Unfortunately, this was not the case. Despite providing explanations, the Hivelocity Abuse Team would only reply to me with the simple reply of "Case remains open pending removal of posts." This happened repeatedly over the last month. Any time a survivor would even mention the individual, a new abuse report would go to Hivelocity, and Hivelocity would tell me to take the post down. This is a VERY dangerous precedent to set, and basically makes it an unsafe provider, considering anyone is capable of forcing me to remove content, simply by falsely reporting a post to Hivelocity. +1 star because their tech support is genuinely good. But... I can't trust Hivelocity.