Well, I've contacted Sly on the forum and asked about his dedicated server offerings. I told him I'd review his services provided by VACares.com as a thank you for the deal I got through him and today I am doing so honestly.
Yes, I do get a referral, but mentioning my name
incredibleworkethic will bring you a better deal.
From the moment I purchased, to the follow up and the timing, so far, everything is running flawless. Now it's only about a month in right now, which is way too early for a review, but I do have to recommend good customer service when I see it.
Here's the order on how things went down:
1. Inquiry about services.
2. His offerings.
3. My counter offer. (it's a negotiation when you want a good deal)
4. His acceptance of terms.
5. Promise to have the server deployed next day (it was a weekend).
6. Server setup the next day on time.
7. I uploaded my sites and changed nameservers.
8. Ran into a small issue with permissions, but I just emailed their support and it was handled within an hour or less.
9. Server has been rocking since day one. Sites work as expected.
10. Follow up review to be posted.
What I liked about Sly is that he's a board regular here and knows that people are here to get a premium, functional product. Dedicated servers fuel businesses and having a website that always works is a priority.
Summary of pros and cons:
Pros
+ GFY presence
+ Great experience
+ Good Deals
+ Servers come with support and setup
+ Contact him or support any time for help
+ Accepts many payment methods
+ Server hardware ranges, but there are also custom systems available
+ Two datacenters to choose from
++ He fine tuned my server and made it known that he'd do it for any customer. Recently he installed a caching script on my server combined with the wordpress cache plugin I have. It seems to be even faster than how I set it up.
++ He keeps following up via Skype about my experience.
Cons
- Small company, however, he seems to run it like the big boys. He has contingency plans in place should something happen personally to him (god forbid). I had to ask those questions. We're talking about livelihoods here.
Perhaps VACares.com will be able to help you figure out a dedicated server solution for your mainstream or adult sites - all you have to do is ask Ryan (AKA Sly, skype limpgringo) about his deals and tell him
incredibleworkethic sent you for a super deal.
I'll be updating this thread in a few months.
