We’re going to one up ourselves! (and give you a free node)

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Last week we ran a promotion for our Twitter only followers, allowing them to get a VPS.NET robot free of charge. The promotion was overwhelmingly positive and we found ourselves completely out of stock of robots, yet wanting to run another promotion. They're fun!

With a little motivation from our Twitter mafia, we decided we'd go all out this time. We're going to give you a FREE node FOR LIFE! Even better, there's no limit to the amount of participants. This means everyone is eligible, and able to win. It's like at the carnival; a winner every time!

We couldn't make this too easy - we do have to somehow fund future contests. That's not to say we made it hard. To get a free lifetime node, you simply need to make a post about your experience with VPS.NET. It can be good, bad, or even ugly -- we'll appreciate all, and we're happy to give away a free node as a thank you for the work you put into it. Of course, there are a few more requirements.

  1. Each review must be at least 300 words. While we love one-liners, we prefer those be kept at the comedy club. Thoughtful and thorough reviews are much better for us.
  2. In order to get the free node, a link to the review must be posted to either a Twitter account or Facebook profile, with VPS.NET notified. You just have to make sure you CC us on Twitter or tag us on the Facebook post.
  3. The reviews must be posted between October 27th, and November 15th in order to qualify for the free node offer.
  4. That's all!
I know you're a better writer than me, so get to it. We want to hear about your experiences; lets get the VPS.NET buzz roaring!
Fine Print: This offer is open to existing customers only. The free node is only active for the life of the account. If your account is cancelled, the free node will be removed.

23 thoughts on “We’re going to one up ourselves! (and give you a free node)”

  6. I have been a VPS.NET customer for a little over 2 years. I have been with them since the very beginning! I came into the chat line and was talking with a guy named, Nate. Little did I know that my account was setup by one of the heads of VPS.net. He took time out of his busy schedule and in depth taught me what the “Cloud” is, how it works, the benefits, and anything else you can imagine about the cloud. He was talking to me like it was his passion. Since then the clouds have had their ups and their downs but overall been very dependable. Little to say, this was only the clouds during beta, and sometimes downtime is just what happens. When there is a promotion, problem, or overall just want to post something, VPS is always the first to come in through the lines to inform me. They bend over backwards for everything and anything to make sure their customers are satisfied. Just recently I was thinking about moving away from VPS.net and I did, but before I could close my account with them I had already asked for a refund and came CRAWLING BACK asking for forgiveness like they were my parents. I suggest to people to give them a try, even if it’s just a single node. It doesn’t matter if you have one node, or a hundred. You will fall in love and realize they do not look at you as a customer; they look at you as family. I appreciate everything you guys do and all the hard work and hours you put it to make this site happen. I’m looking forward to your new technologies you will come out with and hope to see OSX nodes in the future. P.S. Give Nate a day off, he deserves it!

  7. I haven’t been with vps.net very long as I have the majority of my data stored at one of their competitors. I have had no issues with vps.net and some of their free offerings have made me want to have nodes with them also. Being able to utilize a couple of those free items actually saves me money even if I have to buy extra nodes to utilize them. More power + money savings = win-win in my books. A little redundancy in the cloud is also another added benefit. Make sure to give vps.net a shot when you are looking for new hosting opportunities. I was with them during a bad stage with some fairly poor customer service but they have since come out of that rut. I think that problem was created initially by growing so big so fast. There seems to be a very large demand out there for services like vps.net can provide. They have since added more locations since that time but I think they have grown their support staffing accordingly. Well done vps.net!

    OnAPP seems to be a very good choice for providers to choose from with very good support for providers who use their Xen backend. It’s made life in the cloud very easy and functional for just about anybody looking at diving in. I also along with Casey McLaughlin (another vps.net customer) really hope to one day see an OSX node option become available.

    Their web front-end is fairly simplistic and self-explanatory. Making it very efficient for just about anyone needing hosting or cloud instances. Also offering cloud based hosting is a plus as it enables people not quite ready to take on managing their own server to get into the cloud and manage it much like a standard shared hosting plan. Server updates are dealt with on your behalf, optimization’s are already done to make sure that you’re off and running very quickly.

    I hope this review helps some of you in your future hosting needs.

  8. Ever since I discovered vps.net I found a new kind of freedom that I never had before with respect to building out VPS machines, running my (evil) experiments on them, destroying them when I was done and building a new one as it hit my fancy to do so.

    Other VPS providers I used I was just not able to do that sort of thing. If I requested a new VPS it took days for it to be built and I’m not that patient.

    Not only that other VPS companies lock you into one maybe two OS choices.

    Here at vps.net I have had the fun of experimenting with distros of Linux that I had not had the chance to play with before. For me that’s big.

    Tech support that has had to be patient with me at times and has always been professional.

    Looks like the techies behind the scenes are always thinking up new products and new enhancements because those just continue to arrive.

    A very happy camper,

    Peter L. Berghold
    owner: Shark River Technical Solutions LLC

  10. We selected VPS.net to be our provider about 18 months ago after a massive outage at Westhost had some of our clients down for almost a week. With VPS.net being from the same parent company we were not sure if this was the best idea (since communication from Westhost during the outage was poor) but looking at their status blog they seemed to communicate well and sounded like migration process would be fairly easy.

    I started by talking to then managing director Nick. He was wonderful and getting answers and helping ease worries. The migration went fairly well since VPS.net staff had access to Westhost servers too. Overall fairly minimal issues with the process.

    As we want to keep focus on our business, not our servers we signed up for managed support. It has certainly had its ups and downs. Like any customer service organization, there are certainly better support reps than others, but they do normally in the end work to resolve, though I have certainly had my share of “wtf” moments.

    Stability of VPS.net hasn’t been too bad though when downtime does occur it seems as though communication stops too which is our biggest issue. I’ve been assured it is being addressed and will be better, but at this point we’ve actually decided to not rely solely on VPS.net but start a more robust infrastructure using multiple providers. VPS.net will continue to be one, but in a much more limited fashion until I see communication during downtime get better and be more stable.

    When I talk about more stable, it hasn’t like in the 18 months we’ve been down a ton, but recently had an almost 2 day outage and was pulling teeth to try to get updates durning the process. Not exactly what I expected as a managed support customer. We’ll be dropping that soon I think as well as the “offsite rsync” backups since when our server was down we had no way to access and support wasn’t helpful at all in helping us get access to them.

    Overall not a bad provider, certainly many more worse out there, but in my opinion, they are not a tier 1 provider either at this point.

  11. Hello, i am using your services and this month my website it was offline 7 days due different problems of your server, i/o, hard disk broken, and my website is still offline, how is possible 7 days offline?? the website it looks very professional but the site…. it left me a lot of wish..

  12. I posted a comment on Facebook. It’s not tagged, as Facebook appears to only let you tag friends. I could not find a VPS.NET page that I could ‘friend”.

  13. Posted mine here last night and tweeted ‘Blogged about my experiences with @vpsnet . “VPS.net. How I do Love/Loath thee.” bit.ly/ss3ndp’

  22. I’ve been a VPS customer since DrupalCon Chicago when they gave away … yes, GAVE AWAY a FREE node to EVERY attendee. Initially, my understanding of the VPS control panel drove me a little crazy–every other hosting provider plopped CPANEL in front of me and that was it. Little did I realize how much control VPS was actually making available to me. With a little exploration, and discussing best solutions with other Drupal’ers, I recently rebuilt my node with Ubuntu 10.4 LTS, and a LEMP stack. Today, with just ONE, yes ONE node, I can run Drupal 7, with over 50 development modules smoothly. Granted its not as fast as if I had multiple nodes, but for what hardware/scheduling is available to my node, this is incredible.

    If you ever get the chance to meet a VPS representative at a conference or trade-show, do it. My experience with the VPS team was worth it. They were courteous, friendly, and actually LIKED talking about what I was thinking of doing with my node(s). How many other cloud providers can boast that?

    Want to know what’s in my stack?
    Ubuntu Linux Server 10.4 LTS x64
    NginX 1.0.10
    MySQL 5.2
    PHP 5.3 (fast-cgi daemonized)
    + Suhosin (security enhanced PHP)
    + APC (Alternative PHP Cache)
    + Memcached (A db result caching daemon)