i3d have never let me down
Before I came to i3d I had rented a dedicated server at other hosters within middle europe. From packet loss, unstable systems, hard drive issues and more - I've had it all and it was always a pain dealing with the issues and also with client support. Packet loss and unstable systems lead to non-availability of services and disk faults often lead to loss of data, no matter how tight my backup schedule was.
It must have about 2011 or 2013 when I contacted i3d sales if they maybe have a special offer for my needs, such as running websites with databases feeding the websites. Little did I know that i3d is the partner I needed. What first sounded like a great deal became a much greater deal over time.
Packet loss? I looked through my tickets and found only 1 about packet loss that was quickly solved.
Unstable systems? You don't get that at i3d. Never had my system spaz out or do weird things for no reason or without my doing.
Faulty hard drives? I saw they were using WD and Toshiba so far but none of them actually caved in.
So when I rented the first dedicated server at i3d this server lasted for a couple of years until something blew out I don't remember anymore, probably around 2016/2017/2018? i3d support team helped me grabbing the data as much as possible and provided me a new (to my surprise but also to my liking, a more powerful) server I could continue running my websites on. They even heard my word about how much I liked the IP address range and gave me an IP address for the server just one number further in the last octect, making me stay in the same range.
Here is now 2023 when this 2nd server blew out just 2 days ago. i3d support team did not waste any time, they immediately started analyzing the situation, determining a hardware fault, asked me how new my latest backups were and when they saw my answer was that my latest backups are a bit older, they asked me if I was ok with booting up the system into live *nix mode so I can mount the disks and grab all my data. Of course I was ok with it, I was actually SUPER happy because this way i3d support team enabled me to get the latest of my data, not only the last state from the backups.
After that they tried getting the server back to life and even tried to install my preferred *nix OS MANUALLY (!). Since none of the actions showed success, they decided that the server is to be disposed, offered me to get a replacement server and told me that they will link the original hard disk up with the new server, just in case I forgot to back up something so I could mount the "old" disk again.
Again, the new replacement server, is a much more performant one with double the disk space, double the memory size and a more powerful xeon CPU.
And even though they say they don't do software support - when something happened to the server (offline, new reinstall, etc) i3d support did help me out with basic things in the past, like tossing links pointing at the right direction with ease of understanding and such. Besides the professionality I have experienced at i3d I love the uptime, the availability, the on-time responses when you need support, the basic software/software handling tipps and the absolutely impressive reliability.
Before i3d I was changing hosters for dedicated server every 1-2 years with lots of difficulties during that time, often giving me sleepless nights. Since I signed up at i3d my services run well and if there's any difficulty I know i3d top notch support has covered my back and make me get easy through the nights.
Figures: Last thursday afternoon the dedicated server at i3d didn't come online anymore after a reboot. 4 websites, corresponding 4 databases for the websites affected. Previous OS not available anymore, so websites had to be adapted to work with the newer OS' environment. It's sunday evening now, all of the services are up and running perfectly again. Thank you i3d and the support team! <3
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