Why do less people talk about phpfriends compared to other providers?

RyujinRyujin
edited March 2022 in General

Been using them since the end of 2019 till now, so far there has been no issues, they handled all 5 of my tickets with them promptly over the years, though i think its just one guy handling english based support. They used to have the yearly twice maintenance on nodes but i think they changed something and there is no more maintenance. Is it because they don't offer an english/international version of their website? I don't see any issues with price, they do offer addons like backups, floating ip etc but you have to open ticket for them.

phpfriends poll
  1. Have you used phpfriends before?40 votes
    1. yes
      45.00%
    2. no
      55.00%
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  • sahjanivishalsahjanivishal Content Writer

    Have been renting VPS from them for over a year now, no major issues faced till now. Highly recommended!

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  • cybertechcybertech OGBenchmark King

    they are good, but i recall they rarely advertise directly on forums.

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  • legendarylegendary

    Personally I'am afraid that PHPF will pull out netcup move and double the price for non-germans.

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  • chimichurrichimichurri
    edited March 2022

    @legendary said:
    Personally I'am afraid that PHPF will pull out netcup move and double the price for non-germans.

    For the record, netcup did not double their prices for non-Germans, it's just that netcup.eu got more expensive (non-Germans are still able to order servers from their .de site)

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  • mikhomikho AdministratorOG

    Often we don’t hear about providers because ”it works” and they are not active on the forums.

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  • angstromangstrom OG

    @chimichurri said:

    @legendary said:
    Personally I'am afraid that PHPF will pull out netcup move and double the price for non-germans.

    For the record, netcup did not double their prices for non-Germans, it's just that netcup.eu got more expensive (non-Germans are still able to order servers from their .de site)

    And just to add that it's not a "German" vs "non-German" distinction -- no one is checking a customer's nationality (or ethnicity)

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  • angstromangstrom OG

    I've used PHP-Friends a few times in the past, though at the moment, I don't have a service with them.

    They're low-key and don't advertise on forums, but they're a very good choice. Like netcup, they're more oriented towards the local German market.

    (I'm waiting for their next promotion. :) )

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  • RyujinRyujin

    @legendary said:
    Personally I'am afraid that PHPF will pull out netcup move and double the price for non-germans.

    I don't think they would but then again they and avoro merged together to form dataforest gmbh, avoro site is in english while phpfriends is in german.

  • cybertechcybertech OGBenchmark King

    avoro is prepaid so they are good.

    I bench YABS 24/7/365 unless it's a leap year.

  • jmaxwelljmaxwell

    Maybe their name makes people think they’re not friendly towards non php things.

    Why?

  • deankdeank OG

    Simple.

    If a host "just works" and their customers have no complaints, no threads from PMSing kiddies.

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  • DufuDufu

    I've been with them for a bit over 6 months now, on one of their older Xeon/SSD plans. Uptime monitored by Statuscake has been 100% in all months except for last October when it was 99.9%. Performance of the server is good. I've had a few issues with steal in the past (periods with steal of ~30), but for the last few months the average steal was 3.49 and not noticeable at all. Support is friendly and fast. Overall I'm very satisfied :-)

  • RyujinRyujin

    @Dufu said:
    I've been with them for a bit over 6 months now, on one of their older Xeon/SSD plans. Uptime monitored by Statuscake has been 100% in all months except for last October when it was 99.9%. Performance of the server is good. I've had a few issues with steal in the past (periods with steal of ~30), but for the last few months the average steal was 3.49 and not noticeable at all. Support is friendly and fast. Overall I'm very satisfied :-)

    I am waiting for their next gen host nodes to migrate to, currently on their g3 servers.

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