Note: I split this from another thread, because I wanted to respond to it a bit more in depth. It's also been split into the web hosting forum, so others can learn from what I have to say on the topic.
Indeed, cutting corners appears to be part of the
JaguarPC shared hosting business model, in terms of the server software -- at least by current standards in shared hosting. They're still operating open-source Apache as the webserver, instead of deploying a better combination of commercial licensed technology from CloudLinux, LiteSpeed, or 1H. They're several years behind the curve.
Most of the "unlimited" hosts avoid the commercial webservers and OS. Their price ratios are too small to afford quality software at $15/month per server. Some claim to have a super double secret in-house systems that balance everything (Godaddy,
Dreamhost, Site5, etc), but independent comparison tests between those hosts often show it's still well behind the speed and stability of a CloudLinux/LiteSpeed setup.
Some shared hosts even choose to cut corners on hardware, using single-drive or RAID-1 SATA configurations (and with desktop-grade drives), instead of server-grade hard drives in SAS RAID-10 arrays. That's one reason I/O (read/write to the hard drive) tends to be miserable. And it filters into FTP speeds, http download speeds, and http/website loading speeds.
Eleven2 actually bragged about using low-cost drive setups in a WHT post some months ago, and insisted it was "fine". But I like "excellent" quality servers, not "fine" ones.
JaguarPC does not cut corners on the hardware.
Of course, that doesn't apply to you, since you're on a VPS, not shared/reseller hosting.
Based on support issues I've read in the past,
JPC does use quality server-grade hardware (RAID-10 SAS server-grade drives) in their VPS plans, so you're going to be fine in that area. They've not cut any corners there. And while they do offer OpenVZ based virtual servers, you're on a Virtuozzo plan, and Virtuozzo is a really good commercial Linux virtualization platform (when not oversold). For the VPS offerings, I think JaguarPC is mostly low-cost (budget priced) based on economies of scale. They have a ton of servers and clients, and are able to bulk buy hardware, and negotiate pricing with commercial entities like Parallels and cPanel, in order to provide some of the things that they do.
Just my 2 cents.
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