Thread: Feralhosting.com

Originally Posted by bladegroupx

I also have feral hosting and have been having issues with their slow speeds. Same signs with 300kb/s down and 200kb/s upload. Before then I haven't had any issues with them till this month.

I put a support ticket in on the 30th but nobody got back to me about the slow speeds. I have used their ticket system before and have gotten quick response. Not sure why he chooses not to respond about the issue.

I also did notice the TB upload limit they just put on the accounts. So I won't be re-signing up with them again. They could just be overloaded and wanting to fix some of their connection issues.

The reason they have implimented the BW limitation is because their host (OVH) has suddenly started to enforce the limits witch was not the case before this, so most of their servers where over the caps resulting in very slow speeds for a about 2 weeks on most servers. This should be all set now as they have been running the BW monitors on all servers for a while now and can limit individual people now.

Although the 1tb cap seems low it only counts external upload BW. Meaning it does not count download BW or ANY internal BW on the OVH network. To give an example of 2 weeks traffic (they implemented the meters on the last 2 weeks of my plan) i had a upload BW 1.8TB of traffic and nearly 700gb was internal witch is a large portion.

Its a toss up though because the OVH plans that come with the limits like feral use get higher network priority from what i know but i can use up 1tb of external upload rather quickly.

Sorry but , Are Feral Hostings Services over-sold ?

Many people tell me to keep away from their SeedBoxes !

So Should i give it a shot ?

Thanks

Originally Posted by Corynn

The reason they have implimented the BW limitation is because their host (OVH) has suddenly started to enforce the limits witch was not the case before this, so most of their servers where over the caps resulting in very slow speeds for a about 2 weeks on most servers. This should be all set now as they have been running the BW monitors on all servers for a while now and can limit individual people now.

Although the 1tb cap seems low it only counts external upload BW. Meaning it does not count download BW or ANY internal BW on the OVH network. To give an example of 2 weeks traffic (they implemented the meters on the last 2 weeks of my plan) i had a upload BW 1.8TB of traffic and nearly 700gb was internal witch is a large portion.

Its a toss up though because the OVH plans that come with the limits like feral use get higher network priority from what i know but i can use up 1tb of external upload rather quickly.

Well I think it would have been nice to actually have been notified about the cap instead of me finding out why my torrents were not downloading/speed capped on my own. Even when I put in a trouble ticket they ignored me. It was here on this forum that I found out about the limit and throttling. I will say when I used their support before I never had any issues with them getting back to me at all. I was very surprised they ignored my emails and trouble tickets. It's not like I was sending mass emails or tickets. I sent a ticket it one week and another week later with no response.

I don't blame them for issuing the caps because it was OVH who has.

I have since left them and I'm currently using xirvik with a dedi server. So I'm pretty happy now.

Feral was been very good, but now they have that Upload Traffic , that limits your seeding , that is not good thing for feral, now many members dont want to buy from them because of that, i hope they will get back old plans and old feral

Name: Feral Hosting
Speed: 100mbps
Support: 9/10 (opened 2 tickets, immdly answered and problems solved, irc not helpful)
GUI: ruTorrent
Speed of GUI: fast
Package: "Speed" (55gb, unmetered BW)
Price: ~$15
Overall rating: 8/10

This is a great beginner seedbox, but you should have some unix knowledge for basic maintanance. for the price its really cheap and great value for money. People complain about the speeds etc.., well its an OVH reseller, and OVH has been having some issues with speed throttling and bandwidth shaping, but for basic users, this is a great deal and completely hassle free, setup was 15 mins, and installation of ru/rtorrent was 2 mins. they also have SSH access and FTP access, so you can tunnel through. I think VNC is also available, but i could be mistaken.
If you are more hardcore, then this isnt the place for you, you can get a dedi server on FDC at other places, but the price will be much much higher.

Name: Feral Hosting
Speed: 1gb/s
Support: 9/10 Great IRC support
GUI: ruTorrent/Deluge
Speed of GUI: medium
Package: Power 1gb/s share with 160gb space/1TB quota
Price: £15
Overall rating: 7/10

Would have got a 9 or 10/10 if it werent for the quota, i can easily hit 50mb/s upload/download when needed.

Name: Feral Hosting
Speed: 101 MB/s
Support: 9/10 Great Support
GUI: ruTorrent
Speed of GUI: Medium
Package: Argon, 335GB and Unlimited traffic
Price: £20
Overall rating: 7/10

Right now I have one of the new unlimited slots offered by Feral, which offer a nice size drive and a 101 MB/s internet connection. With their new provider Leaseweb I have gotten really nice speeds. Now I have taken everything to the next level, and rented an unmanaged dedicated server from them, so I won't be renewing my slot. If I haven't gotten the dedi server I would have renewed my slot for sure. One thing I've never liked, is that users don't get a dedicated IP Address with the slots, and because of that everyone in the server use the same IP.

If you get one of their slots you get the option to install:

rTorrent + ruTorrent
rTorrent + wTorrent
Transmission
Deluge
MySQL
OpenVPN

And they also have a tutorial to help you setup your slot as a proxy, and much more.

Name: Feral Hosting
Speed: 101 MB/s
Support: 10/10 Great Support
GUI: ruTorrent
Speed of GUI: Medium
Package: Argon, 335GB and Unlimited traffic
Price: £20
Overall rating: 8/10

im always trying out new seedboxes trying to fit that perfect fit... Well, Feral has been great to me. It took longer than advertised to set up my account but they had a major crash and were waiting on servers. But once I received it I was impressed with speeds. FTP speeds were alaso above average compared to other seedboxes.

Communication was top notch. Tickets were replied to fast and the irc channel was ALWAYS helpful and informative. I love the price and unlimited traffic but don't like the fact we don't have our own IP's.

In fact their deadicated servers look cheap imo...