Dear Yelpers,
My…read morecompany has hosted with INetU for 11 years. We placed our first small test server with the company in January 2000. Since then, we've grown to five servers pushing through approximately 3 to 4 terabytes of data each month.
We run RedHat Linux Enterprise on all of our servers. These machines are managed by INetU fully and completely. They handle all of the security, upgrades and maintenance. The machines we use include: one master Write/Read MySQL database server, three Apache web servers with MySQL read-only slaves, and one email and DNS machine.
In our time with INetU, we've found the staff to be amazingly supportive and knowledgable, consistently going above and beyond what we'd expect. When we have questions or queries that aren't exactly part of their job, they do the research and help us get the answers we need. Their follow through on issues is second to none -- we only wish our other vendors would be even half as responsive as INetU. (Verizon ant AT&T, you could both learn at least a few things from these guys!)
When we need something, they're just a phone call or support ticket away. I love that when I pick up the phone to call them, I immediately get in touch with someone who knows what they're talking about and can help. On the rare occasion that the person I reach can't help me, I'm still always amazed at how easy and fast the escalation to someone else is. There is NO twisting arms and pulling teeth like at some of my other vendors, *cough Dell, cough Verizon*.
I remember about a year ago when we were having issues with speed on our site. We believed that simply adding another server to our setup would be the best solution and proceeded to ask our account manager (Brian) to put together a quotation for a new server. We were OK with the added cost of doing that, but in explaining our needs, Brian suggested we first talk with their engineering department to see if there was something we could tweak in our configurations to save us from adding another machine.
A few emails and a couple days later, INetU's engineering staff had helped us change some of the settings in our Apache configuration and, without adding any new equipment and without any added expense, our sites were running faster than they ever had... over a year later, that change is still in place and we're still using just 5 servers.
We love the online Client Center and ticketing system. It makes tracking our usage and our support issues very simple and convenient. We also love the security and piece of mind that the client center provides.
In all our time with INetU, we have NEVER had any extended outages and short outages for something like a hardware failure are always handled quickly with care and concern.
I strongly recommend anyone looking for managed hosting services to check out INetU. In fact, I recommended them to my brother-in-law back in August 2010 -- his company reviewed various hosting companies and chose INetU. They began migration in October and after a few months of testing, they went live in January 2011. They've been extremely pleased with INetU's network, service AND the money they're saving over the previous hosting provider.
Thanks for the 11 years of great service INetU... looking forward to many, many more!
~~ Kenn W.
21x20 Media, Inc.
http://www.21x20.com/