which seems to have pretty good reviews. Their servers are based in Germany though, so I am not sure how much impact that will have on their latency for non-European users.
Only $10/mth for the basic package, and accepts PayPal.
Thanks for the recommendation. You can test latency at de.speedtest.fanaticalvps.com (speedtest file). In the case of malicious software (viruses, etc) when we receive reports of it, we give clients notification and time to remove it before taking action.
I've had a chance to review your support ticket and I can certainly understand your concerns. While I can assure you that we do our best to verify any claim of abuse against our network or the users within it, I do not know that we have a policy for complaints coming from clean-mx.de.
I am going to forward your concerns to a member of the management team for our Network Operations department, which is the department that is largely responsible for the suspensions on our network. They will review the situation and ff any change comes as a result, I will be sure to let you know.
I've had a chance to review your support ticket and I can certainly understand your concerns. While I can assure you that we do our best to verify any claim of abuse against our network or the users within it, I do not know that we have a policy for complaints coming from clean-mx.de.
I am going to forward your concerns to a member of the management team for our Network Operations department, which is the department that is largely responsible for the suspensions on our network. They will review the situation and ff any change comes as a result, I will be sure to let you know.
That's encouraging, but what I'd like to hear from Dan is is a clear policy to handle issues before getting the lights turned off. If freeware developer Nirsoft is any indication, false-positive reporting isn't going away anytime soon and there's no way to police the site to avoid that without annoying both current and new users:
Developer: I just wrote a program/tweak! Its great! Us: Yeah you have to register with [virus-checking hosting service] or we can't link to you.
How many people are actually going to go through with that?
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Not to charge the issue more than it already is, but this is a matter of current debate, with far broader implications than those apparent at first. I'd recommend the recent Consent of the networked by Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society ex-fellow and current Global Network Initiative director Rebecca MacKinnon (also available as ebook). As most are always short of time, browsing through the reviews of the work will prove fruitful, IMHO: http://consentofthenetworked.com/reviews/
I am definitely going to move away from VPSLink given their response, but I've a lack of time now, so it will be a little later on.
Whoever the new hoster may be, I will confirm with them that their policy for dealing with malware reports will not be as high-handed as VPSLink. I hope I can find one.
I mean, even giving time to deal with the issue isn't good enough. If the report turns out to be a false positive, the hoster needs to be able to accept the evidence instead of bone-headly insisting on us taking down the link!
@Midas: Thanks for the book recommendation. Will see if I can find it from the local library. From the reviews, this seems to be real and scary stuff. SOPA and PIPA is just the beginning...