Windows VPS Hosting with Windows 2016 OS

AccuWebHosting Research Report

Research summary:

AccuWeb Hosting is one such VPS host par excellence. Economical, affordable offerings that still maintain first-class Windows VPS performance, powered by sophisticated Hyper-V virtualization and unparalleled blazing-fast Solid-State Drive (SSD) storage. Whether you are a newbie, a small business, or a fully-fledged enterprise that demands a certain level of service, AccuWeb provides a premier quality service. Their technically gifted professional support team demonstrates a commitment to exceptional high-level technical troubleshooting that is nigh-unparalleled. With a breadth of experience that encompasses 12000+ Windows VPS customers, enticing offers of complimentary backups, a comprehensive and user-friendly knowledgebase, with an uptime to be envious of, every dollar you disburse pays out dividends in superior quality, experience, and peace of mind.

Pros:

A miniscule 1.18 seconds to swiftly respond to our stressful 500 concurrent connection tests.
Superlative support with a phenomenal 100% uptime for the entire prolonged duration of our 15-day uptime test.
No-cost to reinstall and rebuild the Operating System of your VPS.
Convenient Pre-configured hosting tools, with a ready to deploy setup to accelerate your hosting plan.
An Upload speed of 768.8 Mbps and an 811.36 Mbps download speed. Incredible speed for the price you pay. If you reach these blazing-fast limits, you know that your website has made it big-time.

Cons:

Unlimited Bandwidth isn’t on offer, unfortunately. Of course, there’s no such thing as a free lunch, and it’s always worth going for quality over quantity.
No free complimentary domain registration comes with a Windows VPS here. You can’t win them all.

Load test rating. 4.5

Support rating. 4.8

Backup rating. 4.8

Uptime rating. 5

OverAll rating. 4.6

We could have chosen the uncomplicated way out, and simply collated data from the provider’s respective websites. That’s lazy, though. Instead, we undertook, and continue to undertake, an extensive research program to reach a far more objective and scientifically authoritative conclusion for users of our VPS hosting directory. The above analysis indicates some of the information we analyze, and to perform it, we leased a Windows VPS server from AccuWebHosting and conscientiously monitored it to evaluate their services over a duration of approximately one month. All critical elements were rigorously examined: uptime, backup procedures, support skills, load capacity, as well as any other relevant key features.

To test AccuWebHosting's capability of handling Windows VPS, we conducted an extensive research of their Windows VPS plans. We hosted an application on AccuWebHosting Windows VPS's server, tested their load bearing capacity, expertise of their technical team to manage Windows VPS related issues, backup facility, Uptime of their Windows VPS and pre-installed softwares. Please see our research results of their Windows VPS.

Rating - Overall load handling capacity

4.5 Comparative chart for load testing

How to read the chart?

Left Verticle axis is showing total number of simultenous active users.

Right Verticle axis is showing number of seconds VPS takes to respond to every users.

Horizontal axis is showing the time.

Left Verticle axis is active users & Right Verticle axis respond to every users and Horizontal axis is showing the time

The URL used to test the load.
This URL was setup and hosted on AccuWebHosting Windows VPS's server and all tests were performed using this URL. http://accuwebhost.jobs2jobz.com

.Net application hosted.
The application that we hosted on AccuWebHosting Windows VPS's for stress testing. Nopcommerce with sample data was hosted while we tested it.

Concurrent users.
Total number of users were simultenously online for stress testing. 500

Test duration.
Total time span lasted to carry out this test. 30 minutes

Load time recorded.
Total number of seconds taken to respond to each connection. It took 1.18 seconds to respond to each request when there were 500 concurrent users

Test server location.
Location of the load generating server. The testing server was located in Ashburn, US

Location of AccuWebHosting's VPS server. AccuWebHosting Windows VPS's server was located in Colorado, US.

Our comments

We found AccuWeb Hosting VPS' was capable enough to handle 500 concurrent users trying to browse NopCommerce ecommerce store. They all received the response in just 1.18 second time.

By far, our tests reveal that the Windows VPS offered by AccuWeb Hosting have proved to be one of the best VPS mainly because of (i) virtualization technology (Microsoft HyperV); and (ii) Solid State Drive on Raid-10 platform.

This research is conducted to test AccuWebHosting Windows VPS's capacity to handle a stress of 500 simultenous connections. We've used loadimpact.com online tool to perform stress testing. In the time span of 30 minutes, 500 simultenous connections were created to their virtual server. In the very first 5 minutes, 80 users were simultenously online. Then every 5 minutes additional 80 connections were created. So, in the first 10 minutes, there was a stress of 160 active connections. At the end of 30 minutes, the stress testing was running with the 500 active connections.

Service desk rating.
Overall performance of their support team. 4.8

Service desk availability.
Availability of their support team on live chat, ticket system and phone support.

Live Chat

Phone

Support Ticket

Average time consumed to send the first acknowledgement of a new issue received at their end.

Instant

Within 0 to 3 Minutes

Above 3 Minutes

Error reported to their service desk.
The error that we reported to their service desk. 403 Forbidden

Error resolution time.
The time taken by their service desk to resolve the error.

Within 1 Hour

Within 1 to 4 Hours

Within 4 to 6 Hours

Within 6 to 24 Hours

Within 24+ Hours

Unresolved

Technical depth of their service desk. 5 Excellent

Depth of their knowledgebase articles 5 Excellent

How easy is their service desk to use? 4 Good

How far they are courteous and patient? 5 Excellent

How securely they handle sensitive data? 5 Excellent

Our comments

During our test, we found that the issue raised by our team was instantly fixed that shows the technical competence of their support team. We also checked and found that their knowledgebase is up to date with rich content.

In this research, we've evaluted their support operations. This includes evaluation of their support channels (live chat, phone, support tickets), how fast they responded to our chat requests, how quickly they resolved our support tickets, what was their technical expertise for Windows VPS related issues and how insightful was their knowledgebase. To check the technical skills of their support representative, we threw a windows vps related issue and tried to figure out the depth of their skill.

Backup rating. 4.8

Backup frequency.
What is the frequncy of taking backup of your VPS? Daily, weekly , monthly?

Daily

Weekly

Backup facility.
How do they backup your VPS? Whether they backup your VPS as a virtual disk or they take file level backup? Free / Complimentary

Virtual disk level backup

File/Folder level backup

Paid

Virtual disk backup

File/Folder level backup

Restoration requested.
We requested them to restore our data from the available backup.

Virtual Disk level

Restoration result.
What was the result of our data restoration request?

Successfull

Our comments

AccuWeb Hosting offers both (i) file level backup (which is paid); and (ii) virtual disk level backup (which is complimentary). Complimentary backup helps the users to restore the backup in case of any accidental data loss.

In this research, we tested their backup facility and restoration process for Windows VPS. Some of these companies offer file level backup (you can backup and restore individual files) and some of them offer virtual disk level backup (only backup of an entire vps and restoration of the same, no file level backup or restoration is offered). We also tested their backup frequency and how fast they process your restoration request.

Server uptime rating. 5

The URL used to monitor uptime.
This URL was setup and hosted on AccuWebHosting Windows VPS's server and all uptime tests were performed using this URL. http://accuwebhost.jobs2jobz.com

Uptime test duration.
Total time span lasted to carry out uptime monitoring test. 15 Days

Server uptime recorded.
Total server uptime recorded during the test period. 100%

Uptime monitoring tool.
The tool that was used to record uptime of Windows VPS server. Uptimerobot.com

Our comments :

During our test, we did not experience any downtime.

In this research, we undertook a test to monitor uptime of thier Windows VPS for a period of 15 days using Uptimerobot.com tool. The service we checked was HTTP on port 80.

Server roles installed.
List of the server roles that were pre-installed by AccuWebHosting when the Windows VPS was setup.

IIS

DNS

FTP

Application softwares.
List of the application softwares that were pre-installed by AccuWebHosting when the Windows VPS was setup.

.Net framework

Control Panel

Document processing tools like Notepad++

WebpI

MSSQL Db server

MYSQL Db server

Email Server(SmarterMail or MailEnable or similar)

PHP & PHP Manager IIS

Free usable disk on VPS.
The amount of usable disk space after the installation of operating system and other applications.

18GB out of total 40GB

In this research, we verified how many preinstalled tools are offered with setup of your Windows VPS. Please see the list of the preinstalled softwares as below.

Unlimited bandwidth.
Do they offer unlimited bandwidth option? No

Upload Speed
File upload speed to their server 768.8 Mbps

Download Speed
File download speed from their server 811.36 Mbps

Rebuild of operating system.
Do they offer rebuild of operating system at no additional cost? Yes

Free domain name registration.
Do they offer free domain name registration with your Windows VPS order? No

Green hosting.
Whether their data center is powered by "green power" from wind, water, or solar energy or they purchase "green certificates" to offset the use and cost of conventional energy. No

In this research, we verified the additional perks offered by AccuWebHosting along with their Windows VPS plan. Please see the list of the perks available when you sign up.

AccuWebHosting Research Report

Research summary:

AccuWeb Hosting is one such VPS host par excellence. Economical, affordable offerings that still maintain first-class Windows VPS performance, powered by sophisticated Hyper-V virtualization and unparalleled blazing-fast Solid-State Drive (SSD) storage. Whether you are a newbie, a small business, or a fully-fledged enterprise that demands a certain level of service, AccuWeb provides a premier quality service. Their technically gifted professional support team demonstrates a commitment to exceptional high-level technical troubleshooting that is nigh-unparalleled. With a breadth of experience that encompasses 12000+ Windows VPS customers, enticing offers of complimentary backups, a comprehensive and user-friendly knowledgebase, with an uptime to be envious of, every dollar you disburse pays out dividends in superior quality, experience, and peace of mind.

Pros:

A miniscule 1.18 seconds to swiftly respond to our stressful 500 concurrent connection tests.
Superlative support with a phenomenal 100% uptime for the entire prolonged duration of our 15-day uptime test.
No-cost to reinstall and rebuild the Operating System of your VPS.
Convenient Pre-configured hosting tools, with a ready to deploy setup to accelerate your hosting plan.
An Upload speed of 768.8 Mbps and an 811.36 Mbps download speed. Incredible speed for the price you pay. If you reach these blazing-fast limits, you know that your website has made it big-time.

Cons:

Unlimited Bandwidth isn’t on offer, unfortunately. Of course, there’s no such thing as a free lunch, and it’s always worth going for quality over quantity.
No free complimentary domain registration comes with a Windows VPS here. You can’t win them all.