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I recently used Fasthosts for VPS hosting and the experience was terrible from start to finish.
Firstly, there is no cloud-init support, something that has been standard on every other cloud/VPS provider for years. This means you have to manually install your OS via a remote console, which itself is awful — it has a timeout that stops accepting input mid-setup, forcing you to restart the console and race through commands before it cuts out again.
The hypervisor ballooning is so poorly managed that the server crashed multiple times during a basic Ubuntu install. This is a clear sign of oversold nodes that can't handle basic workloads.
The management panel is a mess, servers don't all appear in the server management area, you have to go back to the billing portal to manage them. Two completely separate systems with no coherent integration.
To top it all off, a payment of £1.65 failed and Fasthosts immediately shut down ALL of my servers with a 4 hour account lockout even after paying. £1.65. The servers were offline for hours over an amount less than a chocolate bar.
And if you want to cancel? You have to call them. In 2026. A deliberate dark pattern to make leaving as painful as possible.
Avoid entirely.
I recently used Fasthosts for VPS hosting and the experience was terrible from start to finish.Firstly, there is no cloud-init support, something that has been standard on every other cloud/VPS provider for years. This means you have to manually install your OS via a remote console, which itself is awful — it has a timeout that stops accepting input mid-setup, forcing you to restart the console and race through commands before it cuts out again.The hypervisor ballooning is so poorly managed that the server crashed multiple times during a basic Ubuntu install. This is a clear sign of oversold nodes that can't handle basic workloads.The management panel is a mess, servers don't all appear in the server management area, you have to go back to the billing portal to manage them. Two completely separate systems with no coherent integration.To top it all off, a payment of £1.65 failed and Fasthosts immediately shut down ALL of my servers with a 4 hour account lockout even after paying. £1.65. The servers were offline for hours over an amount less than a chocolate bar.And if you want to cancel? You have to call them. In 2026. A deliberate dark pattern to make leaving as painful as possible.Avoid entirely.
Closed my domain & web builder I had for 12 months they said i signed for 24 months, no I didn't, only 12 months, keep messaging me as payment has failed even though my account is closed from 15th January,won't let you transfer domain name untill 6 months has lapse trying to rip me off
This is a total fraud and I fell for it. I bought a domain from them but it's now impossible to renew it, even by paying their invoice my domain name is lost. They stole my money. I tried to contact them multiple times but I got absolutely no response. I don't think they're a real company. They're NOT fasthost.co.uk
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