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.
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