Xirvik trial review

[bugsaif]

I've been using Xirvik's PERSONAL PLAN 500 for a month now.

Setup time:
Server was setup in about 20 hours after ordering.

Speed:
Pretty much anything I downloaded came in at 11mbps+
Upload varied... If I were to average it out I'd say upload was at around 4mbps. But there were times when it would go up to 11mbps.

Features:
This is where Xirvik really shines IMHO.
Multiple bittorrent clients: I used both utorrent and rutorrent just because utorrent doesn't really give you all the info on the torrent or details of a tracker error. uttorrent won't even tell you how much space is left on your drive... rutorrent does.

HTTP/Proxy: The box came configured as a HTTP Proxy. I used this feature A LOT. The country I am in blocks a lot of sites on the net. This was a really good feature.

OpenVPN: Never could get this to work. I tried once getting support on this but didn't get a reply back.

FTP: For some reason FTP is really flaky... it could be my connection but I timed out a lot on FTP...

HTTP access to download: If this wasn't there I'd be really pissed just cause FTP was always timing out...



Support:
He's almost ALWAYS online on Live messenger... but almost NEVER responds! Everytime I needed help I had to email it. But response time to emails was around 4 hours average... I contacted support around 3 maybe 4 times... twice because rutorrent's interface got screwed up.

Box Stability:
At one time I has over a 100 torrents running...
Anytime I try to remove a big torrent (5gb+) rutorrent would timeout for a while... and sometimes crash. I used utorrent heavily... it crashed on me around 5 times I think... and had to restart the server to bring it back up. Nothing major... everything comes back to life after a restart. Never lost anything.

Overall I'm pretty happy with it... I'm currently also trying out the SX20+ from www.seedbox.org.ua. Speeds are really good... but I miss the features from Xirvik... I'll let you know how the box performs in a few days...

BugSaif

[kaiser2011]

How are semi dedi rated from Xirvik. They say they have 3 users per server. I was last time on a seedhost semi dedi with 2 users per server. I was able to hit 10mb/s up at time. However it averaged at 5-6 mb/s up for me there. I think the user was not active i guess. Dont know

I am considering semi dedi from the Xirvik now. So any reviews on that ? Their upload speed especially.

I got a ratio saver for fun for now from them. I do now even know why. Worked good for like 2 days, got around 1.5 to 2 mb/s up at almost average. It is hoever stuck right now for the whole day. Told them on the msn, my server and username and all. Lets see if they get it back up.

(Am not really pissed that its not working for me now because i really dont care much about that ratio saver server. But still would like to check how long it takes for them to fix it.)

[kaiser2011]

Oh btw i forgot to mention. The problem was fixed in an hour after reporting on msn. So for me the service was pretty fast i guess.

And one more thing i would like to mention. I had ended up ordering a semi dedi. But later realized i had to be on move for around a week.
Asked for a refund ( it wasnt set up yet ).
Was given one right away.

So i would give that 9.9/10 on service

[shijo]

Oh btw i forgot to mention. The problem was fixed in an hour after reporting on msn. So for me the service was pretty fast i guess.

And one more thing i would like to mention. I had ended up ordering a semi dedi. But later realized i had to be on move for around a week.
Asked for a refund ( it wasnt set up yet ).
Was given one right away.

So i would give that 9.9/10 on service

but they are not providing good support now
I am getting error when login
despite trying to contact several times they are not providing answer neither saying anything about lost hours
whether extend seedbox time or not
this is very bad when you buy seedbox for a week and cant access it 1-2 days time

[xirvflux]

but they are not providing good support now
I am getting error when login
despite trying to contact several times they are not providing answer neither saying anything about lost hours
whether extend seedbox time or not
this is very bad when you buy seedbox for a week and cant access it 1-2 days time

We always make up for downtime - it's been company policy since 1st day and it will always be, even when this happens most of the time is actually datacenter's network issues, etc, so we just eat the cost.

[shijo]

but they are not providing good support now
I am getting error when login
despite trying to contact several times they are not providing answer neither saying anything about lost hours
whether extend seedbox time or not
this is very bad when you buy seedbox for a week and cant access it 1-2 days time

We always make up for downtime - it's been company policy since 1st day and it will always be, even when this happens most of the time is actually datacenter's network issues, etc, so we just eat the cost.

I got the extra hrs...

[Colin1226]

I just signed up with them today and am having a few problems.

When I started, my speeds were great. 5-6MB/s down and 10MB/s up!

However, after about 3 hours my speeds have dropped to less than 1MB/s in either direction. I tried re-starting urTorrent and it has not helped. In fact, it's taken over 2 hours for ONE 6GB file to error-check and restart.

Support has been offline and unavailable for four hours. Hoping for a response and resolution tomorrow. Attempts to post or reply on their threads greet you with an "insufficient privileges" message.

(it also took them 17 hours to setup my account. Not horrible, but not within their "12 hour promise".

[xirvflux]

Support has been offline and unavailable for four hours. Hoping for a response and resolution tomorrow.

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[Colin1226]

Did you email us?

Attempts to post or reply on their threads greet you with an "insufficient privileges" message.

We validate users manually in forums to prevent spam.

Email sent. Would I have better luck with email or IMs?

Still waiting on a response from support. Speeds continued to be extremely slow overnight. Looks like the server reset at some point as several of my torrents restarted and are re-hashing (an eternally long process).

ruTorrent has been sluggish and unresponsive so far. Several times while trying to log in my connection has timed out. But hey, when it works it's the best WebUI I've used.

[QueenT]

signed up yesterday and im waiting for them to email me my link,review been really good,i been with 2 companies,and i had problem with thiner TorrentFlux,it used to take so long to load for me,so i thought i will try xirvik and use different interface with them,so as soon as i get it which i hope wont take another day,i will come and report.