Products · Broad category
VPS
Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 20 years (2007–2026), in 8 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with VPS, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 8 complaints
- No plug-and-play backup; must hand-build rsync and cron, with no snapshots2026-02-09
- Signup button doesn't work, so users can't sign up from the landing page2026-01-29
- Auto-renewal and collections make cancelling a service hard, instead of simply ending it2021-02-18
- Setting up and managing a VPS is painful, requiring manual SSH configuration for every domain2015-11-12
- Re-image interface didn't work and support tickets were silently closed2014-10-10
- Web-based VPS control panels are slow, buggy and half-baked2012-12-25
- Takes days to set up, and weeks to get Django working, with setup errors that force a restart2011-02-18
- Spends hours configuring and restarting a VPS, which is painful and exhausting2007-07-16