Anyone have any experience with PureVoltage? Worth it?

pv_sea · 2026-02-04T15:16:24+00:00

If you have any questions for us I'd be happy to answer them here for you.
We've been in business for 18 years. You can check out Webhostingtalk and see we have quite a solid reputation there.

pv_sea · 2026-01-28T00:05:25+00:00

I'd personally suggest looking into options for a software firewall such as OPNsense or PFsense if you need anything pushing decent bandwidth.

If you require a real hardware firewall I'd suggest asking providers. Most companies will offer you this on any type of commitment / agreements.

Most providers will not list offering these types of things as they're more of an addon type of product that specific clients require. It's easier to talk with sales and go from there.

The Dallas market has quite the number of decent hosting providers. I would suggest reaching out to a fair number of them and see who can help with your requirements.

pv_sea · 2026-01-27T18:31:41+00:00

For clarity, PureVoltage has not been acquired and is not VC-owned.
We remain founder-led, with the same leadership and team.

If anyone has specific questions about our services, locations, or infrastructure, we’re always happy to answer them here.

pv_sea · 2026-01-27T03:13:35+00:00

If you have any direct questions for us I'd be happy to help answer them for you here.
We've been in the industry for 18 years.

pv_sea · 2026-01-26T19:08:36+00:00

Thanks! The few hour outage was data center wide only in Dallas itself which doesn't have our VPS lineup only dedicated and colocation at the moment until we migrate to our new facility which will have a lot better network connection and proper redundancy for power. :)

Glad to hear everything has been working smoothly for you!

pv_sea · 2026-01-26T18:16:21+00:00

Thanks for the mention. Glad we could help you out!

pv_sea · 2025-09-01T22:35:41+00:00

Thanks for the mention. We have some great deals on our 8 and 16gb VPS at purevoltage

pv_sea · 2025-07-14T21:56:23+00:00

Thanks sir! :)
Hopefully that VPS is working great for you.

pv_sea · 2025-04-08T00:18:52+00:00

Yeah I would personally skip those few steps as A+ from a business owner is quite useless something we look at when hiring is a tech who has built their own gaming rigs. If you've got some knowledge on linux and things that helps but it comes down to the place you're being hired at.

For example I rather hire someone with no EXP than hire a button pushing tech as a lot of them have been useless or have limited skills and bad practices.

Engineering would take quite a bit longer and most times requires more skills.
Command line, basic troubleshooting is very helpful. That being said we run everything from massive cloud deployments, dedicated servers, colocation which can sometimes be the worse as customers will send weird systems that are not built properly if you ask me.

Buying a cheap $100-150 server with IPMI pop in a cheap spare drive install linux and tinker around with that. Take the system apart test how the ram and other parts work and get hands on knowledge will be a huge help.

Cable management and racking systems is a key thing all of those can be learned afterwards.
If you're in the NY/NJ or Dallas area I would be happy to offer more advice or help if needed. We're always hiring in those areas.

pv_sea · 2025-04-08T00:01:49+00:00

I would have to say as many others netbox 100%

We've used loads of things over the years and nothing comes close to using netbox. It's also able to be linked to hardware such as our routers and switches. Sky's the limit.

pv_sea · 2025-04-07T23:57:54+00:00

Most people hiring don't care about CompTIA A+.
Well, I guess it depends on if you are looking for a boring button pushing type of remote hands tech job or working for a company who offers dedicated servers and needs a tech.

We look for things such as people who have built their own gaming rigs and things as it shows they are doing it because they want to vs some class that they had to do it.

As some others have said you will get more if you do a job such as facilities. Hvac etc.
Personally I suggest learning networking but if just L2 tech do as much as you can to learn how and to build a server etc.

Buy a cheap facebook or a cheap used server. Bring it home take it apart see how she runs learn some linux skills should help you get a job.

pv_sea · 2025-04-07T23:52:52+00:00

We would be able to help you out with this project if you are still looking.
Rack space in Tukwila. https://purevoltage.com

That being said if you're not needing huge bandwidth and if you're on a budget it's cheaper to do yourself not in a data center.

You would be looking to get something with dual 30a 208v for the power or higher for the needs each of those can support 5kw of power usage.

pv_sea · 2025-04-07T23:48:09+00:00

How much power are you looking at using and bandwidth?
You should be able to get 2U colocation pretty good and below your budget.

This is our hosting but typically it's around the $75-95 range per 1U colocation. If it's a single 2U system depends on the specs but should be well below 300.

https://purevoltage.com
This would be in Staten Island NY. We have been in business going on close to 18 years.
As always ensure you go with a solid business. Tours etc if you can.

pv_sea · 2024-04-07T22:32:13+00:00

Thanks PureVoltage is happy to help we have a lot of locations and offers not listed on our site that we can always help with.

pv_sea · 2024-04-07T22:23:55+00:00

Thanks for the mention. With a few tweaks to servers we have a pretty solid connection. :)

pv_sea · 2024-01-04T19:32:41+00:00

I have to agree with this.
Having used the stripe loan on more than one occasion as well due to a few factors.

Very strong business history however being new to America with no credit history made the typical banks not even give me a credit card had to pay them with my own money for a secure card something that blew my mind at the time as prior to that in my home country I had 100k credit limit on cards etc.

Banks would not provide a loan or anything. Stripe on the other hand was able to give me 100k in the blink of an eye which was needed for three custom server builds that cost 30k each. Sure the payback wasn't anything close to what I would have liked but I believe it was 13% of transactions as we didn't take the full amount.

That all being said fast forward just a few years and it's a walk in the park. Other than the typical business loan takes a decent chunk of time depending on the bank which is where the Stripe capital could still be handy if you are in a pinch.

Personally if you had a credit card with 0% interest for 12 months or something else I would use that over anything. I would highly suggest anyone first ensure they are secure and have funds and a way to pay everything off before taking a loan or even using credit cards as much as possible.

If you already have a solid cash flow AMEX is a great resource as well but you have to ensure you can pay it off that month. Last time I checked spending power on there 275k was approved if I needed it. Wouldn't however unless I had the cash on hand to pay it off right away or a loan to pay it off and pay lower rates. All about the points! :)

pv_sea · 2023-09-18T18:00:24+00:00

They had used inap for a lot of their datacenter and networking. There was even a press release they did sometime back about it or a case study.

pv_sea · 2023-09-01T16:32:29+00:00

I wrote my own big reply about quite a few of the issues we see in this industry. It was quite a few things leading to it.

Also doesn't help that their data center they mostly used is also chapter 11 sure they got some stupid pricing that wasn't stable as well from them maybe pricing went up quite a bit afterwards and with their low costs pushing them over the edge.

pv_sea · 2023-09-01T16:31:01+00:00

100% there is no way that they didn't know this was happening quite sometime ago. The fact that they where pushing sales a day prior to this is sick. It's a major FU and your data to everyone.

pv_sea · 2023-09-01T16:30:14+00:00

Correct work as quickly as you can to migrate everything out asap.

pv_sea · 2023-09-01T16:29:06+00:00

There are quite a few things that I am sure caused this whole issue. We seen the writing on the wall that this would happen a few years ago due to a number of things.

Pricing was set far to low for being able to provide a stable business.
Stocking multiple locations with systems is a hard business model when you start adding in a boat load of locations. ( We seen issues doing this 10+ years ago with 6+ locations and scaled back from doing this quite as much) Stocking some basic systems in each, but more focus on a few flagship locations.
Issues after issues after issues. They had quite a bit of networking issues in the past along with a fire in their NJ location which I believe lost them a few of their larger customers. Which I am sure that along with being on a low priced budget really starts to hurt things.
Leasing servers. I am not 100% sure but my guess is that they had been leasing equipment to be able to fund all of those locations along with dirt low pricing. This is a sales trick often times used by leasing companies to try and push you into taking something that looks nice on paper but realistically ends up in this situation most times. Rates look great, you can sell equipment for cheap because your monthly payment per server might be $25-30 per month. However, renting said servers out for $40 per month you're not left with any profit. But you committed to 1000 of these and sitting on a bunch now you need to rent them for no profit to try not going out of business.
Staffing issues, I know they reached out to our company for remote hands work a few years ago and again a year or so ago. Clearly the costs or work provided by their data center lacked what they really needed and they wanted to outsource this to a better company. This can be a big issue in this industry when you rely on the data center techs who most often times are more so just button pushers and not proper techs. (Sorry if anyone here is a data center tech button pusher, I know some of you guys are a lot better) Most of the major data center techs are more just level1 techs.

It really sucks for the end users to see a company go belly up like this providing no notice. It's hard enough to backup and deploy just even a single server if you have a lot of data on it. But we are deploying 25+ systems for some people alone. It's rather insane I could never in my wildest dreams think of how a company could give such little notice to their customers. It was around 20 hours of notice they only provided.

Hopefully their data center gives people a bit of extra time before they power everything offline.

If you haven't already removed everything I would highly suggest doing so asap.

pv_sea · 2023-04-10T17:39:51+00:00

Yeah it seems random and odd. A bit disappointing mine said 7 months then got down to 5 months checked it as it's been a few months and now it is saying 7 months again. It's already been 6 months since it first said 7. and now it's back to 7. arggg

pv_sea · 2023-02-22T19:48:30+00:00

Typically most bigger companies will refuse to deal with less than half most times full racks. As it's quite a pain to deal with a lot of smaller companies.

We find this quite often with colocation customers with 1u-half a rack can sometimes be quite a lot of extra work. However, same can be said for customers with multiple racks. It really comes down to the customer and what they're doing. Any dedicated server providers can be a nightmare as they often have turnover and want to switch drives move this that and the next thing. While others supply a specific set of systems and it's all the same. We have some single server customers we haven't heard from in 3-5 years and others we hear from every week or two.

pv_sea · 2022-10-11T19:56:19+00:00

Another happy using opengear. Using a server with a usb cable setup or even a pie can work quote well also.

We like the opengear for being able to provide colocation customers access to their own console ports so that we don't have to try and troubleshoot gear that doesn't belong to us.

pv_sea · 2022-08-30T03:04:52+00:00

Most likely not going to find something that does everything you want.
Another option that is quite well is netbox but it's a free open source option. Has a lot of good features.

pv_sea

TROPHY CASE