Via this WHT offer. ServerHitch has a grand opening special with lifetime 25% off discount using coupon code fm25pc — which can be found on their website but is no where mentioned on the WHT offer post. Anyway, it brings the price down to $5.24/month for the following virtual server:

• 128MB memory
• 8GB storage
• 128GB/month data transfer
• OpenVZ/SolusVM
• CentOS/Ubuntu

From network & infrastructure page, it says the servers are hosted in Chicago IL. Fast Xeon 5520 hardware if it is really what ServerHitch claimed to be.

When you dig a bit deeper, well, ServerHitch got a few ticks on the dodgy report.

• Very new domain registration — early October this year, and with domain privacy. Why does a company selling products on the Internet wants to hide their domain registration info?!
• ns1, ns2 and www.serverhitch.com are all on the same box.
• ServerHitch was launched in December 2009 according to the about us page. December is still a week away. Not to mention 99% uptime SLA seems to be a bit low (whereas the actual SLA says 100% electricity + transit).
• Interesting terms of service, especially the fact that CubicHost was mentioned in a few places. Yes, this CubicHost.org, which is still down. If you google SearchHitch CubicHost, you’ll find that ServerHitch is merely the rebranded CubicHost.

CubicHost has to be one of the most-offline providers. It was up and down like a yoyo for the last couple of weeks, and seeing it has been rebranded as something else, it might never come back up again. Will ServerHitch be better? We’ll see.