Epoch Hosting Review

by The-Enigma-Code

I signed up for epoch (u/EpochHosting) after hearing about them on reddit. I've tried a few others in the past, and have a current subscription with rapidiptv. Rapid is fine but I was having a lot of buffering, sometimes unwatchable even though I'm on 100Mbps wired internet. I also found that it wasn't useful to me, as there were too many foreign channels, and the channel organisation and epg were all over the place.

Epoch are fabulous. It's been about a week, I've tried on two devices both through kodi, an amazon fire TV box, and an amazon fire TV stick and have had absolutely zero buffering. On some of the HD channels I have had an odd stutter (maybe once every half hour or so) but I am more inclined to blame the devices for this.

The channel selection is fantastic and stable - It is all UK, US and sport, so if you want foreign channels maybe look elsewhere but for me it's all I wanted. Another plus for me is no adult channels, which when you have a family is great. I don't need those channels and I don't want them cluttering up my set up where they could be stumbled upon.

I have gone for a 3 month full subscription with entertainment and sport. I don't watch a lot of sport, but I do watch the odd NHL or MBL game, so for the extra cost it was worth it for me. The only thing I wish is that there was a way to get a subscription without VOD. I run my own local library with more than enough content so VOD seems totally pointless to me, and it just clogs everything up. It puts it from a nice reasonable 400 channels, to over 3000, and even though the EPG is irrelevant for these channels it slows everything down when you first boot up trying to read an epg for these useless channels. Mind you I had the exact same issue with rapid, plus all the extra 2000 foreign channels, so I still see this as a better option, but I wouldn't mind being able to disable them.

Another amazing thing is the web interface epoch have. You can login anywhere and watch IPTV without needing to install anything on your device, which is great for laptops or when I want to watch something at work. Be aware it is obviously still only 1 concurrent stream at a time, although I saw a post on the facebook group that they are about to launch multiroom. This has also been the best support I have ever had. Paul seems to be extremely active. On the two occasions I asked a question on their facebook group, I got a response within 30 seconds, and a great conversation to try help my small issue (it was a kodi issue on my end, which Paul couldn't resolve but still tried his best).

All in all I couldn't be happier. Well, only slightly happier if I could turn off VOD from my package.

I would highly recommend them to anyone.

4/5.

P.S. I don't know what the stance on affiliate links is on this sub, but if you are keen to try them out and wouldn't mind using my affiliate link, let me know. Their rewards program seems pretty good too.

EpochHosting

Thanks bud, we really appreciate the review and glad to hear you are enjoying the service, there is a way to disable VOD but this can be a little cumbersome as you do need to do this locally, if you are interested please drop a ticket on the site and i will advise.

Dardoor

I'll try it for 24hrs pass and see how it goes.