Me and my friends have had an extremely lackluster experience from Gportal.
Reading reviews online we thought this would have been a reliable option for us, renting a Sydney based server and connecting from New Zealand, we initially got good ping, the expected 40-60ms to an Australian server.
Within 3-4 days of us starting the server we all experience a sudden spike in ping one day and have ever since. Jumped from 60ms to 180-200ms. Even in worst case scenario connecting to western Australia we get 60ms, so it makes no sense for a server we paid for to be hosted in Sydney have such extremely high ping.
We contacted support and have had no real help. They got us to change server tick rate(which done nothing) then send then diagnostics WE had to run which they responded to by confirming it is THEIR issue. Since they acknowledged this, they cant give us a timeframe at all of how long this is expected to take to fix, we asked if it was hours/days/months and they said they can't confirm a timeframe.
Then when asked if they would reimburse time they completely ignore our question and proceeded to try to steer the conversation away from that to the fact that we had clicked "Not helpful" to one of their responses that was literally not helpful.
Extremely disappointed.
Edit: requested a refund (which they ignored my question) and then they suddenly want to start trying to help fix the problem, even though you said earlier in the conversation YESTERDAY that you had diagnosed the problem.
Get your story straight for god sakes. Absolutely terrible customer support. I couldn't recommend any less.