William, from TortoiseLabs, has sent in some a rather unique offer for LEB readers in 5 locations worldwide. This offer while under their TortoiseCloud product are not based off their usual SAN setup, but it is nevertheless a great offer.
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TortoiseLabs was founded in January 2012, but began operating in October 2012. Whilst they’re registered as an LLC, that LLC is dormant due to not trading in their financial year 2012. They have mentioned moving the LLC to Georgia due to “an interest in a datacenter project in Atlanta” at the end of August. They are not new to the hosting industry, as they were a part of the team at RapidXen, who were featured here a handful of times in the past, until Enzu bought it out. Interestingly enough, they also have their own custom control panel with interactive graphs, remote cloning, OS installs from scratch [no templates], websockets-based serial console. More information is on their website. Most of their code is open source too! There aren’t many reviews out yet, but in general everything seems positve, do leave your experiences below if you have any.
TortoiseLabs accept payments via PayPal and Bitcoins, their refund policy is pro-rated unless it’s within a week where you recieve 100% of your money back. A TL;DR of their TOS/AUP is basically everything apart from spam and illegal materials in the US and also the location you choose, open proxies, tor exit nodes and “penetration-testing tools” without explicit consent. Their full and rather to the point legal documents are available here. For the hipsters out there, they also have support for Arch Linux!
Network Information:
| LAX | | 198.56.208.17 | | http://lax.speedtest.tortois.es/1gb.bin | | Looking Glass | | Enzu LAX2 datacenter, 530 W 6th |
| MIA | | 172.246.127.137 | | http://mia.speedtest.tortois.es/1gb.bin | | Looking Glass | | Telx with Enzu IP transit |
| LHR | | 88.150.199.51 | | http://lhr.speedtest.tortois.es/1gb.bin | | Looking Glass | | Telehouse Docklands via Redstation |
An instance of Smokeping is running in each location here.
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- TortoiseLabs – $6.45/Month 512MB RAM Xen VPS in LA, FL, TX, CHI and London - August 25, 2013
- Crissic Solutions – $1.64/Month 256MB RAM OpenVZ VPS in Jacksonville - August 23, 2013
Total (USD):$6.45 is not $6.50/Month
4 locations?
Los Angeles, California, USA
Miami, Florida, USA
London, England, United Kingdom (telehouse)
Dallas, Texas, USA
Chicago, Illinois, USA
The fourth location was removed due to “consistent failures of hardware at OVH” – so yeah.
Well, we have Dallas and Chicago too after we made this offer way back when.
Hello William.
Do you have test ips/files for those?
Dallas: http://dal.speedtest.tortois.es/
Chicago: http://chi.speedtest.tortois.es/
This is a comment.
“but began operating in October 2013.” May want to get that fixed :)
You saw nothing! It’s what happens when you write offers the previous night at 3AM and don’t check over them.
@TortoiseLabs I thought you hates LEB :P
Is the owner of Tortoiselabs an Admin on Freenode IRC Network?
The name ‘nenolod’ & ‘william’ sounds very familiar.
I don’t have any formal involvement in Freenode for many years (although there was a brief cameo for a while when they were reorganizing things after lilo passed away).
I do, however, serve as the project leader of atheme, which has several activities involving IRC which freenode either participates in or benefits from. Those are:
* the atheme irc services and charybdis ircd projects (freenode runs on these codebases with some local changes)
* the IRCv3 standards process
* the facilitation and network support activity (this facilitates giving certain select networks more direct access to atheme activities, processes and consulting. this is something that is done for larger and serious networks only)
If you have any questions, feel free to ask a freenode staff member or an atheme member about the relationship between both groups.
8 Cores
Do yourll allow Cpu Intensive Application ?
What is your Cpu Model ?
CPU access is weight-limited by amount of memory using Xen’s credit2 scheduler.
“This offer while under their TortoiseCloud product are not based off their usual SAN setup”, so if I pay 30 cents more for the “other offer”, do I get the SAN setup ?
This is in contrast to the old offers we were doing as part of the RapidXen team which were SAN-backed. However, we are looking at possibly doing Infiniband-based SAN in the next couple of months.
The website looks nice, but you can make it a bit more responsive. :)
I’m confused, any of the offers mentioned here are on your own hardware or this all leased?
Got it, leased it is, making it another worthless offer.
I don’t really understand how the nature of our business operations make it ‘another worthless offer’.
The only problem that could occur due to leasing hardware is if we don’t pay our bills on time… but we do.
Xen-PV?
Both PV and HVM modes are available, you can switch between them as you wish without intervention on our side (HVM mode is a special boot profile).
See http://wiki.tortois.es/index/HVM for more information.
CPU model : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1270 V2 @ 3.50GHz
Number of cores : 8
CPU frequency : 3500.086 MHz
Total amount of ram : 998 MB
Total amount of swap : 1023 MB
System uptime : 1 min,
Download speed from CacheFly: 21.6MB/s
Download speed from Coloat, Atlanta GA: 7.50MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Dallas, TX: 13.0MB/s
Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 3.47MB/s
Download speed from i3d.net, NL: 1.81MB/s
Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 1.84MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Singapore: 2.18MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Seattle, WA: 10.8MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 41.7MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Washington, DC: 4.19MB/s
I/O speed : 41.4 MB/s
Hmm. I’m not liking those speeds too much. Which location is that?
LAX
I’ve had two servers with TortoiseLabs, and although I don’t have either at this time, their service and support is exceptional. I encourage anyone considering this host to actually sign up and give them a try.
my experience is a bit different, I created a VPS, deleted it, got a credit, tried to order a new one and was asked to re-pay extra for it, contacted support who removed all the VPS invoices AND the credit so essentially I’ve spent money on absolutely nothing.
To be fair, you placed an order for a plan which was stock-restricted. The stock restricted plan was not covered by this promotion, technically.
Your issue was related to a regression in the way that pypy’s Decimal object worked, verses CPython. This issue has since been fixed, but you would have been invoiced either way, see (1). This required removing your old orders in their entirety.
I wound up giving you a full service credit for the month. This required a new invoice to be created, so we were waiting on you.
Any promo codes to 1024MB plans? Would be great :)
Use the same code. Worked for me.
Dont understand this line:
20Mbit dedicated (1Gbit best effort)
What does it mean? 20Mbit is dedicated, but it may be faster?
Yes.
Out of curiosity, is it possible to switch the resources on your VPS on the fly considering it’s supposedly a “cloud” platform, or is the whole “cloud platform” just a marketing thing?
So the bandwidth is unlimited?