When Chris from ChicagoVPS sent me this offer — “first time ever” — he is trying to emphasis on the significance of price break through, for ChicagoVPS at least. However it is not the first time a VPS with 2GB memory was offered at low end box price. Last time 2GB VPS was offered, the said provider ended up being very close to the dead pool just 2 months down the track. ChicagoVPS would fare better I am sure, judging from their track records, but indeed it is somewhere I consider a dangerous territory at the brink of super-over-selling. Anyway. Here are the deals:
- Enterprise — Sign up link
- 2048MB memory
- 50GB storage
- 2000GB/month data transfer
- OpenVZ/SolusVM
- $7/month with coupon code 2048
- Professional — Sign up link
- 1024MB memory
- 30GB storage
- 1500GB/month data transfer
- OpenVZ/SolusVM
- $5.50/month with coupon code 1024
Servers in Chicago IL with ColoCrossing. How does it work I wonder, but I guess it all got to do with human psychology. Would you pay just $1.50/month more (27% more) to get double the memory at Two-Gigabytes?! Sure, why not?! Despite that bootstrapping from a low-end-script to run a dozen or so PHP sites would probably use 200MB RAM max. But I guess “PHP sites” are far from the only applications for VPS, 2GB memory would find its applications when you load up monsters such as Minecraft and other bloated software requiring JavaVM…
Anyway. Great offer for those who need it. Chris/Jeremiah have also been providing good support at ChicagoVPS.
Update: Some FAQs in the comments:
- Testing files and ping/traceroute that.
- Links to AUP and ToS
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any chance for own date/time/timezone in openvz?
Replace the timezone of choice.
I copy directly the file 😛
The reason to use a link rather than copying the file is that your copy won’t get updated if a patch comes through that corrects the original (for DST changes and such). If you link to the file instead of copying it, you don’t need to manually re-copy if there are tweaks to the relevant timezone definition file.
@Tim @Yomero @Dave
are you guys barbarians, or something?
# dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
^ doesn’t your OS provide a similar facility of configuring the timezone? O.o
I prefer to know how stuff really works, not depend on some tool that is distro specific since afterall, ALL distro’s are the same deep under the hood, only the haters vary a little 😛
We were responding to someone who didn’t state which distro they were using or planning to use, so giving distro specific information might not have been helpful.
Of course you might find some circumstances where /usr/share/zoneinfo/ is not the right location to link to (or copy from), but I’m pretty sure most (if not all) modern setups keep the tzdata files there.
Using GNU/Linux one *is* using some or another distro of it, unless you build something like LFS yourself. Doing things the low-lever way and not the distro way, is a surefire way to get problems in the future. Otherwise, what’s next, people ask you casually, ‘how do I install apache’, and you point them to download and build the Apache source code??
@rm: installing Apache and changing your timezone are far from the same thing.
In that instance I wouldn’t give any instructions at all at first, I’d instead as what OS variant that are currently running and give instructions in response to getting an answer to that.
Spartaaaaaaaaaaans!!!!!
go go go copy paste xDDDD
it worked. i thought it won’t because i couldn’t change date in VPS from another provider and i read somewhere that it has to be enabled separately for every node. looks like all i had to do is try 🙂 thanks
You can not change date or time on OpenVZ, however you can adjust the time zone.
It is usual for the hardware clocks to be set to UTC anyway, no matter where in the world the machine is. /etc/localtime and similar configuration set how this UTC time source is translated by default. You can even set the timezone per user if you like – if all times are correctly stored at UTC it doesn’t matter that one user sees this translated to EST and another sees it translated to PST.
Awesome deal, Good luck Chris .
Very nice offer… I have one profesional vps with them from their last promo..
No issue and vps runs very good.. I’m on vps12 node.
Good luck with this one.. 🙂
What about Centos 6?
Is promo discount for first month only or lifetime of account?
Thanks.
recurrent promo, but not sure applicable to monthly payment. Will they not last long ???
where they are now ????
my box not yet activated
It has been taking for a while but not provisioned yet.
I have just got boxes from other two providers and already activated and been testing.
How many days are you waiting?
No one has been waiting days, its been a couple of hours at most. We ran out of IP’s and are waiting on an allocation, everyone will be setup within the hour.
Regards,
Chris
I was kidding 🙂
🙂 I didnt know haha
Everyone is now up that ordered today.
Regards,
Chris
@Chris,
Hope you will not give me another 10hour waiting. I’d rather to wait because I am afraid of being in a crowded node 😛
Hi, need to ask, IF I were about to pay for 12 months for the Enterprise, how much do I need to pay? Are the 7 USD still applicable to me? Or the USD 7 is only applicable to one month?
System messages :
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Description Price
OpenVZ VPS – Enterprise (svr.axxxxxxxxx)
» Operating System: CentOS 5 x86
$254.49 USD
[Edit Configuration] [Remove]
Subtotal: $254.49 USD
$17.95 USD Recurring Discount: $0.00 USD
Total Due Today: $254.49 USD
Total Recurring: $254.49 USD Annually
Thanks
The 2048 promo code is applicable to monthly payment, not annually one. Not sure why, they may not last too long, I guess 🙂
owhh.. so this is really a high risk host. hehe. tq for replying to my post tinyray
Why do you guys have to say false things? I just dont get it 🙁
We try and have a nice offer for you guys and you have to say negative things about us.
We just prefer month to month revenue and I don’t see the difference, all you have to do is enable automatic payments. There would be no more discount for a yearly payment so after a year either method would be equal.
Regards,
Chris
@Chris: I think people are just being cautious because the offer is significantly better than others are giving at the moment – it is tripping the “too good to be true” nerve so we are looking for the catch. I doubt it is anything personal against you, it is just perfectly healthy paranoia!
@Chris,
Just kidding, never mind.
Anyway, please help me out with the ip problem. I am not why a tracert could not reach my vps IP.
Soory Christ, we are just curious, It doesn’t mean we don’t like it. 🙂 I just subscribe one just now.. would love to test it. But the IP seems nowhere to be found.
Amazing!!!
But I still have a problem with my box; I can access it using console utility in control panel but the SSH desktop program. Does anyone know what to tackle the problem?
OK, the problem is because the IP provided is unknown, 🙁
Same problem here.
ermm I think they must have been to many signups and not enough IP. They should rectify this error ASAP, befire other new customers feels been cheated.
Problem solved.
It was not a problem, just a typo mistake.
Yes this is correct, I happened to add the IP wrong and forgot a number 🙁 Im really sorry everyone for the mistake and time it took to fix it all.
Regards,
Chris
Tq chris, finally I can test the VPS, and play around it. Tq again.
How long is everyone’s avg wait for support tickets? Maybe I just filed them at off times, one from last night is still in the queue.
@daryl… I filed one last night and worked with support for a couple of hours. I logged in today and THAT support ticked was gone. I submitted another today. (FYI… Server has been up, but the IP is not making it to the box.)
My box,
IO is not good at all, 🙁
Hello,
I wouldn’t say that it is terrible, but yes your right its not the best, but still OK.
I will look into this and see whats going on, I have a feeling we may have an abuser that I will look into.
Regards,
Chris
@Chris,
Its much higher than 75mb/s now. There were probably many of your customers doing the io test yesterday. 🙂
Good deal so far,
If 50MB/s is so terrible for you then you should really stop buying any LEBs from this blog.
Yeah, 50MB/s is ok.. even linode io is probably around that.. it seem like everyone want 100MB/s nowadays..
Tom,
Franc should be so sad to hear that, 🙂
Horrible CPU speed. Taking about 5 minutes to do a simple apt-get upgrade (already downloaded files just installing standard files about 10 of them)
I got the enterprise vps and the one I got executes everything about 50% faster than does my VPS from alienvps.
Same here. Worse still, my vps with alienvps (on node ny9) has been down for over 12 hours. Support told me there had been a hard disk failure on that node, but no data has been lost, and to wait for service to resume. No timeframe on when the service will resume has been given, even when I asked them repeatedly on it. Good thing I didn’t sink my money into the monthly services, but took up this offer instead.
Just got myself a box, seems like my order is still pending. Any idea how long this would take before I get to use it? Hope it won’t be until next month when I have to pay again… Also, helping a few of my other interested friends ask, is openvpn,irc or shoutcast allowed?
Naah, you will get it somewhere between 22th and 24th sept… so you will have plenty of time to use it before next billing period. Happy?
Nope. I asked support and they said that they were waiting for a new ip allocation, also my vps has been activated a few hours ago. Pretty fast service for something that would have at least hundreds of orders waiting. Support was fast too (Although it wasn’t so fast during the day as I am 12 hours ‘faster’ than the US due to timezones, but that is understandable)My current quick testing also gave pretty impressive results. Good work ChicagoVPS!
I know. I made a joke from your “just got box – still pending – outrageous” impatience 🙂
Will going to try it.
my question : what is not allowed ?
(irc, torrent, adult, etc) ?
can I run Java VM on your vps?
For those of you who are still making the decision whether to get one or not, here is the 96MB.com review for the VPS:
http://www.96mb.com/96mb-low-end-vps-review-part-xxvi-chicago-vps-enterprise/
Honestly, I have to say I am surprised by how good the performance is although the price seems insane, but really, things are pretty good with it and I would hope this will be the starting point of a new game changer.
Hello,
Thank you for the great review 🙂 I would love to answer some of the peoples questions on WHT but unfortunately I have been banned for about 3 years now 🙁 that hate me haha. Anyway I am glad that you like our service, as we strive for the best.
GREAT review again 🙂
Regards,
Chris
@Chris, no worries, and thanks a lot for providing such great service to the low end box community as well. Keep up the good work!
Thanks!
Jeremiah
I just saw your offer for 7$/mth VPS offer. The 15$ license cost for WHM/cpanel license is separate or it’s included. cos, when i try to order the image with CentOS + WHM/cpanel still it shows me 7$/mth.
This image is usually just to make things for some people with cPanel easier but it don’t include cPanel license. If you really want it you need to opt cPanel/WHM under addons (and this will cost you 15$ of course).
Oops…! I thought of moving from my reseller hosting from HostGator to this VPS, as it’s 7$/mth. Seems it’s not worth. I wonder what for so many folks are buying this VPS 2GB ram stuff, if it’s not for reselling/hosting purpose…?
For people doing web hosting: they might have an existing cPanel or DirectAdmin license to transfer, or they might be using something like DTC (http://www.gplhost.com/software-dtc_5download.html) or OpenPanel (http://www.openpanel.com/)
But there are any number of other tasks that could make use of more RAM than you usually get in a VPS at this price.
No, hosting isn’t all in the Internet, lol
voice servers, game servers, irc, dedicated databases, or just, idling.
“I wonder what for so many folks are buying this VPS 2GB ram stuff”
Because similar specifications will cost you 3x – 5x more elsewhere.
“it’s not for reselling/hosting purpose”
Why not? Because cpanel license isn’t included and you need to pay 15$ extra for that? That’s same as with other hosts. You need to pay those 15$ or so for license everywhere if you want to have it on OWN server.
You need to understand the difference between “reseller hosting from HostGator” and virtual private server. You’re limited with one reseller hosting with hostgator. VPS + cpanel license would give you posability to host plenty those reseller accounts + give you more control. So why it couldn’t be for reselling purpose? It’s right opposite.
@Date, @Yomera – Thanks. But, I’m not sure how it’s profitable to get a server even with 32GB they can sell only for 16 folks. It would cost 300$/mth if they rent it, atleast >$1,000/mth if they’ve bought it and I believe they’re colocating. They’ll just get $100+/month How it’ll be profitable ? They’ve to wait for 12 months, ok after 12 months, the server is their’s, but, still they’ve to pay colo rent, bandwidth, etc. I don’t understand. Just wondering. A lot of us would also do this if it’s profitable.
@Spirit – Ya, but, setting up our VPS with all the Addon’s provided by HostGator reseller/vps is much cheaper than VPS option.
Today I changed my sex… damn.
And yes, is the same question that everyone here is wondering.
@Yomero, Looking for a date? 😛 haha your post gave me a good laugh.
@Jinshans, Id like to know what type of addons you are talking about, I am pretty sure if we discuss this via email I can beat any price you are getting from Host Gator. I will not discuss our business model since it works for us and only us. I can say we do own our own hardware ( all fully paid off ) so your numbers are a little off.
Regards,
Chris
LOL! Not yet, I need to assimilate this new change that jinishans has imposed on me Q_Q
Sure, I’ll pls let me know which email i need to contact. but, if you guys really wan’t to go big, you may need to allow others do the same job, probably you folks can offer service for managing the servers.
say for example, i was checking with all the biggies how much it would cost to setup a Xen kind of server, so that I myself can sell VMs, in India for less cost.
I’m not particularly familiar with OpenVZ from the hosts PoV, but it is possible that allthe RAM your VM sees is not in real RAM all the time – it could be paged out to the hosts swap areas. I know VMWare can operate in this manner. If this is the case then the host would grind away slowly if every VM was actively using all its allocated RAM, but as a lot of the VMs will only be actively using some of their allocation it works out better than that. You are getting achunk of virtual memory which may be spread over RAM and disk at any given time. It is up to the people running the host how to balance the amount of RAM against the amount of virtual memory (RAM plus swap areas), and you just have to hope that they’ve got that balance right (i.e. not too little real RAM for things to run smoothly generally).
So a 32Gb machine could easily run more than 16 2Gb VMs perfecly well depending what those VMs are doing, a lot more if many of them are only actively using 512Mb or less as Wesley reports his is above. How many more is what the hosts need to guess correctly to maximise their income without performance degrading too much for their customers. If you look at Wesley’s output from “free” you’ll see 0 cache and 0 buffers – that is because OpenVZ is OS-level virtualisation not machine level (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenVZ#OpenVZ_compared_to_other_Virtualization_Technologies) so there is only really one kernel and one shared set of cache+buffers – in a lot of instances much of the memory used by a physical non-virtualised machine with plenty of RAM is cache+buffers so you don’t have to account for this in your VM’s allocation (but it being a shared resource means how efficient it is for you depends again on what all the other VMs are up to).
This isn’t the same as overselling (when you have a garantee amount and more you can burst into) as your processes can allocate all the memory at any time rather than just in bursts. It can be mixed with overselling via burstable memory though.
The economics of VM based hosting is a lot more nuanced than 32Gb==16x2Gb guests per host.
(anyone with more detailed knowledge of OpenVZ, feel free to chine in and correctly me where I am wrong!)
Yep, I think that is the idea. And if some customers start to use more RAM and degrade performance, you can distribute some of them randomly in less loaded nodes n_n
yep, that’s what i too was wondering. i don’t know how can one server physical 2GB RAM for more than 16 customers if it’s real, that would be tooooo costlier right ?
With VPS’s of this size, it would make much more sense to have 48-64GB RAM on the host node 😉
Kuro,
We only run and utilize the best parts. I cannot go into specifics of the machines, but I can say that you are on the right track 🙂
Thanks,
Jeremiah
I just ran across this site today. I have found some very usefull information here today. I have a few questions for Chris or Jeremiah if they do not mind.
Is this discount for the life of the service with you?
Will the price ever go back to normal for the people who signup under the deal price?
Do you support slackware?
Not just a slack template but a full install?
Would I be allowed to configure and customize the vps any way I wish, with in the confines of the tos and aup of course?
Thank you for your time and for offering this great deal.
Hi,
The cost of the VPS is for the life of the account so long as the account do not go under default.
I can support slackware pretty well. It is not one of the distro’s i prefer, but once you know one, you pretty much know all of them except for their individual tweaks and different CLI parameters.
Next, you can customize your VPS all you want, so long as it is not abusive to other customers or violates the ToS/AUP.
Thanks,
Jeremiah
“Next, you can customize your VPS all you want, so long as it is not abusive to other customers or violates the ToS/AUP”
Can you elaborate on how the usage of one vps be abusive to other customers, unless you are challenging some hacker groups to break your vps!
I was under the impression that your deal should be almost immune to co-user abuse considering zero burst memory. i.e the 2GB you are offering is guaranteed and you don’t give any extra burst memory.
forgive me if im being tooo noob to the subject.
thanks
-veer
I have an example… Gentoo is SO abusive xD
Jeremiah, if you dont mind me asking,
What are the full specs for the host node #19, and how many VPS’s do you have hosted in it ?
The unixbench scored pretty low for those Xeon processors. But still its a great deal, thanks for this offer!
Unix Bench Test
INDEX VALUES
TEST BASELINE RESULT INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 376783.7 25368226.7 673.3
Double-Precision Whetstone 83.1 1322.2 159.1
Execl Throughput 188.3 6096.3 323.8
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 2672.0 237206.0 887.7
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1077.0 64525.0 599.1
File Read 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 15382.0 1996205.0 1297.8
Pipe-based Context Switching 15448.6 829385.4 536.9
Pipe Throughput 111814.6 2832987.9 253.4
Process Creation 569.3 27903.2 490.1
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 44.8 1993.0 444.9
System Call Overhead 114433.5 2333548.2 203.9
=========
FINAL SCORE 447.7
As stated previously i cannot go into details of the production environment.
Thanks,
Jeremiah
Must be oversold like crazy =-\
yep, i only doubt the oversold thing on this server. I might be a small customer, but, still wan’ted to know as the co’ we’re talking about is also small compared to the big players providing VPS nowadays like vps.net, linode, etc.
Also, i really wan’t to avail this offer, but, when i tried to download the 100mb & 150mb files from Hoffman Estates, IL, which is 30 miles away from from Chicago, infact 10-20 miles from their colocation provider, it took around 2min-3min for these files to download, which is really long time, considering lot of posts above says the IO is not great, and even the review also says same thing.
Even big players nowadays provide the Server detail for their VPS offering, I think it’ll be great if Chris/Jer. can provide more insight on the server details, # of customers they’ll max. support per dedi server, as for someone like me moving my business to them, this info would be critical.
Are you bashing us just because I cannot go into exact details? We have our limits and we stick with them.
Thanks,
Jeremiah
You’re making it look more and more like you are trying to hide info from your customers with this evasion tactic you are using. Simply tell them the hardware, nobody reveals customers per node on OpenVZ, so I see no reason to hear as well, but the hardware used, most are proud of it and share with the class.
Tim,
I highly disagree. I am hardly hiding information for anyone. The information you need is posted above. We run e5620 processors and enterprise drives. What more matters on what we run?
I am very proud of our hardware, but at the same time, go find your own hardware you are proud to run instead of going to copy ours and to do what we are doing.
Thanks,
Jeremiah
Trust me, copying you guys is the furthest thing on my mind, I don’t need to downgrade my nodes.
Tim,
I’m pretty sure that our current hardware would be an upgrade over yours, that’s how much “I” believe in our hardware and know that most providers do not spend the money we do.
Go back to your broken website that doesn’t even load.
Regards,
Chris
Chris,
You believe what you want, I know I use better hardware, I tried to keep my service out of it, but since you want to drag it in, while you’re using older CPU’s and maybe software raid if not single disk, I’m using current E3-1200’s and hardware raid10. And to put more ire in your bonnet, 96mb.com shows it himself, your geekbench with 4 cores on this offer is a respectable 5600, but no match for even my lowest package with a single core at 5800 http://browse.geekbench.ca/geekbench2/view/463206
Site doesn’t load for you? You must have been blocked hitting port 80 since 99.9% of my traffic is on port 443 and the site has been SYN flooded all weekend but I’ve kept it up for the most part, but it happens to us all.
Maybe next time answer the customers interested in your service with a straight answer instead of of picking a match with someone that can clearly clean your clock on performance and service.
Tim,
We have several E3-1240’s with 16GB of ram on them. If you take into consideration both of our processors in SMP still have just about 300 passmarks higher.
As a side note, we prefer to utilize 5600 series processors and have been for awhile as they have given us a very good performance.
Our E3’s are for service machines, like our web servers, name servers, backup servers, as well as our solusvm.
Regarding your website, i have had several people check from geographically diverse locations, none of which are able to load your site.
Thanks,
Jeremiah
Since I’ve already said my site is being SYN flooded, what’s your point?
And while your E5620 SMP does score 9541 and my E3-1230’s score 8374 for passmark, neither of us are passing the whole node to the customer, so it doesn’t matter, I obviously must deploy more nodes but it gives the customer a superior, higher performing experience, and that does matter. You clearly like your 5600’s, I like the E3’s for nodes, so you started way off base attacking me earlier, and Chris followed suite, when all I suggested was giving your interested customers the answers they sought, so you’re still hiding the info from them in my eyes. CPU does not make a VPS node, the IO subsystem does, and this is the issue you both have been avoiding. I’d be ashamed if any of my OpenVZ nodes returned 50-100MB/sec dd tests, that is clearly not hardware raid, or massively oversold.
This is starting to get personal and silly, and making *both* sides look bad. Calm down children, and play nice.
Tim Flavin appears to be butt-hurt and jealous of ChicagoVPS.
@MeesterSneeky: Shh. They’ve calmed down, don’t stir it up again. Let us just give the offer a try if we are going to (and not if we’d prefer not) and let real world results decide whether the offer is good/bad/ugly.
I highly doubt it took that long to download it. 100MB files take a matter of seconds to download.
Thanks,
Jeremiah
your server download speed takes longer than the one in Egypt.
John,
Instead of looking at our “demo server” like Jeremiah said has been up for 290 days and gets thousands of requests a day, look at the actual reviews from the current sale. If you need help finding this I can supply you with the link: http://www.96mb.com/96mb-low-end-vps-review-part-xxvi-chicago-vps-enterprise/
Regards,
Chris
@Jeremiah – Def. not sir. I just wanted to know more details about your physical server detaisl, as the review, few folks here on IO says it’s slow and downloading 100mb takes 2-3 min and 150mb from your server takes 5min. Also, i believe VPS providers generally tell the server details of their server. If i’m wrong, pls correct me.
pls let me know your email id, i can send screenshot of it/any other way to test thru any website for the download test.
Concern is, if it’s taking 5min from 10 miles away, how much time it would take from other country..! Hope you understand my concern.
My email is jshinkle [at] chicagovps [dot] net.
Thanks,
Jeremiah
yep, I sent the screenshots.
took 5 min to download 100mb and I am in L.A
It is a demo server and hardly a reflection of our services. If this is what you have to complain about, I am sorry you have to much spare time on your hands….
Jermey – Anyway, I’ve ordered 1 for 7$/mth to try it out. I’m not sure you provide any moneyback for a month, or atleast a week. Let me try it out.
@John,
To be fair, I think you need to check with data hosted elsewhere; just log in your box and download this: ftp://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/databases/IntAct/current/all.zip which is in UK, my box did 675kb/s, or try this one: ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/DATA/GENE_INFO/All_Data.gene_info.gz which is in Washington. Its hard to figure out the issue using your home PC.
From my ChicagoVPS:
wget -O /dev/null ftp://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/databases/IntAct/current/all.zip --2011-09-06 11:19:27-- ftp://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/databases/IntAct/current/all.zip => `/dev/null' Resolving ftp.ebi.ac.uk... 193.62.192.4 Connecting to ftp.ebi.ac.uk|193.62.192.4|:21... connected. Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in! ==> SYST ... done. ==> PWD ... done. ==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD (1) /pub/databases/IntAct/current ... done. ==> SIZE all.zip ... 873799144 ==> PASV ... done. ==> RETR all.zip ... done. Length: 873799144 (833M) (unauthoritative) 100%[======================================>] 873,799,144 678K/s in 21m 19s 2011-09-06 11:40:49 (667 KB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [873799144]@Tim Flavin: I like your novice suggestion that CVPS is using single SATA disks. Move along.
I would buy this, but they don’t accept AlertPay.
Do you plan to accept AlertPay for payments, Chris?
@Chris,
It would be nice if you could consider this suggestion.
Tinyray,
I will take it under advisement.
Thanks,
Jeremiah
please active my account. i can not pay for you, i sent ticket #929492 for you.
As stated on their Twitter page, as well as in the Portal Home: “09/06/2011 02:48 – We are working on getting all of our orders filled. Pending new machines being setup. :)”
You have to have a little bit of patience, this is an amazing deal, and as such, is probably getting hit with many activations.
Corey,
Thanks for your understanding, we have got hit with more orders than expected. The node should be up today, tomorrow at worst.
Regards,
Chris
Of course with the previous nodes being officially full, now would be a good time for people to post performance stats as they’ll be more realistic than those posted from a VM on a newly commissioned host machine that is nearly empty!
@Dave
What tests do you want? I’m new to VPS’s, so I don’t know what the usual tests are, but I’d be happy to run them on mine.
@Corry and @jinishams: I’m not particularly familiar with OpenVZ myself (I have worked a fair bit with VMWare and VirtualBox but they are hypervisor based rather than shared kernel arrangements, so their performance metrics are going to be different). Generally speaking though dd is not a good benchmark for real world performance as it is only testing bulk single-stream sequential throughput, something that doesn’t happen all that often except on low-concurrent-use fileservers primarily hosting large files. Testing tools like Bonnie++ give much more meaningful results, or if you plan to use something like mysql there will be test suits specific for them (which will test against their typical balance of CPU, memory and I/O use rather than testing just the base I/O subsystem).
I wasn’t asking for specific tests myself, I was just suggesting now woudl be a good time to retest if people had tried with empty hosts before. I’ve ordered one myself to have a kick around. If it has decent performance it will replace a VM I have elsewhere that has started to bog down in terms of network throughput (and is getting a tad full on its smaller disk quota too), if it turns out to not be up to what I need I can cancel and all I’ve lost is $7 for the few weeks testing time (or $14 if I’m not organised enough to get stuff played with in the first month!).
@Dave Me too new to VPS. pls let me know how to test IO/speed of this VPS. I’m not a Linux person, any link for help would be great.
Up until the past few days I would have given Chicago VPS a high recommendation, but it seems with this offer they’ve decided to shove everyone on two nodes (17 and 18). Sure this would be fine, except for the way Disk IO has dropped. I normally got a high 70-80 MB/s disk IO, however I’ve been testing all day and it hasn’t gotten above 45 MB/s. It’s taking almost 20 seconds to list a small directory. I submitted a support ticket and they’ve completely ignored me. I’m really disappointed on how they’ve dropped supporting old customers for the new shiny ones.
The current disk IO:
root@surv:~/mc# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 43.8092 s, 24.5 MB/s
I just ran this on mine (node 17)
root@vps2:~$ dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 18.5579 s, 57.9 MB/s
While not great, I don’t think its terrible.
It still suggests overselling, or at least they are stressing the servers. Mine is still not going above 40 MB/s…
I would try your tests again, since the node is full there will not be any more installs going on. Also I know Jeremiah was doing some work on the node today.
Regards,
Chris
Still pretty low on Node 17. I’ve seen it up to 60 MB/s, but no higher then that. Just checked again now:
dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 31.8248 s, 33.7 MB/s
root@surv:~/mc# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 22.2612 s, 48.2 MB/s
root@surv:~/mc# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 27.4056 s, 39.2 MB/s
Might be someone hogging disk resources? It’s just a little frustrating as I’m trying to run a Minecraft server which (of course) is fairly disk intensive.
And consistently running the command back to back also does no purpose other than over load the I/O.
For your torrenting people, i have been cracking down on you very hard…. This is what is eating up most of your peer’s I/O. 2 people suspended here in the last few minutes that 35GB+ of torrents downloaded.
Thanks,
Jeremiah
Maybe YOU b1naryth1ef hogging disk resources 😐
Actually running the command back-to-back tells you whether or not it’s just a IO spike or a slow disk. It’s definitely getting faster, but still not where i need it:
root@surv:~/mc# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 19.1985 s, 55.9 MB/s
I don’t think I’m hogging disk resources, as I’m not copying lots of data all at once (just copying small data in a *hopefully* short period of time), and I shut all disk items down before testing.
Here is the latest on node 19. Similar results for the past 4 days now.
Node 16 here (I guess I ordered early)…
For what it’s worth…
again…
Node 19
dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync 16384+0 records in 16384+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 26.9258 seconds, 39.9 MB/s ./over.sh uid resource held maxheld barrier limit failcnt physpages 120219 332900 0 2147483647 0 oomguarpages 120670 332900 524288 2147483647 0 Swapped out: 451 pages, or 1804 KiBHi Chris,
My 2 new VPS’s are still in pending status. Can you let us all know when commisioning of the new servers is completed? Also don’t forget the extra IP’s…
– David
How long is the wait for setup if I may ask?
Guys please relax. They have a lot on their plate and are doing the best they can. The popularity of this kind of deal must be astronomical.
Yes the servers may be a little full but I am sure they are trying to sort it out. Give them a chance and have some patience.
Fights serve no purpose on the internet at all. They make people look stupid most of the time.
I will be willing to give them a go and see how it works out. My suggestion for the price would be to do the same and stop trying to use this site for support or bashing. If you are having a problem use their support staff and try to rectify it with them and not here.
It was less than a day for my last order. I just received my email a few minutes ago after ordering late last night. Node 20.
Corey,
All pending orders are now installed 🙂
Thanks for your patience.
Regards,
Chris
Thanks Chris, no complaints from me. Great service. Thanks.
Instant activation, awesome job guys. Site runs smooth as butter on my Android tablet. Definitely liking so far will do some testing. Once again nice job guys.
I tried to sign up but gues offer ended,if offer is avaial email me plz at vijaykudal@gmail.com
My results from node 19 are worse:
Oops, network error. Someone please delete this post. Sorry about that.
That’s pretty low. But a better benchmark would be to test how well your applications perform. dd won’t necessarily predict how well any application will perform, so you better just test your application.
My results from node 19 are worse:
What just happened in that node?
Could be lots of VMs being asked to run I/O performance tests…!
There was an email earlier about some VPSs being live-migrated to different hosts for load balancing/ I imaging that could be an I/O intensive (as well as network intensive) operation to perhaps there is such a process happening on your node at the moment?
I have no idea what is running in that node. I am only running a irc bouncer and hoping to install some openvpn software, but this IO performance is really making things difficult.
Use OpenvpnAS as its quicker 🙂
Dave,
The nodes you are talking about are older nodes and nothing to do with this current sale.
Regards,
Chris
As said if everyone keeps running these tests your I/O is just going to stay bad. Yesterday it was in the 100’s. Everyone running the test is doing it to yourself, and also all the torrenting is a big cause as we have suspended over 10 people for breaking the rules. Everyone is taking advantage of the offer and there is nothing we can do if everyone wants to keep running test and torrenting.
Regards,
Chris
I tried ordering for 3 months but the coupon code wouldn’t work. Is the $7/mo for the first month only? or for the lifetime of the account?
You should try reading some of the comments…
It’s on a month to month basis and it’s $7 per month for account lifetime.
Is CentOS 6 an option?
Hi,
We do offer and support CentOS 6
Thanks,
Jeremiah
🙂
Both Chris and Jeremiah are hypocrites who say they allow torrenting till they sell you the service and suspend your VPS and giving no refund after selling it. Also network, hdds and cpus are piece of junk that’s why it’s that cheap, cheap as the staff.
When you abuse your resources and cause 40 load, yes we will suspend you. People like you are the reason why users are seeing an I/O issue. Anyone will agree with me that it was the right thing to do.
Regards,
Chris
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sad i would get a vps from you
I would try again as this code is still working.
Regards,
Chris