Yes I am going to whine again about my flooded inbox with provider sending in their listing request. Some of them aren’t even low end (“Please consider adding us. Our plans start at $19.95.” ARGHH!). Some of them are not VPS hosting related (sorry Igor. Your service might be cool and thanks for the discount, but I’ll probably put it at the end of another post rather than it’s own post). Some just kept on emailing me the same message trying to get the very same offer re-listed again. Some people are persisting, aren’t they?!
DediSRV emailed me 6 times in less than 3 weeks, trying to get exactly the same deal as last time listed. Same thing. £2.50/month (only slightly different converting to USD at $4.09 today). Same ordering link. Same spec:
- 128MB memory
- 5GB storage
- 150GB/month data transfer
- Xen/Virtualizor
Same data centre in Wolverhampton, UK (test IP: 89.255.133.66). Same blokes running the show there (Matt and Jake). PayPal is the only payment option and they are not registered for VAT.
DediSRV was started in April 2010. NS run on shared hosting with adjacent IP addresses. Maybe they’ll get a better response this time.
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I went ahead and made a purchase. I’ll post back with some benchmarks and information.
[root@server ~]# free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 128 64 63 0 3 26 -/+ buffers/cache: 34 93 Swap: 3 0 3LEA, you need to do up a crap list of providers who don’t have a clue. Like Pirate Bay does for all those who don’t understand the copyright law. That way we can all point at them and laugh. :)
Either that or figure out some way of offloading your workload.
@Zach Thanks for exposing the bad I/O and network speed :)
LEA should just request an account on the VPS before posting it.
And making some automated system that will run all the benchmarks, and if they meet the requirements, good to go.
Then they would give him an VPS on an empty box to make us believe the specs were better.
He’s said a couple of times now many providers offer him a free VPS but he doesn’t take them.
We’ve talked about a set standard of specs a couple of times now over at LET but we couldn’t get an agreement on what folks liked. For example some people wanted how much space is available while others, including myself, didn’t see that as important. I’m on battery so I can;t go digging for the link. Maybe someone else can.
It would probably give inaccurate results anyway.
Stick LEA account on a brand new node while he tests and approves, then assign all new signups to that box. Before you know it you are getting nowhere near the test results (especially disk IO)
Write a script that checks downlaod speed. disk IO and other info and sends it to a database soemwhere here. Then offer the script to run as a cron to anyone that want to run it. Run the test every 24 hours and all LEB users can be the testers :)
So when you get a $1 offer, you expect to get a good solid 100mbps and 160mbps IO?
Nope, but I also don’t expect to get 20I/O and 1mbps speeds =\
1.1MB/s is nearly the full capacity of a 10mbps port, and don’t forget there’s extra overhead that’s not being counted by wget. 1MB/s = 8mbps.
But anyway, this is a $4 offer, not a $1 offer :)
Anyone else notice they’re using the same logo icon from the ‘cluster solutions’ theme on ThemeForest? http://themeforest.net/item/cluster-solutions/135062
LOL, didn’t noticed that … good catch!
By the way, most LEBs (with the exception of few) are using templates and its common so I dont think its that much of a deal
I don’t have a problem with hosts using templates. But when you can’t even develop your own brand and identity, such that you have to use the template’s default logo, then it’s a bit lame.
Fran, care to comment on that? :)
like me? gedit+gimp. :p but yeah, nice catch jordan, i didn’t notice that.
Hi,
We use the old theme before we had a new site designed. The new site didn’t come with a logo so we used that default logo, If you guys feel that’s bad then fair enough we can remove it and have something put in place.
As for any other feedback please drop a ticket we do listen and try improve our service. I haven’t had much feedback from current customers so i wasn’t aware of the issues you guys seem to have with the site and areas of our nodes.
We are upgrading our services slowly as for the port speed i’ll have to show our provider and see if they can comment on this as i wasn’t aware this was as low as shown. Thank you zach for taking your time to benchmark our product and give some feedback atleast it’s something we can work on resolving.
Although the internal disk i/o was poor, it is important to note that I tested the download from a US server. Speeds may be higher in the UK.
Hi guys,
We’ve changed the logo just so those who brought it up are a little bit happier. Thanks for bringing it to our attention.
Anymore stuff please submit a ticket
Thanks for the prompt action, its better
Hi,
The network port has been addressed. We’ve tested this below:
Fixed IP – 1
Available IPs – 2
Can you explain this more clearer, please?
a) one by default, second free of charge on request
b) one by default, second (and nothing more than that) can be ordered with additional payment
(just curiosity)
Hi Spirit,
A) second one is free as long as you have a good reason (RIPE guidelines) so you know second for eg. SSL
Thanks.
Just a side point, but in the UK you don’t need to be VAT registered unless your turnover is greater than £73,000 a year. My accountant always told me “avoid it as long as you can, the VAT man always wins”.
So I don’t particularly hold that against them.