Via this WHT offer. VolumeDrive is another established provider entering into the sub-$5 virtual server space with their new hosting plans starting at $4.95/month which will get you
- 512MB guaranteed/1024MB burstable memory
- 30GB storage
- 1000GB/month data transfer
- OpenVZ/vePortal
You have to use the order link to get the VPS, as it is not yet visible on their public website yet. The servers are in Scranton. The spec is also pretty similar to what BurstNet has with their $5.95/month vePortal VPS (but with 10GB extra space).
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How much each additional IP? they provide that?
anyone tried them?
$500 fee for repeat aup violation sounds too harsh. I wouldn’t want to be charged for having a hanging process taking %100 CPU twice in one week.
Total waste of money – the vps is useless and was down almost 80% !
I asked for a refund since I was not able to use the vps at all and they replied that could send me only 50% of the payment. I requested a full refund and they said that they will not argue with me – I replied with a message about the refund – no reply from VolumeDrive from 3 days! Very, very bad!
Do they resell Burst? Anyone have a test ip?
@Dan — I think they insisted that they are not a BurstNet reseller and are operating their own servers in Scranton. I’ve heard that too many times before though :) To get to volumedrive.com, it does route through HostNOC though.
@ LEA
9 87 ms 123 ms 87 ms nyk-b4-link.telia.net [80.91.250.97]
10 92 ms 93 ms 93 ms vl0012.gwy01.sctn01.hostnoc.net [80.239.193.254] (BURST)
11 97 ms 94 ms 93 ms core.sctn01.volumedrive.com [64.191.116.246]
12 94 ms 95 ms 93 ms volumedrive.com [204.124.180.10]
Looks like burst to me.
i think i might just try there vps and give a review. :)
http://www.robtex.com/as/as46664.html#graph
According to this they operate their own network, but purchase their full bandwidth from BurstNet at the moment, so I would take that either they operate straight from the BurstNet facility, or they have their routing equipment at BurstNet’s facility.
I have vps since this morning and so far it works fine… Speeds are between 2 and 3 Mb/sec.
@Brutain
I agree. It’s put me off.
TorrentFlux can’t run…
can someone please reply with the benchmark scores?
[root@v-210 ~]# cat /proc/user_beancounters Version: 2.5 uid resource held maxheld barrier limit failcnt 115: kmemsize 666650 1081459 11055923 11377049 0 lockedpages 0 0 256 256 0 privvmpages 2221 7254 262144 262144 0 shmpages 641 657 21504 21504 0 dummy 0 0 0 0 0 numproc 7 13 240 240 0 physpages 1180 1215 0 2147483647 0 vmguarpages 0 0 131072 131072 0 oomguarpages 1180 1215 131072 131072 0 numtcpsock 2 2 360 360 0 numflock 0 1 188 206 0 numpty 1 1 16 16 0 numsiginfo 0 2 256 256 0 tcpsndbuf 37336 37336 1720320 2703360 0 tcprcvbuf 32768 0 1720320 2703360 0 othersockbuf 6984 12480 1126080 2097152 0 dgramrcvbuf 0 8472 262144 262144 0 numothersock 4 8 360 360 0 dcachesize 0 0 3409920 3624960 0 numfile 169 222 9312 9312 0 dummy 0 0 0 0 0 dummy 0 0 0 0 0 dummy 0 0 0 0 0 numiptent 14 14 128 128 0BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 4.1-wht.2) System -- Linux v-210.volumedrive.com 2.6.18-194.3.1.el5.028stab069.6 #1 SMP Wed May 26 18:31:05 MSD 2010 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux /dev/simfs 31457280 567036 30890244 2% / Start Benchmark Run: Sat Jun 26 00:30:21 MSD 2010 00:30:21 up 1:44, 1 user, load average: 0.14, 0.13, 0.05 End Benchmark Run: Sat Jun 26 00:41:52 MSD 2010 00:41:52 up 1:55, 1 user, load average: 12.23, 5.45, 2.56 INDEX VALUES TEST BASELINE RESULT INDEX Dhrystone 2 using register variables 376783.7 3748608.1 99.5 Double-Precision Whetstone 83.1 834.2 100.4 Execl Throughput 188.3 1302.8 69.2 File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 2672.0 78175.0 292.6 File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1077.0 27146.0 252.1 File Read 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 15382.0 445383.0 289.5 Pipe-based Context Switching 15448.6 99322.1 64.3 Pipe Throughput 111814.6 877197.3 78.5 Process Creation 569.3 2151.7 37.8 Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 44.8 216.0 48.2 System Call Overhead 114433.5 825289.9 72.1 ========= FINAL SCORE 99.8service is very2 bad!!!!! very2 disapointed…..some do not order from here … not your money back …
I made the mistake of trying them out. It was fine the first 24 hours. Now i see 98% io wait.
When one of my programs started writing out a 200 megabyte file, the VPS locked up for over 30 minutes and I had to reboot it.
I have there standard VPS #1
adsf, I’m kinda in the same situation, 1 day was great, 2nd was ok, 3rd I/O wait is rocking the server.
Nothing besides monitoring is running my VPS.
http://i.imgur.com/ArWpW.png
Basically a normal server has this chart almost non existent as normal I/O wait is around 1-3%.
I should update myself, without bothering to send any emails retarding a 5$ VPS, on 5 day I/O was back to normal (no random spikes). 6 days later server is functioning fantastic, so thumbs up for volumedrive to fix their issues. Going to buy a 4GB box for my game server :)
3 weeks later, still no reply from sales.
just ordered mine today, and now the hard part = waiting for setup.