Help us test our "LowEndBox" servers

EricCubixCloud

Hello,

I am fairly new to LET community, I should introduce myself. Hi, I'm Eric Andrews, the owner of CubixCloud Web Services. We're currently working to update our website, services, and team. I thought I would find some better interest from the LowEndTalk community rather then posting on WebHostingTalk. (I hope this is allowed on LET, hehe)

We need about 5 users to runs some tests on our new Chicago OpenVZ servers. (information not currently available on our website) I would like to know your thoughts on overall speed, network, control, etc. Posting your results in this forum would probably benefit anyone interested as well as help us to get a good idea of what's going on from a customer point-of-view. If you have any suggestions, compliments, complaints, etc, we would love to hear them! First 5 to e-mail me with interest would get access to a 1GB "LowEndServer".

Please let me know if you have any questions about this beta test or about the servers, we would be happy to answer them here :)

E-mail: e.andrews@CubixCloud.com

EricCubixCloud

Thanks for the emails and all of the interest - a few more server still available

DanielM

I have sent you an email. Yet to receive a reply.

EricCubixCloud

Sorry guys for the late replies, I had something to do. Getting back to replies now :)

We have received more then enough interest in this. Thanks for your help - LET community is great :)

debug

Just got setup, I'll post a quick benchmark:

-19:08:58- [root@snapshot ~]# wget freevps.us/downloads/bench.sh -O - -o /dev/nu                                             ll|bash
CPU model :  Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU         950  @ 3.07GHz
Number of cores : 4
CPU frequency :  3066.818 MHz
Total amount of ram : 1024 MB
Total amount of swap : 0 MB
System uptime :   4 min,
Download speed from CacheFly: 78.0MB/s
Download speed from Linode, Atlanta GA: 15.7MB/s
Download speed from Linode, Dallas, TX: 15.3MB/s
Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 7.25MB/s
Download speed from Linode, London, UK: 4.84MB/s
Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 8.52MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Singapore: 8.47MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Seattle, WA: 21.9MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 34.8MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Washington, DC: 42.0MB/s
I/O speed :  89.9 MB/s
-19:10:40- [root@snapshot ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdat                                             async
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 11.7794 s, 91.2 MB/s
-19:11:44- [root@snapshot ~]#

fly

io looks a bit low for a new server but i guess its bc everyone is runnign tests at the same time

AnthonySmith

might be that it is running raid 1.

EricCubixCloud

might be that it is running raid 1.

These servers are running RAID1 with 1TB drives. Could you suggest another solution?

debug

ioping as well:

-19:22:15- [root@snapshot ~]# ioping -c 10 /
4096 bytes from / (simfs /vz/private/114): request=1 time=0.1 ms
4096 bytes from / (simfs /vz/private/114): request=2 time=0.1 ms
4096 bytes from / (simfs /vz/private/114): request=3 time=0.1 ms
4096 bytes from / (simfs /vz/private/114): request=4 time=0.2 ms
4096 bytes from / (simfs /vz/private/114): request=5 time=0.1 ms
4096 bytes from / (simfs /vz/private/114): request=6 time=0.1 ms
4096 bytes from / (simfs /vz/private/114): request=7 time=0.1 ms
4096 bytes from / (simfs /vz/private/114): request=8 time=0.1 ms
4096 bytes from / (simfs /vz/private/114): request=9 time=0.1 ms
4096 bytes from / (simfs /vz/private/114): request=10 time=0.1 ms

--- / (simfs /vz/private/114) ioping statistics ---
10 requests completed in 9002.1 ms, 8130 iops, 31.8 mb/s
min/avg/max/mdev = 0.1/0.1/0.2/0.0 ms

I'll run the dd again in a few hours, as well.

EricCubixCloud

We're still answering e-mail questions and sending out the login details to everyone who has e-mailed us. Sorry for the delay. Thanks to all so far for posting benchmark and other results :D

AnthonySmith

@EricCubixCloud that is rather worrying for a host to be asking if there is a better option than raid 1.

Raid 10?

Or I suppose raid 1 is fine if you only ever intend to put <20 VPS p/node but given that it is openvz and you describe 1GB as an LEB it is highly doubtful.

If you really want to test your node put 50 users on it and see how well it does :)

seraphkz

Ioping looks good.

EricCubixCloud

@AnthonySmith said:

Or I suppose raid 1 is fine if you only ever intend to put <20 VPS p/node but given that it is openvz and you describe 1GB as an LEB it is highly doubtful.

If you really want to test your node put 50 users on it and see how well it does :)

I understand what you're saying about RAID - I shouldn't have worded it that way, what I was really asking was your opinion. Thanks for your input. :)

Our 24GB i7 nodes will have a maximum of 30 users.

EricCubixCloud

To all who are interested, I should have mentioned, our 1GB servers will be around $12. We can let them got as a LowEnd sale for $7.

To all who I gave a 256mb, 512mb, or 768mb test server to: here will be our regular pricing.

256MB: $4 512MB: $7 768MB: $9 1GB: $12

Please let me know if you have any more questions. All thoughts and suggestions are taken into consideration. Please keep in mind we're still in a testing stage. :)

Taylor

Why do all these beta tests thing have such a low user limit yet more people always seem to get them.

EricCubixCloud

@Taylor said: Why do all these beta tests thing have such a low user limit yet more people always seem to get them.

Good question! Sorry, I figured 5 was enough but once I saw the interest I figured many more opinions and suggestions would be beneficial. We did have to cut it off at a certain point though.

Have you e-mailed me?

AnthonySmith

ah ok...

But not 30 on raid 1 though I hope :)

Jacob

Honestly, RAID 1 Is not that bad aslong as you have decent harddrives and you keep the Data Write/Read Hoggers to a minimum, Otherwise you will have issues.

I also disagree, We are running 40 Containers on this node and It is RAID 1.

dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=16k count=64k conv=fdatasync && rm -rf test 65536+0 records in 65536+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 10.9559 seconds, 98.0 MB/s

top - 19:04:06 up 6 days, 2:37, 1 user, load average: 1.79, 1.61, 1.36 Tasks: 1323 total, 2 running, 1320 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie Cpu(s): 8.2%us, 8.9%sy, 0.0%ni, 81.6%id, 0.7%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.5%si, 0.0%st Mem: 16391800k total, 15138052k used, 1253748k free, 1064156k buffers Swap: 18481144k total, 1608k used, 18479536k free, 9933072k cached

@AnthonySmith said: ah ok...

But not 30 on raid 1 though I hope :)

Taylor

@EricCubixCloud said: Have you e-mailed me?

Of cause not I took your post at full value.

EricCubixCloud

@Jacob said: Honestly, RAID 1 Is not that bad aslong as you have decent harddrives and you keep the Data Write/Read Hoggers to a minimum, Otherwise you will have issues.

I also disagree, We are running 40 Containers on this node and It is RAID 1.

I agree, thanks so much for your input.

Damian

Additionally, you could upgrade to at least RAID5/6 with a couple more drives and double or triple the amount of containers you can comfortably fit on a modern node.

EricCubixCloud

@Damian said: Additionally, you could upgrade to at least RAID5/6 with a couple more drives and double or triple the amount of containers you can comfortably fit on a modern node.

Thanks for your suggestion. We're going to see how it goes for now - around 30 users. The speeds have proven to be quite good considering it is a software RAID1 without a high cache like most expensive RAID card setup (the I/O file they are writing sticks in the cache and it shows an I/O speed of nearly 300MB/s or whatever it may be. However, it does not really effect actual performance from what I've seen.)

Jack

Hey Eric,

Are you just starting VPS's?

I have seen your domain's been registered a while?

Damian

@EricCubixCloud said: However, it does not really effect actual performance from what I've seen.

People around here like their large numbers, even though they'll never actually have any realistic utilization of them :)

EricCubixCloud

@DotVPS said: Are you just starting VPS's?

I have seen your domain's been registered a while?

We began with web hosting and some other services. Now finally starting up a new node for VPS - focussing more on quality and rather then working with other companies, we're now beginning our own custom servers and such :)

I have many other domains too - what does registration date mean now a days? :P

liamwithers

Speeds seem pretty solid from what I've seen so far.. downloaded the 200mb cachefly file just to be different :P.

[root@ChiBeta233 ~]# wget cachefly.cachefly.net/200mb.test --21:45:43-- http://cachefly.cachefly.net/200mb.test Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net... 205.234.175.175 Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net|205.234.175.175|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 209715200 (200M) [application/octet-stream] Saving to:200mb.test' 100%[=======================================>] 209,715,200 71.8M/s in 2.8s 21:45:46 (71.8 MB/s) - 200mb.test' saved [209715200/209715200]

From what I've been seeing, i/o has been pretty consistent to these results too:

[root@ChiBeta233 ~]# 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, 12.0929 seconds, 88.8 MB/s

About to get off to bed, but I'll be running lots more tests tomorrow :), hope everything goes well Eric!

EricCubixCloud

@liamwithers said: From what I've been seeing, i/o has been pretty consistent to these results too:

Hey Liam! Glad to hear this - those speeds look great :)

@liamwithers said: I'll be running lots more tests tomorrow :)

This is great, please run as many tests as you would like :) Enjoy!

DanielM

Here is my Initial Results. Not bad..

http://pastie.org/3731947

Amfy

My results are at https://piratenpad.org/ro/r.bjxyLxFqxjMwOHJ9 (maybe I will update some in a few hours)

EricCubixCloud

@DanielM said: Here is my Initial Results. Not bad..

Thanks!

@Amfy said: (maybe I will update some in a few hours)

Great results so far. Thanks for putting in the comments there. I see some users making use of almost the full 1Gbps :)

dnom

@EricCubixCloud said: I see some users making use of almost the full 1Gbps

In, out or both? I'm wondering if anyone is testing the Rx side. Test file? @EricCubixCloud