Micro VKS @ OVH "review"

MuZo

I just got a free vps by ovh: http://www.kimsufi.co.uk/vks/geovks.xml

When ordering I selected Hong Kong, I read that

"Please not that depending on the test needs, it's possible that you get your vKS in a POP other than the one you requested."

But guess where I got the vps located? Canada.

it isn't even on their pop list:

Newark Available Chicago Available Milano Available Paris Available Frankfurt Available Madrid Available Dallas Available Hong Kong Available San Jose Available

It's written that vpses are 10Mbps bandwidth limited...

I just done a bench

CPU model : AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 6172 Number of cores : 1 CPU frequency : 2100.024 MHz Total amount of ram : 128 MB Total amount of swap : 128 MB System uptime : 8 min, Download speed from CacheFly: 7.67MB/s Download speed from Linode, Atlanta GA: 4.33MB/s Download speed from Linode, Dallas, TX: 13.7MB/s Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 8.29MB/s Download speed from Linode, London, UK: 4.40MB/s Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 10.4MB/s Download speed from Softlayer, Singapore: 2.18MB/s Download speed from Softlayer, Seattle, WA: 11.8MB/s Download speed from Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 29.9MB/s Download speed from Softlayer, Washington, DC: 7.30MB/s I/O speed : 125 MB/s

all over 10mpbs, port is even over 100mpbs. Good I/O speed !

anyway mail port blocked as written, didn't tested udp ports

Processor: > processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 16 model : 2 model name : AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 6172 stepping : 3 cpu MHz : 2100.024 cache size : 512 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 4 core id : 0 cpu cores : 4 apicid : 0 initial apicid : 0 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 5 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc rep_good tsc_reliable nonstop_tsc unfair_spinlock pni cx16 popcnt hypervisor lahf_lm extapic abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw bogomips : 4200.04 TLB size : 1024 4K pages clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management:

EDIT: my vps has canadian IP but it's located in San Jose

tux

I orderded one from Frankfurt, but I got one from Ghigago.

ErawanArifNugroho

Thank you for sharing :) I was just registered yesterday, and didn't habe time to play yet. Will it stay free forever?

pcan

I ordered one in Milan, and I got one in San Jose. The IP address is always Canadian, to check the real location a ping test is needed. Disk speed is good.

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, 8.58831 s, 125 MB/s

rds100

So it's like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get ;-)

ErawanArifNugroho

I ordered in Hongkong, and they give me the one in Hongkong. But will it be free forever?

Liam

Where do you create an account < ovh noob here>? Got a code

ErawanArifNugroho

Nickhandle creation : https://ovh.com/us/cgi-bin/nic/newNic.cgi

Order page : kimsufi.co.uk/vks/geovks.xml

Liam

@ErawanArifNugroho said: Nickhandle creation : https://ovh.com/us/cgi-bin/nic/newNic.cgi

404, I'll had a dig around!

jarland

Pretty fair bandwidth test there. What's with the San Jose speed? Isn't it 100mbit?

Alex_LiquidHost

I signed up for china..and got canada.

ErawanArifNugroho

http://help.ovh.com/NicHandle https://www.ovh.ie/cgi-bin/ie/nic/newNic.cgi

Liam

Ordered, just waiting now ;-)

Thanks for your help @ErawanArifNugroho problems caused as I was meant to use the local ovh site ;-)

zsero

UK NicHandle: https://www.ovh.co.uk/cgi-bin/nic/newNic.cgi

lbft

@ErawanArifNugroho said: But will it be free forever?

Nobody knows exactly what's going on, not even OVH. Last I heard they were saying that they don't know whether it will be free forever, whether it will continue at all, and whether it will ever be a commercial offering.

They set these up to have some traffic flowing through their new international POPs to test out the routing. I get the feeling they were caught by surprise that people wanted VPSes that small for anything other than a toy.

AsadHaider

Requested HK, got Canada.

jarland

Got one in Dallas. Instant setup, but I guess because I've already verified my account previously?

AsadHaider

@jarland said: I've already verified my account previously?

I'm an existing customer, mine was instant setup too.

Few hour wait is probably a security/fraud screening, which I had to do back when I signed up.

Liam

Ordered one in Madird, got San Jose instant setup ;-)

earl

picked San Jose and got Canada

subigo

I've got so many free/$1 vps accounts over the last month it's ridiculous.

zsero

How do you know where is the one you get? Using some geo-traceroute?

ErawanArifNugroho

@subigo said: I've got so many free/$1 vps accounts over the last month it's ridiculous.

:D

earl

@zsero said: How do you know where is the one you get? Using some geo-traceroute?

just put your ip there..

http://www.domaintools.com/

Have to say the VPS is pretty snappy!!!

zsero

@earl said: just put your ip there..

http://www.domaintools.com/

Have to say the VPS is pretty snappy!!!

But all it says is the IP Location: Canada Montreal Ovh Hosting Inc.

How do I know where is the actual server?

Liam

@zsero said: How do I know where is the actual server?

open cmd.exe up, type tracert ip.ip.ip.ip and look at the results.

earl

well the server would be in montreal canada..

tux

@zsero said: But all it says is the IP Location: Canada Montreal Ovh Hosting Inc.

How do I know where is the actual server?

If you look whois details below this information, you can see something like this:

CustName: OVH SAS Address: 350 E Cermak Road City: Chicago StateProv: IL PostalCode: 60616 Country: US RegDate: 2012-06-20 Updated: 2012-06-20 Ref: http://whois.arin.net/rest/customer/C03091171

zsero

That's the exact thing I have. Canada at the location and Chicago in the CustName.

zsero

And the tracert is totally crazy, it goes like France, France, France, France, France, Canada, Canada.

ErawanArifNugroho

Someone visit : http://www.domaintools.com/

This is the first time they're like this. lol