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I think that your judgment is harsh.
Focusing on @cociu's English is not constructive, because the issues that customers have been voicing complaints about concern provisioning time, server i/o, network performance, and the like, not to mention @cociu's not-infrequent overreactions. There's no reason to think that there's a dependence between @cociu's English and the issues that customers have been voicing complaints about. Even his overreactions are not tied to his English per se. There's every reason to think that he could overreact equally well (or better) in Romanian.
Naturally, you can decide for yourself who you want to be a customer of and why, but making @cociu's English an essential part of a critique that you make public isn't productive.
Yes, focusing on his English isn't constructive. It's just one of the reasons that add up to a definitive conclusion.
Bad communication skills + customer shaming + bad network + bad IO + bad support + high provisioning time, and as you mentioned, his non-infrequent overreactions.
He's the worst hosting provider here.
@Gamma17
cociu is right. "If you have a problem, contact your provider (typically by opening a ticket)" is the well known rule of the game.
Opening a "review" thread here before you contacted your provider about the problem is unfair. Simple as that, nothing more to discuss.
Yes, i understood all that about torrents, shared resources etc. I did not expect much, but i still decided to try. And the only thing i initially intended to say here is like "this service does not work well for storage at this point, if you are going to buy it to store files there you should think about it once more". I was not upset or angry, and i completely written off those vps-es already by the time of first post. I just did not want to cancel them to avoid creating any potential misunderstandings in terms of payments.
Also yes, i never created performance-related support ticket, never stated otherwise (this issues were, however, discussed on this forum some time before) and never wanted to. This comes from my earlier expirience with such situations, and may be completely stupid, but judging by replies here about "everything works fine on our side" it is not in this case. I had 2 vm-s on a single node and watching how doing something in one slows down another made me think that it is not related to my particular vm-s. Also i do not see an issue with me describing my expirience, with or without support/tickets. It's my choice after all, stupid or not.
Anyway yes, the discussion went wrong, and i could have done it diffirently... it is just that his attacks got me angry, and angry usually equals stupid...
Did you read my post about the RAID that would answer to your questions why is slow
Yes, i did. And yes, i understand that it is even too optimistic if all users were to actively write/read files at the same time.
I did not expect 1GB/s or 100k iops.
All i needed basically was ability to write/read large files at the speed of 100mbit network (because it is what i have on the other end). Is it too much?
OK now I am pissed as well. I was promised a molesting with my server @cociu and I have not received it yet!!!!!! Where is my DAMNED molesting man!!!!! :P
MaaS - Molesting as a service.
This is relevant to my interests.
Trust me, there are much worse. He is great comparatively.
Here is yet another benchmark from my Storage VM I bought from @cociu:
https://pastebin.com/raw/vMgQqUxa
I had to wait one week until my VM was deployed. Network throughput is okay most of the time as well as disk I/O for me. The VM does not deliver very constant performance but considering the very low price it performs quite well for me as backup storage. Old hardware and kernel but I had no problems at all installing Debian wheezy x86 and upgrading it to jessie like usual.
Just my opinion, but you get what you pay for. This applies here, too. If you need a VM with better performance, you'll definitely get it, but at a higher price. I personally am happy so far with my 1TB VPS from @cociu for lowend needs at lowend price. If you're unhappy, feel free to cancel.
I just ran a benchmark below, I have no complaints $17.50 every 6 months for 1tb of space.
I'm of the mindset unless you communicate there is a problem to a provider and give them a chance to fix, It's unfair to throw them under the bus on a public forum.
Thanks @cociu for the eastern deal
System Info
Processor : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2450L 0 @ 1.80GHz
CPU Cores : 1
Frequency : 1795.802 MHz
Memory : 1024 MB
Swap : 512 MB
Uptime : 1 day, 8:50,
OS : Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS
Arch : x86_64 (64 Bit)
Kernel : 2.6.32-48-pve
Hostname : xxx
Speedtest (IPv4 only)
Your public IPv4 is 188.xxx.xxx.xx
Location Provider Speed
CDN Cachefly 32.5MB/s
Atlanta, GA, US Coloat 4.78MB/s
Dallas, TX, US Softlayer 6.91MB/s
Seattle, WA, US Softlayer 6.53MB/s
San Jose, CA, US Softlayer 4.34MB/s
Washington, DC, US Softlayer 2.96MB/s
Tokyo, Japan Linode 4.31MB/s
Singapore Softlayer 4.03MB/s
Rotterdam, Netherlands id3.net 494KB/s
Haarlem, Netherlands Leaseweb 37.6MB/s
Disk Speed
I/O (1st run) : 80.5 MB/s
I/O (2nd run) : 59.3 MB/s
I/O (3rd run) : 92.2 MB/s
Average I/O : 77.3333 MB/s
Historically, I think this forum was created for customers perspective. To help them in decision making and how to make use of their VPS.
But having said that, remember always that when someone post a negative review, the business of the host will be affected as a result of the brand being tarnished. It's someone's livelihood at stake. So a lot of care should be given in the spirit of fairness.
@cociu you can use that $15 you bragged about taking from me to hire a PR person for one hour...at least that's one our out of the day you don't look like a jackass
on my 1TB the bench.sh reports 50mbyte/s IO speed but running apt update or apt install takes quite long. running "flexget execute" too takes ages till the first line of verbose output pops up. 4TB vps is faster tho. a bit.
Probably related to CPU and not disk.
Edit: Appears I was wrong to some extent.
It would be interesting to see ioping results, if possible.
1TB
--- . (simfs /dev/simfs) ioping statistics ---22 requests completed in 25.5 s, 5 iops, 20.2 KiB/s
min/avg/max/mdev = 275 us / 197.6 ms / 1.0 s / 233.8 ms
4TB
--- . (simfs /dev/simfs) ioping statistics ---26 requests completed in 26.0 s, 301 iops, 1.2 MiB/s
min/avg/max/mdev = 154 us / 3.3 ms / 16.6 ms / 4.9 ms
So yes, 4TB is much better, and i guess that 5 iops explains why things run slow on 1TB one... not as terrible as i had, but close...
1TB:
It's not that bad.
I also had terrible iops a week or so ago. It's improved a lot now, still not great but reasonably usable. I like the idea of ftp/scp-only storage with some way to prevent sshfs/ftpfs from using up all the iops.
My regular VPS with decent price, not the best but usable for my needs.
ioping /
time df -h
@cociu: do you mind taking a look at my ticket?
763155, thank you
what i tell in the last days is : this is not our tiketing system sorry , i know was more delays this days due of huge quantity of work and due of our modules faill so please be patcient , try to not post tikets here because is for nothing .... today was a coincidense i have reponded in the same time when you have posted this message here if not we delay intentionatly the response because we are not use LET as tiketing system. Sorry but is not normaly to use this forum to resolve internal problems, more @cociu is not a tehnical guy ... . Thanks for understand.
Hello all, just sharing my 2 cents here.
I also bought 1TB from cociu. I'm very patient person, so no crying on LET or opening tickets, just waiting for VPS. Paid 29.4., got it 6.5.
Small observation, got root password in plaintext, not good practice.
After my first setup of VPS, I also noticed that it's slow. Slow apt-get, sometimes slowdowns up to 10 seconds, but network was good.
I sad to myself new vps, low price, you got what you paid for.
For my first server migration I copied about 300GB of files, average speed vas above 15MB/s what was good enough for me.
Second server migration was about 10MB/s, because other server has 100Mbps, also good enough.
As time passed, noticed some speed improvement, dd averaged about 80-90MB (just to check if everything is good, I know it's not good disk test).
I installed openvpn, seedbox, tor relay (50Mbps limit) and for now everything works good.
In last 2 days I noticed much more speed improvements, but also that my disk is shrinked so I will notice them about it. I opened ticket about nat module not working that it's required for OpenVPN, fixed after 30 hours which is also good enough for me.
For 10€/3 months I think I will stay for now.
Here are benchmarks, if there are any benchmark to run just post
All in all, for price I'm pretty satisfied. Node got noticeable faster last few days.
(Test are ran with seedbox uploading ~2Mbps, Tor relay running)
Same test, Zagreb, Croatia
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