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ArubaCloud Review

jamespeachjamespeach Member
edited July 2018 in Reviews

Just don't. Thats basically a good summary. Paid a dollar, the web panel is absolutely horrid. It failed to create my VPS, so I deleted it and tried to remake it. Even though it was advertised hourly billing, I was charged for the full month even though it wasn't ever used. Unable to open a support ticket, and the chat system is down. Complete waste of money, even if it isn't much money.

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  • Shot2Shot2 Member

    Nothing to argue about: best bang-for-buck VPS provider, period.

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  • jamespeachjamespeach Member
    edited July 2018

    @Shot2 said:
    Nothing to argue about: best bang-for-buck VPS provider, period.

    Sorry I posted too early. You most certainly get no bang for your buck.

  • AidanAidan Member

    jamespeach said: Even though it was advertised hourly billing

    No.

  • Shot2Shot2 Member
    edited July 2018

    @jamespeach said:

    @Shot2 said:
    Nothing to argue about: best bang-for-buck VPS provider, period.

    Sorry I posted too early. You most certainly get no bang for your buck.

    For €1/month, these are pretty good results I'd say. No downtime whatsoever in 1+ year (used as main DNS+RPZ resolver). But hey, shit happens - which doesn't imply that "the and is nye".

    ----------------------------------------------------------------------
CPU model            : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650 v3 @ 2.30GHz
Number of cores      : 1
CPU frequency        : 2299.998 MHz
Total size of Disk   : 27.7 GB (3.0 GB Used)
Total amount of Mem  : 983 MB (169 MB Used)
Total amount of Swap : 128 MB (0 MB Used)
System uptime        : 13 days, 4 hour 6 min
Load average         : 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
OS                   : Debian GNU/Linux 9
Arch                 : x86_64 (64 Bit)
Kernel               : 4.16.0-0.bpo.2-amd64
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I/O speed(1st run)   : 884 MB/s
I/O speed(2nd run)   : 985 MB/s
I/O speed(3rd run)   : 1.1 GB/s
Average I/O speed    : 998.5 MB/s
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Node Name                       IPv4 address            Download Speed
CacheFly                        205.234.175.175         76.6MB/s
Linode, Tokyo, JP               106.187.96.148          8.67MB/s
Linode, Singapore, SG           139.162.23.4            6.64MB/s
Linode, London, UK              176.58.107.39           24.3MB/s
Linode, Frankfurt, DE           139.162.130.8           75.4MB/s
Linode, Fremont, CA             50.116.14.9             12.2MB/s
Softlayer, Dallas, TX           173.192.68.18           9.58MB/s
Softlayer, Seattle, WA          67.228.112.250          8.21MB/s
Softlayer, Frankfurt, DE        159.122.69.4            32.4MB/s
Softlayer, Singapore, SG        119.81.28.170           7.66MB/s
Softlayer, HongKong, CN         119.81.130.170          7.61MB/s
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Node Name                       IPv6 address            Download Speed
Linode, Atlanta, GA             2600:3c02::4b           15.6MB/s
Linode, Dallas, TX              2600:3c00::4b           15.1MB/s
Linode, Newark, NJ              2600:3c03::4b           20.8MB/s
Linode, Singapore, SG           2400:8901::4b           13.8MB/s
Linode, Tokyo, JP               2400:8900::4b           7.02MB/s
Softlayer, San Jose, CA         2607:f0d0:2601:2a::4    8.06MB/s
Softlayer, Washington, WA       2607:f0d0:3001:78::2    1.36MB/s
Softlayer, Paris, FR            2a03:8180:1301:8::4     46.3MB/s
Softlayer, Singapore, SG        2401:c900:1101:8::2     9.30MB/s
Softlayer, Tokyo, JP            2401:c900:1001:16::4    6.34MB/s
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  • deankdeank Member, Troll

    What kind of review is this?

    This ain't even a review.

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  • jamespeachjamespeach Member

    @deank said:
    What kind of review is this?

    This ain't even a review.

    Its hard to review nothing.

  • jamespeachjamespeach Member

    @Aidan said:

    jamespeach said: Even though it was advertised hourly billing

    No.

    On the actual sign up page its signed up as hourly, but even if it wasn't, thats not the issue. The issue is I was charged for a server that was never created.

  • jamespeachjamespeach Member

    @Shot2 said:

    @jamespeach said:

    @Shot2 said:
    Nothing to argue about: best bang-for-buck VPS provider, period.

    Sorry I posted too early. You most certainly get no bang for your buck.

    For €1/month, these are pretty good results I'd say. No downtime whatsoever in 1+ year (used as main DNS+RPZ resolver). But hey, shit happens - which doesn't imply that "the and is nye".

    ----------------------------------------------------------------------
CPU model            : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650 v3 @ 2.30GHz
Number of cores      : 1
CPU frequency        : 2299.998 MHz
Total size of Disk   : 27.7 GB (3.0 GB Used)
Total amount of Mem  : 983 MB (169 MB Used)
Total amount of Swap : 128 MB (0 MB Used)
System uptime        : 13 days, 4 hour 6 min
Load average         : 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
OS                   : Debian GNU/Linux 9
Arch                 : x86_64 (64 Bit)
Kernel               : 4.16.0-0.bpo.2-amd64
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I/O speed(1st run)   : 884 MB/s
I/O speed(2nd run)   : 985 MB/s
I/O speed(3rd run)   : 1.1 GB/s
Average I/O speed    : 998.5 MB/s
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Node Name                       IPv4 address            Download Speed
CacheFly                        205.234.175.175         76.6MB/s
Linode, Tokyo, JP               106.187.96.148          8.67MB/s
Linode, Singapore, SG           139.162.23.4            6.64MB/s
Linode, London, UK              176.58.107.39           24.3MB/s
Linode, Frankfurt, DE           139.162.130.8           75.4MB/s
Linode, Fremont, CA             50.116.14.9             12.2MB/s
Softlayer, Dallas, TX           173.192.68.18           9.58MB/s
Softlayer, Seattle, WA          67.228.112.250          8.21MB/s
Softlayer, Frankfurt, DE        159.122.69.4            32.4MB/s
Softlayer, Singapore, SG        119.81.28.170           7.66MB/s
Softlayer, HongKong, CN         119.81.130.170          7.61MB/s
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Node Name                       IPv6 address            Download Speed
Linode, Atlanta, GA             2600:3c02::4b           15.6MB/s
Linode, Dallas, TX              2600:3c00::4b           15.1MB/s
Linode, Newark, NJ              2600:3c03::4b           20.8MB/s
Linode, Singapore, SG           2400:8901::4b           13.8MB/s
Linode, Tokyo, JP               2400:8900::4b           7.02MB/s
Softlayer, San Jose, CA         2607:f0d0:2601:2a::4    8.06MB/s
Softlayer, Washington, WA       2607:f0d0:3001:78::2    1.36MB/s
Softlayer, Paris, FR            2a03:8180:1301:8::4     46.3MB/s
Softlayer, Singapore, SG        2401:c900:1101:8::2     9.30MB/s
Softlayer, Tokyo, JP            2401:c900:1001:16::4    6.34MB/s
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    Wish I got there, I don't think what happened was intentional, but the web panel is the worst panel I have ever seen, and probably just messed up and ended up charging me even though nothing was created. The support is non existent, so I'm just out.

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  • MrPsychoMrPsycho Member

    Oh poor boy didn't see that giant banner saying 'you will be charged for a whole month' and created a VM. Yet he didn't realize his balance was charged and deleted the VM right away because it wasn't provided to him instantly.



    The guy didn't even bother to click on "How is the cost calculated" otherwise he would have seen that:

    Now he is mad because big brother ripped him off a buck. What a shame.

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  • YuraYura Member

    @jamespeach said:

    @deank said:
    What kind of review is this?

    This ain't even a review.

    Its hard to review nothing.

    Then simply don't.

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  • dergelbedergelbe Member
    edited July 2018

    It's tragic and traumatic to lose a €, it can really mess up the life balance. It did happen to me too. I created a VPS, choose wrong OS, killed it, and the €1 was gone - that was a staggering 50% of my investment - lost in a split Second!

    After many month of expensive psychotherapy I overcame that trauma and I tried again, scared, with my great loss always present in my mind. Now I do run one VPS with two WP domains and some VPN service on the IT1 box. All smooth and no more trauma.

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  • saibalsaibal Member

    02:23:34 up 569 days, 19:30

    No complaints for the uptime :D

    Thanked by 2vimalware dfmcvn
  • needavpsneedavps Member

    @dergelbe said:
    It's tragic and traumatic to lose a €, it can really mess up the life balance. It did happen to me too. I created a VPS, choose wrong OS, killed it, and the €1 was gone - that was a staggering 50% of my investment - lost in a split Second!

    After many month of expensive psychotherapy I overcame that trauma and I tried again, scared, with my great loss always present in my mind. Now I do run one VPS with two WP domains and some VPN service on the IT1 box. All smooth and no more trauma.

    The webpanel that I'm looking at makes it impossible to delete the vps without first turning it off. People still can't find the option to rebuild there?

    Thanked by 2Falzo dfmcvn
  • Jona4sJona4s Member
    edited July 2018

    Where else on earth would you find 2TB transfer @ 1Gbit for $1. Geez. I would't even mind if the control panel was made of Adobe Flash.

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  • reikuzanreikuzan Member

    @Jona4s said:
    Where else on earth would you find 2TB transfer @ 1Gbit for $1. Geez. I would't even mind if the control panel was made of Adobe Flash.

    +1

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  • manlivomanlivo Member
    edited July 2018

    I hosted a demo website on Aruba Cloud 2 years ago (VM €1/month). Uptime is good, no problem at all. Except for their Control Panel is quite slow.

  • needavpsneedavps Member

    @manlivo said:
    I hosted a demo website on Aruba Cloud 2 years ago (VM €1/month). Uptime is good, no problem at all. Except for their Control Panel is quite slow.

    what you doing in their control panel that needs to be fast?

  • manlivomanlivo Member

    @needavps said:
    what you doing in their control panel that needs to be fast?

    Do you want a slow or fast website?

  • needavpsneedavps Member

    @manlivo said:

    @needavps said:
    what you doing in their control panel that needs to be fast?

    Do you want a slow or fast website?

    ... I want a usable website and a completely working service I paid for. Slow seems to be a subjective. If you explain which part is slow that is affecting your service; that would be more helpful.

  • mowsmows Member

    Got several VPS at aruba and have to say this is one of the best service I know. U got KVM, more than fair RAM, fast CPU and I/O and as Shot2 says in over 1 year not even a reboot. I have firewall, cronjobs and can set system time, even running an IRC server w/o problems.

    10/10 Points for me.

  • vimalwarevimalware Member

    Those of us who spun up 1EUR instances in their LON and Frankfurt DCs are sitting on Gold.

    Thanked by 2Falzo simonindia
  • h2oh2o Member

    @mows said:
    Got several VPS at aruba and have to say this is one of the best service I know. U got KVM, more than fair RAM, fast CPU and I/O and as Shot2 says in over 1 year not even a reboot. I have firewall, cronjobs and can set system time, even running an IRC server w/o problems.

    10/10 Points for me.

    it should be a bench report here. :)

  • Jona4sJona4s Member

    Im just a little concern about their 70% CPU "security recommendation". Has anyone maxed 100% without complaints?

  • dergelbedergelbe Member

    @needavps said:

    @manlivo said:
    I hosted a demo website on Aruba Cloud 2 years ago (VM €1/month). Uptime is good, no problem at all. Except for their Control Panel is quite slow.

    what you doing in their control panel that needs to be fast?

    I am a bit puzzled too. I go there once in a while to add funds. It's not blazing fast. But it works fine. Am quite happy with Aruba and can recommend them if you want value for very little money.

  • akbakb Member

    @mows said: U got KVM

    Its better actually. Its VMware. Have been using a one buck instance in dc6 for 30 months now. Zero downtime & consistent performance.

  • FalzoFalzo Member

    jamespeach said: Complete waste of money, even if it isn't much money.

    TL;DR; you weren't able to figure how to spin up an instance properly and expect them to be handholding in the middle of the european night for a single € ...

    they offer a trial, https://www.arubacloud.com/free-trial.aspx ... of course being aware of that only comes after reading their pages.

    @vimalware said:
    Those of us who spun up 1EUR instances in their LON and Frankfurt DCs are sitting on Gold.

    3 Gold here... reminds me to top up some credit.

    @saibal said:
    02:23:34 up 569 days, 19:30

    No complaints for the uptime :D

    +1 , running observium in london: 07:23:47 up 1033 days, 11:30

    Thanked by 1vimalware
  • needavpsneedavps Member

    I feel I have to always bring up the blacklist problem with their ip ranges. I can't use their services for a half of what I do but if you use 3rd party mail services than it's not much of an issue.

  • TheKillerTheKiller Member

    Using €1 per month plan for almost two years, with only two down times of 5 minutes each. What can you expect from a €12 a year service.

  • varwwwvarwww Member
    edited July 2018

    I have been using Aruba Cloud (1EUR / month) for around 6 months now. Like OP said - Control Panel is horrible. Ubuntu 18.04 images are not available. Other than that, the service has been pretty good with 0 downtime. You won't get any deal like this - 1EUR/month anywhere else. It is a loss-leader for them.

    Also as far as support goes, they responded within 18 hours since ticket opened. Far better support than OVH. Live Chat actually worked when I used it.

  • fazarfazar Member

    indeed, cp is horrible and slow to load. but hey, I have a smooth sailing smart instance running with 500+ days uptime without problems.

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