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iKoula | 1vCPU 1.7GB RAM 50GB SSD for 1€ | 20th anniversary

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  • AlwaysSkintAlwaysSkint Member
    edited August 2018

    @simonindia said:
    But I understand for people who see this first time may see this as awkward. Its just how it is you can always make the IP set as static manually .

    That's the point. I tried and failed to set IP to static - the console showed it couldn't access external (http) sites used during the boot process. Rhetorically, WTF is that all about? I've a vmware VPS (major UK provider) run in a Cloud environment for over decade and it doesn't emulate the AWS/Azure network model.

    Fair enough, use auto provisioning to initially assign the IP to an instance, then leave it alone; again, IMHO.

  • FritzFritz Veteran

    Okay, network is bad, the IP is 100% clean, a quite good CPU (Q3'17).
    I have destroyed and recreated the instance several times, no problem so far.

    Here is what I got. Do you think it is worth the €1/m?

    ----------------------------------------------------------------------
CPU model            : Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6134 CPU @ 3.20GHz
Number of cores      : 1
CPU frequency        : 3200.148 MHz
Total size of Disk   : 48.9 GB (1.8 GB Used)
Total amount of Mem  : 1473 MB (142 MB Used)
Total amount of Swap : 951 MB (0 MB Used)
System uptime        : 0 days, 0 hour 26 min
Load average         : 0.17, 0.06, 0.02
OS                   : Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Arch                 : x86_64 (64 Bit)
Kernel               : 4.15.0-20-generic
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I/O speed(1st run)   : 508 MB/s
I/O speed(2nd run)   : 567 MB/s
I/O speed(3rd run)   : 550 MB/s
Average I/O speed    : 541.7 MB/s
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Node Name                       IPv4 address            Download Speed
CacheFly                        205.234.175.175         23.4MB/s
Linode, Tokyo, JP               106.187.96.148          1.04MB/s
Linode, Singapore, SG           139.162.23.4            934KB/s
Linode, London, UK              176.58.107.39           6.80MB/s
Linode, Frankfurt, DE           139.162.130.8           5.80MB/s
Linode, Fremont, CA             50.116.14.9             1.60MB/s
Softlayer, Dallas, TX           173.192.68.18           7.62MB/s
Softlayer, Seattle, WA          67.228.112.250          3.11MB/s
Softlayer, Frankfurt, DE        159.122.69.4            6.62MB/s
Softlayer, Singapore, SG        119.81.28.170           2.05MB/s
Softlayer, HongKong, CN         119.81.130.170          2.61MB/s
----------------------------------------------------------------------
    Thanked by 1Ikoula
  • IkoulaIkoula Member, Host Rep

    HowLowCanYouGo said: they took my money one week ago and still show pending

    PM me your support ticket number i'll have a look at it.

    AlwaysSkint said: No thanks. Some software insists on static, quite rightly so for a server, IMHumbleO.

    Let me cast some light on ip configuration.

    Static public ip is available

    In fact when you deploy a VM you can choose between zones, basicaly each zone is a white room in a DC and there are two zones (or more) available in each region.

    Each zone has its own network configuration:

    A- BASIC --> static ip

    B- ADVANCED --> NAT vps ; in this mode VM is behind a virtual router and yes it is DHCP setup but with an infinite lease but public ip will never change because it is set to the virtual router.

    If you need informations please read the documentation or ask me or ask support team, we are available and would be glad to guide you.

    Thanked by 1AlwaysSkint
  • rm_rm_ IPv6 Advocate, Veteran
    edited August 2018

    Fritz said: Okay, network is bad, the IP is 100% clean, a quite good CPU (Q3'17). I have destroyed and recreated the instance several times, no problem so far.

    This is surprising, which location did you get? I have created and destroyed a number of VMs, and never had such a new CPU, but on the contrary network was pretty good.

    Also remember the promo is only valid for EU locations. The system will also let you create a non-EU box just fine, but you are getting charged 9.99 EUR/mo for it, and will get an invoice.

  • d0m1234d0m1234 Member
    edited August 2018

    @rm_ said:

    Fritz said: Okay, network is bad, the IP is 100% clean, a quite good CPU (Q3'17). I have destroyed and recreated the instance several times, no problem so far.

    This is surprising, which location did you get? I have created and destroyed a number of VMs, and never had such a new CPU, but on the contrary network was pretty good.

    Also remember the promo is only valid for EU locations. The system will also let you create a non-EU box just fine, but you are getting charged 9.99 EUR/mo for it, and will get an invoice.

    Catched the same one in EU-FR-IKDC1-Z3-BASIC. In my experience the network is much better in their AMS location.

  • FritzFritz Veteran

    @rm_ said:

    Fritz said: Okay, network is bad, the IP is 100% clean, a quite good CPU (Q3'17). I have destroyed and recreated the instance several times, no problem so far.

    This is surprising, which location did you get? I have created and destroyed a number of VMs, and never had such a new CPU, but on the contrary network was pretty good.

    Also remember the promo is only valid for EU locations. The system will also let you create a non-EU box just fine, but you are getting charged 9.99 EUR/mo for it, and will get an invoice.

    It's on their EU-FR-IKDC1-Z3-BASIC, I like the performance so far.

  • AlwaysSkintAlwaysSkint Member
    edited August 2018

    @Ikoula said:
    Let me cast some light on ip configuration.

    Static public ip is available

    In fact when you deploy a VM you can choose between zones, basicaly each zone is a white room in a DC and there are two zones (or more) available in each region.

    Each zone has its own network configuration:

    A- BASIC --> static ip

    B- ADVANCED --> NAT vps ; in this mode VM is behind a virtual router and yes it is DHCP setup but with an infinite lease but public ip will never change because it is set to the virtual router.

    If you need informations please read the documentation or ask me or ask support team, we are available and would be glad to guide you.

    I chose BASIC NL.
    I tried to find documentation.
    I did ask Support for guidance (Ticket #752659) and I quoted the response in this thread. Your explanation would have went some way to help, though. Should I try again (service already cancelled)?
    [There is no plural for information ;-) ]

  • IkoulaIkoula Member, Host Rep

    AlwaysSkint said: I chose BASIC NL. I tried to find documentation. I did ask Support for guidance (Ticket #752659) and I quoted the response in this thread. Your explanation would have went some way to help, though. Should I try again (service already cancelled)? [There is no plural for information ;-) ]

    Documentation dl link is shown in the delivery email or you can go directly to ikoula.wiki

    If your subscription is not already deleted there should be no problem.

    Note : if your subscription is less than one month old it is probably still there.

    Just ask support team in your ticket you would like to keep it.

    Thanked by 1AlwaysSkint
  • AlwaysSkintAlwaysSkint Member

    @Ikoula
    I've added to the Ticket. Let's see what happens. Thanks.
    (I did try the wiki.)

  • FritzFritz Veteran

    @AlwaysSkint said:
    @Ikoula
    I've added to the Ticket. Let's see what happens. Thanks.
    (I did try the wiki.)

    Just follow the documentation link in the email and you should be fine.

  • AlwaysSkintAlwaysSkint Member
    edited August 2018

    @Fritz
    Nope! The PDF doesn't help in any way re. IP addresses. I do RTFM from time to time.
    (Back in the day, I used to read DOS and Windoze manuals from cover to cover :-o Then along came UNIX System V/Linux and I was enlightened.)

  • saibalsaibal Member

    Proof?

  • IkoulaIkoula Member, Host Rep

    AlwaysSkint said: Nope! The PDF doesn't help

    In this case would you mind have a look at :

    https://en-wiki.ikoula.com/en/Deploying_an_instance_zone_advanced-routing

    https://en-wiki.ikoula.com/en/Deploying_an_instance_zone_direct-routing

    @needavps @Yura and people who mentionned an issue with interface language, i've been taugh issue has been fixed, i'd be pleased if you could confirm.

  • YuraYura Member
    edited August 2018

    @Ikoula said:

    @Yura and people who mentionned an issue with interface language, i've been taugh issue has been fixed, i'd be pleased if you could confirm.

    I logged in the extranet panel and it looks like it's fixed now.

    Thanked by 1Ikoula
  • simonindiasimonindia Member

    @Ikoula said:
    In this case would you mind have a look at :

    https://en-wiki.ikoula.com/en/Deploying_an_instance_zone_advanced-routing

    https://en-wiki.ikoula.com/en/Deploying_an_instance_zone_direct-routing

    @needavps @Yura and people who mentionned an issue with interface language, i've been taugh issue has been fixed, i'd be pleased if you could confirm.

    One step at a time. I hope everything will be fixed.

    Thanked by 1Ikoula
  • AlwaysSkintAlwaysSkint Member
    edited August 2018

    @Ikoula
    I did quickly scroll through those and do recall seeing the source routing (NAT) on the last instance that I built but can't categorically say that it was like this when I built in the BASIC network. If I get a chance to look again... @Ikoula still waiting for a response to my Ticket.

  • ezzoezzo Member
    1. Signed up to for promo offer
    2. Order marked as fraud
    3. After discussion with support, order has been proceeded.
    4. Order again marked as fraud.

    @ikoula

    Could you please help me with my order?

    Ticket #790492
    Order #166360302
    Thanks.

  • YuraYura Member

    @ezzo said:
    1. Signed up to for promo offer
    2. Order marked as fraud
    3. After discussion with support, order has been proceeded.
    4. Order again marked as fraud.

    @ikoula

    Could you please help me with my order?

    Ticket #790492
    Order #166360302
    Thanks.

    This looks like a fraud to me.

    marked

  • ma2tma2t Member

    Ikoula said: Our support team is definitely not outsourced – Say hi to some techs from our support team, two floors below me :)

    Hi to Yann F. :)

  • lishoumin7lishoumin7 Member

    the vps haven‘t ipv6，

  • IkoulaIkoula Member, Host Rep
    edited August 2018

    AlwaysSkint said: still waiting for a response to my Ticket

    You should have an answer by now would you pm me the ticket number just to check ?

    ezzo said: Could you please help me with my order?

    i had a look your case is not left over we will get back to you in the ticket asap.

    ma2t said: Hi to Yann F. :)

    I could if he was not on vacations :/ but i sent him a mail :)

    Thanked by 1ma2t
  • AlwaysSkintAlwaysSkint Member
    edited August 2018

    @Ikoula
    PM'd and Ticket 752659 previously mentioned. ;-) Order #1975002077

  • IkoulaIkoula Member, Host Rep

    @AlwaysSkint PM answered

    Thanked by 1AlwaysSkint
  • AlwaysSkintAlwaysSkint Member

    Didn't think I was going totally senile:
    I rebuilt an instance using EU-FR-IKDC1-Z3-BASIC and the supplied Centos 7 template..

    cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

    DEVICE="eth0"

    BOOTPROTO="dhcp"

    DEFROUTE="yes"

    PEERDNS="yes"

    PEERROUTES="yes"

    IPV4_FAILURE_FATAL="no"

    NAME="eth0"

    ONBOOT="yes"

    NM_CONTROLLED="no"

    inet 178.170.54.xxx/24 brd 178.170.54.255 scope global dynamic eth0

    Gonna try switching to manual.

  • AlwaysSkintAlwaysSkint Member

    Did I say I thought the admin consoles were quirky? ;-)

    After three attempts to boot, I finally got a Centos 7 Netinstall to work and IP manually set. Hurrah! Now I can set the hostname properly, instead of it reverting back to an @Ikoula internal domain (I tried a number of methods).

    Looking forward to a low cost yearly trial.

  • RaymiiRaymii Member

    @Yura said:

    >

    And yes, your panel keeps resetting language to French on each page refresh, stop denying that already.

    Can't say it does that for me. Stays on english the entire time. Does not survive a logout however.

  • RaymiiRaymii Member

    @simonindia said:

    @AlwaysSkint said:
    From Support

    you can't set a static IP address on your instance,

    our CloudStack platform must work with DHCP,
    but DHCP leases are long enough and as long as you don't destroy your instance you will be assigned the same IP address.

    No thanks.
    Some software insists on static, quite rightly so for a server, IMHumbleO.

    Well AWS and Azure does the same. In fact a lot of providers do that. The address are reserved for that interface. They are given maximum lease time. That is the standard practice in the "Clouds". But I understand for people who see this first time may see this as awkward. Its just how it is you can always make the IP set as static manually .

    This is usefull because you don't have to inject anything before the VPS is deployed. Just have something like cloud-init or DHCP in your image and it will handle the rest, without you (the provider) mounting the image, placing some files for network config and then deploying the VPS from that image.

    Thanked by 2simonindia agonyzt
  • YuraYura Member

    @Raymii said:

    @Yura said:

    >

    And yes, your panel keeps resetting language to French on each page refresh, stop denying that already.

    Can't say it does that for me. Stays on english the entire time. Does not survive a logout however.

    It has been mostly fixed, there are messages about that later in this thread.

  • ezzoezzo Member
    edited August 2018 
    Processor:    Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           E5520  @ 2.27GHz
CPU cores:    1
Frequency:    2260.979 MHz
RAM:          1.4G
Swap:         951M
Kernel:       Linux 4.15.0-20-generic x86_64

Disks:
xvda     50G  SSD

CPU: SHA256-hashing 500 MB
   5.683 seconds
CPU: bzip2-compressing 500 MB
    9.693 seconds
CPU: AES-encrypting 500 MB
    5.006 seconds

ioping: seek rate
    min/avg/max/mdev = 137.3 us / 179.6 us / 60.4 ms / 370.6 us
ioping: sequential read speed
    generated 10.2 k requests in 5.00 s, 2.49 GiB, 2.04 k iops, 510.0 MiB/s

dd: sequential write speed
    1st run:    400.54 MiB/s
    2nd run:    401.50 MiB/s
    3rd run:    405.31 MiB/s
average:    402.45 MiB/s

 IPv4 speedtests
    your IPv4:    154.59.112.xxxx
 Cachefly CDN:         72.83 MiB/s
 Leaseweb (NL):        83.95 MiB/s
 Softlayer DAL (US):   1.56 MiB/s
 Online.net (FR):      73.70 MiB/s
 OVH BHS (CA):         17.64 MiB/s

No IPv6 connectivity detected
 -------------------------------------------------

    I think this is very good bench result for 1 euro.

    I took EU-NL-Z2-BASIC

  • RaymiiRaymii Member
    edited August 2018

    This weekend the instance I had was removed without notice, logging in to their cloudstack interface stopped working. No response from support, until this morning. No helpfull information except, login to the extranet.

    Where I was greeted with this:

    image

    No more information is available, the "Check extranet for information" is not helpfull, I have no clue what they mean with overage fees.

    I also had the 530 errors deploying the VPS, so I hope that is the cause and Ikoula just drops this, or at least tell me what the cause is.

    Watch out with this offer guys, all seems nice until it goes wrong, then they shut down the vps and remove your login access, and are slow to respond with support...

    Their PDF with terms lists nothing about overage fees, except when you deploy more instances, which I did not (but their system did give a lot of errors as all of you experienced). This was the running instance:

    image

    Thanked by 4Yura NanoG6 vimalware coreflux
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