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Idk how seriously people can be using them yet, if they launched 1st of september
Also, i like how they are comparing their cheapest plan, that doesnt even allow backups or other addons, that has 100mb/s network limit with 3tb bandwith, to for example the digitalocean one that AFAIK can get up to 1gbit with 6tb bandwith, where as if they would stack it up with the skysilk standart plan that has 200mb/s limit and 5tb + addons, that would be closer to 75$, which is not that great to compare against digitaloceans 80$ plan
curious who is behind this company. Is it quadranet?
Test them yourself and find out. I've already started benchmark/tests with Skysilk for their basic/std medium plans and AMD EPYC is next https://community.centminmod.com/threads/15589/. Unfortunately, so far basic/std medium plans seem relatively slow for 4 cpu core VPSes compared others I have tested and disk file fsync latency seems much slower than say Linode. Hoping that changes with AMD EPYC tests I have planned. Though if you want 40+ cpu cores, it's cheaper to get a hourly billed bare metal AMD EPYC 7401P from packet.net than with Skysilk based on prices and won't have virtualisation overhead with LXC containers due to bare metal dedicated.
FYI, Skysilk also count both bandwidth in/out.
Though ran into an issue due to Skysilk using Proxmox/LXC containers instead of KVM/XEN/OpenVZ for VPSes so CentOS pure-ftpd provided by YUM fails to start.
Didn't have such issues with ssdnode KVM VPS where I had Ubuntu 18.0.4 running LXD container based CentOS 7 with Centmin Mod and no problems with pure-ftpd.
Interesting product. Just checked them out for a bit and I'm liking it so far. The control panel is really slick and everything works as expected. You can get $7 worth of credit for free easily by signing up ($5), liking them on facebook ($1), and following them on twitter ($1). That would give you 7 months free of their smallest VPS package. You do need a credit card to deploy a VPS whether you have credit or not, which is expected for fraud prevention purposes.
Since we're cheap assholes here, I quickly spun up the cheapest VPSes in LA and NY. Below is a quick bench.sh.
LA (QuadraNet DC) bench.sh:
NY (NYI DC) bench.sh:
Load seemed a little high and disk speed seemed low for SSD, but still perfectly acceptable for $1/mo. The LA datacenter is QuadraNet and the NY datacenter is NYI. More DCs (inc. Europe) planned for the future.
Probably will be using their service for some stuff just because of how cheap it is.
It's high due to LXC containers reporting the host node's cpu usage https://help.skysilk.com/support/discussions/topics/9000042237
Interesting NY vs LA has different cpus and linux kernels in play as well.
So basic, standard and premium are all LXC containers?
Why do they mention KVM in their website then?
Why do they mention KVM in their website then?
Don't think they have mentioned KVM anywhere ? but they have plans for KVM https://help.skysilk.com/support/discussions/topics/9000041880
yes, here (technologies we use): https://www.skysilk.com/about/open-source
But maybe, as showed in that link you provided, it is just because they have plans for it.
@MasonR can you check if there is ipv6 and fuse is enabled as well as if you can set ipv6 reverse dns. Their last update on that was 10 months ago for ipv6.
No IPv6 right now. FUSE works without any issues.
@jcaleb
Off-topic: Your sig is recommending a website that writes essays for students, etc. Isn't that classified as academic dishonesty and grounds for expulsion?
I just feel that offering or recommending such services is not appropriate for LET.
maybe this whole thread is SEO for his essay writing website?
That IO speed... wow