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out of stock , only budget servers is remain but verry low too...
@cociu , more speed tests.
the same result as mine too
even ping to google is 30ms+. not sure that network is really congested . I think some other people's server bench looks fine.
Solution:
apt-get install ethtool net-tools
and add the following lines to /etc/network/interfaces to manually configure the ethernet link to 100/full during boot without autoneg.
link-speed 100
link-duplex full
ethernet-autoneg off
@aba
@cociu any possible on adding IPs
@cociu Thanks. Improved speed but latency is still higher, not a big thing though.
Still need ur help to resolve debian/proxmox installation issue. Waiting for iLO/IPMI. Ticket #124431
yes but will be in the next days , we are full ...
I’d love to see those already ancient SAS drives chugging along in 12 years time.
by default it install centos which i am not familiar with. I need to reinstall ubuntu first. fresh ubuntu root password seems buggy.
for ubuntu you must to login via username (is ask about username and password when you reinstall for username) and after login use su -
CentOS and Ubuntu looks fine to me. Just debian installation doesn't work. same goes for proxmox.
@cociu plz check ticket #902623
ahahahaha..
how much i have to pay to install the hdd?
I dont want to travel to romania right now ;-)
@gonzo
My sister , here the sex is free
here too :-D
sorry i love @Nekki but we can do something in 3
Wait, you still did not fixed the half duplex issue?
Did you fixed the IPMI issue?
but.. whats about the costs of setting up a hdd?
free, many of LET users can confirm.
Did you fixed the IPMI issue?
i am too lazy ... about duplex issue. About IPMI what kind of issue you had ? like you see anothers can use it , true is a generation six this servers (100mbps port in management ) , sucks panel but is usable
To give @cociu another positive feedback, I can confirm that sending hardware to be installed in the server definitely works. Open a support ticket, he will send you the details for the shipping and organize yourself a parcel to Romania. Within EU you should probably end up between 10 and 20 EUR. It can take time depending on cociu's current work load but some happy day you'll see your HDDs showing up in your cheap old server.
Regarding the half duplex issue, well, auto negotiation should be expected but on the other hand if you know it it is really no work to add those three lines to your network configuration to setup 100/full fixed. Then everything is perfect. Otherwise of course your network performance will be pathetic due to tons of spurious ethernet collisions.
thanks for feedback, about port setting to be true i prefer to not have clients who dont know to edit a file in linux, this is a unmanaged service so if you dont know this i think is better avoid to buy even is a cheap dedi because lather you cannot use it.
Basically I agree with what you mean. But maybe you should make this information more visible, because even if people are smart enough, if they are not told to manually configure their NIC to 100/full, they might miss it. Really having the need to manually setup manual speed settings on NICs instead of having auto negotiation advertising 100/full remembers me a bit of the 90's.
I do not know whether this information is meanwhile part of a notification mail. At least there is no hint in WHMCS nearby the IP configuration (where I myself would expect such non-intuitive details). On the other hand this way you can ensure customers are able to read whole threads on LET. 
@cociu Thank you for the guidline. Now my dedi is better network but disk i/o seems lower than others.
CPU model : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU L5630 @ 2.13GHz
Number of cores : 16
CPU frequency : 1649.513 MHz
Total size of Disk : 133.9 GB (4.0 GB Used)
Total amount of Mem : 7962 MB (179 MB Used)
Total amount of Swap : 2047 MB (0 MB Used)
System uptime : 0 days, 2 hour 37 min
Load average : 0.01, 0.06, 0.14
OS : Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS
Arch : x86_64 (64 Bit)
Kernel : 4.15.0-23-generic
I/O speed(1st run) : 84.9 MB/s
I/O speed(2nd run) : 82.2 MB/s
I/O speed(3rd run) : 82.0 MB/s
Average I/O speed : 83.0 MB/s
Node Name IPv4 address Download Speed
CacheFly 205.234.175.175 11.1MB/s
Linode, Tokyo, JP 106.187.96.148 4.04MB/s
Linode, Singapore, SG 139.162.23.4 3.75MB/s
Linode, London, UK 176.58.107.39 10.5MB/s
Linode, Frankfurt, DE 139.162.130.8 11.0MB/s
Linode, Fremont, CA 50.116.14.9 6.64MB/s
Softlayer, Dallas, TX 173.192.68.18 8.22MB/s
Softlayer, Seattle, WA 67.228.112.250 7.48MB/s
Softlayer, Frankfurt, DE 159.122.69.4 11.1MB/s
Softlayer, Singapore, SG 119.81.28.170 6.40MB/s
Softlayer, HongKong, CN 119.81.130.170 5.86MB/s
Considering that the whole gear (CPU, HDD, RAID) is about 8 years old, those numbers don't look bad to me.
Remember that this server has a broadcom network card which needs proprietary firmware to be loaded. This firmware is not part of the default debian image. Without this broadcom firmware the nic will show up but not work properly.
There is an unofficial build which also includes this non-free firmware:
https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/
With this installer you can also install Debian.
no iLO/IPMI provided yet, @cociu is busy with other customers.. so, no chance to install. Stuck with either CentOS or Ubuntu
For this and similar info, @cociu really should set up a simple knowledge base or wiki (which is what you also hinted at earlier).
I agree. But on the other hand, you got this dirty cheap server (even below costs for electricity in my country), be smart enough and take it as a challenge to make it running.
Those missing broadcom firmware, the half-duplex problem, this is all usual troubleshooting where it is always worth knowing all the knobs and tools to solve it.