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Perth, Australia | KVM 768MB RAM, 20GB SSD AU$4/mo.
BinaryLane
Member, Host Rep
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Hello everyone,
Five years ago I posted our initial KVM offer in Brisbane. Since then we have added Sydney and Melbourne, and now its Perth's turn.
We have a bespoke control panel with a wide variety of features, some of the more interesting ones are:
- external firewall with web-interface
- good IPv6 support, including a /56 per server and PTR nameserver delegation
- "virtual private cloud" (vxlan) for inter-server communication
- upload/download disk backups
- variety of pre-built distributions or BYO ISO
- load-balancer as-a-service
- OpenStack Compute API support
We have a LG here: https://per-lg.binarylane.cloud/
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An alright starter plan
Binarylane is prem af, I love my Brisbane VPS - I use it as a proxy because my ISP has pretty ordinary overseas routing, if I proxy through Binarylane it maxes my connection. Network is fast my man.
Best $4 AUD spent just on that note alone.
Congrats on the expansion to Perth!
I got the email today about the plan changes, is it correct that the $4 tier didn't change or was it already updated in our accounts?
At the bottom, there's Mammoth Cloud. What is it? The main company?
$4 plan did not change, no. Broadly we reduced the cost of increasing SSD past the 20GB minimum, and added more data transfer for plans with 2GB or more memory.
We operate two brands on the same hardware stack and software platform. Mammoth Cloud is the "technical support included" alternative.
Can very much vouch for this! The majority of my infrastructure is now hosted at BinaryLane and have never looked elsewhere.
Bench.sh for anyone interested;
---------------------------------------------------------------------- CPU model : Intel KVM processor v2 Number of cores : 1 CPU frequency : 2593.910 MHz Total size of Disk : 20.0 GB (0.9 GB Used) Total amount of Mem : 739 MB (57 MB Used) Total amount of Swap : 0 MB (0 MB Used) System uptime : 0 days, 0 hour 0 min Load average : 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 OS : CentOS 7.5.1804 Arch : x86_64 (64 Bit) Kernel : 3.10.0-862.14.4.el7.x86_64 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I/O speed(1st run) : 992 MB/s I/O speed(2nd run) : 1.3 GB/s I/O speed(3rd run) : 1.0 GB/s Average I/O speed : 1115.7 MB/s ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Node Name IPv4 address Download Speed CacheFly 204.93.143.143 106MB/s Linode, Tokyo, JP 106.187.96.148 7.72MB/s Linode, Singapore, SG 139.162.23.4 10.3MB/s Linode, London, UK 176.58.107.39 3.82MB/s Linode, Frankfurt, DE 139.162.130.8 3.57MB/s Linode, Fremont, CA 50.116.14.9 6.17MB/s Softlayer, Dallas, TX 173.192.68.18 4.16MB/s Softlayer, Seattle, WA 67.228.112.250 4.06MB/s Softlayer, Frankfurt, DE 159.122.69.4 2.78MB/s Softlayer, Singapore, SG 119.81.28.170 12.4MB/s Softlayer, HongKong, CN 119.81.130.170 9.26MB/s ----------------------------------------------------------------------BGP session possible?
Out of all the VPS providers I've ever used (both in Australia as well as other countries), Binary Lane is by far one of my favourites. The thing I really like is that they have features that are normally only available on more expensive providers (such as hourly billing, an OpenStack-compatible API, ability to upload backups to restore VPS, and the ability to instantly scale up or down resources like CPU, RAM and disk space). Their control panel is one of the best I've seen, and is what I compare all other providers to.
Disk IO is ridiculously good... The most recent benchmark I did showed ~90k read IOPS and ~34k write IOPS using
fio. In some cases disk IO with BinaryLane is 2 or 3 times faster than other providers that say they use NVMe drives.If your service ever becomes available in the USA, I'd likely migrate many of my other VPSes across.
For anyone that wants to try it out, hourly billing makes it very attractive to set up a server and play with it for a few hours.
Where in the US would you go, east coast, or west?
If it wasn't Superloop networking, I would snap one up
EDIT: Next reply will probably be, 'Why? Superloop is amazing!'. Wrong (in my opinion). I've found that Superloop generally goes the cheaper way instead of the best way when it comes to routing, especially from Perth. Always through Sydney even when a better alternative is readily available through Singapore. Of course it depends on your use case, but for a use of VPN as an example - my routing using ABB (Telstra backbone) was better.
For the price point however, it's a good offer and I wouldn't expect much more.
Also, Superloop just last night had a routing issue where all Perth traffic was going through Singapore to the US instead of via the faster route of Sydney > US - this was rectified but shows they have constant issues.
Hey @BinaryLane is your traffic counted as in+out combined, out only, or whichever is higher?
Thanks!
Can you provide BGP?
Out only
Not currently sorry