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1Gbps VPS is this shared or dedicated?
lukesUbuntu
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With so many vps packages been provided, i get lost on the network side of things, i see lots of packages saying 1Gbps on a VPS but then i see dedicated servers only showing a 100MB connection.
My question is (maybe stupid question)
Does it usually mean that the vps is on a 1Gbps connection but that connection is shared with others or is this a dedicated 1Gbps connection for your VPS?
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It is shared in almost every case, unless specified as dedicated.
Which most likely is still going to be shared - maybe less shared. Even if you do 50mbit per VPS there's going to be more than 20 VPS on the server.
100Mbit and 1Gbit for any reasonable price aren't dedicated, whether on a dedi or VPS.
A dedicated 1 Gbps guaranteed costs about 700 Eur around here.
And that's from a cheap provider/mix.
Actually, no, it is guaranteed L3. Cheap provider mix best effort for local MAN (min 250 mbps international) is some 15 Eur.
@Maounique You mean Level3.net sells at 700Eur/Gbps? Man, i've missed the news.
No they dont, I can buy that indirectly.
level3 in Euro is a lot less than level3 in USA. Just like Telia is a lot less in USA.
@concerto49 still they were like 4000Eur/Gbps last time we used them (about 2 years ago).
That is a very long time, also quality decreased, we had numerous flaps and interruptions due to routes collapsing, perhaps that is only in Italy, though.
It mostly depend on the commit, with a few giga of commit the price can be lowered...
I also saw the quality decrease, 2 years ago. They were just not worth the high price any more, that's why we dropped them. I guess it's not just an Italy thing.
Most VPS nodes connect at 1G while most dedicated servers start out with a 100MB/s connection with 1GB/s connection as an upgrade.
...and the connection on the server itself probably isn't dedicated either if it's a cheap server and the server will be sharing the uplink with the other servers in the rack.
Hetzner gave an honest explanation of their bandwidth sharing on WHT:
This means that there is plenty of free capacity on the uplink site - anytime.
It has to be that way. Even if you say have 2x10G uplink. The switch has 48 ports. So if they are all 1G servers - you're still not dedicated dedicated.
It all comes down to what reasonable average speed you're getting vs all the marketing and wording bs. I mean someone could give you real dedicated 1gb link and it could suck compared to a shared premium 1gb link. Who knows.
I know, traffic and bw were my main concern for years. There is no point to argue if the speed is not what was promised, you simply jump ship.
No provider would have 1Gbps dedicated port on each vps and if they say they do they are either lying or don't understand how bandwidth works.
It's all scam, 8 times cross connect has been a telecom policy for 20 years, and transit providers, datacenters, dedicated server sellers and VPS providers do this or in worse format.
Literally nothing is dedicated, guaranteed at best (calculated to never max out capacity)
Unless your monthly bill approaches $1000 per month, you're on a shared line.
The fact that everything is shared also means you might not see a huge difference in average network speeds between a server with a 100Mbps connection and one with a 1Gbps connection. Here are the network speed tests from 2 of my dedicated servers: server #1 is 100Mbps bandwidth, server #2 is 1000Mbps. Both servers are from the same provider in the same location
Speed: 100Mb/s Duplex: Full wget freevps.us/downloads/bench.sh -O - -o /dev/null|bash CPU model : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz Number of cores : 8 CPU frequency : 3400.263 MHz Total amount of ram : 15777 MB Total amount of swap : 11443 MB System uptime : 44 days, 2:25, Download speed from CacheFly: 85.8MB/s Download speed from Coloat, Atlanta GA: 11.6MB/s Download speed from Softlayer, Dallas, TX: 8.65MB/s Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 5.09MB/s Download speed from i3d.net, NL: Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 54.5MB/s Download speed from Softlayer, Singapore: 5.29MB/s Download speed from Softlayer, Seattle, WA: 9.10MB/s Download speed from Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 8.90MB/s Download speed from Softlayer, Washington, DC: 15.7MB/s I/O speed : 735 MB/sSpeed: 1000Mb/s Duplex: Full wget freevps.us/downloads/bench.sh -O - -o /dev/null|bash CPU model : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz Number of cores : 8 CPU frequency : 1600.000 MHz Total amount of ram : 31942 MB Total amount of swap : 18536 MB System uptime : 17 days, 7:56, Download speed from CacheFly: 96.0MB/s Download speed from Coloat, Atlanta GA: 10.0MB/s Download speed from Softlayer, Dallas, TX: 7.95MB/s Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 4.14MB/s Download speed from i3d.net, NL: Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 47.5MB/s Download speed from Softlayer, Singapore: 3.57MB/s Download speed from Softlayer, Seattle, WA: 6.70MB/s Download speed from Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 5.76MB/s Download speed from Softlayer, Washington, DC: 11.2MB/s I/O speed : 748 MB/sNo way this is 100Mbps.
Maybe they are in the same DC and local loop is not throttled/counted.
Nobody does that in western europe, thats an RDS/RO/BG thing.