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Hostodo Gen2 Beta - New Detroit, MI Presence (Offers Inside!)
Hello everyone!
We are looking for beta testers for Hostodo Gen2, our brand new ordering/billing platform that we now have available in Public Beta. This means that anybody with the link can sign up and deploy VMs, but we are still in Beta, and there will be daily improvements to the platform which may cause brief disruptions.
We are only offering instances deployed in our new Detroit location and are on Dual E5-2690v4 nodes with NVMe drives.
You can read a little bit more about Hostodo Gen2 on our website: https://hostodo.com/gen2
We have a few special plans available for this initial beta testing period. These plans may change going forward.
Looking Glass: https://det01.hostodo.com/
Offers:
1GB RAM/16GB NVMe/1 vCPU/3TB BW: $10/yr
2GB RAM/32GB NVME/1 vCPU/4TB BW: $20/yr
4GB RAM/48GB NVMe/2 vCPU/6TB BW: $40/yr
8GB RAM/128GB NVMe/4 vCPU/6TB BW: $80/yr
To order, please sign up at https://console.hostodo.com/signup
We are only accepting Credit Card payments via Stripe at this time.
Feel free to drop any questions in the chat widget on the lower right hand side of the screen after signup.
Thank you!
Hassan
Comments
YABS
Whoops, that I/O isn't what you should expect. The issue has been fixed, you can expect I/O closer to:
Thanks to Hassan, performance has improved and here are the new test results.
I had to bite the bullet since there haven't been many low-end offerings over the years in Detroit Metro (sorry, Flint doesn't count as much as some of the "Detroit" offerings would like you to believe!)...
So far I'm pretty impressed. The control panel is obviously still young, but it has a lot of room to grow into something all the providers whose interfaces are obviously WHMCS will be jealous of.
Hassan has also been very gracious with my rambling, but hopefully it will also help make things better for everyone in the longer run.
I have an OS reinstall coming soon (I done messed up my install from ISO basically instantly, which is my fault and not Hostodo's! I hit Enter without paying attention and it's easier to just reinstall than fix it...), but have a preliminary YABS followed by some critique out of me!
I note the disk speeds are a bit wonky, and those "busy" iperf results raise my eyebrow. Maybe @Hassan will have some input here, even if it's just "you horked your own OS install from ISO so fix that first" accompanied by a Nelson from the Simpsons "HA HA" GIF.
I also have no clue why YABS can't handle btrfs subvolumes yet, so ignore that disk size (https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script/issues/40#issuecomment-1165169928 for proof it's a known issue)... For evidence that the disk is 48GB, lsblk says:
The GB6 results, on the other hand, blow away @zrj766's results (for 4x the price, and a second vCPU, I'd expect some differential here, after all), so I have decent confidence that the CPU performance is in the realm of expected.
Those pings are pretty consistent between our separate tests, too, which is a really good sign in my book.
Hopefully the disk speeds get resolved and then I will post a fresh YABS for y'all.
And for some general rambling since that kinda covers anything interesting in the YABS output:
For something that is obviously early in product readiness, I'm honestly quite pleased with it so far. Good minimum viable product offering in that it's a viable product, while still obviously minimal. And despite the YABS results, it feels very snappy. The original AlmaLinux 9 I had installed felt very nice and didn't seem either stripped too far to basics nor did it seem to have a bunch of useless junk preinstalled to the image, which I can't say about every provider sadly.
As I noted to Hassan in the chat widget, I'm pleased enough at this point that if he can get something done about a very edge-case-specific few milliseconds of latency (it's Cogent's fault, in the middle of the routing, and not something Hostodo has strong ability to do anything about), I'm gonna be springing for the biggest offer up there to use as an almost-on-network in-the-cloud Linux remote desktop.
Luckily, he has the ability to replicate my issue easily, so there's a chance he can get it fixed at some point. 😅 (And, for 99.99% of LET, this wouldn't manifest at all... Talk about edge case, that a customer affected by it is willing to admit that it doesn't affect four nines of the potential market!)
Oh and that brings me to the one real criticism I have: that chat widget. It's neat having that real time chat, but it seems to disconnect at random and the only way to reconnect seems to be sending another message.
Otherwise, I'd totally recommend the beta offerings to any tinkerer who's looking for a good dirt cheap northern midwestern VPS (pings to/from most of Canada seem pretty good too!)... There's rough edges, and I foresee more rough edges in the future. But Hostodo was very up front about it in the OP. That's actually one of the main reasons I jumped on it: I would rather support a host who is open about "this is new and may be broken a bit" over one who tries to pretend they have a stable offering before it's ready, and I've happily done so many times over the years.
P.S. My own little handy-dandy filesystem-size calculator for Linux boxes with btrfs/zfs (but it works anywhere, of course!), since YABS is not to be believed:
Does it have IPv6?
Yes, a /64.
Almalinux 8 is supported?
yep.
Snapped one up, been a happy Hostodo customer for around 5 years. Thanks for the great products!
Some templates have an issue with IPv6 connectivity. We're working on it though!
Are the prices recurring?
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Hey man, firstly thank you for taking the time to write this, your feedback thus far has been immensely valuable 🙏
When you have a chance go ahead and reinstall using the OpenSUSE template and run yabs one more time. I/O test results should be much better. This is another template with IPv6 issues but I'm working on fixing it.
Yes the prices are recurring for life!
Thank you, I am satisfied with this! You saved me some money in the future.
Yabs
root@cp:~# curl -sL yabs.sh | bash
## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ##
Yet-Another-Bench-Script
v2023-09-06
https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script
## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ##
Sat Oct 14 19:53:58 UTC 2023
Basic System Information:
Uptime : 0 days, 0 hours, 18 minutes
Processor : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2690 v4 @ 2.60GHz
CPU cores : 4 @ 2599.996 MHz
AES-NI : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM : 7.8 GiB
Swap : 0.0 KiB
Disk : 125.9 GiB
Distro : Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Kernel : 6.1.0-10-cloud-amd64
VM Type : KVM
IPv4/IPv6 : ✔ Online / ❌ Offline
IPv4 Network Information:
ISP : Hostodo
ASN : AS399804 Hostodo
Host : Hostodo
Location : Southfield, Michigan (MI)
Country : United States
fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):
iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
Test | Value
|
Single Core | 1039
Multi Core | 2869
Full Test | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/3082285
YABS completed in 11 min 35 sec
network-speed.xyz
root@cp:~# curl -sL network-speed.xyz | bash
---------------------------- network-speed.xyz ----------------------------
A simple script to test network performance using speedtest-cli
Version : v2023.09.30
Global Speedtest : wget -qO- network-speed.xyz | bash
Region Speedtest : wget -qO- network-speed.xyz | bash -s -- -r
Basic System Info
CPU Model : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2690 v4 @ 2.60GHz
CPU Cores : 4 @ 2599.996 MHz
CPU Cache : 16384 KB
AES-NI : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
Total Disk : 125.9 GB (1.1 GB Used)
Total RAM : 7.8 GB (356.9 MB Used)
System uptime : 0 days, 0 hour 4 min
Load average : 0.47, 0.31, 0.12
OS : Debian GNU/Linux 12
Arch : x86_64 (64 Bit)
Kernel : 6.1.0-10-cloud-amd64
Virtualization : KVM
Basic Network Info
IPv6 Access : ❌ Offline
IPv4 Access : ✔ Online
ISP : Hostodo
ASN : AS399804 Hostodo
Host : Hostodo
Location : Southfield, Michigan-MI, United States
Speedtest.net (Region: GLOBAL)
Location Latency Loss DL Speed UP Speed Server
ISP: HOSTODO
Nearest 24.46 ms 0.0% 856.98 Mbps 872.98 Mbps Ideatek Telcom - Wichita, KS
Kochi, IN 228.34 ms 0.0% 857.75 Mbps 369.65 Mbps Asianet Broadband - Cochin
Bangalore, IN 220.55 ms 0.0% 837.07 Mbps 409.06 Mbps Bharti Airtel Ltd - Bangalore
Chennai, IN 249.51 ms N/A 808.48 Mbps 354.91 Mbps Jio - Chennai
Mumbai, IN 212.43 ms 0.0% 442.45 Mbps 329.25 Mbps i3D.net - Mumbai
Delhi, IN 228.96 ms 0.0% 344.27 Mbps 387.15 Mbps Tata Teleservices Ltd - New Delhi
Seattle, US FAILED
Los Angeles, US 55.27 ms 0.0% 845.15 Mbps 806.40 Mbps ReliableSite Hosting - Los Angeles, CA
Dallas, US 99.90 ms 0.0% 757.49 Mbps 775.05 Mbps Hivelocity - Dallas, TX
Miami, US 51.05 ms 0.0% 418.29 Mbps 817.40 Mbps AT&T - Miami, FL
New York, US 88.61 ms 0.0% 900.98 Mbps 855.70 Mbps GSL Networks - New York, NY
Toronto, CA 18.03 ms 0.0% 843.03 Mbps 871.05 Mbps Rogers - Toronto, ON
London, UK 82.97 ms 0.0% 894.86 Mbps 839.23 Mbps VeloxServ Communications - London
Amsterdam, NL 88.01 ms 0.3% 909.14 Mbps 842.31 Mbps 31173 Services AB - Amsterdam
Paris, FR 91.19 ms N/A 883.59 Mbps 813.40 Mbps Axione - Paris
Frankfurt, DE 94.33 ms 0.0% 848.43 Mbps 837.81 Mbps 23M GmbH - Frankfurt am Main
Warsaw, PL 112.78 ms 0.0% 837.00 Mbps 443.77 Mbps UPC Polska - Warszawa
Bucharest, RO 129.09 ms 0.0% 717.02 Mbps 352.10 Mbps Vodafone Romania Fixed – Bucharest - Bucharest
Jeddah, SA 155.35 ms 0.3% 870.94 Mbps 103.24 Mbps Saudi Telecom Company
Dubai, AE 206.64 ms 0.0% 851.93 Mbps 439.09 Mbps du - Dubai
Fujairah, AE 203.39 ms 0.0% 827.91 Mbps 379.83 Mbps ETISALAT-UAE - Fujairah
Tokyo, JP 160.14 ms N/A 633.83 Mbps 390.22 Mbps fdcservers.net - Tokyo
Shanghai, CU-CN 256.05 ms 8.0% 639.60 Mbps 1.50 Mbps China Unicom 5G - Shanghai
Nanjing, CT-CN 195.87 ms 0.0% 806.64 Mbps 54.36 Mbps China Telecom JiangSu 5G - Nanjing
Hong Kong, CN 191.56 ms N/A 635.75 Mbps 364.63 Mbps STC - Hong Kong
Singapore, SG 227.18 ms 0.0% 768.96 Mbps 335.90 Mbps i3D.net - Singapore
Jakarta, ID 246.72 ms 0.0% 566.85 Mbps 160.16 Mbps PT. Telekomunikasi Indonesia - Jakarta
Avg DL Speed : 754.00 Mbps
Avg UL Speed : 507.93 Mbps
Total DL Data : 28.49 GB
Total UL Data : 17.14 GB
Total Data : 45.63 GB
Duration : 13 min 20 sec
System Time : 14/10/2023 - 19:53:26 UTC
Total Script Runs : 25242
Result : https://result.network-speed.xyz/r/1697312948_NSGHV6_GLOBAL.txt
No Paypal? No crypto?
Not yet but on the roadmap for sure. Paypal will come sooner than Crypto.
I'm willing to order now but no Paypal.
OK it looks like @Hassan fixed my disk. First, an Ookla speed test within the datacenter, to test the port speed (the network speed script doesn't like me and I've reported that in the appropriate thread already)...
I'd say that's pretty close to gigabit. I'd like to see the download closer to 900ish, but it's in the region of acceptability.
And an updated YABS... Note that I'm using the provided openSUSE template now, so disk space is reported properly (XFS root versus BtrFS, ask me privately why I'm grumbly about XFS since most people run XFS on a VPS so I don't ding points for it pre-installed that way). Also, note the disk speeds are happier now. Not sure what he did, but hopefully it's fixed for everyone now!
I like what I'm seeing so far and improvements I'd like to see are being considered actively. With luck, they'll have a VPS solution that's well differentiated by having a nice clean and simple dashboard and a solid selection of templated OS images that work better from the get go than a skilled professional could do on their own from ISO. (That last bit happens surprisingly rarely, honestly, and it's sad.) I've kind of been waiting for a provider that doesn't have much need for dashboard configurables for 99% of users, regardless of skill level, and Hostodo might get there with this. I honestly can't wait to see what the out of box experience will be in a couple weeks!
Nice offers, solid services and a really reliable provider.
is rocky linux available? Rocky linux is aiming to be a bug-for-bug compatible with RHEL while Almalinux is starting to move away from it. Something I use is depending on it.
CentOS 7.9 is, which you can quickly use ELevate to migrate directly to it. Doing that now actually.
Wish more providers would add Rocky rather than Alma images to their repo. Benny Vasquez who used to work and ruined cPanel after they got VC cash is now running Alma, which is going away from 1:1, which helps cPanel, but not devs and programmers.
Rocky FTW.
This is all they have from what I can see, but adding OS shouldn't be hard right?
I don't know, this panel is interesting though.
Can you add Paypal asap so we're able to order it
I can say that when I signed up a couple days ago, openSUSE was not on the list. I'd like to see the list longer, too, but there does seem to be a balancing act between "make things stable for all supported distros" and "make as many distros as possible supported" right now.
I, of course, cannot speak for Hostodo's plans. But the impression I've gotten is that they want to support anything that a customer is likely to want, without needing to mount an ISO. And he's done pretty OK at it so far since I rarely use a provider's provided openSUSE template, but I'm using theirs.
Yeah sadly Stripe does not support my debit card as well...
I had to pay using a temporary card from privacy.com
Rocky 8 and 9 are now available
cc @lowkey @Kris @Nanja
Paypal is coming soon! Stay tuned.
Will the plans still be available when you turn on the Paypal option?
please tag me here when Paypal available.
@Hasan tag when PayPal is available