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How did this occur? Sydney VPS suddenly became United States, without any notification
@virtono said: Sydney, Australia 🇦🇺 IPv4: 80.97.44.2 - syd-au-ping.virtono.com IPv6: 2a0e:1d80:24:000e:0000:0000:0000:0001 - 6syd-au-ping.virtono.com
https://i.ping.pe/C/5/img_C5cBRYyI.png
About 3 days ago, I suddenly noticed that the Sydney VPS I purchased from @virtono had its network switched to the United States, without any announcement or notification.
The latency to United States(Los Angeles) is actually just 1 ms, and to Australia is 181 ms.
I submitted a ticket a day ago and am still waiting for a response.
The question I want to ask here is:
Under what circumstances would such an incredible thing happen?
Has anyone encountered this before?
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AI auto relocate to nearest
Always the gippity
This is usually a virmache feature.
Quite likely your VM was cloned to a hypervisor in the US, and then the IP route was re-announced to the upstream in US.
But the same goes for their looking glass.
So AI meaning Anti-intellectual?
OMG my one too
I checked some of their locations in Europe and a handful of them look pretty fishy:
0 ms latency between a Virtono VPS in Copenhagen and their test IP for Oslo?? Seems like they're using HostSolution's no-latency tunnel technology.
Their test IP for Copenhagen is hosted in the same subnet as my VPS:
Then I checked M247's test IP for Oslo, Norway. This traceroute makes much more sense:
What else do we have? Let's check Virtono Belgrade, Serbia => M247 Belgrade (speed.rs.m247.ro):
18 ms latency from "Belgrade" (or should I rather say "Frankfurt"?) to Belgrade.
Virtono Prague, Czech Republic => M247 Prague (speed.cz.m247.ro). Note that their VPS in "Prague" share the same gateway with "Belgrade":
Latency from Virtono "Dublin" to London is much lower than to Dublin:
"Dublin" => Dublin:
"Dublin" => London:
They have great peering (1 ms latency!) to Clouvider in London, though:
Let's head south... Milan, Italy. How's the latency to my MrVM NAT VPS hosted in Milan?
Interesting. Let's ping my one of my other Virtono VPS in Frankfurt:
IPv4:
IPv6:
<1 ms latency over IPv6 and 30-200 ms latency over IPv4. Weird.
I've done more tests between locations but locations, routes and latencies just don't make sense in some of their "locations". I suspect that their servers in "Belgrade" and "Prague" are hosted in Frankfurt instead. "Brussels" seems to be The Hague, NL instead. "Oslo" appears to be Copenhagen, "Dublin" appears to be London. And "Milan" is a bit weird, but I suspect that's Frankfurt as well.
Needless to say that their "29 Neutral Datacenters Around the World" seems to be a pile of marketing bs.
Good news: My servers in Bucharest, Budapest and Copenhagen do not show weird routing and latencies (yet).
It has been 72 hours without a reply of the ticket.
Disabled locations for buying from:
Dublin, IE
Oslo, NO
Stockholm, SE
Prague, CZ
Zurich, CH
Belgrade, RS
Sofia, BG
Sydney, AU
There is Wayback Machine website copy from 7th of December - same locations disabled, previous one is from 23rd November and everything is selectable.
So this seems kinda little planned?
Possibly... I have received this (unspecific) announcement a week ago. Could be related.
Some more Virtono "locations" and where they really are:
I'm afraid these are not the only strange things. Virtono is always full of surprises.
For example, the routing latency values for certain locations is always changing, the difference between the beginning of the month and the end of the month may be several times.
Another issue is with "Port Speed". I purchased a limited-edition event product that claimed to be 2.9Gbps. In actual testing, it couldn't even reach 1Gbps. Even the local network couldn't reach it, let alone 2.9Gbps.
I submitted a ticket at that time, and they responded saying:
"Unfortunately, not all ISP's networks have good connectivity and it depends a lot on their interconnections with other important ISPs. The download and upload speed depend on what server are you choosing for the test."
Almost speechless. but this kind of response is quite classic.
That's why I'm asking here
I am also worried that they are well aware of this matter.
I still have a little hope, otherwise even the basic trust will be gone.
I am 100% sure they are well aware. Servers don't just teleport themselves to different data centers.
I've had some downtimes in different locations and network issues recently (default gw unreachable), which have been resolved via ticket. I've just checked my Smokeping graph and it seems like these downtimes correlate with recent latency changes between the Virtono VPS and my Smokeping nodes.
I am wondering if resellers like @greenwebpage are aware of this. They are still selling VPS in "Dublin" or "Madrid".
Obviously, there are geopolitical changes going on in the world.
Brings a new meaning to airport chickens
Chickens have evolved the ability to fly. Your chickens flew to the US
"Brussels" seems to be The Hague, NL instead.
Are you sure? It would explain why they are so cheap. A vps in my home country Belgium is not cheap.
It seems that the VPS layout has already been affected.
I feel that it is necessary to have a blacklist in order to avoid encountering suppliers who act arbitrarily and self-righteously.
It takes a lot of effort and time. It seems that next time I'll have to choose something that requires spending money instead.
They can't just fly away on their own without asking for my opinion.
It appears they did, good sir.
Its summer and very hot in Australia now. Chickens prefer the cold winters in the US.
I'm really useless, so I am flogging a dead horse here.
Good one, I like it.
@jbiloh @DP @FAT32 yet another scam?
I don't understand, it's good thing for you or just bad? 🤔😁