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Volumedrive dedicated review

bijan588bijan588 Member
edited March 2012 in General

Jeez, enough dissing VD

Hey there, here I am reviewing their dedicated server's after getting a VPS. Lets get right too it.

Support 8/10: They use email and have no ticket system, so things can get inheritances lost. Usually if I dont get a reply within 4 hours I resend it, and I almost always get a reply. Critical problems are usually fixed within 20 minutes, but upgrades take FOREVER.

Speed 9/10: I can usually maxout the 100mBit port, here is the test I just ran

Code: Saving to: `100mb.test'

100%[===============================

2012-03-24 14:23:57 (8.57 MB/s) - `

And here is the disk IO

Code: ****@*****:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=te 16384+0 records in 16384+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 9.

Server Uptime 10/10: Only time it went down was when I needed a reformat, and they completed that within an hour of me asking.

Price 12/10: I got all of this for 39.95, ram was a one time upgrade, so are hard drives.

Heres what I have Code: CPU: Intel Celeron G530 Sandy Bridge RAM: 8 GB DDR3 Memory HD: 250 GB Hard Drive BW: 100 Mbps Unmetered* IP: 2 Public IP Addresses KVM On Demand Available

Anyways, right now its kinda idling. I would use it for minecraft clients, if I did not have a bunch of empty boxes with secured servers.

So I guess this is my epic personal server

Would buy again!

Comments

  • What OS are you using? BSD or something?

  • Debian ;)

  • MrAndroidMrAndroid Member
    edited March 2012

    Try using fdatasync on the dd.

    I know the BSD version of dd doesn't report in MBs nor supports fdatasync, which is why I suspected you were using BSD. (and its why I always install the GNU version).

    I had 6 dedi's with them, and I found a perfect away of getting them to actually reply to my emails. They also kept giving me IPs without invoicing for them, so I ended up having 50 Free IPs from them.

  • With my vps I asked to upgrade.

    They did it for free, so I was paying 4$ for 4gb Lol

  • ****@*****:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync 16384+0 records in 16384+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 9.41496 s, 114 MB/s

  • @bijan588

    Man, use pre tags for readability of your test results :S

  • On a phone

  • @bijan588 said: ****@*****:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync 16384+0 records in 16384+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 9.41496 s, 114 MB/s

    That is a fairly decent drive. They still use Samsung drives?

  • JacobJacob Member

    VD sucks but they use fast hard drives.

  • @Jacob How do they suck? Have you actually used them?

  • JacobJacob Member

    @bijan588 They ignore support emails, Planning to move all Jacksonville clients to a UK Node soon proberly on faster hardware.

  • You have fun with that. :P I doubt you will get better hardware.

    But you will have better support

  • Oh wait! @Jacob, your on jacksonville! Im in PA, so that might be why I am having a better time than you.

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  • I wonder why they don't have a ticket system yet... I remember following the large Volumedrive thread on WHT and they said they were almost finished with their ticket system, and this was months ago...

  • I like Dom and Simon, the rest can be rude sometimes.

  • I know its old, but I need to add this

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  • NateN34NateN34 Member
    edited April 2012

    Still wouldn't touch VD, since they are colocated with BurstNet shudders.

    Eh, also testing the disk i/o on a dedicated is kind of stupid, unless you are using SSDs or some fancy RAID array. Anyway, that is pretty decent I/O, but gets beat by a Kimsufi 2G:

    root@ash:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
    16384+0 records in
    16384+0 records out
    1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 5.90894 s, 182 MB/s
    
  • VD no longer Co-lo with burst? Thought they move out into there own.

  • @DotVPS said: They do "Colo" yes but they don't just have racks they have like a cage.

    Are you sure? I thought they had their own DC and then just have peering from burstnet.

  • @DotVPS said: No , They lie.

    I guess that is why VD network is so horrible. Because it is burstnets horrible network.

  • JacobJacob Member

    Burstnet just have wierd routing, Not sure why but it's decent for the price.

  • Get a second hard disk and start selling LEBs on that shit.

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