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Question for HostHatch customers - root drive smaller than expected for storage server
I purchased a 1 TB storage server but the root drive is only 19G in size instead of 1 TB. I contacted support but while waiting I was wondering if someone knows something that needs to be done on their servers in order to activate all the storage or something like that?
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Possibly a default partitioning and you need to either grow the root partition or create a partition for your data?
I've seen that before with a Centos image, can't remember which provider.
What does mount say? fdisk? /etc/fstab?
Normally on their new RAID 1 offerings. You have an SSD for the system + separate HDD.
Can you give us the ouput of:
sudo lsblk -io KNAME,TYPE,SIZE,MODELQuoting from another thread, new storage services come with a 20GB for the root drive.
Link: https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/4027376/#Comment_4027376
Thanks guys! There is indeed a /dev/vdb device. I didn't think of checking the devices since I have never come across a case where a disk device was not referenced in the fstab like in this case. Thanks again
What is the port speed on the storage servers? I am syncing data with Resilio Sync and it's doing only 4-5 MB/sec. I have full Gigabit upload and no bottleneck on my side.
You are not the only suffering from their slow speeds. No I know I'm not alone.
I was doing some simultaneous transfers of the weekend backups and they all topped out at 1 MiB/s
Where is your server located?
They have 10Gbps links. The bottleneck is Resilio (chunking and hashing), not the network port. Used it for years but could never get good performance (even with SSD drives instead of HDDs like you have on storage) and when their updates and support dried up, I moved to syncthing. It had the same issue.
I would rsync it and then add in Resilio to save time.
Resilio has never been a bottleneck for me and has always maxed out my Gigabit connection.
the more pertinent question is: regular or promotional price?
I'm 100% sure that if you use rclone and mount sftp for backups, you can easily get very high rates using multiple threads, say more than 8.
I just ordered at the regular price from the site
This is my HH storage in Stockholm. Does not look caped in any way to me, but I guess it could be different in other locations.
Where are you based?
The server is in Stockholm, as stated.
"AMD Compute" or storage package?
My bad, sorry
Storage
I know. I mean @rcy026 - I think he got a .se VPS in the same pre-sale round as me (AMD Compute), so it might be a different kind of product.
It's a while back since I had my last experience with Hosthatch, but back then (ca. 8 months ago) the bottleneck was the IO of the storage itself.
Even on local operations, I sometimes could not get more than 5MB/s
I am probably gonna cancel. It's too slow for me. I guess I shouldn't expect much for 5 bucks for 1 TB
Yeah storage I/O is limited, it's spinning rust so it has its limitations, especially when shared.
Here is mine in AMS, bought it back in 2022, special deal:
fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/vda1):
iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv6):
FWIW: I have an old @hosthatch promo VPS (not storage) in NO and just ran a benchmark (single run only) and compared the result to a benchmark (of about 20 runs) done about 2.5 years ago.
Pretty much the same - with one exception: disk IOps went down brutally by about a factor of 10.
But again, this was only one single run so it should be taken with a grain of salt.
All in all I'm still quite happy with my HostHatch VPS. It's a cheap promo VPS and not particularly performant (hint: E5 v2, dual vCores) but has been very reliable and did any job I threw at it quite well.
You tested /dev/vda1, is it a storage server? On mine the HDD is /dev/vdb, while /dev/vda1 is SSD.
It is storage yes. This is an older offer, I do not think I have vda and vdb but will double check
No, back then, VMs had just one disk.
They migrated all VMs to a new configuration with a small SSD boot disk + a separate storage disk half a year ago or so.
just wondering, have you ever tried the hetzner storage box? i recall they have 1TB. also, if you ever uses them, which performance is better?
The speedtest I posted was from my storage vps in Stockholm, ordinary price, no sale.
I do have compute nodes but this was from a storage. I have another storage vps but that one is also in Stockholm so I doubt the result will be any different.
We do not limit the port speeds in any way unless the bandwidth limit is reached. Port speeds are available at https://docs.hosthatch.com/features/
We cannot predict why you are getting only 5MB/s. You can run YABS or a number of other network benchmarks to see whether the problem lies with the network or not. The HDD disks are in a multi-disk RAID-10 array. I highly doubt you are going to find better-performing HDDs elsewhere.
If you have a 1Gbps connection at home, you can run an iperf between your storage VM and your computer at home to test the maximum throughput. If there is a routing issue, we'll be happy to look at it.
@vitobotta curious, did you purchase one of their offer from this forum, or directly from their site? I saw HostHatch excusing poor/slow support due to service type, insisting that the support for their "non-offer" services is way better/faster.
I'm curious to see if this is true or just bs.