servaRICA – New KVM VPS Launch: Chimera Hybrid, Slim & FAT Slices – Blazing Disk Speed

servarica_hani

@akrdev said:

@servarica_hani said:
yes all xen FAT and SLIM and KVM FAT and SLIM are restocked

This week we will restock the hybrid plans as well and the dedicated servers plans

Thanks

What are the differences between these lines of products ? IF you could summarize please. Which one out of them is the best performance ?

We have 2 main stacks that we offer our VPS under
Xen and KVM
Xen is the older one and the most feature rich , it has High availability , daily disk increases and daily bandwidth limit increase and some other features
KVM is introduced this year and we still didnt port the features to it but it is much much faster than xen in terms of disk speed

So if you are ordering any vps with NVMe or SSD you better go with KVM , if you order storage vm and you just want to use it for backups you can go with xen due to the features

For the difference between SLIM and FAT is the storage size
FAT slices have double the storage of SLIM slices
So if you need a lot of NVMe space relitive to each cpu core go with FAT slices

servarica_hani

@ritual_mass said:
Is the monthly traffic allowance calculated bidirectionally (counting both ingress and egress traffic) or unidirectionally (e.g., egress only)

it is bidirectionally

servarica_hani

@jperkins said:
Got the "Chimera Hybrid 3" (KVM) when it first became available. It has worked fine for me as a daily backup . Dont really stress it out as the sending server is upload limited to 100Mb

Previously I had the "Lobster Unlimited Expanding Storage Plan" (XEN) . I prefer the terminal responsiveness and disk speed of the KVM offering.

The issue with the XEN offering could have been my configuration. The Lobster expanding plan did not separate the OS drive from the storage pool. I manually separated them and used zfs on the storage pools drives, which could have led to IO delays. Support was always happy to move me to a new node the couple of times I opened a ticket. But eventually the io wait would come back.

Happily the "Chimera Hybrid 3" (KVM) separates the OS drive from the storage pool and has been snappy for me

yes since it is on kvm the NVMe disk performs muc better than in xen

@yitiantiandeshuo said:
Can the KVM plan provide IPv6 ？

yes just open a ticket

servarica_hani

If I missed any question please let me know
I think i went through all questions

vishalpatelz

When Chimera Hybrid Plan 1 or 2 will be back in stock?

servarica_hani

@vishalpatelz said:
When Chimera Hybrid Plan 1 or 2 will be back in stock?

Planning this Tuesday
adding more than 300x disks these days for those plans

crystalshower

@servarica_hani said:

@vishalpatelz said:
When Chimera Hybrid Plan 1 or 2 will be back in stock?

Planning this Tuesday
adding more than 300x disks these days for those plans

Yay, waiting for restock!

bh4tech

@servarica_hani Have the expanding storage plans been discontinued, or are they unavailable now due to disk shortage?

bearhill

$7/Yr deals more

servarica_hani

Chimera Hybrid Plans are all restocked

servarica_hani

@bh4tech said:
@servarica_hani Have the expanding storage plans been discontinued, or are they unavailable now due to disk shortage?

Exactly
but we will restock them within 3 weeks approx as well we just need to install the disks and test them etc

servarica_hani

@servarica_hani said:
Chimera Hybrid Plans are all restocked

I forgot to mention
Due huge hike in NVMe prices we made the nvme disk 65GB instead of 90GB in the old plan

Sorry for that I was forced to do this as every component price increased significantly in just few months with is counter intuitive as usually with time things get cheaper not more expensive

Thanks

servarica_hani

here are the links
https://clients.servarica.com/store/kvm-vps-plans/chimera-hybrid-1
https://clients.servarica.com/store/kvm-vps-plans/chimera-hybrid-2
https://clients.servarica.com/store/kvm-vps-plans/chimera-hybrid-3

servarica_hani

actually all plans here are in stock
https://clients.servarica.com/store/kvm-vps-plans

pepa65

Thanks, got a Chimera 1!

Chulainn

Are there any plans to migrate Xen to KVM? The performance issues caused by Xen have persisted for quite some time.

OpaqueRegistrant

No IPV6 hall of shame!

oomer

Hi @servarica_hani

The KVM Slices https://clients.servarica.com/store/kvm-vps-plans are listed as dedicated cores rather than shared. Your KVM Slim Slice 4vcpu/16GB/500NVME/10Gbps is $8/mth while your Xen based Octopus VDS 2 4vcpu/16GB/150NVME/1GBPS is $15/mth is listed specifically as a VDS so the KVM Slices seem like a better deal at nearly half the price.

Does KVM Slices represent a mid tier between VPS and VDS, not to be treated like a VDS but better than a VPS?

Or are you waiting to get KVM cpu pinning at parity with Xen pinning before marketing it as a VDS?

There is a mention of Chimera pricing being early adopter pricing and will go up 20% after you gather user feedback ... does this apply to the KVM Slices? Is this why the pricing for Slices looks so good?

Thanks

JasonM

waiting for black friday deals..

fuqet

Also waiting for some good black friday deals.

darkh0rse

@OpaqueRegistrant said:
No IPV6 hall of shame!

They do have IPv6, but you have to contact their support, and they’ll add a /128.

imok

@servarica_hani waiting for stock on Unified plans

servarica_hani

@Chulainn said:
Are there any plans to migrate Xen to KVM? The performance issues caused by Xen have persisted for quite some time.

users are free to switch between kvm and xen we will keep both infra running and users choose what they want
but we will not migrate anyone and both infra will remain

@OpaqueRegistrant said:
No IPV6 hall of shame!

We have ipv6 by request just ask for it

@oomer said:
Hi @servarica_hani

The KVM Slices https://clients.servarica.com/store/kvm-vps-plans are listed as dedicated cores rather than shared. Your KVM Slim Slice 4vcpu/16GB/500NVME/10Gbps is $8/mth while your Xen based Octopus VDS 2 4vcpu/16GB/150NVME/1GBPS is $15/mth is listed specifically as a VDS so the KVM Slices seem like a better deal at nearly half the price.

Does KVM Slices represent a mid tier between VPS and VDS, not to be treated like a VDS but better than a VPS?

Or are you waiting to get KVM cpu pinning at parity with Xen pinning before marketing it as a VDS?

There is a mention of Chimera pricing being early adopter pricing and will go up 20% after you gather user feedback ... does this apply to the KVM Slices? Is this why the pricing for Slices looks so good?

Thanks

Both are VDS and dedicated and both run on same platform from now (hardware)
simply slices are newer plans and we introduced them when EPYC CPUs with 32 and 64 cores were available which lowered the cost per core compared when Octopus was initially introduced where the cpus were older Inel with limited core count

We dont delete old plans till they are too old as some users get recommended exact plan and they insist on it so we keep old plans for longer

servarica_hani

@JasonM said:
waiting for black friday deals..

@fuqet said:
Also waiting for some good black friday deals.

@imok said:
@servarica_hani waiting for stock on Unified plans

They are coming this week
We will restock most of our plans in high demand and we will add few more plans and dedicated line

Thanks

Chulainn

@servarica_hani said: users are free to switch between kvm and xen we will keep both infra running and users choose what they want

but we will not migrate anyone and both infra will remain

I consulted customer service that switching from Xen to KVM would result in the loss of support for daily disk and bandwidth increases.

ahson

Got a fat slice from them and loving the experience so far. I might cancel my unmetered dedicated server to shift to their fat slice but the only hindrance is gonna be bandwidth limit.
Other than that, amazing performance.

gabriel69

I have 3 VPs from them, and the performance is outstanding. I'm loving it already!

oomer

Performance for the price is outstanding! I'm testing Proxmox 9 nested on top of Servarica's proxmox hypervisor and zfs nested inside the hypervisor's zfs and am really happy with the results on a kvm slice 2 and slice 4 and chimera hybrid-1. At this price point I always got stymied with other vendor's limits making Proxmox run poorly because of lack of memory/bandwidth/cpu/disk size. These hit the sweet spot. Nice work! I run some dedis and might move some vm's/containers over to save some money.