DartNode: Black Friday Edition 2025 - Ryzen 9950X Dedicated Giveaway - Deals Inside - We Go to Space

AceSheep

About a month later, my BGP session encountered problems again.

I tried submitting a ticket, and during this time there were 1571 more tickets. I can't imagine how much effort it will take to process these tickets.

I also noticed that the user panel has many new features, nice job.

default

@keoir said:

@AlteredParadox said:
@DartNode @keoir any updated ETA on the LA vps preorders?

We're sending a truck to LA this weekend and will be deploying everyone once the POP is live

We are now entering the third weekend.

AlteredParadox

@default said:

@keoir said:

@AlteredParadox said:
@DartNode @keoir any updated ETA on the LA vps preorders?

We're sending a truck to LA this weekend and will be deploying everyone once the POP is live

We are now entering the third weekend.

Their website now says "end of month" - so... next weekend maybe?

default

@AlteredParadox said:

@default said:

@keoir said:

@AlteredParadox said:
@DartNode @keoir any updated ETA on the LA vps preorders?

We're sending a truck to LA this weekend and will be deploying everyone once the POP is live

We are now entering the third weekend.

Their website now says "end of month" - so... next weekend maybe?

Soon™

taoqiKO

Now, have the prices of our memory and hard drives gone down?

default

@taoqiKO said:
Now, have the prices of our memory and hard drives gone down?

It is prices of memory RAM, NVMe and SSD.

HDDs are mechanical spinners so these should not be impacted.

stxsh

@default said:

@taoqiKO said:
Now, have the prices of our memory and hard drives gone down?

It is prices of memory RAM, NVMe and SSD.

HDDs are mechanical spinners so these should not be impacted.

yeah, it's not even like we can buy it elsewhere and ship it directly to them, comes out to the same price. Unfortunately the state of the market.

taoqiKO

@default said:

@taoqiKO said:
Now, have the prices of our memory and hard drives gone down?

It is prices of memory RAM, NVMe and SSD.

HDDs are mechanical spinners so these should not be impacted.

is it just me? I didn't see any price list, or maybe I just missed it. I've been seeing news lately that RAM prices are dropping, which is why I'm asking.

default

@taoqiKO said:

@default said:

@taoqiKO said:
Now, have the prices of our memory and hard drives gone down?

It is prices of memory RAM, NVMe and SSD.

HDDs are mechanical spinners so these should not be impacted.

is it just me? I didn't see any price list, or maybe I just missed it. I've been seeing news lately that RAM prices are dropping, which is why I'm asking.

No. Due to AI development, the prices of memory keep going up and up... to the moon 🚀

inspain

Still no word on the LA purchased during Black Friday?...

AlteredParadox

2 more days!?

default

@AlteredParadox said:

2 more days!?

Soon™

(unless @DartNode and @keoir provide new info)

ieeci

@simo @keoir @DartNode
Can anyone help me with my ticket? (#18154 #18460)

xingqing

Please prioritize processing the order renewal invoice. The service expires in 2 days, but I haven't received the invoice notification.

AlteredParadox

Woke up to two server is ready emails, looks like west is alive, they made it!

nikio

West is live.

 07:23:27 up  1:03,  1 user,  load average: 0.05, 0.02, 0.00

EDIT: I'm on a Xeon 6148 apparently. Default image is an old Ubuntu 2022, looks like a somewhat custom image though, running very slim sshd config.

nikio

In terms of networking, its not too bad. 0.7ms ping from my Psychz box in LA, but an extra +11ms pinging from Australia (compared to that same psychz box).

AlteredParadox

One of mine got an ipv6 and one didnt, so that's interesting. IIRC that's easily fixed with a ticket, but seems odd nonetheless. Also appears networking is broken by default on the debian 12 template... got it to work creating my own /etc/network/interfaces with the provided network info tho.

AlteredParadox

# ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #
#              Yet-Another-Bench-Script              #
#                     v2025-04-20                    #
# https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script #
# ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #

Sat Jan 31 07:52:21 UTC 2026

Basic System Information:
---------------------------------
Uptime     : 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes
Processor  : Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6148 CPU @ 2.40GHz
CPU cores  : 1 @ 2399.998 MHz
AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM        : 967.9 MiB
Swap       : 0.0 KiB
Disk       : 9.9 GiB
Distro     : Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie)
Kernel     : 6.12.63+deb13-cloud-amd64
VM Type    : KVM
IPv4/IPv6  : ✔ Online / ❌ Offline

IPv4 Network Information:
---------------------------------
ISP        : Ace Data Centers
ASN        : Unknown
Host       : Snaju Development
Location   : Houston, Texas (TX)
Country    : United States

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/sda1):
---------------------------------
Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 10.01 MB/s    (2.5k) | 160.79 MB/s   (2.5k)
Write      | 10.04 MB/s    (2.5k) | 161.64 MB/s   (2.5k)
Total      | 20.06 MB/s    (5.0k) | 322.44 MB/s   (5.0k)
           |                      |                     
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 1.33 GB/s     (2.5k) | 1.36 GB/s     (1.3k)
Write      | 1.40 GB/s     (2.7k) | 1.45 GB/s     (1.4k)
Total      | 2.73 GB/s     (5.3k) | 2.81 GB/s     (2.7k)

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
---------------------------------
Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping           
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----           
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 1.21 Gbits/sec  | 1.55 Gbits/sec  | 136 ms         
Eranium         | Amsterdam, NL (100G)      | 1.51 Gbits/sec  | 1.55 Gbits/sec  | 143 ms         
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | 825 Mbits/sec   | 794 Mbits/sec   | 234 ms         
Leaseweb        | Singapore, SG (10G)       | 1.03 Gbits/sec  | 1.20 Gbits/sec  | 190 ms         
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 9.15 Gbits/sec  | 8.82 Gbits/sec  | 0.627 ms       
Leaseweb        | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 3.55 Gbits/sec  | 3.63 Gbits/sec  | 69.1 ms        
Edgoo           | Sao Paulo, BR (1G)        | 837 Mbits/sec   | busy            | 173 ms         

Geekbench test failed and low memory was detected. Add at least 1GB of SWAP or use GB4 instead (higher compatibility with low memory systems).

YABS completed in 7 min 18 sec

Geekbench 4 Benchmark Test:
---------------------------------
Test            | Value                         
                |                               
Single Core     | 4164                          
Multi Core      | 4032                          
Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/19346540

YABS completed in 4 min 22 sec

default

@AlteredParadox said:
Woke up to two server is ready emails, looks like west is alive, they made it!

Congratulations @DartNode & @keoir for getting things up and running!

fafad550

I'm also waiting on US-West. I didn't get an e-mail, but sure enough my server had been commissioned and was available on the control panel. Mine got an IPv6 assigned, but it's not working at all, I was assigned 2602:f9f3:3000::x/36, but according to bgp.tools, this prefix isn't being announced at all, just 2602:f9f3::/36.

fafad550

@AlteredParadox said: Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie)

DartNode's panel only shows Debian 12 for me. Did you install via VNC? Any custom config needed?

AlteredParadox

@fafad550 said:

@AlteredParadox said: Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie)

DartNode's panel only shows Debian 12 for me. Did you install via VNC? Any custom config needed?

Installed 12 and in-place upgraded to 13 by changing sources.list to trixie, no issues encountered aside from the 12 template having broken networking to start with.

yoursunny

@keoir said:

@yoursunny said:

@keoir said:
For KC, we have allocated additional IPv6, so if your VM did not get assigned an IPv6 address, let us know in a ticket as well

We're continuing to work through the queue and appreciate your patience. If you want a refund, we 100% understand and will process these under the 7-day money-back guarantee we offer. Please give us time to process the refund before you open a dispute. We are not declining any refunds, and want to make sure you are taken care of even if you decide you want a refund.

Would you reset the starting date of both 1-year service period and 7-day money-back guarantee to align with the resolution of major problems? (1) IPv6 online (2) VNC operational.
Presently half of the 7-day period has elapsed and the machine is unusable.

Yes we will be pushing renewal dates and then also extending the 7 day money back persion until 1/1/2026

It's been two months since we purchased the server, and the server still does not work: VNC does not work, and the server is stuck in power off state for who knows how long whenever we reboot it from panel.
We are giving the provider a final 7-day period to resolve the technical issues.
If this cannot be resolved within this period, we would unfortunately have to request a refund.

SODaLC

@yoursunny said:

@keoir said:

@yoursunny said:

@keoir said:
For KC, we have allocated additional IPv6, so if your VM did not get assigned an IPv6 address, let us know in a ticket as well

We're continuing to work through the queue and appreciate your patience. If you want a refund, we 100% understand and will process these under the 7-day money-back guarantee we offer. Please give us time to process the refund before you open a dispute. We are not declining any refunds, and want to make sure you are taken care of even if you decide you want a refund.

Would you reset the starting date of both 1-year service period and 7-day money-back guarantee to align with the resolution of major problems? (1) IPv6 online (2) VNC operational.
Presently half of the 7-day period has elapsed and the machine is unusable.

Yes we will be pushing renewal dates and then also extending the 7 day money back persion until 1/1/2026

It's been two months since we purchased the server, and the server still does not work: VNC does not work, and the server is stuck in power off state for who knows how long whenever we reboot it from panel.
We are giving the provider a final 7-day period to resolve the technical issues.
If this cannot be resolved within this period, we would unfortunately have to request a refund.

Purchased one a couple days ago.

IPv6 doesn't work, it has no route out from the gateway.
VNC doesn't work on it either.

Best part, the refund button doesn't even work either.

It's a shame, it did look quite promising.

xingqing

It's already February 1st, please process the renewal immediately.

xingqing

Isn't renewing this a simple matter of clicking a button? Why wait until it expires without any action being taken?

xingqing

There's no renewal function; payment can only be notified via invoice, but no prior notification was sent, and I haven't received it. It remains unresolved.

AlteredParadox

just noticed this one... not sure why i'd be getting billed again already for my 2 $7/yr preorders that just got delivered??

simo

@AlteredParadox said:

just noticed this one... not sure why i'd be getting billed again already for my 2 $7/yr preorders that just got delivered??

Don’t worry about this, we’ll go through the LA invoices and the dates will be adjusted

We’re currently experiencing a high ticket volume and are prioritizing the most critical issues, so please bear with us for now. You can safely ignore this upcoming notice