Server4You.com?

fly

oh god that lisp in combination with his accent = AEHAPEHAIAOFHEAfieoAfhefoiafhoihioAHAEhaoEfaefeaf

innya

I used their earlier their service way way back when they opened datacenter in St. Louis, MO.
I used freebsd and Plesk. They got hit with big telecom problem and got bad review. They did not answer support tickets for weeks. A year after that they were doing a lot better and offer better price.

Spencer

In my opinion they are only using AMD because it is ALOT cheaper.

Oliver

I signed up for one of those dedicated systems (US based) a few days ago. They seem to have accidentally put me on a node with 24GB of RAM instead of 16GB (the cheapest one). Network performance seems very good - I can consistently get 100mb/s. I am helping out with a project at Archive Team now and it's been running really well.

I signed up yesterday for an EU one as well (Germany) but I don't think they'll meet the 24 hour turn around on this since it's Easter. Either way if anyone wants any tests/info about it let me know. For ~50 euro a month 8 cores, 24GB RAM, 2TB and unmetered data is pretty good in my books!

EricCubixCloud

@Oliver said: , 2TB and unmetered data is pretty good in my books!

How's the disk I/O and such. You should try this benchmark if Linux
wget freevps.us/downloads/bench.sh -O - -o /dev/null|bash

Oliver

[oli@eagle tmp]$ ./bench.sh
CPU model :  AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 3280
Number of cores : 8
CPU frequency :  2399.607 MHz
Total amount of ram : 23916 MB
Total amount of swap : 2047 MB
System uptime :   12:05,
Download speed from CacheFly: 10.9MB/s
Download speed from Linode, Atlanta GA: 4.24MB/s
Download speed from Linode, Dallas, TX: 5.66MB/s
Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 2.13MB/s
Download speed from Linode, London, UK: 6.93MB/s
Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 6.52MB/s 
Download speed from Softlayer, Singapore: 3.30MB/s 
Download speed from Softlayer, Seattle, WA: 8.39MB/s 
Download speed from Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 2.88MB/s 
Download speed from Softlayer, Washington, DC: 10.8MB/s 
I/O speed :  98.0 MB/s

JTR

@dmmcintyre3 said: What's wrong with AMD?

Personal preference. I run a Minecraft server, which in my experience never ran well when I tried out a older Opteron server, and I've seen several other people see issues with performance with AMD vs Intel.

With that being said, it's still a outstanding deal.

@Oliver said: I am helping out with a project at Archive Team now and it's been running really well.

Thanks for the link, that's fascinating.

bijan588

Really considering buying one now.

Oliver

For those who're interested my German server just got deployed. Now I have one of each of their offers.

[root@falcon tmp]# ./bench.sh 
CPU model :  AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 3280                 
Number of cores : 8
CPU frequency :  2399.876 MHz
Total amount of ram : 15886 MB
Total amount of swap : 2047 MB
System uptime :   5 min,       
Download speed from CacheFly: 10.4MB/s 
Download speed from Linode, Atlanta GA: 1.73MB/s 
Download speed from Linode, Dallas, TX: 702KB/s 
Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 569KB/s 
Download speed from Linode, London, UK: 8.30MB/s 
Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 6.21MB/s 
Download speed from Softlayer, Singapore: 243KB/s 
Download speed from Softlayer, Seattle, WA: 475KB/s 
Download speed from Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 524KB/s 
Download speed from Softlayer, Washington, DC: 755KB/s 
I/O speed :  101 MB/s

fly

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yomero

Huh, almost all in USA is freaking slow :S

Oliver

If someone wants some traceroutes done let me know what IPs to go to. :-)

fly

unfortunately it looks like they use cogent.

EricCubixCloud

@kbar said: unfortunately it looks like they use cogent.

unfortunately?

raindog308

"unfortunate" is a synonym for "cogent"

ztec

@LES said: I found a lot "poor service, lousy support, empty promises"

This is exactly what I'm experiencing with them as well. They add random late fees for payments that have been automatically paid as wel.. hilarious...

nabo

@PytoHost said: In my opinion they are only using AMD because it is ALOT cheaper.

Maybe they also choose AMD because the CPUs are produced in the same country: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Micro_Devices#Production_and_fabrication

Wintereise

They're alright, but if you're looking to get one for hosting, you'll be sorely disappointed to know that bridged routing will be blocked.

This is to force you to go with plusserver's other, more expensive brand, etc.

NateN34

Does that Opteron 3280 server use EEC RAM?

Oliver

@NateN34, dmidecode says no:

[root@eagle ~]# dmidecode --type memory|grep -i "error"
    Error Correction Type: None

Damian

^^^^^^ uses Opteron-powered servers

It appears that the 3200-series was developed to be put into desktop motherboards... interesting combo there: http://www.cpu-world.com/news_2012/2012032001_AMD_releases_Opteron_3200_series_processors.html

Oliver

Yes but the first sentence of that page has the word "cloud" in it!!! Doesn't that mean everything will be perfect for everyone? Isn't that what the cloud is all about?

;-)