Are OVH ports shared?

rnet123

I recently bought a 2Gbps server from OVH, unable to go past 1G and seems support are "ignoring", for the price im not totally surprised (but i do expect it to not be stuck at 1Gbps 24/7 ), i cant seem to find any fine-print to suggest it is shared or not so....

Anyone else experienced this or know what i can do?

fuqet

It looks like, I have exactly the same issue.

rnet123

@fuqet said:
It looks like, I have exactly the same issue.

Super strange, support just dont reply to so that doesnt help either. would recommend xhosts going forward, i use them now and they are very good, no issues so far

allthemtings

On a VPS? Yes obviously..

zejjnt

An easy way to start is this oneliner;
wget -O /dev/null https://proof.ovh.net/files/1Gb.dat 2>&1 | grep -o '[0-9.]+ [KMGT]*B/s'
to check whether you're able to pull 2 Gbit/s at all even within the OVH network.
If that doesn't look good, try to select the relevant file for your datacenter from https://proof.ovh.net/ and pull it with wget/curl and check how that goes (bursts etc).
I don't know what speeds OVH promise outside their own network but that should at least show you whether you're able to pull 2 Gb/s at all.

rnet123

@zejjnt said:
An easy way to start is this oneliner;
to check whether you're able to pull 2 Gbit/s at all even within the OVH network.
If that doesn't look good, try to select the relevant file for your datacenter from https://proof.ovh.net/ and pull it with wget/curl and check how that goes (bursts etc).
I don't know what speeds OVH promise outside their own network but that should at least show you whether you're able to pull 2 Gb/s at all.

Im barley able to pull 1, and when i do it doesnt last long nor go higher

rnet123

[SUM] 0.00-30.01 sec 175 MBytes 49.0 Mbits/sec 273 sender
[SUM] 0.00-30.12 sec 174 MBytes 48.4 Mbits/sec receiver

Yikes...

emgh

I’ve never in my whole life I don’t think seen a VPS provider with dedicated ports for each VPS

allthemtings

@emgh said:
I’ve never in my whole life I don’t think seen a VPS provider with dedicated ports for each VPS

Do you ever share your external port with people? I need a port capable of pumping alot of stuff in and out at high speeds

rnet123

@emgh said:
I’ve never in my whole life I don’t think seen a VPS provider with dedicated ports for each VPS

i worded the post wrong lol, but i think you get what im trying to say haha...

barbarza

@allthemtings said:

@emgh said:
I’ve never in my whole life I don’t think seen a VPS provider with dedicated ports for each VPS

Do you ever share your external port with people? I need a port capable of pumping alot of stuff in and out at high speeds

I just want to be able to pump in and out

allthemtings

@barbarza said:

@allthemtings said:

@emgh said:
I’ve never in my whole life I don’t think seen a VPS provider with dedicated ports for each VPS

Do you ever share your external port with people? I need a port capable of pumping alot of stuff in and out at high speeds

I just want to be able to pump in and out

You can ask @Murv he goes like a rabbit

bozolover99

for my dedicated OVH I have the guaranteed 1 gbs option and never had a problem getting the full speed.

wenruo

Andru

@bozolover99 said:
for my dedicated OVH I have the guaranteed 1 gbs option and never had a problem getting the full speed.

OVH is awesome...

emgh

Try speedtest cli

concept

Are you using iperf3 to test? Do you have yabs results?

forest

Run this:

lsmod | grep -E "virtio_net|e1000"

If that returns something, then yes it's shared. The only time you'd have a dedicated port on a VPS is if it's using SR-IOV, and you would know if it does that because it would be a lot more expensive and it would be prominently advertised.

Now, you might have a guaranteed slice of a shared port (as opposed to best-effort bandwidth), but that's not the same thing.

Murv

@allthemtings said: You can ask @Murv he goes like a rabbit

plumberg

@emgh said:
I’ve never in my whole life I don’t think seen a VPS provider with dedicated ports for each VPS

You've been using wrong providers so far

rnet123

@emgh said:
Try speedtest cli

https://www.speedtest.net/result/c/cce50a94-f773-4b32-af10-2115e21fb2b3

rnet123

@concept said:
Are you using iperf3 to test? Do you have yabs results?

[ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Retr
[ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 1.01 GBytes 864 Mbits/sec 51 sender
[ 5] 0.00-10.03 sec 1.01 GBytes 861 Mbits/sec receiver

iperf Done.

rnet123

@forest said:
Run this:

lsmod | grep -E "virtio_net|e1000"

If that returns something, then yes it's shared. The only time you'd have a dedicated port on a VPS is if it's using SR-IOV, and you would know if it does that because it would be a lot more expensive and it would be prominently advertised.

Now, you might have a guaranteed slice of a shared port (as opposed to best-effort bandwidth), but that's not the same thing.

It doesnt return anything at all.

fuqet

I've used yabs to test the speed and it actually shows 2Gbps.

rnet123

Ended up purchasing a server with @xHosts, John is a legend

purchased from them before plan to buy more 🫡

allthemtings

@Murv said:

@allthemtings said: You can ask @Murv he goes like a rabbit

In my 2013 insta lock battle bunny riven era