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So I was an idiot and got a **** VPS, What can I do with it.
Hey LET,
I bought a vps from a company I won't name but is well known around here for being pretty bad, I didn't know that at the time though.
I paid 2.99 for a year of VPS (Which I should have known had a catch) but I can only use 2.5% of the cpu, if I use more for over 15 minutes, I'm suspended which has already happened once. The only good thing is I have unlimited bandwidth.
So my question is what can I do with a NAT'd VPS that can only use 2.5% cpu?
Thanks, Detroit.
Comments
use 2.4%
What about 2.3%?
maybe next time no Buy sucks ? 2.5% cpu is nothing , way the company offer you 999999999 cpu if you can use only 2.5% of power (this is the question) . Finnaly you pay only 2.99/year wich is nothing. Let him iddle and next time .... you know
That'd be fine.
Alright, it's only 3/yr and how much can you expect?
Well, i have a bunch of 3 EUR / year NAT VPS-es from InceptionHosting and they work fine. Not that i am using them much (just logging in from time to time to run a traceroute or mtr), but still haven't been suspended or anything like that.
So yes, one could expect that even a 3 EUR/ year or 2 EUR / year VPS works.
Yes my VPS, WORKS but it's not doing anything and I wouldn't really want it to waste itself away, even though that's what's it's doing at the moment.
You got a 4 stars VPS for 2.99/year, such luck!
It's.... $3... be a big boy and get over it...
Ahah, So true. But c'mon it's a year full of nothing.
What can you do with 2.5% cpu lol?
I believe most NAT VPS providers allow up to 80% cpu?
Sounds like an mtwiscool VPS? You can use all the CPU, you are just limited.
cpulimit -l 2.5 name_of_process > /dev/null &I asked about using a code like this or maybe exactly the same when he first suspended me, I was told that it causes huge problems on the node -_-, or something like that at least.
I don't know if I should name and shame, but I will say you can find the company name on an older thread of mine.
Like @rds100 said, you can run traceroute from there, which can be useful depending on where it is. You can also run a personal mailserver, and a static web page will work fine. The usefulness depends a lot on what you have and what you can use. It doesn't take a lot before you have $3 bucks worth out of it.
just install mtr and use it to run traceroutes
yum install mtr
hostrail?
Why would you "name and shame" if the company just delivered what promised?
What you've been expecting out of $3 USD a year VPS? 4 Dedicated Cores?
Well with autosuspension over 2.5% of cpu... you pretty much can't do anything... Even if it's a cheap VPS, I would hope you could at least login before it suspends.. lol..
lol.
Its a waste of money if you can't do anything without getting suspended. If you can't even login, thats like buying a car with no gas pedal.
Other VPSes in the same price range (LowEndSpirit) don't have such a silly limitation, and you mr. "Cloudiver" sir have just earned a place in the never-buy shit list for the rest of your brand's life with this comment.
Try using for VPN. Such as tinc-based.
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Well, looks like the retarded cpu limitation is explained based on the owner of the "company" he got the vps from.
So it's not just me who always read his name/brand as "cloudiver"... Guess it's not a very good name after all...
If it is natvpsdotuk. then:
All CPU is fair use (Up to 10% allowed unless it is for less than 15 minutes).
Not 2.5% cpu?
All companies that delivers nat vps under the les umbrella do have a good performance for the price and they do not limit usage in the ridiculously 2.5%. They perform pretty fine, I would say.
Don't worry about it, I'm taking all the "Hostrail" customers and I'll make sure your experience is a lot better
Meh, it's his problem then if he can't suggest a reasonable way to limit CPU to a lousy 2.5%.
If the host wants to be that strict, they might as well implement cpuunits or cpulimit for containers at node level (I'm guessing they use OpenVZ).
It says in the AUP which somebody actually copy and pasted here, that 2.5% is the limit, so I went by that as the amount that I'm allowed to use.
That's bullshit too. Their advertisement says that, but their tos says something else.