New on LowEndTalk? Please Register and read our Community Rules.
All new Registrations are manually reviewed and approved, so a short delay after registration may occur before your account becomes active.
All new Registrations are manually reviewed and approved, so a short delay after registration may occur before your account becomes active.
Comments
I see a kernel difference. Could that impact the benchmark?
2.6.32-042stab108.2 vs 3.2.0-4-amd64
Yes, thanks for pointing this fact. In regards of hardware they are both almost identical, however, the Dacentec system should get a better score because of SSDs.
Dacentec
Delimiter
@FredQC:
On the disk copy, why is a single HDD performing better than an SSD?
There is something definitely bizarre about that. You should be seeing the opposite on that. Are you sure its hitting an SSD and not a HDD?
But irrespective the rest of the CPU tests should be the same. I would run the same kernel on both and retest. I wouldn't want to benchmark with an OpenVZ kernel.
That's weird like you said. But I've also did the test without the disks part. Here is the results:
Dacentec:
Delimiter:
2252 pts of difference
@FredQC - if you look at my comparison table its clear that its not the disks dragging it down. There is an actual performance issue in compute.
Normalise the OS and kernel version (loose OpenVZ) and then recompare the results.
Which L5520 do you have from Delimiter, is it the BL2x220C blade?
edit
Yes, that's the BL2x220C! I've installed the OpenVZ Kernel on the Delimiter box and will run the tests again...
dacentec.com is down
Their DNS is also down. My server can't resolve anything but I can SSH to it and use other setup ports
it seems also have some route issue, can't reach some network from dacentec
Do you guys check your email inbox?
.
.
Might be possible that maintenance took a bit longer?
I'm not to sure what is causing this issue but it s actually pretty bad. Looks liek their Servers are down under DDoS or some serious crap going down. Could probably switch the DNS and that would probably fix the issue if they are running their own DNS systems. BUt hey speculation for now. Will probably get something official when it comes back up.
Charter lost a 100 gig bundle to Atlanta, it is still down. There was some routing instability failing over to Charlotte, but it seems all the issues have been resolved. Contact [email protected] if you are still having any issues.
Are 5420s out of stock. When will they be available again?
They are back today.
Anyone else on AS5089 (Virgin Media Limited) noticed different routing between the two? Noticing a lot more use of Level3 which is cool! However, VM peer directly with Level3, so on the return path, there is no need to do Dacentec -> Level3 -> Cable and Wireless -> Virgin... On the way to Dacentec it goes Virgin -> Level3 -> Dacentec
Strange
Anyway, nice to see the network changing
Thanks
Harry
I noticed some the other night, nothing major though.
Would have thought VM sent traffic over Tinet.
Ordered a server and Dacentec staff have been very helpful with quick ticket responses (< 30 min) and (up to 24 hours) free IP KVM access upon request. The server was provisioned fast within a few hours. They even let me swap it for another model with better specs and refunded the original one. Would recommend to friends.
A few helpful hints for all:
Avoid the use of "poweroff" or "shutdown -h now" unless the BIOS setting of "After Power Failure" is set to "Power On". Otherwise some data center staff will have to press the physical power button on your server. (To enter the BIOS, first request IP KVM access via ticket, then reboot your server and hit the "DEL" key.)
In order for Dacentec's auto provisioning system to work, the NVIDIA boot agent (PXE) must be set before the hard disk in your server's "boot priority" BIOS settings.
Per Dacentec's earlier comment, you can enter the non-destructive "Rescue Mode" from the auto provision system, by selecting one of the "Sysrcd" options. After reboot, connect to the VNC server on port 5901, or to the SSH server with your chosen password.
If the "Virtual Media" in IP KVM does not work or the BIOS "boot priority" does not show the virtual disk, try toggling USB and PS/2 modes under "Keyboard/Mouse Settings", or try the "Reset" under "Maintenance".
Could someone paste a (necessary redacted) traceroute from a delimiter atlanta IP to mirror.dacentec.com ?
Sending it in PM, I suck something chronic at Markdown.
Just use < pre > and < /pre > tags (no spaces), put your info between them.
They've some awesome new offers available at the moment. Have just grabbed L5420 16GB 2x1TB RTO $30/month
Thanks for the heads up. I picked up the Dell 2xL5420 16GB 2X2TB Rent Only, as I'm not sure whether colocation costs would make it worthwhile to own one.
I've that one as well, truely not sure what I'll do with these
$20 are still available!
Do the DELL or HP models come with native KVM/iLo card support? @dacentec
Or is it on-demand Lantronix for every model/manufacturer?
Some Dell L5520, HP DL 180, E3 and others have full onboard iKVM. We only support the lantronix loaner and our provisioning system. But we know the some customers are using the onboard management.
Dacentec's support is awesome, Chris H. helped me out a lot yesterday morning and was extremely fast with this replies/help too. I just renewed my server a few days ago so I have had it for a little over a month and it's just an amazing deal.