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Opened a ticket. This. I mean, it should tell me somewhere. Not a tiny little green bar that I assumed was some news or info thingy ("Unleash your potential" doesn't sound like "open your account"). -.-
I was wondering about this too
I remember seeing this on twitter a day or two ago. I can only wonder what niche they hope to fill with this.
The middle tier offer is for 2TB disk, with fairly low VPS specs for 18EUR, when you can get a KS(2|3) for 10/15EUR with a 2TB disk as well. And the top tier 4TB one has the same VPS specs, and is 25EUR. I can only assume by the fairly low VPS specs(1core 2GB ram) they intend for this to be just for storage/backups, in which case you'd want the most for your money right? For an extra couple EUR you could get 6TB at hetzner. Only reason this would even be worth sorta considering is if it had gigabit, or as rm's test suggests I guess it has 10GE. But that seems sorta like a secondary consideration if you are after a high storage low cost server, maybe that is just me though.
Thing is, this can't be 10GE unmetered. And it's very interesting what they will decide about the bandwidth. How much is enough for a 1-4TB server. Or perhaps more likely, the OVH counterparts (to these RunAbove plans) will be limited to 100 Mbit, just like we had with the Sandbox vs KS1/VPS-SSD OVH Cloud plans. And on RunAbove this might not even go into production at all.
Confirmed: Windows Server 2012 R2 Works fine!
How did you get around it?
wimboot
If this ends up the case I would say my points are even more valid, where is the market for this when their own KS line can compete with the first two plans and hetzner provides 6TB for 28~EUR in their server bidding. I really do hope they decide for 10GE with a reasonable limit, it is all that would allow this offer to be worth considering to me.
@MarkTurner something similar to what your co. is offering, Right? (Same Concept)
Ovh and runabove are bigger and can offer a much better discount unfortunately.,,
@Mikeln - no we offer a dedicated core and you can stick an 8TB disk in for the same money.
Also their performance is very sucky.
Same tests as OP did but on our service:
SATA3 passthrough on the disks rather than what looks like SATA1
You can ship your choice of disk, you own it so you can ship it back when you're done or if you need to do a mass data migration.
Network performance:
http://www.delimiter.com/landingpage/slothosting/
@MarkTurner they are different services, not sure if it's fair to compare them.
@Traffic - if the customer elects for us to provide the disk then the service appears to be the same.
Didn't know you could do so. What are the prices? Or we can order and have them shipped at your facility directly?
What drives are you using? oles has already confirmed they are using HGST enterprise disks that are extremely reliable (and quite expensive).
Most customers ship from Amazon or NewEgg. You have choice of shipping any 2.5" or 3.5" SATA/SAS disk. So if you want a 8TB SATA or a 1TB SSD it makes no difference to us.
Others do a backup to the disk and then ship it to us, then continue incremental backups thereafter.
@TarZZ92 - Customer can choose what they want and we'll buy it on their behalf. For this service, its considered colocation so we're not bound by any brand allegiance. If you want those HGST disks, then you can just request it and pay accordingly. I think OVH uses HGST Ultrastar which we carry in stock anyway.
@desperand - can you run:
smartctl -i /dev/vdb
What disk make/model is it reporting?
@MarkTurner
Fair enough
@MarkTurner
he's not here so i have tried and here is your answer
/dev/vdb: Unable to detect device type
Check Amazon, they are not that expensive. And being able to choose the size you want is of course an added bonus.
amazon is probably the most expensive place to buy them
and the HGST Premium and Enterprise drives tend to cost £110-£220
http://www.amazon.com/Hitachi-HUA723020ALA641-Ultrastar-7200RPM-Enterprise/dp/B00HRLI2FU/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1436315508&sr=8-2&keywords=HGST+2TB&pebp=1436315520834&perid=1E4M6Z9YPZ2WZM77YNTA
$58
The big plus for me (I use the service too) is that I own the disk. So if I need it suddenly shipped to me for backup/restore then it can be done.
Haven't been able to get any of the Server 2012 qcow images I have made to work or the win8/10 one shared on the forum. Anyone up for the challenge?
More specifically, I have a 2.5GB Windows 8.1 image that errors saying it doesn't have enough space when trying to build the VM. But when I use the same image inside of oracle virtual box, the C drive is a total of 3GB used. So there should be plenty of space.
Anyone think there are bandwidth limits or if they will be imposed?
I don't think they'll give you 10G unmetered.
With this performance its definitely not 10GE, I think the 10G in the title means 10GB of disk space rather than 10GE port.
Didn't you see my post above? These speedtest servers are likely not 10GE themselves.
I got 264 MB/sec from the Tele2 speedtest.
And earlier got 5.04 Gbit upload at iperf to OVH's own iperf server.
Yeah this part is correct.
This i get. During the trial it is unmetered in and out as it says on the labs page. I am wondering what they will decide for later on. These are large storage solutions on a VPS the amount of bandwidth has to match. I am curious to see how they do it.
that is not the same drive..