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Yeah sometimes their control panel can get kinda buggy like VNC not connecting, or their panel not loading, could be cause of all the new sign up's bogging down the system.
Of course I would be fine. Better? When I am thirsty I can drink glass or two of water. I can't drink 20 glasses of water at once. Can you drink them 40 at once?
Sequential I/O throughput test is not best measure of performance but still in case you give to those numbers some big value you have more on a plate than you can take it. Start to worry when number fall under 40 MB/s.
Yeah maybe that's whats being misunderstood cause like I mentioned this particular server seemed to be more than fully loaded cause it literary looked like it was stuck when the droplet was being created which is not a good sign... wish I kept the cachefly test but I think it was around 5-10mbps at the time comparing this to my first server the performance is always half? so why would I want to keep this server?
If server don't perform well you should not keep it. That's clear
But this has nothing to do with 200MB/s - 400MB/s I/O throughput speed test results but rather tests which thrashing disk themself. I host most of my sites on VPS (I am not talking about digitalocean now) who show around 60 MB/s I/O throughput speed and it perform just awesome.
So if server performance sux move away, but don't give so much importance to those (in both cases high) I/O throughput values. This LEB trend went too far...
Yes I used DD as a quick measure of performance of which it did reflect that one server is definitely lower in performance than another, while it may not be the most accurate we have to use a unit of measure to compare one server from another and DD seems to be the easiest to do without having to install programs to benchmark the server.
And it will only continue to get better!
You couldn't get me off a RamNode server with a crowbar and a stick of dynamite...
DO is nice for screwing around and trying out what I want to put into production over at RN.
Got my test box from DigitalOcean today.
Ping to my ramnode is ~35ms. I choose the NewYork one.
This would be just test box
Woah. SSDBEAR20 works without having to input any payment details, giving me 4 months of free trial. Thank you for posting this!
IMO the most likely host to be threatened should be linode rather than Prometeus and RamNode. I expect to see a corresponding change of plans from linode (though they are too big right now). Competition is good.
Nah, if this was $15, then sure.
But a 512MB KVM in Europe and US on unmetered gigabit for $5 -- that's not even mentioning all the superb CLOUD features -- is something that goes right onto every LEB provider's radar.
If I'm not mistaken you still have to add $5 via CC or PayPal to be able to create a droplet.
You need to input your payment details, otherwise, the droplet only last for 3 hours.
@rm_ Indeed the DO offer is incredibly compelling with the cloud features. Have been running with them on $5 for over 3 months (on and off usage) and still more to go.
I made an implicit assumption that the LEB hosts have more flexibility and will adapt to the competition more quickly.
I agree with this, from what I can see there's a decent number of people moving across. Whether it prompts them to change anything will remain to be seen.
I don't see how an average dull WHMCS+SolusVM host can adapt to offer the same flexibility as DO. What do they have left, to compete on price and specs?
You can't go much cheaper than $5 on those specs, and most couldn't offer unmetered b/w even if they wanted.
seems good.. i tried creating one and things went smooth..Hope the quality will not degrade later..
I have to agree with this. While DO's primary target is Linode and if you search twitter, you'll see many Linode customers jumping ship. But the way typical LEB provides has been doing business will be greatly affected as well. They will need to innovate and adapt to retain business. In short, DO wants to catch all the small and medium fishes(which includes both Linode and LEB customers). They do not care about the sharks and whales. Very smart, if you ask me. Like the 37 signals guys say, 'We sell to the Fortune 500,000 not Fortune 500". The business opportunity here is limitless.
And comparing DO with other LEB providers is kind of pointless. They are a VC funded company. They graduated from a leading startup accelarator Techstars(that is when I first heard of them, back in August). Slicehost co-founder Jason Seats is on their board and mentoring them. So, DO is kind of a big deal than the typical LEB provider . They also got Techcrunched yesterday http://tcrn.ch/XaNTLp
like apples and oranges? or a no-brainer-win?
So what?
At last i have free time and testing this.
update: added network speed test.
Reg'd with sB coupon
Does anyone know what CPU the KVMSSD nodes of @Prometeus use? ( @Maounique )
Which location? Speedtest is a bit sucky
Amsterdam, you can see the best speeds are from within europe. I will post mine also when im at home and not on my phone.
I think its node pm14 with dual E5-2620 and 64GB of ram.
New York.
from their ToS. so i cannot host static contents of my blog s.t. large photos on separate droplets? it may be a kind of CDN.
it seems too roughly descriptive or too restrictive.
Just to add another thing, I just tunneled using putty and typing google.com takes me to google.nl.
Reading the comments from he Techcrunch article it does seem that they will place harder restrictions on bandwidth usage sometime down the line but not so for now.
So what?
Act now before they burn everything.
Yeah its a very strange routing issue.
So far, DigitalOcean is very impressive.