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Vscale now in Moscow
A new Russian Vscale location has been launched this week.
Since there is a vStoike thread out here, I venture to create vScale one too.
vStoike is more like ordinary, but reliable VPS, while Vscale is kind of a "cloud". Both of them are well known Russian providers with their own data centers in our community. As for domestic market, Vscale is more popular and widely promoted with Russian customers as far as I can see, though the project was launched less than a year ago.
Vscale is a project of well-know company Selectel, the CEO is Lev Leviev - a former partner of Pavel Durov who was a founder of one of the most visited website in Russia (top 3) - social network VKontakte. Selectel was primarily created for VKontakte, one of their co-founders is Vyacheslav Mirilashvili, according to some reports, one of the youngest Russian US dollars billionaire and the son of well-known Russian criminal. Anyway they operate 6 data centers, one of them is in Moscow and located on Berzarina street. Vscale are based on a new Berzarina #2 server farm located in the same building, LG is here (Москва, Берзарина, 36, #2).
The price start from 200 rubles for 512MB KVM VPS, equivalent to $3 at this moment. You are fully charged even when instances are off, and there is still no snapshot feature as well as IPv6 support. There is an API and some additional modules developed by Vscale team. They utilize Intel E5V3 processors. They claim all servers are on Gigabit network, though it looks more like 100 Mbit (the same as the majority of Russian providers do).
That's a quick bench of their Moscow location:
Location Provider Speed
CDN Cachefly 9.06MB/s
Atlanta, GA, US Coloat 10.8MB/s
Dallas, TX, US Softlayer 9.61MB/s
Seattle, WA, US Softlayer 8.39MB/s
San Jose, CA, US Softlayer 8.43MB/s
Washington, DC, US Softlayer 12.3MB/s
Tokyo, Japan Linode 5.35MB/s
Singapore Softlayer 6.83MB/s
Rotterdam, Netherlands id3.net 21.7MB/s
Haarlem, Netherlands Leaseweb 2.47MB/s
Disk Speed
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I/O (1st run) : 353 MB/s
I/O (2nd run) : 339 MB/s
I/O (3rd run) : 337 MB/s
Average I/O : 343 MB/s
A customer using any refferal link to sign up gets 400 credits, link owner will be credited 400 for each referral who spends 400 from their main balance (all credits may only be used to pay for Vscale services). So if you need it, that's my refferal linkNyr's one.
There is also a promo code "SCALET200" for those who want to test Vscale, it gives you 200 credits, equivalent to 200 Russian rubles.
Comments
Hi, @rm_ @fitvpn, what do you know about them? Have you ever used them? Share your thoughts with us please.
It was to be expected since they already had datacenters there.
vScale is very nice and reliable for the region, I've been using them for years.
Test IP for SPB: 95.213.237.1
Test IP for MSK: 185.143.172.1
Referal link for the 400 RUB promo.
I am using Vscale and just purchased a second VPS in Moscow. The interface and functionality are very similar to DigitalOcean.
No problems so far.
I personally think there is a lack of snapshot feature now.
I've just added your as well as mine one in initial post, if there are no any objections.
please.
So far so good, not the best but just good. Create, delete and keep money like DO does. Traffic 1 Tb per month just rude for Russian hosting where 95 % offer unmetered BW
The network is capped at 100mbps, but you got 21.7MB/s down from id3?
Basically RU hosting providers have 1Gbps uplink, but end user cannot get more than 100Mbps or less
A link to their LG (Moscow) has just been added.
Seems you are right here. Since I'm not a native English speaker and my skills are fairly bad, "capped" might be the wrong word, sorry about that. What term should be used in this particular case?
Yeah, but I do personally prefer 1TB at 1Gbps than 10-100 Mbit unmetered, it all depends on intended purpose after all.
I have experience using VStoike, great performance and no problems whatsoever, but have never tried Vscale.
Seems like from ER-Telecom (a top-3 Russian home broadband ISP) this is routed via St.Petersburg first anyway. I'm getting 50ms ping to them, whereas my normal ping to Moscow is 25-30ms.
There another similar provider, same prices, Xen with unlimited BW DDoS protected
https://hexcore.ru/
How long have they been in business? Seems they have just started. All information I've managed to find on them are their spam-like self-promotional clumsy posts on a couple of known Russian websites like Toster, Habrahabr and already mentioned VK. So I would not say that is a similar to Vscale/Selectel level provider in any way.
Ask them trough live chat
This is legal company.
It's amazing, their main site hosted on Digital Ocean
Guess they prefer not to have all eggs in one place
They offer 3 days free trial before buy,can drop easy if not satisfied.
Nice ping times from Finland: 39,8 ms to MSK and 42,0 ms to SPB.
They have finally added a snapshot feature, it's free while it's in beta.
What about their network speed, is it the same ?
@JohnShell Yep, the speed remained the same - no more than 100 Mbit in most cases. That's what the majority of Russian hosting providers offer.
Thanks for the info ....
Beta period will end on 20th September. Prices for snapshots depending on disk space are given below.