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Time4VPS storage servers -- any experience?

JirachiLoverJirachiLover Member
edited March 2016 in Reviews

I currently own a VPS with Ramnode but I have heard Time4VPS' storage range brought up quite a bit by people recently.

However the reports I've heard on the internet are wildly varying. The benchmarks which are now old seem to show great iops performance from 300-700 even on the storage servers however I talked to a guy who owned a Time4vps storage VPS and said that the iops is limited to 50 but usable. Then I read a whole bunch of threads on LET where people were complaining of 200 kb/s to 500 kb/s transfers and 1mb/s downloads and iops which were either limited to 50 or to 100 seemingly by random.

So I was wondering whether anyone had any 2016 onwards, preferably benchmarks from today on these servers uploaded to a site like serverbear or experiences with these guys. I'd want to run owncloud on it as a replacement for dropbox and was wondering whether it's up for the task.

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  • MikeAMikeA Member, Patron Provider

    I used it for about a month, was good but speed from US was around 6MB/s, plus I went over the bandwidth allocation so I decided to just get something inside the U.S. and pay more. Was solid other than a minor network issue once.

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  • TomTom Member

    Benchmark as of a few seconds ago. :)

    ----------------------------------------------------------------------
CPU model            : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2609 v3 @ 1.90GHz
Number of cores      : 1
CPU frequency        : 1897.758 MHz
Total amount of ram  : 512 MB
Total amount of swap : 256 MB
System uptime        : 58days, 10:49:55
OS                   : Debian GNU/Linux 8
Arch                 : x86_64 (64 Bit)
Kernel               : 2.6.32-042stab108.8
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Node Name                       IPv4 address            Download Speed
CacheFly                        205.234.175.175         36.4MB/s
Linode, Tokyo, JP               106.187.96.148          4.64MB/s
Linode, Singapore, SG           139.162.23.4            4.36MB/s
Linode, London, UK              176.58.107.39           26.2MB/s
Linode, Frankfurt, DE           139.162.130.8           16.3MB/s
Linode, Fremont, CA             50.116.14.9             5.16MB/s
Softlayer, Dallas, TX           173.192.68.18           8.34MB/s
Softlayer, Seattle, WA          67.228.112.250          5.18MB/s
Softlayer, Frankfurt, DE        159.122.69.4            23.0MB/s
Softlayer, Singapore, SG        119.81.28.170           5.87MB/s
Softlayer, HongKong, CN         119.81.130.170          5.21MB/s
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I/O speed(1st run) : 47.1 MB/s
I/O speed(2nd run) : 42.4 MB/s
I/O speed(3rd run) : 42.3 MB/s
Average I/O: 43.9333 MB/s
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  • VPS_UnlimitedVPS_Unlimited Member

    I use their storage server since a couple weeks and very happy so far :) Uptimerobot reports 99%+ uptime :)

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  • JirachiLoverJirachiLover Member
    edited March 2016

    @EVM_Mike said:
    I used it for about a month, was good but speed from US was around 6MB/s, plus I went over the bandwidth allocation so I decided to just get something inside the U.S. and pay more. Was solid other than a minor network issue once.

    Sounds good, my files aren't too large.

  • iKockaiKocka Member
    edited March 2016

    It sucks. During peak hours their network or storage is so slow I couldn't download backups with more than 2 MB/s. When opened a support ticket their reply was that they are aware of the issue and they plan to upgrade their storage in the next few months. Stay away.

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  • MadMad Member

    I'm currently in the process of testing them and no issues so far.
    I'll keep you updated.

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  • dofldofl Member

    I'm using the 1 TB plan for a couple of months now. I'm happy with it, for the biannual price it's an excellent deal. I'm using it mainly as cloud storage with Seafile.

    Uptime is impressive. The VPS is online since 1705 hrs (2016-01-06) and there is no downtime recorded by UptimeRobot.com.

    Benchmark started on Thu Mar 17 09:14:38 CET 2016
    Full benchmark log: /root/bench.log

    System Info
-----------
Processor   : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2609 v3 @ 1.90GHz
CPU Cores   : 1
Frequency   : 1897.921 MHz
Memory      : 1024 MB
Swap        : 512 MB
Uptime      : 71 days, 23:47,

OS      : Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS
Arch        : x86_64 (64 Bit)
Kernel      : 2.6.32-042stab108.8


Speedtest (IPv4 only)
---------------------
Your public IPv4 is 194.135.x.x

Location        Provider    Speed
CDN         Cachefly    36.3MB/s

Atlanta, GA, US     Coloat      6.74MB/s 
Dallas, TX, US      Softlayer   8.82MB/s 
Seattle, WA, US     Softlayer   6.89MB/s 
San Jose, CA, US    Softlayer   7.06MB/s 
Washington, DC, US  Softlayer   4.65MB/s 

Tokyo, Japan        Linode      4.50MB/s 
Singapore       Softlayer   4.78MB/s 

Rotterdam, Netherlands  id3.net     21.6MB/s
Haarlem, Netherlands    Leaseweb    31.9MB/s 


Disk Speed
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I/O (1st run)   : 50.2 MB/s
I/O (2nd run)   : 42.7 MB/s
I/O (3rd run)   : 42.3 MB/s
Average I/O : 45.0667 MB/s
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  • time4vpstime4vps Member, Host Rep

    iKocka said: When opened a support ticket their reply was that they are aware of the issue and they plan to upgrade their storage in the next few months.

    Could you please send me a PM regarding this incident. We already upgraded our storage arrays and IOPS is increased to 400 IOPS. No issues reported regarding "slow storage server".

  • khuongcomputerkhuongcomputer Member

    Using their 1TB storage for 6 months now. Downtime 30 minutes for their maintenance. I/O speed and network are great so far.

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  • akhfaakhfa Member
    edited March 2016

    I have this for 512 MB. Slow on harddisk. How can I make yellow background? ._.

    Benchmark started on Kam Mar 17 12:01:55 EET 2016
Full benchmark log: /root/bench.log

System Info
-----------
Processor       : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2609 v3 @ 1.90GHz
CPU Cores       : 1
Frequency       : 1897.880 MHz
Memory          : 512 MB
Swap            :  MB
Uptime          : 52 days, 23:34,

OS              : \S
Arch            : x86_64 (64 Bit)
Kernel          : 2.6.32-042stab108.8
Hostname        : data


Speedtest (IPv4 only)
---------------------
Your public IPv4 is 199.233.x.x

Location                Provider        Speed
CDN                     Cachefly        36,7MB/s

Atlanta, GA, US         Coloat          5,45MB/s 
Dallas, TX, US          Softlayer       5,90MB/s 
Seattle, WA, US         Softlayer       5,81MB/s 
San Jose, CA, US        Softlayer       7,08MB/s 
Washington, DC, US      Softlayer       4,22MB/s 

Tokyo, Japan            Linode          2,80MB/s 
Singapore               Softlayer       6,19MB/s 

Rotterdam, Netherlands  id3.net         20,4MB/s
Haarlem, Netherlands    Leaseweb        38,6MB/s 


Disk Speed
----------
I/O (1st run)   : 1 MB/s
I/O (2nd run)   : 6 MB/s
I/O (3rd run)   : 4 MB/s
Average I/O     : 3.66667 MB/s
  • tommytommy Member

    Use pre tag between text

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  • deadbeefdeadbeef Member

    I have three storage servers with them, very satisfied - but my usage is not intense (backups and... "linux isos"). If you want a test file link, let me know.

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  • tommytommy Member

    I able to download/upload ~120 Mbps, on DD test sometimes it only 10 MB/s, make nonsense since I able to upload/download faster than that i/o test

    Maybe too many user using DD atm. Try again later :)

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  • deadbeefdeadbeef Member

    @tommy said:
    Maybe too many user using DD atm. Try again later :)

    :)

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  • dragon2611dragon2611 Member

    Not the fastest I've seen but costs peanuts relative to the amount of space you get and so far been reliable.

  • Cpt_BenCpt_Ben Member

    I've got a 1TB one and I use it as a plex server (with direct play). Haven't had any issues so far.

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  • MikePTMikePT Moderator, Patron Provider, Veteran

    We resell @time4vps servers, both backup VPS and normal VPS to our clients (Webdevs, companies, etc), and couldn't be happier with the service.
    @time4vps folks provide us an excellent support. Granted, we're a reseller growing, and have like a dozen servers (in a month it's not that bad), although, the quality of support, is really, and I must mention, really great.

    Been reporting issues with their modules a lot as well and the guys fix it.
    I just wish I could contact them by phone, or anything else. They don't work 24h, according to all our ticket responses (they do work during business hours), but still, it's pretty good service for the buck. They're part of a big company which I investigated about, and I feel good doing business with them.

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  • wwabbitwwabbit Member

    Even if they are too slow to be used as your primary backup storage, for that kind of price it would be silly not to get one anyway as secondary backup storage.

  • HadrielHadriel Member

    I have a 1TB and a .5TB service from them and other than the IO issues already reported I find them to be a great value.

  • vimalwarevimalware Member

    If not secondary, it can be re-purposed as tertiary backup.

    Poor man's Amazon glacier.

  • RexcarnationRexcarnation Member

    I used them, and it was great

  • noamannoaman Member

    @time4vps
    I think he updated the IOPS limit to 400....

  • K4Y5K4Y5 Member

    noaman said: @time4vps I think he updated the IOPS limit to 400....

    Now that'd be nice, if it were actually true.

  • noamannoaman Member

    Ok My bad ...It was on their other servers

    "RAID speed on all servers is the same: 40 MB/s and 400 IOPS. Take a note, that standard VPS's use SAS arrays with SSD cache."

  • aubertaubert Member

    i've tried it once, and i got problem especially with owncloud ,i choose automatically install owncloud when choosing OS option and after 4days the owncloud error, i've tried reinstall,and reboot still remains the same, when i submit a ticket, support told me to reinstal the OS,so i decide not to, im losing few important data and pennies there so far

  • K4Y5K4Y5 Member
    edited March 2016

    Having tried their storage servers a couple of times in the past, I wouldn't recommend them for anything other than quaternary or even quinary backup. Their IOPS restriction and throttling simply doesn't cut it in 2016.

    But yes, as someone said earlier, it can be thought of as a poor man's amazon glacier.

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