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I'm interested. I will do what I always do, that is to detect (passively) and report malware-infected computers so that their (victim) owners get a chance to fix the problem. HAProxy is my detection tool, which acts as a honeypot with no interaction, waiting patiently for malicious connection attempts.
This seems a great way to create an environment to build (and play around with) a Kubernetes cluster. Friends of mine have been telling me I should and how wonderful it is, but never saw a great environment to spin the dynamic nodes for it.
Also, having high performant infra of some kind at the 'neighbours' in Belgium has always been a secret pleasure for me. Would be lovely if you were to let me in.
Bedankt kerel, or in case you're Walloon: merci beaucoup!
(Just noticed the "No Providers" rule; does being a LIR around here, make me rule out?)
I can offer what you require and I'd focus on benchmarking, testing and playing with multiple (less common) linux VPS and BSD. Am also interested in non-Ryzen.
Bonus: you'd get a qualified review; could do/am willing to do one intermediate and one final at the end.
I'm game. I'm poor nowadays and wouldn't mind a system to play with to get reintroduced back into the modern market. Been using VPSes for going on about ten years now and it's always a pleasure to see how the industry progresses over time. Glad it's not just another random OpenVZ/SolusVM offer on some rented dedis like what seems to dominate a lot of these spaces...
I'll put it to good use.
interested.
any slot for me?
i'm using it for webhosting.
Currently using openVZ for my gitlab instance and thinking of moving away from it for performance reasons and love for ryzen.
so i can install gitlab in this, if you still need a beta tester
Well, the response has been overwhelming. I ended up adding 13 people so 3 more then I had in mind.
Oh well it's Sinterklaas today
I will also try and monitor activity a bit, if someone has not been using their service within a week or so I will pick someone else.
Thanks all!!
Intermediate benchmark/review:
Doesn't feel like an Epyc, more like a 26xx v2 (which still is not at all bad). AES and Hypervisor flags but no popcnt. Seems not overbooked, pretty much like a VDS, nice.
Either a SSD or a not really fast NVMe. Largely tight spread though. All in all (partly upper) mid range I'd say.
Similar to disk. Largely (partly upper) mid range. The fastest, UK_LON is about 500 Mb/s, the other big EU 3 are in the +-300 Mb/s range. No really bad result, largely stable, speed to the Americas and to Asia OK.
All in all nothing to write home about but not at all bad. For the intended price though ... hmmm ...
Count me in
@marvel
Count me in
@marvel
I am in
I love testing and I haven't used a Belgian vps, But I don't have 50 posts and thanks ...
@marvel still has a 30% off for you
https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/3187313/#Comment_3187313
Thanks for testing this! First time I even see such an extensive performance test. Great to see the numbers.
Keep in mind though it's all central storage. You can't expect local disk performance but you get HA, live migration etc. in return.
How much customers would really need the speed of a local NVMe drive anyway. Perhaps 0.01%. I would rather want stability and longer uptimes, that's where I'm going for and yes in return you will get intermediate performance but still good enough for the majority of the people plus you have less limitations like local available disk space.
The EPYCs are indeed Zen 1 so a bit more slow in numbers. The Ryzens are much faster but the EPYCs come with more threads, so I will sell both later on and customers can decide. I would assume EPYC is more suitable for e.g. web servers and I would be able to sell those at a cheaper rate. Also, the Ryzens have no dual PSU and no LACP on the public net so when a node fails HA has to boot it up on another one. The EPYCs have all double hardware.
As for this module, this beta is over. This module is just too buggy. I'm currently messing around with Openstack and Fleio which looks much better already but is very complex to set up. So in the meantime I will just sell preconfigured machines to keep my resources from running idle
And about the price, yes I realize it's more expensive but Belgium is a niche location. Power and bandwidth is really expensive here, so I have to make my setup stand out and provide better service to compete with the others.
Thanks again!
I quite liked the service, very flexible and the firewall was a treat. @marvel will eventually implement it another way.
He has moved me to a ryzen, I think you might find you will lose it on a reboot. But have a ryzen there instead.
@marvel
My review wasn't a complaint but simply a stating of facts, observations and impressions.
I personally am not disk-crazy anyway; I still happily run a couple of spinning rust driven VPSs and would look for NVMe only for specific use cases. Btw. your disk performance numbers are not bad (but neither mouth watering) and I follow your argumentation, but I also see that a very considerable part of VPS buyers are numbers-porn driven. Similarly I'm personally not too concerned about processor performance neither, anything north of 200 (in my benchmark) is good enough, anything north of 300 is really great, and Ryzen 3|59xx speed is insane, but again, many, many potential buyers think their website will be slow with anything other than the most current Ryzen and NVMe.
Where I do see a problem though is with your prices because AMS, PAR, and FRA are "just around the corner" and I guess very few will see having their stuff in Belgium as particularly desirable and pay extra for that.
My advice would be to follow the route you've already started to walk, the route of redundancy, high availability, etc because that actually is something people (albeit to a lesser degree here at LET I guess) are willing to pay a higher price for.
You could also say I'm right in the middle of AMS, FRA, PAR and LON
We'll see, AMS is like 150k so I can always pick everything up move it over there in a weekend in case this fails