Black Friday 2020 - NVMe and Storage deals - deploy worldwide

kend · December 2020

@hosthatch Dear sir, it shows there are still a few flash sale locations available. I just want to confirm if they are really available. I might still need one location more and I am quite fine with the 10 working days delivery. Thank you very much!

Daniel15 · December 2020

@Daniel15 said:
@hosthatch I had some small (low priority) pieces of feedback about your control panel, but wasn't sure of the appropriate way to send them through (email, PM, ticket, comment, etc), so here they are:

When I click the "start" button for a VPS, I need to refresh the page to see the "running" status and connect to VNC. It would be nice for the page to update automatically, eg using WebSockets or Server-Sent Events, or even just polling (BuyVM's custom control panel just polls for the running status of the VPS every 5 seconds, which seems like a fine approach).

Show logs for when the server was booted and shut down, and any errors when booting. Sometimes when I try to start my VPS, it doesn't start properly, but on the second attempt it works fine. Would be good to have an error log to see if I was doing something wrong.

Automatically assign IPv6 upon provisioning, or allow adding it through the control pane;. I know you have a lot of tickets at the moment so I felt bad opening a ticket to add IPv6 to my VPS (even after prefixing it with "[Low Priority]")

"Reconfigure Networking" uses eth0 as the device name, but on newer OSes (like Debian 10) the device name is actually ens3 by default, so it actually results in a broken networking config and I have to VNC in to fix it (and it's quite painful entering my server passwords over VNC as they're long and randomly generated, unique for each server). You're probably inheriting this brokenness from SolusVM though, I guess.

Under the "Bandwidth" tab, show a traffic graph. SolusVM has this so you might be able to use its API (or at least the same data source)? I can just run vnstat or netdata myself so this is super low priority.

I was trying to add an IPv6 address ending in ::1, but it kept showing a generic "Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes." error message. I was going to open a ticket, but ::2 worked fine. Maybe this could have a better error message?

Two more after another one of my servers was provisioned today

Show the current reverse DNS without having to click the pencil, so it's easy to tell that I've already set the right hostname
Allow sharing uploaded ISOs across servers in different locations rather than having to re-upload it. Or alternatively, show a list of recently used ISO URLs under the "Upload ISO" heading, so I can just select the same URL again.

Daniel15 · December 2020

YABS for Chicago 2 TB:

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Mon 07 Dec 2020 12:41:24 PM PST

Basic System Information:
---------------------------------
CPU cores  : 1 @ 2999.998 MHz
AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ❌ Disabled
RAM        : 3.8 GiB
Swap       : 975.0 MiB
Disk       : 1.9 TiB

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):
---------------------------------
Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 6.87 MB/s     (1.7k) | 85.29 MB/s    (1.3k)
Write      | 6.89 MB/s     (1.7k) | 85.74 MB/s    (1.3k)
Total      | 13.77 MB/s    (3.4k) | 171.03 MB/s   (2.6k)
           |                      |
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 532.97 MB/s   (1.0k) | 660.66 MB/s    (645)
Write      | 561.28 MB/s   (1.0k) | 704.66 MB/s    (688)
Total      | 1.09 GB/s     (2.1k) | 1.36 GB/s     (1.3k)

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
---------------------------------
Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed
                |                           |                 |
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 1.94 Gbits/sec  | 1.08 Gbits/sec
Online.net      | Paris, FR (10G)           | 2.19 Gbits/sec  | 1.53 Gbits/sec
WorldStream     | The Netherlands (10G)     | 1.59 Gbits/sec  | 1.07 Gbits/sec
Astra           | Lviv, UA (10G)            | 1.15 Gbits/sec  | busy
Biznet          | Jakarta, Indonesia (1G)   | 616 Mbits/sec   | 29.6 Mbits/sec
Clouvider       | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 3.35 Gbits/sec  | 4.61 Gbits/sec
Velocity Online | Tallahassee, FL, US (10G) | 70.1 Mbits/sec  | 235 Mbits/sec
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 3.81 Gbits/sec  | 2.36 Gbits/sec
Iveloz Telecom  | Sao Paulo, BR (2G)        | 234 Mbits/sec   | 447 Mbits/sec

Geekbench 5 Benchmark Test:
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Test            | Value
                |
Single Core     | 693
Multi Core      | 719
Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/5212809

Really nice network. 2 Gb/s from Chicago to Europe is impressive... Some of my other servers don't even get that within the US. Only IPv4 tests so far as I don't want to bother support to enable IPv6 until the rest of my servers are provisioned (will just open one ticket to enable IPv6 on all of them).

Hitori0221 · December 2020

Just got my 10TB HUGE CHICAGO BOI provisioned.

MagicalTrain · December 2020

Mine was provisioned as well. Had issues with mounting an ISO, so I opened a ticket and got an answer in literally 2 minutes.

Definitely doesnt feel like there really is an issue with the service. (my ticket before that also was answered in 1 minute...)

CjayVPS · December 2020

@MagicalTrain said:
Mine was provisioned as well. Had issues with mounting an ISO, so I opened a ticket and got an answer in literally 2 minutes.

Definitely doesnt feel like there really is an issue with the service. (my ticket before that also was answered in 1 minute...)

Can I ask which iso you use ?

raindog308 · December 2020

Everything I ordered for BF has now been provisioned and is working fine and is ansiblized. rsyncs inbound!

For the 3TB one, I had to login with ISO, mklabel gpt, and then do a manual install from iso but that was easy enough. I wish Debian was smart enough to do that as part of their install but that's a separate non-HH issue.

I did find a few display bugs in HostHatch's panel (working with it a lot over the last couple days) but nothing that stopped something from working.

Overall, got what I paid for.

yolo_me · December 2020

big boss @hosthatch, you guys will eventually adjust the renewal dates right or do we need to file a ticket? I'm especially asking for the 240$ 10TB that I know is good for two years but right now is labelled as 1 year. Thanks.

yolo_me · December 2020

@raindog308 said:
Everything I ordered for BF has now been provisioned and is working fine and is ansiblized. rsyncs inbound!

For the 3TB one, I had to login with ISO, mklabel gpt, and then do a manual install from iso but that was easy enough. I wish Debian was smart enough to do that as part of their install but that's a separate non-HH issue.

I did find a few display bugs in HostHatch's panel (working with it a lot over the last couple days) but nothing that stopped something from working.

Overall, got what I paid for.

got mine too. Are you seeing 2.88TB when doing "df -h" or 3TB?

Thanks

hosthatch · December 2020

@raindog308 said:
Everything I ordered for BF has now been provisioned

Looking forward to 20 tickets in the next hour asking why their server is not provisioned yet /s

I did find a few display bugs in HostHatch's panel (working with it a lot over the last couple days) but nothing that stopped something from working.

definitely things we need to improve on that part, no arguments there

@yolo_me said: big boss @hosthatch, you guys will eventually adjust the renewal dates right or do we need to file a ticket? I'm especially asking for the 240$ 10TB that I know is good for two years but right now is labelled as 1 year. Thanks.

We'll get to it in the next few days when we recheck everything

raindog308 · December 2020


/dev/vda2       2.9T  1.3G  2.8T   1% /

Yeah, I went lazy and used the installer's default "put it all in one partition" mode.

Bani991 · December 2020

Hello, I want to merge the two VPS in my account. Can you check it for me? Ticket ID:587646

Tsuyo · December 2020

@raindog308 said:
Everything I ordered for BF has now been provisioned and is working fine and is ansiblized. rsyncs inbound!

For the 3TB one, I had to login with ISO, mklabel gpt, and then do a manual install from iso but that was easy enough. I wish Debian was smart enough to do that as part of their install but that's a separate non-HH issue.

I did find a few display bugs in HostHatch's panel (working with it a lot over the last couple days) but nothing that stopped something from working.

Overall, got what I paid for.

The 3TB ones and larger can be booted via a GPT partition, you can use the GParted Live ISO for that. Make a gpt disk label, and use gdisk in the shell to make a 1MB partition with partition code EF02. Then you can partition the rest the way you want it. When you install Debian via the ISO, then it will be detected. This way you can keep using the BIOS style of booting.

yolo_me · December 2020

@Bani991 said:
Hello, I want to merge the two VPS in my account. Can you check it for me? Ticket ID:587646

don't think that's possible. Depends on the order.

tridinebandim · December 2020

ok seafile guys, now post how did you managed to activate webdav with nginx ?

randomq · December 2020

@Unixfy said:
I get a little adrenaline rush every time Gmail notifies me for a new email

If that happened with my Gmail I'd be dead!

Bani991 · December 2020

@yolo_me said:

@Bani991 said:
Hello, I want to merge the two VPS in my account. Can you check it for me? Ticket ID:587646

don't think that's possible. Depends on the order.

Before that, they replied that they could do this, but they needed to add a little money. I agreed, but they didn't reply to me

Daniel15 · December 2020

@yolo_me said: got mine too. Are you seeing 2.88TB when doing "df -h" or 3TB?

I've got a 2 TB and df -h shows 2 TB:

root@chi01:~# df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/vda1       2.0T  141G  1.7T   8% /

It's possible it's rounding it up though. fdisk -l shows the disk as 1.95 TiB, and I created a 1 GB swap partition.

@MagicalTrain said: Had issues with mounting an ISO

Yeah it seems like this part of the control panel is very flaky. I have to mount the ISO several times before it actually works properly. The Debian 10 netinst ISO didn't mount properly at all (even after 4 attempts) so I instead uploaded a Debian 10 ISO, and that worked fine on the second mount. Changing the boot order didn't work the first time either; I had to do it twice before it worked properly. I shut down the server, changed the boot order to ISO only, and started it again, but it still booted from the hard drive.

arda · December 2020

@tridinebandim said:
ok seafile guys, now post how did you managed to activate webdav with nginx ?

Docs include the /seafdav webdav nginx example

https://seafile.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation/reverseproxy-webserver/#configuring-the-server-for-using-nginx

This was my production nginx config part, I had also enabled webdav through its configuration and changed the port and the path etc. . Nothing fancy, it's just like the documentation:

 location /ardav {
    proxy_pass         http://127.0.0.1:8191/ardav;
    proxy_set_header   Host $host;
    proxy_set_header   X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
    proxy_set_header   X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
    proxy_set_header   X-Forwarded-Host $server_name;
    proxy_set_header   X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;

    client_max_body_size 0;
    proxy_connect_timeout  36000s;
    proxy_read_timeout  36000s;
    proxy_send_timeout  36000s;
    send_timeout  36000s;

    # This option is only available for Nginx >= 1.8.0. See more details below.
    proxy_request_buffering off;

    access_log      off; # /var/log/nginx/seafdav.access.log;
    error_log       off; # /var/log/nginx/seafdav.error.log;
  }

default · December 2020

More customers start being happy... Cheers @hosthatch

raindog308 · December 2020

@Tsuyo said: The 3TB ones and larger can be booted via a GPT partition, you can use the GParted Live ISO for that. Make a gpt disk label, and use gdisk in the shell to make a 1MB partition with partition code EF02. Then you can partition the rest the way you want it. When you install Debian via the ISO, then it will be detected. This way you can keep using the BIOS style of booting.

First time around I just fired up the Debian 10 netinst and it didn't like the default MSDOS label while partitioning. Unfortunately, I don't think Debian has a way out of this situation. I had to boot to rescue, mklabel gpt, and then restart the installer and all was fine.

Does the Deb installer have a shell-out? I probably could have done that. Been a while since I've ISO-installed a Linux VM to be honest.

tridinebandim · December 2020

@arda said: Nothing fancy

did you change fastcgi to true in seafdav.conf?

@arda said: the port

your server listening 8191 port? netstat -plant

i did restart seafile and nginx but server not listneing 8080, so i get error

Daniel15 · December 2020

@raindog308 said: Does the Deb installer have a shell-out?

It's been a while since I've done this, but if I remember correctly Ctrl+Alt+F2 will get you a standard terminal shell, and it's one of the other F-keys (Ctrl+Alt+F1 I think, or Ctrl+Alt+F5 if you're using the graphical installer) to go back into the installer. Detailed install logs are in one of the other virtual terminals too (F4 I think).

In the installer itself, there's also an option in the menu to open a shell. Once you exit that shell, it'll go back to the installer.

I'm not sure how much functionality is in that shell though, as I think it's a pretty barebones Busybox (or at least it used to be many years ago).

aj_potc · December 2020

@Tsuyo said:

The 3TB ones and larger can be booted via a GPT partition, you can use the GParted Live ISO for that. Make a gpt disk label, and use gdisk in the shell to make a 1MB partition with partition code EF02. Then you can partition the rest the way you want it. When you install Debian via the ISO, then it will be detected. This way you can keep using the BIOS style of booting.

With CentOS, I use their graphical installer to create a 1 MB partition called /biosboot and set it to type "BIOS boot." I'm not sure if that counts as a GPT-based partitioning scheme, but this seems to be the only way those systems can address more than 2 TB of space. It sounds similar to what you're doing, so I assume both OSes handle it pretty much the same way.

tetech · December 2020

@aj_potc said:

@Tsuyo said:

The 3TB ones and larger can be booted via a GPT partition, you can use the GParted Live ISO for that. Make a gpt disk label, and use gdisk in the shell to make a 1MB partition with partition code EF02. Then you can partition the rest the way you want it. When you install Debian via the ISO, then it will be detected. This way you can keep using the BIOS style of booting.

With CentOS, I use their graphical installer to create a 1 MB partition called /biosboot and set it to type "BIOS boot." I'm not sure if that counts as a GPT-based partitioning scheme, but this seems to be the only way those systems can address more than 2 TB of space. It sounds similar to what you're doing, so I assume both OSes handle it pretty much the same way.

You can use dracut to do a hot repartition from the template if you have trouble with ISO.

tetech · December 2020

@Bani991 said:

@yolo_me said:

@Bani991 said:
Hello, I want to merge the two VPS in my account. Can you check it for me? Ticket ID:587646

don't think that's possible. Depends on the order.

Before that, they replied that they could do this, but they needed to add a little money. I agreed, but they didn't reply to me

Be patient and do not expect a reply until all other VPS are deployed. They are queued in front of you.

plumberg · December 2020

How much actual usable space one gets from the 10tb ?

saibal · December 2020

@Daniel15 said: It's been a while since I've done this, but if I remember correctly Ctrl+Alt+F2 will get you a standard terminal shell, and it's one of the other F-keys (Ctrl+Alt+F1 I think, or Ctrl+Alt+F5 if you're using the graphical installer) to go back into the installer. Detailed install logs are in one of the other virtual terminals too (F4 I think).

Exactly these key combos. Somehow I managed to delete some files from the Debian Xfce install on my laptop last evening and the login menu would not show - just a blue screen. Some Googling got me the exact key combos to jump into the shell and reinstall Xfce.

Daniel15 · December 2020

@saibal said:

@Daniel15 said: It's been a while since I've done this, but if I remember correctly Ctrl+Alt+F2 will get you a standard terminal shell, and it's one of the other F-keys (Ctrl+Alt+F1 I think, or Ctrl+Alt+F5 if you're using the graphical installer) to go back into the installer. Detailed install logs are in one of the other virtual terminals too (F4 I think).

Exactly these key combos. Somehow I managed to delete some files from the Debian Xfce install on my laptop last evening and the login menu would not show - just a blue screen. Some Googling got me the exact key combos to jump into the shell and reinstall Xfce.

Haha I'm glad I got the key combos right; it's probably been 10 years since I've used them 😅

hosthatch · December 2020

@plumberg said:
How much actual usable space one gets from the 10tb ?

10 TB is the usable space.

It is not the same as 10 TB on a dedicated server with your own hard drive, where you get ~9 TB usable.

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