A small thank you to SecureDragon.net and @KuJoe, sharing experience

BoGs · February 2012

I have been a long time lurker I come from more "well" known companies, I ran vps there and did not need all the flash. I am looking to get something setup personally to be able to stream US content mostly. I was a bit skeptical about the ordering of a VPS for one year on $25 (XEN), well WTF worst case I have lost my money. It is not the case, I setup openvpn on the server and have been using it for the last 2 weeks and it is AWESOME fast! (hope it keeps up when more people populate the node... looking @KuJoe )

This weekend I had hard drive failure at home and setup myself for Tarsnap backups, and started doing backups of personal stuff ( total 5gb ) it was running for 2 days and still going. I checked my Linux graphs and my ISP was throttling my connection to 10KB/sec, I stopped that as soon as I saw and then connected to my openvpn and bam maxing my ISP connection. I am amazed, did not expect.

I will check back in 6months from now, but keep up the good work.

Mon5t3r · February 2012

No one can beat Dragon Spirit.. :P

thanks for your review..

Infinity · February 2012

I've had good experiences with @KuJoe's services. They're great.

luma · February 2012

Yep SecureDragon rocks.

You can tell he takes pride in his work and that he is not just after a few dollars. He actually cares that his machines run well and that his customers are happy and actually understands that happy customers = more money down the road anyways.

RaidLogic · February 2012

Great review, what spec's do they offer for 25$ a year?

darkconz · February 2012

I just got their $25/yr offer. It got me 128MB Xen PV.

KuJoe · February 2012

Thanks for all of the feedback. We've been putting a lot of time and resources into SD and I'm glad it's being noticed.

NickM · February 2012

I sometimes forget that I have a SecureDragon VPS because I never get alerts about it being down or having any other kind of problem.

KuJoe · February 2012

@NickM If you want I can setup a cronjob to remind you... :P

dmmcintyre3 · February 2012

@NickM said: I sometimes forget that I have a SecureDragon VPS because I never get alerts about it being down or having any other kind of problem.

I have the opposite problem, it alerts me about my other VPSs being down.

dancom96 · February 2012

Are there any IO/network/GeekBench benchmarks for SecureDragon? Need to find a replacement for my AlienVPS since I can't live with 50% uptime

Christian · February 2012

SecureDragon is great, can just recommend!

dmmcintyre3 · February 2012

@dancom96 said: Are there any IO/network/GeekBench benchmarks for SecureDragon?

OpenVZ: http://freevps.us/thread-3912.html
Xen:

===== IOPing to directory =====
ioping . -c 10;ioping /dev/xvda1 -c 10
4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/xvda1): request=1 time=0.1 ms
4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/xvda1): request=2 time=0.3 ms
4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/xvda1): request=3 time=0.2 ms
4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/xvda1): request=4 time=0.3 ms
4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/xvda1): request=5 time=0.5 ms
4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/xvda1): request=6 time=0.2 ms
4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/xvda1): request=7 time=0.2 ms
4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/xvda1): request=8 time=0.3 ms
4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/xvda1): request=9 time=0.3 ms
4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/xvda1): request=10 time=0.3 ms

--- . (ext3 /dev/xvda1) ioping statistics ---
10 requests completed in 9004.6 ms, 3618 iops, 14.1 mb/s
min/avg/max/mdev = 0.1/0.3/0.5/0.1 ms
===== IOPing to device file: =====
4096 bytes from /dev/xvda1 (device 4.0 Gb): request=1 time=9.8 ms
4096 bytes from /dev/xvda1 (device 4.0 Gb): request=2 time=17.9 ms
4096 bytes from /dev/xvda1 (device 4.0 Gb): request=3 time=29.3 ms
4096 bytes from /dev/xvda1 (device 4.0 Gb): request=4 time=6.2 ms
4096 bytes from /dev/xvda1 (device 4.0 Gb): request=5 time=21.3 ms
4096 bytes from /dev/xvda1 (device 4.0 Gb): request=6 time=10.9 ms
4096 bytes from /dev/xvda1 (device 4.0 Gb): request=7 time=9.5 ms
4096 bytes from /dev/xvda1 (device 4.0 Gb): request=8 time=6.4 ms
4096 bytes from /dev/xvda1 (device 4.0 Gb): request=9 time=45.6 ms
4096 bytes from /dev/xvda1 (device 4.0 Gb): request=10 time=12.0 ms

--- /dev/xvda1 (device 4.0 Gb) ioping statistics ---
10 requests completed in 9170.7 ms, 59 iops, 0.2 mb/s
min/avg/max/mdev = 6.2/16.9/45.6/11.8 ms

===== General tests =====
CPU model :  Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           E5345  @ 2.33GHz
Number of cores : 2
CPU frequency :  2327.524 MHz
Total amount of ram : 115 MB
Total amount of swap : 255 MB
System uptime :   21:16,       
Download speed from CacheFly: 34.9MB/s 
Download speed from Linode, Atlanta GA: 36.1MB/s 
Download speed from Linode, Dallas, TX: 8.95MB/s 
Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 4.74MB/s 
Download speed from Linode, London, UK: 9.82MB/s 
Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 9.04MB/s 
Download speed from Softlayer, Singapore: 3.29MB/s 
Download speed from Softlayer, Seattle, WA: 10.3MB/s 
Download speed from Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 9.09MB/s 
Download speed from Softlayer, Washington, DC: 20.2MB/s 
I/O speed :  94.8 MB/s

yomero · February 2012

And for CPU, I have this one

Geekbench 2.1 because the new fails XD http://browse.geekbench.ca/geekbench2/564628

Is perfectly fine, I am hosting some websites. Was thinking in a gameserver but is a little bit laggy at times (long history, related to cronjobs mostly).

But for most normal uses is perfect and stable