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Congratulations for getting your provider tag 😊
Hey! You can find here our regular deals: https://signaltransmitter.de/en/ssd-lxc-vserver if you're willing to pay for a year, you get one month for free
Currently we're using a combination between WanGuard and Arbor Sightline as DDoS Protection.
The largest attack we've filtered was 500 Gbps atm.. Currently we've 4 employees.. 2 in the support, 1 in the second level and 1 in the development.
https://signaltransmitter.de/en/datacenter is outdated.
upstreams are cogent, telia, gtt, dtag, tng and ghostnet. ix bcix and kleyrex
why are tor relays not allowed?
If my server should find itself under attack by a swarm of MJJs or an angry weasel, will your ddos protection be adequate to defend against the attacks and eliminate the attacker(s)?
I need to know that the system will 'take the track' if needed.
I guess being able to cope with 400 Gb/s attacks should do the trick.
You underestimate weasel and his ill fanatizm.
400 Gb/s would be expected, like passing MaxQ in a launch.
This. Soooo much this. He's fucking insane in the membrane. I think that the wrath of millions of angry MJJs couldn't match the PMS-fueled mega-rage of the angry weasel.
Any HDD storage vps BF offer?
@sthosting which services you offer are in aixit and/or first-colo?
Hi, in the control panel for the KVM it has the backups icon, does it have any functionality?
We will update the Site soon. Relays are not permitted because we've a lot of clearing situations with abuse-reports..
It could be.. It depends on attack pattern. I can't say any details about our filter template.
Not planed yet, but we've HDD Storage VPS Capacities. You can write a ticket with your requirements if you want
It depends on which generation your VPS is running. Our Intel Hostsystem Generation (mentioned in a post before) is in the aixit datacenter. The Threadripper Host-Systems are in the first-colo. All further Host-Systems will be placed in the first-colo.
Sure. We will backup all our customer systems periodically (2 times per week, depends on which hostsystem your server is deployed) - Over the "backup-icon" you've the option to restore a backup.
Come on, nobody cares about "could work" protection. So, leaving aside exotic or high end TAO attacks, does your DDOS protection protect or does it not?
Volume-wise ("handled/mitigated 400 Gb/s attack") it sounds good. But still, people want a simple "does work" or "no, unfortunately does not work" answer and not a vague "could be".
Your "tone" is attacking. Calm down. Company is small, they don't have entire NOC to deal with the problem outside standard. Simple:
One attack pattern would be approximately 10 million simultaneous Chinese IPs trying to visit my site repeatedly.
The other likely attack pattern would be a psychotic lunatic who will do virtually anything random you could think of as an attack.
I hope I made it just a tiny bit clearer for you.
Are you that famous on HostLoc already?
MJJs have a love/hate relationship with me, so I need to prepare for both eventualities.
Sorry if I hurt the feelings of woke snowflakes who may find even a friendly "good morning" somehow offensive.
Hehe you didn't hurt any feelings - We've several customers, we've designed a customized permanent mitigation template, which are really good protected. But when a huge carpet bomb is incomming, the best DDoS Protection will get to its limits..
The important thing that you need to know is, that we're maintaining the DDoS Solution (in the aixit aswell in the first-colo datacenter) by ourself. So we've the possibility to adjust it in case of an attack.
You got me in the first half, but then ... i checked a bit the specs of all packages and think the special deals arent comparable with standard deals, cause you sell storage, that could be in regular packages useful than overloaded RAM + CPU. That makes it worse for future buyers. Specially the configurator is a pain.
The configurator comes from a time when we were a bit more flexible for unusual requests. We will soon reorganize our portfolio and prices after the black friday...
Because of the storage space, we have purchased new systems that have a little more capacity available, so that we do not get into these bottlenecks.
ST-hosting / @sthosting was friendly enough to provide a test-VM to me, namely their KVM BF promo "BF2021 KVM Gold". Thank you, sthosting!
Unfortunately this review is based on only about 40 result sets but as the VM is a BF promo it seems sensible to post the review before BF.
Here you go
First a quick remark re. the benchmark version I used. It's the new v. 2.5.0 that offers extended processor testing by doing two typical OpenSSL operations, AES 128 CBC and RSA 1024 key pair generation. I know, I know, nowadays min. 2048 bit keys are recommended but depending on the hardware that is tested the benchmark runs already take long enough and it's easy enough to derive the speed for RSA 2k: simply divide the result by 4 and you'll be close enough.
Anyway, I like those 2 new tests a lot, AES simply because it's one of the most used algorithms and generally a good indicator (in terms of crypto speed) and RSA keypair generation because, well, generating key pairs (a private and a public key) happens to be the most (compute) expensive part of RSA, plus I found (by testing on diverse systems) that it's a very useful indicator of a system's speed.
Now to the tested system ...
The Threadripper (of bloody course) supports AES hardware support as well as hardware RNG support - but that system also supports nested virtualization! Nice.
Otherwise the processor and memory config of the promo offer is, uhm, not overwhelming. Don't get me wrong, it works fine but the numbers are quite a bit lower than what I usually see with Epycs, let alone Ryzens. But they still are way higher than what we often get to see here e.g. with 26xx v2, plus it does multi-core quite well; usually the multi-core numbers with 2 vCores are about 2 times those of single-core at best but this machine somehow manages to achieve significantly better results. And also the crypto tests show very nice results, better than my (quite new and fast) Ryzen system with decent RAM, kudos for that!
Not really much to say about the SSD drive other than that it's quite fast. IOPS north of 4000 and seq. writing speeds (4k, 4 threads) north of 15 are closer to NVMe territory than to SSD.
Unless your use case requires the highest possible disk speed an NVMe based system will serve you better but for all other use cases this system won't disappoint you; those SSDs are really very decent.
The highlight though (IMO) is the connectivity ST can offer. Example: 70 Mb/s download speed from Los Angeles to Germany are something worth mentioning. The San Jose target show similar results and not a single failure (hint: that's one of the targets with usually plenty of failures). The other (and usually even worse) "choking" target (in Greece) does fail in about half of the benchmarks runs but the other half actually even has acceptable speed results (~ 80 Mb/s). Singapore and Brazil are about 50 Mb/s and Chennai, usually delivering rather poor results is in the 70ies. NYC even reaches over 130 Mb/s. Nice, really nice, that connectivity.
And yes, of bloody course the big European targets deliver excellent results, too, with usually north of 500 Mb/s and Frankfurt is even darn close to 1 Gb/s. Plus that great connectivity is anti-DDOS protected up to 1 Tb/s!
Summary: If a system with quite decent single-core and great multi-core and crypto performance, "only" a SSD but a rather fast one, and excellent connectivity matches your needs/projects/use cases then you should definitely get one of the "BF2021 KVM Gold". About €50 per year for such a VM is a good deal.
@jsg Thank you so much for your review! I appreciate your work!
ST-Hosting's services work well. Have had a number of VMs from ST-Hosting over the last 1+ year or so, and it has been reliable. Communication may not be the quickest, but there has not been many instances where support was needed.
been with inception for 3 years, looking for a change. so got the 4gb KVM. Have to say, so far i'm impressed.
Hoping to see a darn good deal for Black Friday Mr after this long post lol
Thank you for your feedback
Hehe we already got early Black Friday deals (link on my sig) but eventually there will be a surprise in the LET Black Friday megathread
I need kvm yabs
`root@3830c50d:~# curl -sL yabs.sh | bash
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Yet-Another-Bench-Script
v2021-10-09
https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script
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Fri 26 Nov 2021 06:30:42 PM UTC
Basic System Information:
Processor : AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 32-Core Processor
CPU cores : 4 @ 3693.062 MHz
AES-NI : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM : 3.9 GiB
Swap : 0.0 KiB
Disk : 98.4 GiB
fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):
iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed
| | |
Clouvider | London, UK (10G) | 929 Mbits/sec | 381 Mbits/sec
Online.net | Paris, FR (10G) | busy | busy
WorldStream | The Netherlands (10G) | busy | 434 Mbits/sec
WebHorizon | Singapore (1G) | 152 Mbits/sec | 126 Mbits/sec
Clouvider | NYC, NY, US (10G) | 884 Mbits/sec | 179 Mbits/sec
Velocity Online | Tallahassee, FL, US (10G) | 830 Mbits/sec | 93.8 Mbits/sec
Clouvider | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 823 Mbits/sec | 119 Mbits/sec
Iveloz Telecom | Sao Paulo, BR (2G) | 716 Mbits/sec | 127 Mbits/sec
iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv6):
Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed
| | |
Clouvider | London, UK (10G) | 914 Mbits/sec | 431 Mbits/sec
Online.net | Paris, FR (10G) | 917 Mbits/sec | busy
WorldStream | The Netherlands (10G) | 905 Mbits/sec | 490 Mbits/sec
WebHorizon | Singapore (1G) | 516 Mbits/sec | 225 Mbits/sec
Clouvider | NYC, NY, US (10G) | 869 Mbits/sec | 168 Mbits/sec
Clouvider | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 816 Mbits/sec | 144 Mbits/sec
Geekbench 5 Benchmark Test:
Test | Value
|
Single Core | 1352
Multi Core | 5042
Full Test | https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/11241929
root@3830c50d:~#
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