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All 3 locations from this offer are on Equinix datacenters?
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Wow! my wallet is hurt
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Already?! In 39 days will be Black Friday. Will you have time to make your wallet feel better until then?
Hello,
Is it possible to upgrade to the next plan retaining the offer price ??
Such as buying 1 vCore XEON - 1 GB RAM - 32 GB H/A SSD & upgrading later to 1 vCore XEON - 2 GB RAM - 32 GB H/A SSD or 2 vCore XEON - 4 GB RAM - 128 GB H/A SSD ??
Just read the thread
@YanamiAnna said:
The FOURTH is with YOU!
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Done!
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The FOURTH is with YOU!
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I did. Perfectly fine as you can see, you can reach up to 2k iops (read/write combined) on small blocksizes or up to 300MB/s on sequential stuff (large blocksize)
If you don't understand how disk performance works and IOps vs MBs are related, better don't play judge of it 😉
In comparison a single harddrive used to offer up to about 200 iops in 4k and maybe 200MBs sequential. Of course only roughly and dependant on the model and so on.
Still this virtual disk offers quite some more performance.
Are there lot of offers from other providers that don't limit and spoil users with cached nvme in large raids. Of course. Are those available at this price point combined with the other ressources, no.
Just saying. There might be a lot "suspicious" about this whole thing.
The price/performance just is not it. Including the disk.
I bought one 1c/2G like @jsg just because.
So far it's usable. Not the fastest VM I have nor the slowest. And because of the set limits and stuff I am actually even more convinced this provider actually has some idea about what he is doing, instead of diving blindly into the lowend abyss.
Doesn't mean I trust it will uphold the whole distance. I do love some good drama. But lets try to be fair. Disk is mediocre. Nothing more, nothing less. If need be, reach out and ask them to raise the limits.
NY & Frankfurt are Equinix also the rest planned locations will all be Equinix as well.
It is listed
Order Number: 4394672389
Please extend for 4th year and price locking.
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@MassiveGRID any plan for west coast?
Order Number: 4562269800
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Yes, I was tempted by this fantastic offer, but I already have 2 VPS idling, so I decided to wait until Black Friday.
"Too good to be true" was my first thought too. Yet only time will tell, I hope we will be proved wrong in 2028.
I think @ascicode meant that London wasn't listed to be Equinix on the order form
That's why I don't do what many do. It just happens too often that "nice" but fairy tale numbers come out. Same with iperf, the problem being that hardly anyone really uses icmp all day long and, to top it off, to provider/carrier/etc. "sponsored" target servers ...
And the list goes on. Maybe I'm irritating some people who consider me too skeptical but the truth is that with at least way too many companies (carriers, providers, etc.) the game is "sell! sell! sell!" plus "who cares how? As long as sales come in everything - incl. trickery of all sorts - is OK".
My approach is quite different. I wanna know real world performance, I wanna know how much data I can move per second with the kind of usage that is normal, how many IOps I can really achieve, etc.
I know that benchmarking more often than not can't be really fair. For example, of bloody course everyone and their dog benchmark the crap out of their new VPS, ergo when I do so, too, what I benchmark isn't a node with normal everyday usage but a node under heavy stress. On the other hand my benchmark makes small pauses in between slices of work to be a "good neighbour".
Whatever, tell me that my VPS which I measured having a bit over 200 IOps actually (on a good day without lots of people torturing the disk) actually has 300, hell, even 400, I'll let it pass - but telling me about 1000 IOps (or even more) is just plain BS in my eyes, sorry. I'm not saying that e.g. @Falzo is lying, no, I trust that he truthfully reports what fio or whatever showed to him, but I don't believe for one second that those numbers reflect the reality. And the fact that quite a few of these tools report "combined" numbers (e.g. read and write disk) confirms my take, because like it or not, disk either read or write at any given moment, so I take such numbers to be "number porn" fairy tales.
Btw, many also seem to over-estimate the influence of "everyone and his dog running a benchmark". I see that as latency vs. throughput - and both at the end of the day boil down to the same ("closely related") and most importantly not changing wrt a drive. You see, a drive can do x reads, y writes per second and, seen from the disk, everything is done in sectors (which btw on modern disks aren't 512 bytes anymore. It's the OS (and possibly, when used, the controller) that creates the impression that one can read or write say, 1 MB blocks. The true reason for those to be faster is sectors distance or in other words, less moving the going to some sector and hence more "payload" throughput.
So, the actual effect of "everyone and his dog running a benchmark" simply is a kind of supply and demand situation, with demand much higher than supply and hence some slowdown but certainly not by a factor 5. Don't under-estimate how smart and optimized OSs nowadays are!
TL;DR I don't care a flying fuck about these or those "theoretical" (in my view) numbers. What I care about and try to measure is what a customer/user that is, we(!), can realistically Expect from a given VPS.
Also: NO provider can do miracles! There's only so much you can offer or get for about 12$ per year. Simple as that. And everyone on LET would be well advised to keep that fact in mind!
IMO we do get a not-bad-at-all deal from @MassiveGRID but they too have to at least break even and hence to cut some corners.
wow
The FOURTH is with YOU!
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Yeah, we comply with the law
The special offer pricing has been locked for your service and for any upgrades, for life!
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Thanks @Falzo
Your opinion and feedback is much appreciated.
Order number: 8582941293
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@MassiveGRID
Order Number: 4466899701
Thank you.
Thank god someone on here understands latency vs throughput
The disk really does achieve the limit of 1000 IOPS in a long term latency test via ioping, none of the fully loaded throughput-centric fio/yabs bullshit
I read the thread out of curiosity and I am confused. Several people have reported that they had to use the same password to access their servers. How is that not a red flag? I am surprised to see that many orders, if they are all real.
Congrats to @MassiveGRID though, the first offer is definitely a shocker
Really? For a sub 0.50/mo offer when paid every 4 years WITH an IPv4?
Surprised due to the password issue, regardless of the price