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My first ever server in ... 199cough ... had a crash. I was still learning, so I managed to rebuild the area. After three weeks, I gave up.
Since that time, I planned on never rebuilding a RAID area and just copying the data elsewhere, then restarting with a clean, empty RAID. For some reason, I have not experienced disk failures since then—touching wood.
Storage is cheap and IMO it doesn’t make any sense to use anything but mirroring. I do data storage consulting for a living and from HA/FT pov it’s cheaper and faster to provide node-level redundancy with replication of sorts. Performance and recovery time penalty of raid rebuild is just ridiculous. It make sense in some environments but generally no
Thank you for the recommendation.
I was asking, because I was wondering what to do with 3 disks on the KS-LE-1.
How much for this?
They ask for RAID-5, obviously (need even number of disks for RAID-10, at least 4).
But, due to disk age, the advice I have given, to put all three in a RAID-1 mirror is still on the table. If you really care about data on them.
Finally, if you're an alpha male, RAID-0 of course, YOLO.
Depends on what you want and how much do you care about data.
On my current servers I did RAID0 stripe because they run small swarm cluster with network storage and my backups are spread around the globe: homelab, ovh, wasabi with “anti-ransomware mode” (fancy name for versioning). Plus day-to-day stuff in iCloud since I’m a tim apple fanboy
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Many years ago I had to order my first dedicated server in writing
(hisses from dungeon: rclone)
I received my second RISE-LE-1 in LIM today.
No hardware upgrade, but apparently the network has.
YABS:
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Yet-Another-Bench-Script
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Wed Nov 27 23:31:31 UTC 2024
Basic System Information:
Uptime : 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes
Processor : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2689 v4 @ 3.10GHz
CPU cores : 20 @ 3800.000 MHz
AES-NI : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM : 62.7 GiB
Swap : 2.0 GiB
Disk : 1.7 TiB
Distro : Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Kernel : 6.8.12-4-pve
VM Type : NONE
IPv4/IPv6 : ✔ Online / ✔ Online
IPv6 Network Information:
ISP : OVH SAS
ASN : AS16276 OVH SAS
Host : OVH GmbH
Location : Saarbrücken, Saarland (SL)
Country : Germany
fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/md3):
Block Size | 4k (IOPS) | 64k (IOPS)
------ | --- ---- | ---- ----
Read | 497.59 MB/s (124.3k) | 1.23 GB/s (19.3k)
Write | 498.91 MB/s (124.7k) | 1.24 GB/s (19.4k)
Total | 996.50 MB/s (249.1k) | 2.48 GB/s (38.8k)
| |
Block Size | 512k (IOPS) | 1m (IOPS)
------ | --- ---- | ---- ----
Read | 1.22 GB/s (2.3k) | 1.27 GB/s (1.2k)
Write | 1.28 GB/s (2.5k) | 1.35 GB/s (1.3k)
Total | 2.51 GB/s (4.9k) | 2.63 GB/s (2.5k)
iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv6):
Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
Test | Value
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Single Core | 1215
Multi Core | 7263
Full Test | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/9108810
YABS completed in 13 min 19 sec
Thanks to @yopp for the Telegram channel. Without it, I would not have been able to get the 2 servers.
Is anyone interested in a KS-LE-C in RBX6?
Just got an upgrade from RAM 32GB -> 64GB
YABS: https://pastebin.com/sz78uDfy
smartctl -a /dev/sda:
https://pastebin.com/aCF4FyP9
smartctl -a /dev/sdb
https://pastebin.com/V8JyXeFD
Would sell it for 15.99€ (incl. german taxes) via PayPal.
Runs until 06.12. Renewal 15.99€ incl. german tax
OVH EU/German Account.
Holy 10Gbps up/down
Received shipment of an order for a KS-LE-E SSD, unfortunately no upgrades!
KS-LE-1 BHS up for grabs if anyone is interested (CA account). Renewal on 21 Dec. Looking for set up fee + remaining term ($20). Renews at $11.99/month.
Specs:
Doesn't come with ipmi I guess?
Nope - probably from LE-2 and above 😌
Will take it if still available - PMing you.
Do you test ipv6 for KS on BHS ?
Im testing with intermittend packet loss over ipv6, and hetrixtools alerts are a lot.
Im not sure that its only me or network ( im using ndppd )
Some idea?
i have plan to purchase a sys or rise plan, how to test the server health? disk? what is the best way to review the performance, speed, hardware configuration?
performance: geekbench 5/6 (yabs)
speed: speedtest, yabs
hardware: lspci, lshw, dmidecode
disk: smartctl, fio (yabs)
That's what i was looking for. Thank you.
They absolutely are. OVH clearly will cut them off once they aren’t worth it.
Whilst you can expand and just build more data centres, and the old ones are still profitable enough, then keeping the cheap tiers going makes sense. The infrastructure is paid for, the operational aspects are well known.
Eventually, the cost/benefit of closing down those services and rebuilding a DC for new hardware makes sense. That’s when you cull the cheap tiers, and move them onto the next server retirement village.
Well there are few points. First, they don't need bot grabbers to sell their dirt cheap servers. It's not like they wouldn't be able to sell their 5 buck per month server without help of API orders via bots. More expensive deals, no one cares, people always goes for the cheapest servers. So I doubt they are grateful with the bot orders.
Second, it's the sheer amount of people returning the mass ordered servers and getting a full refund including installation fee. So, a person could order 50 KS-LE-A, pick the lottery ones, and refund the remaining 45 servers, with paying only 5 servers. On the other hand, you need human workforce to process these refund requests, via tickets, it's not automated process. And then someone has to return these servers back to stock, not physically of course but I doubt they have automated system (considering they can't even manage their stocks properly).
Third and the worst, people are buying the servers from market price, then selling them for a profit. I would imagine that would be the worst thing as it's pure scalping. And then these people request their servers to get transferred to new owner's account, which means more work force spent for nothing.
Fourth, imagine your "Black Friday" stocks already run out, even before you managed to announce them, that wouldn't be a good image. When they announced LE-1-5 series, it was gone from their stocks in 3-4 hours. Which was working hours for most people in Europe, so plenty of people didn't even get a chance to see those deals.
And lastly, I am not a marketing person, but I believe, getting new customers via cheap servers would be more profitable than your current customers buying more servers. As it's always hard to gain new customers. These deals bring in new customers, which then they get a chance to sell more things "domains, plenty of paid services in dashboard, other servers". Personally, I knew about OVH, but I got to be their customer with their Black Friday 2022 deals, otherwise their servers would be too expensive for me for idling.
Long story short, I doubt they will get any solid solutions for people buying with bot. But even limiting opportunity of servers being transferred between accounts would make this less appealing for most people.
Ok - So, a long overdue KS-2 that I had ordered over 3 week ago was finally delivered today. Had completely forgot about it.
Location: BHS
OVH Subsidiary: World/ $/ CA
Upgraded CPU: Intel Xeon-D 1541
Disks: 4x2TB
Network: 300 up/ 10gbps down
Renewal: $21.10
Do not have any need for it now. Willing to offer at cost
Ask price: $42.20 (includes setup) + PayPal Txn Fees (Goods n Services)
DM if interested.
Yabs:
Server transferred to @Riz
Quick and Pain free.
Thanks @plumberg and @muffin
I'm looking for a KS-LE-1 in C, please let me know
, he's asking 40$, for 23$ server. Such a greedy scalper , we should nvr buy from such scalper
KS-A orders aren't dead yet... maybe.. just maybe...
A few of my KS-LE-E hard drive orders were sent an email a few days ago indicating that they were cancelled and refunded, but it's been a few days and the orders are still pending and no refunds have been issued, will they still be shipped in this case?
I've seen one of my orders get delivered after receiving the cancellation email. I have seen a half dozen others here report the same. If you want any chance then don't demand a refund and let them hold payment until its returned to you.
You could've asked for the price here if you already have one and wanted the drama! Banks and PayPal fees are around 25% of this price in my country and I could've easily asked for a refund from OVH. I was actually going to post it in a separate service transfer post.