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Is MassiveGRID good?
JoseTenggren
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Is MassiveGRID good? I saw it is very cheap and want to use it to set up a VPN.
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https://lowendtalk.com/search?Search=MassiveGRID
Very fast way to collect feedback is to use search
Considering the search speed of LET, I wouldnt call it very fast
Still faster than first reply in this thread
But I think I really should've used google search link instead...
careful too many people using this is effectively a ddos attack
At least it will attract administration attention to the existing problem
https://google.com/search?q=%22MassiveGRID%22%20site:%22lowendtalk.com%22
"MassiveGRID" site:"lowendtalk.com"In case anyone doesn't know how to search a specific site
No
My opinion: no, it’s not good.
I have 2 VPS’s with them in different regions, they very regularly go offline, there’s constant CPU steal, they’re definitely not “highly available” (as they claim to be), and whatever home made plug-in they’re using in WHMCS to communicate with proxmox is extremely slow.
Spend a little more and get a much more reliable service with a better liked provider, it’ll be worth it.
No!
I have one VDS (not really cheap btw) and 2 VPS in different locations. All of them are utterly crappy.
(But their support is relative quick and good).
Quick cuz it's powered by ChatGPT. They don't seem to even check what they answer to the client, just a straight copy and paste.
London has a shit ton of network issues. Rest locs are fine
I wasn't talking about "general notices" but (the few) tickets I sent and got quite decent (useful) responses quickly.
Re network maybe, but my DE server is utter crap (just like the UK one). They seem to do something because from time to time it changes which one is worse or, if I'm really lucky, which one is almost usable.
I have DE and NY (moved from London) and they're more or less fine.
I'm using them strictly for dns resolvers, vpn endpoints, socks5 etc.
NY had some intermittent connectivity problems earlier today but cleared up after a couple hours.
The control panel is definitely tedious to use so I try not to.
Support has been very good, perhaps better than the services themselves :P
I'm showing 99.81% availability in DE past 30 days, 99.71% for NY.
edit: these are the lowest tier units, the ones they were offering a free year if you paid for 3 though i only went annual.
no!
The GRID in MassiveGRID stands for CPU Steal.
Did they ever get IPv6?
I don't know, I've stopped thinking about it, and their post on LET is closed.
It looks pretty good so far.
10 days have passed and it's still not resolved
State of things.
A miracle happened! I actually could run a complete benchmark run within less than a full day on my DE VPS.
The proc & mem result is even decent at a bit over 200 MB/s, crypto results are mediocre but that's just due to the Xeon E5v4.
The disk results are crappy, less than 2 MB/s and less than 500 IOps. In the second run the result was just a bit over half of that, YUCK!
And connectivity is a mixed bag. The targets that are reachable show quite decent results, but most targets don't work at all.
Uptime btw is over two months.
Now to my UK VDS.
The proc & mem result again is even decent at a bit over 200 MB/s, crypto results are mediocre but that's just due to the Xeon E5v4. Which is disappointing insofar as MG made us believe that in London we'd get a Scalable Gold.
The disk is a mixed bag. On one hand some 4KB read tests completely failed ("disk seems to be flaky"), on the other hand the 4k/4t results is much better than on the VPS: almost 7 MB/s and solidly over 1500 IOps. Per se not really good but for a MG VM excellent ... for basically all Asia and America targets.
Again, this is a VDS (which probably means that the HWTs are somewhat less excessively occupied that is, something like "only" 3 or 4 sold vCores per HWT instead of 6 or 8) at about three to four times the price of their VPS.
TL;DR In the beginning the VDS was decent but it seems as soon as the nodes got fully occupied - or should I say crammed? - it turned into kind of a shit-box so typical for @MassiveGRID
My recommendation: stay away!
Correction:
Vanilla seems to have eaten part of my post. At the end of the paragraph beginning with "The disk is a mixed bag" towards the end a piece is missing (before "for basically all Asia and America targets") re connectivity. It should actually read:
Connectiviy also is a mixed bag. On one hand connectivity within Europe is quite good but it completely fails for basically all Asia and America targets.