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Black Friday | CA/CAN/NL KVM VPS | Backups | IPv4/IPv6 | FREE Triple RAM + Disk Bonus | FREE Credit
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To add to this because I can no longer edit my comment:
I just realized the weirdness with my test, forgive my 'noobness' lol.
The swap test didn't seem to prove anything, although I didn't feel any slowdown when the ram was almost full. So I added sysbench, but then I realized sysbench doesn't fill the ram like stress-ng does.
I think the ram was not oversold, @VeloxMedia also stated about this in the past. Otherwise I wouldn't bother getting more than one vps with 'fake ram' from them, and this thread would be full of people complaining.
Of course it would be better if they made their resource utilization stats public, like some other providers here. But it's still nice to be able to verify the claims ourselves even without that. So I'm still curious if there is a way
@o_be_one I understand how you would look at this and think that however;
-Most of our nodes run at least 512GB RAM at minimum.
-We do not over provision our nodes, we simply have many and we limit the Triple ram offers per node.
-We do not allow Minecraft but you need to simply open a ticket and let us know because we use certain nodes for game servers, as Minecraft is CPU intensive this is why we do not allow it because CPUs are all fair share with what you have been allocated.
-So RAM is enjoyed at its full potential and we have many users who enjoy our services.
-All disk space is dedicated and not used as RAM.
Thank you
Lewis
Hello,
We do not allow Minecraft on our nodes because its very CPU intensive, but we do allow them and we simply move you node, to one that is used for game servers
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Invoice No.24497
It would be great if the bandwidth for the Canadian region could be upgraded.
Thank you for running some tests @hizzely
I have answered the person asking in another comment, we just have a lot of resources at hand.
Our minimum specs for California are:
Intel Silver 4214
512GB RAM DDR4
4 x 4TB NVMe Raid1
Intel Gold 6248
768GB RAM DDR4
4 x 2TB NVMe
2 x 4TB SSD
We also run quite a large infrastructure so we balance the higher RAM servers via our nodes to keep things nice and fair.
We have many good benchmarks which are public, we have looking glass on our website to test our network.
Just like yourself there are others that have multiple high RAM offers.
Regarding someones question for Amsterdam having high RAM offers, yes this is correct, but you will also notice its been out of stock for quite some time due to availability.
There is no bonus on the 1 year option.
Thank you
Lewis
Hello @tof only 3 years payment plan has unmetered bandwidth, 1 year payment does not I'm afraid.
Thank you
Lewis
Alright, Is this option still available for renewal?
Of course, if you'd like to change the billing cycle just open a ticket and ask to extend another 2 years
Thanks for the confirmation. It's reassuring to know that the resources are always there, ready to be fully utilized. A perfect segue to say..
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Anyone else with the VeloxMedia Canada Epyc 7551p NVMe deal having issues?
I grabbed the recent VeloxMedia Canada VPS offer:
AMD Epyc 7551p
4 vCPU
8GB RAM
100GB NVMe
SolusVM 2
Montreal
£8/mo or £20/year promo
Just wondering if anyone else is seeing problems on the Canada node.
My VPS boots into a rescue/provisioning environment instead of its actual disk.
lsblk shows:
/rofs (loop image)
/cdrom (ISO still attached)
and the main disk (vda) existing but not mounted at all
This causes:
the OS to reset to a fresh install on every reboot
root password reverting to default
SSH host key changing each time
all files disappearing
and SolusVM blocking backups (“VPS in rescue mode”)
Support initially said it was an SSH host key issue on my Mac, but the disk not being mounted + booting from the rescue image seems like a hypervisor-side problem.
Has anyone else on this Canada promo seen the same behaviour?
Not trying to bash the provider — just trying to work out if this is a node-wide issue or something isolated to my VM.
Thanks.
Hi @gazman321 I have answered your ticket and trying to replicate the same issue you are having with no luck.
I have also added some other things for you to check but when the OS is reinstalled we can't check all the logs and all data is lost.
But please do reach out to my reply via ticket
Thanks Lewis — I’ve replied to the ticket with full details.
Just to clarify for anyone else following this:
I did not reinstall the OS at any point. The server appeared freshly reinstalled on each reboot because it was booting into a rescue/provisioning image instead of the real disk.
The VM was booting from a rescue/provisioning environment (/rofs, /cdrom) instead of the real NVMe disk
This caused the machine to reset to defaults on every reboot and lose all data/logs
The host key changed because the environment was fresh each time, not due to a reinstall
Lewis has now adjusted the boot order on the hypervisor side, so hopefully the VM will now remain on the correct disk.
Will update the ticket (and this thread if useful) once I’ve confirmed stability.
It possibly could happens if the grab partition wasn't configured (that happens with me a few times but not with VeloxMedia, when networking is lag and grab setup dialog was skipped on ubuntu) and installation iso wasn't unmounted. If you setup something like arch/alpine, I could believe after every reboot you got new and fresh OS. but if it was some like ubuntu / debian, etc. you should to see installation screen. Anyway this is not a common issue.
Thanks, that’s exactly what I suspected.
This wasn’t an OS misconfiguration on my side. I installed Ubuntu from the SolusVM template exactly as provided.
The VM wasn’t showing the installer on reboot (which would normally happen if GRUB wasn’t configured) instead it was booting the same rescue/provisioning environment each time:
/rofs (loop image)
/cdrom (ISO still attached)
vda present but not mounted
So it looks like the installer ISO/loop image remained attached in the hypervisor, and the VM was set to boot from it instead of the NVMe disk.
Lewis adjusted the boot order earlier today and the VM now correctly boots from /vda1, so that seems to confirm it was a provisioning/boot-order issue upstream rather than an OS reinstall or anything I’d done inside the VM.
I’ll keep monitoring over the next day or two and update the thread if anything changes.
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Why do you prohibit Minecraft on your servers in the Terms of Service, but you promote it on your main VPS page in the FAQ? That seems disingenuous.
Hello,
We restrict game servers on our main infrastructure because of the high CPU usage they can generate. However, we do allow game servers, we just need you to open a support ticket first so we can place your VPS on one of our nodes optimised for that type of workload.
Let’s look at it this way: if you were using your VPS and the CPU suddenly became overloaded due to another user running a heavy game server, you wouldn’t be happy, right? You’d probably open a ticket and expect us to resolve it. To keep performance fair and stable for everyone, we separate these workloads and make sure each client is placed appropriately.
Our Terms of Service and Acceptable Use Policy exist to protect both your experience and the overall platform. We simply ask that clients work with us, not against us, by reaching out first. It’s not about saying no to game servers, but rather ensuring you’re on the right node to run them smoothly without issues.
Thank you
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Are there any cheap dedicated servers in the US West? Just one IP would be fine.
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Hi @kady
Yes we have dedicated in Seattle - if you can send us a PM with your requirements and budget and we can give you a few options.
Thank you
Lewis
Thanks for your answer. Appreciated
. Could you also explain why you do you restrict so much tmpfs as well?