My experience with Cloudblast

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• averagedatahoarder Member

  4:45PM

  Also- had a lot of trouble getting a SLC VPS, so I setup a script that queried their API every few seconds to automatically provision something whenever it became available

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• itzsenu Member

  4:46PM

  @averagedatahoarder said: Unlimited bandwidth is (seems?) actually unlimited, I’ve pushed nearly 500TB of traffic through in a month with no throttling.

  what are you running to actually use that much bandwidth?

  @cloudblast if it’s truly unlimited, is it okay to use around 1 to 3 PB of bandwidth per month?
• averagedatahoarder Member

  4:47PM

  what are you running to actually use that much bandwidth?

  Mirroring Linux ISOs (jkjk)

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• averagedatahoarder Member

  4:49PM edited 4:49PM

  I guess I'd ask you @itzsenu, what are YOU hosting that needs 1-3PB of bandwidth? :P
• itzsenu Member

  4:53PM

  @averagedatahoarder said:
  I guess I'd ask you @itzsenu, what are YOU hosting that needs 1-3PB of bandwidth? :P

  it’s a video streaming system where it only streams the changed pixels, with a max 1 to 2 ms delay on the server side, excluding the user’s network and location latency.

                      ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
                      │              GLOBAL CONTROL PLANE                    │
                      │  - Session registry (distributed, replicated)        │
                      │  - Leader election (Raft/Paxos across mother nodes)  │
                      │  - Global health telemetry aggregator                │
                      └───────────────┬───────────────────────────────────────┘
                                      │
            ┌─────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┐
            │                         │                          │
    ┌───────▼────────┐      ┌────────▼────────┐       ┌─────────▼───────┐
    │ MOTHER-REGION-A │◄────►│ MOTHER-REGION-B │◄─────►│ MOTHER-REGION-C  │  ← MOTHER TIER
    │ (Primary, Asia) │      │ (Primary, EU)   │       │ (Primary, LATAM) │    (multi-region,
    │  + hot standby  │      │  + hot standby  │       │  + hot standby   │     active-active)
    └───────┬─────────┘      └────────┬────────┘       └─────────┬────────┘
            │                         │                          │
      ┌─────┴─────┐             ┌─────┴─────┐              ┌─────┴─────┐
      │  TIER 1   │             │  TIER 1   │              │  TIER 1   │
      │  MESH A   │             │  MESH B   │              │  MESH C   │
      │ Child 1-N │◄──cross─────│ Child 1-N │──cross──────►│ Child 1-N │   (inter-region
      │ (VPS)     │  region     │ (VPS)     │  region      │ (VPS)     │    mesh sync for
      └─────┬─────┘  sync       └─────┬─────┘  sync        └─────┬─────┘    failover only)
            │                         │                          │
      ┌─────▼─────┐             ┌─────▼─────┐              ┌─────▼─────┐
      │  TIER 2   │             │  TIER 2   │              │  TIER 2   │
      │  RELAY A  │◄───────────►│  RELAY B  │◄────────────►│  RELAY C  │   (dedicated,
      │ (Dedicated│   sync      │ (Dedicated│   sync       │ (Dedicated│    active-active
      │  + backup)│             │  + backup)│              │  + backup)│    with failover)
      └─────┬─────┘             └─────┬─────┘              └─────┬─────┘
            │                         │                          │
      ┌─────▼──────┐            ┌─────▼──────┐             ┌─────▼──────┐
      │  TIER 3    │            │  TIER 3    │             │  TIER 3    │
      │  EDGE A1-N │            │  EDGE B1-N │             │  EDGE C1-N │   (geo-nearest
      │  (VPS)     │            │  (VPS)     │             │  (VPS)     │    to end users)
      └─────┬──────┘            └─────┬──────┘             └─────┬──────┘
            │                         │                          │
         Users                     Users                      Users
      (Asia region)              (EU region)               (LATAM region)
  

  (note: this diagram was drawn by GPT, but the architecture behind it is the same.)
• oloke Member, Host Rep

  4:56PM

  @averagedatahoarder said: NL servers are slow, they use 7551P and noticed ~40% hypervisor steal

  In NL steal is real, I get between 15 and 20% on my node (under load).
  The CPU performance is also pretty poor getting just over 300 single core GB6 score (i posted yabs today)

  In the UK however, the node is actually really good as of now, no steal and performance exceeding what I would expect. (yabs)
  Bit weird since in theory it's the same product, just different location. UK appears to have 4x better score. Maybe that's because there are not many customers there yet - UK was recently launched.

  Support is a bit slow but faster on Discord.

  Support has been helpful and quick in my case, always resolving stuff within few hours. And over past 3 days I managed to open 4 tickets

  @averagedatahoarder said: Good dashboard, nice API. Accepts crypto.
  Great bandwidth to price ratio, probably the best I have found.

  Definitely true They also give you 2% bonus on top-ups using cryptocurrency.
• averagedatahoarder Member

  4:57PM

  @oloke said:

  @averagedatahoarder said: NL servers are slow, they use 7551P and noticed ~40% hypervisor steal

  In NL steal is real, I get between 15 and 20% on my node (under load).
  The CPU performance is also pretty poor getting just over 300 single core GB6 score (i posted yabs today)

  In the UK however, the node is actually really good as of now, no steal and performance exceeding what I would expect. (yabs)
  Bit weird since in theory it's the same product, just different location. UK appears to have 4x better score. Maybe that's because there are not many customers there yet - UK was recently launched.

  Support is a bit slow but faster on Discord.

  Support has been helpful and quick in my case, always resolving stuff within few hours. And over past 3 days I managed to open 4 tickets

  @averagedatahoarder said: Good dashboard, nice API. Accepts crypto.
  Great bandwidth to price ratio, probably the best I have found.

  Definitely true They also give you 2% bonus on top-ups using cryptocurrency.

  UK runs 7642 vs 7551P on NL so maybe expected?
• network Member

  5:06PM

  @averagedatahoarder said: I’ve pushed nearly 500TB

  What's your total monthly cost with them?

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