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Reviews of Lunanode?
Void_Whisperer
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I saw that they were offering KVM in chicago, but I was wondering if anyone has any reviews of them.
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No one has any reviews?
30mins is a tad close for a bump...
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=site:lowendtalk.com+luna+node&oq=site:lowendtalk.com+luna+node
Huh, why's jarland banned?
I believe that if you read the new sticky thread(Staff Decisions) at LET then you'll somewhat understand what happened.
The new rule (s) I think. Do you have a test ip for lunanode?
Yep, see https://dynamic.lunanode.com/info.php
Edit: btw it's Luna Node, not LunaNode or Lunanode.
I have a KVM VPS (http://lowendtalk.com/discussion/15041/luna-node-chicago-kvm-512-mb-13-ipv4-7-mo-1-gb-5-75-mo-free-ssl-with-purchase) with them for a few month, and it performs pretty mediocre. The advantage of this VPS is that it comes with 13 IP addresses. Their support is helpful and usually can reply to my tickets within a few hours. However, the host node has a pretty outdated processor (I don't know the exact model since it's KVM, but I guess it is a old E5320 based on bogomips and benchmarks), disk I/O terrible (sometimes less than 10MB/s and less than 30 iops), and I lost at least $400 revenue because of a recently unexpected downtime. I would say for the price I get what I paid for. I don't think I will renew it this month.
Update: recently I have been moved to a better node. Disk I/O performance improves dramatically (200MB/s now), and the processor is also better. I am quite satisfied with this $7 VPS
I had purchased their cloud offer and deposited $12. At first glance, it looked cool but their panel is full of bugs and behaves unexpectedly. I'm not new to configuring a KVM via VNC - and solus is really good for changing drivers, boot orders etc. But from the panel of Luna Node it's quite a nightmare. You just don't know if it will really work even after you're given a "success message"
For example
There's no direct way to select which media I wan't to boot from, only a button called "Swap Boot Order" - I clicked on that several times, it always loads the CD Rom instead of HDD
In the middle of the installation (or sometime at the beginning) i was prompted that it failed to load (or find) the CD Rom
One time, while configuring network it failed with a message like the DHCP is not working
The snapshot in Toronto is not working at all - Favyen, however, confirmed that snapshot of a box created from an ISO is not possible. He later manually created a snapshot for me but that was not usable.
In toronto, it's a 1Gbps port but in Chicago, it's 100Mbps (or capped so) - Disk IO is very low, like 20MB/s (that's okay - no problem with that at all) and no matter how many time I clicked on loading Virtio as network and disk driver, it doesn't seem to be working
Overall - their panel sucks. I'd rate it 2/10 if you're asking. I just wish that they were using solus where everything is straight forward and nothing confusing.
My $12 was pregnant lately and a cute $2 child was born (due to network error credit). Now it's a happy family of 14 cute bucks living happily in their cute little home called "Luna Node Deposit Box". But that's it and I don't think that I am going to renew it again
OpenStack is designed for usage with cloud templates, you can upload your own cloud template (qcow2 file) from the panel and it should work seamlessly. If you are installing from an ISO, then it is more difficult to use, and we are planning on making the process easier but the Swap Boot Order does work; if you open a ticket and say what you're trying to do we can help you with any issues you're having.
With OpenStack the ISO has to be installed immediately (without shutting down and restarting), if you reboot it the CD will be loaded from disk.
What location was this in? In Chicago there is no DHCP, so of course attempting to configure from DHCP will not work.
Live snapshot of VM created from ISO is not possible, you need to shut it down first.
Most likely that snapshot was created not manually but by shutting down the VM first. If you open a ticket we can investigate the issue.
If you open a ticket we'd be happy to refund your $12.