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  • @Infinity said: furthermore we ain't allowed our lunches

    Wait what?! That's stupid...

    @netomx said: So.. what will you do with that vps?

    I think they mean you can't use it as a file dump. A web server would be one use case.

  • NevilNevil Member
    edited May 2012

    I also have applied for a free VPS from Host1Free (actually they are from Host1Plus, the premium service daughter company of Host1Free) and I got one. It was activated quite late and after I got it it was down for more than 1 1/2 days. Actually the whole NODE2 and other nodes were down at that time for days.

    A detailed review about it on FreeVPS.us: http://freevps.us/thread-4855.html

    It is something, but still "oversold crap". I have the feeling they built a dedicated server with Intel Xeon or Intel Core i7 CPU and put so much users on it that it dies after a few days of usage and needs to be rebooted.

    I would not use the VPS for anything serious, just use it for a VPN or something you can afford to lose when their stuff goes down once again...

    They clock the CPUs to 266MHz on NODE2 per VPS, on this clock even 2 cores are useless. Geekbench took very long for me and Byte Unixbench was a hell so I stopped it (btw the VPS crashed during Byte UnixBench...).

  • ElliotJElliotJ Member

    @gsrdgrdghd said: I pay like 400€/year at my university (which is pretty decent)

    In the UK, It's £9000/year for the University Fees.
    You then need to add the living expenses - Accommodation, food, and booze.

    Presuming you stay at home and live off pot noodles, you the minimum you're looking at for Uni is about £12,000/year.

    Needless to say, foreign universities have started to look a lot, lot more attractive >_>

  • @ElliotJ said: Presuming you stay at home and live off pot noodles, you the minimum you're looking at for Uni is about £12,000/year.

    Wow thats much, but what are the extra £3,000 for? I just did a quick check and my anual spending (for everything) is around 8,000€. But still many people go study in other countries/cities where its even cheaper :D

    @ElliotJ said: Needless to say, foreign universities have started to look a lot, lot more attractive >_>

    Do many unis in continental Europe offer subjects in English?

  • Why did you have to bring up this subject? It's still a sore spot for me -.-

    Basically because I live about a mile outside Austin city limits (in a suburb), I pay $2500/semester for community college, instead of something like $750/semester. Plus a few hundred worth of books, etc, of course.

  • debugdebug Member
    edited May 2012

    I derped (please delete)

  • Mine was just setup, it seems that it's in Germany. I'm on node2.

  • joepie91joepie91 Member, Patron Provider

    @birdie25 said: Mine was just setup, it seems that it's in Germany. I'm on node2.

    Hetzner?

  • birdie25birdie25 Member
    edited May 2012

    @joepie91 said: Hetzner?

    No, not Hetzner.

    IP: 94.249.242.202

  • NightNight Member
    CPU model :    Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU L5630 @ 2.13GHz
    Number of cores : 2
    CPU frequency : 266.664 MHz
    Total amount of ram : 128 MB
    Total amount of swap : 640 MB
    System uptime :   23 min,
    Download speed : (10.5MB/s)
    I/O speed : 3.8MB/s

    Lol

  • AsadAsad Member
    edited May 2012

    Node 4 Germany for me too. Mine won't even boot... (Just took a while)

    CPU model : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU L5630 @ 2.13GHz
    Number of cores : 2
    CPU frequency : 268.699 MHz
    Total amount of ram : 128 MB
    Total amount of swap : 640 MB
    System uptime : 4:23,
    Download speed : (10.2MB/s)
    I/O speed : 16.9MB/s

  • We get a LOT of CPU though :P

  • OliverOliver Member, Host Rep

    Mine's just been deployed. Also on node2. Will be fun to see how this performs... :-P

  • ChronicChronic Member

    @ElliotJ said: foreign universities have started to look a lot, lot more attractive

    Free education for the win! Hooray!

    Thanked by 1tux
  • netomxnetomx Moderator, Veteran

    Mine got deployed, just 10 hours aprox.

  • Couldn't pass captcha after trying 10~ times, cba anymore. The performance is not worth another try.

  • NevilNevil Member
    edited May 2012

    All nodes are in Germany in Frankfurt am Main (GHOSTNET GmbH).

    GHOSTNET GmbH: http://www.ghostnet.de/

  • @AsadHaider said: Node 4 Germany for me too. Mine won't even boot... (Just took a while)

    Mine has been booting for like 20 minutes and still going.

    My free VPS at Amanah is a lot better then this one, hell it's better then my paid 123Systems box.

  • netomxnetomx Moderator, Veteran
    wget freevps.us/downloads/bench.sh -O - -o /dev/null|bash
    CPU model :  Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           L5630  @ 2.13GHz
    Number of cores : 2
    CPU frequency :  266.664 MHz
    Total amount of ram : 128 MB
    Total amount of swap : 640 MB
    System uptime :   1:57,
    Download speed from CacheFly: 8.71MB/s
    Download speed from Linode, Atlanta GA: 2.09MB/s
    Download speed from Linode, Dallas, TX: 2.55MB/s
    Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 1.34MB/s
    Download speed from Linode, London, UK: 9.84MB/s
    Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 7.95MB/s
    Download speed from Softlayer, Singapore: 1.17MB/s
    
    ^[[5~
    Download speed from Softlayer, Seattle, WA: 25.4KB/s
    Download speed from Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 1.33MB/s
    Download speed from Softlayer, Washington, DC: 2.75MB/s
    I/O speed :  1.1 MB/s
  • NevilNevil Member

    @Legendlink said: My free VPS at Amanah is a lot better then this one, hell it's better then my paid 123Systems box.

    Amanah said my order was a fraud although I provided my real and vaild information :/

  • yomeroyomero Member

    @Nevil said: Amanah said my order was a fraud although I provided my real and vaild information :/

    I was waiting the call/sms/whatever to confirm my registration. It never arrived.

  • AlexBarakovAlexBarakov Patron Provider, Veteran

    I got 2x420mhz. I guess I am lucky

    CPU model : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz
    Number of cores : 2
    CPU frequency : 423.949 MHz
    Total amount of ram : 128 MB
    Total amount of swap : 640 MB
    System uptime : 9:04,
    Download speed from CacheFly: 9.56MB/s
    Download speed from Linode, Atlanta GA: 1.55MB/s
    Download speed from Linode, Dallas, TX: 735KB/s
    Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 900KB/s
    Download speed from Linode, London, UK: 6.80MB/s
    Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 4.88MB/s

    After re-doing cachefly speedtest, appears to be connected on a gbps port.

  • @LiquidHost said: Download speed from Linode, Atlanta GA: 1.55MB/s

    Download speed from Linode, Dallas, TX: 735KB/s
    Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 900KB/s

    ...Seriously? My home net is over 2x that...

  • AlexBarakovAlexBarakov Patron Provider, Veteran
    edited May 2012

    @DimeCadmium said: ...Seriously? My home net is over 2x that...

    I am currently uploading at 60-65mbps to my Vienna server from home..

    However the VPS is quite useless. Really, really poor IO.

  • @yomero said: I was waiting the call/sms/whatever to confirm my registration. It never arrived.

    They removed it because of the large flood of orders, you had to submit a ticket :)

  • yomeroyomero Member
    edited May 2012

    @Legendlink said: They removed it because of the large flood of orders, you had to submit a ticket :)

    Well, I can't remember if "guest" users were able to submit tickets.

  • CoreyCorey Member

    Lol i guess they just throw everyone on a few boxes and don't worry about performance.

  • Too slow to even operate (i.e. actually ssh in) for me and I can't find how to cancel so it's just sitting there.

  • CoreyCorey Member

    @FieldMoose yea that's a delima...how do they know if a free user isn't using their services anymore if they don't put in a cancellation request (why would one put in a cancellation request anyway)

  • @corey I'm not gonna use the thing better it already goes back to the already crowded pool; and better i don't keep getting follow up emails 12 months from now about every fscking outage they have.

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