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Micro VKS @ OVH "review"

MuZoMuZo Member
edited July 2012 in General

I just got a free vps by ovh: http://www.kimsufi.co.uk/vks/geovks.xml

When ordering I selected Hong Kong, I read that

"Please not that depending on the test needs, it's possible that you get your vKS in a POP other than the one you requested."

But guess where I got the vps located? Canada.

it isn't even on their pop list:

Newark Available

Chicago Available
Milano Available
Paris Available
Frankfurt Available
Madrid Available
Dallas Available
Hong Kong Available
San Jose Available

It's written that vpses are 10Mbps bandwidth limited...

I just done a bench

CPU model : AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 6172

Number of cores : 1
CPU frequency : 2100.024 MHz
Total amount of ram : 128 MB
Total amount of swap : 128 MB
System uptime : 8 min,
Download speed from CacheFly: 7.67MB/s
Download speed from Linode, Atlanta GA: 4.33MB/s
Download speed from Linode, Dallas, TX: 13.7MB/s
Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 8.29MB/s
Download speed from Linode, London, UK: 4.40MB/s
Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 10.4MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Singapore: 2.18MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Seattle, WA: 11.8MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 29.9MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Washington, DC: 7.30MB/s
I/O speed : 125 MB/s

all over 10mpbs, port is even over 100mpbs. Good I/O speed !

anyway mail port blocked as written, didn't tested udp ports

Processor:
>
processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 16
model : 2
model name : AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 6172
stepping : 3
cpu MHz : 2100.024
cache size : 512 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 4
core id : 0
cpu cores : 4
apicid : 0
initial apicid : 0
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 5
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc rep_good tsc_reliable nonstop_tsc unfair_spinlock pni cx16 popcnt hypervisor lahf_lm extapic abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw
bogomips : 4200.04
TLB size : 1024 4K pages
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

EDIT: my vps has canadian IP but it's located in San Jose

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Comments

  • tuxtux Member

    I orderded one from Frankfurt, but I got one from Ghigago.

  • Thank you for sharing :)
    I was just registered yesterday, and didn't habe time to play yet.
    Will it stay free forever?

  • pcanpcan Member

    I ordered one in Milan, and I got one in San Jose. The IP address is always Canadian, to check the real location a ping test is needed. Disk speed is good.

    dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync

    16384+0 records in
    16384+0 records out
    1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 8.58831 s, 125 MB/s

  • rds100rds100 Member

    So it's like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get ;-)

    Thanked by 1Infinity
  • I ordered in Hongkong, and they give me the one in Hongkong. But will it be free forever?

  • jarjar Patron Provider, Top Host, Veteran

    Pretty fair bandwidth test there. What's with the San Jose speed? Isn't it 100mbit?

  • AlexBarakovAlexBarakov Patron Provider, Veteran

    I signed up for china..and got canada.

  • lbftlbft Member

    @ErawanArifNugroho said: But will it be free forever?

    Nobody knows exactly what's going on, not even OVH. Last I heard they were saying that they don't know whether it will be free forever, whether it will continue at all, and whether it will ever be a commercial offering.

    They set these up to have some traffic flowing through their new international POPs to test out the routing. I get the feeling they were caught by surprise that people wanted VPSes that small for anything other than a toy.

    Thanked by 1ErawanArifNugroho
  • AsadAsad Member

    Requested HK, got Canada.

  • jarjar Patron Provider, Top Host, Veteran

    Got one in Dallas. Instant setup, but I guess because I've already verified my account previously?

  • AsadAsad Member

    @jarland said: I've already verified my account previously?

    I'm an existing customer, mine was instant setup too.

    Few hour wait is probably a security/fraud screening, which I had to do back when I signed up.

  • earlearl Member

    picked San Jose and got Canada

  • subigosubigo Member

    I've got so many free/$1 vps accounts over the last month it's ridiculous.

  • zserozsero Member

    How do you know where is the one you get? Using some geo-traceroute?

  • @subigo said: I've got so many free/$1 vps accounts over the last month it's ridiculous.

    :D

  • earlearl Member
    edited July 2012

    @zsero said: How do you know where is the one you get? Using some geo-traceroute?

    just put your ip there..

    http://www.domaintools.com/

    Have to say the VPS is pretty snappy!!!

  • zserozsero Member

    @earl said: just put your ip there..

    http://www.domaintools.com/

    Have to say the VPS is pretty snappy!!!

    But all it says is the IP Location: Canada Montreal Ovh Hosting Inc.

    How do I know where is the actual server?

  • earlearl Member

    well the server would be in montreal canada..

  • tuxtux Member

    @zsero said: But all it says is the IP Location: Canada Montreal Ovh Hosting Inc.

    How do I know where is the actual server?

    If you look whois details below this information, you can see something like this:

    CustName: OVH SAS
    Address: 350 E Cermak Road
    City: Chicago
    StateProv: IL
    PostalCode: 60616
    Country: US
    RegDate: 2012-06-20
    Updated: 2012-06-20
    Ref: http://whois.arin.net/rest/customer/C03091171

  • zserozsero Member

    That's the exact thing I have. Canada at the location and Chicago in the CustName.

  • zserozsero Member

    And the tracert is totally crazy, it goes like France, France, France, France, France, Canada, Canada.

  • Someone visit :
    http://www.domaintools.com/

    This is the first time they're like this. lol

  • NanoG6NanoG6 Member
    edited July 2012

    image

    but http://whois.domaintools.com/ works fine though

  • earlearl Member

    hmm.. it's working fine for me??

  • zserozsero Member

    It seems to be actually in Canada, as a long apt-spy test found debian.yorku.ca to be the best server.

  • earlearl Member

    @zsero said: It seems to be actually in Canada, as a long apt-spy test found debian.yorku.ca to be the best server.

    Just curious, where did you think the server would be?

  • zserozsero Member
    edited July 2012

    I've read somewhere that all their VPS-es are reported as in Canada because of some DNS stuff. That's why I was surprised. Also I've signed up for Frankfurt and I have FR in my control panel.

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