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new virmach storage KVMs

uptimeuptime Member
edited January 2018 in Providers

Finally got my new 1 TB storage KVM from @Virmach (have been looking forward to this since their Black Friday pre-sale): 1 GB RAM, 1 shared CPU core, 10 TB xfer @ 10 gigabit/s in Buffalo NY.

Looking at their order page https://billing.virmach.com/cart.php?gid=29 I see they are now offering up to 4 TB (with 4 GB RAM / 2 CPU cores / 40 TB xfer) for $7 per TB (that is, $28 per month for the 4 TB plan). Not sure if any discount via the usual LEB coupons but seems like a decent enough price for the specs anyway.

No benchmarks - just want to compare notes on setup:

my VPS showed up online with Debian 7 installed. I did a dist-upgrade first to Debian 8 then Debian 9 easily enough, all good.

Revisited later to directly install Debian 9 via ISO. Here I noticed network config via DHCP did not succeed, but manual config using info from previous install worked fine. (Need assigned ip address, default netmask and gateway, also may want nameservers from /etc/resolv.conf)

Helpful hint: if setting up encrypted LVM, need to cancel out of the "write random data to disk" prep stage - guessing either not enough entropy and/or too many iops causes this step to fail otherwise.

Anyway, nice to see @Virmach storage offer online now. Contemplating possible Seafile install at some point - guessing enough RAM (1 GB) but not sure if might be pushing against CPU limits with just the single core on my current plan.

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  • muffinmuffin Member
    edited January 2018

    Damn, that’s cheap :0

    Edit : well, 4TB for $28 definitely isn’t cheap, but for smaller options, you get 1TB Disk with HW raid 10, 10TB @ 10gbps and DDOS protection. That’s quite good.

  • NeoonNeoon Community Contributor, Veteran

    @muffin said:
    Damn, that’s cheap :0

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  • @muffin said:
    Damn, that’s cheap :0

    $28 monthly for the 4 TB ... (Not even going to mention the Black Friday pre-sale price for my 1 TB plan, suffice to say patience was rewarded ;^)

  • @uptime said:

    @muffin said:
    Damn, that’s cheap :0

    $28 monthly for the 4 TB ... (Not even going to mention the Black Friday pre-sale price for my 1 TB plan, suffice to say patience was rewarded ;^)

    For people looking for smaller disk space ( 1TB ) etc. I missed the hosthatch deal aswell, so this is interesting, at least for me

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  • It has only US location.It would be better to see plans in europe location to try on for storage.

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  • WSSWSS Member

    @uptime said:
    Finally got my new 1 TB storage KVM from @Virmach (have been looking forward to this since their Black Friday pre-sale): 1 GB RAM, 1 shared CPU core, 10 TB xfer @ 10 gigabit/s in Buffalo NY.

    Looking at their order page https://billing.virmach.com/cart.php?gid=29 I see they are now offering up to 4 TB (with 4 GB RAM / 2 CPU cores / 40 TB xfer) for $7 per TB (that is, $28 per month for the 4 TB plan). Not sure if any discount via the usual LEB coupons but seems like a decent enough price for the specs anyway.

    You got 1GB? I got 512MB and a 512MB swap partition.

  • @WSS said:

    You got 1GB? I got 512MB and a 512MB swap partition.

    Bro, do you even 1 TB plan, bro ?

    $ df -h /
    Filesystem               Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
    /dev/mapper/vs--vg-root  914G  1.2G  866G   1% /
    
    $ free -m 
                       total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available 
         Mem:            996          41         862           1          93               838 
         Swap:          1023           0        1023                                               
    
    $ cat /proc/cpuinfo
    processor       : 0
    vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
    cpu family      : 6                                                                          model           : 13    
    model name      : QEMU Virtual CPU version (cpu64-rhel6)                                     stepping        : 3
    microcode       : 0x1 
    cpu MHz         : 2599.998
    cache size      : 4096 KB
    [...]
    cpu cores       : 1
    flags           : fpu de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pse36 clflush mmx
      fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx lm nopl eagerfpu pni cx16 hypervisor lahf_lm kaiser
    
  • WSSWSS Member

    @uptime said:

    @WSS said:

    You got 1GB? I got 512MB and a 512MB swap partition.

    Bro, do you even 1 TB plan, bro ?

    Actually, I'm a dumbass. I went for the 500GB plan and forgot about it.

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  • Looks like only NY for now though and historically Virmach doesn't have the fastest bandwidth. Makes me think Unless you have a solution in the same datacenter or at the very least regionally close it would be difficult to use this as a real-time remote storage location. Obviously if it's for your own backup that's a different matter though.

    Anyone have a screenshot of standard benchmark with io and wget tests?

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  • @uptime said: Revisited later to directly install Debian 9 via ISO. Here I noticed network config via DHCP did not succeed, but manual config using info from previous install worked fine. (Need assigned ip address, default netmask and gateway, also may want nameservers from /etc/resolv.conf)

    Odd that DHCP didn't work (unless VirMach has disabled it for some reason).

  • WSSWSS Member

    @sureiam said:
    Anyone have a screenshot of standard benchmark with io and wget tests?

    No. Mine hung solid when I tried to nench it; not interested in trying again.. will let them work some bugs out first.

  • uptimeuptime Member
    edited January 2018

    hmmm ... lost connection just now (packets seem to stop at 10.8.55.86, wherever that may be)

    edit: back now, looks like instance was rebooted.

    okay ... well I'm going to give this install a few days to settle (general principle for new server probably getting heavily loaded by installs and benches).

  • tarasistarasis Member
    edited January 2018

    I have a nench report I can post.

    -------------------------------------------------
    
    Processor:    QEMU Virtual CPU version (cpu64-rhel6)
    CPU cores:    1
    Frequency:    2599.998 MHz
    RAM:          992M
    Swap:
    Kernel:       Linux 4.4.0-112-generic x86_64
    
    Disks:
    vda    930G  HDD
    
    CPU: SHA256-hashing 500 MB
        3.676 seconds
    CPU: bzip2-compressing 500 MB
        6.733 seconds
    CPU: AES-encrypting 500 MB
        4.018 seconds
    
    ioping: seek rate
        min/avg/max/mdev = 39.1 us / 152.0 us / 48.1 ms / 540.4 us
    ioping: sequential read speed
        generated 7.37 k requests in 5.00 s, 1.80 GiB, 1.47 k iops, 368.7 MiB/s
    
    dd: sequential write speed
        1st run:    158.31 MiB/s
        2nd run:    145.91 MiB/s
        3rd run:    176.43 MiB/s
        average:    160.22 MiB/s
    
    IPv4 speedtests
        your IPv4:    107.172.90.xxxx
    
        Cachefly CDN:         96.33 MiB/s
        Leaseweb (NL):        13.74 MiB/s
        Softlayer DAL (US):   2.80 MiB/s
        Online.net (FR):      14.61 MiB/s
        OVH BHS (CA):         47.00 MiB/s
    
    No IPv6 connectivity detected
    -------------------------------------------------
    

    and

    -------------------------------------------------
     nench.sh v2017.06.01 -- https://git.io/nench.sh
     benchmark timestamp:    2018-01-29 21:18:56 UTC
    -------------------------------------------------
    
    Processor:    QEMU Virtual CPU version (cpu64-rhel6)
    CPU cores:    1
    Frequency:    2599.998 MHz
    RAM:          994M
    Swap:         1.0G
    Kernel:       Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64
    
    Disks:
    vda    930G  HDD
    
    CPU: SHA256-hashing 500 MB
        3.412 seconds
    CPU: bzip2-compressing 500 MB
        6.414 seconds
    CPU: AES-encrypting 500 MB
        4.053 seconds
    
    ioping: seek rate
        min/avg/max/mdev = 45.2 us / 117.8 us / 18.6 ms / 241.6 us
    ioping: sequential read speed
        generated 7.95 k requests in 5.00 s, 1.94 GiB, 1.59 k iops, 397.5 MiB/s
    
    dd: sequential write speed
        1st run:    154.50 MiB/s
        2nd run:    420.57 MiB/s
        3rd run:    306.13 MiB/s
        average:    293.73 MiB/s
    
    IPv4 speedtests
        your IPv4:    107.172.90.xxxx
    
        Cachefly CDN:         95.23 MiB/s
        Leaseweb (NL):        0.27 MiB/s
        Softlayer DAL (US):   13.66 MiB/s
        Online.net (FR):      14.36 MiB/s
        OVH BHS (CA):         47.05 MiB/s
    
    No IPv6 connectivity detected
    -------------------------------------------------
    
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  • I look forward to this being offered at $7/year on Black Friday.

  • do u suggest the company ? i would like to get the storage 1t but just cant make a decision to start with them ..

  • @harsumas said:
    do u suggest the company ? i would like to get the storage 1t but just cant make a decision to start with them ..

    I really like and enjoy them. No IPv6 though, so only IPv4 :(

  • Any bandwidth test from WSI to this storage server?

  • sade83sade83 Member
    edited July 2019

    @uptime said:
    Finally got my new 1 TB storage KVM from @Virmach (have been looking forward to this since their Black Friday pre-sale): 1 GB RAM, 1 shared CPU core, 10 TB xfer @ 10 gigabit/s in Buffalo NY.

    Looking at their order page https://billing.virmach.com/cart.php?gid=29 I see they are now offering up to 4 TB (with 4 GB RAM / 2 CPU cores / 40 TB xfer) for $7 per TB (that is, $28 per month for the 4 TB plan). Not sure if any discount via the usual LEB coupons but seems like a decent enough price for the specs anyway.

    No benchmarks - just want to compare notes on setup:

    my VPS showed up online with Debian 7 installed. I did a dist-upgrade first to Debian 8 then Debian 9 easily enough, all good.

    Revisited later to directly install Debian 9 via ISO. Here I noticed network config via DHCP did not succeed, but manual config using info from previous install worked fine. (Need assigned ip address, default netmask and gateway, also may want nameservers from /etc/resolv.conf)

    Helpful hint: if setting up encrypted LVM, need to cancel out of the "write random data to disk" prep stage - guessing either not enough entropy and/or too many iops causes this step to fail otherwise.

    Anyway, nice to see @Virmach storage offer online now. Contemplating possible Seafile install at some point - guessing enough RAM (1 GB) but not sure if might be pushing against CPU limits with just the single core on my current plan.

    its dmca ignore ?

  • uptimeuptime Member

    @sade83 said:

    @uptime said:
    Finally got my new 1 TB storage KVM from @Virmach (have been looking forward to this since their Black Friday pre-sale): 1 GB RAM, 1 shared CPU core, 10 TB xfer @ 10 gigabit/s in Buffalo NY.

    Looking at their order page https://billing.virmach.com/cart.php?gid=29 I see they are now offering up to 4 TB (with 4 GB RAM / 2 CPU cores / 40 TB xfer) for $7 per TB (that is, $28 per month for the 4 TB plan). Not sure if any discount via the usual LEB coupons but seems like a decent enough price for the specs anyway.

    No benchmarks - just want to compare notes on setup:

    my VPS showed up online with Debian 7 installed. I did a dist-upgrade first to Debian 8 then Debian 9 easily enough, all good.

    Revisited later to directly install Debian 9 via ISO. Here I noticed network config via DHCP did not succeed, but manual config using info from previous install worked fine. (Need assigned ip address, default netmask and gateway, also may want nameservers from /etc/resolv.conf)

    Helpful hint: if setting up encrypted LVM, need to cancel out of the "write random data to disk" prep stage - guessing either not enough entropy and/or too many iops causes this step to fail otherwise.

    Anyway, nice to see @Virmach storage offer online now. Contemplating possible Seafile install at some point - guessing enough RAM (1 GB) but not sure if might be pushing against CPU limits with just the single core on my current plan.

    its dmva ignore ?

    Lol ... nice one.

  • sade83sade83 Member

    @uptime said:

    @sade83 said:

    @uptime said:
    Finally got my new 1 TB storage KVM from @Virmach (have been looking forward to this since their Black Friday pre-sale): 1 GB RAM, 1 shared CPU core, 10 TB xfer @ 10 gigabit/s in Buffalo NY.

    Looking at their order page https://billing.virmach.com/cart.php?gid=29 I see they are now offering up to 4 TB (with 4 GB RAM / 2 CPU cores / 40 TB xfer) for $7 per TB (that is, $28 per month for the 4 TB plan). Not sure if any discount via the usual LEB coupons but seems like a decent enough price for the specs anyway.

    No benchmarks - just want to compare notes on setup:

    my VPS showed up online with Debian 7 installed. I did a dist-upgrade first to Debian 8 then Debian 9 easily enough, all good.

    Revisited later to directly install Debian 9 via ISO. Here I noticed network config via DHCP did not succeed, but manual config using info from previous install worked fine. (Need assigned ip address, default netmask and gateway, also may want nameservers from /etc/resolv.conf)

    Helpful hint: if setting up encrypted LVM, need to cancel out of the "write random data to disk" prep stage - guessing either not enough entropy and/or too many iops causes this step to fail otherwise.

    Anyway, nice to see @Virmach storage offer online now. Contemplating possible Seafile install at some point - guessing enough RAM (1 GB) but not sure if might be pushing against CPU limits with just the single core on my current plan.

    its dmva ignore ?

    Lol ... nice one.

    LOL SPAMER

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  • angstromangstrom Moderator

    Wow, where do these people come from

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  • uptimeuptime Member

    angstrom said: Wow, where do these people come from

    It came from Teh Internets!

    Veni, Vidi, WTF

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  • Please, for those who are still starting how to save few files? I am studying to make the sites but I do not agree to spend so much money to have space without use. It does not seem right to me to buy so much space without leaving anything for those who have little, right?

  • ITLabsITLabs Member

    @Piroquinha if you are just starting I would suggest going with small shared plans, like these:

    https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/159016/smallweb-directadmin-hosting-limited-quantity-available

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