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New Yearly KVM Deals! Starting @ $24 yr. | High I/O ZFS SSD | IPv4/6 | Any OS | PHL East Coast USA
LaunchVPS offers performance optimized SSD virtual servers and web hosting solutions.
Founded in 2014 and based in the Philadelphia suburbs, we strive to build and support high quality, cost-effective hosting solutions for our customers. We have over a decade’s experience in the hosting industry in the field of virtualization, cloud, and application hosting.
In addition to high-quality infrastructure, we have a distinct passion for assisting and enabling our customers. Our main objectives include providing a solid foundation, flexible options, and incredibly helpful support. We feel this combines to offer our customers a superior experience which benefits their relationship to their end-users and clients.
There is nothing to lose with our 45-day no questions asked refund!
Infrastructure
We own our hardware running in a Philadelphia datacenter consisting of:
- Supermicro Servers
- Fast DDR RAM with ECC
- SSDs in ZFS RAID
- Intel Xeon CPUs
- A+B Power
- Fast, Reliable Network
Features
Additionally, our control panel is fully functional including:
- HTML5 Console
- Power Options
- Boot Options
- Snapshots
- Backups
- ISO Library & Template Rebuilds
- Usage Graphs
- Upgrades/Downgrades
- rDNS Configuration
- NEW! KVM Auto-Deployment Templates
Plans
512 RAM & 10 GB SSD – KVM Special
512 MB RAM
1 Intel Xeon vCPU
10 GB ZFS RAID SSD
512 GB Bandwidth
500 Mbps Uplink
1 IPv4
/64 IPv6
rDNS Configuration in Control Panel
Price: $24.00 per year! Order Now!
1 GB RAM & 20 GB SSD – KVM Special
1 GB RAM
1 Intel Xeon vCPU
20 GB ZFS RAID SSD
1 TB Bandwidth
500 Mbps Uplink
1 IPv4
/64 IPv6
rDNS Configuration in Control Panel
Price: $36.00 per year! Order Now!
2 GB RAM & 30 GB SSD – KVM Special
2 GB RAM
2 Intel Xeon vCPU
30 GB ZFS RAID SSD
2 TB Bandwidth
500 Mbps Uplink
1 IPv4
/64 IPv6
rDNS Configuration in Control Panel
Price: $48.00 per year! Order Now!
Guarantees
- 45-Day Money Back: No questions asked! Ever. If for any reason you are not satisfied with your service, just let us know and we will issue you a refund. No hassles!
- 99.99% Uptime: If for any reason we do not meet this level of service, you will receive a credit for the amount of downtime incurred!
- Optimal Performance: Purpose-built systems with host customizations to provide the fastest, most robust performance possible.
- 12-Hour Ticket Response: We hold a 100% satisfaction rating with our customers! We generally respond within minutes, but you can always count on receiving a personalized response within 12 hours or sooner!
Network Tests
PHL1 – Philadelphia, PA USA (Quonix)
Test IPv4: 76.8.63.151
Test IPv6: 2604:bf00:0:210::2e
Test file: http://76.8.63.151/100-mb-test-file
Payment
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Additional Information
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Comments
Does anyone have experience with this provider?
Thanks for your interest. You can see some comments at the following links:
https://lowendbox.com/blog/launch-vps-exclusive/
https://lowendbox.com/blog/launch-vps-exclusive-first-leb-offer-1gb-lxc-ssd-powered-from-4-95mo/
https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/151871/launchvps-3-gb-ram-60-gb-ssd-lxc-special-36-per-year-phl-usa-zfs-ssd-ipv4-6-tun-tap/p1
@sidewinder I previously used them back in 2016-2017. I recall that their support was very friendly and personable (not just copy-and-paste emails). At the time I ended up not needed the VPS but I'm thinking of signing back up.
I would recommend them to people looking for a Philadelphia location. IPv6 support is always a plus as well!
Edit: Just noticed that sidewinder has been a member since 2013. Congrats! It seems like there aren't as many "old members" here lately.
> Edit: Just noticed that sidewinder has been a member since 2013. Congrats! It seems like there aren't as many "old members" here lately.
LET is one of my favorite places to get yelled at.
Works like a charm.
Awesome using ZFS. What kind of performance can be expected? No deals on more resources for windows os?
I'm on a 1 GB KVM with 20 GB storage
I ran a lightweight sequential write test (256 MB every 10 minutes for 24 hours) a couple days ago.
Here are the results from the 144 "samples":
Note that this is a crude benchmark and there are most likely some configuration tweaks I could / should do on my end to improve performance - but I'm okay with it "as is" with comparable speed to say a kimsufi HDD all to myself but (presumably) exponentially more reliable.
(Though it's not exactly what I'd advertise as "High I/O" - unless I'm missing something ...? For example I did not measure random access time, etc. Maybe @launchvps can clarify a bit here.)
Have just had this VPS for 11 days, idling (as one does). No complaints. I got this one mainly for the location. (Yo Philly! Bonus points for assigning an IP beginning with 76 ... )
@uptime
Thanks for posting that.
I just ran this on the 512MB plan listed in this promo running CentOS 7:
Those number you have there are very low. Would you mind creating a ticket or PMing me your IP so I can look into this a bit further?
@uptime Also, the 76 for the IP was not on purpose but it fits nicely.
Thanks - I opened a ticket. Apologies for any false alarms.
(Some of the best years of my otherwise mis-spent youth were spent on the shores of the Schuylkill. Much love for the City of Brotherly Love & the Spirit of '76)
EDIT2:
so ... should note - I did that test writing to LUKS encrypted partition (not that it should make that much difference).
And it's a bit past 1 AM in Philadelphia at the moment and LaunchVPS technical staff is currently working with me to bring my unmanaged $3/month idling instance up to speed.
EDIT3:
Now seeing better than 350 MB/s sequential write speed after making two suggested changes to my configuration.
Good to hear
Excellent. I have it. I will work through this and determine what the issue is.
@uptime
The root cause was that the guest OS was using cfq as the I/O scheduler when it should be using deadline.
I have sent you instructions on how to change this within your VPS.
After these changes, I am seeing the following improvement with Debian 9:
I was previously seeing around ~50MB/s before making these changes just as you have described.
Let me know if you do not see these same improvements.
For anyone else who may read this and have the same issue, please see this article for instructions on how to switch the deadline scheduler in Debian 9:
https://cp.launchvps.com/index.php?rp=/knowledgebase/20/KVM-Tweaks-for-Debian-and-Ubuntu.html
Sorry again for the issue. I will re-work the template so that this is enabled out of the box.
Let me know if you have any further questions or concerns.
thanks for the diligent support experience
should note I installed Debian from ISO rather than template
and am writing to LVM on top of LUKS encryption ...
Anyhoo ... now I feel the Need for Speed so am going to study a bit on what else I should be doing to properly setup my disks before posting glib "benchmarks" - good catch @launchvps
Hah... No problem! Thanks for bringing it up. Enjoy! Thank you, again!
Curious, should it be using deadline or noop since the underlying hypervisor will be handling io scheduling anyway?
Good point.
In testing, deadline came out slightly ahead in I/O tests vs. noop. Often times, they are fairly equal. Deadline showed slightly higher performance more consistently - at least in the general benchmark scripts customers tend to run.
Much of this is likely to change in the near future as newer kernel versions have changes in the scheduling systems with multiqueue I/O schedulers. Still working through testing on newer kernels to get the best performance. The current model does not provide the best performance for the newer kernel versions.
Let me know if you have any other questions. 👍
@launchvps They're the best. I got a good deal from them. 48/year 4TB/month 4GB/ram. Support is always responsive and not just copy/paste.