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New Yearly KVM Deals! Starting @ $24 yr. | High I/O ZFS SSD | IPv4/6 | Any OS | PHL East Coast USA

launchvpslaunchvps Member, Patron Provider
edited April 2019 in Offers

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

  • Major Credit Cards
  • Paypal
  • Alipay
  • Crypto Currency

Additional Information

Thank you for your interest and please reach out to us if there are any questions!! :)

Thanked by 1uptime

Comments

  • sidewindersidewinder Member

    Does anyone have experience with this provider?

    Thanked by 1launchvps
  • launchvpslaunchvps Member, Patron Provider

    @sidewinder said:
    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

  • goinsj2010goinsj2010 Member
    edited May 2019

    @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. :)

    Thanked by 1launchvps
  • sidewindersidewinder Member

    @goinsj2010 said:
    @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. :)

    LET is one of my favorite places to get yelled at.

    Works like a charm.

  • doughnetdoughnet Member

    Awesome using ZFS. What kind of performance can be expected? No deals on more resources for windows os?

    Thanked by 1uptime
  • uptimeuptime Member
    edited May 2019

    Awesome using ZFS. What kind of performance can be expected?

    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":

    min: 27 MB/s
05%: 34 MB/s
10%: 50 MB/s
25%: 54 MB/s
50%: 57 MB/s
75%: 60 MB/s
90%: 62 MB/s
95%: 63 MB/s
max: 70 MB/s

    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 ... :))

    Thanked by 1launchvps
  • launchvpslaunchvps Member, Patron Provider

    @uptime

    Thanks for posting that.

    I just ran this on the 512MB plan listed in this promo running CentOS 7:

    ioping: seek rate
    min/avg/max/mdev = 40.4 us / 61.8 us / 18.2 ms / 341.4 us
ioping: sequential speed
    generated 19.6 k requests in 5.00 s, 4.79 GiB, 3.92 k iops, 980.1 MiB/s

dd test
    1st run:    816 MB/s
    2nd run:    847 MB/s
    3rd run:    813 MB/s
    average:    825 MB/s

    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?

    Thanked by 1uptime
  • launchvpslaunchvps Member, Patron Provider

    @uptime Also, the 76 for the IP was not on purpose but it fits nicely. :)

    Thanked by 1uptime
  • uptimeuptime Member
    edited May 2019

    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.

    Thanked by 2launchvps MasonR
  • launchvpslaunchvps Member, Patron Provider

    Good to hear :)

    Excellent. I have it. I will work through this and determine what the issue is.

  • launchvpslaunchvps Member, Patron Provider

    @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:

    root@lnx-vps01:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=4k conv=fdatasync
4096+0 records in
4096+0 records out
268435456 bytes (268 MB, 256 MiB) copied, 0.463951 s, 579 MB/s
root@lnx-vps01:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=4k conv=fdatasync
4096+0 records in
4096+0 records out
268435456 bytes (268 MB, 256 MiB) copied, 0.341226 s, 787 MB/s
root@lnx-vps01:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=4k conv=fdatasync
4096+0 records in
4096+0 records out
268435456 bytes (268 MB, 256 MiB) copied, 0.386024 s, 695 MB/s
root@lnx-vps01:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=4k conv=fdatasync
4096+0 records in
4096+0 records out
268435456 bytes (268 MB, 256 MiB) copied, 0.322392 s, 833 MB/s

    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.

    Thanked by 3uptime goinsj2010 poisson
  • uptimeuptime Member

    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

    Thanked by 1launchvps
  • launchvpslaunchvps Member, Patron Provider

    @uptime said:
    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!

    Thanked by 1uptime
  • skorousskorous Member

    launchvps said: The root cause was that the guest OS was using cfq as the I/O scheduler when it should be using deadline.

    Curious, should it be using deadline or noop since the underlying hypervisor will be handling io scheduling anyway?

    Thanked by 1launchvps
  • launchvpslaunchvps Member, Patron Provider

    @skorous said:

    launchvps said: The root cause was that the guest OS was using cfq as the I/O scheduler when it should be using deadline.

    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. 👍

    Thanked by 2uptime skorous
  • yolo_meyolo_me Member

    @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.

    Thanked by 4launchvps skorous doughnet uptime
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