[drServer.net] Dual E5 back in stock starting at $61/mo

Radi

Hello friends,
This little guy is still in stock, so I decided to post it again.

Intel Atom C2750 (8-Core, 2.4 GHz)
8 GB DDR3 RAM
240 GB SSD
100Mbps DDoS protected unmetered port
Promocode: YBDX4U70Q
Location: Dallas, TX
1 in stock
Only $12/month

If you want to try a more powerful CPU, checkout the next plan.

Intel® Xeon® E-2134 (4-Core, 8-Thread, 3.5GHz)
16 GB DDR4 RAM
1 x 480 GB SSD
100Mbps DDoS protected unmetered port
Promocode: YBDX4U70Q
Location: Dallas, TX
Only $56/month

If you felt like you wanted another CPU, feel free to check out the next plan.

2x Intel® Xeon® E5-2650v2
64 GB DDR3 RAM
2 x 200 GB SSD
100Mbps DDoS protected unmetered port
Promocode: YBDX4U70Q
Location: Dallas, TX
Only $61/month

You can place the order at https://drserver.net/dedicated.php?pk_campaign=LET

If you feel like dedicated isn't your thing just yet, why not try a VPS?

KVM-S
4 CPU Cores
4096 MB RAM
90 GB SSD Disk
4096 GB Bandwidth
1 IPv4
/64 IPv6
KVM
Linux/Windows
Location Dallas:
Price: $7.00/month
Price(Yearly): $84.00/year

The order link: https://drserver.net/vps.php
To claim the offer, you need to input promocode "LET-It-GO" on the order form.

Useful Info:
All VPS offers are powered by Virtualizor control panel.
All offers come with 1 IPv4 unless otherwise stated.
rDNS is available.
Custom ISO are possible through a quick ticket. We can load any OS you need.
We are an unmanaged provider, but we will do our best to assist with the configuration of your applications and getting your servers up and running.
We can offer you CUSTOM-BUILT dedicated servers. Please open a ticket to discuss your requirements.
The VPS are hosted on powerful E5 nodes with minimum of 128 GB RAM and SSDs in RAID-10.

About us:
drServer started offering service around November of 2013, so we're almost 6 years old now. We are a family-owned hosting company, ARIN Member and a RIPE LIR. We own all our IPs and hardware. The doctor is still here and still stronger than ever and can satisfy all your hosting needs.

Useful Links Section:
Terms of Service: https://drserver.net/termsofservice.php
AUP: https://drserver.net/aup.php
Ticket us: https://portal.drserver.net/?/tickets/new/
Forum: https://forum.drserver.net
Blog: https://blog.drserver.net
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drserver.net/
Twiter: https://twitter.com/drservervps

FAQ:
Q: Do you allow gameservers?
Because most gameservers generally attract (D)DoS attacks, we currently do not allow them on our network.
This also applies to voiceservers such as Teamspeak and Mumble.
Q: Can I run a VPN?
Private VPN servers are perfectly fine with us. Public ones, however, are not.
Q: What's your refund policy?
We do have a 30-day refund policy for your first service with us.
Q: What payment methods are accepted?
We accept payments via PayPal and BitPay.
Q: Do you have a test IP/file?
Yes.
Q: Do you offer instant setup?
Servers on this offer are instantly provisioned, subject to stock availability.

Network Info:
Dallas, USA
Test IPv4: 192.138.210.63
Test IPv6: 2604:0880:0052:0000:0000:0000:01e5:657b
Test file(IPv4): http://lg-dal.ipv4.drserver.net/100MB.test
Looking glass(IPv4): http://lg-dal.ipv4.drserver.net/
Test file(IPv6): http://lg-dal.ipv6.drserver.net/100MB.test
Looking glass(IPv6): http://lg-dal.ipv6.drserver.net/

All network ports have DDoS protection. Our bandwidth mix includes: Level 3, Cogent, Hurricane Electric, GTT, Telia, Equinix Peering, DECIX Peering, Private Peering.

Thanks for reading the thread!
Have a good day!

willie

2x Intel® Xeon® E5-2650v2, 64 GB DDR3 RAM, 2 x 200 GB SSD, 100Mbps DDoS protected unmetered port ... $61/month

This is crazy. Hats off.

uptime

here's some geekbench for the KVM-S

already decent before enabling CPU passthrough: https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/14625492

and really "ludicrous" performance after passthrough was enabled: https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/14625544

I kept an eye on CPU steal time while running the multicore benchmarks - usually under 1%. rarely spiking up to (once) 3%. No complaints about that - when idling it's usually 0%, rarely above 0.2%

Note I'm running with full-disk encryption (LVM on LUKS) so the AES flag was a significant boost. (Also keep in mind if comparing disk numbers to some other setup without encryption)

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CPU model            : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2690 v2 @ 3.00GHz
Number of cores      : 4
CPU frequency        : 2992.694 MHz
Total size of Disk   : 84.2 GB (1.2 GB Used)
Total amount of Mem  : 3946 MB (87 MB Used)
Total amount of Swap : 4095 MB (0 MB Used)
System uptime        : 0 days, 0 hour 28 min
Load average         : 0.07, 0.14, 0.16
OS                   : Debian GNU/Linux 10
Arch                 : x86_64 (64 Bit)
Kernel               : 4.19.0-6-amd64
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I/O speed(1st run)   : 275 MB/s
I/O speed(2nd run)   : 506 MB/s
I/O speed(3rd run)   : 519 MB/s
Average I/O speed    : 433.3 MB/s

Still need to give the network a proper workout - might need to do some tuning - but ultimately am expecting good things.

Support has been ridiculously fast to answer 3 tickets over the weekend.

First one asking to adjust invoice to reflect the $7 price with promo code that I couldn't figure out where to enter. Second to mount Debian 10 ISO for installation. Third was to request enabling AES flag and/or CPU passthrough. (Thank you "LJ" ... Support is apparently working out of China so might also expect good possibilities for agreeable Chinese-language support as well? That is good to see.)

doughnet

Vps have 1gbit port?

Any back up options available for the vps?

uptime

doughnet said: Vps have 1gbit port?

Seems to be the case - for example iperf to Psychz in Chicago yields 828 Mbits/sec

Transfer via scp to a nearby server in Dallas (HostDoc) hits about 33 MB/s

But I've been seeing slower speeds (more like 50 mbits) when doing scp to other places (including Psychz in Chicago) - not sure what's going on with that.

Will need to take a closer look with mtr when I get a chance. (I suspect this was a temporary condition possibly related to DDoS protection due to some abuse happening elsewhere in Incero Dallas network - as per recent news from @HostDoc. Just speculating, don't have much time to dig into the gory details at the moment ... kind of hoping it will have been resolved by the time I get back to it )

EDIT2:

just pushed 1 GB to Psychz Chicago via scp at 45 MB/s

but am now pulling that same file back to DrServer Dallas at more like 4 MB/s

so there's something up with incoming traffic at the moment (guessing DDoS filtering)

but - tl;dr: yes, VPS is on gigabit port ...

Radi

@uptime If you wish provide a traceroute to Chicago and I'll see what our networking team can do for this.

Neoon

Nice DUEL servers you got there.

uptime

@Radi said:
@uptime If you wish provide a traceroute to Chicago and I'll see what our networking team can do for this.

Hello - ticket #685892 - has a few mtr reports to and from Chicago.

Let me know if any other info might help.

EDIT2:

Got it sorted now - seems to have been an issue with the network driver (apparently specifying virtio driver did the trick to fix the slow inbound transfer).

Just pulled a few GB from Psychz in Chicago at better than 30 MB/s via scp, https, and http to test. Happy to be able to say "newtork is fast my man" and support has been impressive.

The main thing I was looking to get from this particular $7 deal was a stable system and decent network. Turns out it's got a surplus of superior potassium all around (once teh virtualizor gets with the program)

Good stuff

Unixfy

The SSL certificate on your forum is expired for about 440 days.

levnode

What is the price of IP?

Kit

"100Mbps DDoS protected unmetered port "
Any chance to upgrade to 1Gbit Port -with BW limits ?

Radi

@Unixfy said:
The SSL certificate on your forum is expired for about 440 days.

Will be updated tonight, thank you.

@levnode said:
What is the price of IP?

Please open a ticket for a quote.

@Kit said:
"100Mbps DDoS protected unmetered port "
Any chance to upgrade to 1Gbit Port -with BW limits ?

Yes sure. Please open a ticket with required bandwidth limit and desired product.

anny

I like your service

SpeedTest

@anny said: I like your service

can you stop this! you are bumping every thread! seems you like a lot of providers