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You could also try GTT through KPN International (which they own now). Pretty good in Europe too. Telia is probably your best bet though.
Yep, supposedly GTT is lighting up in LU soon, so that could be an option.
Francisco
The crate has arrived! They'll start racking some nodes tomorrow.
Since we're having to do the shuffle in the current racks we can't just rack everything at once or move the drives over. We'll be able to get 5 - 10 nodes swapped in for the first couple days and then it should move quick once the 10gig is run.
Francisco
For what it's worth, I'd pay more and/or be happy with a monthly transfer limit in exchange for higher quality bandwidth. I get that there's users that pump a lot of data over the tubes all day long, but I just want something where I can host sites that load quickly and probably use less than 50 GB monthly per VPS
Sure
I'm going to look at all options, i'm just waiting for some quotes to arrive.
Francisco
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
The cabs ah here!
Francisco
I had seen this post and got me all excited.... NOW just waiting for that "in stock" part...
Slab in lux? Are we there yet?
Soon...
@Francisco Ditching Cogent in LU?
No, we'd keep them for bulk either way. The goal is to add more transit and peering.
Francisco
Have you decided what’s next?
For bandwidth/etc? or what's on your mind?
As of right now I got a quote request with luxnetwork for an XC to LUXCONNECT1 and colocation for a switch. I also have a quote request with Telia.
I got a standing offer with lu-cix, but I may not go with it if I can get PNI's on the colocated switch.
Francisco
Would this add network connectivity like seen on https://lg.luxnetwork.eu and https://bgp.he.net/AS29467 to our slices and Stallion-powered BGP sessions?
They have direct links to FRA, PAR, AMS, LON, including connections to DE-CIX, France-IX, AMS-IX and nice direct peerings (even with DTAG). If their pipes aren't as congested as Cogent (to certain destinations), this could be a really sweet add-on.
No we'd only use them for transport.
It comes down to how fancy we want to get. IPTransit.com has a great blend, but it extends the AS PATH by +2, meaning users wanting to anycast on us will need to prepend to balance things out. Still, a blend of NTT/Telia/Level3/HE/Cogent is quite nice, just doesn't deal with DTAG worth a snot.
The other idea is we get a switch in LUX1 and backhaul it to LUX2 and then PNI/whatever over there.
I might look at doing the switch/backhaul from somewhere else entirely (FR/DE maybe) where I could then get RETN or whatever else.
Francisco
I see, thanks for yet another deep dive.
Basically the idea with IPTransit.com doesn't sound bad. They are also connected to DE-CIX and AMS-IX where probably a lot of traffic can be directly offloaded without requiring any Tier1 transit. However it's just an educated guess, hard to tell without a looking glass.
I wouldn't worry to much about the additional ASN. If somebody as anycasting on your network, he will (or has to) know how to properly prepend.
The lack of connectivity to DTAG with their stupid peering policy could be a show-stopper if you intent to address German customers. Today's speeds from LU Slice via Cogent to DTAG where only about 800-1,000 kbps (while other destinations easily reached 500+ Mbps).
I'd consider Telia a good choice (PoP in LU, links to FRA and PAR) but depending on Telia's offer, I guess IPTransit.com could be cheaper per Mbit as they are able to balance over multiple upstreams. In the end latency and throuhput will be more important than another ASN. On the other hand traffic engineering could be more difficult with IPTransit in between instead of a direct Telia peering.
Running good here.
With 10gig on the Hypervisors reaching 1gig should be no problem
To DTAG?
Like I said, I am happy with throughput to most destinations (!=DTAG), but DTAG (via Cogent) is, well, a bit "limited".
Most likely congested tiny pipes connecting Cogent to DTAG.
Just an update for people.
Ryzen is going in! Many users have already upgraded but many more to go. We had some delays due to a man power shortage in the LUX datacenter.
We expect to have the 10gbit network online in the next few hours at which point I can start migrating everyone else.
Woohoo!
Francisco
@Francisco thank you. My migration has been completed successfully.
Stallion access will be spotty at best until all migrations are done.
Francisco
I know it isn't fair to benchmark while migration is going on; but I couldn't resist taking a quick test drive.
Performance wasn't bad before at all. But these AMD chips now easily doubled CPU performance from ~2300 to ~5000 GeekBench4 points.
Great work, Fran!
@Francisco Does that mean that LUX slices will be restocked soon?
This week!
Wait for the must to have collection
My network was slow but assume it's because it was done via a filtered ip?
Nope, I basically killed the network with all the migrations >_> Our 10gig network wasn't able to be brought up at the start like i was hoping so we've got some ports that, as one person put it, are melting they're running so hot.
Anyway, they got the 40gbit/10gbit wired up so i'll be cutting the nodes over to that shortly, I just need to deal with the dumpster fire of a support queue.
Francisco
@Francisco melting network ports since 2020
Glad to hear your getting it sorted I thought it was because of protection not configured correctly for the new network or something.