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SSDNodes - $86/yr for 8vCPU+32GB ram?

AXYZEAXYZE Member

Hey. I just saw this offer which is ending in about 45 minutes.
https://www.ssdnodes.com/sale/9yr-anniversary/?e=blog&q=banner-blogpost-a-32gb-ram-offer
Can anybody share opinion about SSDNodes? I found 0 info about their 9yr anniversary sale online. Only catch I found is that to get this prices you need to pay for 3 years.

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  • skorupionskorupion Member, Host Rep

    Asked them on live chat about refunds.
    They said just buy one and in case of anything they will refund you

    Thanked by 1AXYZE
  • Their performance is terrible.. you could browse it here..

    https://www.lowendtalk.com/search?Search=Ssdnodes

    Thanked by 1webcraft
  • I was checking their reviews over the internet for a while. The reviews were horrible. Especially hard to get a refund from them.

  • nvmenvme Member
    edited July 2021

    I had come across them through Reddit and they have bad reviews. Check this - https://lmgtfy.app/?q=ssdnodes+review+reddit

    And do not get fooled by their offer, they have never ending sale. 😁 You will find same prices tomorrow.

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  • skorupionskorupion Member, Host Rep

    THEY ARE ON LET @SSDNodes

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  • You are going to risk $250 on a LET host? and expect it to work for 3 years? HAHAHAHAHAHA

  • It's like an OpenVz kvm

  • AXYZEAXYZE Member

    So I decided to buy KVM / X-LARGE for $120yr (for 3 years it would be $80/yr, but 3 years man?)
    8vCPU Intel Silver
    32GB RAM
    480GB NVMe
    16TB transfer
    I chose Germany location and Ubuntu 20.04

    yabs.sh

    ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ##

    Yet-Another-Bench-Script

    v2021-06-05

    https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script

    ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ##

    Mon Jul 12 18:45:43 UTC 2021

    Basic System Information:

    Processor : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650 v4 @ 2.20GHz
    CPU cores : 8 @ 2199.996 MHz
    AES-NI : ✔ Enabled
    VM-x/AMD-V : ❌ Disabled
    RAM : 31.4 GiB
    Swap : 0.0 KiB
    Disk : 472.4 GiB

    fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):

    Block Size 4k (IOPS) 64k (IOPS)
    Read 69.41 MB/s (17.3k) 698.14 MB/s (10.9k)
    Write 69.60 MB/s (17.4k) 701.82 MB/s (10.9k)
    Total 139.02 MB/s (34.7k) 1.39 GB/s (21.8k)
    Block Size 512k (IOPS) 1m (IOPS)
    ------ --- ---- ---- ----
    Read 5.03 GB/s (9.8k) 1.18 GB/s (1.1k)
    Write 5.29 GB/s (10.3k) 1.26 GB/s (1.2k)
    Total 10.33 GB/s (20.1k) 2.45 GB/s (2.3k)

    iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):

    Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed
    | | |
    Clouvider | London, UK (10G) | 3.67 Gbits/sec | 5.50 Gbits/sec
    Online.net | Paris, FR (10G) | 7.76 Gbits/sec | 5.87 Gbits/sec
    WorldStream | The Netherlands (10G) | 6.57 Gbits/sec | 3.01 Gbits/sec
    Biznet | Jakarta, Indonesia (1G) | 784 Mbits/sec | 70.2 Mbits/sec
    Clouvider | NYC, NY, US (10G) | 1.93 Gbits/sec | 1.97 Gbits/sec
    Velocity Online | Tallahassee, FL, US (10G) | 1.26 Gbits/sec | 1.83 Gbits/sec
    Clouvider | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 234 Mbits/sec | 995 Mbits/sec
    Iveloz Telecom | Sao Paulo, BR (2G) | 223 Mbits/sec | 900 Mbits/sec

    iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv6):

    Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed
    | | |
    Clouvider | London, UK (10G) | 7.58 Gbits/sec | 3.93 Gbits/sec
    Online.net | Paris, FR (10G) | 7.58 Gbits/sec | 5.10 Gbits/sec
    WorldStream | The Netherlands (10G) | 8.11 Gbits/sec | busy
    Clouvider | NYC, NY, US (10G) | 1.34 Gbits/sec | 2.11 Gbits/sec
    Clouvider | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 132 Mbits/sec | 1.13 Gbits/sec

    Geekbench 5 Benchmark Test:

    Test | Value
    |
    Single Core | 464
    Multi Core | 2741
    Full Test | https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/8792242

    Results are crazy good and meh at the same time. 512k disk speed is amazing, but Geekbench not so much. Overall its great offer, as long as perf wont degrade after refund period XD If that happens I'll post new yabs here

  • @AXYZE When E5 became Silver?

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  • skorupionskorupion Member, Host Rep

    @CalmDown said:
    @AXYZE When E5 became Silver?

    today

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  • AXYZEAXYZE Member

    @nvme said:
    I had come across them through Reddit and they have bad reviews. Check this - https://lmgtfy.app/?q=ssdnodes+review+reddit

    And do not get fooled by their offer, they have never ending sale. 😁 You will find same prices tomorrow.

    Yea I just saw that now their website says sale ends in 57 minutes XD So like you said they bait with never ending sales.

    Aaaand they baited me... lets see if perf will stay the same for whole year, because for now benchmarks show amazing value. I have new production site coming in this month and I'll see how it runs with constant usage, although it wont be really high load. ExpressJS+Nuxt will generate many static pages every minute or so and it scales nicely with many cores.

  • AXYZEAXYZE Member

    @CalmDown said:
    @AXYZE When E5 became Silver?

    They call them Intel Silver on their page. Look below "Performance VPS". I've copied their specs and then showed how yabs reads it.
    I'm not exactly sure if that is indeed E5 v4 because lscpu specs are completely different - for example it says that this CPU has 128MB L3 cache when E5-2650 v4 has 30MB. Even if there is multiple sockets that still wont be 128MB. Its KVM tbw.

  • Maybe ask them if they actually delivered what you paid for

  • AXYZEAXYZE Member

    @databoss said:
    Maybe ask them if they actually delivered what you paid for

    I've just created ticket :) Now we need to wait for their explanation

  • The sale has been going on for years.

  • scookescooke Member

    I’m running a Cloudron installation on a Performance vps with 32GB ram and 480GB storage, running a crap load of wp sites, mastodon, matrix, moodle, Ghost blogs, etc. It’s fine for me. Read up on their cancellation policy https://www.ssdnodes.com/SSD_Nodes_TOS.pdf, for some it’s way too strict. I personally have cancelled services with the proper time frame, and used any residual payment to go towards another vps (I was upgrading due to deals and needing more space).

  • bruh21bruh21 Member, Host Rep

    @AXYZE said:

    @databoss said:
    Maybe ask them if they actually delivered what you paid for

    I've just created ticket :) Now we need to wait for their explanation

    post when you hear back

  • KassemKassem Member

    @AXYZE

    Can you create a 25GBs ext4 filesystem on the RAM and then try to copy a large file into it to fill it and see if that is successful?

    https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/491900

  • @kassem I'm a noob on some things- what are you trying to accomplish and why this specific vendor? or are you testing it everywhere for some useful reason?

  • aiden1aiden1 Member

    search ssdnodes on the purple forum, it's pretty much people complaining about being throttled, unable to use any of their 'xeon gold' cores, not even 5 minute transcode jobs, all sorts of oddities that don't match up at all with the type of spec you're supposed to receive

  • AXYZEAXYZE Member
    edited July 2021

    @Kassem said:
    @AXYZE

    Can you create a 25GBs ext4 filesystem on the RAM and then try to copy a large file into it to fill it and see if that is successful?

    https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/491900

    I've tested 28GB with memtester.
    28GB + system + other apps = ~29.4GB ram usage.
    Memtester should be better option than just trying to put file without byte-level.
    0 errors during 2h+ load.

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  • And I doubt it's ending in 45mins, that's just a part of their marketing strategy. I'm sure that deal has been on their site for ages.

    Thanked by 1webcraft
  • Let's See

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  • MikeInMikeIn Member

    The deal refreshes back to ~59 min.........

  • AXYZEAXYZE Member

    @bruh21 said:

    @AXYZE said:

    @databoss said:
    Maybe ask them if they actually delivered what you paid for

    I've just created ticket :) Now we need to wait for their explanation

    post when you hear back

    @skorupion @CalmDown @databoss @bruh21

    SSDNodes recreated my server in another node. I got different IP and lscpu now says its "Intel Xeon Silver 4214". Yesterday I also switched from Ubuntu to Debian and saw some differences with I/O. With Debian 512K I/O is a lot slower, but 1M is way faster.
    Keep that in mind if you compare Yabs from below, because it is also from Debian.

    I did two Yabs.sh, one after another and perf is almost identical. Results from second run:

    Basic System Information:

    Processor : Intel(R) Xeon(R) Silver 4214 CPU @ 2.20GHz
    CPU cores : 8 @ 2199.994 MHz
    AES-NI : ✔ Enabled
    VM-x/AMD-V : ❌ Disabled
    RAM : 31.4 GiB
    Swap : 0.0 KiB
    Disk : 472.4 GiB

    fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):

    Block Size 4k (IOPS) 64k (IOPS)
    Read 83.65 MB/s (20.9k) 1.85 GB/s (28.9k)
    Write 83.87 MB/s (20.9k) 1.86 GB/s (29.0k)
    Total 167.53 MB/s (41.8k) 3.71 GB/s (57.9k)
    Block Size 512k (IOPS) 1m (IOPS)
    ------ --- ---- ---- ----
    Read 1.40 GB/s (2.7k) 4.24 GB/s (4.1k)
    Write 1.47 GB/s (2.8k) 4.52 GB/s (4.4k)
    Total 2.87 GB/s (5.6k) 8.77 GB/s (8.5k)

    iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):

    Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed
    | | |
    Clouvider | London, UK (10G) | 3.18 Gbits/sec | 4.63 Gbits/sec
    Online.net | Paris, FR (10G) | 7.07 Gbits/sec | 5.49 Gbits/sec
    WorldStream | The Netherlands (10G) | 7.06 Gbits/sec | 3.97 Gbits/sec
    Biznet | Jakarta, Indonesia (1G) | 768 Mbits/sec | 64.4 Mbits/sec
    Clouvider | NYC, NY, US (10G) | 1.57 Gbits/sec | 1.95 Gbits/sec
    Velocity Online | Tallahassee, FL, US (10G) | 1.50 Gbits/sec | 1.76 Gbits/sec
    Clouvider | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 1.94 Mbits/sec | 1.12 Gbits/sec
    Iveloz Telecom | Sao Paulo, BR (2G) | 253 Mbits/sec | 520 Mbits/sec

    iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv6):

    Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed
    | | |
    Clouvider | London, UK (10G) | 6.87 Gbits/sec | 3.52 Gbits/sec
    Online.net | Paris, FR (10G) | 7.05 Gbits/sec | 4.92 Gbits/sec
    WorldStream | The Netherlands (10G) | 6.68 Gbits/sec | 3.24 Gbits/sec
    Clouvider | NYC, NY, US (10G) | 1.83 Gbits/sec | 1.93 Gbits/sec
    Clouvider | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 1.95 Mbits/sec | 1.04 Gbits/sec

    Geekbench 5 Benchmark Test:

    Test | Value
    |
    Single Core | 505
    Multi Core | 2893
    Full Test | https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/8803029

    From benchmark we can learn that:

    • I/O and network perf is basically the same as on wrong done with E5 CPU
    • CPU is just a little bit faster

    In terms of support:

    • I reported this problem at 15:19
    • They replied with kinda generic "we'll check this" on 15:49
    • They offered me switch to another node at 02:54
    • I agreed at 09:46
    • They did it on 09:52

    Pretty fast support.

    Server is still located in Frankfurt, Germany. Awesome ping/tracert from various Polish providers from what I tested yesterday. It's on par with Hetzner. Slightly faster than Netcup which can route through Czech Republic/Czechia.

    Would you guys want another benchmark? This server is idling for 4 weeks and then I will use it for production. I jumped on this offer so fast because I didn't know that this promotion lasts forever XD

  • @AXYZE said:
    Would you guys want another benchmark? This server is idling for 4 weeks and then I will use it for production.

    Post YABS every 4 weeks and you will know the result.. and take backups periodically..

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  • Agree, their ToS is pretty restrictive. I know most hosts are against crypto mining, which is fair. However, even if you were to run something like BTCPay (which is just a payment gateway in crypto), SSDNodes does not let it.

    I had their OVZ line for a couple of years, they upgraded to OVZ7 when OVZ7 was announced and I experienced a lot of unexpected reboots. OVZ7 as a product wasn't stable then. Thankfully, they closed that down. The KVM prices are comparable with the old OVZ range, they reduced the SSD storage by a fraction to keep it profitable. Haven't tried their KVM line, but like @scooke mentioned, it is good for regular websites, web services etc.

    They usually have a 7 day refund period, I have personally signed up and cancelled services and the payment has been refunded to my Paypal. Support is also good.

    TL;DR - Most regular users will not have any issues with SSDNodes. Run your websites, host your applications etc. and you will hardly notice anything.

  • bruh21bruh21 Member, Host Rep

    @AXYZE said:

    @bruh21 said:

    @AXYZE said:

    @databoss said:
    Maybe ask them if they actually delivered what you paid for

    I've just created ticket :) Now we need to wait for their explanation

    post when you hear back

    @skorupion @CalmDown @databoss @bruh21

    SSDNodes recreated my server in another node. I got different IP and lscpu now says its "Intel Xeon Silver 4214". Yesterday I also switched from Ubuntu to Debian and saw some differences with I/O. With Debian 512K I/O is a lot slower, but 1M is way faster.
    Keep that in mind if you compare Yabs from below, because it is also from Debian.

    I did two Yabs.sh, one after another and perf is almost identical. Results from second run:

    Basic System Information:

    Processor : Intel(R) Xeon(R) Silver 4214 CPU @ 2.20GHz
    CPU cores : 8 @ 2199.994 MHz
    AES-NI : ✔ Enabled
    VM-x/AMD-V : ❌ Disabled
    RAM : 31.4 GiB
    Swap : 0.0 KiB
    Disk : 472.4 GiB

    fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):

    Block Size 4k (IOPS) 64k (IOPS)
    Read 83.65 MB/s (20.9k) 1.85 GB/s (28.9k)
    Write 83.87 MB/s (20.9k) 1.86 GB/s (29.0k)
    Total 167.53 MB/s (41.8k) 3.71 GB/s (57.9k)
    Block Size 512k (IOPS) 1m (IOPS)
    ------ --- ---- ---- ----
    Read 1.40 GB/s (2.7k) 4.24 GB/s (4.1k)
    Write 1.47 GB/s (2.8k) 4.52 GB/s (4.4k)
    Total 2.87 GB/s (5.6k) 8.77 GB/s (8.5k)

    iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):

    Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed
    | | |
    Clouvider | London, UK (10G) | 3.18 Gbits/sec | 4.63 Gbits/sec
    Online.net | Paris, FR (10G) | 7.07 Gbits/sec | 5.49 Gbits/sec
    WorldStream | The Netherlands (10G) | 7.06 Gbits/sec | 3.97 Gbits/sec
    Biznet | Jakarta, Indonesia (1G) | 768 Mbits/sec | 64.4 Mbits/sec
    Clouvider | NYC, NY, US (10G) | 1.57 Gbits/sec | 1.95 Gbits/sec
    Velocity Online | Tallahassee, FL, US (10G) | 1.50 Gbits/sec | 1.76 Gbits/sec
    Clouvider | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 1.94 Mbits/sec | 1.12 Gbits/sec
    Iveloz Telecom | Sao Paulo, BR (2G) | 253 Mbits/sec | 520 Mbits/sec

    iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv6):

    Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed
    | | |
    Clouvider | London, UK (10G) | 6.87 Gbits/sec | 3.52 Gbits/sec
    Online.net | Paris, FR (10G) | 7.05 Gbits/sec | 4.92 Gbits/sec
    WorldStream | The Netherlands (10G) | 6.68 Gbits/sec | 3.24 Gbits/sec
    Clouvider | NYC, NY, US (10G) | 1.83 Gbits/sec | 1.93 Gbits/sec
    Clouvider | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 1.95 Mbits/sec | 1.04 Gbits/sec

    Geekbench 5 Benchmark Test:

    Test | Value
    |
    Single Core | 505
    Multi Core | 2893
    Full Test | https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/8803029

    From benchmark we can learn that:

    • I/O and network perf is basically the same as on wrong done with E5 CPU
    • CPU is just a little bit faster

    In terms of support:

    • I reported this problem at 15:19
    • They replied with kinda generic "we'll check this" on 15:49
    • They offered me switch to another node at 02:54
    • I agreed at 09:46
    • They did it on 09:52

    Pretty fast support.

    Server is still located in Frankfurt, Germany. Awesome ping/tracert from various Polish providers from what I tested yesterday. It's on par with Hetzner. Slightly faster than Netcup which can route through Czech Republic/Czechia.

    Would you guys want another benchmark? This server is idling for 4 weeks and then I will use it for production. I jumped on this offer so fast because I didn't know that this promotion lasts forever XD

    still seems like a decent deal considering how much ssd you get. just hope it stays performing well

  • AXYZEAXYZE Member

    I've requested refund. Not because VPS has bad performance, but because of this marketing tactic. If this wouldn't be nonstop promo then I wouldn't cancel it tbh. I feel cheated. I couldn't do any proper research or think longer about it and I strongly disapprove this kind of marketing. Its not okay with me and even if product is nice I don't want to support them with my money.

    Second reason is that they push 3yr plan + average opinions around (even in this topic). Too many red lights. I'll check PHP-Friends now or I will choose old trusty OVH/Netcup for this project, because I'm sure performance wont degrade with time.

    It was my mistake that I jumped to provider that I didn't know about earlier and chose long plan without research. Lessons learned.

    Thanked by 1o_be_one
  • bruh21bruh21 Member, Host Rep

    @AXYZE said:
    I've requested refund. Not because VPS has bad performance, but because of this marketing tactic. If this wouldn't be nonstop promo then I wouldn't cancel it tbh. I feel cheated. I couldn't do any proper research or think longer about it and I strongly disapprove this kind of marketing. Its not okay with me and even if product is nice I don't want to support them with my money.

    Second reason is that they push 3yr plan + average opinions around (even in this topic). Too many red lights. I'll check PHP-Friends now or I will choose old trusty OVH/Netcup for this project, because I'm sure performance wont degrade with time.

    It was my mistake that I jumped to provider that I didn't know about earlier and chose long plan without research. Lessons learned.

    what kind of specs do you need for this project anyways?

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