Looking for Reliable Storage VPS in Chicago

agoldenberg

Would love something along the lines of 500GB of storage. The rest isn't really important. Gigabit port would be nice for fast transfers.

Let me know

mike0000

Uh.. @drserver

He has a 150GB promo, but I'm sure you could work something out with him.

drserver

Hi,

We can do that, please specify other specs so i can make you decent offer.

aus

Backupsy. (500GB for $12)

agoldenberg

@drserver I'd like maybe 1 gb of ram but aside from that doesn't matter what else..

drserver

75 usd per year or 7.5 usd per month

Xen pv - 4 cores - 1gb ram - 500 gb hdd - 3tb @ 1gbps, 3 ip addresses and 30 ipv6 addresses. It can be delivered as resource pool so you can create multiple vps servers from that resources.

agoldenberg

@drserver I'll take it

drserver

Pm-ed

agoldenberg

Probably going to take a look at Backupsy. Got one from @DrServer but the IO is god awful and all I'm using this for is IO.

DalekOfSkaro

agoldenberg said: the IO is god awful

Well, HDD + XEN PV = Modest I/O. If you need high I/O then you need SSD. Otherwise, get a low-end dedicated server with a decent CPU and HDD.

Our of curiosity, what I/O did you get from @DrServer and what are your expectations?

agoldenberg

@DalekOfSkaro Here's what I found:

root@backup:~# bash bench.sh 
CPU model : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 0 @ 2.00GHz
Number of cores : 4
CPU frequency : 2000.038 MHz
Total amount of ram : 987 MB
Total amount of swap : 0 MB
System uptime : 27 min, 
Download speed from CacheFly: 95.8MB/s 
Download speed from Coloat, Atlanta GA: 5.22MB/s 
Download speed from Softlayer, Dallas, TX: 65.9MB/s 
Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 11.9MB/s 
Download speed from i3d.net, Rotterdam, NL: 9.30MB/s
Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 22.4MB/s 
Download speed from Softlayer, Singapore: 8.22MB/s 
Download speed from Softlayer, Seattle, WA: 41.6MB/s 
Download speed from Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 33.9MB/s 
Download speed from Softlayer, Washington, DC: 73.2MB/s 
I/O speed : 9.2 MB/s

I'd like to have at least 90-100MB/s

Brad

@agoldenberg please try again. It should be better now that it is SSD Cached

DalekOfSkaro

agoldenberg said: I/O speed : 9.2 MB/s

OK... That's a bit too low. For HDD and XENPV you should get something between 40~60 MB/s actually.

agoldenberg said: I'd like to have at least 90-100MB/s

For that you need either SSD-Cached or PureSSD, and I highly doubt you can find that in your price range...

The best I could ever get on a HDD was this:

dd if=/dev/zero of=1g bs=1M count=1024 oflag=direct
1024+0 records in
1024+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 2.18725 s, 491 MB/s

Edited with a newer test result

But this is VirtualBox, in New York, and it'd cost you a more than $7.5/mo.

What you're looking for is out there, but probably not at the price you seek.

aggressivenetworks

Something is not configured right on the node end or someone abusing the node like hell.

drserver

we have little issue with "slow lorris attack"

root@vesta-backup:~# ioping . -c 10
4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/xvda1): request=1 time=6.3 ms
4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/xvda1): request=2 time=0.4 ms
4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/xvda1): request=3 time=0.4 ms
4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/xvda1): request=4 time=0.5 ms
4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/xvda1): request=5 time=0.4 ms
4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/xvda1): request=6 time=0.4 ms
4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/xvda1): request=7 time=0.5 ms
4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/xvda1): request=8 time=0.5 ms
4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/xvda1): request=9 time=0.4 ms
4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/xvda1): request=10 time=0.4 ms

--- . (ext3 /dev/xvda1) ioping statistics ---
10 requests completed in 9011.9 ms, 981 iops, 3.8 mb/s
min/avg/max/mdev = 0.4/1.0/6.3/1.8 ms

root@vesta-backup:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync && rm test
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 19.6024 s, 54.8 MB/s
root@vesta-backup:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=8k conv=fdatasync && rm test
8192+0 records in
8192+0 records out
536870912 bytes (537 MB) copied, 6.88777 s, 77.9 MB/s
root@vesta-backup:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=4k conv=fdatasync && rm test
4096+0 records in
4096+0 records out
268435456 bytes (268 MB) copied, 3.60143 s, 74.5 MB/s

@agoldenberg please confirm

drserver

aggressivenetworks said: Something is not configured right on the node end or someone abusing the node like hell.

4 users preformed 150gb DD at the same time, everything colapsed, services are fully restored now

DalekOfSkaro

drserver said: 4 users preformed 150gb DD at the same time, everything colapsed, services are fully restored now

You never fail to take care of issues the right way and maintain transparency, do you? Kudos!

drserver

DalekOfSkaro said: You never fail to take care of issues the right way and maintain transparency, do you? Kudos!

Thank you for kind words, however i have nothing to hide. Best pard EnhanceIO died due massive sequential writes. It is bad situation to be in. Solution is to disable sequential Write caching that would be saver however then famous dd tests will be slow. Best part we use raid 6 with 10 drives in total. Major problem here is raid6 write penalty. All vps servers on the node are preforming normal however there are situations with "bad" IO.

I would like to apologize to all users affected by this.

vimalware

@drserver said:
4 users preformed 150gb DD at the same time, everything colapsed, services are fully restored now

New level for benchmark fetish unlocked: Spinning rust rape fetish .

JoeBiss

@drserver do you have a website? I need a long term VPS and I want to use it for many years. Are you able to provide that?

Thanks!

drserver

@JoeBiss

drserver.net - abusivecores.com - sugarvps.com - byteshack.net - xenstorage.com - dirtcheap.ninja

What kind of specs are you looking for ?

JoeBiss

I'm looking for the same spec as the OP. Can I upgrade later on to 1TB? location? do you allow torrents for private use? and do you accept other than Paypal? Thanks!