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VPSDime, 7$ Yearly Review, 6 Months
Hi there,
A Review about VPSDime 7$ 512MB offer, Specs:
1 vCPU (E3 1230v2)
512MB Memory, 256MB vSwap
7GB Pure SSD Space (RAID1)
1 IP Address and some IPv6
Virtualized with OpenVZ and SolusVM as Panel
2TB Traffic over 1Gbit
Posted here: http://lowendtalk.com/discussion/34035/vpsdime-birthday-special-512mb-ram-7gb-ssd-2tb-traffic-for-7-year/p1
Pros:
- Fast Support
- Good Performance
- Cheap Price
- Good Connection
Cons:
- I/O is really bad
Uptime:
Network Uptime:
DD Benchmark:
Network Benchmark 01:
Network Benchmark 02:
My conclusion: I will keep it, for that Price BUT the I/O could be better.
Comments
Wow, that IO is terrible. Mine:
Edit:
My VPSDime storage box:
I grabbed one of those $7 plans too, no I/O problems on mine.
What's the dd equivalent people use on Windows vps?
I have one of these too, it's awesome. I run XFCE on it for a remote Linux desktop.
For those with such low I/Os, I'd open support tickets. Doesn't look good at all.
This is from mine that I bought from that same special...
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 2.81012 s, 382 MB/s
here
dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync; unlink test; dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=32k count=16k conv=fdatasync; unlink test; dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=16k count=16k conv=fdatasync; unlink test; dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=8k count=16k conv=fdatasync; unlink test 16384+0 records in 16384+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 79.0596 s, 13.6 MB/s 16384+0 records in 16384+0 records out 536870912 bytes (537 MB) copied, 37.6263 s, 14.3 MB/s 16384+0 records in 16384+0 records out 268435456 bytes (268 MB) copied, 18.7134 s, 14.3 MB/s 16384+0 records in 16384+0 records out 134217728 bytes (134 MB) copied, 9.0591 s, 14.8 MB/sMay have to do with the node we're on? I'm on dalyearly1 if that helps.
I am on dalyearly4.
Hi friends on dalyearly2.
Yeah, it's a dalyearly1 thing.
On the upside, network performance is great (as usual for Incero) and it's one of the most stable servers I have.
Same, it's a stable little box and I honestly wouldn't have bothered to check my I/O if it wasn't for this thread because it's one of those boxes that just works and I'm happy with it.
dalyearly2 node also not so good
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Anybody wants to buy this plan? I have 1 idle
P/S: my vps is on Dal3 node with much better I/O
Me too.
VPSDime offer 512MB SSD VPS.
Uptime, Network is good. But I/O Speed is really bad.
They answer..
Hello,
It's two SSDs in software RAID 1. It's a seven dollar a year service. The delivery levels are much different for this service versus our regular service; expectations should likewise be much different.
If writing one gigabyte files will be your actual usage scenario, we would recommend our regular "high RAM" plan, which would indeed have disk benchmark numbers into the several hundred megabyte/second range.
--
Damian Smith
VPSDime Team
I'm waiting for the next float in the dd parade!
Cannot really complain about my VPSDime performance. All are in different nodes.
Box 1:
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/output conv=fdatasync bs=384k count=1k;rm -f /tmp/output 1024+0 records in 1024+0 records out 402653184 bytes (403 MB) copied, 0.586002 s, 687 MB/sBox 2:
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/output conv=fdatasync bs=384k count=1k;rm -f /tmp/output 1024+0 records in 1024+0 records out 402653184 bytes (403 MB) copied, 0.722434 s, 557 MB/sBox 3:
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/output conv=fdatasync bs=384k count=1k;rm -f /tmp/output 1024+0 records in 1024+0 records out 402653184 bytes (403 MB) copied, 0.900956 s, 447 MB/sI had I/O issues with my yearly as well (12-17MB/s), noticed it while downloading a file and the network is ripping 80+MB/s and then it locks up trying to write. I ticketed and they didn't see it on host node, but saw it in container.. said they were looking into it. No update for the last couple weeks.
Ticket was marked low priority and I never bugged them again, can't complain about much when you're paying pennies on a yearly promo.
Yeah, I asked them, They told me every Yearly Plan has a I/O Limit.
HighMemory - LET512MBSSD
Even if that's true*, 15MB/s is really bad.
*which it doesn't seem to be, given all the far higher results mentioned in this thread.
The container is responsive and stable. For $7/year, it's still one hell of a deal.
In my humble opinion, that's a very poor customer service response. Were I/O limits spelled out in the promotion details? If not, then just saying "you get what you paid for" doesn't cut it. What happens in reality is that everyone who has one of these poorly performing VPSes will simply say "VPSDime SSD performance is worse than most HDD providers with failing disks", at best. At worst, that sort of ticket response makes VPSDime promos look like a customer grab with little regard for actual service ("...but we treat our real customers well!").
I have a VPS with them from a different promo, and this response is upsetting to see.
Just my two cents.
On the other hand, I'm curious, for those in the 10-30 MB/s range, does it 'actually' effect performance? Does it really make a noticeable difference in the context of whatever you happen to be using the $7 VPS for or are you just complaining because you see 'a low number' on the screen?
It works well enough for what I want it to do, I thought I'd join in a display mine too.
No, it doesn't affect in a real usage. At least my web server still running fast.
This is exactly why worrying about IO results so much is stupid.
OVH used to (still do?) limit IO to 10 MB/s, I don't think it makes a difference as openvz is smart enough to not limit for small operations.