Delimiter - Dedicated, Storage, VPS, Resource Pool, Backup, Crazy 2x/4x deals

MarkTurner

Copy of email sent out earlier.

Note that additional limited offers will get posted to Twitter and to the Black Friday page https://cc.delimiter.com/cart/black-friday-2015/ over the weekend.

Its Black Friday again, doesn’t time fly!

This will be our third year offering deep discounts for the Black Friday / Cyber Monday weekend.

Stock is limited and offers are valid until 23:59 Monday 30th November or whilst stocks last which every comes sooner.

If you have any questions please email [email protected]


Dedicated Servers
https://cc.delimiter.com/cart/black-friday-2015/

Additional servers will be added from time-to-time over the weekend, be sure to check regularly and also monitor Twitter for flash sales.
Deal 1: HP Dual E5630 (230 available)
- Dual E5630
- 24GB RAM
- 2TB Hard disk or 120GB SSD
- 20TB Bandwidth on gigabit port
- Dedicated ILO/KVM
- /29 IPv4 Subnet (8 IPs, 5 Usable)
- /64 IPv6 Subnet
- Gigabit port
- Dedicated KVM (HP Lights Out) with full graphical KVM, virtual media
- Dedicated Power control (power on/off/reset as required)
- No charge reinstalls via our provisioning system
- Unmanaged

Monthly: $49

Order here

Deal 2: HP Dual E5420 (400 available)
- Dual E5420
- 16GB RAM
- 1TB Hard disk or 120GB SSD
- 10TB Bandwidth on gigabit port
- Dedicated ILO/KVM
- 1 IPv4 Address
- /64 IPv6 Subnet
- Gigabit port
- Dedicated KVM (HP Lights Out) with full graphical KVM, virtual media
- Dedicated Power control (power on/off/reset as required)
- No charge reinstalls via our provisioning system
- Unmanaged

Monthly: $30

Order Here


KVM VPS Resource Pools (from $6/month)
Design your own package with our full high availability (compute, storage and network) platform. You can spin up as many VPS as you have CPU’s in your choice of RAM and Disk configuration.

Private networking, snapshots, dedicated firewall, create OS templates are standard.

Go monthly or quarterly and we’ll double your disk space and bandwidth
Go annually we’ll double all three resources CPU, RAM, disk space and bandwidth

Use coupon BF15-KVMRP-DOUBLE

Order Here

KVM StorageVPS (from $6/month)
Delimiter’s new KVM StorageVPS offers KVM VPS with full high availability (compute, storage and network), your choice of CPU/RAM/Disk resources, snapshots and separate firewall.

Go monthly or quarterly and we’ll double your disk space and bandwidth
Go annually we’ll double all three resources CPU, RAM, disk space and bandwidth

Use coupon BF15-CSVPS-DOUBLE

Order Here

ObjectStorage (from $2.50/month)
ObjectStorage is a fully compatible S3 object store, it can be used to serve files/images for offloading, secure backup, its compatible with applications like OwnCloud, Wordpress Backup/Offloading (using our free plugins)

Go quarterly and we’ll double your resources
Go annually we’ll quadruple your resources

Order Here

Use coupon BF15-OBJ-DOUBLE

R1Soft Backup Services
Delimiter’s unmetered R1Soft backup service comes complete with an R1Soft agent license. Additional licenses can be ordered at checkout.

Go quarterly and we’ll double your storage
Go annually we’ll quadruple your storage

Order Here

Use coupon BF15-R1SOFT-DOUBLE

Awmusic12635

Just a heads up, your bottom two links 404

MarkTurner

Awmusic12635 said: Just a heads up, your bottom two links 404

Teach me to tweak the links :) Thanks for the heads-up!

WHT

The key of Delimiter success will be new design and add second disk in the offers like 2x2 TB with 24GB ram for $49. Am sure this will boost your sales to +30%. Just a suggestion. Great offer anyway.

MarkTurner

WHT said: The key of Delimiter success will be new design

Also the key to my sanity :)

WHT said: add second disk in the offers like 2x2 TB with 24GB ram for $49

You can do that with some old second/third hand disks, there are a lot of very cheap 4-5 year old disks out there but its a little insulting to dish them out to your customers. One thing that has always kept me (personally) a loyal OVH customer is I have never had a disk older than 5 months, whilst a new disk can still fail, I prefer to have the odds on my side.

Thanks for your insight though, its appreciated!

vimalware

@MarkTurner said: You can do that with some old second/third hand disks, there are a lot of very cheap 4-5 year old disks out there

Before I snagged my $25 Dacentec, I would have fine with one 500G between 3-12 months old (passed 'disk infant mortality') and second arbitrarily older 500G. (mdadm RAID1 only obviously)

Pass the word up to management. Single disk offers on cheap dual-Xeon is kinda er 'unbalanced' unless it's a pure compute node.

qq7119

@MarkTurner said:

Annual contract coupon can not be applied

rpollestad

Are all dedicated offers in Atlanta? Or elsewhere?

MarkTurner

qq7119 said: Annual contract coupon can not be applied

Which product?

MarkTurner

vimalware said: Pass the word up to management. Single disk offers on cheap dual-Xeon is kinda er 'unbalanced' unless it's a pure compute node.

You could always request it with 2 x 1TB instead of 2TB or 2 x 500GB instead of 1TB

MarkTurner

rpollestad said: Are all dedicated offers in Atlanta? Or elsewhere?

All Atlanta

qq7119

@MarkTurner said: KVM StorageVPS

MarkTurner

qq7119 said: @MarkTurner said: KVM StorageVPS

It applies fine:

netomx

I want cheaper dedis :x

masterqqq

Is there any looking glass for atlanta?

MarkTurner

netomx said: I want cheaper dedis :x

Still a couple of Atoms left :)

masterqqq said: Is there any looking glass for atlanta?

No, but if you PM me the IPs then I'll run some traceroutes for you

papadock

This is first month payment promotion or lifetime? Thanks

MarkTurner

papadock said: This is first month payment promotion or lifetime? Thanks

Recurring

mikeyur

@MarkTurner said: You could always request it with 2 x 1TB instead of 2TB or 2 x 500GB instead of 1TB

Holding you and Steve to that, lol. Buddy of mine just picked up a box and will be requesting 2 smaller drives

netomx

@MarkTurner said: No, but if you PM me the IPs then I'll run some traceroutes for you

I mean, a dedi I can calle a dedi. A raspberry pi is not :p

MarkTurner

mikeyur said: Holding you and Steve to that, lol. Buddy of mine just picked up a box and will be requesting 2 smaller drives

Not let you down yet :)

mzz

@MarkTurner, your signature says

StorageVPS from $6 use BF15-CSVPS-DOUBLE for double disk on monthly/quarterly & QUAD disk on annual

but the offer says

KVM StorageVPS (from $6/month) […]

Go monthly or quarterly and we’ll double your disk space and bandwidth

Go annually we’ll double all three resources CPU, RAM, disk space and bandwidth

Considering that the promotion code does not reflect in the specs visible in the cart: which version is correct?

On another note the combo box for selecting the billing cycle (monthly, quarterly, yearly) does not update when the price goes above $6 USD, i.e. with more disk space.

MarkTurner

mzz said: Considering that the promotion code does not reflect in the specs visible in the cart: which version is correct?

I've updated my sig, it was from when I had the ObjectSpace offer listed in there which goes quad disk on annual. Its now correct.

mzz said: On another note the combo box for selecting the billing cycle (monthly, quarterly, yearly) does not update when the price goes above $6 USD, i.e. with more disk space.

It works fine, remember the combo box is only showing the base cost as an monthly/quarterly/annual price. The actual cost is above:

i.imgur.com/F7M54wv.png

maarxx

Do you still offer free InterWorx with the dedicated servers deals?

MarkTurner

maarxx said: Do you still offer free InterWorx with the dedicated servers deals?

There is no software included with any of these systems. That was an offer from 2014.

FrankZ

Can anybody who purchased the KVM VPS Resource Pools being offered give an opinion of the performance?

MarkTurner

@FrankZ what tests do you want specifically, I'll run them on mine for you

CFarence

Can the Atom servers run Librenms reliably? And can you get the atoms in other locations beside Atlanta?

FrankZ

time echo "scale=5000; 4*a(1)" | bc -lq
ioping -c 10 /dev/vda1
wget freevps.us/downloads/bench.sh -O - -o /dev/null|bash
and in real world use is it snappy, slow, or somewhere in between?

Yoda

Picked up an ObjSpace! Thanks! :)

DrFallen

Which locations are the kvm resource pools for?

MarkTurner

CFarence said: Can the Atom servers run Librenms reliably? And can you get the atoms in other locations beside Atlanta?

If you want my honest opinion - don't use the Atom servers. There is no dedicated KVM on them and dedicated servers without KVM are just a timebomb.

Order the smallest KVM pool $6, pay it annually and get 2C, 2G, 500GB disk.

MarkTurner

DrFallen said: Which locations are the kvm resource pools for?

Atlanta only for now

MarkTurner

FrankZ said: time echo "scale=5000; 4*a(1)" | bc -lq ioping -c 10 /dev/vda1 wget freevps.us/downloads/bench.sh -O - -o /dev/null|bash and in real world use is it snappy, slow, or somewhere in between?

Just got back from dinner, let me have a look at those for you.

MarkTurner

FrankZ said:

My VM was trashed from earlier testing, so this is a fresh VM:

time echo "scale=5000; 4*a(1)" | bc -lq

My VM is a single core:

real 0m26.473s
user 0m26.457s
sys 0m0.000s

ioping -c 10 /dev/vda1 4.0 KiB from /dev/vdb (device 499.0 GiB): request=1 time=11.5 ms
4.0 KiB from /dev/vdb (device 499.0 GiB): request=2 time=2.1 ms
4.0 KiB from /dev/vdb (device 499.0 GiB): request=3 time=2.3 ms
4.0 KiB from /dev/vdb (device 499.0 GiB): request=4 time=2.9 ms
4.0 KiB from /dev/vdb (device 499.0 GiB): request=5 time=2.7 ms
4.0 KiB from /dev/vdb (device 499.0 GiB): request=6 time=3.0 ms
4.0 KiB from /dev/vdb (device 499.0 GiB): request=7 time=2.6 ms
4.0 KiB from /dev/vdb (device 499.0 GiB): request=8 time=20.6 ms
4.0 KiB from /dev/vdb (device 499.0 GiB): request=9 time=2.9 ms
4.0 KiB from /dev/vdb (device 499.0 GiB): request=10 time=2.6 ms

wget freevps.us/downloads/bench.sh -O - -o /dev/null|bash

Benchmark started on Sat Nov 28 00:07:52 UTC 2015
Full benchmark log: /home/ubuntu/bench.log

System Info
-----------
Processor : QEMU Virtual CPU version 2.0.0
CPU Cores : 1
Frequency : 2666.750 MHz
Memory : 2002 MB
Swap : 0 MB
Uptime : 6 min,

OS : Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS
Arch : x86_64 (64 Bit)
Kernel : 3.13.0-66-generic
Hostname : test01


Speedtest (IPv4 only)
---------------------

Location Provider Speed
CDN Cachefly 107MB/s

Atlanta, GA, US Coloat 47.8MB/s
Dallas, TX, US Softlayer 56.4MB/s
Seattle, WA, US Softlayer 22.1MB/s
San Jose, CA, US Softlayer 23.1MB/s
Washington, DC, US Softlayer 60.2MB/s

Tokyo, Japan Linode 13.1MB/s
Singapore Softlayer 5.83MB/s

Rotterdam, Netherlands id3.net 7.11MB/s
Haarlem, Netherlands Leaseweb 33.4MB/s


Disk Speed
----------
I/O (1st run) : 374 MB/s
I/O (2nd run) : 365 MB/s
I/O (3rd run) : 369 MB/s
Average I/O : 369.333 MB/s

and in real world use is it snappy, slow, or somewhere in between?

This same platform is used for corporate cloud services, its full HA (compute/storage/network) disk is fast, fio:

100% Write, 15 workers / 1MB blocks:
write: io=157439MB, bw=2623.6MB/s, iops=2623, runt= 60011msec

100% Write, 15 workers / 64KB blocks:
write: io=153866MB, bw=2563.1MB/s, iops=41023, runt= 60011msec

cfgguy

@MarkTurner I think the delivery time is quite high. I got one object storage plan yesterday and its still in pending state and ticket i raised is still not answered its more then 16 hours now. View Ticket #645165

0xdragon

@MarkTurner any special offers on colocation? :)

inthecloudblog

Anything with free incoming bw ? Why are considerably short on bw compared to wsi , datashack, online , contabo , ovh , quadra ( free incoming ) and so on ?

MarkTurner

cfgguy said: I think the delivery time is quite high. I got one object storage plan yesterday and its still in pending state and ticket i raised is still not answered its more then 16 hours now. View Ticket #645165

Order review takes place during business hours, nothing going to happen until Monday.

MarkTurner

inthecloudblog said: Anything with free incoming bw ? Why are considerably short on bw compared to wsi , datashack, online , contabo , ovh , quadra ( free incoming ) and so on ?

Nothing, we are quite balanced in/out. Most hosting companies are heavy outbound so incoming isn't important to them.

MarkTurner

0xdragon said: @MarkTurner any special offers on colocation? :)

Unfortunately not

risturiz

Hi, the ObjectStorage have manual review? I only need to apply code and pay annual? Thanks.

MarkTurner

risturiz said: Hi, the ObjectStorage have manual review? I only need to apply code and pay annual? Thanks.

Every order is manually reviewed, its nothing personal :)

Just apply code, pay annual then when the order is reviewed it will get its quota increased and then provisioned.

tdc_adm

Please tell me the difference between KVM VPS Resource Pools and KVM StorageVPS. Thanks.

bersy

StorageVPS - one VM is allowed. Resource Pool - multiple VMs are allowed, just add an additional IP and CPU, it's like Dediserve's Cloud I guess, but in one location and without SSD storage.

What is the difference between Standard and Dynamic Scaling modes?

MarkTurner

bersy said: SSD storage

NVMe fronted storage so very fast; also full HA. I posted some tests with a 200TB disk on one of the threads on here recently.

bersy said: What is the difference between Standard and Dynamic Scaling modes?

Standard means stop the VM, add resources, power up again; dynamic add resources on the fly. This does require OS support and configuration on the VM to support it.

Silvenga

@MarkTurner still a little confused on the differences between the Storage and Resources clouds. Other than the ability to pool with Resources- they both cost the same. Why would we choose Storage over Resources?

Also,

Each Storage VPS includes gigabit uplink with four times the diskspace as included bandwidth

Does this mean if you have 250GB of disk you will have 62.5GB of BW?

MarkTurner

Silvenga said: still a little confused on the differences between the Storage and Resources clouds. Other than the ability to pool with Resources- they both cost the same. Why would we choose Storage over Resources?

The pricing was flat priced for the promo, StorageVPS is limited to 4 CPU, 16GB RAM and single VPS. Resource Pool doesn't impose a limit.

Take Resource Pool for now as its same price

Silvenga said: Does this mean if you have 250GB of disk you will have 62.5GB of BW?

If you have 250GB Disk, you have 250GB transfer

Brain fart see below

tdc_adm

Silvenga said: Each Storage VPS includes gigabit uplink with four times the diskspace as included bandwidth

MarkTurner said: If you have 250GB Disk, you have 250GB transfer

So I thought bandwidth = (diskspace * 4). Correct me if I'm wrong :-/

MarkTurner

tdc_adm said: So I thought bandwidth = (diskspace * 4). Correct me if I'm wrong :-/

Sorry, brain fart. Too many different offers, deals, upgrades, multipliers. I am going to need a PhD to handle this.

You are correct so lets clarify:

bandwidth = disk * 4

upfreak

Took up object storage offer on annual (4x)... paid and waiting to be provisoned,,,,

@MarkTurner Only disk space will be 4x or bandwidth as well?