Database By Design LLC

agoldenberg

Has anyone used them?

Any idea what DC they are in?

I've sent them an email asking about their DC but does anyone else have experience with them as a Dedicated Server provider?

mike0000

From the photo on their About page:

Mad

Honestly I don't know though they are running a successful marketing campaign based on servers' auctions.

agoldenberg

@mikeyur Thanks for that! Got in on a deal they have for an E3-1270 box at $41/mo in this philly DC. Ping is pretty low from Canada. About 20ms

spammy

I have two when they had a promotion for VPS to bring an invoice from another provider and they'll price-match it. The server themselves are pretty stable. No control panel so they have to reload OS manually for VPS, which was a bit of pain in the backside. However their response is fast.

Pretty happy with them overall.

tommy

I used them for 2 years. Overall I'm really happy except their VPS don't have control panel, just like @spammy.

agoldenberg

Awesome! Well they have a pretty good E3-1270 server auction going on at WHT and I bought one to try out. Their DC seems fast and low latency for me.

entrailz

@agoldenberg said:
Awesome! Well they have a pretty good E3-1270 server auction going on at WHT and I bought one to try out. Their DC seems fast and low latency for me.

I was the first one to pick up their E3 auction for $35, server was delivered after 2 days with IPMI. Mobo is using the X9 supermicro so drivers were a bit of a pain, had 0 problems so far.

agoldenberg

@entrailz got mine for $41. Still happy about that.. Their DC looks good to me. Might get a couple more at that pricing.

spammy

@agoldenberg in USD though...

zevus

@agoldenberg said:
Has anyone used them?

Any idea what DC they are in?

for about a year, but service ended maybe 18 mo ago. had a dozen e3-1270's with them, on a bulk deal.

one of them had an issue (overheating, i had to disable hyperthreading in the BIOS to get in to stop crashing constantly)... anyway, reported that & it was replaced within a day.

didn't have to contact support for anything else, except rDNS

ed: from my experience, their network was one of the better ones. also, my e3-1270's were less than $40/mo ^_^

agoldenberg

@Spammy so what if its USD? I'm Canadian. Still works out to like $59 CAD per month. Still a pretty good deal if their network is any good.

UnitUnidentified

Their service is excellent, but they lack 1 thing, DDoS protection. If they had DDoS protection I wouldn't have second thoughts.

rpollestad

@agoldenberg said:
Awesome! Well they have a pretty good E3-1270 server auction going on at WHT and I bought one to try out. Their DC seems fast and low latency for me.

You got a link to the auction thread?

entrailz

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1541404

inthecloudblog

@agoldenberg said:
mikeyur Thanks for that! Got in on a deal they have for an E3-1270 box at $41/mo in this philly DC. Ping is pretty low from Canada. About 20ms

how about bw? is it a v3?

edit: just saw their 10tb.. not interested ..

agoldenberg

So far I'm pretty happy with this box! Was delivered in under 24 hours with working IPMI and everything.

Benchmark started on Sat Jan  9 08:46:26 EST 2016
Full benchmark log: /root/bench.log

System Info
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Processor       : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31270 @ 3.40GHz
CPU Cores       : 8
Frequency       : 1599.992 MHz
Memory          : 16075 MB
Swap            : 32745 MB
Uptime          : 3:59,

OS              : Debian GNU/Linux 8
Arch            : x86_64 (64 Bit)
Kernel          : 3.16.0-4-amd64
Hostname        : phi


Speedtest (IPv4 only)
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Your public IPv4 is xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

Location                Provider        Speed
CDN                     Cachefly        56.2MB/s

Atlanta, GA, US         Coloat          71.1MB/s
Dallas, TX, US          Softlayer       33.1MB/s
Seattle, WA, US         Softlayer       22.2MB/s
San Jose, CA, US        Softlayer       18.9MB/s
Washington, DC, US      Softlayer       86.9MB/s

Tokyo, Japan            Linode          6.29MB/s
Singapore               Softlayer       6.35MB/s

Rotterdam, Netherlands  id3.net         6.16MB/s
Haarlem, Netherlands    Leaseweb        3.50MB/s


Disk Speed
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I/O (1st run)   : 81.3 MB/s
I/O (2nd run)   : 81.9 MB/s
I/O (3rd run)   : 81.8 MB/s
Average I/O     : 81.6667 MB/s