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  • budingyunbudingyun Member

    Ah, I'm grandfather already. :p

  • IshaqIshaq Member

    @budingyun said: Ah, I'm grandfather already. :p

    Got that weird email today.

  • ErawanArifNugrohoErawanArifNugroho Member

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  • KernelSandersKernelSanders

    Yup just got the email as well! Grandfathered in :)

  • jaypeesmithjaypeesmith Member

    Grandfathered in, too! Good News!

  • SpiritSpirit Member
    edited January 2013

    Funny how host gave bigger value to product in the eyes of clients without doing anything and in meantime made a room for further free unmetered traffic "special offers" :P

  • rm_rm_ IPv6 Advocate, Veteran
    edited January 2013

    @vibhud said: May be I used to much bandwidth in a day for them to change it for new users. :)

    No, all of this is because of me! :D

    @wdq said: by grandfathering your account so you will receive free bandwidth FOREVER!

    I guess soon these "old" DO accounts will be worth some money, if you can sell it together with E-Mail account/password you used for registering.

  • ErawanArifNugrohoErawanArifNugroho Member

    @rm_ said: I guess soon these "old" DO accounts will be worth some money, if you can sell it together with E-Mail account/password you used for registering.

    Oh.. How about the payment methods?
    Won't DO verifying it later?

  • gracagraca Member

    I got grandfathered too,...
    so far routing/ping test from Indonesia is quiet well

  • rm_rm_ IPv6 Advocate, Veteran
    edited January 2013

    @ErawanArifNugroho said: Oh.. How about the payment methods?

    Won't DO verifying it later?

    If you remember, when signing up for DO you did not have to enter anything but your E-Mail. Not even your name, country or street address. (kind of amazing how can they get away with that, if you think about it)
    And if you did not use credit card, just paid via Paypal, I doubt they will check or care that a next payment comes from a new Paypal account.

  • ErawanArifNugrohoErawanArifNugroho Member
    edited January 2013

    @rm_ you're right :D

  • shovenoseshovenose Member, Host Rep

    I asked them, it looks like a few customers are to blame with bandwidth pricing for all :( at least I get free bandwidth unlimited forever but I only use a couple gigs a month anyway.

  • yomeroyomero Member

    1TB for the smallest 512MB plan seems fair to me.
    2c per GB seems fair to me.

  • rm_rm_ IPv6 Advocate, Veteran
    edited January 2013

    @yomero said: 1TB for the smallest 512MB plan seems fair to me.

    Can agree here, but

    @yomero said: 2c per GB seems fair to me.

    ...that's $20 per TB, seems way too much.
    Considering there are even LEB hosts easily offering 2-4 TB on cheap plans.

  • earlearl Member

    @yomero said: 2c per GB seems fair to me.

    Kinda expensive I think!! for each 1 TB in overages you would pay $20.48.
    Considering they can include 1TB in the $5 plan think it's a bit steep.

  • yomeroyomero Member
    edited January 2013

    @rm_ said: ...that's $20 per TB, seems way too much.

    Something...

    @earl said: Kinda expensive I think!! for each 1 TB in overages you would pay $20.48.

    And yes, and then is better to get the next plan.

    (Or use another host).

  • ksecksec Member

    I think that is really decent pricing. I never like unlimited anything so that is one problem solved.

    Hopefully they could improve their Network a bit and higher Port speed.

    I can see they will be getting lots more orders from RackSpace Cloud, and Linode.

  • gubbytegubbyte Member

    2c per GB is very good pricing

  • heiskaheiska Member 
    dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 60.3411 s, 17.8 MB/s

    Not too good, considering it's supposed to be running on SSD. Fuck their Amsterdam 1 location.

  • gubbytegubbyte Member
    edited January 2013 
    $ dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 4.95911 s, 217 MB/s

    That's on Amsterdam.

  • taronyutaronyu Member

    My amsterdam vps was also awesome. About the same as Gubbyte.

  • heiskaheiska Member

    @gubbyte said: That's on Amsterdam.

    Nice!

    dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 74.0096 s, 14.5 MB/s

    FML. I contacted their support about it, we'll see what the response is.

  • IshaqIshaq Member

    @heiska said: FML. I contacted their support about it, we'll see what the response is.

    I'm getting 223MB/s.

  • earlearl Member

    @heiska
    Just create a new droplet till you get a better node..

  • heiskaheiska Member
    edited January 2013

    Their response:

    The disks are slightly throttled in order to prevent malicious users from affecting other droplets.

This is done to ensure the best overall user experience as disks are a shared resource among all droplets.

Thanks, 
Etel

    I created a droplet on NY, and it's giving me nice ~200 MB/s, but I really wanted a fast SSD VPS in NL.

  • lumaluma Member

    @heiska said: but I really wanted a fast SSD VPS in NL.

    Like someone said, delete your droplet, give it a few minutes and create a new one in NL and you will get a better node. Pain in the ass but what can you do.

  • heiskaheiska Member

    @luma said: Like someone said, delete your droplet, give it a few minutes and create a new one in NL and you will get a better node. Pain in the ass but what can you do.

    Thanks for the suggestion, it worked. Let's hope performance on this node doesn't go down the drain:

    Classic I/O test
dd if=/dev/zero of=iotest bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync && rm -fr iotest
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 3.68528 s, 291 MB/s
Network test
wget cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test -O 100mb.test && rm -fr 100mb.test
--2013-01-25 20:20:12--  http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net... 205.234.175.175
Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net|205.234.175.175|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `100mb.test'

100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 24.0M/s   in 4.0s

2013-01-25 20:20:16 (24.8 MB/s) - `100mb.test' saved [104857600/104857600]

    :)

  • MiguelQMiguelQ Member

    @heiska said: Thanks for the suggestion, it worked. Let's hope performance on this node doesn't go down the drain:

    How is the latency in those nodes? Is it still < 2000 iops?

  • earlearl Member

    @rm_ said: If you remember, when signing up for DO you did not have to enter anything but your E-Mail. Not even your name, country or street address. (kind of amazing how can they get away with that, if you think about it)

    I wish more companies were like this..

  • heiskaheiska Member

    @MiguelQ said: How is the latency in those nodes? Is it still < 2000 iops?

    ioping -c 10 /
4096 bytes from / (ext4 /dev/disk/by-label/DOROOT): request=1 time=0.6 ms
4096 bytes from / (ext4 /dev/disk/by-label/DOROOT): request=2 time=0.8 ms
4096 bytes from / (ext4 /dev/disk/by-label/DOROOT): request=3 time=0.5 ms
4096 bytes from / (ext4 /dev/disk/by-label/DOROOT): request=4 time=0.4 ms
4096 bytes from / (ext4 /dev/disk/by-label/DOROOT): request=5 time=0.4 ms
4096 bytes from / (ext4 /dev/disk/by-label/DOROOT): request=6 time=0.7 ms
4096 bytes from / (ext4 /dev/disk/by-label/DOROOT): request=7 time=0.4 ms
4096 bytes from / (ext4 /dev/disk/by-label/DOROOT): request=8 time=0.3 ms
4096 bytes from / (ext4 /dev/disk/by-label/DOROOT): request=9 time=0.4 ms
4096 bytes from / (ext4 /dev/disk/by-label/DOROOT): request=10 time=0.4 ms

--- / (ext4 /dev/disk/by-label/DOROOT) ioping statistics ---
10 requests completed in 9006.7 ms, 2055 iops, 8.0 mb/s
min/avg/max/mdev = 0.3/0.5/0.8/0.1 ms
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