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DigitalOcean now offers double the memory and SSD on all plans :D

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  • shovenoseshovenose Member, Host Rep

    we have a 99.99% uptime guarantee. Every 0.01% under that is a 10% account credit !

  • DylanDylan Member
    edited January 2013

    @shovenose said: we have a 99.99% uptime guarantee. Every 0.01% under that is a 10% account credit !

    Since your OVH servers have a 99.9% SLA (or 99.95% if you have an EG or MG, but I'm almost certain you don't), that seems a bit disingenuous.

  • isnt that basically 99.9 since 99.9 is 0.009%<0.01% under

  • gubbytegubbyte Member
    edited January 2013

    @Dylan said: Another differentiator -- are there any LEB providers with a 99.99% uptime SLA? I know some do have that sort of uptime, but the highest guarantee I've seen is 99.9%. For businesses, especially, that can be a notable difference (43 minutes of allowed downtime/month vs 4 minutes).

    Digital Ocean do:
    https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing

    Q: What is your SLA?
    A: Digital Ocean provides a 99.99% Uptime SLA . Lost time is refunded back to your account at the hourly rate incurred.

  • rm_rm_ IPv6 Advocate, Veteran

    I find it funny that people make SLA a big deal. So they will refund you $0.01 if your VPS was down for an hour, would you become much happier because of that? :D

  • DigitalOcean is nice. Their option to snapshot your VPS, delete it and restore it anytime later on without extra costs is a nice touch.
    Like I said before, a LEB SSD VPS in The Netherlands is a first so they have a nice niche here. Sadly, I'm not too impressed with their I/O

    DigitalOcean 512MB SSD VPS NL
    freek@nlssd:~$ ioping -c 10 .
    4096 bytes from . (ext4 /dev/disk/by-label/DOROOT): request=1 time=0.4 ms
    4096 bytes from . (ext4 /dev/disk/by-label/DOROOT): request=2 time=0.6 ms
    4096 bytes from . (ext4 /dev/disk/by-label/DOROOT): request=3 time=0.8 ms
    4096 bytes from . (ext4 /dev/disk/by-label/DOROOT): request=4 time=0.7 ms
    4096 bytes from . (ext4 /dev/disk/by-label/DOROOT): request=5 time=0.5 ms
    4096 bytes from . (ext4 /dev/disk/by-label/DOROOT): request=6 time=0.5 ms
    4096 bytes from . (ext4 /dev/disk/by-label/DOROOT): request=7 time=0.7 ms
    4096 bytes from . (ext4 /dev/disk/by-label/DOROOT): request=8 time=0.7 ms
    4096 bytes from . (ext4 /dev/disk/by-label/DOROOT): request=9 time=0.6 ms
    4096 bytes from . (ext4 /dev/disk/by-label/DOROOT): request=10 time=0.7 ms

    --- . (ext4 /dev/disk/by-label/DOROOT) ioping statistics ---
    10 requests completed in 9008.2 ms, 1649 iops, 6.4 mb/s
    min/avg/max/mdev = 0.4/0.6/0.8/0.1 ms

    freek@nlssd:~$ dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync; unlink test
    16384+0 records in
    16384+0 records out
    1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 3.68963 s, 291 MB/s

    Prometeus 512MB KVM SSD VPS
    freek@ssd:~$ ioping -c 10 .
    4096 bytes from . (ext4 /dev/mapper/ssd-root): request=1 time=0.1 ms
    4096 bytes from . (ext4 /dev/mapper/ssd-root): request=2 time=0.3 ms
    4096 bytes from . (ext4 /dev/mapper/ssd-root): request=3 time=0.3 ms
    4096 bytes from . (ext4 /dev/mapper/ssd-root): request=4 time=0.3 ms
    4096 bytes from . (ext4 /dev/mapper/ssd-root): request=5 time=0.3 ms
    4096 bytes from . (ext4 /dev/mapper/ssd-root): request=6 time=0.2 ms
    4096 bytes from . (ext4 /dev/mapper/ssd-root): request=7 time=0.2 ms
    4096 bytes from . (ext4 /dev/mapper/ssd-root): request=8 time=0.3 ms
    4096 bytes from . (ext4 /dev/mapper/ssd-root): request=9 time=0.0 ms
    4096 bytes from . (ext4 /dev/mapper/ssd-root): request=10 time=0.3 ms

    --- . (ext4 /dev/mapper/ssd-root) ioping statistics ---
    10 requests completed in 9004.0 ms, 4444 iops, 17.4 mb/s
    min/avg/max/mdev = 0.0/0.2/0.3/0.1 ms

    freek@ssd:~$ dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync; unlink test
    16384+0 records in
    16384+0 records out
    1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 2.30843 s, 465 MB/s

    Prometeus is almost twice as fast. I noticed this when I setup my COD2/COD4 server. Altough the DigitalOcean is located in the same country as I am, the ping difference between DO and Prometeus is just 10ms. I.e. the fast I/O makes up for the longer distance?

    Not sure what I'm going to do after my free credit expires at DO. 2 SSD VPS is overkill. I love Prometeus but I prefer VPSes close to me. Prometeus has more CPU but less HDD... Hard to decide, but I've got 4 months to decide :)

    @wdq said: Their API supports powering on/off which will be great for my VPN. I can setup a script that will shut it down when I go to sleep and turn it back on when I wake up every day.

    Nice thinking but you'll still have to pay if the server is off, since they reserve the IP for you.

    @Freek said: Anyone else having issues getting IPTables to work with them?

    FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/3.2.0-23-virtual/modules.dep: No such file or directory
    iptables v1.4.12: can't initialize iptables table `filter': Table does not exist (do you need to insmod?)
    Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded.

    Started from scratch, works now like it should. I think minstall removed the file, since I ran it the first time but didn't the second time.

  • @Freek said: Hard to decide, but I've got 4 months to decide :)

    I think Prometeus has faster support and also you can request for an image to be added, but I really like on Digitalocean that you can create a VPS and just be charged practically pennies on the hour, and the snapshot/backup feature is awesome!

  • Sequential dd doesn't mean crap, as in, nothing at all.

    As long as the randoms are alright, that's all that matters anyway.

    I suspect the 'dd-crazed' folks aren't in the genre Digitalocean wants to target either way.

  • @taronyu said: What is the name of Jhadley? I'm interrested. I already got a server with Ramnode/Nick_A, But DO is in Amsterdam while Nick isn't.

    I still couldn't get my droplet to actually BE hosted in Amsterdam...

  • The server in Amsterdam seems to be faster for DD

    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, 2.32272 s, 462 MB/s

  • @earl said: The server in Amsterdam seems to be faster for DD

    Are you sure that you are actually hosted in Amsterdam? Verified with a traceroute?

  • rm_rm_ IPv6 Advocate, Veteran

    @earl said: The server in Amsterdam seems to be faster for DD

    The beauty of DO, is that you can create 5-10 VPSes, test all of them, then keep the one you like, and destroy the rest. Will cost you like $0.05-$0.10. Of course no guarantee that it won't get worse later.

  • @earl said: I think Prometeus has faster support and also you can request for an image to be added, but I really like on Digitalocean that you can create a VPS and just be charged practically pennies on the hour, and the snapshot/backup feature is awesome!

    Thanks. Both have their pros and cons. We'll see how it goes.

    @ztec said: I still couldn't get my droplet to actually BE hosted in Amsterdam...

    You need to add a CC or add 5 dollars of PayPal credit to be hosted in Amsterdam

    @earl said: The server in Amsterdam seems to be faster for DD

    Mine is also in Amsterdam. In what IP range are you in?

  • @Freek said: Mine is also in Amsterdam. In what IP range are you in?

    What is your ping?

    @Freek said: You need to add a CC or add 5 dollars of PayPal credit to be hosted in Amsterdam

    I did this.

  • @ztec said: Are you sure that you are actually hosted in Amsterdam? Verified with a traceroute?

    Yup for sure it's Amsterdam not New york.

    @rm_ said: The beauty of DO, is that you can create 5-10 VPSes, test all of them, then keep the one you like, and destroy the rest. Will cost you like $0.05-$0.10. Of course no guarantee that it won't get worse later.

    Yup! and where else can you rent a 96GB / 24 CPU 960GB SSD Disk server and just pay $1.43 just for the hour, pretty much all providers would have you pay for the month.

  • @earl said: Yup for sure it's Amsterdam not New york.

    How do you know for sure it's Amsterdam?
    For me it also says that the region is Amsterdam but it's not actually Amsterdam...
    Support is not so quick to respond on the ticket with this matter.

  • @ztec said: What is your ping?

    23 ms.

  • @Freek said: 23 ms.

    Seems legit, little high but that might be your internet.

  • @ztec said: How do you know for sure it's Amsterdam?

    Ping is too high for New york, and the last traceroute goes to germany

  • @ztec said: Seems legit, little high but that might be your internet.

    I'm behind VPN hosted on SnelServer.....

  • So I'm basically the only one getting fucked here :D

  • @ztec said: So I'm basically the only one getting fucked here :D

    Just create another server maybe you will have better luck?

  • @earl said: Just create another server maybe you will have better luck?

    At one point I had over 10 servers :P None in Amsterdam.

  • @ztec said: At one point I had over 10 servers :P None in Amsterdam.

    Hmm.. yeah, that's odd. I guess you will have to wait for support then.

  • lol. I was 'lucky' 2 times then? Since I created two. One was broken, copied data over from one to the other.

  • @Freek said: I was 'lucky' 2 times then? Since I created two.

    I think it has something to do with my account :)

  • TheLinuxBugTheLinuxBug Member
    edited January 2013

    Did you add cc# or PayPal payment to your account? If not you will be auto-provisioned in New York every time I believe. If this is not the case, do a traceroute to a server in the US and post the trace route here so we can see the routes being taken. I noticed they use mostly Cogent bandwidth, it is possible that there is just very poor routing to where you are.

    Cheers!

  • @TheLinuxBug said: it I possible that their is just very poor routing to where you are.

    I'm exploring this option at the moment.

    @TheLinuxBug said: Did you add cc# or PayPal payment to your account?

    I did add PayPal.

  • rm_rm_ IPv6 Advocate, Veteran

    @ztec said: How do you know for sure it's Amsterdam?

    Well how do YOU determine yours isn't? Can you post your traceroute?

  • ztecztec Member
    edited January 2013

    The first couple of traceroutes went through american lines but the latest are just based on ping. Either they're not hosting me in Amsterdam or they fucked up big time on the ping. Both would create a problem for me.

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