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HostMaze review (Day 1-2)
tl;dr HostMaze scores a 3+1/10 to me, 1 for each great support, unmetered, pricing, and a bonus-mark for DDoS Protection. Still have a gigantic room for improvements, networking and distros could done better. HDD instead of SSD is a deadly cons to me.
tl;dr (2) Suitable for static or small application, for me I host a Ghost blog, a few family albums, and some friends' static pages(HTML/PHP, MySQL+Redis equipped)
Note that they allow the followings:
IRC Servers, VPNs, Tunneling, Tor, Torrents, Newsletters and Adult content (except Child Pornography). All ports are unlocked.
I am hopping around on LET for new providers, and HostMaze popped up on my screen. I then bought their $6/mo plan, with 1GB RAM, 20GB HDD and unmetered (DDoS Protected, Voxility) bandwidth, where it locates in Romania.
Connecting to the server from Hong Kong is fairly good, a bit delayed but acceptable. However a BIG disappointment is distro choices and networking, and also no SSD.
First disappointment is OS flavours: I am a fan of ArchLinux so I do seek for KVM/XEN VPSes, to have Arch on it. Unfortunately HostMaze does only have a few distro to choose, mainly CentOS and Ubuntu. BUT, their support is nice enough to have ArchLinux installed for me, and configured (the second time, the first installation by them cannot activate the NIC) network for me.
Then another major disadvantage, that the IPv6 SUCKS. I tried netctl, systemd-networkd, or even NetworkManager, guess what? No cigar! I'm getting frustrated on setting up both DHCP(SLAAC) or static IP configuration, so if someone knows how to do so, please let me know. 
Now finally the benchmark, I am quite surprise with the CPU frequency, but not the I/Os, as the disk turns out a bit slow to me, expecting at least 20-50MB/s, I think this might be caused by HDD not SSD. Capacity of diskspace is fine, so does the RAM. If I have to be strictly "picky", I would say disappointed due to the location is not Asia, tho it claims you can get "5-20ms from Hong Kong to China through Voxility’s network", but I only get 250ms(stable +- 1ms) for the route. Quite useless to their claims. :meh:
[lifehome@bottle ~]$ wget -qO- bench.sh | bash
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CPU model : QEMU Virtual CPU version (cpu64-rhel6)
Number of cores : 1
CPU frequency : 2266.696 MHz
Total amount of ram : 997 MB
Total amount of swap : 996 MB
System uptime : 0days, 0:9:53
OS : Arch Linux
Arch : x86_64 (64 Bit)
Kernel : 4.4.1-2-ARCH
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Node Name IPv4 address Download Speed
CacheFly 205.234.175.175 40.9MB/s
Linode, Tokyo, JP 2400:8900::4b 4.95MB/s
Linode, Singapore, SG 2400:8901::4b 4.88MB/s
Linode, London, UK 2a01:7e00::4b 7.32MB/s
Linode, Frankfurt, DE 2a01:7e01::4b 15.5MB/s
Linode, Fremont, CA 2600:3c01::4b 2.43MB/s
Softlayer, Dallas, TX 2607:f0d0:1101:4::2 5.16MB/s
Softlayer, Seattle, WA 2607:f0d0:2001:3::2 5.73MB/s
Softlayer, Frankfurt, DE 2a03:8180:1201:45::4 13.0MB/s
Softlayer, Singapore, SG 2401:c900:1101:8::2 3.98MB/s
Softlayer, HongKong, CN 119.81.130.170 2.70MB/s
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I/O speed(1st run) : 10.3 MB/s
I/O speed(2nd run) : 14.0 MB/s
I/O speed(3rd run) : 14.3 MB/s
Average I/O: 12.8667 MB/s
[lifehome@bottle ~]$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
dev 497M 0 497M 0% /dev
run 499M 348K 499M 1% /run
/dev/sda1 20G 2.6G 17G 14% /
tmpfs 499M 0 499M 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 499M 0 499M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs 499M 0 499M 0% /tmp
tmpfs 100M 0 100M 0% /run/user/1000
[lifehome@bottle ~]$ dd bs=64k count=4k if=/dev/zero of=test oflag=dsync
4096+0 records in
4096+0 records out
268435456 bytes (268 MB, 256 MiB) copied, 730.884 s, 367 kB/s
[lifehome@bottle ~]$ dd bs=64k count=4k if=/dev/zero of=test conv=fdatasync
4096+0 records in
4096+0 records out
268435456 bytes (268 MB, 256 MiB) copied, 24.0299 s, 11.2 MB/s
Comments
Another useless short term review. I want to know how a provider handles everyday things. I want to know how they handle support tickets, and if hardware or service degrades over time. You should wait at least a month, if not two, and honestly, I'd wait more. No offense to you, but telling me about day one and day two unless there were huge issues is not worth your time or mine.
Thanks for your warm reminder, surely I will post another review months later. This is my first review and it might be not that as good as others.
Isn't that phase-7? Or what came shortly after phase-7 disappeared.
I disagree. If everything works fine, then yeah, 2 days is too short a period to say "it's a great service".
But if you encounter problems, 2 days is long enough to say "BTW, I had these issues..." which is what @lifehome encountered.
Surviving on HostMaze
Diary: Day 12
So I started a ticket to ask about IPv6, what I have in return is this:
And that's the end of the ticket. Not a word more. I am started wondering if I should go see a teacher, to see if my English level is way under the average level.
Running the "ip -6 neigh" command won't even help a bit, it always shows:
I think I should eat something first, after started "yaourt -Syyu" for a long journey to avoid the wait for sucks disk I/O.
If you're reading this. If you know some plans provide 1G RAM, 1 Core, Unmetered with IPv6 enabled, 20GB(or more) SSD for $6/mo or less in KVM/XEN, please, please let me know to get away from this horrible island.