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Arubacloud Location Roulette
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Arubacloud Location Roulette

So Aruba changed their Small VPS offer once again. Now you cannot choose your location for 1€ anymore (recently you only could choose between it1/cz1 for 1€). If you want a specific location you need to pay 2,79€. BUT if you go with random location it will be just 1€! I guess most of them will still be provisioned in it1/2 and cz1.

I think about getting 1-2 just to see where they go. Their de1 was quite good I just forgot to top up for that and it was gone unfortunately.

Maybe you gonna join me and try to see what location you get. I mean it's just 1€ - ONE EURO :D

Good luck on location hunting.

https://www.arubacloud.com/vps/virtual-private-server-range.aspx

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  • I am on IT1 and speed is good. I have no other Aruba location to compare to though. For €2.79 I would probably go elsewhere. There are many offers around that price for a 1Gb box out there.

  • Shot2Shot2 Member
    edited June 2018

    Just a FYI:

    if you already have an Arubacloud account (and some €€ there), no need to visit the OP's URL as it would only top-up your credits without actually creating a server.
    How to, then? From the Control Center (any DC will do, e.g. admin.dc4.arubacloud.com ), log in and "Create a server"; configure it as desired, choose the smallest VPS and tick "random DC".

    Good luck.

    edit: created one, no surprise: DC1-IT. By the way: "Yo dawg, we put random CPU in your random server":
    Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650 v3 2.3GHz / Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650L v4 1.7 GHz / what else...

    Thanked by 1vimalware
  • got a 1euro vps for some years now, still in the DE DC, im happy with it :)

  • NeoonNeoon Community Contributor, Veteran

    Its 1EUR, I am sure they do make no profit with it.

    No wonder that they build in the "randomness".

    But I do not think that its random, its more like KS1, on Kimsufi.

    A huge amount gets Italy the rest gets the other locations.

    Thanked by 1FlamesRunner
  • defaultdefault Veteran

    @Neoon said:
    But I do not think that its random, its more like KS1, on Kimsufi.

    A huge amount gets Italy the rest gets the other locations.

    You think?! I am sure! :)

    I tested. To make sure it works without spending money (because €1 is way too much for LET testing), I made sure I have a VPS with same name in each datacenter where I have active services (IT1, IT2, CZ1). Then I started creating a VPS on random location with same name, thinking I would get a €1 VPS on another datacenter (or an error because that name it's already taken in those 3 mentioned).

    I tried multiple times, because it's random, I should get a hit. Every time I got the same error:

    Maybe I am unlucky, maybe the Universe is against me, maybe Aruba staff really hates me, maybe I am way too cheap and life finally got me. Logic tells me this is happening because it's always IT1, with no randomness whatsoever, like @Neoon already realized with divine inspiration.

  • mkshmksh Member
    edited June 2018

    @default said:
    I tested. To make sure it works without spending money (because €1 is way too much for LET testing), I made sure I have a VPS with same name in each datacenter where I have active services (IT1, IT2, CZ1). Then I started creating a VPS on random location with same name, thinking I would get a €1 VPS on another datacenter (or an error because that name it's already taken in those 3 mentioned).

    Cool trick. Might be worth to retry some time later though. Who knows what factors decide the outcome of this supposedly random allocation.

  • defaultdefault Veteran
    edited October 2018

    A few moments ago I tried to deploy a server randomly, and received UK on the first attempt. It seems UK datacenter got added to that random list. Grab it while it's hot.

  • Can confirm. Thx!

  • @Shot2 said:
    Can confirm. Thx!

    So you just got the UK location too?

  • Yup.

  • Got it as well. Thanks for the heads up!

  • KousakaKousaka Member
    edited October 2018

    And several days ago Germany was available too

  • Thanks for the info; I had just assumed they were "randomly" putting all the cheap VMs in IT or CZ. Got a UK one; 2ms to Clouvider/Inception via Telia.

  • Yey, also got one in UK :D

  • Can someone post the specs/ benchmark for these UK accounts? Thanks!

  • UK:

    Processor:    Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650L v4 @ 1.70GHz
    CPU cores:    1
    Frequency:    1699.262 MHz
    RAM:          991M
    Swap:         1.0G
    Kernel:       Linux 4.9.0-6-amd64 x86_64
    
    Disks:
    sda     20G  HDD
    
    CPU: SHA256-hashing 500 MB
        4.496 seconds
    CPU: bzip2-compressing 500 MB
        7.570 seconds
    CPU: AES-encrypting 500 MB
        2.567 seconds
    
    ioping: seek rate
        min/avg/max/mdev = 64.7 us / 74.0 us / 16.4 ms / 97.9 us
    ioping: sequential read speed
        generated 28.1 k requests in 5.00 s, 6.87 GiB, 5.62 k iops, 1.37 GiB/s
    
    dd: sequential write speed
        1st run:    774.38 MiB/s
        2nd run:    876.43 MiB/s
        3rd run:    896.45 MiB/s
        average:    849.09 MiB/s
    
    IPv4 speedtests
        your IPv4:    217.61.16.xxxx
    
        Cachefly CDN:         95.43 MiB/s
        Leaseweb (NL):        63.39 MiB/s
        Softlayer DAL (US):   11.00 MiB/s
        Online.net (FR):      81.83 MiB/s
        OVH BHS (CA):         13.78 MiB/s
    
    IPv6 speedtests
        your IPv6:    2a01:6e60:10:xxxx
    
        Leaseweb (NL):        40.68 MiB/s
        Softlayer DAL (US):   10.42 MiB/s
        Online.net (FR):      48.91 MiB/s
        OVH BHS (CA):         0.00 MiB/s
    -------------------------------------------------
    
    Thanked by 1pullangcubo
  • Woot! I selected UK first and then random location and got one in the UK too!

  • UK deployed. yay.

    Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v3 @ 2.40GHz
    flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss syscall nx pdpe1gb rdts
    cp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts nopl xtopology tsc_reliable nonstop_tsc aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq ssse3 fma cx16 pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic
     movbe popcnt aes xsave avx f16c rdrand hypervisor lahf_lm epb retpoline kaiser fsgsbase smep cqm_llc cqm_occup_llc dtherm ida arat pln pts
    bugs            : cpu_meltdown spectre_v1 spectre_v2
    
    openssl speed -evp aes128
    type             16 bytes     64 bytes    256 bytes   1024 bytes   8192 bytes
    aes-128-cbc     532198.63k   569400.32k   579733.27k   583933.74k   583658.89k
    

    Thank you @default. One can never collect enough

    Thanked by 2Falzo pullangcubo
  • Excellent
    UK received too.
    For 1euro cant complain ..

  • If anyone can pop back in and holler when they have other locations available on random - that would be great! :-) Need to get me a few in each location

  • @vimalware said:
    UK deployed. yay.

    Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v3 @ 2.40GHz

    Lucky you, you got the E5v3, not the crap Lv4 ;)

  • 1€ UK is heavy LET idle material:

  • DanielNUDanielNU Member, Host Rep

    Still getting UK location. So if anyone wants one now is the time to grab one.

  • @Falzo said:
    1€ UK is heavy LET idle material:

    wow, 36 eur spent for idle server. Filthy rich !

    Thanked by 1Falzo
  • @Falzo said:
    1€ UK is heavy LET idle material:

    Idling is important, but I don't want to become too greedy now. It's 50 days till Black Friday 2018, so for now I decided to keep myself from "idle" wishes, until that crazy moment, when I shall unleash all my money on LET offers.

  • got one myself in UK

    (curl -s wget.racing/nench.sh | bash; curl -s wget.racing/nenc                                                                                                             h.sh | bash) 2>&1 | tee nench.log
    -------------------------------------------------
     nench.sh v2018.04.14 -- https://git.io/nench.sh
     benchmark timestamp:    2018-10-03 12:19:39 UTC
    -------------------------------------------------
    
    Processor:    Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650L v4 @ 1.70GHz
    CPU cores:    1
    Frequency:    1699.998 MHz
    RAM:          985M
    Swap:         951M
    Kernel:       Linux 4.15.0-33-generic x86_64
    
    Disks:
    sda     20G  HDD
    
    CPU: SHA256-hashing 500 MB
        4.352 seconds
    CPU: bzip2-compressing 500 MB
        7.222 seconds
    CPU: AES-encrypting 500 MB
        2.180 seconds
    
    ioping: seek rate
        min/avg/max/mdev = 63.2 us / 72.6 us / 5.94 ms / 39.7 us
    ioping: sequential read speed
        generated 30.3 k requests in 5.00 s, 7.39 GiB, 6.06 k iops, 1.48 GiB/s
    
    dd: sequential write speed
        1st run:    805.85 MiB/s
        2nd run:    953.67 MiB/s
        3rd run:    953.67 MiB/s
        average:    904.40 MiB/s
    
    IPv4 speedtests
        your IPv4:    217.xxx.xxx.xxx
    
        Cachefly CDN:         99.01 MiB/s
        Leaseweb (NL):        96.62 MiB/s
        Softlayer DAL (US):   12.07 MiB/s
        Online.net (FR):      75.27 MiB/s
        OVH BHS (CA):         14.41 MiB/s
    
    No IPv6 connectivity detected
    -------------------------------------------------
    
    -------------------------------------------------
     nench.sh v2018.04.14 -- https://git.io/nench.sh
     benchmark timestamp:    2018-10-03 12:20:27 UTC
    -------------------------------------------------
    
    Processor:    Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650L v4 @ 1.70GHz
    CPU cores:    1
    Frequency:    1699.998 MHz
    RAM:          985M
    Swap:         951M
    Kernel:       Linux 4.15.0-33-generic x86_64
    
    Disks:
    sda     20G  HDD
    
    CPU: SHA256-hashing 500 MB
        4.436 seconds
    CPU: bzip2-compressing 500 MB
        7.499 seconds
    CPU: AES-encrypting 500 MB
        2.342 seconds
    
    ioping: seek rate
        min/avg/max/mdev = 61.7 us / 76.6 us / 50.8 ms / 424.4 us
    ioping: sequential read speed
        generated 29.7 k requests in 5.00 s, 7.26 GiB, 5.95 k iops, 1.45 GiB/s
    
    dd: sequential write speed
        1st run:    753.40 MiB/s
        2nd run:    953.67 MiB/s
        3rd run:    953.67 MiB/s
        average:    886.92 MiB/s
    
    IPv4 speedtests
        your IPv4:    217.xxx.xxx.xxx
    
        Cachefly CDN:         99.30 MiB/s
        Leaseweb (NL):        88.06 MiB/s
        Softlayer DAL (US):   12.49 MiB/s
        Online.net (FR):      78.49 MiB/s
        OVH BHS (CA):         14.38 MiB/s
    
    No IPv6 connectivity detected
    
    
    Thanked by 2pullangcubo Falzo
  • mfsmfs Banned, Member

    seanho said: all the cheap VMs in IT or CZ

    IT3 shouldn't be paired with IT1 and IT2 imho, it's directly connected with MIX and delivers a sensibly different latency (22ms max to AMS-IX and LINX, 18ms max to Marseilles France-IX, 16ms max to NL-IX, 9ms to DE-CIX Frankfurt)

    IT1 and IT2 are like

  • ArirangArirang Member
    edited October 2018

    Thanks. Got one. I have 3 vps in fr, de and uk for idling instead of a cup of coffee.

  • defaultdefault Veteran
    edited October 2018

    @Arirang said:
    Thanks. Got one. I have 3 vps in fr, de and uk for idling instead of a cup of coffee.

    That's great. You should quit coffee anyway. On Black Friday you will get more idling servers, this way you can quit smoking too.

    You can almost feel the smell...

    Thanked by 2Arirang gol3m
  • For $5 , I can buy nearly a kilo of arabica beans here. White people be crazy ;)

    Thanked by 2CyberMonday MasonR
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