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Saw their offer on LEB. Are they legit?

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  • donlidonli Member
    edited September 2019

    "Snow", eh? What do you think the odds are it will last until next Summer ?

    Also the correct question is not if they are "legit" but if they are "good". I would best against any new current LEB featured host being so.

  • jbuggie said: Saw their offer on LEB

    You answered your own question.

    Thanked by 2raindog308 Amitz
  • Let us know once u got it

  • ManishPantManishPant Member, Host Rep

    Checkout if they have money back policy and there tos , any just go with one month plan to test there services so if it's okay for you then continue there service otherwise move on to next provide and do share your experience here too

  • I signed up for their small (1GB) plan, paid the invoice immediately, but their website still indicated that the invoice has not been paid and it's been more than 36 hours. I created a ticket and gave them a screen shot of the Paypal transaction/receipt.

    It's probably due to holiday weekend so I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt. However, the whole operation seems pretty barebone. We'll see. I just need a simple monitoring/personal VPN node in Chicago or Dallas.

    Thanked by 1pluush
  • I got a server created by could not boot (disk not bootable). Switch to rescue mode, still not boot. Asking for custom iso load but did not get any response yet. NOT a good way to start.

    Their control panel is barebone WHMC with just boot/reboot/shutdown/rescue/vnc.

  • You don't need a disk to idle your snowman vps. :wink:

  • AuroraZ said: You answered your own question.

    Thanked by 2ITLabs angelius
  • @jbuggie said:
    I got a server created by could not boot (disk not bootable). Switch to rescue mode, still not boot. Asking for custom iso load but did not get any response yet. NOT a good way to start.

    Their control panel is barebone WHMC with just boot/reboot/shutdown/rescue/vnc.

    Thanks for the review.

  • "What sets us apart is the personalized and human experience you get when you are a SnowVPS customer. From day one, one on one support is always available to assist you around the clock. When you contact us, you are getting a human on the other line, guaranteed. "

    @jbuggie you are very patient. The above sales pitch contradicts what you say has been your experience

  • I'm interested in this as well somewhat

  • best way is to check their previous offers and read comments below, you will get your answer.

  • Finally got in using system-rescuecd-iso. Here is some juicy benchmark

    Tests are approximate using memory only (no storage IO).

    Algorithm | Key | Encryption | Decryption

        aes-xts   256b   781.4 MiB/s   765.2 MiB/s
    

    Tests are approximate using memory only (no storage IO).

    Algorithm | Key | Encryption | Decryption

        aes-xts   512b   668.3 MiB/s   623.2 MiB/s
    

    Benchmarking disk write performance
    2048+0 records in
    2048+0 records out
    2147483648 bytes (2.1 GB, 2.0 GiB) copied, 4.60794 s, 466 MB/s
    Benchmarking unbuffered disk read performance
    3
    2048+0 records in
    2048+0 records out
    2147483648 bytes (2.1 GB, 2.0 GiB) copied, 5.16861 s, 415 MB/s
    Buffered disk read performance
    2048+0 records in
    2048+0 records out
    2147483648 bytes (2.1 GB, 2.0 GiB) copied, 4.68897 s, 458 MB/s
    sysbench 1.0.11 (using system LuaJIT 2.1.0-beta3)

    Running the test with following options:
    Number of threads: 2
    Initializing random number generator from current time

    Prime numbers limit: 20000

    Initializing worker threads...

    Threads started!

    CPU speed:
    events per second: 553.08

    General statistics:
    total time: 60.0019s
    total number of events: 33187

    Latency (ms):
    min: 3.43
    avg: 3.61
    max: 17.93
    95th percentile: 4.33
    sum: 119904.43

    Threads fairness:
    events (avg/stddev): 16593.5000/15.50
    execution time (avg/stddev): 59.9522/0.00

    sysbench 1.0.11 (using system LuaJIT 2.1.0-beta3)

    Running the test with following options:
    Number of threads: 2
    Initializing random number generator from current time

    Running memory speed test with the following options:
    block size: 1KiB
    total size: 102400MiB
    operation: write
    scope: global

    Initializing worker threads...

    Threads started!

    Total operations: 29493965 (982975.11 per second)

    28802.70 MiB transferred (959.94 MiB/sec)

    General statistics:
    total time: 30.0002s
    total number of events: 29493965

    Latency (ms):
    min: 0.00
    avg: 0.00
    max: 10.05
    95th percentile: 0.00
    sum: 22028.06

    Threads fairness:
    events (avg/stddev): 14746982.5000/21606.50
    execution time (avg/stddev): 11.0140/0.06

  • processor : 1
    vendor_id : GenuineIntel
    cpu family : 6
    model : 45
    model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2640 0 @ 2.50GHz
    stepping : 7
    microcode : 0x1
    cpu MHz : 2499.998
    cache size : 4096 KB
    physical id : 1
    siblings : 1
    core id : 0
    cpu cores : 1
    apicid : 1
    initial apicid : 1
    fpu : yes
    fpu_exception : yes
    cpuid level : 13
    wp : yes
    flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss syscall nx pdpe1gb lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon nopl cpuid tsc_known_freq pni pclmulqdq ssse3 cx16 pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx hypervisor lahf_lm pti ssbd ibrs ibpb stibp xsaveopt
    bugs : cpu_meltdown spectre_v1 spectre_v2 spec_store_bypass l1tf mds swapgs
    bogomips : 4999.99
    clflush size : 64
    cache_alignment : 64
    address sizes : 46 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
    power management:


  • nench.sh v2019.07.20 -- https://git.io/nench.sh

    benchmark timestamp: 2019-09-03 16:54:06 UTC

    Processor: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2640 0 @ 2.50GHz
    CPU cores: 2
    Frequency: 2499.998 MHz
    RAM: 1.9G
    Swap: 1.0G
    Kernel: Linux 4.15.0-58-generic x86_64

    Disks:
    vda 25G HDD

    CPU: SHA256-hashing 500 MB
    5.099 seconds
    CPU: bzip2-compressing 500 MB
    8.064 seconds
    CPU: AES-encrypting 500 MB
    2.740 seconds

    ioping: seek rate
    min/avg/max/mdev = 80.7 us / 158.9 us / 2.16 ms / 66.4 us
    ioping: sequential read speed
    generated 6.49 k requests in 5.00 s, 1.58 GiB, 1.30 k iops, 324.6 MiB/s

    dd: sequential write speed
    1st run: 431.06 MiB/s
    2nd run: 440.60 MiB/s
    3rd run: 432.01 MiB/s
    average: 434.56 MiB/s

    IPv4 speedtests
    your IPv4: 172.245.74.xxxx

    Cachefly CDN:         99.60 MiB/s
    Leaseweb (NL):        10.92 MiB/s
    Softlayer DAL (US):   50.28 MiB/s
    Online.net (FR):      13.71 MiB/s
    OVH BHS (CA):         57.64 MiB/s
    

    No IPv6 connectivity detected

  • pro: disk & network
    con: slow ticket response, barebone service, extremely slow memory speed

  • Don't buy from LEB listed hosts. Risk deduction: 99%.

  • speedtest-cli
    Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...
    Testing from ColoCrossing (172.245.74.131)...
    Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
    Selecting best server based on ping...
    Hosted by OffsiteDataSync (Las Vegas, NV) [19.16 km]: 49.345 ms
    Testing download speed................................................................................
    Download: 295.16 Mbit/s
    Testing upload speed................................................................................................
    Upload: 168.32 Mbit/s

  • Don't recommend this host if you cant' deal with CLI

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