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Quantum Core
Nearly 2 months ago I came across a deal from @QuantumCore for a VPS in Sydney for $5 AUD per month (that's about tree fiddy in USD) - https://quantumcore.com.au/linux-vps
I'm going to paste this bench.sh before I continue.
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CPU model : QEMU Virtual CPU version 2.5+
Number of cores : 1
CPU frequency : 2992.968 MHz
Total size of Disk : 30.0 GB (19.0 GB Used)
Total amount of Mem : 985 MB (232 MB Used)
Total amount of Swap : 2047 MB (130 MB Used)
System uptime : 44 days, 6 hour 5 min
Load average : 0.25, 0.23, 0.15
OS : Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS
Arch : x86_64 (64 Bit)
Kernel : 4.15.0-20-generic
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I/O speed(1st run) : 401 MB/s
I/O speed(2nd run) : 465 MB/s
I/O speed(3rd run) : 590 MB/s
Average I/O speed : 485.3 MB/s
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Node Name IPv4 address Download Speed
CacheFly 204.93.143.143 90.8MB/s
Linode, Tokyo2, JP 139.162.65.37 1.51MB/s
Linode, Singapore, SG 139.162.23.4 25.0MB/s
Linode, London, UK 176.58.107.39 9.05MB/s
Linode, Frankfurt, DE 139.162.130.8 8.69MB/s
Linode, Fremont, CA 50.116.14.9 14.1MB/s
Softlayer, Dallas, TX 173.192.68.18 9.59MB/s
Softlayer, Seattle, WA 67.228.112.250 9.78MB/s
Softlayer, Frankfurt, DE 159.122.69.4 6.70MB/s
Softlayer, Singapore, SG 119.81.28.170 18.3MB/s
Softlayer, HongKong, CN 119.81.130.170 14.9MB/s
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That's not bad at all for $5 AUD per month, in Sydney. The network is fast my man. Not OVH. I don't actually know for sure, but it's premium AF.
Check out that Asia speed!
Looking glass: https://lg.quantumcore.com.au/
I've been using this as a remote desktop (it's 25ms away, performance is awesome with x2go) and I'm able to stream video from sites I wouldn't normally be able to on a VPS. (I'm not elaborating on that, you know exactly what I mean). For a single core, it's quite beastly. Definitely, absolutely, bet my left nut on it, it's NOT oversold.
Haven't needed support, no comment there. General chit chat with the owner has been friendly, and the vibe I get is he's focused on quality. Quick to respond during human waking hours.
There's a $50 free credits if you put $5 in. I believe the $50 credit lasts for 60 days. It'll cost you fuck all to try it out. - https://quantumcore.com.au/freecredit
I wanted to show @QuantumCore some love as they haven't got as much attention as I believe they deserve.
@poisson we have exothermic potassium here. Would be interested how this ranks, if you pay $5 for effectively 6 months (if you pay half yearly before 60 days), plus the change..
And finally, official certification:
Tl;dr grab your $5 AUD and get some Australian potassium of the finest quality outside of Melbourne :-)
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That actually looks pretty good! Giving binarylane a run for their money :P
For Sydney, absolutely! If it was Brisbane I'd be losing my mind :P
I also enjoyed this offer and shared it with a few friends, but most people do n’t know, the real offer is always short-lived
This, the @SmartHost flash sale and the most recent @seriesn flash sale have combined to be the 3 best purchases in recent times for me.
Gotta say, with the $50 credit (especially if you got the first round with no expiration) and my $5 that's 11 months for $5. That makes this the steal of the year for me, looking at it that way.
Have been using the $5AUD @QuantumCore VPS since May this year, as a fallback for a @HostDoc one. As you said @dahartigan it's a little known gem and that's without me getting the benefit of that big chunk of freebie credit.
Mostly, it's completely stable (and idle) though I did use it in earnest whilst reconfiguring the HosDoc one. I pushed a CWP user account between them, no bother.
It doesn't suffer from the I/O problems during host system backups either. ;-)
Actually with the credit this is a winner for sure. Can the 50 dollar credit pay for 10 months of service in advance before the 60 day expiry?
I understand there may be a 50% off first invoice coupon that one could possibly use to purchase a year for $30 of credit before the 60 days expires.... waiting to hear back from @QuantumCore to see if this is a legal move or an oopsie that needs to be fixed..
I personally plan to renew at $5/mo when the credits run out, put it that way As you mentioned, it doesn't seem to suffer what ails another provider..
pr0ntassium?
LOL.. I've never known those sites to geoblock?
For me being in Canberra this can be 😍 the real deal with those credits
Equinix
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Unfortunately not, it's SAU which routes through a few providers like Superloop and Equinix but Equinix unfortunately mainly uses Vocus which is bad (HE is used a lot). Domestically it'll be a good network through.
My ISP is Exetel and I've got an amazing connection domestically to it. Never noticed any poor routing, now you mention it I'll see if i can find a weakness.. but in my normal usage it's been flawless. Same deal with binarylane too I believe..
That'll be because Exetel has recently switched to Superloop & Telstra transit so you will have been using Superloop the entire way to your server most likely. BinaryLane too use Superloop, their network is technically better than Quantum as they use SL for both domestic and international.
Thanks for explaining that, it makes sense now :-)
Glad to hear you're enjoying our service! Thanks for the kind words.
The 50% off promo is currently ended, there are no active promo codes at this time unfortunately! But make full use of our free credit offer.> @s4suke7 said:
Although our servers are in Sydney - we're located in Canberra too! Come say hello some time.
Ahh yeah I just noticed I was looking at an old promo code haha oops
Huge network changes are coming soon (next year)! Will have more updates on this in the New Year.
Nice, hope you're going single homed Superloop (with someone like HE as backup) - at this rate there's not a single network in AU that beats the quality of Superloop in both international and domestic.
I/O speed(2nd run) : 465 MB/s
I/O speed(3rd run) : 590 MB/s
Average I/O speed : 485.3 MB/s
Only an average of 485 MB/s?
Only? I find that to be quite fast, and that's around what I get from binarylane. I'm not sure if it should be higher or not, but it certainly feels fast when using it (and I'm using it as a remote desktop which would bug me even more if it were slow, it'd be noticeable opening firefox etc)
My own cheap SSD laptop doesn't even give me these speeds and it feels very snappy already. Good enough.
Hehe, I was going to mention my laptop.. it's not cheap, it's an i7 with nvme and bench.sh gives me around 250ish and it's like freaking lightning.
Below is a bench from a $5/m VM from BL. Double the I/O speed;
seems like a good provider, and I wanted to try, unfortunately during that bonus offering fiasco they became a victim of their own success, and the actual potential customers weren't able to try, but some crazy mob from a Chinese forum (or that's how I remember it)
@QuantumCore probably you should consider offering something in the future
just my 2 AUD cents
@Gravely Which benchmark script is that? I've noticed with NVMe some of the dd tests yeild wildly different results.
Hey TGL,
Sorry I'm not quite sure what you mean? What would you like to see us offer?
As for benchmarks, you really need to compare apples with apples. Run the same benchmark test on the same operating system with the exact same specs.
@Gravely my Brisbane one was a lot less (I actually use this QC to replace my BL. Crazy right?) Perhaps I'll try a Sydney BL and see if there's a difference. I personally can't feel a difference between 400mb and 2000mb, if it's sub-100 it feels slow to me. Maybe I'm not super perceptive?
@tgl you make a very good point that it was abused by the wrong crowd. I believe there is currently a promo, $5 gets you $50 credit you can use in 60 days. You can prepay for 6 months as soon as you get your credits, and either blow the remainder or let it expire out. $5 for 6 months ain't bad in AU.