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i5-2300 has passmark of 3343, i5-2400 has passmark of 3793, so like 14% more CPU power
How many hours on your HDD though? Also, Do you know how I run test to check for fault in HDD/RAM maybe? Thanks
Boot into rescue, memtest/smartmon is built in.
When the machine gets delivered, there is a PDF attached, Kimsufi already tested the hardware.
Last year, instead of an i3 2130, I get an i3-3240 and a HDD with 40 hours !
5917 hours so around 250 days... pretty low for an enterprise grade disk.
Ordered my KS7 yesterday and 120secs later... nothing. I got email confirmation my order was placed but I'm actually still waiting. Hope this won't end up a a bad surprise, the KS7 is still listed available within 120secs as of this morning (QC time).
EDIT: Actually the issue was on my end. I added the payment method AFTER ordering and so it was not used automatically. The system was waiting for my payment and sure enough, I have now my KS7 ready to roll!
Pretty much half of OP's thread history is regarding Kimsufi flashsale.
Kinda feel sorry for the dude and it's also kinda sad?
I have to admit OVH is an oddball for payments. I've had servers autoterminated because of no payment (on ovh.com, not KS / SYS), while there was a credit card added to the account. It feels like half of OVH services are autobilling and half of OVH services are "click this renew.cgi url every month, can't add a card, sorry, just pay one-time every month or pay 12 months at a time"
You'd also imagine that it would automatically capture payment off the only payment method you have added to an account specifically authorised for billing but...?
The issue with OVH is that their billing system remains in 60s.
@boernd - How did you manage to get it for €10.99 ? - Was that an old offer ?
I have the same offer as above when I purchased it in April 2019.
Yes, purchased in June 2016
I had similar with paypal, I added funds but they wont autorenew with the funds, i have to renew manually, paying with the balance.
Hope they have a flash sale soon again :-)
Their KS-07 flash sale from 2018 is still live:
https://www.kimsufi.com/en/order/kimsufi.xml?reference=1804sk181
interesting, would perfer EU server but thanks for that info I have ordered it
I wrote a telegram bot to check ks-02. It has been running every 5 minutes since two months. Still nothing but I have a hope.
server hunter discord / metadedi discord bots, give me a notification of ks-01 a couple of times a week
Thanks, I have two ks-01.
how do I join the group for notifactions?
What do people use servers like the KS1 for? I'm genuinely asking, as the resources are so low that getting basically any regular VPS would seem like a better choice?
KS1 gets a CPU passmark score of a measly 222 points.
Ever heard of unmetered bandwidth with lots of storage for this cheap
That is why I'm asking what people use it for.
Email or anything else requiring privacy that can’t be hosted at home. No VPS provider being able to dump memory (and FDE keys with it) at the touch of a button, and Atom CPUs are in-order and therefore immune to many/all the CPU security bugs in recent years
Backups, static hosting (or simple not-so-static hosting), seedboxes maybe...
As prices elsewhere have dropped and the Kimsufi ones haven't, the lowest spec boxes are not as attractive as they once were for some use cases. You still won't find many plans (any outside of special offers?) that give 500Gb storage and 2Gb dedicated RAM for that price though, so if your use is not CPU intensive and you need the space and/or RAM they can still be an excellent deal. And that CPU is all yours so you have consistent power even if it is low power and you'll never be stung by a vague "fair use" policy (what difference that makes depends on how much a host's cores are oversold and how noisy your neighbours are).
Bandwidth may be capped at 100mbit, and sometimes you don't get that as it is a shared resource, but it is unmetered and I've not noted significant slowdowns whenever I've needed mine to do bulk transfers.
Mine is mostly a secondary backup location and for storing/transferring bulk data between friends (faster than the uplink of our home connections), and runs a DNS server & private VPN too. It used to host other bits but no longer does. Aside from the drive glitch some months ago which made me consider decommissioning, it has run reliably for years and the network has seemed reliable for all that time.
If you are lucky you might get even more storage. I hear tales of some coming with 1T drives instead of half. The ½T drive in mine died and they replaced it with a 2T (usefully it didn't die immediately, when it started behaving oddly I moved the bits of data that wasn't already copied elsewhere (its own logs mainly, some of those shared files) off to another machine and tried a some diagnostics and an OS rebuild during which it failed more completely).
The storage not being RAIDed at all is my main concern, if it goes it all goes, but I bet many similarly cheap deals on VPSs are not on properly redundant storage either (and you are still at the mercy of host cockups: I've had entire VMs lost which is no different effectively to the drive in this box failing).
They say Atom D425 for KS-01 but they give Atom N2800. It's approximately equal to my laptops CPU so I know my limits. VPS can be more powerful but ks-01 has 500GB Disk, no bw, 100 Mbps (all is yours).
My usage:
Host sites with centminmod,
VPN (softether),
Torrent (Transmission),
Also I tried directadmin on KS-01, still good performance for 10 web sites and 1000 simultaneous visitors,
And test environment.
Unmetered, dedicated box on OVH network = good seedbox
https://www.kimsufi.com/en/order/kimsufi.xml?reference=1801sk14 KS-2 in stock.
EDIT: sorry, it's a KS-3
That is arbitrary, you might get a D425. I'm not sure what the balance is (mine is an N2800 too) but they quote D425 as some definitely will have that CPU. If you get better that is a bonus. Similarly, some report getting larger drives than the stated 500GB.
For single-threaded workloads (hashing a file, compression with an algorithm that doesn't lend itself to threading, ...) the two CPUs are very similar (each of the N2800's two cores having slightly better performance than the D425's single one) so for most of my use which involves a lot of rsync with not usually more than one running concurrently (and other things that are not CPU-bound anyway) the difference is marginal.
i have 6 ks1 ... most of them are mining storj
since all 6 of them got 2tb disks.
not too bad for 3.99€ monthly!
My KS-01 HDD just won't die after more than 8 years so I can get a 2TB disk as replacement.