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SSDNodes - $86/yr for 8vCPU+32GB ram?
Hey. I just saw this offer which is ending in about 45 minutes.
https://www.ssdnodes.com/sale/9yr-anniversary/?e=blog&q=banner-blogpost-a-32gb-ram-offer
Can anybody share opinion about SSDNodes? I found 0 info about their 9yr anniversary sale online. Only catch I found is that to get this prices you need to pay for 3 years.
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Asked them on live chat about refunds.
They said just buy one and in case of anything they will refund you
Their performance is terrible.. you could browse it here..
https://www.lowendtalk.com/search?Search=Ssdnodes
I was checking their reviews over the internet for a while. The reviews were horrible. Especially hard to get a refund from them.
I had come across them through Reddit and they have bad reviews. Check this - https://lmgtfy.app/?q=ssdnodes+review+reddit
And do not get fooled by their offer, they have never ending sale. 😁 You will find same prices tomorrow.
THEY ARE ON LET @SSDNodes
You are going to risk $250 on a LET host? and expect it to work for 3 years? HAHAHAHAHAHA
It's like an OpenVz kvm
So I decided to buy KVM / X-LARGE for $120yr (for 3 years it would be $80/yr, but 3 years man?)
8vCPU Intel Silver
32GB RAM
480GB NVMe
16TB transfer
I chose Germany location and Ubuntu 20.04
yabs.sh
Results are crazy good and meh at the same time. 512k disk speed is amazing, but Geekbench not so much. Overall its great offer, as long as perf wont degrade after refund period XD If that happens I'll post new yabs here
@AXYZE When E5 became Silver?
today
Yea I just saw that now their website says sale ends in 57 minutes XD So like you said they bait with never ending sales.
Aaaand they baited me... lets see if perf will stay the same for whole year, because for now benchmarks show amazing value. I have new production site coming in this month and I'll see how it runs with constant usage, although it wont be really high load. ExpressJS+Nuxt will generate many static pages every minute or so and it scales nicely with many cores.
They call them Intel Silver on their page. Look below "Performance VPS". I've copied their specs and then showed how yabs reads it.
I'm not exactly sure if that is indeed E5 v4 because lscpu specs are completely different - for example it says that this CPU has 128MB L3 cache when E5-2650 v4 has 30MB. Even if there is multiple sockets that still wont be 128MB. Its KVM tbw.
Maybe ask them if they actually delivered what you paid for
I've just created ticket Now we need to wait for their explanation
The sale has been going on for years.
I’m running a Cloudron installation on a Performance vps with 32GB ram and 480GB storage, running a crap load of wp sites, mastodon, matrix, moodle, Ghost blogs, etc. It’s fine for me. Read up on their cancellation policy https://www.ssdnodes.com/SSD_Nodes_TOS.pdf, for some it’s way too strict. I personally have cancelled services with the proper time frame, and used any residual payment to go towards another vps (I was upgrading due to deals and needing more space).
post when you hear back
@AXYZE
Can you create a 25GBs ext4 filesystem on the RAM and then try to copy a large file into it to fill it and see if that is successful?
https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/491900
@kassem I'm a noob on some things- what are you trying to accomplish and why this specific vendor? or are you testing it everywhere for some useful reason?
search ssdnodes on the purple forum, it's pretty much people complaining about being throttled, unable to use any of their 'xeon gold' cores, not even 5 minute transcode jobs, all sorts of oddities that don't match up at all with the type of spec you're supposed to receive
I've tested 28GB with memtester.
28GB + system + other apps = ~29.4GB ram usage.
Memtester should be better option than just trying to put file without byte-level.
0 errors during 2h+ load.
And I doubt it's ending in 45mins, that's just a part of their marketing strategy. I'm sure that deal has been on their site for ages.
Let's See
The deal refreshes back to ~59 min.........
@skorupion @CalmDown @databoss @bruh21
SSDNodes recreated my server in another node. I got different IP and lscpu now says its "Intel Xeon Silver 4214". Yesterday I also switched from Ubuntu to Debian and saw some differences with I/O. With Debian 512K I/O is a lot slower, but 1M is way faster.
Keep that in mind if you compare Yabs from below, because it is also from Debian.
I did two Yabs.sh, one after another and perf is almost identical. Results from second run:
From benchmark we can learn that:
In terms of support:
Pretty fast support.
Server is still located in Frankfurt, Germany. Awesome ping/tracert from various Polish providers from what I tested yesterday. It's on par with Hetzner. Slightly faster than Netcup which can route through Czech Republic/Czechia.
Would you guys want another benchmark? This server is idling for 4 weeks and then I will use it for production. I jumped on this offer so fast because I didn't know that this promotion lasts forever XD
Post YABS every 4 weeks and you will know the result.. and take backups periodically..
Agree, their ToS is pretty restrictive. I know most hosts are against crypto mining, which is fair. However, even if you were to run something like BTCPay (which is just a payment gateway in crypto), SSDNodes does not let it.
I had their OVZ line for a couple of years, they upgraded to OVZ7 when OVZ7 was announced and I experienced a lot of unexpected reboots. OVZ7 as a product wasn't stable then. Thankfully, they closed that down. The KVM prices are comparable with the old OVZ range, they reduced the SSD storage by a fraction to keep it profitable. Haven't tried their KVM line, but like @scooke mentioned, it is good for regular websites, web services etc.
They usually have a 7 day refund period, I have personally signed up and cancelled services and the payment has been refunded to my Paypal. Support is also good.
TL;DR - Most regular users will not have any issues with SSDNodes. Run your websites, host your applications etc. and you will hardly notice anything.
still seems like a decent deal considering how much ssd you get. just hope it stays performing well
I've requested refund. Not because VPS has bad performance, but because of this marketing tactic. If this wouldn't be nonstop promo then I wouldn't cancel it tbh. I feel cheated. I couldn't do any proper research or think longer about it and I strongly disapprove this kind of marketing. Its not okay with me and even if product is nice I don't want to support them with my money.
Second reason is that they push 3yr plan + average opinions around (even in this topic). Too many red lights. I'll check PHP-Friends now or I will choose old trusty OVH/Netcup for this project, because I'm sure performance wont degrade with time.
It was my mistake that I jumped to provider that I didn't know about earlier and chose long plan without research. Lessons learned.
what kind of specs do you need for this project anyways?