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@ElliotJ vmhosts.co.uk is using exactly same setup.
With the OnApp/WHMCS integration? Interesting. I personally haven't come across another provider on LEB using it before.
Aside from that, we are using KVM instead of Xen, and hopefully the SSDs will play nicely.
We're really deliberating on whether to use the current WHMCS integration setup, or fall back onto the standard OnApp panel. Hopefully this will give up some insight.
[root@ ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=iotest bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync && rm -rf iotest
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 3.10039 seconds, 346 MB/s
wget cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.bin
--2012-07-26 01:05:57-- http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.bin
Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net... 140.99.94.175
Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net|140.99.94.175|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `100mb.bin'
100%[=====================================================>] 104,857,600 10.7M/s in 9.7s
2012-07-26 01:06:07 (10.3 MB/s) - `100mb.bin' saved [104857600/104857600]
IOPING
[root@~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=testfilex bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 2.66566 seconds, 403 MB/s
wget freevps.us/downloads/bench.sh -O - -o /dev/null|bash
CPU model : QEMU Virtual CPU version 0.9.1
Number of cores : 1
CPU frequency : 3292.704 MHz
Total amount of ram : 245 MB
Total amount of swap : 1023 MB
System uptime : 4 min,
Download speed from CacheFly: 10.2MB/s
Download speed from Linode, Atlanta GA: 2.44MB/s
Download speed from Linode, Dallas, TX: 2.23MB/s
Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 1.39MB/s
Download speed from Linode, London, UK: 11.2MB/s
Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 8.68MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Singapore: 971KB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Seattle, WA: 1.31MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 1.29MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Washington, DC: 2.01MB/s
I/O speed : 467 MB/s
Not as fast as I'd hope to be seeing, although I'm presuming it's the initial hit with people (re)installing stuff and running benchmarks.
Hopefully by tomorrow it'll stabilise and hit 600MB/sec+
So you own This or @ElliotJ ?
Just to add, we're not just looking for lots of dd tests, but some thoughts on the control panel, any bugs, general usability etc., and most importantly, whether having tried the server you think the prices are reasonable.
@Jhadley owns VirtIO.
I own it at the moment and Elliot's helping out. Elliot has helped out an awful lot so it may well become joint ownership fairly quickly.
@ElliotJ I have one of those free vps from Vmhosts, I thought you are a cousin or something, because the control panel is exactly same. Based on my experience, if you want to make clients feel comfortable, don't use WHMCS integrated control panel, it's a crap and slow even though it works.
Thanks for your input @LAKid, I had a similar first impression, but it's nice to hear it from other people too.
Depending on how things go, we might be able to try out the OnApp portal too, so you can compare/contrast the two experiences.
The centos 6 template isn't that good. (ext3 filesystem, too much crap running by default)
It's slow to reboot/reinstall
There doesn't seem to be a way to change OS templates (click "Rebuild Virtual Machine" and it just reinstalls the same template)
archlinux template is all kinds of fuxed up
It's slow to reboot/reinstall
As discussed on IRC, the templates aren't ideal at the moment. I'll be looking at rolling our our own templates shortly.
Changing OSes is a little awkward at the moment - You need to stop and then delete your virtual machine, and then re-deploy it.
ain't nothing wrong with ext3
Debian 6 is fully functional without any problem: Centos is a crap.
Below is after webmin/virtualmin installation:
Debian Linux 6.0
Kernel and CPU Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 on x86_64
Real memory 243.42 MB total, 121.85 MB used
Virtual memory 1023.99 MB total, 16.92 MB used
Can I give it a test run if there's any slots left? I've read the terms and conditions and accept them!
I like OnApp, please send me one. thanks.
I only want it, : )
Ahh, well good luck
and btw i was going to reply other day but ive had to reformat the infected servers! and i lost your email
@dmmcintyre3:
@fly please go into more detail about the Arch template - what is wrong with it?
@azizmb and @jeffpan last night there was 1 slot left. It's up to Elliot who it goes to
@DanielM no problem
Looking at the comments here well probably ditch the WHMCS controls
Actually, @vahe posted first.
I'll send him a message about it first, but if I spot anyone not really using their test VPS after a couple days, I'll let you guys know to see if you're still interested.
I'm presuming that it ins't following 'the arch way', whereby everything's minimal and hipster and stuff, the OnApp templates tend to load up unnecessary things.
I'm not too experienced with Arch, but I'll have a go at rolling out a minimal template.
no.
they commented out package signing, which is obviously a very big no no, among other things. I can make a walkthrough of what you need to go from a 2011 netinstall cd to a fully working arch template.
Yeah that kinda sucks.
That'd be awesome, I'll try and work on a few templates today.
@jhadley @ElliotJ
Looks like the OnApp bug is not resolved yet, I'm having the same problem as @eastonch.
Anyway, here is some feedback on the usability of the CP.
1) The login button on the top right is visible even when user is logged in. Don't show it or change to logout, when the user is logged in.
2) I hate how the "Virtual Machine Details" page refreshes automatically. First of all, the delay between refreshes is really short, thus annoying. Instead, I'd recommend using an ajax request every x seconds to update the status.
3) The elements on "Overview | CPU Usage | IP Addresses | Disks | Backups" pages seem to be too cluttered. Some spacing between the above links and the paragraph below would be nice, and maybe a min-height for the whmcs pages.
4) "Order new services" page (under "Services" menu) only says "(Choose Another Category)". Makes no sense.
I think that's it for now. I'll provide some more feedback on the vps once it's active...
@elliotj hit me up when you wanna chat on irc
I just tested the io :
535 MB/s
Almost similar with my Prometeus VZ3
May be the CPU is a little poor, I advice two core at least. In fact, I have never been tried onApp, could I have a try?
Some benchmarking results can be viewed here :
http://www.lebstats.com/2012/07/26/virt-io-onapp-cloud-trial.html
It appears that WHCMS canceled my VPS, its status at the moment is "terminated".
I received two emails about payment and after that it was terminated.
Will wait for a follow up.
@thekreek were you using the server? Elliot is deleting unused servers from the trial.