OVH OVH Black Friday 2017 Discounts up to 30%

Got an email from my OVH Australia registered account for Black Friday OVH 2017 discounts

• OVH Australia/Singapore/APC https://www.ovh.com.au/black-friday/#xtor=ES-8-[BFc]-20171124-[cta]
• OVH USA/BHS https://www.ovh.com/us/black-friday/

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From OVH USA site

 

hmm folks over at LET forums are reporting these OVH discounts are not reoccurring discounts

 

Terms at bottom of page say renewal price is the price listed on their website at time of renewal. So only way to take advantage of discount is to pre-pay in advance for at least 3-12 months

guessing not many folks took up the offers as they aren't as attractive as previous offers

 

Yeah the wording needs more clarification and you have point on different regional sites having different pricing. Guess they made a typo on TOS for ovh.com.au as it says renewal price is ones listed on ovh uk site heh

 

Couldn't resist - that MC-64-OC server was calling my name

 

OVH MC-64-OC setup for CentOS 7.4 with distro kernel and custom EXT4 partitioning. Don't think I'd be able to keep this server as long due to the cost of it but going to give it a good month of Centmin Mod testing seeing at it should be fast @4.7-5.0Ghz clocked for Centmin Mod source compiled stuff i.e. nginx, php-fpm and gcc, clang testing.

Code (Text):

lscpu
Architecture:          x86_64
CPU op-mode(s):        32-bit, 64-bit
Byte Order:            Little Endian
CPU(s):                8
On-line CPU(s) list:   0-7
Thread(s) per core:    2
Core(s) per socket:    4
Socket(s):             1
NUMA node(s):          1
Vendor ID:             GenuineIntel
CPU family:            6
Model:                 158
Model name:            Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7700K CPU @ 4.20GHz
Stepping:              9
CPU MHz:               4697.601
CPU max MHz:           5000.0000
CPU min MHz:           800.0000
BogoMIPS:              8400.00
Virtualization:        VT-x
L1d cache:             32K
L1i cache:             32K
L2 cache:              256K
L3 cache:              8192K
NUMA node0 CPU(s):     0-7
Flags:                 fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc art arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf eagerfpu pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 fma cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm abm 3dnowprefetch epb intel_pt tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid fsgsbase tsc_adjust bmi1 hle avx2 smep bmi2 erms invpcid rtm mpx rdseed adx smap clflushopt xsaveopt xsavec xgetbv1 dtherm ida arat pln pts hwp hwp_notify hwp_act_window hwp_epp

the default partitioning



my custom partitioning

 

OVH MC-64-OC Centmin Mod 123.09beta01 install times - seems yum install part was noticeably slow so could be just temp issues with yum mirrors ? But nginx and php-fpm source compiles are fast. Note 123.09beta01 has added routines to nginx and php-fpm since, so may or may not effect total times.

To compare CentOS 7.x with distro kernel and 123.09beta01

• SoYouStart E3-1245v2 32GB 3x120GB = 657.4870s
• OVH i7 4790K @4.0-4.4Ghz 32GB 2x 240GB = 548.4388s
• OVH i7 7700K @4.7-5.0Ghz 64GB 2x450GB NVME = 1109.6309s - slow yum install time +531s extra !

OVH i7 4790K @4.0-4.4Ghz in BHS5 datacenter

Code (Text):

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total Curl Installer YUM Time: 60.0219 seconds
Total YUM Time: 70.570579679 seconds
Total YUM + Source Download Time: 85.6269
Total Nginx First Time Install Time: 50.5257
Total PHP First Time Install Time: 133.9568
Download Zip From Github Time: 1.7993
Total Time Other eg. source compiles: 216.5081
Total Centmin Mod Install Time: 486.6176
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total Install Time (curl yum + cm install + zip download): 548.4388 seconds
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

OVH MC-64-OC i7 7700K @4.7-5.0Ghz in BHS6 datacenter

• Woah curl installer's YUM times / network was very very slow at 531.6557 seconds compared to usual 60-70 seconds ! As was rest of YUM time 103 vs 70 seconds.
• As expected nginx and php compile times were faster at higher clocked 4.7-5.0Ghz vs 4.0-4.4Ghz with 8 cpu threads for both setups.

Code (Text):

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total Curl Installer YUM or DNF Time: 531.6557 seconds
Total YUM Time: 103.990748903 seconds
Total YUM or DNF + Source Download Time: 121.4980
Total Nginx First Time Install Time: 47.6848
Total PHP First Time Install Time: 124.9534
Download Zip From Github Time: 0.9459
Total Time Other eg. source compiles: 282.8931
Total Centmin Mod Install Time: 577.0293
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total Install Time (curl yum + cm install + zip download): 1109.6309 seconds
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Will have to figure out why yum downloads are so slow. It looks to be related to EPEL yum repo mirror slowness. The EPEL yum mirror picked up location for mirror.umd.edu.

Code (Text):

head -n10 /root/centminlogs/yum-timedhosts.txt
repoforge.mirror.constant.com 0.0092089176178
mirror.umd.edu 0.0149159431458
mirror.cogentco.com 0.0155408382416
mirror.team-cymru.org 0.0185110569
repoforge.spinellicreations.com 0.0191729068756
mirror.solarvps.com 0.0215399265289
fedora.mirrors.pair.com 0.0220310688019
mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca 0.0222110748291
mirror.steadfast.net 0.0223150253296
mirror.math.princeton.edu 0.0225508213043

Yum slow mirror test @36.0MB/s

Code (Text):

time wget -O /dev/null http://mirror.umd.edu/centos/7.4.1708/isos/x86_64/CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-1708.iso
--2017-11-26 01:01:53--  http://mirror.umd.edu/centos/7.4.1708/isos/x86_64/CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-1708.iso
Resolving mirror.umd.edu... 129.2.73.2
Connecting to mirror.umd.edu|129.2.73.2|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 830472192 (792M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘/dev/null’

/dev/null                                                      100%[==================================================================================================================================================>] 792.00M  72.1MB/s    in 22s

2017-11-26 01:02:16 (36.0 MB/s) - ‘/dev/null’ saved [830472192/830472192]


real    0m22.152s
user    0m0.110s
sys     0m0.402s

test other mirror @79MB/s

Code (Text):

time wget -O /dev/null http://mirror.cogentco.com/pub/linux/centos/7.4.1708/isos/x86_64/CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-1708.iso
--2017-11-26 01:03:52--  http://mirror.cogentco.com/pub/linux/centos/7.4.1708/isos/x86_64/CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-1708.iso
Resolving mirror.cogentco.com... 204.157.3.70
Connecting to mirror.cogentco.com|204.157.3.70|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 830472192 (792M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘/dev/null’

/dev/null                                                      100%[==================================================================================================================================================>] 792.00M  78.7MB/s    in 10s

2017-11-26 01:04:02 (79.0 MB/s) - ‘/dev/null’ saved [830472192/830472192]


real    0m10.143s
user    0m0.077s
sys     0m0.348s

the official OVH mirror is faster @71.2MB/s

Code (Text):

time wget -O /dev/null http://centos.mirrors.ovh.net/ftp.centos.org/7.4.1708/isos/x86_64/CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-1708.iso
--2017-11-26 01:15:57--  http://centos.mirrors.ovh.net/ftp.centos.org/7.4.1708/isos/x86_64/CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-1708.iso
Resolving centos.mirrors.ovh.net... 2001:41d0:202:100:213:32:5:7, 213.32.5.7
Connecting to centos.mirrors.ovh.net|2001:41d0:202:100:213:32:5:7|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘/dev/null’

/dev/null                                                          [                                                     <=>                                                                                           ] 792.00M  98.0MB/s    in 11s

2017-11-26 01:16:08 (71.2 MB/s) - ‘/dev/null’ saved [830472192]


real    0m11.329s
user    0m0.184s
sys     0m1.178s

Putting yum download slowness aside, Nginx recompiles are nice and fast due to ccache for compiler caching and higher clock speed. Usually on i7 4790K it's around 39-46 seconds. On i7 7700K OC it's around 34.8s

Code (Text):

*************************************************
* nginx updated
*************************************************
   _   _         _                _   _             _         _             _
  | \ | |  __ _ (_) _ __  __  __ | | | | _ __    __| |  __ _ | |_  ___   __| |
  |  \| | / _` || || '_ \ \ \/ / | | | || '_ \  / _` | / _` || __|/ _ \ / _` |
  | |\  || (_| || || | | | >  <  | |_| || |_) || (_| || (_| || |_|  __/| (_| |
  |_| \_| \__, ||_||_| |_|/_/\_\  \___/ | .__/  \__,_| \__,_| \__|\___| \__,_|
          |___/                         |_|                        
 
Total Nginx Upgrade Time: 34.870636071 seconds

Centmin Mod 123.09beta01 has a routine to detect if OVH BHS server is in play so to adjust yum mirrors to use OVH's own faster mirror but seems my routine also breaks on OVH BHS6 7700K server as the routline tries to detect file at /etc/machine-info which on my i7 4790K BHS5 server contains

Code (Text):

cat /etc/machine-info
CHASSIS=server
LOCATION="OVH bhs5, Canada"

but seems BHS6 7700K OC server doesn't have a file for /etc/machine-info so Centmin Mod routines don't trigger

maybe need to change detection to look into /etc/resolv.conf for search ovh.net option but that won't tell me which OVH location it is so would need to inspect geoip data

Code (Text):

grep -rni ovh /etc/resolv.conf
3:search ovh.net

Code (Text):

curl -4s ipinfo.io/geo/
{
  "ip": "142.xxx.xxx.xxx",
  "city": "Montreal",
  "region": "Quebec",
  "country": "CA",
  "loc": "45.5040,-73.5747",
  "postal": "H3A"
}

More YUM tests for slow EPEL yum, I ran same commands below on my i7 4790K OVH BHS5 and i7 7700K OC OVH BHS6 servers and timed how long they took to complete

Code (Text):

yum clean all
time yum -y install centos-release-scl --disablerepo=rpmforge -v

• i7 4790K OVH BHS5 = ~9.619s
• i7 7700K OVH BHS6 = ~54.577s

For i7 4790K OVH BHS5 mirrors selected

Code (Text):

Determining fastest mirrors
 * base: centos.bhs.mirrors.ovh.net
 * epel: mirror.umd.edu
 * extras: mirror.calgah.com
 * updates: centos.bhs.mirrors.ovh.net

For i7 7700K OC OVH BHS6 mirrors selected even after excluding mirror.umd.edu

Code (Text):

Determining fastest mirrors
 * base: centos.bhs.mirrors.ovh.net
 * epel: mirror.us.leaseweb.net
 * extras: centos.bhs.mirrors.ovh.net
 * updates: centos.bhs.mirrors.ovh.net

Even trying OVH monitoring services whitelisting in CSF Firewall doesn't help either https://community.centminmod.com/threads/ovh-icmp-ping-whitelist-for-csf-firewall.11427/#post-48519. i7 7700K OC BHS6 server is slow connecting to EPEL yum mirrors for some reason

edit: caught an EPEL mirror in act so to speak for slowness for mirror
fedora-epel.mirror.iweb.com

Code (Text):

time yum -y install centos-release-scl --disablerepo=rpmforge -v
Loading "fastestmirror" plugin
Loading "priorities" plugin
Loading "versionlock" plugin
Config time: 0.004
Yum version: 3.4.3
rpmdb time: 0.000
Setting up Package Sacks
base                                                                                                                                                                                                                               | 3.6 kB  00:00:00    
centos-sclo-rh                                                                                                                                                                                                                     | 2.9 kB  00:00:00    
centos-sclo-sclo                                                                                                                                                                                                                   | 2.9 kB  00:00:00    
epel/x86_64/metalink                                                                                                                                                                                                               |  14 kB  00:00:00    
epel                                                                                                                                                                                                                               | 4.7 kB  00:00:00    
extras                                                                                                                                                                                                                             | 3.4 kB  00:00:00    
mariadb                                                                                                                                                                                                                            | 2.9 kB  00:00:00    
updates                                                                                                                                                                                                                            | 3.4 kB  00:00:00    
(1/10): base/7/x86_64/group_gz                                                                                                                                                                                                     | 156 kB  00:00:00    
(2/10): base/7/x86_64/primary_db                                                                                                                                                                                                   | 5.7 MB  00:00:00    
(3/10): centos-sclo-sclo/x86_64/primary_db                                                                                                                                                                                         | 189 kB  00:00:00    
(4/10): centos-sclo-rh/x86_64/primary_db                                                                                                                                                                                           | 2.9 MB  00:00:01    
(5/10): epel/x86_64/group_gz                                                                                                                                                                                                       | 266 kB  00:00:15    
epel/x86_64/updateinfo         FAILED                                                                          47% [===============================================                                                     ]   25 B/s | 9.4 MB 123:58:43 ETA
http://fedora-epel.mirror.iweb.com/7/x86_64/repodata/49c2ed353228184eb8d3b8e65e2ea1988b22b538b8dd556cd662f09ba830b25d-updateinfo.xml.bz2: [Errno 12] Timeout on http://fedora-epel.mirror.iweb.com/7/x86_64/repodata/49c2ed353228184eb8d3b8e65e2ea1988b22b538b8dd556cd662f09ba830b25d-updateinfo.xml.bz2: (28, 'Operation too slow. Less than 1000 bytes/sec transferred the last 30 seconds')
Trying other mirror.
(6/10): extras/7/x86_64/primary_db                                                                                                                                                                                                 | 130 kB  00:00:00    
(7/10): mariadb/primary_db                                                                                                                                                                                                         |  19 kB  00:00:00    
(8/10): updates/7/x86_64/primary_db                                                                                                                                                                                                | 3.6 MB  00:00:00    
(9/10): epel/x86_64/updateinfo                                                                                                                                                                                                     | 851 kB  00:00:00    
(10/10): epel/x86_64/primary_db                                                                                                                                                                                                    | 6.1 MB  00:00:16    
Determining fastest mirrors
 * base: centos.bhs.mirrors.ovh.net
 * epel: mirror.umd.edu
 * extras: centos.bhs.mirrors.ovh.net
 * updates: centos.bhs.mirrors.ovh.net

 

can confirm renewal is at full price unfortunately

 

unfortunately one step further confirms full price on renewals

 

trying a 2nd reinstall of CentOS 7.4 + centmin mod 123.09beta01 on MC-64-OC 7700K server and still seems yum is having a few issues this time with OVH's centos mirror !

Code (Text):

systemctl start mysql.service
http://centos.mirrors.ovh.net/ftp.centos.org/7/os/x86_64/Packages/boost-thread-1.53.0-27.el7.x86_64.rpm: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 503 - Service Unavailable
Trying other mirror.
http://centos.mirrors.ovh.net/ftp.centos.org/7/os/x86_64/Packages/libibverbs-13-7.el7.x86_64.rpm: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 503 - Service Unavailable
Trying other mirror.
http://centos.mirrors.ovh.net/ftp.centos.org/7/os/x86_64/Packages/librados2-0.94.5-2.el7.x86_64.rpm: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 503 - Service Unavailable
Trying other mirror.
http://centos.mirrors.ovh.net/ftp.centos.org/7/os/x86_64/Packages/librbd1-0.94.5-2.el7.x86_64.rpm: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 503 - Service Unavailable
Trying other mirror.

still centmin mod 123.09beta01 install was faster this time

Code (Text):

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total Curl Installer YUM or DNF Time: 85.2028 seconds
Total YUM Time: 25.530625101 seconds
Total YUM or DNF + Source Download Time: 43.3621
Total Nginx First Time Install Time: 47.9746
Total PHP First Time Install Time: 99.7218
Download Zip From Github Time: 5.0490
Total Time Other eg. source compiles: 248.5553
Total Centmin Mod Install Time: 439.6138
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total Install Time (curl yum + cm install + zip download): 529.8656 seconds
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

post install check list looks right

Code (Text):

*************************************************
* Post-Install Check List....
*************************************************

--------------------------------------------------------
Check ccache Version:
--------------------------------------------------------
ccache version 3.3.4

Copyright (C) 2002-2007 Andrew Tridgell
Copyright (C) 2009-2017 Joel Rosdahl

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later
version.

--------------------------------------------------------
Check Nginx Version:
--------------------------------------------------------
nginx version: nginx/1.13.7
built by clang 3.4.2 (tags/RELEASE_34/dot2-final)
built with LibreSSL 2.6.3
TLS SNI support enabled
configure arguments: --with-ld-opt='-lrt -ljemalloc -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/lib' --with-cc-opt='-m64 -mtune=native -DTCP_FASTOPEN=23 -g -O3 -fstack-protector -fuse-ld=gold --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wno-sign-compare -Wno-string-plus-int -Wno-deprecated-declarations -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-unused-const-variable -Wno-conditional-uninitialized -Wno-mismatched-tags -Wno-sometimes-uninitialized -Wno-parentheses-equality -Wno-tautological-compare -Wno-self-assign -Wno-deprecated-register -Wno-deprecated -Wno-invalid-source-encoding -Wno-pointer-sign -Wno-parentheses -Wno-enum-conversion -Wno-c++11-compat-deprecated-writable-strings -Wno-write-strings -gsplit-dwarf' --sbin-path=/usr/local/sbin/nginx --conf-path=/usr/local/nginx/conf/nginx.conf --with-compat --with-http_stub_status_module --with-http_secure_link_module --with-libatomic --with-http_gzip_static_module --with-http_sub_module --with-http_addition_module --with-http_image_filter_module=dynamic --with-http_geoip_module --with-stream_geoip_module --with-stream_realip_module --with-stream_ssl_preread_module --with-threads --with-stream=dynamic --with-stream_ssl_module --with-http_realip_module --add-dynamic-module=../ngx-fancyindex-0.4.2 --add-module=../ngx_cache_purge-2.4.2 --add-module=../ngx_devel_kit-0.3.0 --add-dynamic-module=../set-misc-nginx-module-0.31 --add-dynamic-module=../echo-nginx-module-0.61 --add-module=../redis2-nginx-module-0.14 --add-module=../ngx_http_redis-0.3.7 --add-module=../memc-nginx-module-0.18 --add-module=../srcache-nginx-module-0.31 --add-dynamic-module=../headers-more-nginx-module-0.33 --with-pcre=../pcre-8.41 --with-pcre-jit --with-zlib=../zlib-1.2.11 --with-http_ssl_module --with-http_v2_module --with-openssl=../libressl-2.6.3

--------------------------------------------------------
Check PHP-FPM Version:
--------------------------------------------------------
PHP 5.6.32 (cli) (built: Nov 27 2017 05:27:09) 
Copyright (c) 1997-2016 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.6.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2016 Zend Technologies
    with Zend OPcache v7.0.6-dev, Copyright (c) 1999-2016, by Zend Technologies

--------------------------------------------------------
Check MariaDB installed RPM Versions:
--------------------------------------------------------
MariaDB-shared-10.1.29-1.el7.centos.x86_64
MariaDB-server-10.1.29-1.el7.centos.x86_64
MariaDB-common-10.1.29-1.el7.centos.x86_64
MariaDB-compat-10.1.29-1.el7.centos.x86_64
MariaDB-client-10.1.29-1.el7.centos.x86_64
MariaDB-devel-10.1.29-1.el7.centos.x86_64

--------------------------------------------------------
Check Memcached Server Version:
--------------------------------------------------------
memcached 1.5.3

--------------------------------------------------------
Check CSF Firewall Version:
--------------------------------------------------------
csf: v11.05 (generic)

--------------------------------------------------------
Check Siege Benchmark Version:
--------------------------------------------------------
SIEGE 4.0.4

Copyright (C) 2017 by Jeffrey Fulmer, et al.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.


--------------------------------------------------------
Check mysqlreport version:
--------------------------------------------------------
mysqlreport v3.5-maria11 Jul 4 2013

--------------------------------------------------------
Check pure-ftpd Version:
--------------------------------------------------------
pure-ftpd v1.0.42

--------------------------------------------------------
Check YUM Repo List
--------------------------------------------------------
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities, versionlock
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * epel: mirror.us.leaseweb.net
 * rpmforge: repoforge.mirror.constant.com
213 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
repo id                       repo name                              status
base/7/x86_64                 CentOS-7 - Base                        7,420+2,171
*epel/x86_64                  Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 7   11,198+921
extras/7/x86_64               CentOS-7 - Extras                              282
mariadb                       MariaDB                                       14+2
rpmforge                      RHEL 7 - RPMforge.net - dag                140+105
updates/7/x86_64              CentOS-7 - Updates                         854+235
varnishcache_varnish41/x86_64 varnishcache_varnish41                          46
varnishcache_varnish41-source varnishcache_varnish41-source                    0
repolist: 19,954

--------------------------------------------------------
mytimes check:
/usr/bin/mytimes
--------------------------------------------------------
Mon Nov 27 05:29:04 UTC 2017    [UTC]
Mon Nov 27 15:29:04 AEST 2017   [Australia/Brisbane]
Sun Nov 26 21:29:04 PST 2017    [America/Los_Angeles]
Sun Nov 26 23:29:04 CST 2017    [America/Chicago]
Mon Nov 27 00:29:04 EST 2017    [America/New_York]
Mon Nov 27 00:29:04 EST 2017    [America/Montreal]
Mon Nov 27 05:29:04 GMT 2017    [Europe/London]
Mon Nov 27 06:29:04 CET 2017    [Europe/Berlin]
Mon Nov 27 12:29:04 +07 2017    [Asia/Bangkok]
Mon Nov 27 12:29:04 +07 2017    [Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh]
Mon Nov 27 12:29:04 WIB 2017    [Asia/Jakarta]
Mon Nov 27 13:29:04 +08 2017    [Asia/Kuala_Lumpur]
Mon Nov 27 13:29:04 +08 2017    [Asia/Singapore]
--------------------------------------------------------

 

i think they want to force folks into longer commits i.e. VPS 12 month commit and dedicated 12 months would be at discounted price - i did try changing terms at order and 12 months on dedicated is at discounted price

but yeah going to ask