The best OVHcloud Black Friday deals
Yeah saw those. Not too great for deals compared to previous OVH Black Friday specials. I still have my OVH Black Friday Intel Core i7 4790K 4C/8T dedicated with 32GB memory and 2x240GB SSD for US$47/month that I use exclusively for Centmin Mod testing and lengthier compilation tasks i.e. testing new Clang/GCC compiler builds etc Would love to replace it with an AMD Ryzen 3950X eventually if price was right
I was looking at getting a dedi box and wow the prices have increased from the last time I owned a dedi server. My ssdnodes vps is really slowing down.
I have vps with ssdnode, I didn't notice any slowdown. Maybe because I am not actively monitoring. What kind of slowdown are you experiencing and how busy is your site? I am able to renew the vps for 3 years, now I will wait to hear your feedback before I proceed.
For the price they're great. You can't beat their prices. I've been hosting with them for awhile, but I wouldn't go with 3 years of anything - that's just me. One of my sites is heavily DDoS and scanned all the time. I'm sure if I was at the level of @eva2000 I could probably make the VPS faster, but I'm not. My TTFB is horrible for all the sites. I know there could be a lot of factors at play on my end, but I did have somewhat the same setup on OVH and it was much faster. I'm actually using the ssdnodes in the NYC location, not Dallas. I paid for a year of the high performance 24gb ram. But I'm thinking about going back to OVH because my server was fast - of course it was also 6x more expensive. I also believe the OVH network is better w/ the anti-ddos as another layer of filtering. I'm supposed to have a Intel Gold CPU but I have Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650 v4 @ 2.20GHz which I don't believe is a Gold CPU. Plus the max is 2.90GHz which isn't blazing fast especially for single core processes. Network speed is around 400Mbps down and 300Mbps up which is ok. Having not so busy sites on ssdnodes would probably be fine. Problem with me is that I don't have a ton of time to tinker with setting and testing everything out to squeak the fastest site out of the cheaper VPS. I bet their SSD servers are faster. No one wants the SSD, everyone wants the nvme. So, ssd servers are probably light on clients and load. I had an ssd vps for a year and it was pretty fast. In the end, you get what you pay for. I'd probably be better served using argo on cloudflare and keeping the cheaper vps.
Thank you for the detailed reply. I am on the SSD vps, I will take your advice to not renewal for 3 years, only on a yearly base.
Thanks for posting about it, Just purchased 1 STOR-2 with 6x12 TB disks, planning on purchasing few more.
Most of the OVH deals are for like $4 off the list price or about 5% off. That's not a real deal IMO. Soyoustart deals aren't bad at 30% and 40% but with them you got the setup fee ($24) and 250Mbps slownet.
@Jimmy Ive heard from previous customers complaining that the RAM from ssd nodes are just swapped RAM and not originating from the physical ram. Could you confirm that?
I have a vps with ssdnode, if you can tell me how to check. I don't mind checking it and post the findings here.
@Jay Chen sudo dmidecode --type 17 sudo dmidecode -t memory | grep -i speed sudo lshw -short -C memory post the 3 individual results
Code: dmidecode --type 17 # dmidecode 3.2 Getting SMBIOS data from sysfs. SMBIOS 2.8 present. Handle 0x1100, DMI type 17, 40 bytes Memory Device Array Handle: 0x1000 Error Information Handle: Not Provided Total Width: Unknown Data Width: Unknown Size: 2000 MB Form Factor: DIMM Set: None Locator: DIMM 0 Bank Locator: Not Specified Type: RAM Type Detail: Other Speed: Unknown Manufacturer: QEMU Serial Number: Not Specified Asset Tag: Not Specified Part Number: Not Specified Rank: Unknown Configured Memory Speed: Unknown Minimum Voltage: Unknown Maximum Voltage: Unknown Configured Voltage: Unknown Code: dmidecode -t memory | grep -i speed Speed: Unknown Configured Memory Speed: Unknown Code: lshw -short -C memory H/W path Device Class Description ========================================================== /0/0 memory 96KiB BIOS /0/1000 memory 2000MiB System Memory /0/1000/0 memory 2000MiB DIMM RAM
although you can be 100% sure if u try synbench memory centminmod/centminmod-sysbench ./sysbench.sh mem
for comparison heres mine: Code: 3.10.0-1062.4.3.el7.x86_64 CentOS Linux release 7.7.1908 (Core) Centmin Mod 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) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1270 v6 @ 3.80GHz Stepping: 9 CPU MHz: 3999.926 CPU max MHz: 4200.0000 CPU min MHz: 800.0000 BogoMIPS: 7584.00 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 smx est tm2 ssse3 sdbg 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 invpcid_single intel_pt ssbd ibrs ibpb stibp 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 md_clear spec_ctrl intel_stibp flush_l1d CPU 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 smx est tm2 ssse3 sdbg 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 invpcid_single intel_pt ssbd ibrs ibpb stibp 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 md_clear spec_ctrl intel_stibp flush_l1d CPU NODE SOCKET CORE L1d:L1i:L2:L3 ONLINE MAXMHZ MINMHZ 0 0 0 0 0:0:0:0 yes 4200.0000 800.0000 1 0 0 1 1:1:1:0 yes 4200.0000 800.0000 2 0 0 2 2:2:2:0 yes 4200.0000 800.0000 3 0 0 3 3:3:3:0 yes 4200.0000 800.0000 4 0 0 0 0:0:0:0 yes 4200.0000 800.0000 5 0 0 1 1:1:1:0 yes 4200.0000 800.0000 6 0 0 2 2:2:2:0 yes 4200.0000 800.0000 7 0 0 3 3:3:3:0 yes 4200.0000 800.0000 total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 31970 11319 5779 156 14872 20106 Low: 31970 26191 5779 High: 0 0 0 Swap: 16383 1 16382 Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on devtmpfs 16G 0 16G 0% /dev tmpfs 16G 36M 16G 1% /dev/shm tmpfs 16G 122M 16G 1% /run tmpfs 16G 0 16G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup /dev/sda2 197G 12G 176G 7% / /dev/sda5 16G 58M 15G 1% /tmp /dev/sdc1 235G 18G 206G 8% /home /dev/sda1 488M 133M 320M 30% /boot /dev/sdb1 917G 77M 871G 1% /home/backup tmpfs 3.2G 0 3.2G 0% /run/user/0 tmpfs 3.2G 0 3.2G 0% /run/user/1003 tmpfs 3.2G 0 3.2G 0% /run/user/1004 tmpfs 3.2G 0 3.2G 0% /run/user/1010 tmpfs 3.2G 0 3.2G 0% /run/user/1012 tmpfs 3.2G 0 3.2G 0% /run/user/1011 overlay 197G 12G 176G 7% /var/lib/docker/overlay2/3c35ee3b4b83b75f8e8e4624a1c228be0d1f706323cd161a6d9f74c8f6713a70/merged overlay 197G 12G 176G 7% /var/lib/docker/overlay2/5c6eee875305b1d2c37c1124f28d0d6c109ec15b516e1727409b870cea17e73b/merged shm 64M 0 64M 0% /var/lib/docker/containers/a812601e25cf35c3507cfeb07a133aae31a0c8685a4206265dca70a03267873c/mounts/shm shm 64M 8.0K 64M 1% /var/lib/docker/containers/3f5054aeec613cf40d60a0f6f14503d3d55a1dcd00c424b8709f3c64809b1ced/mounts/shm overlay 197G 12G 176G 7% /var/lib/docker/overlay2/18552830992bc4f82f62ea9c8530398631cfb24b96cb5dcbc67f2413352e827c/merged shm 64M 0 64M 0% /var/lib/docker/containers/0e6ecc6bd1585659e5e4928fa5736fa936013c1e50a1ed4b51410f7396136e0c/mounts/shm sysbench memory --threads=1 --memory-block-size=1K --memory-scope=global --memory-total-size=1G --memory-oper=read run sysbench 1.0.19 (using bundled LuaJIT 2.1.0-beta2) threads: 1 block-size: 1KiB total-size: 1024MiB operation: read scope: global total-ops: 1048576 (7779543.67 per second) transferred (7597.21 MiB/sec) time: 0.1335s min: 0.00 avg: 0.00 max: 0.01 95th: 0.00 | memory sysbench | sysbench | threads: | block-size: | total-size: | operation: | total-ops: | transferred | time: | min: | avg: | max: | 95th: | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | memory | 1.0.19 | 1 | 1KiB | 1024MiB | read | 1048576 | 7597.21 | 0.1335s | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.00 | sysbench,sysbench,threads,block-size,total-size,operation,total-ops,transferred,time,min,avg,max,95th memory,1.0.19,1,1KiB,1024MiB,read,1048576,7597.21,0.1335s,0.00,0.00,0.01,0.00 sysbench memory --threads=8 --memory-block-size=1K --memory-scope=global --memory-total-size=1G --memory-oper=read run sysbench 1.0.19 (using bundled LuaJIT 2.1.0-beta2) threads: 8 block-size: 1KiB total-size: 1024MiB operation: read scope: global total-ops: 1048576 (24191683.17 per second) transferred (23624.69 MiB/sec) time: 0.0421s min: 0.00 avg: 0.00 max: 15.01 95th: 0.00 | memory sysbench | sysbench | threads: | block-size: | total-size: | operation: | total-ops: | transferred | time: | min: | avg: | max: | 95th: | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | memory | 1.0.19 | 8 | 1KiB | 1024MiB | read | 1048576 | 23624.69 | 0.0421s | 0.00 | 0.00 | 15.01 | 0.00 | sysbench,sysbench,threads,block-size,total-size,operation,total-ops,transferred,time,min,avg,max,95th memory,1.0.19,8,1KiB,1024MiB,read,1048576,23624.69,0.0421s,0.00,0.00,15.01,0.00
dmidecode doesn't read memory hardware in virtualized environments like KVM, OpenVZ or Viirtouzzo only in dedicated servers so ssdnode VPS won't report values once you installed sysbench via my sysbench.sh script at centminmod/centminmod-sysbench you can run sysbench manually too for memory test keep changing --memory-total value incrementally from 1GB, 2GB, up to your VPS server's memory install size and watch the transferred speed in MiB/sec i.e. for 4GB memory size this is on i7 4790K dedicated server with DDR and number of threads determined by number of cpu threads running 4x8GB DDR3-1600Mhz = 32GB memory. Code (Text): sysbench memory --threads=$(nproc) --memory-block-size=1K --memory-scope=global --memory-total-size=4G --memory-oper=read run results with 4096.00 MiB transferred (38196.48 MiB/sec) Code (Text): sysbench memory --threads=$(nproc) --memory-block-size=1K --memory-scope=global --memory-total-size=4G --memory-oper=read run sysbench 1.0.18 (using bundled LuaJIT 2.1.0-beta2) Running the test with following options: Number of threads: 8 Initializing random number generator from current time Running memory speed test with the following options: block size: 1KiB total size: 4096MiB operation: read scope: global Initializing worker threads... Threads started! Total operations: 4194304 (39113198.52 per second) 4096.00 MiB transferred (38196.48 MiB/sec) General statistics: total time: 0.1059s total number of events: 4194304 Latency (ms): min: 0.00 avg: 0.00 max: 0.04 95th percentile: 0.00 sum: 215.26 Threads fairness: events (avg/stddev): 524288.0000/0.00 execution time (avg/stddev): 0.0269/0.00 Speed in theory should be fairly uniform from 1GB up to memory installed size bar any VPS neighbours competing for resources at the time of testing but not really indicative of whether VPS host node is swapping to disk. If you're referring to this users thread at https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/161270/ssdnodes-ram-is-not-fully-utilized, he never provided his VPS memory usage info as higher memory and/or cpu usage within VPS doesn't mean VPS host node is swapping to disk, it means just his VPS is using more memory and/or cpu. That use probably doesn't understand how linux reports used memory see Help! Linux ate my RAM!