SoYouStart.com dedicated servers

wow you must have server migrations down to an art form by now

So what you doing with the older SoYouStart server ? Isn't that the same server hardware specs too ?

 

Ah I see.. yeah suppose same network transfer must of been much faster >20-40MB/s ?

Strange visiting their forums at https://forum.ovh.us/forum.php Chrome 37 and Opera 24 give me site unavailable on first load, refresh page and works. Seems their https SSL setup needs work as it uses SHA-1 and limited to TLS 1.0 and SSLv3 connections with no support for TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2 and no forward secrecy Qualys SSL Labs - Projects / SSL Server Test / forum.ovh.us





Ah just noticed the SSL certificate expires in 16 days !

 

yeah I've had this for a while on their forums but only checked out their SSL with ssllabs today.

 

okay 4hrs after SoYouStart ID validation confirmation and I have new server setup ready for me.. very nice

no horror stories of delays - so all up 15hrs for SoYouStart ID validation + 4 hrs for SoYouStart 32G E3-1245v2 SoftRaid 3x120GB SSD server setup = 19hrs all up from time of order

 

Yeah.. maybe they're busy heh. So now to navigate the control panel and stuff - using this SoYouStart server to test virtualisation with Xen and KVM VPSes

 

I'm alive custom CentOS 6.5 64bit OS with distro kernel selected at reinstall

 

not headless VNC, just normal CentOS reinstall from dashboard right now. Playing with all options first

 

Yeah plan to, just playing with all that SoYouStart has to offer for now

testing the 120GB Intel 320 SSD series on the SoYouStart server for both normal raid 1 and my fast drive setup

Intel 320 SSD info

Code:

        Model Number:       INTEL SSDSA2CW120G3                  
        Serial Number:    
        Firmware Revision:  4PC10362

Intel 320 SSD ratings

Code:

Performance
Sustained Sequential Read
Up to 270MBps

Sustained Sequential Write
Up to 130MBps

MTBF
1,200,000 hours

Code:

hdparm -t /dev/sda

/dev/sda:
Timing buffered disk reads: 648 MB in  3.00 seconds = 215.88 MB/sec


hdparm -t /dev/sdb

/dev/sdb:
Timing buffered disk reads: 654 MB in  3.00 seconds = 217.91 MB/sec


hdparm -t /dev/sdc

/dev/sdc:
Timing buffered disk reads: 640 MB in  3.01 seconds = 212.86 MB/sec

Code:

cd /
dd bs=1M count=512 if=/dev/zero of=test conv=fdatasync
512+0 records in
512+0 records out
536870912 bytes (537 MB) copied, 4.03928 s, 133 MB/s

Code:

cd /fastdrive/
dd bs=1M count=512 if=/dev/zero of=test conv=fdatasync
512+0 records in
512+0 records out
536870912 bytes (537 MB) copied, 1.53197 s, 350 MB/s

 

At install time using SoYouStart partition manager create a raid 0 partition across 3x 120GB Intel 320 SSD, see each has around 130MB/s, so 3x in raid 0 = 350MB/s

Code:

cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid1] [raid0]
md1 : active raid1 sdc1[2] sdb1[1] sda1[0]
      81918912 blocks [3/3] [UUU]
     
md2 : active raid0 sdc2[2] sda2[0] sdb2[1]
      12578304 blocks 512k chunks
     
unused devices: <none>

Code:

df -hT
Filesystem     Type      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs         rootfs     77G  1.6G   72G   3% /
devtmpfs       devtmpfs   16G  212K   16G   1% /dev
tmpfs          tmpfs      16G     0   16G   0% /dev/shm
/dev/md1       ext4       77G  1.6G   72G   3% /
devtmpfs       devtmpfs   16G  212K   16G   1% /dev
/dev/md2       ext4       12G  670M   11G   6% /fastdrive
/dev/md1       ext4       77G  1.6G   72G   3% /var/named/chroot/etc/named
/dev/md1       ext4       77G  1.6G   72G   3% /var/named/chroot/var/named
/dev/md1       ext4       77G  1.6G   72G   3% /var/named/chroot/etc/named.conf
/dev/md1       ext4       77G  1.6G   72G   3% /var/named/chroot/etc/named.rfc1912.zones
/dev/md1       ext4       77G  1.6G   72G   3% /var/named/chroot/etc/rndc.key
/dev/md1       ext4       77G  1.6G   72G   3% /var/named/chroot/usr/lib64/bind
/dev/md1       ext4       77G  1.6G   72G   3% /var/named/chroot/etc/named.iscdlv.key
/dev/md1       ext4       77G  1.6G   72G   3% /var/named/chroot/etc/named.root.key

 

yeah if you allocated all disk space, then can't be done now, only on reinstall

 

interesting their web site shows picture of faster Intel S3500 and not Intel 320 SSD series Server E3-SSD-3 - So you Start

Intel 120GB S3500 specs Intel DC S3500 Series SSDSC2BB120G401 2.5" 120GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) - Newegg.com