@travisdh1 I've done so with a benchmark tool, it seems to run several redundant tests on the disk and then another set of tests for network speeds. The "disk IO" output value is 5.6mb/s, 6mb/s, and 4.3mb/s. The network connects to Hong Kong (slowest speed) at 30mb/s and Ontario (highest speed) at 120mb/s.

@travisdh1 said:

Performance wise, I don't see how this could possibly make sense. You'd be relying on the internet link for your system storage. How in the world is any internet link going to be faster than access to local resources? Any reasonable host will have much faster local storage. (That's not to say we don't know of unreasonable hosting companies.)

Well... The provided disk averages much slower than the network. So, I'm definitely with an unreasonable host.

Thanks for the explanation. It sounds like my expectations for how this would perform are unrealistic.

DISCLAIMER: I'm very much a beginner student and just curious.

https://www.online.net/en/dedicated-server/rpn-san

My speculation is that this storage can be added to any virtual machine regardless of who provides the VM. I'm sure it requires some specific hardware compatibility, it mentions iSCSI and RPN... I have googled these terms and am researching on my own. I've also taken a look at their limited documentation here: http://documentation.online.net/fr/serveur-dedie/tutoriel/rpn-san
I figure it couldn't hurt to ask the forum and see if anyone familiar with these technologies could weigh in on my speculations; to address limitations or possibly spare me from seeking a dead-end.

I'm interested in this because, in my mind, this could eliminate disk-performance issues on "bargain" hosting providers. (Whether a more cost-effective approach exists isn't my concern, at this point)

The biggest issue I foresee is getting the VM to boot from the RPN-SAN disk and have it ignore the provided (inferior) storage.

Any comments?

@BBigford They don't even offer the newest skylake processors, a whole revision behind.

@BBigford said:

@papercape said:

@BBigford said:

@papercape said:

@BBigford said:

Never used CloudatCost, can someone bring me up to speed on what is so funny?

I mean their prices are kinda weird... $70 for a dual core, but 50% off of that... one time? Err... one time, per month? I don't get it.

Just a one-time payment and you never pay again. It's tempting, but the service is absolutely unusable and has been for going on several months. Their API has been down for nearly a year.

They run these 80-90% off sales every other friday.

Now that's pretty funny. So people paid for a service they haven't used in... a year?

Well, the API had been malfunctioning in some capacity since I first became a customer.

Can you describe that a little for me? Just curious what you experienced so I can relay that to anyone inquiring about the service.

I'm not much of an expert on using API's. There was an android app available that used an apikey generated by the panel. I never could get it to work consistently. Often times it wouldn't connect or wouldn't complete my VM build. Every once in a while I try to connect, but it hasn't worked in like 5-6 months. A twitter user @zackhable wrote a replacement api that works, but I think it violates TOS so I haven't tried it.

@BBigford said:

@papercape said:

@BBigford said:

Never used CloudatCost, can someone bring me up to speed on what is so funny?

I mean their prices are kinda weird... $70 for a dual core, but 50% off of that... one time? Err... one time, per month? I don't get it.

Just a one-time payment and you never pay again. It's tempting, but the service is absolutely unusable and has been for going on several months. Their API has been down for nearly a year.

They run these 80-90% off sales every other friday.

Now that's pretty funny. So people paid for a service they haven't used in... a year?

Well, the API had been malfunctioning in some capacity since I first became a customer. Recently it seems to have bit the dust entirely.

I kept hope that they would improve, and so, I never asked for a refund. They've gotten much worse...

@BBigford said:

Never used CloudatCost, can someone bring me up to speed on what is so funny?

I mean their prices are kinda weird... $70 for a dual core, but 50% off of that... one time? Err... one time, per month? I don't get it.

Just a one-time payment and you never pay again. It's tempting, but the service is absolutely unusable and has been for going on several months. Their API has been down for nearly a year.

They run these 80-90% off sales every other friday.

They just announced 100 free servers and are rolling out discounts throughout the day, starting with 90% off. Despicable.

I found this company about a year ago and couldn't resist temptation. Spent well over $1600 (at 90% off, so like 68vcpu) and haven't been able to host a SINGLE project due to disk instability. VM's go into read-only mode or are simply unconnectable within days of provisioning.

http://serverbear.com/benchmark/2016/03/16/Fm3mmi8LMtIx9yey

I am still waiting on serverbear results. I forgot how long this takes

@aaronstuder said:

@papercape How is OS choice? Can you post some screenshots?

CentOS6
CentOS7
Debian7
Debian8
Fedora23
Ubuntu12.04
Ubuntu14.04
Ubuntu15.04

All "minimal" installs. I don't really know if that's a relative term

I've run them in the past but I can't seem to find my tweets where I shared the link

Lemme run another on the new Dallas DC!

Oh, and I don't know if this matters, but the IPv6 pool on the VDR20 plan is like 50 IP's. I never use IPv6 though.

@scottalanmiller I think I get 25 IP's and can add more for like 1.00 each, I'm not certain about that price though.

@aaronstuder I have the VDR20 plan. The VM packages sell out rather quickly.

I have run disk IO tests and some of the results are nearing 600mb/s disk write speed. I don't know if that's with caching though. I can post the code i've used.

@aaronstuder No affiliation, I just love their product.

@scottalanmiller Ah, yeah I am just guessing. I'm only just starting with managing my own vm's.

Totally would be nested, I overlooked that detail

Nested in that you'd have a container inside a container. I may be misunderstanding though.

I've been using Scaleway since they announced the C1 beta platform. I recently tested the new offerings and they all run on Avoton processors - the Atom C2750, to be exact. Disk speed was a bit underwhelming, but I think they use "shared" disks.

Another company that I would recommend for @aaronstuder is impactvps.com, they are running a 50% off sale on their "resource pools". Check out today's post on lowendbox: https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/78146/impact-vps-1-year-anniversery-special-50-off-now-with-3-locations-in-a-single-package#latest

You could build 20 VM's with 512mb ram each for $30/month; that's $1.50 per VM