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BlueVM KVM 512 MB (CH)

wlanboy

Content Contributer
Provider: BlueVM
Plan: KVM 512mb VPS
Price: 24$ per year
Location: Zurich, Swizz

Purchased: 05/2013

Hardware information:

  • cat /proc/cpuinfo

    processor : 0
    vendor_id : GenuineIntel
    cpu family : 6
    model : 2
    model name : QEMU Virtual CPU version 1.5.0
    stepping : 3
    microcode : 0x1
    cpu MHz : 1999.999
    cache size : 4096 KB
    physical id : 0
    siblings : 2
    core id : 0
    cpu cores : 2
    apicid : 0
    initial apicid : 0
    fdiv_bug : no
    hlt_bug : no
    f00f_bug : no
    coma_bug : no
    fpu : yes
    fpu_exception : yes
    cpuid level : 4
    wp : yes
    flags : fpu de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx lm pni vmx cx16 popcnt hypervisor lahf_lm
    bogomips : 3999.99
    clflush size : 64
    cache_alignment : 64
    address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
    power management:

    processor : 1
    vendor_id : GenuineIntel
    cpu family : 6
    model : 2
    model name : QEMU Virtual CPU version 1.5.0
    stepping : 3
    microcode : 0x1
    cpu MHz : 1999.999
    cache size : 4096 KB
    physical id : 0
    siblings : 2
    core id : 1
    cpu cores : 2
    apicid : 1
    initial apicid : 1
    fdiv_bug : no
    hlt_bug : no
    f00f_bug : no
    coma_bug : no
    fpu : yes
    fpu_exception : yes
    cpuid level : 4
    wp : yes
    flags : fpu de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx lm pni vmx cx16 popcnt hypervisor lahf_lm
    bogomips : 3999.99
    clflush size : 64
    cache_alignment : 64
    address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
    power management:

  • cat /proc/meminfo
    Code:
    MemTotal:         507484 kB
    MemFree:            6056 kB
    Buffers:           44560 kB
    Cached:           257728 kB
    SwapCached:         8644 kB
    Active:           213456 kB
    Inactive:         231644 kB
    Active(anon):      71320 kB
    Inactive(anon):    73992 kB
    Active(file):     142136 kB
    Inactive(file):   157652 kB
    Unevictable:           0 kB
    Mlocked:               0 kB
    HighTotal:             0 kB
    HighFree:              0 kB
    LowTotal:         507484 kB
    LowFree:            6056 kB
    SwapTotal:        522236 kB
    SwapFree:         492328 kB
    Dirty:               176 kB
    Writeback:             0 kB
    AnonPages:        136960 kB
    Mapped:            47776 kB
    Shmem:              2500 kB
    Slab:              44288 kB
    SReclaimable:      21068 kB
    SUnreclaim:        23220 kB
    KernelStack:        1976 kB
    PageTables:         3396 kB
    NFS_Unstable:          0 kB
    Bounce:                0 kB
    WritebackTmp:          0 kB
    CommitLimit:      775976 kB
    Committed_AS:     742368 kB
    VmallocTotal:     512000 kB
    VmallocUsed:        2944 kB
    VmallocChunk:     506412 kB
    HardwareCorrupted:     0 kB
    AnonHugePages:         0 kB
    HugePages_Total:       0
    HugePages_Free:        0
    HugePages_Rsvd:        0
    HugePages_Surp:        0
    Hugepagesize:       2048 kB
    DirectMap4k:       36856 kB
    DirectMap2M:      487424 kB
  • wget
    Code:
    wget cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test -O /dev/null
    --2014-01-03 20:59:58--  http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
    Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net (cachefly.cachefly.net)... 81.17.24.34
    Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net (cachefly.cachefly.net)|81.17.24.34|:80... connected.
    HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
    Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
    Saving to: `/dev/null'
    
    100%[================================================================================================================================>] 104,857,600 68.5M/s   in 1.5s
    
    2014-01-03 21:00:00 (68.5 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]
What services are running?

  • 2x Xfce desktops
  • 2x VNC servers
  • Openvpn
  • Ruby scripts
  • Ruby debugger
Support:

One ticket about the move of the vps from Zurich. Due to the holidays I had to wait - but I catched Ishaq on IRC and he transfered the vps within minutes.

Overall experience:

The KVM was rock solid in Buffalo, but the network connection to the northern EU was bad. The troughput was way beyond anything usable. So I wanted to move to an EU location (LA was not my prefered location for a remote desktop).

I am very pleased with the current network connection in Zurich.

And I want to thank BlueVM that they transfered the KVM from Buffalo to Zurich without any additional costs.
 

wlanboy

Content Contributer
Time for an update:

statusbluechkvm1.jpg

The first month was rough but after that the node had a great uptime.

Network is good and performance is ok for the price I am paying.

January the 2nd was a bad day because Feathur did not liked to restart my vps and I was sitting in a plane.

So this downtime can be but to approximately to 5 hours.
 

wlanboy

Content Contributer
Host Loss%
private-layer-inc.10gigabitethernet1-4.core1.zrh1.he.net 55.2%

Looks like the CH location does have some problems with he.net.

This package loss lasts for some days now.
 

wlanboy

Content Contributer
And again package loss beyond any limits:

Code:
Keys:  Help   Display mode   Restart statistics   Order of fields   quit
                                                                                            Packets               Pings
 Host                                                                                     Loss%   Snt   Last   Avg  Best  Wrst StDev
 3. 100ge5-1.core1.fra1.he.net                                                             0.0%    10   15.7   8.6   6.7  15.7   3.4
 4. 10ge3-1.core1.zrh1.he.net                                                              0.0%     9   23.0  16.2  13.8  23.0   3.8
 5. private-layer-inc.10gigabitethernet1-4.core1.zrh1.he.net                              75.0%     9  217.5 159.9 102.3 217.5  81.5
 

wlanboy

Content Contributer
And the uptime status:

statuschkvm2.jpg

Feathur bug + ticket response times caused 3 days of downtime.

And now the network is down again.
 

Thelen

New Member
Verified Provider
Privatelayer is a decent provider, not sure about the he.net loss though, I've never seen that?
 

wlanboy

Content Contributer
Privatelayer is a decent provider, not sure about the he.net loss though, I've never seen that?
Yup, a reason why I bought a OpenVZ and moved my KVM vps to this location.

The and now the KVM node.

I think this is a node problem because at all.

PS KVM is still down:

statuschkvm3.jpg
 

Francisco

Company Lube
Verified Provider
Yup, a reason why I bought a OpenVZ and moved my KVM vps to this location.

The and now the KVM node.

I think this is a node problem because at all.

PS KVM is still down:

statuschkvm3.jpg
Almost 4 days down? Did you swap around IP's or have a broken firewall rule?

Francisco
 

peterw

New Member
The network is crap this month. I had 2.5 days without any connection. The server was there but did not have any internet connection. But my KVM is online now. Download speeds are poor 230kbit/s but hopefully get better after each customers did there tests.
 

wlanboy

Content Contributer
Almost 4 days down? Did you swap around IP's or have a broken firewall rule?


Francisco
Nope, same ip and same rules.

Just over 80% package loss and broken upstream.

And of course host reboots without reboots of the containers, Feathur bugs and long ticket wait times.

I moved all services from this box - it is currently not usable at all.
 

Neo

Member
Any I/O test? i had one and it had shitty I/O about 20MB/s. Also SWISS
 
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drmike

100% Tier-1 Gogent
(FACEPALM)

You folks ought to ticket Fabozzi about your experience.  Sure he'd like to hear about his investment crapping the bed, again.

Mass network downtime, poor throughput,  must be the abuse.
 

wlanboy

Content Contributer
Can we know the reason`?
Mind reading my posts?

Summary:

  • Node downtime
  • Network downtime
  • Package loss
  • Bad CPU performance
  • Bad I/O performance
  • Feathur bugs regarding KVM that will not restart or kill KVM instances.
statuschkvm4.jpg
 

peterw

New Member
I canceled my vps in Swizz too. Downloading my backup from my server was a pain because it only had 340kbit upload rate for 2GB of data.
 
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