BlueVM KVM 512 MB (CH)

[wlanboy]

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
  

  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
  

  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.

 

[Ishaq]

No problem

 

[Ruriko]

Aww I wanted to get a vps located in Zurich 

 

[MikeIn]

Great work guys(BlueVM)
There no worry location transfer is liked by all

 

[wlanboy]

Time for an update:



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]

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]

And again package loss beyond any limits:

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]

And the uptime status:



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

And now the network is down again.

 

[Thelen]

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

 

[wlanboy]

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:

 

[Francisco]

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:

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

Francisco

 

[peterw]

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]

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]

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

 

[drmike]

(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]

I canceled my vps.

 

[Neo]

Can we know the reason`?

 

[wlanboy]

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.

 

[peterw]

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.