BlueVM OpenVZ 512 MB (CH)

[peterw]

@BlueVM When will the Swizz network be better again?

 

[AuroraZero]

@wlanboy Thank you the very detailed and updated reviews. I am currently watching the CH and NY providers for some upcoming projects and appreciate the honesty you show in these. I realize not every provider can be the best in all locations but at least some level of competency is needed.

Not saying that @BlueVM and his team are incompetent far from it. They have been around a long time and have made their way in this sector. Just nice to see honesty from the provider and user all in one spot for a change is all.

 

[wlanboy]

@wlanboy Thank you the very detailed and updated reviews.

Looks like the problem on this node gone away:



26 days without any network issue.

PS:

Looks like the

 

[wlanboy]

Time for an update to my last BlueVM box:



CPU is ok, I/O degraded again, network is again beyond the 1 Mbit/s.

March was quite an easy month but April got the problems back.

2 hours and 13 minutes of downtime for a single day on 7 incidents.

I enjoyed the emails poping up again and again.

But it looks like they got the node back on the road.

Hopefully they fix the upstream issue soon.

 

[wlanboy]

Time for an update:



0 minutes of downtime since the last update.

The uptime of the vps is 94 days.

CPU and I/O are ok.

Internal network is getting better:


--2014-06-21 19:22:39-- 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 25.2M/s in 3.9s

2014-06-21 19:22:43 (25.4 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]

If you you have any routes outside of the EU it is still bad:

Get:26 http://security.debian.org/ .....
Fetched 26.3 MB in 35s (731 kB/s)

 

[wlanboy]

Time for an update:



1 hour and 19 minutes and 7 seconds of network downtime since the last update.

Uptime of the vps is 44 days.

CPU and I/O are ok.

Network within the EU is getting better:


wget cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test -O /dev/null
--2014-08-10 14:47:16-- 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 18.8M/s in 5.1s

2014-08-10 14:47:21 (19.7 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]

Connections to the US are still bad.

 

[wlanboy]

Looks like the whole node is down:



If you go to the ticket section of their customer portal you see this:

 

[DomainBop]

Looks like the whole node is down:



If you go to the ticket section of their customer portal you see this:

BlueVM is the only thing down at PrivateLayer Switzerland.  BlueVM has a history of paying bills late (their corporate status in Colorado has been "noncompliant" since August 1st because they also have a history of not filing returns on time).  It's the weekend and PrivateLayer's billing department is probably closed until Monday...

tl;dr I'll be shocked if the Switzerland nodes are up before Monday.

 

[wlanboy]

BlueVM has a history of paying bills late (their corporate status in Colorado has been "noncompliant" since August 1st because they also have a history of not filing returns on time).  It's the weekend and PrivateLayer's billing department is probably closed until Monday...

tl;dr I'll be shocked if the Switzerland nodes are up before Monday.

dl;dr WTF?

Hopefully that is not true.

 

[wlanboy]

Next issue:

Dear Customer,
We're aware of an issue preventing payments from some clients being sent. We are looking into this and expect it to be resolved soon. Suspensions and terminations have been halted until this is resolved.

Thanks you for your patience.

I have canceled the vps, so no more updates on this one.