CrownCloud - 4 GB RAM + 60 GB SSD - KVM at FRA / LAX / AMS / MIA - $7/month & more!

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• zgato

  March 28

  ridiculously expensive.

  ipv4 test for AMS and FRA don't work.
• SpeedBus Hosting ProviderOG

  March 28

  @zgato said:
  ridiculously expensive.

  The plans for sure aren't like our BlackFriday/CyberMonday deals but they do include 1 snapshot slot each which is stored remotely/offsite (even the $25/year one does), Could you tell me what spec / price point would be more acceptable that you're looking for? We've even got our Ryzen 7950X/7950X3Ds if looking for something different

  ipv4 test for AMS and FRA don't work.

  Apologies, has been corrected now. I seem to have copy-pasted the older test IPs by mistake.

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• zgato

  March 28 edited March 28

  @SpeedBus said:

  @zgato said:
  ridiculously expensive.

  The plans for sure aren't like our BlackFriday/CyberMonday deals but they do include 1 snapshot slot each which is stored remotely/offsite (even the $25/year one does), Could you tell me what spec / price point would be more acceptable that you're looking for? We've even got our Ryzen 7950X/7950X3Ds if looking for something different

  i mean, just look at your competition, i've got $10 USD/yr deals that are better than what you offer for $25 USD/yr
  oh, and that said provider isn't new here, since 2006.

  i've got Ryzen 9 7950X3D deals for around 15€/yr too.

  we're not in BF so I don't expect this much, but almost Easter now
  1TB is quite low, even for modern standards I must say. (your locations are not exotic to say bandwidth is expensive)

  can I also ask for a yabs of your $25USD plan? you may need to add some SWAP for Geekbench values (or GB5 maybe works with that)
• Mumbly

  March 28

  That's the situation where I actually agree with Frankieboy and bikegremlin. This isn't commenting on the host's service (which I believe should be allowed under the offer), but rather ad-thrashing.
  Quoting other hosts' pricing under a sales thread has nothing to do with this host. While there may be cheaper hosts, there are also significantly more expensive ones. So, what's the point? Their business plan is what it is. You can't enforce your preferences onto them.

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• zgato

  March 28 edited March 28

  @Mumbly said:
  That's the situation where I actually agree with Frankieboy and bikegremlin. This isn't commenting on the host's service (which I believe should be allowed under the offer), but rather ad-thrashing.
  Quoting other hosts' pricing under a sales thread has nothing to do with this host. While there may be cheaper hosts, there are also significantly more expensive ones. So, what's the point? Their business plan is what it is. You can't enforce your preferences onto them.

  Did I mention any host name?
  nope. Because I get it.

  This is an offer sale, and my true opinion, he asked me for feedback and I provided him so he gets an idea.
  I just said initially that it's ridiculously expensive, which I still think it is.

  if my comment is inappropiate, I spawn @FrankZ / @bikegremlin so they can take a look and take appropiate actions.
• Mumbly

  March 28

  How do you know? What's your experience with their service?
• zgato

  March 28 edited March 28

  @Mumbly said:
  How do you know? What's your experience with their service?

  the price is public
  what do i need to know.

  it's Intel E5v4, I know what I'm expecting
  and normal SSDs, not even NVMe.

  ridiculously expensive.

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• Mumbly

  March 28

  But you still don't get it, do you? Like I said, that's nothing but ad-thrashing because price isn't determined by your personal preferences, and that just sucks.
• zgato

  March 28

  @Mumbly said:
  But you still don't get it, do you? Like I said, that's nothing but ad-thrashing because price isn't determined by your personal preferences, and that just sucks.

  i get your point, and that first message I sent could've just been avoided in the first place
  same as you derailing this thread by sending me a dm / flagging the message.
• Brueggus OG

  March 28

  I agree, there are providers who provide the same specs at a lower price.
  And there are providers who charge more.

  But what's important for me is that @SpeedBus' services are very reliable. I don't remember any major outage or performance issues since 2017 when I signed up with them. And even when things go wrong, they provide fast and no-bullshit support. Their custom control panel works great, so you don't have to deal with the quirks Virtualizor and SolusVM have.

  And while I love the cheap deals we get here, I would always take my production stuff to a provider like Crown Cloud and I'm happy to pay a few bucks more for less hassle.

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• AuroraZero ModeratorHosting Provider

  March 28

  @Brueggus said:
  I agree, there are providers who provide the same specs at a lower price.
  And there are providers who charge more.

  But what's important for me is that @SpeedBus' services are very reliable. I don't remember any major outage or performance issues since 2017 when I signed up with them. And even when things go wrong, they provide fast and no-bullshit support. Their custom control panel works great, so you don't have to deal with the quirks Virtualizor and SolusVM have.

  And while I love the cheap deals we get here, I would always take my production stuff to a provider like Crown Cloud and I'm happy to pay a few bucks more for less hassle.

  Exactly and I mean come you get @SpeedBus as well it is a no brainer!!

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• SpeedBus Hosting ProviderOG

  March 28 edited March 29

  Thank you for the support guys, it's appreciated for sure

  I do understand that price points are always a sensitive / tricky topic depending on the customers expectations/requirements, if someone's had a good experience at a lower price point, a higher price point for a similar service perhaps doesn't make sense/value at first. But in the long term we've done a lot in other areas (control panel, documentation and actual 24/7 support) so I do hope that these other things too help make up for the difference in price point, because there's only so much you can do with the hardware side these days, everyone's got their own networking setups going, everyone's got a E5/Gold/Ryzen/EPYC etc.

  @zgato said: i mean, just look at your competition, i've got $10 USD/yr deals that are better than what you offer for $25 USD/yr
  oh, and that said provider isn't new here, since 2006.

  i've got Ryzen 9 7950X3D deals for around 15€/yr too.

  I envy providers who are able to maintain margins at $10/year or 15€/year (on a 7950X3D) -- given that some of the recent quotes I got for building out a 7950X with 192GB RAM + AIO/Liquid Cooling was around the $2200+ mark (without disks), It just isn't possible for us, sorry

  Looking at the lowest we've gone historically was between $15-$17 (for OpenVZ or tiny KVM VPSes) which wouldn't work too well with many distros in 2024 (eg with 256 MB-512 MB RAM). So we try to find a good spot at $25/year with a few things like the snapshot slot included as well.

  @zgato said: can I also ask for a yabs of your $25USD plan? you may need to add some SWAP for Geekbench values (or GB5 maybe works with that)

  Sure thing,

  root@mia1:~# wget -qO- yabs.sh | bash
  # ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #
  #              Yet-Another-Bench-Script              #
  #                     v2024-03-05                    #
  # https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script #
  # ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #
  
  Thu Mar 28 04:52:03 PM UTC 2024
  
  Basic System Information:
  ---------------------------------
  Uptime     : 0 days, 0 hours, 0 minutes
  Processor  : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2697 v4 @ 2.30GHz
  CPU cores  : 2 @ 2299.998 MHz
  AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
  VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
  RAM        : 969.2 MiB
  Swap       : 512.0 MiB
  Disk       : 24.0 GiB
  Distro     : Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS
  Kernel     : 5.15.0-56-generic
  VM Type    : KVM
  IPv4/IPv6  : ✔ Online / ✔ Online
  
  IPv6 Network Information:
  ---------------------------------
  ISP        : QuadraNet Enterprises LLC
  ASN        : AS8100 QuadraNet Enterprises LLC
  Host       : QuadraNet
  Location   : Miami, Florida (FL)
  Country    : United States
  
  fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/vda3):
  ---------------------------------
  Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
    ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
  Read       | 243.47 MB/s  (60.8k) | 1.75 GB/s    (27.4k)
  Write      | 244.11 MB/s  (61.0k) | 1.76 GB/s    (27.5k)
  Total      | 487.59 MB/s (121.8k) | 3.51 GB/s    (54.9k)
             |                      |
  Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
    ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
  Read       | 1.91 GB/s     (3.7k) | 1.95 GB/s     (1.9k)
  Write      | 2.02 GB/s     (3.9k) | 2.08 GB/s     (2.0k)
  Total      | 3.93 GB/s     (7.6k) | 4.04 GB/s     (3.9k)
  
  iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
  ---------------------------------
  Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping
  -----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----
  Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 724 Mbits/sec   | 252 Mbits/sec   | 102 ms
  Eranium         | Amsterdam, NL (10G)       | 745 Mbits/sec   | 658 Mbits/sec   | 115 ms
  Telia           | Helsinki, FI (10G)        | 705 Mbits/sec   | 192 Mbits/sec   | 138 ms
  Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | busy            | busy            | 200 ms
  Leaseweb        | Singapore, SG (10G)       | 597 Mbits/sec   | 628 Mbits/sec   | 223 ms
  Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 868 Mbits/sec   | 318 Mbits/sec   | 63.9 ms
  Leaseweb        | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 908 Mbits/sec   | 742 Mbits/sec   | 34.7 ms
  Edgoo           | Sao Paulo, BR (1G)        | 757 Mbits/sec   | 254 Mbits/sec   | 128 ms
  
  iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv6):
  ---------------------------------
  Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping
  -----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----
  Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 782 Mbits/sec   | 407 Mbits/sec   | 102 ms
  Eranium         | Amsterdam, NL (10G)       | 792 Mbits/sec   | 595 Mbits/sec   | 115 ms
  Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | 604 Mbits/sec   | 227 Mbits/sec   | 200 ms
  Leaseweb        | Singapore, SG (10G)       | 596 Mbits/sec   | 549 Mbits/sec   | 223 ms
  Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 877 Mbits/sec   | 393 Mbits/sec   | 63.7 ms
  Leaseweb        | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 897 Mbits/sec   | 725 Mbits/sec   | 34.6 ms
  Edgoo           | Sao Paulo, BR (1G)        | 775 Mbits/sec   | 250 Mbits/sec   | 128 ms
  
  Running GB6 benchmark test... *cue elevator music*chmod 600 /swapfile
  Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
  ---------------------------------
  Test            | Value
                  |
  Single Core     | 690
  Multi Core      | 908
  Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/5504341
  
  YABS completed in 19 min 33 sec
  

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• SpeedBus Hosting ProviderOG

  March 28

  @Brueggus said:
  I agree, there are providers who provide the same specs at a lower price.
  And there are providers who charge more.

  But what's important for me is that @SpeedBus' services are very reliable. I don't remember any major outage or performance issues since 2017 when I signed up with them. And even when things go wrong, they provide fast and no-bullshit support. Their custom control panel works great, so you don't have to deal with the quirks Virtualizor and SolusVM have.

  And while I love the cheap deals we get here, I would always take my production stuff to a provider like Crown Cloud and I'm happy to pay a few bucks more for less hassle.

  Thank you for the support and being our customer since all those years! Truly appreciate it

  @AuroraZero said:

  @Brueggus said:
  I agree, there are providers who provide the same specs at a lower price.
  And there are providers who charge more.

  But what's important for me is that @SpeedBus' services are very reliable. I don't remember any major outage or performance issues since 2017 when I signed up with them. And even when things go wrong, they provide fast and no-bullshit support. Their custom control panel works great, so you don't have to deal with the quirks Virtualizor and SolusVM have.

  And while I love the cheap deals we get here, I would always take my production stuff to a provider like Crown Cloud and I'm happy to pay a few bucks more for less hassle.

  Exactly and I mean come you get @SpeedBus as well it is a no brainer!!

  hehe thank you too! the support is very much appreciated

  CrownCloud - Internet Services | Los Angeles, California | Frankfurt, Germany | Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Atlanta, Georgia | Miami, Florida
• jtk

  March 28

  I've used crowncloud for awhile. I've not used support much, but when dedipath went bye-bye, a host rare problem arose, or an old plan was queued up for cancellation they have been very customer-focused and responsive. Their overall system reliability has also been better than average than most in my estimation. I wouldn't dispute there are others who will sell for less, but competitors ought to know what their stuff is worth. The only minor nit I'd have is, while they do have their own ASN and some netblocks, they use a lot of upstream address space. However, readdressing events have been relatively rare.

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• Fritz

  March 29

  @zgato

  Please be quite bro. No need to make price comparison here.

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• zgato

  March 29

  @Fritz said:
  @zgato

  Please be quite bro. No need to make price comparison here.

  I've ended up apologizing directly to him on DMs
  and got a VM too.

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• angstrom OG

  March 29

  Just to say that these look like attractive offers from a well-known provider. I feel tempted ...

  "A single swap file or partition may be up to 128 MB in size. [...] [I]f you need 256 MB of swap, you can create two 128-MB swap partitions." (M. Welsh & L. Kaufman, Running Linux, 2e, 1996, p. 49)
• SpeedBus Hosting ProviderOG

  March 29

  @angstrom said:
  Just to say that these look like attractive offers from a well-known provider. I feel tempted ...

  Thank you! Let me know if you're looking to try or need something slightly different (less RAM, more disk) or (more RAM, less disk etc), always open to working out a custom plan so that it fits your requirement exactly

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• SpeedBus Hosting ProviderOG

  March 29

  @jtk said:
  I've used crowncloud for awhile. I've not used support much, but when dedipath went bye-bye, a host rare problem arose, or an old plan was queued up for cancellation they have been very customer-focused and responsive. Their overall system reliability has also been better than average than most in my estimation. I wouldn't dispute there are others who will sell for less, but competitors ought to know what their stuff is worth. The only minor nit I'd have is, while they do have their own ASN and some netblocks, they use a lot of upstream address space. However, readdressing events have been relatively rare.

  Thank you for the feedback and support! Appreciate it

  @zgato said:

  @Fritz said:
  @zgato

  Please be quite bro. No need to make price comparison here.

  I've ended up apologizing directly to him on DMs
  and got a VM too.

  Thank you for giving us a chance, hope things work well for your usage! Feel free to drop in a message or ticket if anything and we'll do our best

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• chip

  April 7

  I've been using crowncloud for nearly a year... Great provider, fast support (15 mins response time on average) and knowledgeable and helpful team

  They may be marginally more expensive than some of the other providers here but... you get what you pay for; there are certainly more expensive providers providing less support and worse performance.

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• SpeedBus Hosting ProviderOG

  April 10 edited April 10

  @chip said:
  I've been using crowncloud for nearly a year... Great provider, fast support (15 mins response time on average) and knowledgeable and helpful team

  They may be marginally more expensive than some of the other providers here but... you get what you pay for; there are certainly more expensive providers providing less support and worse performance.

  Thank you -- Glad to have you onboard too!

  (Apologies for the late reply here on LES, I was a bit unwell this past week)

  CrownCloud - Internet Services | Los Angeles, California | Frankfurt, Germany | Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Atlanta, Georgia | Miami, Florida
• memez

  April 13

  @zgato said:

  @SpeedBus said:

  @zgato said:
  ridiculously expensive.

  The plans for sure aren't like our BlackFriday/CyberMonday deals but they do include 1 snapshot slot each which is stored remotely/offsite (even the $25/year one does), Could you tell me what spec / price point would be more acceptable that you're looking for? We've even got our Ryzen 7950X/7950X3Ds if looking for something different

  i mean, just look at your competition, i've got $10 USD/yr deals that are better than what you offer for $25 USD/yr
  oh, and that said provider isn't new here, since 2006.

  i've got Ryzen 9 7950X3D deals for around 15€/yr too.

  we're not in BF so I don't expect this much, but almost Easter now
  1TB is quite low, even for modern standards I must say. (your locations are not exotic to say bandwidth is expensive)

  can I also ask for a yabs of your $25USD plan? you may need to add some SWAP for Geekbench values (or GB5 maybe works with that)

  It's because they're with Quadranet which is not cheap.