One year anniversary --- Syerjchep

[Rub]

Was just saying the assumption that a dedicated server is a must for "large needs" is a naive one.

DrenDran, who was your old VPS provider?

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[DrenDran]

Vps6, and they seemed pretty good.
Getting 3gb ram 6cpu cores and 20gb harddrive for ~55$/month

[Rub]

They look pretty good, a Xen VPS in Chicago would be a brilliant buy at that price, looks like decent quality too.

[Kalphiter]

They look pretty good, a Xen VPS in Chicago would be a brilliant buy at that price, looks like decent quality too.

He gets half-decent RAM, decent CPU power (what clock speed?), and sub-standard HDD space.

This is the stuff I'm talking about.

[Tango²]

He gets half-decent RAM, decent CPU power (what clock speed?), and sub-standard HDD space.

This is the stuff I'm talking about.

since when do you know anything about hosting?

[Rub]

since when do you know anything about hosting?

He doesn't, to someone who knows what they're talking about his posts are laughable.

[Kalphiter]

since when do you know anything about hosting?

Since running a business with hosting as a central part of it...?

[DrenDran]

He gets half-decent RAM, decent CPU power (what clock speed?), and sub-standard HDD space.

This is the stuff I'm talking about.

>what clock speed?
I asked the same thing. That's one of the few drawbacks of this service. As far as I know there's no way in hell to find out. (except perhaps asking them)

since when do you know anything about hosting?

He runs a hosting service?
Not saying LubRub doesn't know more, but I don't want to get caught up in this argument.

[Tango²]

Since running a business with hosting as a central part of it...?

your provider is stuff. i would know this from the fact that i was a customer. yet you claim its fine. just look at the reviews and holy forget stop being so thick skulled

[DrenDran]

your provider is stuff. i would know this from the fact that i was a customer. yet you claim its fine. just look at the reviews and holy forget stop being so thick skulled

To be fair I never really had problems when I was his customer.

[Rub]

Dren, theoretically you can burst to the full clock speed of the host CPU. Xen doesn't assign guest machines a "clock speed", only cores and a scheduling weight. It'd be hard for them to give you an answer, it all depends on free capacity on the host node and how they've set up the Hypervisor. If you asked them for the dom scheduling cap you could make a rough estimate of the theoretical average clock speed.

Kalphiter yet again showing he doesn't understand virtualization.

[DrenDran]

For whatever reason, the openvz has a 20% recurring discount code, and the xen has a 15% code. However the xen code seems to not work at all.
If I'm buying three months of this (3gb ram, 30gb disk space, 6cpu cores, 250gb data transfer(yes, that's all I really need)), it's just over 151$. However if I go with Xen, assuming the discount code doesn't work, it's about 190$ for three months, and if it does work, about 161$.


I think I might ask about the cpus, I mean, I suppose I don't want to buy more than I need, and I really don't want to buy less.

[Rub]

Just ask them about the discount code, they'll give it to you without hesitation if you say you're "ready to buy right now".

[Kalphiter]

Dren, theoretically you can burst to the full clock speed of the host CPU. Xen doesn't assign guest machines a "clock speed", only cores and a scheduling weight. It'd be hard for them to give you an answer, it all depends on free capacity on the host node and how they've set up the Hypervisor. If you asked them for the dom scheduling cap you could make a rough estimate of the theoretical average clock speed.

Kalphiter yet again showing he doesn't understand virtualization.

I'm happy Xen is multi-threaded, thanks for telling me something I didn't know. However, if multi-core power may be used then saying the using the amount of cores and clock speed (which no one can find) as a selling-point is superfluous and possibly misleading. Sure, you can list the specifications of the node, but it's not really a main feature of a VPS that has virtual multi-threaded processing on the host CPU. Normally you'd give someone the totally processing power available to him, such as this:
https://order.server4you.com/pages/vserver/index.php (Platinum X4)

Certainly no processor is tuned at 10GHz. We're not getting all the details about this VPS; I'm not doing anything incorrect.

[DrenDran]

Just ask them about the discount code, they'll give it to you without hesitation if you say you're "ready to buy right now".

Yeah, now I'm asking about the cpus.
I'm buying on friday, and will ask about it then. But last time I did have some problems trying to get the recurring discounts to well, recur.

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Hey, I'm looking to buy either a Xen or Openvz VPS, and I was wondering, how much exactly is a Cpu Core? I'm trying to figure how much I need, but I don't know what a 'core' really represents.
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Hi, do you mean price-wise, or in terms of how a core will perform?
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The preformance.
Chris Parr
It really depends on your application, but generally 1 or 2 cores will be enough.
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I mean, I plan on running a few programs and don't want to overstep the cpu limits.
I was gonna buy 4 or 6 cores for that.
Chris Parr
I'm sure that would be enough.
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alright, thanks
Chris Parr
Sure, let me know if you have any other questions.
I have to admit, they have good service.
Even though I still don't know exactly what a 'core' is supposed to mean.