[GRLUG] VPS disagreement

[Josh]

Sweet, I just signed up for this service and they are sending plain text
passwords.  I hope they are smarter than they have been showing.

On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 9:36 AM, Josh <leapole at gmail.com> wrote:

> Every day you will end up with different results.  They are overselling
> the machines. It's the only way to make money at that price point.  In a
> few weeks it will perform better because the large storm of people will
> stop messing with the setup of their machines. Your saving thing is the 2
> gigs of ram. It limits the general amount of vpses per machine although I
> guess you could still get 64 of them per each processor
>
> On Mar 16, 2013, at 9:02 AM, desert frag <desertfrag at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Earlier this week I posted about the $40/yr VPS deal going on at
> slickdeals.
>
> I ended up purchasing a second account through them and now have a small
> issue.  Having a second account enabled me to compare performance between
> the two.  Identical systems, identical OS's, fresh installs on both.  I
> downloaded a program to both servers which taxes the cpu's so I could pull
> a 'top' and compare what type of cpu usage I'm seeing.
>
> To my surprise one server shows average cpu usage well above 94%, the
> other around 70% with minimums in the 40% range.  I asked tech support
> about this, even did screenshots of not only top but pidstat.  After
> telling them my systems were identical, their reply was both servers are on
> little utilized nodes, plus this ...
>
> 'This is an issue with the way you configured your applications, and as we
> are not experienced with the software you're running along with the fact we
> are an unmanaged VPS provider, you'll need to investigate this further. If
> you wish to start fresh you can reinstall the VPS from our VPS control
> panel.'
>
> Apparently they ignored the 'same app's' info I gave them.  Nevertheless I
> went ahead and resinstalled fresh on the server showing the 70% scores per
> their suggestion.  No change, in fact if anything cpu usage is even a bit
> lower.
>
> Before I step up the pressure, are there some definitive cpu % usage test
> apps anyone could suggest?  While my suspicion is a hardware/node sharing
> issue on their end I want further ammo.
>
>
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