[GRLUG] VPS disagreement

[desert frag]

The results have consistently 
shown one server to produce lower cpu % utilization scores than another 
over the past few days.  Since you're suggesting one node is more taxed 
than another then they haven't been up front.  I will mention this in 
mind in my reply.  Thank you. 


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 From: Josh <leapole at gmail.com>
To: desert frag <desertfrag at yahoo.com>; "Mailing List for LUG in greater Grand Rapids, MI area." <grlug at grlug.org> 
Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2013 1:36 PM
Subject: Re: [GRLUG] VPS disagreement
 

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
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>On Mar 16, 2013, at 9:02 AM, desert frag <desertfrag at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>Earlier this week I posted about the $40/yr VPS deal going on at slickdeals.
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>>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.
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>>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 ...
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>>'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.'
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>>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.
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>>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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