Hi guys & ladies
I know it’s been quite silent in here during the last few weeks, but I was quite busy and everytime I had some spare time to blog my damn web-server caused some problems…
O.K. I have to admit I’m a student that doesn’t have much money, so I went with a cheap pseudo-virtualized machine called RPS from OVH, which has only a small Intel Celeron CPU with 512MB DDR2 RAM. But that’s actually fine for a low-frequented website like this… if there wouldn’t be one major issues with these RPS’: The hard-disk is an iSCSI share connected through a simple FastE port, which wouldn’t be much of a problem if OVH didn’t oversubscribe their iSCSI hosts (at least it looks like they do). Sometimes the iSCSI drive is as fast as ~250kByte/s what makes it impossible to do anything. Of course I contacted their support and after about 4 days of total downtime (couldn’t even login through SSH) they rebooted the iSCSI host, what – so they believe – solved the problem… You might have noticed that it did not.
So… I asked around a bit and got an impressive amount of feedback of users who have exactly the same problem as I have. Sucks…
Long story short: I’m gonna quit the contract for this “server” (doesn’t really serve, does it?) and search for a cheap (yeah I mean inexpensive) alternative.
Please stay tuned in the meantime and subscribe to my RSS-Feed if you want (just wanted to mention this because hits per day have decreased to less than 50% since the server got that unreliable
). Take care.
By the way: I’ve received the new Mac mini on Friday
Mhhh… OVH’s network is actually pretty good, so why don’t you get one of their “Standard Series” servers?
Mhhh… OVH’s network is actually pretty good, so why don’t you get one of their “Standard Series” servers?