Performance issues of this Blog & what's wrong with OVH's RPS

March 16, 2009 in Computer, Daily Life, I'm Bitching

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.