Migrated from my setup to ValueVPS last Tuesday. Week one reality check.

marcus_qc

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Joined:: Jun 2024
Posts:: 301
From:: Montreal, CA

4mo ago · edited

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Hey folks

Migrated from my setup to ValueVPS last tuesday. Super stoked about the deal — 4 vCPU / 8 GB / 200 GB SSD for $7/mo. My setup was choking my MariaDB during cron jobs so I figured double the RAM would fix it.

Week one reality check though. htop says 8 GB total but free -m shows ~6.2 GB available on boot. No zfs, no hugepages. Opened a ticket, they said "shared memory overhead from host kernel." uh, that's a 20% haircut before I even install anything?

Also the 4 vCPU? Cat /proc/cpuinfo shows 2 cores 4 threads. Hyperthreading!= vCPU in my book but maybe I'm old school.

Anyone else seeing this? Gonna run stress-ng tonight and see if they throttle.

42U and still growing

lee_mcr

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Joined:: Sep 2024
Posts:: 242
From:: Manchester, UK

4mo ago · edited

#2

Maybe that's just how budget hosts do it now. You know I migrated from my setup too last month and maybe my numbers look the same. You know I never checked. Maybe I should run free -m. You know this is kinda sketchy...

Honey badger don't care... about downtime

MARIA3

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Joined:: Jul 2024
Posts:: 126
From:: Madrid, ES

4mo ago · edited

#3

I make a server up with ValueVPS in March. Same plan, same numbers. I think is normal for this price? But I not am expert.

I run stress test and after 15 minutes CPU go down to 0.8 GHz. Very slow. I open ticket, they say "fair use policy." Regards.

siesta first, deploy later

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