Rapidspeeds Gbit NL review/discussion

[Thelen]

Meh, as if you could possibly waste shitloads more BW with 4 x 2TB HDDs versus 4 x 1.5TB HDDs.

You can't? Their reasoning was it uses more power, neither WD nor Seagate specs indicate a more than 1% increase. Even if it was/wasn't the case, the 2TB perform 10% or so better IO wise, but my main comment about using more BW was 2 vs 4 (or more) disks..

@Thelen

Are you mentally challenged disabled person ..?

a Google search about your name "Joshua D'Alton " says you are

No? (And/or, that relates to this thread how exactly?) How did you get that from googling me :S Please do tell...

[KnowinServers]

@Thelen

Are you mentally challenged disabled person ..?

a Google search about your name "Joshua D'Alton " says you are

No? (And/or, that relates to this thread how exactly?) How did you get that from googling me :S Please do tell...[/QUOTE]

Even i tried to google, but i didnt find anything as such.
But if you look at the pic, then indeed you look Retard..

[Thelen]

Riiiiight...

How is it the retard can type better than you then?

Anyhoo, still trying to get better performance out of this than an OVH EG best of, it looks like whatever Debian install you guys use is a little different than OVH.

[RapidSpeeds]

Thelen,

Honestly... KnowinServers is right - you are an idiot.

I think you would be better to stick with OVH then Thelen - we are getting sick of you bad mouthing our company trying to say a problem is there that doesn't exist - if you can't tell the difference between OVH's custom hardened kernel and a plain raw install any other company uses, including all home users, you shouldn't be running a 'website selling seedboxes' - if Leaseweb are so bad why is it Feral & Xirvik who are 100x bigger than you selling them? Superseedbox are about to as well.. NO ONE ELSE is complaining Thelen - why don't you come on IRC channel and speak to some people who have it?

When something is done right, people won't realise you have done anything at all.

Anyways Thelen, we won't be replying to you in this thread again - if you want to contact us, use one of the methods we told you about before.

[Thelen]

So, basically, after admitting you did indeed have a problem, and in fact cancelled a whole server range, and had to migrate people to other servers, suddenly now there isn't a problem? Or do you mean to say you fixed the previously reported problem, and that no new problem has been reported (or acknowledged by you to be reported anyway)?

I never complained about LW, nor even you, just made observations, which you confirmed not just on here but in the ticketing system, that there seemed to be strange things happening with regards to server and bandwidth performance, which you apparently fixed even though on your forums there doesn't seem to be more than 3 people complaining about the problem. Doesn't make much sense to me. Does it make sense to you, aside from the trying to save face? I find it funny as well that my suggestion about local trunking to increase inter-server bandwidth apparently hadn't been thought about by you (or maybe you were just humouring me?) yet you claim I'm an idiot... lol.

As for Feral and Xirvik, customer number wise perhaps 10x bigger which shows clearly you don't really have a clue about me or our company... And while they and you have been dealing with LW for 6 months or so, we have had servers there (not related to seedbox) for over 6 years. Clearly there is a difference between a bunch of rented servers and a fairly large colocation with trunked bandwidth setup, which makes it all the more confusing how you managed to screw up so badly your offering from there, when all of that should be being managed by you directly.

I seem to be the only person in the thread that has any rationale, while you all think I'm an idiot. But then, you all think 2TB HDDs use shit loads more power than 1 or 1.5TB drives, even though all the rest of the internet can read a fact sheet, so perhaps you're the idiots? Or at least, maybe Rapidspeeds could admit they said it does not because it actually does, but as some weird rationale for bandwidth saving (even though as someone said a 2TB drive shouldn't make any difference in what bandwidth can be used)...

lol, but i doubt it. this thread is what you call, oops we made mistakes and trying to cover them up badly reveals logical inconsistencies left right and center.

Just calculated, the difference between 4x1TB and 4x2TB is max 4W per server, which assuming just 115W per server (the TDP of the CPU used in Q2000 + mobo usage), = ~3.5% increase in power. So, not 1%, however even allowing for 30 servers per rack, that amounts to just 120W or 0.5A difference. If we assume that somehow takes you over the 25A per rack max, makes more sense to just have 1 less server per rack if power is such a big deal. Makes more money sense as well, the difference between 4x1 and 4x2 being 30GBP or so (based on the difference between 2x1 and 2x2) means just 4 of these such servers sold to make up the difference in revenue, and in fact capital costs are less too. But whatever, clearly you've all thought about that haven't you, using the same brains that decided to use vSphere without testing it first?

[Craig]

I can't even be bothered to read that lol, my last post on here too. Don't expect an answer, move on and enjoy your OVH.

[NuCode]

2TB Caviar Green uses less power than 500Gb Barracuda btw

and yes that was insanely stupid idea to use virtualization "to offer" dedicated servers... Really...

I've been watching this fiasko from sidelines, and it's funny to see that the rapidspeeds servers are barely better than Digicube crap, despite DC, Network and hardware being many times better

[RapidSpeeds]

I'm not offering 2TB simply because I know what users would be using it for, there's a reason OVH never offered 8TB servers.

I don't even think we will go for 6TB, never mind 8TB - and Yes, Green Caviar does use less power, but it's not as powerful performance wise - why would we limit our customers?

Say what you like bud, you don't have one therefore can't comment - as for us being better than Digicube? They have a 1TB transfer per week, and the only carrier they use is Cogento, and thats just ONE of leaseweb's many - so how they could beat the speed i'll never know...

[Craig]

Your all quick to slate us when we make a mistake. We are just starting off on our own, we are going to make some mistakes and then later correct them no doubt.

I'm sure OVH and other larger organisations made mistakes when starting off.

[Thelen]

Firstly, LOL @ you couldn't resist replying again, and again, and again!

Secondly, why would you use green power or anything low power, they do indeed suck ass performance wise, even worse than a 1TB 7200.10, but you claimed some huge power increase exists, when it doesn't.. As for "say what you like you don't have one", not sure what you mean by that, but we have GP and access to google and review sites... The people that would benefit from 4x2TB over 4x1.5TB wouldn't use that much more bandwidth (10% based on IOPS increase), and yet you could also charge more and have some customers be even more happy, rather than merely content with 6TB. It is funny you talk about some vague reason OVH decided not to have 8TB, especially since 2TB drives have only been available after their less recent price updates and they have plenty of 1.5TBs still in stock from the previous offering. What reason do you think, especially considering they have a bandwidth limit anyway?

Since you probably haven't even gotten more than a single server from Digicube you probably can't comment, whereas we've had 20 or so from them. We've most definitely had more than 1TB transfer per server in a week, in fact the remaining in-use server we have with them does an average of 15TB a month They also use more than just Cogento (Telia and others) so shows you what you know, LOL.

We aren't quick to slate you for making a mistake, but when 50,000GBP worth of hardware setups racks bandwidth and whatever is involved, you'd think you would have done a little more research especially considering you have massive exposure.. Not to mention, delivering what was sold, and providing a kick ass alternative to OVH.

OVH are still continuing to make mistakes, it is really amazing how such huge companies are so terrible. LW as well really, you get faster service from Amazon lol.