Rapidspeeds Gbit NL review/discussion

[Thelen]

You do realise that thread was completely facetious right? I never expected anyone to help, it was all for teh lulz of seeing what reasons people could come up with for posting. I'm glad you think my posts, which are full of proper grammar and punctuation vs your drivel, is immature, as it shows your complete lack of maturity and rationality.

Seems the standard response on forums is either deliberately trolling, or posting with such arrogance and "zomg I score 25:3 on halo so I'm 1337 and know everything" that it seems the same, and this thread is no different. You might have actually stood a chance to look intelligent if you said something related to the discussion, rather than participating in the mutual blow-jobery between the trolls in the thread.

On to more sane posting, I've done a bunch more testing. Download FROM OVH to RS, did 40MB/s for about 5 seconds then dropped to about 15, then 6 by the end of the 600MB file. The reverse, all of about 350KB/s. Download FROM hostnoc to RS, did full 100Mbit, reverse the basically the same. From random other Gbit file mirrors in EU, barely hit more than 20MB/s down, couldn't test up obviously but it definitely wasn't a stable connection as the speed fluctuated heaps.

[lmn8r]

Claiming you "know everything there is to know" is arrogant. I think hes referring to your signature. It's almost impossible for an operator of a competing seedbox company to impartially review any other seedbox company. I think you'll get a lot of antagonism based on that.

As the operator of a seedbox company you've got the burden of proving your credibility beyond that of a normal user in this situation. Automatically assuming X company sucks meanwhile surreptitiously promoting your own is called astroturfing.

[Rilly]

A guy at the RS forums is claiming his HDD is showing as "VMware Virtual Disk"
Is the 1TB model (D-1000) a real physical server or a VMware VPS?

There was an answer in that thread now on that.. all the servers run esxi apparently (but are true dedi's)

[Thelen]

I got no idea what you are smoking lmn8r, but rapidspeeds are NOT a seedbox company, they are a dedicated server company. Whether or not I run a seedbox company has nothing to do with my 'review'; i could easily just be a biased normal person and post a bad/good/whatever review.... Saying "It's almost impossible for an operator of a competing seedbox company to impartially review any other seedbox company. I think you'll get a lot of antagonism based on that." is stupid as well. Clearly seedbox users are going to be biased, they might just lack the financial motivation to be biased, but they are certainly still biased.

Saying I have the burden of proof for credibility BECAUSE I run a seedbox company is just stupid too. Do astronauts who have gone to space have to prove they know how to put on a space suit? That's just stupid... Likewise is "Claiming you "know everything there is to know" is arrogant." Claiming someone doesn't know all there is to know because they run a seedbox company, while you yourself can't even compile rtorrent, is beyond stupid. You are just embittered because you bought some cheapass seedbox and didn't get delivered because the provider was a 15yo scamming for money so he could buy gold in WoW.

Rilly if they all run esxi, that is possibly the problem, and completely and utterly stupid. Advertising as dedicated if it is virtualised (even such that it is only 1 user per server still), completely wrong. Though, all my torrent testing has shown similar results to all my other test servers, as a minimum guide, but the issue isn't that, it is exceeding the 15MB/s or so upload.

[lmn8r]

When logic fails, use insults. I sure hope someone else does the customer support for your company

[Thelen]

As in you displayed any logic? Lulz...

I do the customer support, and I treat the customers well, who treat me well. Those who complain that they aren't getting 500MB/s from their shared Gbit slot or any number of other stupid assumptions, or plain thinking they have a clue about how to setup a read-only FTP/SCP user or anything like that, promptly get the hard line.

I don't need smartass dickweeds like you for customer, you always take 100x as much energy to keep happy, and often ruin it for everyone else (eg using it for 29 days, doing paypal dispute on the last and thinking to get away with it (which btw you don't, 14 disputes and not one refund yet from people trying to scam like this)). If you think you have the zen touch, perhaps you should start a seedbox company, since by your logic I can't possibly have any customers due to my insults...

Bottom line is, I've yet to see much more than 15MB/s outgoing from this server, or more than 45MB/s incoming, and frankly that is pretty poor performance however you cut it.

[Rilly]

Rilly if they all run esxi, that is possibly the problem, and completely and utterly stupid. Advertising as dedicated if it is virtualised (even such that it is only 1 user per server still), completely wrong. Though, all my torrent testing has shown similar results to all my other test servers, as a minimum guide, but the issue isn't that, it is exceeding the 15MB/s or so upload.

The reason they stated they run esxi is: (from their website)
Servers are managed by a vSphere system that controls bandwidth split between racks and will guarantee each server has a minimum of 200Mbps at all times, burstable upto 1Gbps - this system will also control the manager mentioned above - all resources (cpu, ram & hdd's are dedicated - nothing is shared with any other users).

not that i'm saying its related to any of the speed discussions though...

[Thelen]

Not sure where that is, I've searched their whole site at time of writing and can't see that. Is it on the forums perhaps?

I don't understand the reason they use/think they need to use ESXI on the servers, any managed switch 10 years old can manage bandwidth allocation no problem....

[Rilly]

Not sure where that is, I've searched their whole site at time of writing and can't see that. Is it on the forums perhaps?

I don't understand the reason they use/think they need to use ESXI on the servers, any managed switch 10 years old can manage bandwidth allocation no problem....

https://rapidspeeds.com/dedicatedservers.html

Just below the plans offered

[lmn8r]

Brb, imma go get a wicker basket and some rope and use Thelen's ego as a hot air balloon.