Rapidspeeds Gbit NL review/discussion

**Thelen** · 09-06-2010, 04:35 PM

NP, I'll use your idiocy as an anchor when SS. DickWeed comes into port.

Seriously though, those things weren't on the page about 6 weeks ago when I ordered, so I'm not really sure what they are doing, it certainly wasn't clear back then.

Irregardless, I still have not seen anything more than 100Mbit speed, at most 200Mbit, so at this stage I would have to say they have failed miserably. I'd recommend a plain OVH eg best of for the same price over these. vSphere has it's uses but when they are offering 'dedicated' servers, using that is just a complete lie.

If speeds don't improve I'll be recommending cancellation and refunds, certainly it will be easy enough to get money back due to non-deliverance of their service. What is sad is that they could actually offer all they have promised, clearly they have become greedy and decided to make amazing profit rather than providing a good service.

**TLwhore** · 09-08-2010, 09:50 AM

I think the problem is, they have targeted these new servers at the seedbox users. As thelen said before, they will be getting raped, maybe once people have begun to fill up there drives and slow down with downloading everything that comes out then the average speeds for users will be better.
If they had just targeted them as site servers and other lower bandwidth stuff things would be fine.
Shame about the miss advertising about the esxi thing, seems they have gone the way of OVH with changing stuff without notice. But they did start out as OVH resellers so its prolly rubbed off on them

**loz_black** · 09-08-2010, 10:21 AM

Originally Posted by Thelen

Why are you two treating me like a noob? This isn't a help thread, it is a review/discussion thread. I know perfectly well why it is maxing out there, and I have a ticket open and they are working on it as it is a general problem.

Perhaps you should take notice I run a seedbox company, and therefore know everything there is to know about this and probably don't need your advice....

Yet you use an encrypted protocol to benchmark the connection?

**Thelen** · 09-08-2010, 11:55 PM

Originally Posted by TLwhore

I think the problem is, they have targeted these new servers at the seedbox users. As thelen said before, they will be getting raped, maybe once people have begun to fill up there drives and slow down with downloading everything that comes out then the average speeds for users will be better.
If they had just targeted them as site servers and other lower bandwidth stuff things would be fine.
Shame about the miss advertising about the esxi thing, seems they have gone the way of OVH with changing stuff without notice. But they did start out as OVH resellers so its prolly rubbed off on them

Yup, I am really quite disappointed as I expected their offering to decimate everything! I don't understand why they are doing as they are, all our calculations and quotes from LW have been roughly similar price, and we would make it work, but we have not the 30,000GBP capital to get it going. They have admit in ticket that the problem is both with vSphere and the BW sharing stuff they are doing, so probably will be a while until it is solved. As I said before, doing 100Mbps roughly out for the past week is not BAD for 100GBP, but it certainly isn't Gbit and the limit is definitely network in this instance.

Originally Posted by loz_black

Yet you use an encrypted protocol to benchmark the connection?

Learn to read, I used FTP SCP HTTP HTTPS and even an rsync and ssh-fs mount.

**heiska** · 09-09-2010, 08:56 PM

Hello

The D1000 Server Orders are closed due to some issues we need to fix before anyone else buys them.

This is being thoroughly investigated by our tech professionals and we shall have updates on this very soon.

Please stay tuned to find out more.

On a good note the Q2000 Servers are selling well and we have had excellent performance feedback.

More updates to come.

Regards

Craig M

Anyone here has a Q2000?

**RapidSpeeds** · 09-11-2010, 04:08 PM

Hello,

Ok, so let me explain what is happening.

We have not even been getting 1/4th of the bandwidth available from trunk -> switch -> server because of our vSphere system - we wanted to make it easy for users to install a torrent client, or a ftp, or do a reinstall with just one click - but it's been one problem after another.

We have had enough - we guaranteed every customer 200Mbps minimum and so far we have only delivered around 100Mbps speeds, with high cpu loads & bad disk write speeds which in turn affected the upstream/downstream links to reaching their potential speed.

Also, as everyone is only getting half the service, they are only being charged half the price - we can't be any more fair than that.

We are doing two things which will solve all problems:

1) Completely removing the vSphere system - so every server will be properly dedicated.

2) We are replacing single 1TB disks with 2 x 500GB (this was requested by over 75% of users) which will increase the performance as it's split between two hdds.

Once you see our advertisement on here, that's when you know everything is working perfectly - and perfection is an understatement.

**Thelen** · 09-12-2010, 09:31 AM

That must suck, you'll have to spend what, another 12,000GBP+ on those 500GBs, or will you just trade/swap them from the 1TB ?

TBH, I'd rather have the TB kept, 2x500GB will mean even more BW used, and for the price you already provide enough. I don't think the 2x500GB will be sustainable, but we'll see I guess.

**RapidSpeeds** · 09-23-2010, 07:49 PM

Well, this has not been updated in a while.

The advert placed on the FST site speaks volumes for the new range

Not a single complaint yet.

**Craig** · 09-24-2010, 12:56 AM

Yea it has been a bumpy ride and we did make some mistakes by using the whole vSphere program but everything is great now, reduced the prices of the Q2000's and just stopped the D1000's altogether, seems to have done the trick hehe.

More ranges to come ofcourse in the near future.

Regards

Craig M