Rapidspeeds Gbit NL review/discussion

[Craig]

Orders being outstanding means alot of orders to go through. Which means the product is popular. Sorry for your wait, we will get it to you asap. Don't worry about your bill obviously it will not start until you get your server.

Regards

Craig M

[Thelen]

Well I specifically asked whether it was going to be weeks like the last one, you were a little vague but indicated it would be soon, ie the next few days.

[RapidSpeeds]

Well I specifically asked whether it was going to be weeks like the last one, you were a little vague but indicated it would be soon, ie the next few days.

Got your new the day you posted ^

enjoy bud

[Thelen]

Yep TY. Though unfortunately it doesn't seem to be much/any better.

From the DRAC it still seems to say it is using ESXi? Can I just get a plain install (or do I have to do that myself, if so no problems).

[RapidSpeeds]

Thelen, not performing any better? we are sold out then? wheres the compaints from other users on any forum? everyone says how fantastic they are.

I've posted speed results, so have customers... so i'm not even going to bother answering that - if you have a problem contact me via usual routes (Live Chat, Ticket System, IRC, E-Mail, MSN, Skype or Telephone) and have traceroutes/screenshots ready so I can check the peering/transit provider used and change it if necessary.

If it was ESXi would I really give you DRAC? That's an issue with iDRAC6 when a vmware product is installed first - install it yourself if you like, that's why you have it - costs £180 first month with ovh and £40 a month thereafter - so make good use

[Thelen]

Well I don't actually know didn't look much just from logging in:
System Model PowerEdge R210
System Host Name rs205.rapidspeeds.net
Operating System VMware ESXi 4.0.0 build-261974

Not saying it is, maybe its just a mistake? Anyway, download seems marginally better, but upload out of the server is pretty terrible. To compare to a OVH box (with actually worse specs, 2x750GB instead), the OVH hits the 200Mbit outgoing while this one still has trouble above 150Mbit or so. Perhaps I should do my own install (kindof assumed yours were fast but maybe not). At least unlike last time, wget/scp'ing files seems faster, so maybe it is just deluge.

[RapidSpeeds]

Hi Thelen,

The Dell R210 is a driver issue, you can download the drivers and update it - takes a few minutes.

KVM over IP access is 100% control of your server - you cant change your bios settings on your ovh server, or install ANY iso you like very easily? or give your server a cold reboot (without doing it from the manager).

Anyways, we are going to make some video tutorials to show you exactly how everything works - although documentation can be found on dell's website.

I honestly don't see how considering how much bandwidth is available - I don't see any other complaints Thelen. If you are talking about JUST TORRENTS of course OVH boxes will be faster considering it's all internal bandwidth....

We are talking about peering/transit to the rest of the world that is faster Thelen - and if you had some users on this box, all punishing it, you would see it shine.

I want you to download a file from an OVH 1Gbps - and then a Rapid 1Gbps ... More than likely the OVH will beat the Rapid box as it's all internal bandwidth (both upload/download) for the first 10/15minutes.

It's after this, when you notice the OVH server slowing right down, the Leaseweb box is still sending at decent speeds - because of this, you will get a much better ratio as you will have less hops to your destination.

^ That's how a Rapid server beats an OVH server in the long run - try it, test with both servers, and look at the ratio after a few hours.

If you use these servers are made for hotfile/fileserve/megashare/turbobit upload servers, streaming server, gaming servers, powerful web hosting, and things like that, you will notice the speeds are fantastic.

Do you need me to login to your box and show you it doing some fantastic speeds to various places?

Also, Thelen - don't you find it strange out of all those servers we've sold, we are not seeing more complaints?

[Thelen]

Answering last question first, actually I haven't seen anyone say how great they are, nor how bad (except for 1) so can't really judge either way. And judging from your forum (which has neither either) I'd say people are just 'happy' with them. I didn't mean to imply they were bad per se, just not as good as I thought they would be (being non-OVH). To be fair to you, you seen to have done an OK job, but you by no means have had a trouble-free ride and this perhaps might lead you to feel yourself some of my comments justified? (and hell, you aren't alone. all the major torrent/seedbox providers have serious issues, from Feral and RAID, to Xirvik and their lack of a billing/manager interface)

As for performance, at the moment I'm doing 28MB/s with 0 HDD WA, however that is because it is a 2GB torrent so fits into RAM. I'm downloading a 44GB torrent so we'll see how that performs as well.

Insofar as the previous speed complaints, the pure bandwidth (tested by wget -O /dev/null) seems to have increased to at least the same level as internal OVH (ie 70MB/s or so given HW bottleneck), and torrent performance is greatly improved as well but I'd put that primarily down to 2 disks and no vSphere.

I will shortly (when I can be bothered) setup SCC autoDL script, then we will see how it performs for real (and I have VERY precise benchmark stats from that, from 100Mbit all the way up to 10Gbit servers).

For international stuff obviously LW bandwidth is much better, so indeed hotfile etc people will love these. And pure bandwidth places will love it as well (being able to do say 200TB, though compared to a 100tb.com server I'd suspect it wouldn't be quite as good).

Also, I can't seem to find anyone who has one of your boxes, so not sure where you got your 300+ sales from, clearly none from any of the common (both high and low level) torrent trackers. I'd be interested to know who is using it, whether it is just a bunch of ultra-secret torrentors, or hotfile providers, or what :S

Trunk wise, what is the current issue that apparently will provide more BW once it is resolved? (might be from 3 weeks ago).

[Craig]

There is no issue with the speed or performance, tbh £120 for that kind of server with unlimited bandwidth is a great deal.

People who use this server are from all over and do all sorts with them from gaming servers to website hosting or data streaming. We also never said these servers were directed at torrent users, sure you can use it for that but thats not purely what we want to be aiming for.

Anyway yes alot of happy customers indeed.

[Thelen]

Well for 120GBP (141 euro) yea its good, the same server straight from LW with 50Mbit 95th costs 200 euro for 3 mo, though it costs the same with 24 mo (140) but who wants to be locked in for that long The only benefit there though is for only 17 euro more, you can get 16GB RAM and 2x2TB, but by the same token you could just get a plain OVH with 10TB for 100 euro, so I guess there is a market in between

As for being aimed at torrent users vs other stuff, that is quite strange, since I don't know of a single website that needs a Quad core with 8GB RAM and 2TB storage with Gbit bandwidth, but maybe there are :S I guess that is how you are aiming for unmetered, since you aren't that worried about people doing much bandwidth overall, even a hard core streaming site would be hard pressed to do more than 50TB on that hardware.