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    RAM-host 3 months review

    Hello,

    I have signed up for the Nano plan(80 mb ram with 128 mb burst) of RAM Host. My expectations were low but I was quite surprised with what I got so far.

    I have to say, the biggest problem with such low ram is you can't run "yum" to install new programs. However, a solution to this was their Kloxo Host-in-a-box VPS image.

    After a few days of installing everything, I had a few of my scripts get into infinite loop which caused 100% cpu usage. I was sleeping when this happened but when I looked at my e-mail, I saw that I received a personal e-mail from staff saying that I have to lower cpu usage and after 2 hours my VPS was taken down. I was actually very happy the way they handled this problem.

    The same thing happened again and they again shut my VPS down after 2-3 hours of 100% cpu usage.

    I can't blame them for my errors but I was overall happy with the way they solved this problem.


    Their control panel is very dull and you generally have to raise ticket to get things solved. Their response times are very fast, so it does not create any problems.

    Info:
    -I get around 100 visitors and 300 pageviews everyday.
    -I have a script that does some heavy work and updates database every 1 minute.


    P.S.
    If you are not familiar with linux and installing using RPMs, please don't consider this plan.


    Price 10/10 , 3$ a month is very cheap.
    Performance 10/10 , I didn't have any problems so far.
    Support 9/10 , Only minus would be their control panel.


    Overall 10/10

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    Thanks for your review

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    Nice review. Glad to see a happy customer. Thanks for sharing the review with all.
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    Glad to see that your experience with them has been positive so far. Thanks for sharing. Also you can report a domain or IP hosted there to get your review verified; if you have not done that yet. Follow up this review in future.

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    Quote Originally Posted by iHubNet-Matt View Post
    Glad to see that your experience with them has been positive so far. Thanks for sharing. Also you can report a domain or IP hosted there to get your review verified; if you have not done that yet. Follow up this review in future.
    Sorry, I did not know this. Thank you for your advice.

    The ip of my VPS is
    204.12.220.243

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    Good to see a nice review

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    Quote Originally Posted by asimxss View Post
    Sorry, I did not know this. Thank you for your advice.
    No problem. Actually it is a standard procedure to make WHT reviews more reliable. I hope a moderator will let you know about the verification of your IP.

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    Ramhost is my favorite budget bare-bones host ATM. Not for the noob but perfect for dev/project/budget needs.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nnyan View Post
    Ramhost is my favorite budget bare-bones host ATM. Not for the noob but perfect for dev/project/budget needs.
    Thanks for the review (yes this is one of our customers)

    Quote Originally Posted by Nnyan
    I have to say, the biggest problem with such low ram is you can't run "yum" to install new programs.
    Have you disabled the Fastest Mirrors plugin?:

    vi /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/fastestmirror.conf

    You will see something like this:
    Code:
    [main]
    enabled=1
    Change the enabled=1 to: enabled=0

    (we're going to have this setting by default on our next CentOS image rollout)
    Last edited by ramnet; 11-30-2009 at 09:46 PM.
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    Quote Originally Posted by iHubNet-Matt View Post
    Glad to see that your experience with them has been positive so far. Thanks for sharing. Also you can report a domain or IP hosted there to get your review verified; if you have not done that yet. Follow up this review in future.
    I wondered how the moderator is going to verify if I never use my vps for web. All the vps's I have used so far are SMTP servers. None of them has ever been a web server.

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    Quote Originally Posted by whzcjint View Post
    I wondered how the moderator is going to verify if I never use my vps for web. All the vps's I have used so far are SMTP servers. None of them has ever been a web server.
    Off topic, but I'll respond anyway:

    1) traceroute will reveal where the server is (and usually who runs it)

    2) some providers publish a list of all ip's allocated (our's is here)

    3) whois (less useful with vps providers but still an option).

    In any event, the provider stating that said reviewer is a customer usually suffices (which is the case here).
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    Yeah, I wish ramhost provided 100mbps port speeds. My micro has been great and would love to just upgrade to the biggest plan.

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    Quote Originally Posted by herbyscrub View Post
    Yeah, I wish ramhost provided 100mbps port speeds. My micro has been great and would love to just upgrade to the biggest plan.
    Thanks for the feedback.

    We'll probably never offer full 100mbps access as we have lots of clients running things that require stable network connections (like irc clients and game servers).

    We are, however, looking into increasing everybody's port speed by 250% from 10mbps full duplex (20mbps in+out) to 25mbps full duplex (50mbps in+out) - we'll likely start to deploy that next year (it's a compromise between raw speed and network stability).
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    @ramnet

    Not that it matters but it was the OP that had issues running Yum on the 128. = )

    @herbyscrub
    For the price point I don't think expecting a 100mbs port is reasonable but that's just my opinion.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ramnet View Post
    Change the enabled=1 to: enabled=0

    Ah. Thanks for that. I just did that and everything works fine.

    Is it possible for you to inform the operators about this solution? The operator that was helping me suggested me to upgrade to an higher plan to solve the problem with yum.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nnyan View Post
    @ramnet
    Not that it matters but it was the OP that had issues running Yum on the 128. = )
    - sorry about that.

    Quote Originally Posted by asimxss View Post
    Ah. Thanks for that. I just did that and everything works fine.
    no problem

    Quote Originally Posted by asimxss View Post
    Is it possible for you to inform the operators about this solution? The operator that was helping me suggested me to upgrade to an higher plan to solve the problem with yum.
    We only discovered this solution 2 weeks ago...and naturally the other person who handles client support (besides myself) has been informed of it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by iHubNet-Matt View Post
    Glad to see that your experience with them has been positive so far. Thanks for sharing. Also you can report a domain or IP hosted there to get your review verified; if you have not done that yet. Follow up this review in future.

    Matt your input is always neutral and appreciated.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ramnet View Post
    Thanks for the feedback.

    We'll probably never offer full 100mbps access as we have lots of clients running things that require stable network connections (like irc clients and game servers).

    We are, however, looking into increasing everybody's port speed by 250% from 10mbps full duplex (20mbps in+out) to 25mbps full duplex (50mbps in+out) - we'll likely start to deploy that next year (it's a compromise between raw speed and network stability).

    If your plans and pricing were the right excuse to have an added point of failure, if I happen to see what you are mentioning ( at current pricings or even a few nickels more) I'll grab a handful of boxes in a heartbeat

    whats your control panel? ( OP mentioned something about it like not beint THAT intuitive IIRC)

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    Quote Originally Posted by elvis1 View Post
    whats your control panel? ( OP mentioned something about it like not beint THAT intuitive IIRC)
    It's a custom creation (which is ugly to look at but functionally works quite well).

    http://secure.ramhost.us/vps/

    Demo Account: user demo / password demo.

    (demo account basically let's you do everything except ssh in or rebuild the system).

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    We're in process of working on a new panel which will have a much nicer interface (expect public beta next year).
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    I've hosted with them in the past and I agree, they do handle 100% CPU usages very well. Plenty of notice for you to fix it.

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    You can always switch to Debian. apt-get is more efficient than yum ;-)

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    Quote Originally Posted by iihia View Post
    You can always switch to Debian. apt-get is more efficient than yum ;-)
    Indeed - there are many reasons to switch to Debian.

    Even our host nodes are running Debian - CentOS unfortunately has bloat in lots of places.

    Still, we learn all the nuances of each Linux distro we offer and support our clients as best we can.
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    Quote Originally Posted by herbyscrub View Post
    Yeah, I wish ramhost provided 100mbps port speeds.
    After a few days of testing we are pleased to announce that all vps port speeds have been increased from 10mbps to 20mbps (tests were much more successful than we expected so we're rolling this out earlier than planned).

    We've also bumped up the data transfer quotas too (bandwidth is really cheap out here).

    To give you an idea how fast vps's connections are now:

    Code:
    # wget http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test -O /dev/null
    --2009-12-05 00:24:56--  http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
    Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net... 205.234.175.175
    Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net|205.234.175.175|:80... connected.
    HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
    Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
    Saving to: `/dev/null'
    
    100%[===============================================================>] 104,857,600 2.69M/s   in 36s
    
    2009-12-05 00:25:33 (2.74 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]
    Enjoy!
    Last edited by ramnet; 12-04-2009 at 08:26 PM.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ramnet View Post
    After a few days of testing we are pleased to announce that all vps port speeds have been increased from 10mbps to 20mbps (tests were much more successful than we expected so we're rolling this out earlier than planned).

    We've also bumped up the data transfer quotas too (bandwidth is really cheap out here).

    To give you an idea how fast vps's connections are now:

    Code:
    # wget http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test -O /dev/null
    --2009-12-05 00:24:56--  http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
    Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net... 205.234.175.175
    Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net|205.234.175.175|:80... connected.
    HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
    Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
    Saving to: `/dev/null'
    
    100%[===============================================================>] 104,857,600 2.69M/s   in 36s
    
    2009-12-05 00:25:33 (2.74 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]
    Enjoy!
    Thanks! VPS has been running very smoothly.

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    I d been wondering if you offer or could make a custom unmetered BW (5 Mbit would cut it) plan with 512 megs of ram.

    Thanks

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