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05-08-2012, 10:37 AM #1Web Hosting Evangelist
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Kimsufi- opinions?
Hi,
We're thinking of trying out Kimsufi as a relatively cheap dedi provider for backup purposes.
We'd be looking at ordering the 2G.
Does anyone have any experience of using them? It's only to backup files, so CPU and RAM don't matter that much, but 1TB of storage for the price seems too good to be true.
Opinions/experiences welcome.
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05-08-2012, 10:39 AM #2Web Hosting Master
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For the price they're fast and reliable. A single drive is always a risk for backups, but by no means is it a bad choice for the cost. My experience so far has been great drives with more than acceptable I/O.
Ain't here to spam my signature, I'm not desperate for sales.
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05-08-2012, 10:53 AM #3Web Hosting Evangelist
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Quite right- it's worth noting we plan to use this for our lowest-risk backups, which are essentially backups of our backups. We won't be storing anything there that we couldn't cope with losing, but it's be useful to have another online file store in case it's needed.
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05-08-2012, 10:57 AM #4Web Hosting Master
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Hello,
I am using one of their Atom boxes for backup purposes, It works well. I was impressed to find a 7200 RPM Disk inside.
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05-08-2012, 11:21 AM #5Newbie
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We currently use the 2G as a small solution to our backups also - Each one comes with a 100gb backup ftp account so you could also do a backup of a backup of a backup
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05-08-2012, 11:43 AM #6Temporarily Suspended
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U will have to provide ID... just a note
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05-08-2012, 12:10 PM #8Disabled
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From personal experience, I have found they are great little machines, however they are only on 100mbit connections, so when moving large amounts of data or even doing daily rsyncs with updated data, they can take a while to complete.
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05-08-2012, 05:58 PM #9Newbie
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Planning on purchasing one for backups. Will let update you guys on how it is!
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05-08-2012, 05:59 PM #10WHT Addict
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05-08-2012, 06:05 PM #11Web Hosting Evangelist
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Fortunately we're UK based, but ID wouldn't be a problem in any case. Thanks for all the info folks, we'll be making an informed decision in the next few days
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05-08-2012, 09:17 PM #12Junior Guru Wannabe
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I've got 27 ks2g's. All of which are running beautifully for their price, specs and bandwidth allocation.
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05-09-2012, 04:06 AM #13Web Hosting Guru
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Yeah, definitely good.
I ended up getting a brand new drive, with only a couple of hours on it and it pushes 189 MB/s.
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05-09-2012, 08:40 AM #14Aspiring Evangelist
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05-09-2012, 01:55 PM #15Web Hosting Guru
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Code:root@ash:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync 16384+0 records in 16384+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 5.90666 s, 182 MB/s root@ash:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync 16384+0 records in 16384+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 5.78292 s, 186 MB/s root@ash:~#
This one: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822148840Last edited by NateN34; 05-09-2012 at 02:03 PM.
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05-10-2012, 05:01 AM #16Web Hosting Evangelist
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Ordered one.
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05-10-2012, 06:59 AM #17Web Hosting Master
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Great, let us know what you think of it. I have one of the 2G machines myself for a file server and it's performed just fine for what I need it to do. Can't say I've received the 180MB+/s speeds on the disk as mentioned by others in the thread but that's not really an issue to me!
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05-11-2012, 06:36 AM #18Web Hosting Evangelist
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Server was provisioned in under two hours from purchase. Had a call to verify identity.
Very pleased with server and transfer speeds.
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05-11-2012, 07:48 AM #19Temporarily Suspended
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05-11-2012, 09:15 AM #20Web Hosting Evangelist
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05-11-2012, 09:20 AM #21Disabled
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We are using them from few months now , Servers are great and so is the network.
Do not expect any support on any issue from them , they just do,nt provide it.
Other than that everything is fine.
Regards.
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05-11-2012, 01:57 PM #22Newbie
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Personally i run atom server from kimsufi..the performance quite good..
hope you can consider their support service because recently, their support quite fast responce than before..
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05-11-2012, 02:29 PM #23WHT Addict
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Go with OVH FT Server or SP server which comes with Soft RAID
http://www.ovh.ie/dedicated_servers/backup_fs_10To.xml
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11-24-2012, 02:53 AM #24Junior Guru Wannabe
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i just got a KS2G for backup purposes. It took about 2 days to get access to the server after sending in id/address proof (i live in usa).
I was going to use this as a seedbox for private trackers for my personal torrent stuff, but now that they have all my drivers license, address, and credit card info, I probably won't. Don't know what other's experience are with seedboxing on ovh.
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