Well it looks like the big overselling is back with HostSlim. Got one of their 75% off VPS's to use as a small gameserver (San Andreas Multiplayer) and for some home backups. Performance initially was acceptable, throughput was disappointing across the Atlantic though.
Then it started to slow down horridly, SSH lags and cachefly download test is getting around 3MB/s. IO isn't that great either.
I began to get concerned, then I saw my disk was rapidly shrinking (I paid for 400GB) so naturally I opened a ticket to see what happened.
"John Richardson || Client 29/11/2012 21:24
Hello,
It looks like my VPS hard drive is shrinking. Could you fix this please?
"Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/simfs 369G 685M 323G 1% /
tmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /lib/init/rw
tmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /dev/shm"
Regards,
John
IP Address: 86.160.79.122
Ralph | HostSlim Staff || Staff 29/11/2012 21:25
Hi John,
Thank you for your message. I'm going to take a look for you and report back.
Kind Regards,
Ralph
HostSlim Europe
E: sales@hostslim.eu
W: www.hostslim.eu
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John Richardson || Client 06/12/2012 19:10
Any update yet?...
John Richardson || Client 07/12/2012 00:41
Hi Ralph,
This is getting silly now, I only have 93G hdd allocated to me...
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/simfs 141G 2.6G 93G 3% /
none 2.0G 4.0K 2.0G 1% /dev
none 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /dev/shm
I cannot delay my shoutcast project any longer, I plan on using at least 300gb hdd so I need this sorted ASAP.
John Richardson || Client 08/12/2012 18:59
Ralph,
Why are you no longer answering my tickets?"
I'm sure that explains enough. They keep sweeping the issue under the carpet and it's just not acceptable. Currently, I'd say stay far far away. Hopefully Ralph will reply to my ticket before the world ends...
/wallofrage