I'm based in the UK and recently I purchased a midphase ns01 dedicated server.
All was going well until I decided to test out downloading a file from the server. The transfer rate on the download was and still continues to be terrible. (I did a traceroute and ping on the server as shown below.)
My ISP is AOL with a connection speed of 100 mbps.
Heres the traceroute and ping of my midphase server...
Midphase traceroute
Tracing route to ---.com [000.00.000.000]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 * * * Request timed out.
2 40 ms 38 ms 38 ms host-000.00.000.000.as43234.net [000.00.000.000]
3 44 ms 42 ms 40 ms 000.00.000.000
4 42 ms 41 ms 41 ms xe-10-3-0-scr001.log.as13285.net [78.144.2.135]
5 41 ms * 51 ms Opal-ge-2.2.0.mpr1.lhr2.above.net [213.161.78.209]
6 115 ms * 109 ms so-0-1-0.mpr1.dca2.us.above.net [64.125.27.57]
7 113 ms 111 ms 113 ms xe-1-1-0.er1.iad10.above.net [64.125.26.238]
8 202 ms 110 ms 110 ms dcp-brdr-03.inet.qwest.net [63.146.26.61]
9 190 ms 191 ms 192 ms tuk-core-01.inet.qwest.net [67.14.4.106]
10 190 ms 190 ms 191 ms tuk-edge-09.inet.qwest.net [205.171.11.70]
11 197 ms 194 ms 195 ms te2-1.cer02.sea01.seattle-datacenter.com [65.112.24.22]
12 195 ms 197 ms 195 ms po02.fcr01.sea01.seattle-datacenter.com [67.228.118.138]
13 * 239 ms 240 ms 000.00.000.000-static.reverse.softlayer.com [000.00.000.000]
Trace complete.
Midphase Ping
Pinging -------.com [000.00.000.000] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 000.00.000.000: bytes=32 time=199ms TTL=51
Reply from 000.00.000.000: bytes=32 time=195ms TTL=51
Reply from 000.00.000.000: bytes=32 time=192ms TTL=51
Reply from 000.00.000.000: bytes=32 time=189ms TTL=51
Ping statistics for 000.00.000.000:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 189ms, Maximum = 199ms, Average = 193ms
I was just wondering if anyone based within the uk was experiencing similar problems with midphase or perhaps has some suggestions as to how I can remedy this problem?
A while back I came here looking for a dedicated server because I was having some issues with a VPS I was hosting on.
I came across a great deal.
Quad Core Xeon / 4GB Ram 250GB HD at a steal of a price..
Since then my server has been up since install, never had a moment of downtime what so ever, hardware is great, support is on point and all hours of the day they respond. I deleted my password from my email and needed to get into my box. I was in within 30 minutes, prolly less.
Gave me a choice of 3 datacenters to choose from.
Anyways.
Great Servers / Hardware / Support / Bandwidth / ON POINT!!
By far the best damn dedicated hosting provider I have dealt with throughout the years.
I've got 25 domains on a Virtuozzo/Plesk8.6/CentOS5 VPS. Each domain has one up-to-date install of WordPress, most have very little traffic (average 200mb per month), maybe 2 domains get 5-7gb traffic per month.
I monitor port 80 connections and rarely see more than 10 at a time. That should in my opinion be no problem at all for a VPS with 768mb guaranteed ram and 2.4ghz cpu. I've got 30gb hard drive spare too.
But.... about 8 or 10 times a day it grinds to a complete halt: server load at 500-1000%, sites timing out, plesk takes 3mins to load, often I can't even connect with SSH, and the plesk web server, apache
80 seconds sounds like a huge amount of time for a MySQL insert to me! Does anyone know if this is likely to be the cause of my trouble? Some problem with Plesk and the database? Or could it be something else?
I know its apparantly Softlayer but I cannot determine which one from the TraceRoute and slightly is im getting there via cogentco.com which isnt in the Softlayer public mix.
frends now iam haveing dedicated server with pentium-4 and RAM is 2GB,my site online members is more than 100 members,now i feel slow in server,what i have add extra RAM or any chage in server
Anyone here used Midphase? Over at WHT you can find as many negatives as positives for almost anyone you chose. Anyone at Sitepoint used them? I'm very cautious about switching and have checked into several web hosts. I would stick with the one I have now, but server load spikes seem to come at the worst times and stay around for hours.
Looking for more webhosting for different sites: I was wondering if anybody had any opinions on Midphase or Powweb please. I have researched them both throughly but would be interested to know what the latest opinions are on them.
I just got the mail from midphase stated that they will not allow bandwidth pooling anymore. And it is effect immediately. Exactly from email:
Dear Dedicated Customers,
Due to the popularity of our dedicated program we are no longer able to offer bandwidth pooling between servers. We regret any inconvenience this causes but we do have some helpful solutions for your bandwith needs.
This month all overages above the allotted 10 Terabytes per server will be billed at .20 cents per Gigabyte over.
Next month in order to receive this price you will need to purchase bandwidth packages in advance. Please simply let us know how much additional bandwidth you would like to purchase for the upcoming month and we will add that bandwidth to your account at the same .20 cent price. This service will renew with your account addons and will be a monthly fee. All overages above your pre-purchased allotment will then be billed at .50 cents per Gigabyte. We will notify you in advance of any overages as well so please feel free to add more bandwidth to your account at any time by emailing billing@midphase.com. If you find that you're no longer using as much bandwidth you can also cancel these addons by emailing billing@midphase.com.
This will result me paying alot for overuseage as i have 2 servers from them. And i am using bandwidth mainly on 1 server. ( more than 10TB for this month already.
I also emailed them 2days ago that i need at least 30 days notice but the did not reply.
Am considering Midphase's VPS as an upgrade from shared and after searching the net am fairly comfortable with them at this point. However, knowing that most happy/content customers usually don't think about writing a review and the dissatisfied ones sometimes do...I'm posting this question not as an opportunity to bash but to be informative.
Keeping that in mind, my specs are as follows:
1) Run 3 Wordpress blogs (one of which is picking up steam fairly fast) 2) Have 2 static sites that may see increased traffic. (At this point they do not but one is an offshoot of the blog with the most traffic so this may change) 3) Have a SMF forum setup for family that is fairly active. 4) I like to try out various scripts for review.
I'm looking for any feedback from current Midphase VPS customers or past ones. Like I said, this is not an invitation to bash them. That can be done somewhere else. I'm looking for those with experience with their company's VPS hosting.
I am presently a shared hosting customer with them on their Linux plan and would prefer to keep with Linux over windoze.
im planning to buy dedicated i have a budget of 300 usd per month
so i got 2 option
1) To Go with Fdc
100Mbit Burstable Unmetered Dedicated Server #1
CPU - Core2Quad 6600
Memory - 8GB RAM Hard Disk Space - 1x500GB HDD
100Mbit port - full duplex
$ 299 /month / But many people says thats fdc is not good , they have fake hardwares , and not a good support at all / and their all time excuses is HARDWARE FAILURE
I wanted to add a add-on domain to my account but I received a park-wrap-error. I submitted 2 tickets and called in multiple times but this has not been fixed.. for OVER 2 WEEKS now.
Now the most recent insult. They moved my site to another server.. without telling me and lost my files that I uploaded the other day. I called in to ask about this but the service tech hung up on me. He told me "If this happens again please submit a support ticket" without even listening to my question or concerns.
I dont know much about what could be cuasing this so i come to you for advice, i am currently at wired tree on their VPS384 package with 348MB of ram and my site is really slow to load [url]sometimes it is so embaressing to show people i just dont bother, i am sure this is deferring visitors from my content how can i speed this up?
I can add more ram but it will push the price and if the price goes too high i might aswell move to a Hybrid with wiredtree.
I noticed that there are huge pings to my server from time to time, example:
------------------ 64 bytes from HOSTNAME (server-IP): icmp_seq=0 ttl=60 time=2.93 ms 64 bytes from HOSTNAME (server-IP): icmp_seq=1 ttl=60 time=2.70 ms 64 bytes from HOSTNAME (server-IP): icmp_seq=2 ttl=60 time=1901 ms 64 bytes from HOSTNAME (server-IP): icmp_seq=3 ttl=60 time=899 ms 64 bytes from HOSTNAME (server-IP): icmp_seq=5 ttl=60 time=2.69 ms 64 bytes from HOSTNAME (server-IP): icmp_seq=6 ttl=60 time=2.62 ms 64 bytes from HOSTNAME (server-IP): icmp_seq=4 ttl=60 time=2132 ms 64 bytes from HOSTNAME (server-IP): icmp_seq=8 ttl=60 time=2.57 ms 64 bytes from HOSTNAME (server-IP): icmp_seq=7 ttl=60 time=1190 ms 64 bytes from HOSTNAME (server-IP): icmp_seq=10 ttl=60 time=2.65 ms 64 bytes from HOSTNAME (server-IP): icmp_seq=9 ttl=60 time=1048 ms 64 bytes from HOSTNAME (server-IP): icmp_seq=12 ttl=60 time=2.74 ms 64 bytes from HOSTNAME (server-IP): icmp_seq=11 ttl=60 time=1205 ms ------------------
First I thought that it is network related, but most strange for me was that I did not have any packets lose.
Then I tried to ping from my server to other hosts - situation was the same - some ping were good and some were huge (700ms, 800ms, even 2000ms)
I checked: cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_max and it was 65536
Then I checked: cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_count and it was ~1600 so normal.
I did not have such dropped information on all my other servers. Dropped counter for RX was constatnly increasing.
So I decided to restart all services on the server. After restarting network and ipaliases - problem disappeared. RX dropped counter is still rising, but I do not have any slowdowns on the server and pings are normal.
My question is - does anyone could have any idea what can casue my problem and how can I prevent this in the future?
i hosted 1 wesite ( forum script with no plugins )
when my traffic consuption reache to 25mbs the server running very slow for hours although the load avarage is very normal 1-2 Iowait 3% ram consumption 8-10Gb
my uplink port 1Gb and of course my DC said the connection is normal with no limitation
the server specs are good Quad procs 7200 ,16Gb ram ,15K SCSI speed
My server gets 300 - 600 concurrent connections to http port 80, has a CPU load of 1 - 2%, has practically all RAM of 1 GB used, is running apache 2 and centos 5.
It tends to get slow and when I ban IPs that use many connections to my server (raping it), it becomes fast again. But soon after that new ******* users come which I again ban and the process repeats itself
I'm starting to think that maybe I just don't have enough RAM to handle them because it seems at least some of those users are legit. I don't however have even that much content that needs to be cached so I'm not sure what good RAM would do but perhaps apache just needs more.
How can I prove to my web hosting company that the server is extremely slow and overloaded?
If I call support, they are saying that it is fine for them. But I've checked with different internet connections and it's slow.
I want to be moved to another server or get a partial refund or something. At this point my website is unusable during peak business hours.... and I get barley any traffic.
My server (Xeon 3.0Ghz) went down for no reason yesterday and ever since it was rebooted (and I've rebooted a couple of times since then), pages load extremely slowly or just timeout. Server load is constantly hovering around 1 and top stats indicate that the server's resources are not under heavy load, which is contrary to the usual pattern during peak times.
I've checked netstat and I notice a lot of SYN_RECV. Could this be a DoS attack? If so, what steps do I take to stop it?
while client is accesing its homepage , it has a slow response.
when client use ftp for file transfer, response from server is slow.
i am running php software and MYSQL database in my server.
i am using 80GB hard disk and still 28GB freespace is remaining.
i have 512 MB of memory, in which currently 91 MB is still free.
o/p for " vmstat" command is
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- ----cpu---- r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa 0 0 160 91296 40656 287300 0 0 9 7 60 34 0 0 100 0
But in the /var/log/httpd/error_log it is showing a long list of same error i.e" an unknown filter was not added :PHp".in this way my server is responding very slow for ftp and while accesssing through http.will u pls help me to solve this problem.
