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c1vhosting · September 24

@foxone said:
Looks like some pictures of the datacenter were dropped in an article an interview with C1V owner "Luca Marini". Article is in italian:

"From dream to reality, the story of Luca Marini and C1VHosting"
https://www.europeanaffairs.it/blog/2024/09/02/dal-sogno-alla-realta-la-storia-di-luca-marini-e-c1v-hosting/ (Archive: https://archive.is/Sh5F9 )

There is a very grainy picture of some servers on a rack (and a small table?)

And what looks like Luca mounting an axial fan to an exhaust pipe (I really do not understand why you would put an exhaust fan in a DC especially if you have AC, my makeshift colocation garage is completely air tight because I really don't want oxygen actively feeding an eventual fire or dust getting into the server fans)

Looking at the photos on the Google Maps entry, the composition of the rack and the mood of the DC checks out.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/wrGunQoNiwGQ7W3P8

They are selling a garage in the same place with the exact tiles, too: https://www.immobiliare.it/annunci/96287112/

Thanks for sharing it!
I like your accurate description

dev_vps · September 24

@c1vhosting said:

@cybertech said:

@dev_vps said:

@terrorgen said:

you are not Hetzner

c1v control panel has template only with two choices for OS auto install. That is just one factor good enough to qualify as low end of low end providers.

please do not lump c1v together with low end providers. i have never seen other providers even the scammy ones with only 2 OS templates and rarely any that limits CPU to 20% of a thread, masked as "AI", hosted in a "TIER III design datacenter".

garage is a garage, at least iHostART and the other i forgot his name were truthful about it.

hence I would take his "performance advisory" extremely seriously and apply caveat emptor on this one.

I take all your comments into consideration to help me improve.

Taking your comments at face value, here is a suggestion if you may want to consider.

Looks at YABS benchmarks (there is a YABS thread) from other providers, this will give an idea how much improvement is needed.

GB5 score for c1v VPS

Geekbench 5 Benchmark Test:
---------------------------------
Test            | Value
                |
Single Core     | 228
Multi Core      | 441
Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/22846600

root · September 27

@foxone said:
Looks like some pictures of the datacenter were dropped in an article an interview with C1V owner "Luca Marini". Article is in italian:

"From dream to reality, the story of Luca Marini and C1VHosting"
https://www.europeanaffairs.it/blog/2024/09/02/dal-sogno-alla-realta-la-storia-di-luca-marini-e-c1v-hosting/ (Archive: https://archive.is/Sh5F9 )

There is a very grainy picture of some servers on a rack (and a small table?)

And what looks like Luca mounting an axial fan to an exhaust pipe (I really do not understand why you would put an exhaust fan in a DC especially if you have AC, my makeshift colocation garage is completely air tight because I really don't want oxygen actively feeding an eventual fire or dust getting into the server fans)

Looking at the photos on the Google Maps entry, the composition of the rack and the mood of the DC checks out.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/wrGunQoNiwGQ7W3P8

They are selling a garage in the same place with the exact tiles, too: https://www.immobiliare.it/annunci/96287112/

It seems this guy has some passion. I have to admit that I like it. I don't like his overselling, but then again I like his dedication.

Keep up the good work @c1vhosting and please share more pictures for us, the buyers.

TheDP · September 27

@davide said:
Why Pom1 and Pom2 are on a fruit crate.

Pom is short for Pomegranate, or Pomelo.

AuroraZero · September 27

I am tempted to buy one and mess with their "AI" cause I am bored

terrorgen · September 27

@AuroraZero said:
I am tempted to buy one and mess with their "AI" cause I am bored

Do IT!

AuroraZero · September 27

@terrorgen said:

@AuroraZero said:
I am tempted to buy one and mess with their "AI" cause I am bored

Do IT!

Dealing with Dell and their proprietary case fan crap at the moment

Calypso · September 27

@TheDP said:

@davide said:
Why Pom1 and Pom2 are on a fruit crate.

Pom is short for Pomegranate, or Pomelo.

O. I thought it was because there was a small handwritten label on the minitower desktop PCs with Porn1 and Porn2, but there was not enough space between the r and n characters, so in the end the names were misunderstood...

TeYroX · September 28

Where yabs of this amazing high performance servers?

Calypso · September 28

@TeYroX said:
Where yabs of this amazing high performance servers?

Be patient. It takes a while and several attempts to produce yabs on a C1V vps...

dev_vps · September 29

@TeYroX said:
Where yabs of this amazing high performance servers?

Be ready for GB6 single core of below 350. After all it is the AI magic.

@c1vhosting -- feel free to correct me if I have stated any incorrect info.

Freek · September 29

@AuroraZero said:
I am tempted to buy one and mess with their "AI" cause I am bored

You can have mine for free if C1V allows service transfers. I'm done playing with it.

GreatDan · September 30

Can I use ffmpeg on it?

root · September 30

@GreatDan said:
Can I use ffmpeg on it?

It takes 10 seconds to start running a "nano" command, and you want to run that?

In my opinion C1V is not suitable for you, because it is very slow; it is way too oversold.

Freek · September 30

@root said:
In my opinion C1V is not suitable for you, because it is very slow; it is way too oversold.

It's not oversold. It's AI.

root · September 30

@Freek said:

@root said:
In my opinion C1V is not suitable for you, because it is very slow; it is way too oversold.

It's not oversold. It's AI.

What AI? This is not some multi-billion dollar investment in AI from some big corporation. This is just overselling to keep costs low.

This idea of overselling like crazy might be great at start to attract customers on cheap prices, but too many customers like this can also tarnish the brand with bad reviews, therefore better services at higher costs will be needed once the brand is settled in publicity.

c1vhosting · September 30

@TeYroX said:
Where yabs of this amazing high performance servers?

NAPLES:

root@it-pom-2uhv83v:~# curl -sL yabs.sh | bash
# ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #
#              Yet-Another-Bench-Script              #
#                     v2024-06-09                    #
# https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script #
# ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #

Mon Sep 30 15:10:26 UTC 2024

Basic System Information:
---------------------------------
Uptime     : 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes
Processor  : Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6152 CPU @ 2.10GHz
CPU cores  : 2 @ 2095.076 MHz
AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM        : 3.7 GiB
Swap       : 0.0 KiB
Disk       : 58.1 GiB
Distro     : Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS
Kernel     : 5.4.0-164-generic
VM Type    : KVM
IPv4/IPv6  : ✔ Online / ✔ Online

IPv6 Network Information:
---------------------------------
ISP        : Cinzia Tocci trading as C1V
ASN        : AS212271 Cinzia Tocci trading as C1V
Host       : C1V Hosting
Location   : Milan, Lombardy (25)
Country    : Italy

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/sda1):
---------------------------------
Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 41.25 MB/s   (10.3k) | 257.78 MB/s   (4.0k)
Write      | 41.33 MB/s   (10.3k) | 259.13 MB/s   (4.0k)
Total      | 82.58 MB/s   (20.6k) | 516.92 MB/s   (8.0k)
           |                      |
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 246.01 MB/s    (480) | 242.94 MB/s    (237)
Write      | 259.08 MB/s    (506) | 259.12 MB/s    (253)
Total      | 505.09 MB/s    (986) | 502.07 MB/s    (490)

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
---------------------------------
Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 488 Mbits/sec   | 43.3 Mbits/sec  | 33.0 ms
Eranium         | Amsterdam, NL (100G)      | 618 Mbits/sec   | 804 Mbits/sec   | 31.7 ms
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | 133 Mbits/sec   | 9.44 Mbits/sec  | --
Leaseweb        | Singapore, SG (10G)       | 344 Mbits/sec   | 15.0 Mbits/sec  | 290 ms
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 162 Mbits/sec   | 4.72 Mbits/sec  | 157 ms
Leaseweb        | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 259 Mbits/sec   | 16.5 Mbits/sec  | 142 ms
Edgoo           | Sao Paulo, BR (1G)        | 255 Mbits/sec   | 778 Mbits/sec   | 227 ms

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv6):
---------------------------------
Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | busy            | 956 Mbits/sec   | 32.9 ms
Eranium         | Amsterdam, NL (100G)      | 670 Mbits/sec   | 952 Mbits/sec   | 31.7 ms
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | 225 Mbits/sec   | 917 Mbits/sec   | 128 ms
Leaseweb        | Singapore, SG (10G)       | 240 Mbits/sec   | 601 Mbits/sec   | --
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 352 Mbits/sec   | 867 Mbits/sec   | 157 ms
Leaseweb        | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 393 Mbits/sec   | 918 Mbits/sec   | --
Edgoo           | Sao Paulo, BR (1G)        | 216 Mbits/sec   | 732 Mbits/sec   | 227 ms

Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
---------------------------------
Test            | Value
                |
Single Core     | 1120
Multi Core      | 2035
Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/8060770

YABS completed in 17 min 14 sec

dev_vps · October 1

Disk IOPS is pretty low .... is it because of low performance advisory, @c1vhosting ?

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/sda1):
---------------------------------
Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 41.25 MB/s   (10.3k) | 257.78 MB/s   (4.0k)
Write      | 41.33 MB/s   (10.3k) | 259.13 MB/s   (4.0k)
Total      | 82.58 MB/s   (20.6k) | 516.92 MB/s   (8.0k)
           |                      |
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 246.01 MB/s    (480) | 242.94 MB/s    (237)
Write      | 259.08 MB/s    (506) | 259.12 MB/s    (253)
Total      | 505.09 MB/s    (986) | 502.07 MB/s    (490)

GB score can vary a lot, if past history is any indication.

Geekbench 5 Benchmark Test:
---------------------------------
Test            | Value
                |
Single Core     | 228
Multi Core      | 441
Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/22846600

Calypso · October 1

@Freek said:

@root said:

It's not oversold. It's AI.

What AI? This is not some multi-billion dollar investment in AI from some big corporation. This is just overselling to keep costs low.

It's as much AI as it is sarcasm.

[And AI can also mean Always Interrupted]

root · October 1

@Calypso said:

@Freek said:

@root said:

It's not oversold. It's AI.

What AI? This is not some multi-billion dollar investment in AI from some big corporation. This is just overselling to keep costs low.

It's as much AI as it is sarcasm.

[And AI can also mean Always Interrupted]

People play with words. in an era of AI race suckers believe such info when using a search engine, while not reading the full text. We therefore increase the provider's sales and make things even more oversold (worse).

Freek · October 1

Sorry, next time I'll make sure to include '/s'

c1vhosting · October 9

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dev_vps · October 9

Even nested VM inside a VPS is faster than @c1vhosting "performance advisory" vps

Calypso · October 13

Not a week is boring when you're with C1V... now the IPv4 address is unresponsive (assigned IPv6 address responds) for over 5 hours already...

The fun part: I've just turned off the VPS, and IPv6 keeps on replying...

dev_vps · October 14

@c1vhosting said:

@c1vhosting said: Introducing Our New Cloud Linux VPS SSD Plans

We are proud to announce four new low-cost VPS SSD plans: Venice, Naples, Piacenza, and Verona. These plans are powered by our latest SSD node, POM6, the newest addition to our data center, featuring Dual Intel Xeon Gold 6152 CPUs.

Explore the new plans

I am pleased to reserve for the LES community a special price on the order of any VPS of this new category: by selecting the monthly billing cycle, for the first 12 monthly renewals you can take advantage of the 20% discount.
Please use the promo code CQ8YYXCE5Z at the checkout.

The discount is extended for another 48 hours!

Looks like the so-called discount code is in auto renewal mode for every 48 hours

xbugx · October 15

C1vhosting.it is DOWN for everyone.
They are Gone?
https://prnt.sc/IPzoAG63p6P7

c1vhosting · October 15

Hello,
RETN is down in Rome. We are currently using backup

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The discount is extended for another 48 hours!