Hello from BulkVM!
I’m excited to introduce BulkVM to the LES community!
We're all about providing scalable, affordable storage solutions. Based in Phoenix, Arizona, our team is spread across the US.
I oversee the day-to-day operations, and I’m looking forward to engaging with the community!
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Sorry, I can't read
Ahh no worries, we'll send a carrier pigeon with the details!
Associated with any other host(s)?
"The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We're our own entity, but I do share rack space with @linveo in Arizona at PhoenixNAP.
How bulky are the VMs, compared to this person?
We accept Karma donations for the last flan. 🍮 affbrr
They make that guy look like he skips leg day
i can help you with your pants only.
Whoa! Haha! Our expertise is in scaling up servers, not pants!
Please send the bulkiest one and make sure it's edible.
☰ VDS & Storage — Budget AMD EPYC VDS (ref) from $4/m ／ Big HDD VPS (ref) from $2/TB/mo ／ EPYC/Gold/Platinum dedis (ref) w/ GPU support
You want a Double Big Mac for the price of a small portion of fries?
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cmon, any 5TB Storage deals for 12.50$?
Free NAT KVM | Free NAT LXC
There. Fixed that for you. 🫡
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forgot that time exists.
I did mean to say 3 months.
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A combo meal? It's on the way.
boot drive is too small. at least 20G.
...And in 2024 (...?) 5TB RAID6 was finally low end(, with no need to learn Filecoin and accepting latency and no missing the legend of "unlimited google drive". How is it called actually when one paid that for years in advance without even using it, just trusting in google's consistency)
@BulkVM what are your host machines? HDDs, RAID, CPU.
And at $10 whats the guaranteed share and burstable share?
Assuming an old 4HE 80 core machine with 4x20cores/2TB DDR3 with only 12x1TB SSD Raid6 but a 4HE NAS with 60 drives in five RAID6 groups of 12x8TB, then we could still give 140 GB SSD per 5TB HDD and per 1 core or 2 hyperthreading cores and a guaranteed 24GB RAM and much more burstable. So your machines might rather be 2HE 2 x 20 cores, for 36 x $10 customers, with 36 x 6 HDDs NAS , 128GB ram and 6x512GB SSD? Or you might be maxing out some archival NAS with 1000+ HDDs?
@BulkVM https://www.abuseipdb.com/user/162842 looks good, any other references or linkedin?
What's going on?
Thanks for asking about our infrastructure! We're running on solid enterprise-grade hardware:
Just server-grade hardware doing what it does best. And no, we're not relying on some mythical "unlimited" Google Drive plan from the cloud's golden age (though who doesn't miss the nostalgia of infinite space? 😏)
Our $10/month Standard plan includes:
- 2GB guaranteed RAM
- 2 vCores fair share
- 15 GB SSD Boot Drive
- 5TB HDD storage
- 15TB monthly bandwidth + unmetered inbound
- 1-10Gbit networking
We keep it simple. Being storage-focused means no email ports or crypto mining, and definitely no sketchy "unlimited" cloud magic.
You won't be able to advertise this plan on LES, unless you discount the first month to $7.
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I do understand, @archivist asked about it.
hi @BulkVM thanks.
How many drives are in each RAID6? And what capacity
And how many customers will share one Dual Xeon E5-2630 v4? (if 1 physical core is the burstable/fair use maximum cpu share)
And i assume, even surprisingly rare (unique?) your offer is still pretty profitable, so that you might not want to ever raise the price? (Then i like to support a small and new service.
Only having to move will be no fun. Hetzner Storage Boxes cost 10% more including snapshots)
Didn't mean to assume it is google drive or anything
(just still wondering how i paid them for air. Plans ended with 0 bytes stored and no refunds. Was just assuming google won't)
@archivist,
Each RAID6 node consists of 12 drives, each with a capacity between 14TB and 20TB.
Regarding server allocation, we do not oversell our resources; once a server reaches its capacity, we do not add more clients to it.
Our pricing is designed to accommodate all budgets. While I can't promise that prices will remain the same indefinitely due to fluctuating datacenter power costs, we're committed to keeping them competitive for the time being.
Ha, let's hope we don't see Google Drive on killedbygoogle.com I do remember Web Hosting in Google Drive.
Hello BulKVM
Welcome and GLWS.
US is no good for me
hi! @BulkVM,
Not what i thought. So the cpu is (almost) dedicated? (If fully dedicated, then you won't call it "fair use"?) When the biggest possible difference between an average 80% and an average 10% CPU usage might be less than $0.4 electricity per month.)
(I assume in general every VM should come with two sets of specs. (the hardware(-fraction) and the a burstable multiplier allowed (the bigger the machine the better it averages out.) and what quota / timelimit /percentile might be applied to that multiplier)
Heya @Ganonk!
Thank you @WebUK!
Sorry @selalumenang, our main focus is in the US.
The reason I mention "fair use" is that while you get consistent access to the CPU resources, the CPU is not dedicated and the CPU usage falls under fair usage. The electricity cost difference you calculated is interesting, but not really the main factor in BulkVM's pricing model.
hi
@BulkVM sure, so how many customer-vCores are there per each Dual Xeon E5-2630 v4 server?
@archivist ... You joined a week ago and the only thread you've commented in is this one. A thread that you resurrected after it lay dormant for three months. You aren't by chance related to them somehow, are you?
@skorous give me alternative or cheaper (backup-)storage. Need transparency.
@BulkVM are you going to have a downtime chart? there was something 15? minutes ago.
@skorous also can't edit the previous post while forums are often set for more drama than wikis.
...Tested the storage a few times: Is writing limited to 20MB/s? @BulkVM What about setting a more dynamic limit?
First two sessions i tried by NFS at ~60MB/s and it was unresponsive a lot (D process state (uninterruptible sleep). Yet we can blame NFS for not being polite there like SSHFS.) Some testing with DD would also wait for long or give 0.x MB/s.
Today it seems ok (or is it the different daytime?) . So that i'm writing over SSHFS for some hours already (average 15mb/s). (while restoring a backup will go faster)
But how to trust the drives, how old are they? What about publishing all smartctl data for all drives all the time? (I could write that cronjobs for you) @BulkVM: Btw, This log file doesn't exist : "BulkVM Automated Drive Setup... LOG: /var/log/bulkvm-drive-setup.log"
How many customers do / did you have yet?
Eh what forums are what now?
The Yeti has left the building.
hi
@AuroraZero (forums are among other not the best for productivity).
A subtitle for this thread: new storage-VM host. Ltd founded July 2024 in Arizona
I see why are you here then?
The Yeti has left the building.
Not to care too much about repetitive one liners
clueless if i dare to actually keep it and use it for backups 🤷 (Not if HDD replacements will not be transparent / uncertain as the next response in this thread, the only PR yet.)
@BulkVM
also please let use know if the setup might be based on RAID-Z2 (zfs) or a traditional RAID-6
and how many customers you made yet?
thanks!
This obsession of yours may be a tad unhealthy.
@skorous happy retirement!
Annoying
Idk about this one chief. I might consider BulkVM and a couple others to be my competitors but dragging other providers into one provider's offer thread seems kind of bad lol.
If BulkVM really isn't a good fit, have you tried posting in the requests section? I feel it would be far more courteous. (From a provider perspective)
User @archivist banned for spamming and as suspected sock puppet.
Ban appeal can be made by help desk ticket.
Thread set to sink.
That's actually funny. I had typed out, '@AuroraZero , let's perform an experiment. Set this thread to sink and see if they keep posting here,' but hadn't hit Post Comment yet.
LMAO yeah @FrankZ is like a ninja around here I got to move fast to beat him.
The Yeti has left the building.
involucrated already. i feel like i knew who's behind it. after all not many people checked ASN then said "looks good", followed by asking linkedin profile
Fuck this 24/7 internet spew of trivia and celebrity bullshit.
what do you mean @Encoders?
is it riddle? a rare word leading to that servarica if you use google images (precisely to https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/3248444/#Comment_3248444 )
@Skorous i didnt get why you chose to bully this thread (writing the first message in it)
and consequently also complain about mine long later. (i don't know what might be funny about that.)
I'm sad that the OP disappeared when you came back.
So that it makes more sense to stick with a bigger competitor like OVH or Hetzer. I dont know if i should benchmark more or try to get back my money out of overall suspicious against the whole experience with this forum.
I'd prefer to support somebody actually owning some machines and visiting their nearby DC (if such ambition exists you can dm me.) (yet offers usually will be indistinguishable from oversold resellers of resellers' resellers? who might me much more numerous in this forum than real customers)
Was i "too productive" for your taste @Skorous? (@FrankZ) My content was relevant and laborious.
Admins are free to make sure threads are sorted and ranked fairly ( Forums are programmable.)
(next to that you seem to enjoy the manual time.)
Am i supposed to entertain you guys with memes only?
(i should not be blamed for you clicking every recent thread for no reason?) nor be forced to spend more time justifying productivity, than posting actual benchmark and review )
(or if you guys prefer having a private party, why'd you randomly chose to come here to this thread harassing my flow? a tread belonging to @bulkvm, as you agreed in and to me apparently, if i'm their sole customer yet)
I'm just capricious. I like to exercise my power pissing off you lesser beings.
When you're drunk with power like I am everything is funny.
I never left.
It's hard out there for a sock-puppet. Always on the grind.
Glad you agree.
No but it'd be nice. Got anything good in the hopper?
I never blamed you for my click habit. I called you a shill.
To be clear, I never said you were their only customer. I said that I thought you were @BulkVM . Later I accused you of having and unhealthy infatuation with them. I've seen nothing that changes my opinion.
Not sure why you're angry. The thread has been set to sink so now that you're back from you ban you can continue your lovefest without bothering anybody.
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try spamming even harder, you'll get involucrated permanently
Reguards.
Fuck this 24/7 internet spew of trivia and celebrity bullshit.
thank you for your honesty! @skorous. Sounds like you are on a good way to overcome that issue.
Some forums and this one might not be existing without people [having to] look for the cheapest offers? (be the reason only perfectionism or insecurity (in rich places), or that hosting is very profitable in average leaving a lot of room to hope - or actual poverty, or at least the very common discrepancy of ability and ambition combined with too low budget
(which most people face potentially, who aren't most apathetic and did not inherit, are not loaned,
or be it to to support the modest, fair, new or vulnerable providers out of sympathy.)
i see! you just counted my posts, so you didn't notice they paid effort. (Yet i actually adjusted a little too much. hope that makes you feel relevant. besides i felt pushed and it leading to you guys' contrary complains as if i was too patient and also too critical)
(...=which can be optimized for both: better feeds and no unnecessary fences / patronizing )
wrong thread? @Encoders