I don’t have experience with letbox but going to try with this offer. As for hosthatch, they’ve been nothing but solid for me. Have almost full uptime past year. Support and network is good as well.
I used LETbox in the past, well over a year ago IIRC and it was fine. Signed up again for this deal, and after seeing the improvements he’s made I’m confident it’s a good deal and it won’t disappoint.
He’s been around for quite some time and has been voted several times on the provider polls on LET if that helps at all.
Welcome to HB @key900 
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So, umm, I did an oopsie and didn’t add the 3TB block storage to the order during checkout 
Am I out of luck when the VPS gets provisioned?
I think you can add it in the “upgrade/downgrade options” for free after the vps is in your account. Whether or not that will automatically provision you the disk space, I’m not sure. Best to put in a ticket and have them add it for you
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Has anyone got theirs already? How’s it so far?
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CPU model : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2690 0 @ 2.90GHz
Number of cores : 2
CPU frequency : 2899.998 MHz
Total size of Disk : 3092.0 GB (662.0 GB Used)
Total amount of Mem : 7976 MB (866 MB Used)
Total amount of Swap : 0 MB (0 MB Used)
System uptime : 0 days, 20 hour 58 min
Load average : 0.06, 0.09, 0.04
OS : Debian GNU/Linux 9
Arch : x86_64 (64 Bit)
Kernel : 4.15.18-21-pve
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I/O speed(1st run) : 1.0 GB/s
I/O speed(2nd run) : 1.1 GB/s
I/O speed(3rd run) : 1.1 GB/s
Average I/O speed : 1092.3 MB/s
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Node Name IPv4 address Download Speed
CacheFly 205.234.175.175 108MB/s
Linode, Tokyo2, JP 139.162.65.37 20.6MB/s
Linode, Singapore, SG 139.162.23.4 13.4MB/s
Linode, London, UK 176.58.107.39 17.3MB/s
Linode, Frankfurt, DE 139.162.130.8 16.0MB/s
Linode, Fremont, CA 50.116.14.9 111MB/s
Softlayer, Dallas, TX 173.192.68.18 49.1MB/s
Softlayer, Seattle, WA 67.228.112.250 73.9MB/s
Softlayer, Frankfurt, DE 159.122.69.4 9.49MB/s
Softlayer, Singapore, SG 119.81.28.170 10.4MB/s
Softlayer, HongKong, CN 119.81.130.170 11.1MB/s
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# cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep flags
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon rep_good nopl xtopology cpuid tsc_known_freq pni pclmulqdq vmx ssse3 cx16 pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx hypervisor lahf_lm cpuid_fault pti tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid tsc_adjust xsaveopt arat
So far, it’s amazing to be honest. I haven’t found anything to complain about, and was very pleasantly surprised to find that the vmx flag was passed through.
I know that time will be the real test here, but for my planned use, a little bit of a downtime here and there isn’t going to cause me any extra anxiety, especially at this price point.
I should note that I did not take the 10gbps upgrade (yet) so the speedtest above is for the gigabit plan. Also, as pointed out, this was upgraded to 8GB after I received it, which was done immediately (after shutdown/restart)
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Was it provisioned with CPU Pass-through or did you open a ticket for it?
And the 8 GB RAM is an upgrade, am I right?
Ah yes, the 8gb is an upgrade. It was provisioned with the flags passed through like that, no tickets were needed for anything.
RAM upgrade I actually did after I got the VPS, through the upgrade/downgrade panel. It was instantly done, I just needed to shut down and restart the VPS for it to be updated both in the panel and within the VPS.
Edit: edited my post to reflect that
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Speedtest Monster v.1.2.6 beta (30 Sep 2019)
Region: USA https://bench.monster/speedtest.html
curl -LsO bench.monster/speedtest.sh; sh speedtest.sh -USA
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CPU Model : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v2 @ 2.80GHz
CPU Cores : 2 Cores @ 2799.998 MHz x86_64 16384 KB Cache
OS : CentOS 7.7.1908 (64 Bit)
Kernel : KVM / 3.10.0-1062.1.1.el7.x86_64
Total Space : 3.6 GB / 3092.0 GB
Total RAM : 696 MB / 7821 MB (676 MB Buff)
Total SWAP : 0 MB / 0 MB
Uptime : 0 days 3 hour 21 min
Load Average : 0.13, 0.04, 0.08
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ASN & ISP : AS40676, Psychz Networks
Organization : LA Helms Deep
Location : Los Angeles, United States / US
Region : California
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## dd: sequential write speed (1.0GB):
1st run : 1.1 GB/s
2dn run : 1.1 GB/s
3rd run : 1.2 GB/s
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Average : 1160.5 MB/s
## USA Speedtest
Location Upload Download Ping
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Speedtest.net 12.41 Mbit/s 590.09 Mbit/s 43.499 ms
USA, New York (AT&T) 165.97 Mbit/s 318.38 Mbit/s 61.069 ms
USA, Boston (Starry, Inc.) 141.30 Mbit/s 390.40 Mbit/s 64.953 ms
USA, Washington, DC (AT&T) 148.62 Mbit/s 304.32 Mbit/s 65.653 ms
USA, Charlotte, NC (AT&T) 171.86 Mbit/s 351.64 Mbit/s 55.703 ms
USA, Atlanta (Frontier) 170.53 Mbit/s 435.30 Mbit/s 67.380 ms
USA, Miami (Frontier) 180.81 Mbit/s 453.62 Mbit/s 63.005 ms
USA, Nashville (Sprint) 247.92 Mbit/s 290.57 Mbit/s 62.249 ms
USA, Indianapolis (Metronet) 211.11 Mbit/s 568.60 Mbit/s 54.933 ms
USA, Cleveland (AT&T) 170.90 Mbit/s 460.10 Mbit/s 57.240 ms
USA, Chicago (Windstream) 67.22 Mbit/s 508.52 Mbit/s 57.635 ms
USA, St. Louis (AT&T) 156.05 Mbit/s 455.74 Mbit/s 53.519 ms
USA, Minneapolis (US Internet) 158.44 Mbit/s 460.96 Mbit/s 77.625 ms
USA, Kansas City (UPNfiber) 191.03 Mbit/s 468.26 Mbit/s 43.749 ms
USA, Oklahoma City (OneNet) 198.74 Mbit/s 456.82 Mbit/s 45.208 ms
USA, Dallas (Frontier) 207.33 Mbit/s 425.32 Mbit/s 39.523 ms
USA, San Antonio, TX (AT&T) 173.15 Mbit/s 448.74 Mbit/s 30.793 ms
USA, Denver (Vistabeam) 395.44 Mbit/s 621.80 Mbit/s 27.208 ms
USA, Albuquerque (Plateau Tel) 117.08 Mbit/s 663.46 Mbit/s 44.023 ms
USA, Phoenix (Cox) 551.93 Mbit/s 782.33 Mbit/s 12.518 ms
USA, Salt Lake City (UTOPIA) 348.86 Mbit/s 698.39 Mbit/s 35.421 ms
USA, Helena, MT (The Fusion) 306.26 Mbit/s 654.27 Mbit/s 48.255 ms
USA, Las Vegas (Cox) 444.01 Mbit/s 381.77 Mbit/s 6.448 ms
USA, Seattle (Sprint) 287.21 Mbit/s 491.52 Mbit/s 26.449 ms
USA, San Francisco (AT&T) 645.33 Mbit/s 841.45 Mbit/s 10.039 ms
USA, Los Angeles (Spectrum) 743.31 Mbit/s 971.68 Mbit/s 3.163 ms
USA, Anchorage (Alaska Com) 238.78 Mbit/s 627.79 Mbit/s 55.004 ms
USA, Mililani, HI (Spectrum) 214.30 Mbit/s 419.33 Mbit/s 45.801 ms
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Timestamp : 2019-10-01 15:28:45 UTC
Share result:
· http://www.speedtest.net/result/8638443008.png
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The LG is down 
iirc LetBox is single homed Psychz, so maybe try this?
Down low, down low, down low, down low
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CPU model : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2690 0 @ 2.90GHz
Number of cores : 4
CPU frequency : 2899.998 MHz
Total size of Disk : 6079.6 GB (594.0 GB Used)
Total amount of Mem : 9952 MB (2638 MB Used)
Total amount of Swap : 0 MB (0 MB Used)
System uptime : 1 days, 16 hour 18 min
Load average : 0.96, 0.71, 0.54
OS : Debian GNU/Linux 9
Arch : x86_64 (64 Bit)
Kernel : 4.15.18-21-pve
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I/O speed(1st run) : 997 MB/s
I/O speed(2nd run) : 1.1 GB/s
I/O speed(3rd run) : 1.1 GB/s
Average I/O speed : 1083.3 MB/s
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Node Name IPv4 address Download Speed
CacheFly 205.234.175.175 108MB/s
Linode, Tokyo2, JP 139.162.65.37 12.9MB/s
Linode, Singapore, SG 139.162.23.4 13.1MB/s
Linode, London, UK 176.58.107.39 17.0MB/s
Linode, Frankfurt, DE 139.162.130.8 15.1MB/s
Linode, Fremont, CA 50.116.14.9 106MB/s
Softlayer, Dallas, TX 173.192.68.18 54.9MB/s
Softlayer, Seattle, WA 67.228.112.250 74.6MB/s
Softlayer, Frankfurt, DE 159.122.69.4 3.31MB/s
Softlayer, Singapore, SG 119.81.28.170 11.4MB/s
Softlayer, HongKong, CN 119.81.130.170 13.2MB/s
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With upgrades. Combined two plans and additional RAM. Total $17 per month.
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Looks impressive. What you going to use that beast for?
Seems to be sold out
Offer was too damn good! My VM has been going strong and I’m very impressed so far (it’s not an idler and gets daily use).
He has more gear on the way (according to a recent comment on LET), so there should be more stock in the near future
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Hope so! 
I’m using it for Plex and its entourage of supporting apps. Also migrated my nextCloud KVM there too.
So far it’s perfect, the block storage is 300MB/sec on average and that’s been perfect for my use.
I run Proxmox on my VPS to manage everything, I like to containerize everything - makes my life easier when it comes time to jump ship. Provider hopping is fun, but setting up everything from scratch is not.
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What’s your settings for Plex for shared CPU? Transcoding is a bitch, of course! 
In Proxmox, I have given Plex 2 cores, and it’s throttled to 25% of my overall allowance. Secondly, I have 2 players in the house, both can be set to not transcode.
I also have a script monitoring the overall usage of my VPS and if anything exceeds a threshold I’ve set, things will throttle back. There’s more, but that’s the bulk of it.
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