questions

[james98]

Hi!

I have a few questions before i go in to buy one of your plans.


Can you explain the cpu units in your packages ? Lets say in the 128 plan, what does 128 units actually mean ? I get 128 units of cpu time slice in how much time duration ?
Are the VPS SMP enabled ? i.e. is my vps bind only to one cpu or can it use multiple cpu's ?
Once a buy a plan from you, can i load any os in it ? Is there some sort of demo or something which i can see how it will be ?
Can i load multiple os's in my plan and boot up the desired image as and when required ?


Would appreciate the answers.

Thanks.

[james98]

Would anyone care to reply to my questions ?

[americantechie]

Just dish out the $7.99 for the 32 plan and give it a shot. That will answer more questions than the forum can. If you are rich you could dish out $11.50 for the 96 plan!

You get a pretty good list of OS's, but you can't load just anything out there. You can't run two OS's that I know of... but you could just get two two cheap accounts.

Not sure how to answer your first two questions, but that stuff is not something I worry about. If my pages load fast = happy, if they don't = upgrade.

[james98]

Thanks for the reply. I am glad atleast someone replied.

[QUOTE=americantechie]Just dish out the $7.99 for the 32 plan and give it a shot. That will answer more questions than the forum can. If you are rich you could dish out $11.50 for the 96 plan! [/QUOTE]
Its not about being rich or not being able to afford it. I just want to know what unixshell actually provides before going in for the plan itself.

You get a pretty good list of OS's, but you can't load just anything out there. You can't run two OS's that I know of... but you could just get two two cheap accounts.

Yes i read about the list of their os already.

Not sure how to answer your first two questions, but that stuff is not something I worry about. If my pages load fast = happy, if they don't = upgrade.

Since my first two questions are the most important ones, so i guess i will wait and see if unixshell cares to reply to them, otherwise look somewhere else.

[richyc]

CPU Units http://www.unixshell.com/forum/showthread.php?t=412&highlight=cpu+units :
There are a total of 4096 units on each host (in theory). In reality about 256MB of RAM is used for Xen/dom0 overhead and if a host starts to experience performance problems we will not fill it all the way. With the Xen overhead total units that can be sold is 3840.

As far as the 512 plan, let's assume 4096 units per host. 4096 / 512 = 8. In this scenario you would be guaranteed at like 12.5% of the total system CPU power. Really though I like to keep our focus on high performance VM's and if a server is getting killed I will move accounts (as shown on previous threads here).

At the moment, most servers are still running Xen 2 which does not support SMP (therefore uses at most, one processor per VPS account) but Xen 3 is being rolled out which does support SMP.

[james98]

[QUOTE=richyc]CPU Units http://www.unixshell.com/forum/showthread.php?t=412&highlight=cpu+units
At the moment, most servers are still running Xen 2 which does not support SMP (therefore uses at most, one processor per VPS account) but Xen 3 is being rolled out which does support SMP.[/QUOTE]

Thanks for the reply. Any ideas when i can get an account on xen 3 based server ? I read somewhere in the forums that beta testing was over...

Unixshell : Is the beta testing over or still going on ? Do you still have a slot on it ? I would like to opt for that.