Doing anything like apt-get update seems to be taking an absolute age. I did a wget -O /dev/null - http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test and got 30mb/sec, and average speeds for apt-get downloads seemed about 12mb/sec so the problem isn’t there.
But even things like htop, which is just a slightly more advance “top” show as taking 10% of my CPU allowance. It takes a good 5 seconds to show the “welcome” message, when my previous non-SSD basic VPS was completely instant (for comparison, htop either doesn’t show at all, or takes just 1% CPU on the other VPS).
My details are 512MB Ram 20GB SSD Disk Amsterdam 1 Ubuntu 13.04 x64 Server
In the admin setup log, it says it took 115 seconds to provision; as this is 2x as long as it suggests it should take, I’m wondering if there are some issues with that machine or region?
BTW, I rebooted the machine before I started typing this, after giving it some virtual memory (as required by the Dropbox linux client) same as I have with other VPS, and 5 minutes later I’m still getting “connection refused”. I’d normally expect a reboot to take around 20 seconds on a VPS.
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Correct @jonathan. We recommend opening up a support ticket as it will help up determine the issue better in this case.
Update - thankfully I found the Virtual Console (shame you can’t copy/paste) but basically it seemed to be “stuck” at <br> <br>"Killing all remaining processes … [fail]. <br>“Will now switch to single-user mode. <br>Give root password for maintenance or type Control-D to continue”. <br> <br>Giving root password just brought me back to the root@www prompt. <br> <br>Entering “reboot now” just repeats the “Killing all remaining processes … [fail]” message. <br> <br>Had a google and found this: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2139160 <br> <br>So basically, “reboot now” shouldn’t be used with 13.04. I’ll post another thread to help others! <br> <br>So I’ve got my machine back but it seems now quicker. I fired up a new droplet in NYC and it’s LOADS quick but as I’m in Europe having AMS working at full speed would be preferable.
Second update: Looking at twitter, it seems other are having problems with Amsterdam for at least 5 days now. DO twitter support say to open Amsterdam slowness problem tickets with “urgent” status, so that’s what I’ve just done. Hoping that I can configure my NYC droplet and then move to AMS once fixed…
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