By johntuyen
I’m using the trial account at the moment and I’m running some speed tests on a NYC US located droplet. I tried downloading a test file from NYC Speedtest.net using wget and it’s terribly slow, from 8B/s-14KB/s. Doing an apt-get -u upgrade takes like 25 minutes when it should be way faster than that. Is this a speed limitation for trial accounts? Is this a “you pay what you get” type services?
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There are limitations on trials to prevent users who haven’t authorized themselves from abusing the network and virtual servers. <br> <br>It was something that we had to implement in response to a high number of fraudulent signups unfortunately. <br> <br>The trial is really meant to give customers a taste of the control panel and play around with the systems but there are limitations that we have to impose since signup only requires an email.
I have the same problem, although I paid more than a week ago. Anything else I should do ?
If you are having an issue please open a support ticket and we’ll trouble shoot it with you directly. <br>
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