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Though I should complete the review of the upgrade of VPS 9 Phoenix.  I've decided to stay with the VPS.

When I was working with it today, discovered that CentOS 7.0 is not recommended for protected IPs.  Since my IP was a new IP I thought there could be a possibility for it being in that category, so went for CentOS 6.5 instead.  This time round I had no issues getting into the VPS.  But once again was unable to successfully change the port number.  I then abandoned that effort, and went straight into creating a panel, a database and starting WordPress from the command line.  After being down for more than a month, my Blog is up and running again.  I'm going to wait first to see how it behaves, and will then add the other sites one by one.

I think the most disappointing for me for the upgrade of VPS 9 Phoenix was the change of the IP that Virmach maintains is a Phoenix IP, but it’s actually a German IP that has been networked to behave as a Phoenix IP, result of which is my ISP in South Africa has to do a double take to work with the IP from before. Latency Ping has shot up from 36 previously to a whopping 147. Speed is also significantly less.

This is what the speed looked like from South Africa to Phoenix with the old Phoenix IP:



And this is what the new IP looks like now from South Africa:



But for the rest while uploading plugins and importing the Website apart from slower speed, it was behaving seamlessly.  Guess VPS 9 Phoenix is still a keeper for me.  So far any way.  But for any one with more sophisticated needs this may not be an ideal VPS to have.

The thing you mentioned about how they’re using a german IP in a way that makes it behave as a Phoenix IP is quite interesting. Does that mean VirMach’s servers are actually in Germany? Is VirMach german? Also, does the same apply to my VPS 9 (Seattle)? 

As for the port change, I’ve changed my SSH port from the beginning (after the entire ubuntu situation was settled) with absolutely no issues. I’ve also disabled the root user while I was at it. All went quite smoothly. Could the issue you’re experiencing also be caused by VirMach not doing as good of a job migrating your VPS to KVM as they did with the first two (which mine was one of)?

Also for the network speeds, I also noticed how awfully slow they are. I wonder if there’s any way to rectify this issue and get as close to the gigabit speeds as possible.