12-22-2019, 05:59 PM
(12-22-2019, 04:27 PM)ikk157 Wrote: 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)?To be honest I don't know how the networking of a foreign IP works. Virmach has IPs in Europe including Germany. I previously had an IP that was from Phoenix and my ISP in South Africa was OK with it with great speed and 36 ping, which wasn't perfect, but I latency felt better than good. When the VPS was upgraded the IP had to be changed for some or other reason - and the IP given looked like a Germany IP. Now when I check my speed, it says IP is in Frankfurt. So I assume the IP is German, and it has to be networked in a way that it works with Phoenix because the VPS location is still given as Phoenix. Maybe another member has more insight into this. But if I am right, then it means it would make it very difficult for an ISP from South Africa to get to Phoenix. Hence the more than tripling of the Ping and speed decreasing to less than a third of what it used to be before.
(12-22-2019, 04:27 PM)ikk157 Wrote: 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)?You're lucky, you got a VPS 9 that was upgraded with no issues. Mine is the very last and it would seem the further down the line they were upgraded, the less time they had to do it with, and probably started to mass produce the upgrades with not the same positive response Seattle and Chicago VPS 9 had.
(12-22-2019, 04:27 PM)ikk157 Wrote: 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.Are you sure it's Virmach though - and not your ISP? Seattle is quite far from your location perhaps?