My pages take minutes to load on my VolumeDrive server. Is this really acceptable? I sent them an email a week ago and I never got a reply. About Tuesday the I/O wait started to go down, towards an acceptable amount.

Now a week later, every time a page is loaded on my VPS, the wait spikes to 99%.
02:40:04 PM       CPU     %user   %system   %iowait     %idle
02:50:04 PM       all      0.42      0.19      4.79     94.60
03:00:06 PM       all      0.57      0.20     33.75     65.48
03:10:03 PM       all      0.19      0.11      8.97     90.73
03:20:20 PM       all      0.36      0.24     34.23     65.18
03:30:27 PM       all      1.78      0.61     85.76     11.84
03:40:24 PM       all      0.51      0.20     87.95     11.34
03:50:09 PM       all      0.77      0.27     72.34     26.61
04:00:27 PM       all      0.60      0.16     52.60    46.65
04:10:19 PM       all      0.74      0.21     72.30    26.75
04:20:33 PM       all      0.47      0.15     70.53    28.84
04:30:17 PM       all      0.65      0.23     63.57     35.55
Average:          all      1.06      0.36     25.39     72.62

If this continues and I don’t get an email back I may consider moving to another provider. I just recently found one on LowEndBox offering a great deal with the same performance as my VolumeDrive server for just about the same cost.

UPDATE 10/22/2012: I actually got an email back from VolumeDrive this morning, it’s a miracle! They said that the node required a reboot. (Sad face, I was trying to see how long my uptime could get…) Hopefully this reboot fixes up the poor performance. I’m a bit skeptical, but we’ll see.