It's my first VPS, 512M OpenVZ at BuyVM.net. Yes the pricing is awesome for $5.95/month I got 512M, 50G, 2TB! LED's script also worked great to set up the box with Nginx, PHP-CGI, MySQl. However the performance is really not good. :-( I keep on seeing the slowness of my Wordpress website, which worked great on the shared hosting.

Furthermore, I see many "upstream timed out (110: Connection timed out) while reading response header from upstream" errors in the log. Finally, I figured out that the IO is slow most of time in that node.

See the following, you must be WOWed!

BuyVM node07:

512+0 records in
512+0 records out
33554432 bytes (34 MB) copied, 16.6113 seconds, 2.0 MB/s

Hawkhost, a shared hosting (my previous hosting)

512+0 records in
512+0 records out
33554432 bytes (34 MB) copied, 0.335879 seconds, 99.9 MB/s

What do you think guys? When LEA provides some many cheap VPS hostings here, do we need to think about performance of the box before we buying it? (I had been worried about the performance already, that's why I pick the one which is listed in top3 by LEB) Or maybe I just be an unlucky man?

BTW, You may want to know why I switched to VPS. The reason was that the shared hosting only provides 6G space and 60G/month data transfer and contract was going to end.

A fews week ago I decided to give SpaceRich a shot. I went for one of their 10Mbps unmetered VPS in Munich, DE – Hetzner. The plan comes with 256MB RAM (Burst 384MB) and 25GB disk space for $3.99 monthly.

So far so good. I have been using the little box for mirroring websites and as a seed box. So far so good. Admittedly there it a little poor disk I/O on the node but then again it’s a $4 low end box!

It’s been proving good for my website mirror – As the tool I use for it can be rather resource intensive on larger websites. I’ve been able to burst to my full 384MB of RAM. The 10Mbps is proving handy – I’ve been able to burst it 100% at all times I’ve needed too – Whilst it’s not the fastest ports (and I’m getting what I pay for) it’s proves handy for downloading big files – As speed isn’t important to me whilst overall bandwidth allowance is < The 10Mbps port gives me just this.

CPU power has been good – Running my application has taken the box into load averages of 2.00 and I haven’t been kicked off yet. Uptime is also a plus – No outages so far!

Some images of my usage over the past week.

Original Post: http://www.wired9.com/2011/07/spacerich-review/

Due to awesome reviews about Tim's Hostigation I decided to take a 128 MB KVM VPS from them almost 2 months ago. After payment, VPS was brought online in 5 minutes. Installation was easy, after a long ticket regarding I/O speeds, Tim enabled Virtio for me. Today I have 3 KVM VPSs and I'm a happy customer.

12:46:15 up 2 days, 12:53,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

Uptime isn't best at Rock Hill due to constant reboots caused by broken UPS.

00:58:29 up 40 days, 18:51,  2 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

There was only one reboot so far at Los Angeles.

             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        124884      54816      70068          0      23472      12936
-/+ buffers/cache:      18408     106476
Swap:       242680          0     242680

With Debian 6 + Nginx + MySQL + PHP installed VPS uses about 18 MB of memory.

processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 13
model name      : QEMU Virtual CPU version (cpu64-rhel6)
stepping        : 3
cpu MHz         : 3392.714
cache size      : 4096 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 4
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx lm up pni cx16 hypervisor lahf_lm
bogomips        : 6785.42
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

VPS comes with 1 core of E3-1270, which outperforms dual E5620.

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/vda1             9.7G  771M  8.4G   9% /
tmpfs                  61M     0   61M   0% /lib/init/rw
udev                   57M  112K   57M   1% /dev
tmpfs                  61M     0   61M   0% /dev/shm

All disk space is here.

# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync && rm -rf test
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 8.01671 s, 134 MB/s

I/O speed is great as always.

# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync && rm -rf test
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 6.03462 s, 178 MB/s

It's obvious that VPS node has hardware RAiD controller with cache.

# wget -O /dev/null http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test && rm -rf 100mb.test
--2011-09-05 13:20:32--  http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net... 205.234.175.175
Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net|205.234.175.175|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `/dev/null'

100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 6.72M/s   in 16s

2011-09-05 13:20:48 (6.31 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]

Network speed is good too. It takes only 135 ms to reach it from Central Europe.

Integer Score:                2800 |||||||||||
Floating Point Score:         5667 ||||||||||||||||||||||
Memory Score:                 7961 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stream Score:                 5684 ||||||||||||||||||||||

Overall Geekbench Score:      5124 ||||||||||||||||||||

Geekbench is impressive as this is a single core system.

Despite Tim is ridding solo, support ticket are being handled fast and promptly. What counts is that he goes beyond what everybody else do to keep customers happy. These 128 MB boxes are currently out of stock, but definitely a must have.

I would not call this a review but more a short experience report because I had this VPS only for a few days.

UptimeVPS had some problems in the start (http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/uptimevps-e1-50-128mb-xen-vps-in-france) and I was not very sure about getting a vps from them but I wanted a french vps and they were cheap enough to risk. and after a few days I can only say that I am absolutely satisfied.

I got a package with 384MB/768MB, 30GB storage and 300GB transfer for $12,7 ( EUR 9) from the link above which is the best value for the money I saw in the last few months, specially for france.

payment was done with credit card over paypal which is only payment method. VPS (Debian 6) was setup almost before the welcome emails arrived.

dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 12.085 s, 88.8 MB/s

not as fast as BuyVM but fast enough for me.

# wget http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
--2011-09-06 07:01:01--  http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net... 205.234.175.175
Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net|205.234.175.175|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `100mb.test'

100%[======================================================================================================================================================>] 104,857,600 34.3M/s   in 2.9s    

2011-09-06 07:01:04 (34.3 MB/s) - `100mb.test' saved [104857600/104857600]

similar here. not as fast as BuyVM (BuyVM 128MB package is the fastest VPS I have) but more than enough for my needs.

I submitted a ticket asking for tun device and I got it a ten minutes later. openvpn is up and running.

There was no down time in these few days.

Hey everyone, I'm going to try a new kind of review format out :) Basically, I'll have a VPS and will do basic benchmarks and you guys can ask me to test certain things or ask me for views and opinions on the service! Please note this is my first review of a VPS, I looked at 96mb.com for inspiration (thanks for the blog, it's awesome!) and if anyone has suggestions please note them below :)

Anyway, for this review I have a 256 MB Xen PV GoWEB review server based in Germany. The base plan is 3.50 euros a month and comes with 256 MB RAM, 1 CPU Core, 5 GB HD and 100 GB bandwidth. Standard disclaimers apply: I am not affiliated with GoWEB in any way and this server was given to me for review purposes, it could have been rigged to perform faster then the usual plans.

Basics:
IRC is disallowed in the TOS (which can be found here: https://www.goweb.de/tos.php) which may discourage some people. Fortunately there doesn't appear to be anything about torrenting so as far as I know it's allowed (legal files only of course!) :)

Support:
Support was fast with my review VPS request being answered within half an hour (I sent the request via email and it was added to the WHMC ticket system automatically). In the first email support gave me the wrong IP (it was manually provisioned with me not having a Solus account) but after sending an email support sent me the correct details and reinstalled the server to Debian 6 as I requested (Unfortunately they only offer 32 bit Debian 6 so I had to request Debian 5 to do the tests). The setup email contained the password in plain text and requests to remove the network cap and add more inodes were met with a swift response (about 20 minutes) and the actions were carried out quickly.

Defaults:
Default RAM usage was fairly low with the install using maybe 30 MB of RAM after boot up (it seems to be a stock Debian install).

max:~# free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:           270         48        221          0          2         14
-/+ buffers/cache:         31        238
Swap:         1023          0       1023

Default disk usage was quite fairly low, I suspect that the Debian 6 install is simply a stock install.

max:~# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/xvda1            5.0G  634M  4.1G  14% /
tmpfs                 127M     0  127M   0% /lib/init/rw
udev                  110M   80K  110M   1% /dev
tmpfs                 127M     0  127M   0% /dev/shm

Basic Information:
/proc/cpuinfo showed one usable core which matched the plan description well:

max:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo 
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 44
model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           E5620  @ 2.40GHz
stepping        : 2
cpu MHz         : 2400.084
cache size      : 12288 KB
physical id     : 1
siblings        : 1
core id         : 9
cpu cores       : 1
apicid          : 51
initial apicid  : 51
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 11
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu de tsc msr pae cx8 sep cmov pat clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht nx constant_tsc up pni ssse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt
bogomips        : 4806.42
clflush size    : 64
power management:

/proc/meminfo showed typical results as well:

max:~# cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:       276980 kB
MemFree:        227112 kB
Buffers:          2736 kB
Cached:          14628 kB
SwapCached:          0 kB
Active:          12524 kB
Inactive:         7928 kB
HighTotal:           0 kB
HighFree:            0 kB
LowTotal:       276980 kB
LowFree:        227112 kB
SwapTotal:     1048568 kB
SwapFree:      1048568 kB
Dirty:              28 kB
Writeback:           0 kB
AnonPages:        3116 kB
Mapped:           3728 kB
Slab:             3156 kB
SReclaimable:     1200 kB
SUnreclaim:       1956 kB
PageTables:        404 kB
NFS_Unstable:        0 kB
Bounce:              0 kB
WritebackTmp:        0 kB
CommitLimit:   1187056 kB
Committed_AS:    35220 kB
VmallocTotal:   600056 kB
VmallocUsed:      3224 kB
VmallocChunk:   596368 kB
HugePages_Total:     0
HugePages_Free:      0
HugePages_Rsvd:      0
HugePages_Surp:      0
Hugepagesize:     2048 kB

Inode allocation was fairly good for a budget VPS (as far as I know, I don't have a great deal of experience with inode counts):

max:~# df -i
Filesystem            Inodes   IUsed   IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/xvda1            327680   18385  309295    6% /
tmpfs                  32363       4   32359    1% /lib/init/rw
udev                   27976     447   27529    2% /dev
tmpfs                  32363       1   32362    1% /dev/shm

After sending a message the count was increased:

max:~# df -i
Filesystem            Inodes   IUsed   IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/xvda1            983040   21069  961971    3% /
tmpfs                  34622       4   34618    1% /lib/init/rw
udev                   34622    1022   33600    3% /dev
tmpfs                  34622       1   34621    1% /dev/shm

VMStat showed good values:

max:~# vmstat
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ----cpu----
 r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in   cs us sy id wa
 0  0      0 227112   2708  14640    0    0    38     7   36   35  1  0 99  0

Tests:
Each test was run three times and the middle ranked test was picked.
Cachefly Speedtest (the network on the test VPS seems to have been limited, take this with a grain of salt):

max:~#  wget -O /dev/null http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
--2011-08-26 13:15:26--  http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net... 205.234.175.175
Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net|205.234.175.175|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: “/dev/null”

100%[====>] 104,857,600  138K/s   in 12m 16s

2011-08-26 13:27:42 (139 KB/s) - “/dev/null” saved [104857600/104857600]

Ping Tests (IPv6 didn't appear to work out of the box):

max:~# ping -c 3 google.com
PING google.com (74.125.230.83) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 74.125.230.83: icmp_seq=1 ttl=57 time=11.1 ms
64 bytes from 74.125.230.83: icmp_seq=2 ttl=57 time=11.5 ms
64 bytes from 74.125.230.83: icmp_seq=3 ttl=57 time=10.5 ms

--- google.com ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2009ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 10.561/11.106/11.560/0.412 ms
max:~# ping6 -c 3 ipv6.google.com
connect: Network is unreachable

Disk IO Test (tests ranged from 130 MB/s to 230 MB/s):

max:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync; rm test
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 5.41937 s, 198 MB/s

Hey everyone, here's another review of a low end plan (to see my first review click here: http://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/145/community-review-goweb-256-mb-xen-pv/)! For this review I will be reviewing the a DMB Hosting VPS offer, specifically the 512 MB OpenVZ plan they offer.
The server is based in Scranton and comes with 512 MB of RAM (burstable to 1 GB), 20 GB disk space and 200 GB of bandwidth. Standard disclaimers apply, I am not affiliated with DMB Hosting and I used the one week free trial to test this VPS, performance could be enhanced due to it being a nearly free ($1) trial. Basics:
DMB offer a range of templates including Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu and CentOS, all of which are available in both 32 bit and 64 bit). DMB uses a themed version of WHMCS for billing and a standard install of SolusVM to allow clients to manage their servers. Their TOS does not allow using IRC, torrent clients or hosting proxy sites which could be a problem for some users.
Support:
Initial setup was fast but unfortunately the welcome email did not include a SolusVM login address so I put a ticket in asking for the URL. The ticket was replied to within 2 hours (pretty decent) and I logged into SolusVM with no issues. To begin the benchmarking process I installed the Debian 5 32 bit template (they didn't seem to offer Debian 6 which was a let down) and left everything as it came.
Defaults:
Default RAM usage was very low with the server using about 15 MB with a stock Debian 5 install:

dmb:~# free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          1024         15       1008          0          0          0
-/+ buffers/cache:         15       1008
Swap:            0          0          0

Default disk usage was also very low:

dmb:~# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/simfs             20G  373M   20G   2% /
tmpfs                 512M     0  512M   0% /lib/init/rw
tmpfs                 512M     0  512M   0% /dev/shm

Basic Information:
/proc/cpuinfo showed four usable cores (I'm guessing you are not supposed to use it, there are probably limits).

dmb:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 30
model name      : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU         870  @ 2.93GHz
stepping        : 5
cpu MHz         : 2926.180
cache size      : 8192 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 8
core id         : 0
cpu cores       : 4
apicid          : 0
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 11
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc ida nonstop_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt lahf_lm [8]
bogomips        : 5852.36

processor       : 1
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 30
model name      : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU         870  @ 2.93GHz
stepping        : 5
cpu MHz         : 2926.180
cache size      : 8192 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 8
core id         : 0
cpu cores       : 4
apicid          : 1
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 11
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc ida nonstop_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt lahf_lm [8]
bogomips        : 5851.94

processor       : 2
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 30
model name      : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU         870  @ 2.93GHz
stepping        : 5
cpu MHz         : 2926.180
cache size      : 8192 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 8
core id         : 1
cpu cores       : 4
apicid          : 2
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 11
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc ida nonstop_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt lahf_lm [8]
bogomips        : 5851.96

processor       : 3
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 30
model name      : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU         870  @ 2.93GHz
stepping        : 5
cpu MHz         : 2926.180
cache size      : 8192 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 8
core id         : 1
cpu cores       : 4
apicid          : 3
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 11
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc ida nonstop_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt lahf_lm [8]
bogomips        : 5851.96

/proc/meminfo showed some standard results:

dmb:~# cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:      1048576 kB
MemFree:       1033104 kB
Buffers:             0 kB
Cached:              0 kB
SwapCached:          0 kB
Active:              0 kB
Inactive:            0 kB
HighTotal:           0 kB
HighFree:            0 kB
LowTotal:      1048576 kB
LowFree:       1033104 kB
SwapTotal:           0 kB
SwapFree:            0 kB
Dirty:             260 kB
Writeback:           0 kB
AnonPages:           0 kB
Mapped:              0 kB
Slab:                0 kB
PageTables:          0 kB
NFS_Unstable:        0 kB
Bounce:              0 kB
CommitLimit:         0 kB
Committed_AS:        0 kB
VmallocTotal:        0 kB
VmallocUsed:         0 kB
VmallocChunk:        0 kB
HugePages_Total:     0
HugePages_Free:      0
HugePages_Rsvd:      0
Hugepagesize:     2048 kB

Inode allocation was fairly high:

dmb:~# df -i
Filesystem            Inodes   IUsed   IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/simfs           10485760   26148 10459612    1% /
tmpfs                 131072       4  131068    1% /lib/init/rw
tmpfs                 131072       1  131071    1% /dev/shm

vmstat showed values that seemed to indicate the node was under little to no load:

dmb:~# vmstat
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ----cpu----
 r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in   cs us sy id wa
 0  0      0 1033044      0      0    0    0     0    18    0    0  0  0 100  0

Tests:
Each test was run three times and the middle ranked test was picked. The Cachefly speedtest showed very consistent results:

dmb:~# wget -O /dev/null http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
--2011-09-22 13:46:08--  http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net... 205.234.175.175
Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net|205.234.175.175|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `/dev/null'

100%[====>] 104,857,600 11.2M/s   in 9.0s    

2011-09-22 13:46:17 (11.1 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]

Hello all, I want to share my personal review of my brand new ramhost.us KVM VPS. :)

This VPS is their LA Standard plan:

CPU:

Xeon E3 is running blazing fast!

root@tp:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor   : 0
vendor_id   : GenuineIntel
cpu family  : 6
model       : 2
model name  : QEMU Virtual CPU version 0.15.0
stepping    : 3
cpu MHz     : 3093.174
cache size  : 4096 KB
fdiv_bug    : no
hlt_bug     : no
f00f_bug    : no
coma_bug    : no
fpu     : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level : 4
wp      : yes
flags       : fpu de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx lm up pni cx16 popcnt hypervisor lahf_lm
bogomips    : 6186.34
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

Network:

Their network in LA's latency is 170ms to 180ms to central China, excellent!

root@tp:~# wget http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test -O /dev/null
--2011-09-21 19:35:07--  http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net... 205.234.175.175
Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net|205.234.175.175|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ?.dev/null?

100%    [===========================================================================    =======================================>] 104,857,600 16.3M/s   in 4.6s    

2011-09-21 19:35:12 (21.5 MB/s) - ?.dev/null?.saved [104857600/104857600]

I/O speed with ext4:

root@tp:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync && rm test
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 8.78568 s, 122 MB/s

Control Panel:

Clean, useful and easy to use, seems to have an automatic unmounting of CDrom function, although a little out of fashion.

Overall performance:

I didn't feel any lag when setting up the LEMP stack, the node should be running smoothly without being overcrowded. The performance is good, considering the CPU, network and disk I/O peformance, I think their first try of KVM is quite successful. Hope to see more KVM providers to join this battle field. :)

One news I heard in the IRC channel is their LA will be out of stock for a while, but their KVM plans in Kansas city is coming this Saturday!

I needed an european VPS for one of my projects. So I came across InceptionHosting's offer on LEB and decided to give them a try. VPS setup was instant, however there were some issues with broken Debian template, but Anthony fixed them fast and he even credited my account. Almost 1 month passed, so here is my review:

13:15:53 up 19 days, 16:49,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

There wasn't any single downtime or server reboot yet.

             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:           320        315          4          0         24        239
-/+ buffers/cache:         50        269
Swap:          511          0        511

With Debian 5 + Nginx + MySQL + PHP installed and hosting few websites current memory consumption is around 52 MB.

processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 26
model name      : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU         950  @ 3.07GHz
stepping        : 5
cpu MHz         : 3066.768
cache size      : 8192 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 11
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu de tsc msr pae cx8 apic sep cmov pat clflush acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht nx constant_tsc pni ssse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt ida
bogomips        : 6141.71
clflush size    : 64
power management:

VPS comes with 8 cores of i7-950 running at 3.07 GHz. A paradise for abusers, however so far node is being managed promptly.

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1              15G  800M   14G   6% /
tmpfs                 161M     0  161M   0% /lib/init/rw
udev                   10M  488K  9.6M   5% /dev
tmpfs                 161M  4.0K  161M   1% /dev/shm

All disk space is here.

# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync && rm -rf test
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 6.11895 s, 175 MB/s

I/O speed is outstanding compared to other european providers using OVH's and Hetzner's servers.

# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync && rm -rf test
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 6.21125 s, 173 MB/s

I don't think node has hardware RAiD controller or it maybe it has tiny cache.

# wget -O /dev/null http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test && rm -rf 100mb.test
--2011-09-24 13:39:56--  http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net... 205.234.175.175
Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net|205.234.175.175|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `/dev/null'

100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 81.6M/s   in 1.2s

2011-09-24 13:39:57 (81.6 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]

I've never seen better network speeds on a budget VPS.

Integer Score:                5273 |||||||||||||||||||||
Floating Point Score:        11080 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Memory Score:                 5932 |||||||||||||||||||||||
Stream Score:                 4937 |||||||||||||||||||

Overall Geekbench Score:      7403 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||

Geekbench score is high too.

Not to forget, every customer gets 5 GB backup space as at BuyVM. Support tickets are usually responded within few minutes. InceptionHosting is definitely one of the best and most reliable VPS providers in Europe.

Post your LEB download speeds!!

wget http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test -O - > /dev/null

Get posting!

Hi guys, my first VPS review on this forum and first time OpenVZ VPS user as well.

About 12 days ago I nabbed 2x BuyVM OpenVZ VPS solely for live testing of my modified Centmin install script which is currently undergoing beta testing and revamp to support Menu mode installation http://vbtechsupport.com/920/. Both BuyVM OpenVZ are 512MB/1GB Burstable/50GB based VPS running CentOS 6.0 32bit.

VPS are on Intel Xeon E5520 Nehalem based processors with 2 cpu cores.

processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 26
model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           L5520  @ 2.27GHz
stepping        : 5
cpu MHz         : 2266.978
cache size      : 4096 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 6
core id         : 0
cpu cores       : 6
apicid          : 0
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 11
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht syscall nx lm constant_tsc pni ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt lahf_lm
bogomips        : 4533.95
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

processor       : 1
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 26
model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           L5520  @ 2.27GHz
stepping        : 5
cpu MHz         : 2266.978
cache size      : 4096 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 6
core id         : 1
cpu cores       : 6
apicid          : 1
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 11
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht syscall nx lm constant_tsc pni ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt lahf_lm
bogomips        : 4532.15
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

Out of the box virgin memory/disk usage and top stats:

             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          1024         51        972          0          0          0
-/+ buffers/cache:         51        972
Swap:            0          0          0

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/simfs             50G  566M   50G   2% /
none                  512M  4.0K  512M   1% /dev

top - 14:22:11 up  1:05,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Tasks:  16 total,   1 running,  15 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  0.1%us,  0.2%sy,  0.0%ni, 99.7%id,  0.1%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   1048576k total,    53324k used,   995252k free,        0k buffers
Swap:        0k total,        0k used,        0k free,        0k cached

Disk tests

dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync && rm -rf test
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 22.4788 s, 47.8 MB/s

dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync && rm -rf test
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 7.07835 s, 152 MB/s

My ioping.sh Disk Latency test which tests random disk speed rather than sequential disk speed http://vbtechsupport.com/1239/

-----------------------------------------
ioping.sh 0.9.8 - http://vbtechsupport.com
by George Liu (eva2000)
-----------------------------------------
          ioping.sh 0.9.8 MENU
-----------------------------------------
1. Install ioping
2. Re-install ioping
3. Run ioping default tests
4. Run ioping custom tests
5. Exit
-----------------------------------------
Enter option [ 1 - 5 ] 3
-----------------------------------------
Virtuzzo OR OpenVZ Virtualisation detected

***************************************************
ioping code.google.com/p/ioping/
ioping.sh 0.9.8
shell wrapper script by George Liu (eva2000)
http://vbtechsupport.com
***************************************************

Virtuzzo or OpenVZ Virtualisation detected
**********************************
dd (sequential disk speed test)...
**********************************
dd if=/dev/zero of=testfilex bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 8.87793 s, 121 MB/s

************************
starting ioping tests...
***************************************************
ioping disk I/O test (default 1MB working set)
***************************************************
disk I/O: /
--- / (simfs /dev/simfs) ioping statistics ---
5 requests completed in 4032.8 ms, 2648 iops, 10.3 mb/s
min/avg/max/mdev = 0.3/0.4/0.4/0.0 ms

**********************************************
seek rate test (default 1MB working set)
**********************************************
seek rate: /
--- / (simfs /dev/simfs) ioping statistics ---
370 requests completed in 3004.5 ms, 1475 iops, 5.8 mb/s
min/avg/max/mdev = 0.3/0.7/16.4/1.2 ms

**********************************************
sequential test (default 1MB working set)
**********************************************
-----------------------
sequential: /
--- / (simfs /dev/simfs) ioping statistics ---
104 requests completed in 3018.0 ms, 45 iops, 11.2 mb/s
min/avg/max/mdev = 15.3/22.2/183.5/17.3 ms
-----------------------
sequential cached I/O: /
--- / (simfs /dev/simfs) ioping statistics ---
376 requests completed in 3005.6 ms, 4557 iops, 1139.3 mb/s
min/avg/max/mdev = 0.1/0.2/13.4/0.8 ms

Network speed

wget -O /dev/null http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test && rm -rf 100mb.test
--2011-09-13 22:33:41--  http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net... 205.234.175.175
Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net|205.234.175.175|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: “/dev/null”

100%[=============================================================================>] 104,857,600 25.0M/s   in 4.2s    

2011-09-13 22:33:46 (24.0 MB/s) - “/dev/null” saved [104857600/104857600]

2nd run

wget -O /dev/null http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
--2011-09-14 02:21:31--  http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net... 205.234.175.175
Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net|205.234.175.175|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: “/dev/null”

100%[=============================================================================>] 104,857,600 31.5M/s   in 3.6s    

2011-09-14 02:21:35 (28.1 MB/s) - “/dev/null” saved [104857600/104857600]

Apache v2.2.15 is running by default without any MySQL server installed:

 httpd -V
Server version: Apache/2.2.15 (Unix)
Server built:   Jul  7 2011 11:27:40
Server's Module Magic Number: 20051115:24
Server loaded:  APR 1.3.9, APR-Util 1.3.9
Compiled using: APR 1.3.9, APR-Util 1.3.9
Architecture:   32-bit
Server MPM:     Prefork
  threaded:     no
    forked:     yes (variable process count)
Server compiled with....
 -D APACHE_MPM_DIR="server/mpm/prefork"
 -D APR_HAS_SENDFILE
 -D APR_HAS_MMAP
 -D APR_HAVE_IPV6 (IPv4-mapped addresses enabled)
 -D APR_USE_SYSVSEM_SERIALIZE
 -D APR_USE_PTHREAD_SERIALIZE
 -D SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT
 -D APR_HAS_OTHER_CHILD
 -D AP_HAVE_RELIABLE_PIPED_LOGS
 -D DYNAMIC_MODULE_LIMIT=128
 -D HTTPD_ROOT="/etc/httpd"
 -D SUEXEC_BIN="/usr/sbin/suexec"
 -D DEFAULT_PIDLOG="run/httpd.pid"
 -D DEFAULT_SCOREBOARD="logs/apache_runtime_status"
 -D DEFAULT_LOCKFILE="logs/accept.lock"
 -D DEFAULT_ERRORLOG="logs/error_log"
 -D AP_TYPES_CONFIG_FILE="conf/mime.types"
 -D SERVER_CONFIG_FILE="conf/httpd.conf"

Hello,

After the latest version of ServPHP, with the icons and re-arrangement of status output, We have started work on a beta version which has :

1. Ajax Refresh - Now no more full page refresh's, stats update automatically every 10 seconds.
2. Ping to server ! - Useful for Game Servers, Users can directly check their ping to the server where ServPHP is installed, without using CMD or CLI.
3. Ping to other server ! - Now you can keep a constant watch on your other servers by viewing their ping BETA
4. Directly view graph details - Earlier you had to wait for many seconds before the graph got you some information, now the CPU graph has information already loaded for about ~10 seconds as soon as it loads !

Can you guys checkout the new version ? http://93.104.215.18/servphp/beta/

Please leave some feedback/review/suggestions :)

If you want a copy to try on your server I'll surely provide you with one, I'll also be releasing it on Google Code sometime this week after I get some feedback :)

Thrust::VPS

After about 2 months with Thrust::VPS i can say it's possibly one of the worst experiences i have personally encountered.

To start with, everything seemed fine for about a week. But then this :

root@server1:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 20.6651 s, 22.0 MB/s

After these problems, i started experiencing upload speeds of under 100kb/s. Which i think you will all agree, isn't acceptable. My home connection can upload faster than that.

Not only that but the connection on the server dropped at least 3 times an hour, interrupting crucial MYSQL connections for over 50 users every time. So i thought it was time to send a ticket in...

Well, more than one. And none of them resolved any issues except the upload speeds. I was told in one ticket, the node randomly turned itself off. Which it did again last night i assume as the VPS powered down, not just had an interrupted network connection.

So over the course of a month this happened more than 50 times, reboots and network problems. So i eventually decided to move, but i thought maybe moving to their UK node would be an improvement.

To put it simply : Nope. Rebooted after a day.

Overall though their support response times were quick, but not very helpful to say the least. They only concentrated on fixing the current problem, not preventing it in the future or investigating in to why it happened.

BHOST

This isn't much of a review because quite simply... I have nothing to review.

root@1237-1036-3567:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 15.3869 s, 69.8 MB/s

The VPS seems quite fast but i put in a support ticket 2-3 DAYS ago for them to restore a backup for me of my old image from Thrust::VPS but no response...

Conclusions

Avoid both at all costs. Both promise good things, but deliver nothing only trouble. If anybody can offer me a decent deal with none of the above problems for around the same prices, or has any suggestions please tell me because it's hurting trying to find somewhere.

Hey Guys, I had coded this a while back and wanted to show it you all !

It's a simple script which displays the server's : - Server Uptime, Users & Load Average

• Server CPU Info

• Server Disk Usage

• Machine type

• Host name

• A Graph which shows the load of the server.

This is our Google Code Page, where you can download & report bugs ! http://code.google.com/p/servphp/

Demo !!

http://93.104.215.18/servphp/

Thanks !

Please share some feedback :D

Hi everyone,

I have been a long-time reader, both of LEB and LET. And as you will see there after, I took several offers. For my own use, I developped a tool to evaluate my servers, including monitoring and measuring many technical and financial values. I thought I would share some of the values that have a meaning outside of my own use. I have also exclude support quality, downtime and anything that can not be measured objectively. You can find the sheet at http://www.hostingwizard.net/ but here is a summary:

best ram: chicagovps (157.54MB/$)
best disk space: buyvm (6.65GB/$)
best cpu: rockmyweb
best disk speed: hostigation (22.06MB/s$)
best network speed: securedragon (3.77MB/s$)

Finally, I should mention hudsonvalleyhost, as my vps there has the best ROI. I hope this chart may help and I welcome your feedback.

Yep, following the crowd with the VPS reviews. I'm copying the format of @maxexcloo, hope you don't mind. ;)

So first of all if you haven't got it yet, never mind the name, it's the KVM 640MB RAM package from the company Go-VPS-Go. Put it this way I haven't seen many reviews of Go-VPS-Go and it's only fair that I do one if I have a VPS from 'em. I've been with them for around 3 months, so far so good apart from a few tiny bits which I will mention later. As far as I can see this is the first proper public review, it seems that they aren't too old or too new either, started February if I remember correctly.*

http://govpsgo.com/

Overview: My particular package is a KVM package as you already know with 640MB RAM, 25GB disk space, 640GB 100Mbps uplink bandwidth, only one core and 1 IPv4 address located in Kansas City. VPS management is done via SolusVM with SSL, although it is a self signed cerificate, thier WHMCS has a verified SSL license though. They have all the normal OS's including FreeBSD however they are all netinstall except FreeBSD and Arch Linux. One thing I did notice about the VNC console is that it was a little more laggy that other providers, or maybe I'm spoilt. IRC is prohibited.

Support: Go-VPS-Go apparently has Chinese support staff members which is a first, although I'm not Chinese. However thier English support is pretty fast and to the point, they mounted custom ISO's within the hour etc. On that note, they provided an FTP account to do so. The welcome email was pretty good, no passwords shown, control panel URL shown and all.

Setup: Basically like any other KVM VPS, nothing really much worth noting other than the VNC connnection via Solus was pretty laggy. SolusVM itself was pretty responsive. As far as I remember there is no automated rDNS control via SolusVM.

The interesting bit: To be honest I'm not a Debian fan so I didn't have it installed, I will install it soon and compare etc. but you'll have to bear with me while I use CentOS :) Yeah, Debian is much lighter than CentOS.

I guess that could be tweaked, this is a straight out of the box installation. 99MB isn't the best but isn't too bad:

[root@dubnium ~]# free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:           615        272        343          0         69        103
-/+ buffers/cache:         99        516
Swap:         1247          0       1247

Typical size in my opinion:

[root@dubnium ~]# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/vg_dubnium-lv_root
                       23G  713M   22G   4% /
tmpfs                 308M     0  308M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1             485M   29M  431M   7% /boot

Only one core. Yup;

[root@dubnium ~]# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 6
model name      : QEMU Virtual CPU version 0.9.1
stepping        : 3
cpu MHz         : 3192.894
cache size      : 32 KB
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 4
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx lm up rep_good unfair_spinlock pni hypervisor
bogomips        : 6385.78
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

Pretty decent allocation but yeah, it can be changed:

[root@dubnium ~]# df -i
Filesystem            Inodes   IUsed   IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/vg_dubnium-lv_root
                     1528912   17717 1511195    2% /
tmpfs                  78806       1   78805    1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1             128016      38  127978    1% /boot

Idle vmstat results:

[root@dubnium ~]# vmstat
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- -----cpu-----
 r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in   cs us sy id wa st
 0  0      0 340540  80908 106704    0    0     0     1   11    4  0  0 100  0  0

Buyvm is hot, check this page, http://www.doesbuyvmhavestock.com/, their stock gone quickly. I think this's because BuyVM is the cheapest one in the top 3 here (I mean LowEndBox). Everyone here are looking for a cheap and good VPS, and so many VPSs are posted every day, and we don't which ones are good and what ones are not, so the ranking by LEB became a standard for a newbe like me to pick one.

Have being with BuyVm about two months, 512M OpenVZ on Node07, but the performance was very bad, so I posted "my review" at here, http://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/111/no-sure-why-buyvm.net-ranks-high, Francisco is a nice guy, not sure if he did something, the node seemed to be better. But I am still experiencing slowness. First of all the ssh is slow, they said this is router issue and they could not control, that's ok. But I would say about half of time, php execution is slow, database connection is slow, so the website is slow even a static page. Could not image if I did not turn on the cache.

I was about to jump out. Last Thursday, the node was down, finally they told me,

Due to multiple complaints on your node we were forced to move everyone off the node in preparation of bringing it down to upgrade, the control panel has been updated with your new node location."

I was so glad to hear that and I found I was moved to node31 from node7. I thought everything would be changed. Unfortunately, I was wrong. The performance is still unstable, sometime is ok and sometime is terrible.

Another thing I would like to mention is Memory. I never see my memory usage is over 300M. Most of time it's around 200M.

[root@www:~]# free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          1024        145        878          0          0          0
-/+ buffers/cache:        145        878
Swap:            0          0          0

So, I decided to move my sites out of BuyVM this weekend. Note that this is just my experience.

Good luck!

Hi,

Just began @ uptimevps. Hopefully, they'll keep the .co.. ;)

Decided to take the http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1094755&highlight=uptimevps offer. Hopefully will not regret too much..

Am thinking to use this post as a beginning of an ongoing review.

1st impressions:

• Signup very quick. They say that it might take sometime as they check people for fraud. Took a few mins, if any and I got the welcome email.
• The Welcome email is Spartan at best, and uptimevps knowledgebase is rather empty... Might be due to uptimevps being a new company? Hummm.. I bet there are many common questions by people new to vps. Is there a common info pool? Will have to wait for tonight before more time will be available to spend learning my way on the vps.

Cheers!

Hello, Well, Me and another member of LET, netomx have started working on ServPHP together, a Open Source PHP script which displays server stats such as : * RAM Usage * HDD Usage * Ping to the server, etc

After many releases in the past, we have now moved over to GIT, through which you can easily upgrade to the latest version of ServPHP without any trouble :D

Looks cool, How Do I Get ServPHP on my VPS ? * It's quiet simple, Just run the command :

git clone https://code.google.com/p/servphp/

and you will have the latest version of ServPHP on your VPS, ready to run, no config's required ! Well, You would need apache and PHP :P

Just a few tips, Run the command in the web server docs directory like /var/www/html, etc. Or else The file's will get copied into / which is of no use as such, or you could run, if the files are in / :

 mv servphp /var/www/html 

replace /var/www/html with your webserver docs directory.

Please share some feedback / reviews / suggestions :D

Thanks !

For the last few months I have been reading only good reviews about BuyVM, so I bought my first 256 MB OpenVZ VPS in July. On 23rd of August I grabbed the last 256 MB KVM VPS. Setup was not instant as advertisted on WHT although I passed fraud check long time ago.

10:37:11 up 13 days, 20:41,  2 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

There was no reboot yet. OpenVZ VPSs have good uptime too > 30 days.

             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        253944      65192     188752          0      11780      28720
-/+ buffers/cache:      24692     229252
Swap:       496632          0     496632

With Debian 6 + Nginx + MySQL + PHP installed VPS uses about 24 MB of memory.

processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 6
model name      : QEMU Virtual CPU version 0.9.1
stepping        : 3
cpu MHz         : 2493.748
cache size      : 32 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 4
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx lm pni hypervisor
bogomips        : 4987.49
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

VPS comes with 2 cores of L5420. L5420 is far from "monster" as E3-1270 beats it in dual mode.

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1              30G  783M   27G   3% /
tmpfs                 124M     0  124M   0% /lib/init/rw
udev                  120M  112K  120M   1% /dev
tmpfs                 124M     0  124M   0% /dev/shm

All disk space is here.

# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync && rm -rf test
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 25.7089 s, 41.8 MB/s

With Virtio enabled I/O speed is low. It seems like it isn't possible to achieve 180 MB/s advertisted by Fran.

# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync && rm -rf test
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 9.88993 s, 109 MB/s

They do however use hardware RAiD controller with cache which improves I/O speed.

# wget -O /dev/null http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test && rm -rf 100mb.test
--2011-09-07 10:46:36--  http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net... 205.234.175.175
Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net|205.234.175.175|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `/dev/null'

100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 11.9M/s   in 9.3s

2011-09-07 10:46:45 (10.8 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]

Their "Gbit" port is actually 100 Mbps.

Integer Score:                2367 |||||||||
Floating Point Score:         3867 |||||||||||||||
Memory Score:                 1463 |||||
Stream Score:                 1531 ||||||

Overall Geekbench Score:      2627 ||||||||||

Considering this is a dual core system benchmark score is low. I'm getting 5124 on Hostigation's single core VPS.

I tried to host my personal WordPress blog (no CPU intensive plugins) on this VPS, however it was opening for 10 seconds. On other VPS it opens in less than 2 seconds. I thought it was because of network, but I'm able to download their 100 MB test file with more than 1.2 MB/s from Europe. I have only opened 1 support ticket so far which was answered in few minutes. Fran and all other staff members are extremely friendly, however their VPS performance didn't satisfy me and I'm thinking about canceling it at the end of the month. Maybe I simply had too big expectations.

Hello,

After loads of help from the LowEndBox community (Thanks Guys !!), I have come up with a new version of ServPHP after putting in almost everyone's suggestions.

Demo : http://93.104.215.18/servphp/beta/

As the URL Says, "Beta" What you see today in the script, you may not see tomorrow :P

The main features of this release :

--> You can now get a speed test of your server (wGet Speed Test) from our VPS in Germany. More Info here :http://code.google.com/p/servphp/wiki/wGetInfo

--> Script load time added at the footer of the script, Just a indicator of server performance to fetch the results which you see.

--> And a few updates and code cleanup here and there.

Download :

http://code.google.com/p/servphp/downloads/detail?name=ServPHP9112011beta.zip&can=2&q=

All feedback / reviews and suggestions are welcome !!

Thanks !!