Hi Guys, I am a web developer/designer and I have 4 VPSs + 1 Dedi in different Countries and with different providers and usually I review the providers for my Customers or sometimes for my friends and never tried to share a review since I used to say there is always someone who did review this provider or that one before. But this time I wanted to share this experience with you since it is a little different For me. I was looking for another affordable but reliable VPS (aren't we all !?;) ) and while Comparing Scaleway to another offer from another provider I stumbled upon A review comparing Scaleway to other providers including one called ServerCow. I noticed that this provider managed to score really good benchmark scores. So I looked it up and found their website which was really a simple one and German! Only then I remembered that I heared of MailCow before but I did not know they provide VPS Too, so I contacted them via mail with a long list of questions regarding most of the Details about there plans, hardware, SLA, fair share policies, etc ... . I didn't wait long and got a response from them signed by André and the answers Were very detailed and straight forward, I liked everything except the fact that they Do not offer SLA which I consider a must, but to be honest the way this man was answering Every question I sent hem and his offer of a free unconditioned trial of the plan I was asking about (the highest one they have) were enough to encourage me to try So I accepted his offer and it was maybe just few minutes and the VPS was ready A KVM VPS (package XL) with the following specs:

6 × Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 v2 @ 2.10GHz vCores

6GB ECC DDR3 dedicated RAM

30GB SSD storage

150GB HDD storage via Storage Server (Samba, FTP)

DDos protection (NOT ADVERTISED ON THE SITE YET!)

1 IPv4 (I got an additional one)

5 IPv6

snapshots

ReverseDNS entries for IPv4 and IPv6 addresses

Almost every Linux distro out there

It costs 11 Euros per month or 29 Euros if you pay 3 months in front.

As you can see, good specs and really good price but what about the real performance ? I tried everything I know on this poor machine ! every benchmark, I lost count of how Many times I reinstalled! and the results were as follow :

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        BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 5.1.2)

        System: ********************** : GNU/Linux
        OS: GNU/Linux -- 3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64 -- #1 SMP Thu May 12 11:03:55 UTC 2016
       Machine: x86_64 (x86_64)
        Language: en_US.utf8 (charmap="UTF-8", collate="UTF-8")
        CPU 0: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 v2 @ 2.10GHz (4200.0 bogomips)
              x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET
       CPU 1: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 v2 @ 2.10GHz (4200.0 bogomips)
               x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET
        CPU 2: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 v2 @ 2.10GHz (4200.0 bogomips)
               x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET
        CPU 3: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 v2 @ 2.10GHz (4200.0 bogomips)
               x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET
        CPU 4: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 v2 @ 2.10GHz (4200.0 bogomips)
               x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET
        CPU 5: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 v2 @ 2.10GHz (4200.0 bogomips)
               x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET
        08:19:53 up 1 day,  1:54,  1 user,  load average: 0.20, 0.13, 0.08; runlevel 3

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     Benchmark Run: Mon Jun 06 2016 08:19:54 - 08:48:12
     6 CPUs in system; running 1 parallel copy of tests

     Dhrystone 2 using register variables       20476290.9 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
     Double-Precision Whetstone                     2805.2 MWIPS (9.9 s, 7 samples)
     Execl Throughput                                907.0 lps   (29.8 s, 2 samples)
     File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks        390854.9 KBps  (30.0 s, 2 samples)
     File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks          114698.7 KBps  (30.0 s, 2 samples)
     File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks        997382.9 KBps  (30.0 s, 2 samples)
     Pipe Throughput                              927990.1 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
     Pipe-based Context Switching                 141182.1 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
     Process Creation                               2938.2 lps   (30.0 s, 2 samples)
     Shell Scripts (1 concurrent)                   2817.0 lpm   (60.0 s, 2 samples)
     Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)                   1146.4 lpm   (60.0 s, 2 samples)
     System Call Overhead                        1453582.2 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)

     System Benchmarks Index Values               BASELINE       RESULT    INDEX
     Dhrystone 2 using register variables         116700.0   20476290.9   1754.6
     Double-Precision Whetstone                       55.0       2805.2    510.0
     Execl Throughput                                 43.0        907.0    210.9
     File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks          3960.0     390854.9    987.0
     File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks            1655.0     114698.7    693.0
     File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks          5800.0     997382.9   1719.6
     Pipe Throughput                               12440.0     927990.1    746.0
     Pipe-based Context Switching                   4000.0     141182.1    353.0
     Process Creation                                126.0       2938.2    233.2
     Shell Scripts (1 concurrent)                     42.4       2817.0    664.4
     Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)                      6.0       1146.4   1910.6
     System Call Overhead                          15000.0    1453582.2    969.1
                                                                        ========
     System Benchmarks Index Score                                         711.3

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    Benchmark Run: Mon Jun 06 2016 08:48:12 - 09:17:03
    6 CPUs in system; running 6 parallel copies of tests

    Dhrystone 2 using register variables       94066037.5 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
    Double-Precision Whetstone                    15462.6 MWIPS (9.5 s, 7 samples)
    Execl Throughput                               7347.7 lps   (29.9 s, 2 samples)
    File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks        353959.5 KBps  (30.0 s, 2 samples)
    File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks           94377.1 KBps  (30.0 s, 2 samples)
    File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks        986650.5 KBps  (30.0 s, 2 samples)
    Pipe Throughput                             4830927.6 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
    Pipe-based Context Switching                 591775.0 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
    Process Creation                              16773.0 lps   (30.0 s, 2 samples)
    Shell Scripts (1 concurrent)                  11700.3 lpm   (60.0 s, 2 samples)
    Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)                   1954.1 lpm   (60.1 s, 2 samples)
    System Call Overhead                        4541190.5 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)

    System Benchmarks Index Values               BASELINE       RESULT    INDEX
    Dhrystone 2 using register variables         116700.0   94066037.5   8060.5
    Double-Precision Whetstone                       55.0      15462.6   2811.4
    Execl Throughput                                 43.0       7347.7   1708.8
    File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks          3960.0     353959.5    893.8
    File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks            1655.0      94377.1    570.3
    File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks          5800.0     986650.5   1701.1
    Pipe Throughput                               12440.0    4830927.6   3883.4
    Pipe-based Context Switching                   4000.0     591775.0   1479.4
    Process Creation                                126.0      16773.0   1331.2
    Shell Scripts (1 concurrent)                     42.4      11700.3   2759.5
    Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)                      6.0       1954.1   3256.9
    System Call Overhead                          15000.0    4541190.5   3027.5
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    System Benchmarks Index Score                                        2091.0

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hostname: ****************************

SO: CentOS Linux release 7.2.1511 (Core) N 64 bits

kernel: 3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64

virtual: KVM

cpu: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 v2 @ 2.10GHz

vcpu: 6 cores / 4199.99 bogomips

RAM: 5806 MB (6% used) / swap 511 MB (0% used)

HD: 41G (10% used) / inkling speed 829 MB/s

cachefly 10MB: 59.5 MB/s (probably Gigabit Port)

The network tests were as follow:

From Germany:

From France:

From Netherland :

From Egypt (where I am) - The network in Egypt is really bad and slow but I needed a refrence to compare to other VPSs I have--

I also tested the I/O using : dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync

and the average results were 520 MB/s

16384+0 records in 16384+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 1.63928 s, 655 MB/s

16384+0 records in 16384+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 1.67352 s, 642 MB/s

^[[A16384+0 records in 16384+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 1.76562 s, 608 MB/s

^[[A16384+0 records in 16384+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 1.69086 s, 635 MB/s [ 16384+0 records in 16384+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 2.62972 s, 408 MB/s

16384+0 records in 16384+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 2.66973 s, 402 MB/s

16384+0 records in 16384+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 1.81886 s, 590 MB/s

I repeated the tests many times on different times of the day but the results were almost identical with exception of few times when the I/O first run was slower than normal (120-300 MB/s) but only the first time run and as I said it happened few time. I even tested the VPS after I paid them for 3 months contract (paranoiaI) to make sure That the performance is the sames before and after paying money! Also I have to say the all tests were done while the usual services are running except Any caching service of course.

The results when put together with the price make a really good price/performance value

Other very Important factors:

1- UP times : I can't judge this point now as it will need weeks if not months of usage but till now I had no down time at all.

2- Support: here I can say with confidence Superb! André was really helpful and very responsive even when I asked him for help in issues that is not of his responsibilities And once again this was after I pied them ! The support is really fast and caring, they offer support via mail and ticket system (I used the mail) but he even offered me help through Skype

**Conclusion :

Server Cow is not one of the biggest nor the most famous providers out there but They offer really good VPS for the price and excellent support, They really need to think About SLA and their site needs some enhancement specially an English interface but For me I love my "cow" and if everything goes the same way its going now I will get More and more ! if you're looking for a very good affordable VPS with excellent support I suggest you should give ServerCow a try.

**

-- I will update the review with any new details or changes

Just snap the $20 box from DediDirect. Advertised specs:

• Dual L5420
• 8192MB DDRII Memory
• 500GB SATAII HDD
• 1Gbps Port Speed
• 20TB Premium Bandwidth
• 5 IP Address
• Order link: http://www.dedidirect.com/billing/signup.php?package=841 (Source from LET)

They will upgrade the box free of charge upon request but its based on your luck.

RAM and HDD upgrade:

The memory upgrade is a random available, upgrade depending on the convenience for us. You may make a request and see if we can hook you up prior to ordering.

As for the I/O if you're system comes with a 500GB disk it's just a normal SATAII HDD. You can make a request for a system with a 1TB W.D Enterprise RE4 drive which will have better I/O.

How about my box?

A few hours ago I ask them if willing to upgrade the storage to 2x500GB HDD instead of 16GB RAM, and surprisingly they tell me if I will got an awesome upgrade, I got last stock for this config:

• E3-1230
• 16GB DDR3 Memory
• 2 x 1TB RE4 Enterprise Disks
• 20TB Premium BW
• 1Gbps Port
• 5 IP

Actually I want to ask, "with or without power? " but decided to test it later.

And the server deployed a few hours after order. Try login and successful, thanks God its powered... and yes its E3. I feel blessed...

The server deployed as Raid 1.

System Info
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Processor       : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31230 @ 3.20GHz
CPU Cores       : 8
Frequency       : 1600.000 MHz
Memory          : 15941 MB
Swap            : 8031 MB
Uptime          : 19 min,

OS              : CentOS release 6.7 (Final)
Arch            : x86_64 (64 Bit)
Kernel          : 2.6.32-573.26.1.el6.x86_64
Hostname        : E3-09


Speedtest (IPv4 only)
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Your public IPv4 is xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

Location                Provider        Speed
CDN                     Cachefly        6.13MB/s

Atlanta, GA, US         Coloat          39.6MB/s
Dallas, TX, US          Softlayer       9.07MB/s
Seattle, WA, US         Softlayer       7.37MB/s
San Jose, CA, US        Softlayer       7.44MB/s
Washington, DC, US      Softlayer       10.5MB/s

Tokyo, Japan            Linode          5.61MB/s
Singapore               Softlayer       5.23MB/s

Rotterdam, Netherlands  id3.net         3.55MB/s
Haarlem, Netherlands    Leaseweb        4.45MB/s


Disk Speed
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I/O (1st run)   : 126 MB/s
I/O (2nd run)   : 126 MB/s
I/O (3rd run)   : 127 MB/s
Average I/O     : 126.333 MB/s

Simple ioping:

ioping -c 10 /
4.0 KiB from / (ext4 /dev/mapper/vg-root): request=1 time=160 us
4.0 KiB from / (ext4 /dev/mapper/vg-root): request=2 time=143 us
4.0 KiB from / (ext4 /dev/mapper/vg-root): request=3 time=168 us
4.0 KiB from / (ext4 /dev/mapper/vg-root): request=4 time=143 us
4.0 KiB from / (ext4 /dev/mapper/vg-root): request=5 time=172 us
4.0 KiB from / (ext4 /dev/mapper/vg-root): request=6 time=144 us
4.0 KiB from / (ext4 /dev/mapper/vg-root): request=7 time=116 us
4.0 KiB from / (ext4 /dev/mapper/vg-root): request=8 time=150 us
4.0 KiB from / (ext4 /dev/mapper/vg-root): request=9 time=170 us
4.0 KiB from / (ext4 /dev/mapper/vg-root): request=10 time=170 us

--- / (ext4 /dev/mapper/vg-root) ioping statistics ---
10 requests completed in 9.0 s, 6.5 k iops, 25.4 MiB/s
min/avg/max/mdev = 116 us / 153 us / 172 us / 16 us

HDDs:

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family:     Western Digital Caviar Black
Device Model:     WDC WD1002FAEX-00Y9A0
Serial Number:    WD-WCAW31455598
LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 2b04e8f70
Firmware Version: 05.01D05
User Capacity:    1,000,204,886,016 bytes [1.00 TB]

Hopefully they can add Rescue System sooner.

so Last night, I placed an order at iwstack, so i payed the 30euro thing.

I used my real details, name, paypal, address cuz my project has nothing to do with illegal stuff, yet I got rejected and got no real explanations about WHY i got rejected. Im totally sure thats because im from a non EU country, and there is some kind of prejudice about it.

My order was rejected and refunded. Here is the screenshot of the ticket, please comment and let me know what you think.

Hello everybody, this time I am reviewing and comparing 3 hosting providers From different "sizes" all provide good KVM VPS and affordable prices (at least for the special offer in case of DediServe). I have at least one VPS on each of the providers and I tested each machine with all available Benchmarking and testing tools, But it's not the only tests I base my review on, the real Performance of the machine in real life situations, up times and support are things that no Benchmark can measure. So I did my best putting the machines in different situations and Also tried to ask the support for advice or assassinate in many different issues
Finally every benchmark was repeated many times and I used the average test score for each Of the three providers.

I will start with ServerCow because I've already reviewed it and even updated my review:

https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/85161/server-cow-2016-version#latest

And this is the last benchmark for ServerCow

As you can see SrverCow maintain it's good network performance and high I/O speeds Overall the performance/price formula is very good. (29Euro/quarter) The only point is the CPUs performance where I think it should score more , so there is a Room for development in this point

What I like:

• Good performance and combined with the price its very good deal!

• Excelent responsive and "personal" support

• Upgradable with flexibility for a nice price

• Free DDOS protection

• No downtime at all untill this moment

• Free 150GB Samba storage

What I miss:

• better CPU performance (it's good now but there is always room for improvment)

• English interface for the company's site

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Now to DediServe : A well known and trusted provider with locations all over the world and it's Cloud services Are considered among the best. Recently they announced a new LEB/LET special with the Following specs:

    2x Intel Xeon E5-2660v2 CPU
    2GB RAM
    50GB Enterprise RAID 10 SSD Storage
    1 IPv4 IP Address
    Free IP6
    500Mbps Uplink, 2TB Transfer included
    50GB Snapshot Storage included
    Firewall, API, iOS and Android Apps
    24/7 Support as standard

All this really good specs for only 6.99$, Nice! and according to the support you have 100% Of the cores only for you so it's really dedicated CPUs. Just like many of you guys I got my "Cloud" machine and I did choose Vienna as the location For my VPS since it was the closest to me. From the first moment I started asking and Testing ! The installation was fast and flawless, The interface is good and clean. The support is responsive but their answers were not always on the point and if your ticket Gets escalated you must wish that the sales team guys are still on their disks or you will have To wait for the next day to get answers !

Here are the results for the test:

As you can see virtual core with no real info regarding CPU which is not good for me ! Of course we trust DediServe but still we like to have full details of what we paid for also On this point the support gave me what I call "not so accurate answers" when I asked them About the CPU info as they tried to convince me that it's a KVM thing and it not something They choose to hide, but when I confronted them the facts that this is not true and even sent Them some screen caps from my other KVM VPSs they had to give me the final answer on The matter -and I quote- "This is not something we are going to change" , Thanks for the Truth even if its late! Our friend @dediserve was really helpful and sometimes more helpful Than the online support and he promised to raise the issue inside the company, which is Another reason to respect dediserev as very few of the big name may care to hear our vocies

So ... Great I/O numbers! really very good overall performance and keep in mind this Only 2 Core & 2GB RAM machine, imagine what a 4 cores 4GB RAM would do !

The network s good but to be honest I really expected higher numbers in Europe where I was surprised that they came second to ServerCow more than once in places like France& UK And Germany. A provider with such global network should've performed better in Europe.

The upgrade options: NONE! yes for this "special" offer there "officially" no upgrade options! Yes I know it's special offer and I understand it's really discounted but no upgrade options At all ? A cloud that is static and fixed in size !? I tried to scale my cloud only to find that this Option is disabled (not there to be more accurate), So I went to the normal resources pool Trying to get resources with the regular prices (Our friend @dediserve offered a 50% coupon) But again I found that while I can buy resources I can't merge or add them to my Cloud Machine, all I can do is to buy resources and create another separate cloud Machine! Once again it's really a good offer from DediServe and very good performance but Even if I paid a discounted price I still have the right to upgrade my Cloud machine. And it looks that even Dediserve support guys can't believe it too! so I was lucky to get In touch with James a senior customer care who was really patient, professional and very Helpful, we had a long mail exchange (over 50 massages in total) and finally he gave me A real good offer which I could not refuse. So NO does not always mean NO, you just need to Find the right person to talk to! thanks James and another point for dediserve ;)

What I like:

• Very good overall performance and great I/O numbers

• Many location all over the world to choose from

• The price of this offer is really "Special"

• Clean and easy to use dashboard

• A 50% discount for the current owners of DediSrev owners (at least for now!)

• Good customer support specially if you manged to get to someone on a senior level

• Trustful and respectful provider so you get what you pay for, no worries there

What I miss:

• Easier Upgrade options for the special deal ! no cloud should be static ...

• The network is really good but in some of the locations in Europe it could be better

• Escalated tickets should not wait for next day

• Passing through the CPU info is much much better than virtual cores

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Virtono: It is -as you probably know- Romanian based provider that offer a wide range of hosting Services and has four locations in Europe Romania, Netherlands,Germany and UK They offer many VPS plans but I will talk only about the LEB Speed plan which is one Of three LEB specials still available from Virtono. It has the following specs

* KVM
* 4 Cores (at 2.26Ghz)
* Ram 2GB
* Swap 4GB
* Disk space 20GB SSD
* Network Speed 1Gbps Bandwidth (shared port)
* 5TB Traffic

Looking at the this configuration any one will notice the small size HDD which is going To be a real problem if you plan to use the VPS for a live site as it's only 16GB in reality After deducting the space reserved for the swap. They have really good up times and I did not have any downtime until now Real performance is in general acceptable (network sometimes is slow), and you don't get the SSD performance anyone would expect. They have nicely configured dashboard with all the option you need to run your VPS and also Monitor it.

here are the test results

So not the latest of processors but uncapped clock speed which is enough to do The trick for UnixBench but do not get fooled by the numbers here those are older And less powerful CPUs than what Dediserve & Server Cow offer

The I/O is slower than the other two except the cached test

IOPS numbers are horrible !! actually I do not dare to compare to the other 2 providers

Again bad numbers indeed ... slow network everywhere the highest is 12Mb/s !

The numbers are clear, very good numbers in the CPU department (the clock speed is the secret) but very bad SSD performance and slow network and both are enough to seriously Lower the real performance of the VPS and any site on it.

The Upgrade options : NONE ! again just like DediServe this special offer is fixed size And when I tried to contact them for any upgrade options the refused and I was told that I can exchange my LEB speed with another plan of their "normal" plans and pay difference Actually I was ready to get any upgrade with the normal none discounted prices but this Was not an option Unlike Dediserve even the higher support team did not offer any real deals.

What I like:

• Good CPU performance

• Nice price (6euro/mo)

• Good and full featured dashboard

What I miss:

• Where is the SSD !?

• The network is slow to say the least

• Upgrade options

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Conclusion:

When I picked this trio of providers I knew they are completely different and maybe In different categories but I wanted to give the average VPS user a chance to compare Three providers who offer LEB special offers or good normal prices for KVM VPSs

Server Cow is becoming my benchmark for performance (not saying it's flawless) but For a smaller size provider our friend André is doing really good proving that in hosting Size is not always that important! yes their is a room for improvment but good job Andre!

DediServe is an excellent big size provider with very good hardware and network and Good support but the prices for the normal pool are not cheapest, still with the offers The current owners of the Cloud machines can get (50% Thanks @dediserve ) it gets better. Only if they reconsider the upgraded options for the special offers and the CPU info issue.. But if you want an excellent cloud service provider you'll more than happy with dediserve The are a good example for how a cloud provider should be

Virtono I am sorry but I was really disappointed with the results. The network is not good, The I/O is even worse and the good CPU numbers are not enough to compensate.

So here you are guys I hope this will be useful for anyone and soon I will review 3 other Providers ....

Final note: Very soon I will write a special review for dediserve using the normal pool and I expect some exciting results ..

Just over 9 months ago I signed up for a VPSDime High RAM plan in Dallas. I got it when @serverian was running a 1 month launch trial, and ended up sticking around.

High RAM VPS (Dallas)

Performance on the VPS in Dallas has been excellent. I never bothered benchmarking much of anything, the performance was good and my sites were up - zero issues since mid-September last year. I don't recall any real downtime other than the odd reboot - which I believe were for upgrades(!) - Node was upgraded to SSD Cached for free.

The service has been excellent and I highly recommend it to anyone looking for a high RAM VPS with solid performance, it's a steal at $7/mo for 6GB.

Move to High Storage

My rebill date was a couple days ago, and due to my recent dedi purchase I didn't have a real need for the High Memory VPS anymore so I requested a move to their newer Storage VPS line - asking if I could apply my upcoming credit to a storage VPS. I got a response near instantly and the new box was setup in minutes.

I requested to stay in the same location (Dallas) and after ~24 hours testing I wasn't thrilled with the network performance. The box has excellent download speeds, but upload speeds to the other boxes I tested wasn't up to my standards. Could only get 1.5-3MB/s up. While still decent and backups to the box would be fast, I could see there might be a problem if I ever needed to restore the backups quickly.

After a quick ticket in I was offered a move. Their support were willing to throw a test file up in the UK location for me to try out and speeds looked good. Gave the go-ahead and was moved within an hour or so.

Overall Score: 9.5/10

I've been happily using the VPSDime service for 9 months and hope to use them for many more years. They're right up there with my other 2 favourite providers (BuyVM & Ramnode). I can only dock half a point for the 'poor' network performance as my experience up to that point, and now past that point, has been nothing but excellent.

I've also been a happy Winity.io customer with a 4GB box in Los Angeles since ~February.

Recently we had a case of what appears to be pretty clear cut Fraud. Buyer has issues with his backend server, and then proceeds to open 12 disputes for services rendered over the full 180 days allowed. (2-3 services over 6 months, and considerable money)

Of course given the severity of such an action, we called PayPal and had a chat. Primarily worried about the Intangible items policies resulting in a decision in the buyers favour before the appropriate attention was given to the case.

Results from these disputes have today started to come in.

We’ve completed our review of your case ***. Due to the unique circumstances, we've decided to refund the buyer at no cost to you.

Your account won't be debited and the case has been closed. You don't need to take any action.

Interesting, I haven't seen that before - both people refunded. Nice to see some of our Fees coming back. Anyone else seen that before? I wonder if the cases got a note attached when we called. hmm.

Thank you PayPal anyway, its rare that you get applauded for your handling of Disputes & Chargebacks online. I hope this is a step in the right direction for the future :)

It's been almost 2 months since I signed up for a StarryDNS account. I got a Japan VPS mainly for game tunneling purposes. It works perfectly - latency is great, server is stable, and I haven't had any issues since day 1.

Their pricing isn't the cheapest; you can get more resources per $ from Vultr, OneProvider, etc. but I don't mind paying a few extra dollars for better latency (vs. Vultr) + very accommodating staff. That being said I highly recommend StarryDNS if you need a server located in Japan.

freevps bench for those interested:

System Info
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Processor       : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 v3 @ 2.40GHz
CPU Cores       : 1
Frequency       : 2399.930 MHz
Memory          : 128 MB
Swap            : 128 MB
Uptime          : 18:23,

OS              : Debian GNU/Linux 7
Arch            : i686 (32 Bit)
Kernel          : 2.6.32-042stab104.1
Hostname        :


Speedtest (IPv4 only)
---------------------
Your public IPv4 is

Location                Provider        Speed
CDN                     Cachefly        15.3MB/s

Atlanta, GA, US         Coloat          10.9MB/s
Dallas, TX, US          Softlayer       14.7MB/s
Seattle, WA, US         Softlayer       25.0MB/s
San Jose, CA, US        Softlayer       19.5MB/s
Washington, DC, US      Softlayer       14.5MB/s

Tokyo, Japan            Linode          72.0MB/s
Singapore               Softlayer       25.2MB/s

Rotterdam, Netherlands  id3.net         7.53MB/s
Haarlem, Netherlands    Leaseweb        20.5MB/s


Disk Speed
----------
I/O (1st run)   : 101 MB/s
I/O (2nd run)   : 143 MB/s
I/O (3rd run)   : 184 MB/s
Average I/O     : 142.667 MB/s

Thanks @jylee for the great service.

I bought their 4 core, 1 TB bandwidth, 1 GB RAM residing at Buffalo and costed $12/year, which is very cheap and however I shouldn't be complaining of what they're offering.

The good thing is, there's no downtime till date.

But, I am a bit frustrated for the following issues:

• SSH key strokes are slow as the server resides in the moon.
• yum install takes ages
• htop takes at least 5 seconds to open
• vi takes 6+ seconds to open
• ls takes 1 second (feels like)
• Bandwidth is 1 TB but access from Asia is ~500 KB/s
• Ping to 8.8.8.8 is 100+ms
• Recently I've installed Apache and MySql, memory is stuck at 100~200MB but the swap is increasing, currently at 400MB. (vmstat says 0 in si/so)
• Apache response time is fairly slow.

I am not complaining, is this fair & acceptable for $12/year?

Server bear benchmark

FreeVPS benchmark

Benchmark started on Thu Dec 17 08:48:50 EST 2015
Full benchmark log: /home/root4825/bench.log

System Info
-----------
Processor       : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 v2 @ 2.10GHz
CPU Cores       : 4
Frequency       : 2100.061 MHz
Memory          : 1024 MB
Swap            : 1024 MB
Uptime          : 69 days, 23:56,

OS              : CentOS release 6.7 (Final)
Arch            : i686 (32 Bit)
Kernel          : 2.6.32-042stab108.8
Hostname        : *******-01


Speedtest (IPv4 only)
---------------------
Your public IPv4 is 172.24*.***.***

Location                Provider        Speed
CDN                     Cachefly        61.8MB/s

Atlanta, GA, US         Coloat          41.5MB/s
Dallas, TX, US          Softlayer       193KB/s
Seattle, WA, US         Softlayer       24.2MB/s
San Jose, CA, US        Softlayer       24.4MB/s
Washington, DC, US      Softlayer       46.2MB/s

Tokyo, Japan            Linode          10.5MB/s
Singapore               Softlayer       7.42MB/s

Rotterdam, Netherlands  id3.net         125KB/s
Haarlem, Netherlands    Leaseweb        11.8MB/s


Disk Speed
----------
I/O (1st run)   : 21.2 MB/s
I/O (2nd run)   : 22.2 MB/s
I/O (3rd run)   : 32.1 MB/s
Average I/O     : 25.1667 MB/s

I contacted their customer service, however they replied back in 3 hours saying, it shouldn't be like that and things are fine from their end. They'll look into it. Then, closed the ticket.

In October '15 I was looking for a small VPS with a rather large HDD for as cheap as possible. At that time Time4VPS just made a splash around LET. Offer sounded too good to be true and the company had no reputation around here so I even went as far as to specifically refuse them in my search request to get some alternatives. It quickly turned out that nobody could match that amount of HDD space at the same price point. After a few users still recommended them I decided to give them a try getting the 0.5 TB High Volume Storage plan.

It didn't take long for me to find the catch of the offer. The IOPS were limited to 50 and the single threaded transfer speed to residential western europe was rather poor with around 1.5 MB/s being the limit I could get from multiple locations. However they upgraded their infrastructure in early 2016 which they increased the IOPS and the residential download speed to around 3.5 MB/s. On the upside the connectivity to the large providers like Hetzner, OVH and Leaseweb is outstanding.

The communcation in the very few times I had with them was good. Ticket reply was within an hour and mostly helpful. However general inquiries can take a while when outside their business hours. Something to watch out for if you are not from europe.

All in all they are a fine provider which offer a fair product for a cheap price.

Please note that these benchmarks were performed on a completely configured and working machine, not a fresh installation.

System Info
-----------
Processor       : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2609 v3 @ 1.90GHz
CPU Cores       : 1
Frequency       : 1897.933 MHz
Memory          : 512 MB
Swap            : 256 MB
Uptime          : 90 days, 12:00,

OS              : Debian GNU/Linux 8
Arch            : x86_64 (64 Bit)
Kernel          : 2.6.32-042stab113.17


Speedtest (IPv4 only)
---------------------

Location                Provider        Speed
CDN                     Cachefly        36.6MB/s

Atlanta, GA, US         Coloat          1.92MB/s
Dallas, TX, US          Softlayer       8.34MB/s
Seattle, WA, US         Softlayer       7.16MB/s
San Jose, CA, US        Softlayer       6.68MB/s
Washington, DC, US      Softlayer       5.89MB/s

Tokyo, Japan            Linode          3.92MB/s
Singapore               Softlayer       4.24MB/s

Rotterdam, Netherlands  id3.net         27.5MB/s
Haarlem, Netherlands    Leaseweb        38.8MB/s


Disk Speed
----------
I/O (1st run)   : 47.1 MB/s
I/O (2nd run)   : 42.7 MB/s
I/O (3rd run)   : 42.4 MB/s
Average I/O     : 44.0667 MB/s

randwrite: (groupid=0, jobs=8): err= 0: pid=28034: Thu Jun 23 13:44:57 2016
  write: io=414504KB, bw=5229.3KB/s, iops=1307, runt= 79266msec
    slat (usec): min=3, max=53231K, avg=5868.78, stdev=441991.59
    clat (usec): min=0, max=9517, avg= 4.01, stdev=129.10
     lat (usec): min=4, max=53231K, avg=5873.86, stdev=441991.65
    clat percentiles (usec):
     |  1.00th=[    0],  5.00th=[    0], 10.00th=[    0], 20.00th=[    0],
     | 30.00th=[    0], 40.00th=[    0], 50.00th=[    1], 60.00th=[    1],
     | 70.00th=[    1], 80.00th=[    1], 90.00th=[    1], 95.00th=[    1],
     | 99.00th=[    3], 99.50th=[    4], 99.90th=[  836], 99.95th=[ 2672],
     | 99.99th=[ 6176]
    bw (KB  /s): min=    0, max=34734, per=39.91%, avg=2086.74, stdev=5161.15
    lat (usec) : 2=97.43%, 4=1.90%, 10=0.47%, 20=0.02%, 50=0.05%
    lat (usec) : 100=0.02%, 250=0.01%, 500=0.01%, 750=0.01%, 1000=0.03%
    lat (msec) : 2=0.02%, 4=0.02%, 10=0.04%
  cpu          : usr=0.04%, sys=0.24%, ctx=35017, majf=0, minf=217
  IO depths    : 1=100.0%, 2=0.0%, 4=0.0%, 8=0.0%, 16=0.0%, 32=0.0%, >=64=0.0%
     submit    : 0=0.0%, 4=100.0%, 8=0.0%, 16=0.0%, 32=0.0%, 64=0.0%, >=64=0.0%
     complete  : 0=0.0%, 4=100.0%, 8=0.0%, 16=0.0%, 32=0.0%, 64=0.0%, >=64=0.0%
     issued    : total=r=0/w=103626/d=0, short=r=0/w=0/d=0
     latency   : target=0, window=0, percentile=100.00%, depth=1

Earlier this month, I bought a cheap little server from BudgetNode, not to long before the advert was posted. I've been very impressed with the service they have provided so far and am hoping that good things come from them. I've not been with them for too long so this review can't be that decisive but first impressions have impressed me greatly. RDNS works like a charm, IPv6 works perfectly too.

Couple of standard benchmarks:

vhWINFO:

SO: Debian GNU/Linux 8.5 (jessie) 64 bits
kernel: 2.6.32-042stab116.1
virtual: OpenVZ
cpu: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1271 v3 @ 3.60GHz
vcpu: 1 core / 7199.82 bogomips
RAM: 512 MB (64% used) / swap 512 MB (0% used)
HD: 22G (4% used) / inkling speed 1.2 GB/s
cachefly 10MB: 78.3 MB/s (probably Gigabit Port)

UnixBench: http://pastebin.com/raw/YJYq7ABb

FreeVPS:

System Info

Processor : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1271 v3 @ 3.60GHz
CPU Cores : 1
Frequency : 3599.911 MHz
Memory : 512 MB
Swap : 512 MB
Uptime : 14 days, 23:05,

OS : Debian GNU/Linux 8
Arch : x86_64 (64 Bit)
Kernel : 2.6.32-042stab116.1
Hostname : bugger.off

Speedtest (IPv4 only)

Your public IPv4 is 185.101.x.x

Location Provider Speed
CDN Cachefly 48.9MB/s

Atlanta, GA, US Coloat 12.3MB/s
Dallas, TX, US Softlayer 49.6MB/s
Seattle, WA, US Softlayer 27.1MB/s
San Jose, CA, US Softlayer 25.3MB/s
Washington, DC, US Softlayer 40.3MB/s

Tokyo, Japan Linode 11.0MB/s
Singapore Softlayer 8.55MB/s

Rotterdam, Netherlands id3.net 11.4MB/s
Haarlem, Netherlands Leaseweb 2.20MB/s

Disk Speed

I/O (1st run) : 928 MB/s
I/O (2nd run) : 1.4 GB/s
I/O (3rd run) : 1.4 GB/s
Average I/O : 310.267 MB/s

Overall, I can see good things coming from BudgetNode in the future - I haven't had any downtime as of yet - however it's a little to close to call for the time being. The support (although I haven't really needed it) is there and active and the community chat channel seems to have a few active staff members in too. Their website is easy enough to use although the WHMCS installation has a few visual glitches.

Cheap and cheerful.

Hello everyone. I'm renting LET/LEB VPSs more than 5 years and first time i feel like "I have to inform people about a company!". I'm still using some companies which has lot of compliants about service quality (for example 123servers) but first time i see something unethical like that.

Bought a 4GB RAM VPS at 03/05/2016. I bought it to create a Bitcoin / Altcoin pool which is a low resource using service but only RAM. So i thought that i need more RAM and made a deal with Combozo to make it 8G at 11/05/2016. You can see invoices.

Once it's upgraded, i've completed my server and take to prod. It was fine till May 26. Network stopped and then turned back alive after 8 hours. Once this was happening, i found them on Skype and could reach. The support was helpful but lack of English. I didn't mind it too much because he was kind anyway.

Then the show began... * Server suspended at May 30. I've written from Skype and support staff answered me and got my server online after 3 hours. I've wanted a reason "why". No answer.

• Then server suspended after 16 hours again! Support staff said that it's because of DDOS, or maybe it's not because of DDOS :-S... he wanted to sell me a DDOS pack. I did not accept it because these actions made me suspected... First time one of my server suspended as a DDOS attacker. Anyway i've double checked everything and after install a DDOS protection, everything seem OK.

• Finally, the disaster... My server suspended again suddenly. The terrible thing is i was on a long way and i've made lot of modifications on the road... that's why could not find a time to take a backup... So this is the 5th day i'm trying to reach them, no one cares. NO ONE! Actually i won't use their service ever again, i just need my server online for couple hours to take a full backup. I've updated the ticket on website "#815818" and try to reach them over Skype again... Here is what happened:

So this is the situation now... They advertise as 7/24 support and this is the worst support i've ever seen... and also i really can't believe that my server DDOSing... i've 45+ VPSs, non of them has ever been suspended because of DDOS, only BW exceed...

So i don't want to say them as a SCAM, but would you tell me what it looks like? I still have some hope to take my server online and my latest backup. Then i'm going to change the provider ASAP...

Believe me, all other providers are better then combozo now... such a shame!

So here is the public version for anybody to see:

On the 8th of October I noticed that my VMs with seflow's FlexCloud service in France were offline. I logged into the control panel and they showed as turned off. I then opened a ticket and asked why the VMs were turned off, Matteo Berlonghi, the CEO of seflow responded that this problem would be caused by my VMs and that nobody else would have problems. Here is the conversation up to this point (always read these from the bottom):

After powering the VMs on again, I still couldn't reach them and I found them to have packet loss, so I told seflow, Matteo Berlonghi went on telling me that this would also be a specific issue with my VMs, despite others reporting packet loss at the same time for the same service:

At the same time packet loss was reported on LET:

I then went ahead and told Matteo Berlonghi that somebody else also had issues with packet loss and that's when Matteo Berlonghi found out who I was on lowendtalk and decided to quit all communication with me:

You may now ask why Matteo Berlonghi reponded so drastically? It's because I made one, yes, one negative statement about seflow, this one:

This is the reason Matteo Berlonghi decided to not respond to trouble tickets anymore, this is the reason why he suspended my services one day after all this went down, without any notification, without any reason, without giving refund for the remaining credit of the account at seflow. Matteo Berlonghi broke the contract between me and his company by suspending the service and keeping the money. He is also not true to his own words: Since there was still credit left the contract didn't end yet and still one day later all the VMs were suspended without any notification or reason.

In the meantime, Matteo Berlonghi denies that the issues that occured for my VMs occured for other people while others reported the same issues. The issue that the VMs showed as offline repeated itself one day after the initial incident, another customer had the same problem, as you can see here: Short translation: Frecyboy asks me if I currently have problems with seflow, I respond to him that all my VMs show as offline, he then quotes a ticket response stating that a storage server of seflow went down.

I can only advise you to stay far away from this provider. I know that other reputable members on LET had their fair share of problems with them in the past and that they are unreliable and even try to discredit people by lying, attacking them verbally or making statements that they can't proof like:

For all the potential customers of seflow, this treatment is what you can expect from their CEO:

What about alienvault ossim as IDS. Benefits, discourages. Personaly i havent tested yet but ill do in a few days. What About ?

I ordered a VPS for a year, and another with payment per month, but it is terribly lag and was unavailable a few hours! I wrote to the support service, and they just closed my account!!! The money they have not returned to me! Just scammers specifically Ryan Braakhuis. Beware of them. Warn others do repost. I hope my sad experience will help somebody. http://i.imgur.com/5fBm0rb.png Then i got 2 mails with Suspension Reason: Pending Termination Scammers!

Hello LET, I was just wondering if BytesRack (http://www.bytesrack.com/) seemed like a legitimate company to colocate with (I was offered $30 for a 6 month term), as I have seen the past dramas and would like to ensure my server was in a safe place. Thank you

A few days back I opted to move one of my family members websites from a host that I had been using around 10 years that had recently sold up and I wasn't comfortable that the service will remain as is, with that in mind I decided to move away.

Within a few minutes of me posting a thread enquiring about a new host, @Clouvider was suggested to myself and I've seen quote a few +1 posts for them over the past months, I dropped Dominik a PM and we went from there. I eventually opted for their medium cloud hosting package, later that evening I had moved the website across and was feeling very confident about the move and the road ahead.

It's only early days but I have definitely noticed the website renders a hell of a lot quicker than it did before, very pleased to say the least.

Let's fast forward to yesterday morning, I'm minding my own business brushing my teeth and the dog starts to go mental at the letter box, usual activity for when the evil post man is approaching the front door. Instead of the usual bank statement, PPI enquiry, vanquish credit card pre-approving letter, you know the usual crap. It was a jiffy bag that I wasn't expecting the only parcel I was expecting was 120 pouches of Felix cat food, most certainly wouldn't fit through the letter box.

I was blown away when I opened it to find that it was a delivery from @Clouvider! The package contained a awesome case with a pen drive in and a personal welcoming letter with a copy of my invoice.

I've been around the hosting industry for around 15 years now and I've never had this before, was a very pleasant surprise. Keep up the good word Dominik and the gang.

I'm hoping to another 10+ years with yourself.

That reminds me I need to go demand the pen drive back from my girlfriend as she bagsy'd it!

from the past 10 days or so, its taking more than 10hours or so for hostodo to reply?

not sure if this is reversehost part 2 happening or some other problem

if anybody can give any useful inputs...

the best positive thing is @hassan is still very helpful and cooperative.

To stop things from getting lost under the "review thread" that noone will read, I think opening a new proper thread with a single topic might be more appropriate.

Seems to be the common knowledge now that Rage4 DNS query count seems odd. Rage4 claims this is not the case and tells us they checked this many times, mostly blaming bots and Google's open DNS.

Being all suspicious yesterday because of their poor prorating, I ran a few tests yesterday which you can find here if you want a long read (bottom of page 1): https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/81617/rage4-review/p1

I was trying to give them a benefit of the doubt when I was running the first tests, but it slowly started showing that the queries seem to be simply inflated without any real logic. My guess was 5 + 1 (so 6 times).

Updated:

I'm doing more tests, sending a request to: simplest-test-possible.com with no DNS records except for *.simplest-test-possible.com counts as 3 queries.

Sending a request to test.simplest-test-possible.com counts as 6 queries. There is nothing else on there. Since I'm always prefering the option that these aren't just fake queries. Here's what I think you're doing:

You're counting an A type query as a separate request for the SOA record, two NS records, A record AAAA record and CNAME record. Which then appears as 6 queries. (Or something similar)

In any case, this is not how you're suppose to count queries. A DNS query has questions and each question has lookups and then answers. I'm sure 99% of the time one DNS query has one question with multiple lookups and 1-3 results depending on the server config. What you're doing is just counting everything and saying these are queries.

In the first example I assume there's a lookup for a SOA and two NS records since there isn't anything else, counting as 3 requests.

In any case, this is not how you're suppose to count queries. A DNS query has questions and each question has lookups and then answers. I'm sure 99% of the time one DNS query has one question with multiple lookups and 1-3 results depending on the server config. What you're doing is just counting everything and saying these are queries.

Update 2:

It appears that this might only be the case when TTL is low. I don't feel like testing anymore though.

This was then confirmed by @SplitIce who also made an open source testing tool and created a non-existing domain to get as accurate results as possible. You can find the tool at: https://github.com/splitice/Rage4Test

@gbshouse Please join in the conversaion. I don't want to scream and call you a scammer, but as I pointed out many times. Check your query counting, also I feel like you owe a big long explanation that actually doesn't blame everything else. Even though at this point I sincerely doubt there's anything wrong with the code, because something like this would be quite obvious and it would be quite easy for you to say something like: Oh, you were right, it was multiplied by 6. Our bad. That would be a rather poor excuse. Conveniently you always blamed Google DNS for sending 3-5 requests. How fun. Looks just right huh? Except that the tests were done directly.

At this point I'm not sure if I should feel satisfaction of figuring this out, however I am getting quite angry at this point so excuse my "hostility". I never like attacking someone, even if I believe they're doing something wrong and I gave you a benefit of the doubt so many times... Yet it looks like I paid you at least 300€ too much during the past few years for inflating the queries times 6, not to mention many many other, bigger customers. Now convince me otherwise.

Hello everybody and all member Lowendtalk.com! I'm new here, but i know LET about one year. I offten go here to find copuon or cheap vps/domain. Now i want to post a Review for 20$ dedicated server of Dedidirect again. This price so pretty and cool :D

Order link: http://www.dedidirect.com/billing/signup.php?package=841

Dual L5420 8192MB DDRII Memory * (so surprise to me, when send a ticket upgrade and ask something, he upgrade for me 24GB DDRII Memory) 500GB SATAII HDD 1Gbps Port Speed 20TB Premium Bandwidth 5 IP Address

Now, here we go...:D

System Info and Testing:

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/\ / ___\ _ _ / / / / | / / / | / / ____/ __ \ / \ \ / / | | / / // /| | /| / // // |/ / /_ / / / / / \ \// \ | |/ / __ / | |/ |/ // // /| / __/ / // / / _________\ |___// // |/|/___// |// _/ \ / / vHWINFO 1.1 May 2015 | https://vhwinfo.com

dnsdomainname: Unknown host hostname: CHI-05-19. (public ip xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) SO: CentOS release 6.4 64 bits kernel: 2.6.32-358.el6.x86_64 virtual: It is not virtual, is dedicated cpu: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU L5420 @ 2.50GHz vcpu: 8 cores / 5000.41 bogomips RAM: 24028 MB (2% used) / swap 2063 MB (0% used) HD: 459G (1% used) / inkling speed 906 MB/s cachefly 10MB: 75.9 MB/s (probably Gigabit Port)

System Info

Processor : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU L5420 @ 2.50GHz CPU Cores : 8 Frequency : 600.000 MHz Memory : 24028 MB Swap : 12063 MB Uptime : 6:10,

OS : CentOS release 6.4 (Final) Arch : x86_64 (64 Bit) Kernel : 2.6.32-358.el6.x86_64 Hostname : CHI-05-19

Speedtest (IPv4 only)

Your public IPv4 is xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

Location Provider Speed CDN Cachefly 95.5MB/s

Atlanta, GA, US Coloat 71.0MB/s Dallas, TX, US Softlayer 47.0MB/s Seattle, WA, US Softlayer 21.3MB/s San Jose, CA, US Softlayer 24.0MB/s Washington, DC, US Softlayer 50.6MB/s

Tokyo, Japan Linode 8.28MB/s Singapore Softlayer 6.48MB/s

Rotterdam, Netherlands id3.net 5.94MB/s Haarlem, Netherlands Leaseweb 26.2MB/s

Disk Speed

I/O (1st run) : 113 MB/s I/O (2nd run) : 115 MB/s I/O (3rd run) : 114 MB/s Average I/O : 114 MB/s

2016-06-10 02:41:31 (58.0 MB/s) - written to stdout [5399/5399]

Benching I/O ... OK Benching CPU. Bzipping 25MB file ... OK Benching inbound network. Downloading 100MB file ... OK Share at https://github.com/mgutz/vpsbench/wiki/VPS-Hosts

06/10/2016 - VMPLAN - DATACENTER - OS - AUTHOR CPU model: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU L5420 @ 2.50GHz Number of cores: 8 CPU frequency: 600.000 MHz Total amount of RAM: 24028 MB Total amount of swap: 12063 MB System uptime: 6:24, I/O speed: 116 MB/s Bzip 25MB: 5.72s Download 100MB file: 103MB/s

Test I/O using 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, 9.43637 s, 114 MB/s

Speed test again:

Retrieving speedtest.net configuration... Retrieving speedtest.net server list... Testing from Nexeon Technologies (216.231.140.107)... Selecting best server based on latency... Hosted by Comcast (Chicago, IL) [44.04 km]: 5.11 ms Testing download speed........................................ Download: 892.19 Mbit/s Testing upload speed.................................................. Upload: 257.94 Mbit/s

**Conclusion: ** For 20$ to buy a dedicated server like this. The price so nice and cool! My server set up in one day, than i will review it again in one month later. But I have to deal with Vee about one year. I would say that not only separate Dedidirect that Vee is a very enthusiastic person and friendly!

I am very happy to be here and how about you?

Hello guys,

I have a short review about that dedi special from Quadix.co mentioned below and on this link: https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/1742763

Server page:

http://quadix.co/ix/cart.php?a=add&pid=6

Intel G530 @ 2.40GHz / 4 GB DDR3 / 500GB Enterprise SATA Hard Drive / 1Gbps @ 30TB / 3 IPs for free - Location: Wilkes-Barre, PA

$9.50/month.

(It's better than announced)

*Review:

System Info
-----------
Processor       : Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU G530 @ 2.40GHz
CPU Cores       : 2
Frequency       : 1599.937 MHz
Memory          : 3863 MB
Swap            : 4004 MB
Uptime          : 19:16,

OS              : Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS
Arch            : x86_64 (64 Bit)
Kernel          : 4.2.0-27-generic
Hostname        : XGT-0002


Speedtest (IPv4 only)
---------------------
Your public IPv4 is XXXXXXXXXXX

Location                Provider        Speed
CDN                     Cachefly        84.8MB/s

Atlanta, GA, US         Coloat          54.3MB/s
Dallas, TX, US          Softlayer       21.6MB/s
Seattle, WA, US         Softlayer       17.9MB/s
San Jose, CA, US        Softlayer       19.5MB/s
Washington, DC, US      Softlayer       65.4MB/s

Tokyo, Japan            Linode          8.34MB/s
Singapore               Softlayer       6.35MB/s

Rotterdam, Netherlands  id3.net         6.52MB/s
Haarlem, Netherlands    Leaseweb        10.1MB/s


Disk Speed
----------
I/O (1st run)   : 127 MB/s
I/O (2nd run)   : 127 MB/s
I/O (3rd run)   : 127 MB/s
Average I/O     : 127 MB/s

HDD:

ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x000f   116   099   006    Pre-fail  Always       -       100976569
  3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0003   099   097   000    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032   096   096   020    Old_age   Always       -       4822
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   036    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x000f   079   060   030    Pre-fail  Always       -       84750673
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   060   060   000    Old_age   Always       -       35227
 10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0013   100   100   097    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
 12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   098   098   020    Old_age   Always       -       2413
183 Runtime_Bad_Block       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
184 End-to-End_Error        0x0032   100   100   099    Old_age   Always       -       0
187 Reported_Uncorrect      0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
188 Command_Timeout         0x0032   100   095   000    Old_age   Always       -       32
189 High_Fly_Writes         0x003a   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022   061   049   045    Old_age   Always       -       39 (Min/Max 24/43)
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0022   039   051   000    Old_age   Always       -       39 (0 15 0 0 0)
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered  0x001a   027   017   000    Old_age   Always       -       100976569
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0012   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0010   100   100   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x003e   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
240 Head_Flying_Hours       0x0000   100   253   000    Old_age   Offline      -       279520766628700
241 Total_LBAs_Written      0x0000   100   253   000    Old_age   Offline      -       430955689
242 Total_LBAs_Read         0x0000   100   253   000    Old_age   Offline      -       4036552441

What do you think guys?