I needed a 128MB OVZ to host my personal blog, and I needed an east coast provider (I live in Atlantic Canada) since I would also use it from time to time as a VPN while using public hotspots, so I picked up a 128mb Hostigation OVZ located in CLT (North Carolina?).
They are apparently a one man job, but the service is top notch. Tim/miTgiB seems like a very honest guy around the forums, and offers quick ticket responses; setup was within 10 min, and it took half an hour to enable TUN/TAP.
VPS hasn't gone down by itself since I bought it 2 weeks ago, but today I am putting it in production for my site, so I'll post another update on uptime later on, but judging from posts elsewhere, I don't think I'll have issues.
I'm not sure what to put in a review, but the VPS is very fast compared to my AlienVPS, and here are some benchmarks :D:
Amazing io/write speed.
# 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, 5.52316 s, 194 MB/s
# 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, 5.06114 s, 212 MB/s
IOping seems decent.
# ioping . -c 10
4096 bytes from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=1 time=9.2 ms
4096 bytes from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=2 time=0.1 ms
4096 bytes from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=3 time=0.1 ms
4096 bytes from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=4 time=0.1 ms
4096 bytes from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=5 time=0.1 ms
4096 bytes from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=6 time=0.1 ms
4096 bytes from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=7 time=0.1 ms
4096 bytes from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=8 time=0.1 ms
4096 bytes from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=9 time=0.1 ms
4096 bytes from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=10 time=0.1 ms
--- . (simfs /dev/simfs) ioping statistics ---
10 requests completed in 9018.5 ms, 990 iops, 3.9 mb/s
min/avg/max/mdev = 0.1/1.0/9.2/2.7 ms
Geekbench http://browse.geekbench.ca/geekbench2/view?id=574284 (E3's :D)
System Information
Platform: Linux x86 (32-bit)
Compiler: GCC 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-33)
Operating System: Linux 2.6.18-274.7.1.el5.028stab095.1 i686
Model: Linux PC (Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31230 @ 3.20GHz)
Motherboard: Unknown Motherboard
Processor: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31230 @ 3.20GHz
Processor ID: GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7
Logical Processors: 1
Physical Processors: 1
Processor Frequency: 3.19 GHz
L1 Instruction Cache: 0.00 B
L1 Data Cache: 0.00 B
L2 Cache: 256 KB
L3 Cache: 0.00 B
Bus Frequency: 0.00 Hz
Memory: 15.6 GB
Memory Type: N/A
SIMD: 1
BIOS: N/A
Processor Model: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31230 @ 3.20GHz
Processor Cores: 1
Overall Geekbench Score: 4459 |||||||||||||||||
My memory usage with Apache 2.4 + PHP-FPM + MariaDB 5.5 + OpenVPN (stress tested it using apachebench, couldn't get usage to rise above 100mb so I should be safe)
# free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 256 87 168 0 0 0
-/+ buffers/cache: 87 168
Swap: 0 0 0
So overall, I am very impressed with Hostigation :)