DelimiterVPS 12 Hour Atom Review

Hi everyone!

Today I saw Delimiter's $10 Atom server deal and since I was in the market for one, I bought one. Here's my 12 hours review, and you'll find out why it won't be longer than that.

I started out by paying the $10, I emailed Steve a few "pre sales" questions and he said he'd give me a 24 hour "refund" period if the server didn't live up to my expectations. He was really nice about the whole thing and even had my server set up within 30 minutes.

I initially installed CentOS 6.4 as thats my "go to" OS. Once I had logged into the server and gotten cozy I decided to do a "sudo yum update", it froze half way through and wouldn't even finish. I thought maybe it was a fluke, these things happen. So I went ahead reinstalled the server with Ubutnu 12.04, it took about an hour in total for it to reinstall. Once it had reinstalled, I logged in and ran "sudo apt-get update" and it finally worked. I installed a few piece of software and ran some benchmarks:

FreeVPS.us, the test froze after Harlem. I re ran it twice and gave it an hour to maybe unfreeze. Here's as far as it went:

root@server3:/home/minecraft# wget freevps.us/downloads/bench.sh -O - -o

/dev/null|bash

CPU model : Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU 230 @ 1.60GHz

Number of cores : 2

CPU frequency : 1597.018 MHz

Total amount of ram : 868 MB

Total amount of swap : 89 MB

System uptime : 11:15,

Download speed from CacheFly: 47.6MB/s

Download speed from Coloat, Atlanta GA: 12.6MB/s

Download speed from Softlayer, Dallas, TX: 10.3MB/s

Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 1.66MB/s

Download speed from i3d.net, NL:

Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 3.48MB/s

Black's Speedtest completed though:

root@server3:/home/minecraft# wget dl.getipaddr.net/speedtest.sh 2>/dev/null -O- |

bash

-------------Speed test--------------------

Testing US locations

Speedtest from Los Angeles, CA, USA [ generously donated by http://maximumvps.net ]

on a shared 1 Gbps port

   Download Speed: 3.36 MB/sec

   Upload speed: 3.89 MB/sec

Speedtest from Los Angeles, CA, USA [ generously donated by TeraFire, LLC ] on a shared 1

Gbps port

   Download Speed: 2.75 MB/sec

   Upload speed: 4.20 MB/sec

Speedtest from South Bend, Indiana, USA [ generously donated by NodeBytes ] on a shared

100 Mbps port

   Download Speed: 0 MB/sec

   Upload speed: 0 MB/sec

Speedtest from Chicago, IL, USA [ generously donated by http://vortexservers.com ] on a

shared 1Gbps port

   Download Speed: 4.83 MB/sec

   Upload speed: 8.95 MB/sec

Speedtest from Buffalo, NY, USA on a shared 1 Gbps port

   Download Speed: 5.71 MB/sec

   Upload speed: 10.47 MB/sec

Speedtest from Atlanta, GA, USA [ generously donated by http://hostus.us ] on a shared

1Gbps port

   Download Speed: 0 MB/sec

   Upload speed: 8.51 MB/sec

Speedtest from Clifton, NJ, USA [ generously donated by http://dedicatedminds.com ] on a

shared 1Gbps port

   Download Speed: 7.55 MB/sec

   Upload speed: 15.24 MB/sec

Testing EU locations

Speedtest from Tallinn, Estonia on a shared 1 Gbps port

   Download Speed: 1.24 MB/sec

   Upload speed: 1.99 MB/sec

---------------CPU test--------------------

CPU: 2 x Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU 230 @ 1.60GHz

Time taken to generate PI to 5000 decimal places: 1m40.786s

As for ServerBear, the test freezes at Sydney and doesn't go any further. I've restarted the test twice. I've given up.

The server's network is just too slow for what I need, it doesn't preform to my expectations. If you were running something small or using this server as a test bed, it would be perfect. But, thats just not what I need it for.

I'll answer some of the questions everyone has right now:

"It's a $10 server, you have to high of expectations."

Maybe, but I went into this expecting a slow server and I came out with a slow server. I wasn't shocked at all. For the price, I could pay $3 more and go with someone like Online.net or Digicube and get a half decenet network (at least from my past experience).

"I told you not to go with them."

Of course, but sometimes you have to try things out for yourself to actually get the full affect. I also purchased the server so I could review it and post the specs so others can have an informed opinion before purchasing. I'm not saying they're bad, i'm just showing the facts. It's up to the consumer on how they want to interpret them.

"Look at their past"

I did, and I wasn't surprised really. Everyone has a past, some hide it better than others. No one is perfect in this industry.