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 installtakes ageshtoptakes at least 5 seconds to openvitakes 6+ seconds to openlstakes 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. (
vmstatsays 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
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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)
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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
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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.