Provider: XVMLabs
Location: QuadraNET in LA
Purchase Date: May/11/2014
Specs:
512 MB of RAM 5 GB SSD 100 GB of monthly transfer @ 1 Gbps 1 CPU core 1 IPV4 2.87 USD / year (It's no longer available at this price) KiwiVM Panel
Hardware & benchmarks:
cat /proc/cpuinfo
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5650 @ 2.67GHz
Time taken to generate PI to 5000 decimal places with a single thread: 0m37.431s
cat /proc/user_beancounters
Version: 2.5
uid resource held maxheld barrier limit failcnt
37138: kmemsize 5692799 8560640 183500800 201850880 0
lockedpages 0 0 44800 44800 0
privvmpages 16102 21579 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
shmpages 893 909 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
dummy 0 0 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
numproc 34 114 320 320 0
physpages 11522 19896 0 131072 0
vmguarpages 0 0 131072 9223372036854775807 0
oomguarpages 2964 3128 131072 9223372036854775807 0
numtcpsock 4 19 3010 3010 0
numflock 3 5 1024 1126 0
numpty 1 10 64 64 0
numsiginfo 0 69 256 256 0
tcpsndbuf 76432 338032 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
tcprcvbuf 65536 311296 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
othersockbuf 41616 141720 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
dgramrcvbuf 0 4624 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
numothersock 36 42 3010 3010 0
dcachesize 2250432 2507100 14298764 15728640 0
numfile 434 625 20480 20480 0
dummy 0 0 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
dummy 0 0 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
dummy 0 0 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
numiptent 18 18 512 512 0
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, 2.26572 s, 474 MB/s
Network:
wget cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test -O /dev/null --2014-07-26 06:38:42-- http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net (cachefly.cachefly.net)... 205.234.175.175 Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net (cachefly.cachefly.net)|205.234.175.175|:80. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream] Saving to: `/dev/null' 100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 31.6M/s in 3.3s = 2014-07-26 06:38:45 (30.2 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600] -------------Speed test-------------------- Testing North America locations Speedtest from Portland, Oregon, USA [ generously donated by http://bonevm.com ] on a shared 100 Mbps port Download Speed: 10.96 MB/sec Upload speed: 10.29 MB/sec Speedtest from Los Angeles, CA, USA [ generously donated by http://maximumvps.net ] on a shared 1 Gbps port Download Speed: 28.76 MB/sec Upload speed: 21.64 MB/sec Speedtest from Los Angeles, CA, USA [ generously donated by TeraFire, LLC ] on a shared 1 Gbps port Download Speed: 65.01 MB/sec Upload speed: 37.11 MB/sec Speedtest from Las Vegas, NV, USA [ generously donated by http://hostnun.net/ ] on a shared 200 Mbps port Download Speed: 10.64 MB/sec Upload speed: 25.39 MB/sec Speedtest from Dallas, TX, USA [ generously donated by http://cloudshards.com ] on a shared 1 Gbps port Download Speed: 31.15 MB/sec Upload speed: 23.34 MB/sec Speedtest from Chicago, IL, USA [ generously donated by http://vortexservers.com ] on a shared 1 Gbps port Download Speed: 26.74 MB/sec Upload speed: 19.84 MB/sec Speedtest from Beauharnois, Quebec, Canada [ generously donated by http://mycustomhosting.net ] on a shared 1000 Mbps port in / 500 Mbps port out Download Speed: 28.33 MB/sec Upload speed: 12.04 MB/sec Speedtest from Atlanta, GA, USA [ generously donated by http://hostus.us ] on a shared 1 Gbps port Download Speed: 23.41 MB/sec Upload speed: 7.38 MB/sec Speedtest from Clifton, NJ, USA [ generously donated by http://dedicatedminds.com ] on a shared 1 Gbps port Download Speed: 9.38 MB/sec Upload speed: 11.71 MB/sec Speedtest from Jacksonville, FL, USA [ generously donated by http://maximumvps.net ] on a shared 1 Gbps port Download Speed: 5.15 MB/sec Upload speed: 5.08 MB/sec Testing EU locations Speedtest from Tallinn, Estonia on a shared 1 Gbps port Download Speed: 3.77 MB/sec Upload speed: 5.43 MB/sec Speedtest from Milan, Italy [ generously donated by http://www.prometeus.net ] on a shared 1 Gbps port Download Speed: 10.64 MB/sec Upload speed: 8.00 MB/sec Speedtest from Bucharest, Romania [ generously donated by http://www.prometeus.net ] on a semi-dedicated 1 Gbps port Download Speed: 7.94 MB/sec Upload speed: 3.65 MB/sec Speedtest from Amsterdam, Netherlands on a shared 100 Mbps port Download Speed: 1.93 MB/sec Upload speed: 2.78 MB/sec
A pretty solid network, though I am running this during off-peak hours.
Uptime & Response:
From uptime robot -
Uptime has been good and downtime hasn't been longer than 10 minutes (from what I've noticed).
Support:
Though I have never needed support, XVMLabs only has support through forums. Their KiwiVM Panel has satisfies my needs so far. They also do not offer refunds of any kind. However XVMLabs is owned by IT7, which also owns bandwagonhost as well as nodewatch (for anti VPS abuse), so I don't think it's a hit and run host.
Final Thoughts:
When I bought this VM I was expecting constant downtime and general unresponsiveness. I monitored the uptime and stats of the server for 3 weeks before I decided to use it as a slave node for my proxy check script. It's good enough for me to purchase a second one at ~$5/year. If you use your CPU for a long time, they'll declock the VM to ~600 MHz or something, but once you stop running CPU intensive applications, it goes back to normal. You can also add additional IPs when ordering for really cheap (like 3 extra IPs for ~$0.50/year). I'm impressed with the stability for the price and I look forward to what they might offer in the future.