I needed an european VPS for one of my projects. So I came across InceptionHosting's offer on LEB and decided to give them a try. VPS setup was instant, however there were some issues with broken Debian template, but Anthony fixed them fast and he even credited my account. Almost 1 month passed, so here is my review:
13:15:53 up 19 days, 16:49, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
There wasn't any single downtime or server reboot yet.
total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 320 315 4 0 24 239 -/+ buffers/cache: 50 269 Swap: 511 0 511
With Debian 5 + Nginx + MySQL + PHP installed and hosting few websites current memory consumption is around 52 MB.
processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 26 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 950 @ 3.07GHz stepping : 5 cpu MHz : 3066.768 cache size : 8192 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 11 wp : yes flags : fpu de tsc msr pae cx8 apic sep cmov pat clflush acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht nx constant_tsc pni ssse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt ida bogomips : 6141.71 clflush size : 64 power management:
VPS comes with 8 cores of i7-950 running at 3.07 GHz. A paradise for abusers, however so far node is being managed promptly.
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 15G 800M 14G 6% / tmpfs 161M 0 161M 0% /lib/init/rw udev 10M 488K 9.6M 5% /dev tmpfs 161M 4.0K 161M 1% /dev/shm
All disk space is here.
# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync && rm -rf test 16384+0 records in 16384+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 6.11895 s, 175 MB/s
I/O speed is outstanding compared to other european providers using OVH's and Hetzner's servers.
# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync && rm -rf test 16384+0 records in 16384+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 6.21125 s, 173 MB/s
I don't think node has hardware RAiD controller or it maybe it has tiny cache.
# wget -O /dev/null http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test && rm -rf 100mb.test --2011-09-24 13:39:56-- http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net... 205.234.175.175 Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net|205.234.175.175|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream] Saving to: `/dev/null' 100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 81.6M/s in 1.2s 2011-09-24 13:39:57 (81.6 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]
I've never seen better network speeds on a budget VPS.
Integer Score: 5273 ||||||||||||||||||||| Floating Point Score: 11080 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Memory Score: 5932 ||||||||||||||||||||||| Stream Score: 4937 ||||||||||||||||||| Overall Geekbench Score: 7403 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Geekbench score is high too.
Not to forget, every customer gets 5 GB backup space as at BuyVM. Support tickets are usually responded within few minutes. InceptionHosting is definitely one of the best and most reliable VPS providers in Europe.