11-19-2020, 02:28 PM
Hello all! I am going on month two of using my VPS provided by @cubedata and I have learned a lot to say the least. In this review I will be breaking things down by my thoughts, some benchmarks followed by my current use and what I hope to accomplish with the VPS in the next month or so. So let’s get right into it.
My thoughts:
I honestly did not know what to expect when I first got the keys and got behind the wheel of this VPS. As you will see in the benchmarks, there’s a lot of power behind this plan and honestly with my love of Wordpress I needed something that was going to be able to handle the load that my main site and developer site were going to produce. My last host, many of you noticed the long load times, but with the transition of my main site nearing completion I could not be happier. The panel was a little confusing for me to understand right off of the jump, but I quickly got use to it, using the built in HTML5 VNC client to fool around with things until I was able to get the VNC client built into macOS setup properly followed by getting SSH enabled so I can tinker even on my iPhone. I would say CubeData exceeds expectations with 99.99% uptime, so I know my clients and business will always be connected.
Pros:
Consistant uptime
Fast and easy to setup
Panel Tools are powerful, limited and direct
Cons:
I noticed with the Panel that the Virtual CDROM would often unmount itself while I was trying to get my server reset up and optimized.
Server Specs:
OS: Ubuntu Server 18.04.5
Virtualization: XenHVM
Location: Huston, TX
Web Server: Apache2
Configurations: Domain + Subdomains with SSL, SSH and MFA
Storage: 50GB
Memory: 3.91GB
Bandwidth: Unmetered
Swap: Disabled
Network Card: Intel E1000
Benchmarks:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
CPU Model : Intel® Xeon® CPU X5560 @ 2.80GHz
CPU Cores : 2
CPU Frequency : 2800.136 MHz
CPU Cache : 8192 KB
Total Disk : 45.5 GB (4.3 GB Used)
Total Mem : 3833 MB (600 MB Used)
Total Swap : 4119 MB (0 MB Used)
System uptime : 5 days, 9 hour 23 min
Load average : 0.05, 0.03, 0.01
OS : Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS
Arch : x86_64 (64 Bit)
Kernel : 4.15.0-123-generic
TCP CC : cubic
Virtualization : Xen
Organization : AS40676 Psychz Networks
Location : Houston / US
Region : Texas
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I/O Speed(1st run) : 211 MB/s
I/O Speed(2nd run) : 232 MB/s
I/O Speed(3rd run) : 202 MB/s
Average I/O speed : 215.0 MB/s
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Node Name Upload Speed Download Speed Latency
Speedtest.net 937.72 Mbps 927.97 Mbps 1.59 ms
Shanghai CU 1.06 Mbps 287.86 Mbps 314.52 ms
Guangzhou CT 0.18 Mbps 124.39 Mbps 230.33 ms
Shenzhen CU 0.27 Mbps 232.71 Mbps 303.80 ms
Hongkong CN 464.33 Mbps 368.77 Mbps 190.04 ms
Singapore SG 388.06 Mbps 301.57 Mbps 212.40 ms
Tokyo JP 191.15 Mbps 23.63 Mbps 151.87 ms
----------------------------------------------------------------------
My plans for the future:
With this server going above and beyond my expectations, some of my plans for the future is to continue developing softwares and CMSs that I've had in development for a while now along with venturing into new technologies such as creating an AI Assistant for said projects.The sky is the limit and I see my self keeping up with and continuing to maintain access to this VPS until I out grow it. One thing I would like to do is create a small mail server, so I can move my email from gmail to have a [email protected], but that can come at a later time and date. Thank you once again to Post4VPS and @cubedata for the wonderful server.
My thoughts:
I honestly did not know what to expect when I first got the keys and got behind the wheel of this VPS. As you will see in the benchmarks, there’s a lot of power behind this plan and honestly with my love of Wordpress I needed something that was going to be able to handle the load that my main site and developer site were going to produce. My last host, many of you noticed the long load times, but with the transition of my main site nearing completion I could not be happier. The panel was a little confusing for me to understand right off of the jump, but I quickly got use to it, using the built in HTML5 VNC client to fool around with things until I was able to get the VNC client built into macOS setup properly followed by getting SSH enabled so I can tinker even on my iPhone. I would say CubeData exceeds expectations with 99.99% uptime, so I know my clients and business will always be connected.
Pros:
Consistant uptime
Fast and easy to setup
Panel Tools are powerful, limited and direct
Cons:
I noticed with the Panel that the Virtual CDROM would often unmount itself while I was trying to get my server reset up and optimized.
Server Specs:
OS: Ubuntu Server 18.04.5
Virtualization: XenHVM
Location: Huston, TX
Web Server: Apache2
Configurations: Domain + Subdomains with SSL, SSH and MFA
Storage: 50GB
Memory: 3.91GB
Bandwidth: Unmetered
Swap: Disabled
Network Card: Intel E1000
Benchmarks:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
CPU Model : Intel® Xeon® CPU X5560 @ 2.80GHz
CPU Cores : 2
CPU Frequency : 2800.136 MHz
CPU Cache : 8192 KB
Total Disk : 45.5 GB (4.3 GB Used)
Total Mem : 3833 MB (600 MB Used)
Total Swap : 4119 MB (0 MB Used)
System uptime : 5 days, 9 hour 23 min
Load average : 0.05, 0.03, 0.01
OS : Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS
Arch : x86_64 (64 Bit)
Kernel : 4.15.0-123-generic
TCP CC : cubic
Virtualization : Xen
Organization : AS40676 Psychz Networks
Location : Houston / US
Region : Texas
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I/O Speed(1st run) : 211 MB/s
I/O Speed(2nd run) : 232 MB/s
I/O Speed(3rd run) : 202 MB/s
Average I/O speed : 215.0 MB/s
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Node Name Upload Speed Download Speed Latency
Speedtest.net 937.72 Mbps 927.97 Mbps 1.59 ms
Shanghai CU 1.06 Mbps 287.86 Mbps 314.52 ms
Guangzhou CT 0.18 Mbps 124.39 Mbps 230.33 ms
Shenzhen CU 0.27 Mbps 232.71 Mbps 303.80 ms
Hongkong CN 464.33 Mbps 368.77 Mbps 190.04 ms
Singapore SG 388.06 Mbps 301.57 Mbps 212.40 ms
Tokyo JP 191.15 Mbps 23.63 Mbps 151.87 ms
----------------------------------------------------------------------
My plans for the future:
With this server going above and beyond my expectations, some of my plans for the future is to continue developing softwares and CMSs that I've had in development for a while now along with venturing into new technologies such as creating an AI Assistant for said projects.The sky is the limit and I see my self keeping up with and continuing to maintain access to this VPS until I out grow it. One thing I would like to do is create a small mail server, so I can move my email from gmail to have a [email protected], but that can come at a later time and date. Thank you once again to Post4VPS and @cubedata for the wonderful server.