[RickB]

VPS 8 review; provided by BladeIP/ Perryoo11

Introduction

Although this VPS will be in for the next giveaway(s), Perry gave me the amazing opportunity to bench one of the VPSes yet. Of course, I'll share the results here :-)

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Specifications-

Disk Space 35 GB
RAM: 2 GB RAM
CPU: 5 cores
IP Addresses: 1x IPv4
Virtualization: OpenVZ
Monthly Traffic: unmetered (fair use)
Location:  Canada
Control Panel: OWP
Connection: 100 MB/s
Provided by: perryoo11 / bladeip
Terms: TOS




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Benchmarks
 
FreeVPS Benchmark Script V2 made by Hidden Refuge

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root@ricksvps:~# sh bench.sh
Benchmark started on Fri Jun 24 07:14:24 EDT 2016
Full benchmark log: /root/bench.log

System Info
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Processor       : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E7- 4850  @ 2.00GHz
CPU Cores       : 5
Frequency       : 358.866 MHz
Memory          : 2048 MB
Swap            : 12 MB
Uptime          : 17:02,

OS              : Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS
Arch            : x86_64 (64 Bit)
Kernel          : 2.6.32-042stab116.1
Hostname        : ricksvps.bladeip.com


Speedtest (IPv4 only)
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Your public IPv4 is 64.137.XXX.XXX

Location                Provider        Speed
CDN                     Cachefly        9.19MB/s

Atlanta, GA, US         Coloat          4.59MB/s
Dallas, TX, US          Softlayer       2.33MB/s
Seattle, WA, US         Softlayer       777KB/s
San Jose, CA, US        Softlayer       1.43MB/s
Washington, DC, US      Softlayer       1.69MB/s

Tokyo, Japan            Linode          1.97MB/s
Singapore               Softlayer       557KB/s

Rotterdam, Netherlands  id3.net         181KB/s
Haarlem, Netherlands    Leaseweb        682KB/s


Disk Speed
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I/O (1st run)   : 240 MB/s
I/O (2nd run)   : 380 MB/s
I/O (3rd run)   : 403 MB/s
Average I/O     : 341 MB/s

As the log shows, you get a share of an Intel Xeon E7-4850. Which is an - somewhat old - but still quite reasonable CPU at a clockspeed of 2.00 Ghz with 10 cores and 20 threads.
Though, your VPS only gets a share of: 5 CPU cores at about 400 Mhz (358.866 to be exact), which is not a really high amount, but it should be okay for most light use-cases. The download speeds are actually really low, even close to the server the speeds are not getting higher than 10MB/s. I'll talk more about the network later, after my Speedtest.net results.

Speedtest.net

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root@ricksvps:~# ./speedtest-cli --share
Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...
Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Testing from KW Datacentre (64.137.XXX.XXX)...
Selecting best server based on latency...
Hosted by Source Cable Ltd (Hamilton, ON) [54.03 km]: 48.732 ms
Testing download speed........................................
Download: 2.22 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed..................................................
Upload: 6.17 Mbit/s
Could not submit results to speedtest.net: [Errno 104] Connection reset by peer
root@ricksvps:~# ./speedtest-cli --share
Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...
Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Testing from KW Datacentre (64.137.XXX.XXX)...
Selecting best server based on latency...
Hosted by Mitchell Seaforth Cable TV (Dublin, ON) [56.77 km]: 30.858 ms
Testing download speed........................................
Download: 30.82 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed..................................................
Upload: 1.53 Mbit/s
Share results: http://www.speedtest.net/result/5428821052.png

Image proof


Well, it might be clear that the network Perry's VPS uses is Fibernetics/ KW Datacentre, the same shitty network as CloudAtCost uses. There surely is work to be done!!

I/O Speed

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Disk Speed
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I/O (1st run)   : 240 MB/s
I/O (2nd run)   : 380 MB/s
I/O (3rd run)   : 403 MB/s
Average I/O     : 341 MB/s

Well, although at first I thought those speeds were fake, but Perry also did the same command at the main server, so it can't be faked by OpenVZ, and surprisingly the speeds were really close, so I guess these are what kind of I/O you should expect from these VPSes.

Control Panel

The VPS Perry is providing comes with the OpenVZ Web Panel. An open-source, but quite good and handy panel to manage your VPS.

This is what the interface of OWP looks like:


Well, since I don't want, and I am not going to, say a bad word about OWP, this is pretty much it about the CP.

Suggestions

- Fix the up- and downlinks.
- Allocate a higher core frequency to the VPSes. Edit: see post #2 down below


Final Ratings
The VPS is not bad, but it's definately also not one of the best ones. There surely is some work to be done, as I said.

Well, since I rated my DO VPS with 9/10, the GHP VPS with 8/10, I have to rate this one with 6/10. It's not really bad, but it's worse than the servers I named before.
Final Rating 6/10


Special thanks to TrK, since I used his review as a "template" for mine and to Perry (Perryoo11) for giving me the opportunity to test the VPSes before they'll become available to the rest of Post4VPS.

[perry]

core freq. is alright in the node for post4vps.
the freq = 1.9ghz off 2 ghz

thank you for the review

[TrK]

not bad @RickB and Perry, the network speed is not good as i thought but its okay for some small type of development.

[Conan]

How'd you ged an E7 node That's like super expensive. Even renting it. (Not gonna be cheaper than 200usd per month afaik)
@perryoo11

[TrK]

How'd you ged an E7 node That's like super expensive. Even renting it. (Not gonna be cheaper than 200usd per month afaik)
@perryoo11

I think with shared E7 processor its cheaper

[perry]

How'd you ged an E7 node That's like super expensive. Even renting it. (Not gonna be cheaper than 200usd per month afaik)
@perryoo11

New datacenter. New cpus.

[Conan]

I think with shared E7 processor its cheaper

Shared? That would mean that it's just a VPS :/ A VPS reseller?

New datacenter. New cpus.

What do you even mean?

It more than 3000 usd at amazon (That specific model)
Even a second hand won't go under 1500 usd. (AFAIK)
I don't think that's cheap. (Who would shell out hundreds of dollars per month for a small forum?)

[perry]

What do you even mean?

It more than 3000 usd at amazon (That specific model)
Even a second hand won't go under 1500 usd. (AFAIK)
I don't think that's cheap. (Who would shell out hundreds of dollars per month for a small forum?)

My provider uses e7 how thet got it idk.

[RickB]

My provider uses e7 how thet got it idk.

The important thing is that it works, not how he arranges it, but the fact that he arranges it :-)

[perry]

to clear some stuff up:

the cpu that i use has been decided by my provider i can't personal change that.
they chosed to use a expansive cpu to use for vds.

price:
https://www.amazon.com/IBM-88Y5404-E7-48...ds=E7-4850

not that bad.