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VPS 16 (Hostlease) - Review - March 2019

Introduction
When Jordy (F7N) presented post4vps.com with a second VPS - VPS 16, we were overjoyed, particularly since the VPS has a KVM configuration, and promised to be much faster than VPS 15.  You can have a look at my review of VPS 15 that was written earlier in the month.  VPS 15, although with generous specs, has an OpenVZ configuration and only 100 Mbps connection speed.  Speed is not really bad though, and since the RAM, traffic and disk space are generous VPS 15 should be OK for a light private game server.  Someone still has to test it for a game server, but for my test with WordPress blog, it was fast and a good VPS to use for that purpose.

When Jordy turned VPS 16 over to me he asked that I try it out before it was added to the Giveaway.  Which is what I did.  VPS 16 will be available during the next Giveaway on 1st of April.  The following is my review of VPS 16.

Network, Performance & Reliability
Not only does VPS 16 have a KVM configuration, but the connection speed is 1Gbps making it much faster than VPS 15.  RAM may be less than ideal for a fully fledged games server, but I'm sure if someone tried it for a games server, that they will find it a good VPS to have.  I again tried it out with a WordPress blog, and compared with VPS 15 VPS 16 handled much faster.  A speed test of VPS 16 appears below.  Some members mentioned that the location of VPS 16 in Los Angeles would be a problem since it's far out of the way of most members ISPs, however I found it not to be a problem at all.  My ISP is located in South Africa, and speed was fast.

This was the speed on the first day I started using VPS 16 on 23rd of March 2019:



And this is the speed today:



Specs of VPS 16

Disk Size: 20 GB SSD
Monthly Traffic: 2 TB
Memory: 1 GB
IP Addresses: 1x IPv4
Virtualization: KVM
Location: Los Angeles, USA
Control Panel: None
Connection: 1 Gbps
Provided by: Hostlease

VPS 16 Host - Hostlease, Netherlands
VPS 16 has been donated by Hostlease, a sponsor of post4vps.com, and hosting company based in Heerde, the Netherlands.  Hostlease specializes in business hosting and reseller hosting with focus on unlimited fast SSD disk space, data and cPanel features, and e-mails.  It also provides unlimited Comodo SSL certificates for domains and subdomains. VPSs are an add on service and any one interested in a VPS should contact Jorgy (F7N) in the Forum.

System Information
The System Information below was generated by the Hidden Refuge's Benchmark 2.0 Test.  Thank you to @"Hidden Refuge" for being so generous to continuously update and support it for us:

CPU Model:  Intel® Xeon® CPU ES-2620 0 @ 2.00GHz
CPU Cores:  1
Frequency:  1999.999 MHz
Total Amount of RAM:  996 MB
Total Amount of SWAP:  0 MB
Uptime:  4 days, 6:42,
Download Speed: (94.20 MB/s)
I/O Speed: 198 MB/s

OS: CentOS Linux 6.10 (Final)
Architecture: x86_64 (64 Bit)
Kernel:  2.6.32-696.1.1.el6.x86_64

Benchmark Test
Here are the results of the Benchmark Test:

Code: (Select All)

wget --no-check-certificate https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hidden-refuge/bench-sh-2/master/bench.sh && bash bench.sh -b && rm bench.sh

Canada
Download speed from Cachefly: 11.3MB/s

America - United States:
Download speed from Coloat, Atlanta, GA: 4.19MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Dallas, TX: 11.0MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Seattle, WA: 11.18MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 11.2MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Washington, DC: 10.4MB/s

Asia
Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, Japan: 8.69MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Singapore: 8.08MB/s
Download speed from Hinet, Taiwan: 6.23MB/s

Europe
Download speed from i3d.net, Rotterdam, Netherlands: 8.08MB/s
Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, Netherlands: 11.0MB/s


Disks and Storage

Disk speed:

Drive Speed
I/O (1st run): 212 MB/s
I/O (2nd run): 232 MB/s
I/O (3rd run): 242 MB/s
Average I/O: 228.667 MB/s

Usage
I've been using VPS 16 mostly for a WordPress blog.  I loaded VestaCP and had it up and running in minutes.  I then added my Softaculous license on VestaCP and had a WordPress blog up and running in no time.  I gave it a solid workout with adding blog pages and posts and making modifications.  Plugins loaded in no time.  This is a very fast VPS for a blog.  Speed should sustain a Games Server as well.  Jordy says that it should be OK to run the Games Server without any limitations.  Hopefully some one can test this and do a review on running VPS 16 as a Games Server. I'd be interested to see whether the 1 core 1 GB RAM would be able to sustain a Games Server without any limits.

Initially it looked as though VPS 16 like VPS 15 wouldn't come with a panel, but looks as though Jordy will be able to set up a panel for the VPS as well.  

Things to Improve
Both VPS 15 and VPS 16 still have to be tested for Games Servers.  Jordy believes that VPS 15 should be good for a light games server and VPS 16 for a heavier games server with no limits.  Depending on the outcome of the tests, I'd say that 1GB RAM may be too little for VPS 16 and the 100Mbps connection speed too little for VPS 15 for a Games Server, but that would depend on the outcome of the tests. So far there is nothing I can fault on VPS 16.  Particularly since it looks as though it will come with its own panel as well.

Conclusion
All in all everything worked excellent with VPS 16 - like really really fast - distance from Los Angeles was never an issue.  Support from the sponsor through F7N (Jordy) during the set up of the VPS was excellent and I want to extend a special note to him for Hostlease's super support and the donation of VPS 16 for use by post4vps.

[arsalahmed786]

Damn great review as always now i'm going to review your post is 10/10 and that was really quick. VPS is seems great best part is:

Windows OS: Yes. Once trial has expired valid license is required.

and about the gameserver test, I hope whoever grab it, Give us a review on Gaming experience with gameserver on both of Hostlease's VPS.