01-10-2017, 02:59 PM
Introducion
Hello, I'm reviewing this VPS as required. Firstly, I would like to thank Post4VPS staff and VPS-Hosting.CA for providing this VPS to me. The main reason I added this VPS number to my request is because I wanted a KVM VPS. I was planning to host my personal website if I got a OpenVZ vm, but since I got this KVM VPS, I've changed my plans to use it for something else. Specifications
Disk Space: 20 GB HDD.
RAM: 1 GB, 512mb vSwap (assigned by me, cause it isn't really needed)
Virtualization: KVM.
Monthly Traffic: unlimited.
Server Location: Ontario, Canada.
Control Panel: Unfortunately it has no control panel.
Connection: 100 Mbps (though it seems to be lil bit faster)
Yeah, specifications is enough for my needs. Though it would be better if it had a control panel, anyways that isn't really an issue.
Benchmarking
Benchmark by Hidden Refuge's benchmarking script:
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jayce@vm3:~/bench$ ./bench.sh
Benchmark started on Tue Jan 10 09:25:32 EST 2017
Full benchmark log: /home/jayce/bench.log
System Info
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Processor : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5335 @ 2.00GHz
CPU Cores : 1
Frequency : 2000.071 MHz
Memory : 1000 MB
Swap : 459 MB
Uptime : 2 days, 20:05,
OS : Debian GNU/Linux 8
Arch : x86_64 (64 Bit)
Kernel : 3.16.0-4-amd64
Hostname : censored
Speedtest (IPv4 only)
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Your public IPv4 is censored
Location Provider Speed
CDN Cachefly 18.1MB/s
Atlanta, GA, US Coloat 4.03MB/s
Dallas, TX, US Softlayer 4.47MB/s
Seattle, WA, US Softlayer 3.13MB/s
San Jose, CA, US Softlayer 3.99MB/s
Washington, DC, US Softlayer 2.50MB/s
Tokyo, Japan Linode 4.48MB/s
Singapore Softlayer 2.02MB/s
Rotterdam, Netherlands id3.net 2.26MB/s
Haarlem, Netherlands Leaseweb 6.88MB/s
Disk Speed
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I/O (1st run) : 5.5 MB/s
I/O (2nd run) : 44.7 MB/s
I/O (3rd run) : 53.2 MB/s
Average I/O : 34.4667 MB/s
IO is kinda low innit? I suppose it should be higher since this slows down the VPS. Don't think the internet speed is low, it's good for a 100mbps connection and a Canada located server. I don't need a higher internet speed anyways.
More IO speed tests:
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jayce@vm3:~/bench$ 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, 30.9533 s, 34.7 MB/s
jayce@vm3:~/bench$ 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, 21.4673 s, 50.0 MB/s
jayce@vm3:~/bench$ 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, 23.468 s, 45.8 MB/s
I can't say really much because this is a free service so I guess paid customers gets the higher IO priority, however, another internet speed test:
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jayce@vm3:~/bench$ ./speedtest-cli --share
Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...
Testing from KW Datacentre (104.233.65.134)...
Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Selecting best server based on ping...
Hosted by Tri City WiFi Corp. (kitchener, ON) [4.61 km]: 15.677 ms
Testing download speed................................................................................
Download: 324.10 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed....................................................................................................
Upload: 70.31 Mbit/s
Share results: http://www.speedtest.net/result/5954409967.png
jayce@vm3:~/bench$ ./speedtest-cli --share
Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...
Testing from KW Datacentre (104.233.65.134)...
Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Selecting best server based on ping...
Hosted by Tri City WiFi Corp. (kitchener, ON) [4.61 km]: 4.547 ms
Testing download speed................................................................................
Download: 438.48 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed....................................................................................................
Upload: 72.00 Mbit/s
Share results: http://www.speedtest.net/result/5954410814.png
jayce@vm3:~/bench$
Looks like the connection is faster than 100mbps, not sure why it's specified as 100mbps in the specifications thread.
My Opinion
This is a good KVM machine for personal hobbies/projects, I like it and I don't think I'll replace it in near future, however if the IO speed could be better, then it's going to be perfect. I would really rate it 8/10, but that's just my personal opinion which might change from a person to another. I guess we've came to an end, ladies and gentlemen.
Thanks for viewing.