[humanpuff69]

Hi guys

Before doing the review i just want to say thanks to Virmach and Post4VPS for providing me this glorious VPS 9 . now lets go to the review . VPS 9 is one of the most wanted VPS in this forum and i have no doubt that it is because of the huge memory and great performance for free and even paid VPS.

VPS Specs

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CPU vCore : 2 (Fair Use)
Virtualization : OpenVZ
RAM : 8GB
SSD : 100GB
SSD Speed : Up to 800MB/s Approx. (Fair Use)
Network : 1Gbps (Fair Use)  @ 4TB Bandwidth
IP : 1x IPv4 + 3x IPv6
Location : Phoenix AZ (I got the phoenix one . but there are other option available)
OS : Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial (there are more os option but i choose ubuntu because it is much easier to work with)
Control Panel : Ask Admin
To see the fair use you can see [url=https://virmach.com/terms-conditions/#tab1]Virmach AUP Here[/url]

Control Panel
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Benchmark
And here is the thing that you guys are really want to see . the benchmark of the VPS

FreeVPS bench.sh (Overused linux benchmark)

Terminal

System Info
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Processor       : Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2620 v3 @ 2.40GHz  will get rekt by EPYC soon
CPU Cores       : 2
Frequency       : 2400.012 MHz
Memory          : 8192 MB
Swap            :  MB
Uptime          : 1 day, 3:49,

OS              : Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS
Arch            : x86_64 (64 Bit)
Kernel          : 2.6.32-042stab111.11 (dont worry about that 2.6 version . it is the latest openvz kernel)
Hostname        : Post2Host-Phoenix


Speedtest (IPv4 only) THIS USE MEGABYTE . THE SPEEDTEST.NET ONE USE MEGABITS!
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Location                Provider        Speed
CDN                     Cachefly        72.2MB/s

Atlanta, GA, US         Coloat          42.6MB/s
Dallas, TX, US          Softlayer       62.9MB/s
Seattle, WA, US         Softlayer       60.0MB/s
San Jose, CA, US        Softlayer       88.6MB/s
Washington, DC, US      Softlayer       8.39MB/s

Tokyo, Japan            Linode          15.8MB/s
Singapore               Softlayer       10.2MB/s

Rotterdam, Netherlands  id3.net         12.4MB/s
Haarlem, Netherlands    Leaseweb        88.1MB/s


Disk Speed
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I/O (1st run)   : 527 MB/s
I/O (2nd run)   : 498 MB/s
I/O (3rd run)   : 519 MB/s
Average I/O     : 514.667 MB/s
last time i checked it can go up to 800MB/s but maybe it is being used by other because the resource is shared

Speedtest.net to nearest location REMEMBER THE SPEEDTEST.NET USE MEGABITS INSTEAD OF MEGABYTE . THAT WHY IT IS DIFFERENT

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Speedtest.net to my country (indonesia)

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What i do with the VPS
i use this VPS currently to host my website (i get much better experience using VPS to host my website instead of using shared hosting) and also game server . i run a minecraft pocket edition server using nukkit . i host indonesian server there where who playing there is local and some people experience lagging due to high latency . but it is still better than not having server at all . i cannot afford a $40 Vultr 8GB singapore VPS that have low larency but i can afford posting 20 post per month

Experience of using the VPS
Pros:
-It have lot of memory . and because of the memory i can do multitasking with the vps . multitasking with the vps mean that i can use the vps for not just one thing but for lot of thing . i use this vps for hosting my website , game server , and more . and this "lot of memory" does not only mean multitasking but also more headroom and performance . with this vps i dont need to really worrying about getting out of memory (except if i run SAP HANA)

-the SSD speed is blazing fast . really fast . we are talking about up to 800MB/s MEGABYTE NOT MEGABITS . and blazing ssd speed is important for running high traffic website and also game server because you are loading and unloading a world to ram . i can copy my whole minecraft pocket edition server file to another folder for blazingly fast 0 seconds . YES it is almost instant . my mcpe file is around 300MB . if i use my pc that have spinning (not related to fidget spinner) hard drive it would take sometime

-not only blazing fast . the SSD storage is huge . VPS 9 is the 3rd VPS with largest storage in Post4VPS (1st is VPS4 , 2nd is VPS12 and 3rd is VPS 9 and VPS 1) . when you use 100GB in your pc it look small but when you use it in VPS its a whole another story . i can backup my server every day for a month without worrying about disk space . my VPS only take 3GB of disk space right now but atleast i dont need to worry about storage overfilling like my pc that only have 160gb hard drive

-it have 3 IPv6 Address to Future Proof . my ISP didnt support IPv6 unfortunately but when the IPv6 Transition start all ISPs probably have the IPv6 Support . VPS 9 have IPv6 .  9 - 6 = 3 half life 3 confirmed


Cons:
-2 Cores is OK . i have no complain about it but i have a bottleneck feeling about the VPS only have 2 core paired with 8GB memory . i know some major hosting company that really greedy about their internet bandwith ehm.. AWS also offer 8GB with 2 core . and also the core is fair use . so my minecraft pocket edition server is only using 40% of the cpu and i achieve that by using cpulimit command and it is work flawlessly . and even though it limited to 40% i experience no lag caused by the cpu

-HUGE PING TO MY LOCATION . nothing to complain because if i want low latency i should buy a nearest vps or move to US to get the lowest ping from VPS 9 but for VPS that i got it from just posting 20 post per month im not complain much . im not feeling a major lag in the game server but i get a noticeable lag . and the lag is caused by the latency so there are no bottleneck in the cpu , ram or the ssd

-No Control Panel . i can live without control panel . in fact my website is running using only terminal without any control panel like cpanel or kloxo so it isnt a big deal

Conclusion
it is a great VPS . and also it is my first VPS that i got from post 2 host site . and now this VPS is my primary vps to use for my VPS needs . it have a really great performance like i said before but the only major problem with the VPS is the location . but i can deal with that because i got it for free and  even though if i paid for this vps . it is much cheaper than buying singapore or IIX vps





Rating : 8/10 . if it is 10/10 i want to say just like skyrim

[tryp4vps]

Nice VPS spec especially for the 8GB RAM which is very useful for my applications. SSD disk speed is also great. I agree with you that having only a 2-core CPU seems to be a bit unreasonable for this kind of VPS. I think a 4-core CPU should be more reasonable.

Anyway, now I just wonder how long it will take for me to win this VPS because my current credit score is still so low.

[humanpuff69]

Nice VPS spec especially for the 8GB RAM which is very useful for my applications. SSD disk speed is also great. I agree with you that having only a 2-core CPU seems to be a bit unreasonable for this kind of VPS. I think a 4-core CPU should be more reasonable.

Anyway, now I just wonder how long it will take for me to win this VPS because my current credit score is still so low.

what you need to do is do a longer post because longer post will give you more credit . and also if you apply for VPS9 they not only see your credit but also the use case otherwise it will be just waste of resource

but the good news is now there are 4 great specced VPS to be gived away next month . there are VPS 9 of course with 8GB of ram , VPS 4 with 6GB of ram but with 1 extra core than VPS 9 , VPS 8 (now come with updated specs) and VPS 6

VPS 9 and VPS 4 is OpenVZ so it is linux only . to be honest i started as linux noob but when i start using it now i have a feeling that i dont really need a windows after all . google search is your friend

VPS 8 and VPS 6 is windows . so if you have hard time using linux you can choose one of this vps . it have 4GB of ram which is plenty for a VPS even though it is less than VPS 9 and VPS 4 and also it uses KVM virtualization

but if you have low credit and post count i suggest when you requesting the vps make sure to give the alternative in case you didnt won the vps that you want . for example you want VPS 9 . your request title should be "VPS9 or (insert low end VPS here) Request - etc" low end vps can be VPS 1 , VPS 3 (not reccomended) , VPS 10 (lot of IPv6) , VPS 11 and maybe VPS 13 if available

[tryp4vps]

what you need to do is do a longer post because longer post will give you more credit . and also if you apply for VPS9 they not only see your credit but also the use case otherwise it will be just waste of resource......

but if you have low credit and post count i suggest when you requesting the vps make sure to give the alternative in case you didnt won the vps that you want . for example you want VPS 9 . your request title should be "VPS9 or (insert low end VPS here) Request - etc" low end vps can be VPS 1 , VPS 3 (not reccomended) , VPS 10 (lot of IPv6) , VPS 11 and maybe VPS 13 if available

Yes I see that the admin stated they also check the usage purpose for VPS 9 applications. But after I see your credit..., I just a bit doubt that still only users with high credits will eventually win.

Anyway I appreciate your suggestions about VPS request. At least I know the VPS you said "not recommended" I can just skip it.

P.S.: Linux or Windows is not an issue for me. I am familiar with linux. And actually I do not like to use Windows for VPSes because I feel it is kinda waste of resources.

[humanpuff69]

Yes I see that the admin stated they also check the usage purpose for VPS 9 applications. But after I see your credit..., I just a bit doubt that still only users with high credits will eventually win.

Anyway I appreciate your suggestions about VPS request. At least I know the VPS you said "not recommended" I can just skip it.

P.S.: Linux or Windows is not an issue for me. I am familiar with linux. And actually I do not like to use Windows for VPSes because I feel it is kinda waste of resources.

well yes it is ramwise . i have a 1gb windows vps that use 500MBish when IDLE but my linux vps when it is clean not installed anything it only use less than 100mb and when i installed web server it now use 100mbish ram . so it is true if you say waste of resource BUT you need to remember that windows comes with user interface . when i install gnome the usage raise to 200 - 500mbish depend on waht is running on the gnome desktop

cpuwise . sort of . my linux vps and window vps when idling is getting around 1 - 10% cpu usage but the linux is much better

but what really waste is also storage . typical windows server need 30GB of storage but linux you can even install it on 5GB of storage

[perry]

im really happy with the vpses that i have with virmach.
never got with their support but got a good server here on p4v, and had personal vps with them too runing smoothly.

i also have same score.

good review anyway !

[Lampard]

I like this VPS, used it for around 5-6 months, the main reason for dropping was it had no control panel, but performance is really good.

[humanpuff69]

I like this VPS, used it for around 5-6 months, the main reason for dropping was it had no control panel, but performance is really good.

well who need control panel? just ask admin . i prefer more powerfull vps than having a control panel and also i dont think most people will be doing reinstall a lot so no control panel is fine

[perry]

I like this VPS, used it for around 5-6 months, the main reason for dropping was it had no control panel, but performance is really good.

Well vps 4 is a good alternative to vps 9.
6 gig ram 200 gig ssd
With cp