DigitalOcean - 512MB VPS - By RickB

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DigitalOcean - 512MB VPS - By RickB - RickB - 01-28-2016

DigitalOcean 512MB RAM VPS Review

Introduction

I have been using DigitalOcean for hosting my primary webserver since April 2014. I then received the GitHub Education which includes $100 free credits on DigitalOcean, so I host there for free

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Specifications-

512MB RAM
Single-Core Intel Xeon Processor
20GB SSD Disk
1TB Transfer

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Benchmarks

FreeVPS Benchmark Script V2 made by Hidden Refuge

Code:
System Info

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Processor       : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630L v2 @ 2.40GHz

CPU Cores       : 1

Frequency       : 2399.998 MHz

Memory          : 490 MB

Swap            : 0 MB

Uptime          : 137 days, 21:32,

OS              : Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS

Arch            : x86_64 (64 Bit)

Kernel          : 3.13.0-57-generic

Hostname        : vps.MYBUSINESS.eu

Well, those specs look great

Unfortunately the benchmark script didn't finish... for some weird reason.
Look at that Xeon E5! Really nice CPU.

Speedtest.net

Code:
root@vps:~# speedtest-cli --share

Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...

Retrieving speedtest.net server list...

Testing from DigitalOcean (128.199.XX.XX)...

Selecting best server based on latency...

Hosted by fdcservers.net (Amsterdam) [1.07 km]: 3.428 ms

Testing download speed........................................

Download: 868.38 Mbit/s

Testing upload speed..................................................

Upload: 466.17 Mbit/s

Share results: http://www.speedtest.net/result/5037601570.png

Image proof

[Image: 5037601570.png]

I/O Speed

Code:
I/O (1st run)   : 305 MB/s

I/O (2nd run)   : 338 MB/s

I/O (3rd run)   : 304 MB/s

Average I/O     : 333 MB/s

Yeah, those speeds rock! However not really the SSD speeds I reach here at home, but they're fine for usage. Still faster than a lot of HDD VPS servers.

Control Panel

The control panel of DigitalOcean is very simple and contains a lot of features. Not only you can manage your full server, but they also take care of hosting your DNS using CloudFlare's anycast network

Suggestions

Not really. However I would like to have the ability to add/ remove storage and IPs.

Final Ratings
The VPS is very good. Not only for development, I also run a production environment there. I really want to pay for the server when I am out of free credit. It's totally worth it.

Final Rating 9/10

Special thanks to TrK, since I used his review as a "template" for mine.

RE: DigitalOcean - 512MB VPS - By RickB - Littlemaster - 01-29-2016

Final Rating 9/10, that is great to see.Are you hosting a blog like small website?
Is a webserver running?
How much visitors you have?

RE: DigitalOcean - 512MB VPS - By RickB - RickB - 01-29-2016

I don't host any personal site. I host websites from clients. So yes, a webserver is running, else no website would be available :')
I don't know about the stats, but I don't think those are amazing huge workloads (like 10.000 or so)...

I use my own control panel, in combination with a reverse proxy and load balancers to provide a good experience to my visitors.

RE: DigitalOcean - 512MB VPS - By RickB - perry - 02-03-2016

whish you a good luck rick!

RE: DigitalOcean - 512MB VPS - By RickB - RickB - 02-03-2016

(02-03-2016, 07:27 AM)perryoo11 Wrote: whish you a good luck rick!

Good luck with what, perry?

RE: DigitalOcean - 512MB VPS - By RickB - perry - 02-03-2016

I host websites from clients

as you said i say good luck!

RE: DigitalOcean - 512MB VPS - By RickB - RickB - 02-03-2016

(02-03-2016, 10:32 AM)perryoo11 Wrote: I host websites from clients

as you said i say good luck!

Ah, okay. I might not have expressed myself correctly. Those people are not really clients, I provide hosting for free. But I see those people as they were paying customers. So they can expect a high uptime. (To be more exact: one hour and 2 minutes last 11 months

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RE: DigitalOcean - 512MB VPS - By RickB - Unixfy - 02-03-2016

@RickB Pretty nice, where can I sign up?

What is this custom control panel you use? Can I have a demo, or even better a link to the source code on GitHub?

RE: DigitalOcean - 512MB VPS - By RickB - RickB - 02-04-2016

(02-03-2016, 11:58 PM)karatekidmonkey Wrote: @RickB Pretty nice, where can I sign up?

What is this custom control panel you use? Can I have a demo, or even better a link to the source code on GitHub?