12-05-2018, 12:13 PM
And...
Is this the review that everyone want? Hahaha.
I'm so happy that I can make this review right now, since if @humanpuff69 and @deanhills not out of giveaway, I'll not get VPS 5, but they left the giveaway. And, I'M SO HAPPY LOL. I don't know why @Rehan drop his VPS 5.
And, here it is, VPS 5 by @Manal / Shadow Hosting review.
I'll use review template like I did in VPS 8 and VPS 10 review.
Review start from here:
First thing I usually show to you, VPS specs inside the VPS plans,
Second, benchmark, thanks to @"Hidden Refuge" for your benchmark script,
Since VPS 5 only have 1 IPv4 and no IPv6, I'll use "./bench.sh -b" instead of "./bench.sh -b46",
As we can see, the speed is pretty nice, I don't feel that the speed is slow.
Third, RAM, it's really 4GB + 4GB on swap,
I never know it will use that much of RAM,
Fourth, Speedtest, I think I already given the Speedtest result in Shoutbox, and now here it's,
Hetzner really give a wonderful speed, I think I saw some result like this with Galaxy Host Plus.
Both Shadow Hosting and GHP are giving nice speed. But, GHP ended very badly, I hope Shadow Hosting will not end like that, and can keep supporting Post4VPS!
Fifth, disk usage,
Ah, I want to add something. Did you all know Manal gave me more 2 dedicated cores for my VPS? He really did.
Sixth, CPU cores and whatever it's,
Then, what am I using this VPS for?
When I applied in the giveaway, I said that I want to host a website, like everyone does. Then host a discord bot, also as my second desktop! It works very well, I'm very enjoyed using this VPS, I never face any downtimes, except for the first downtime. I'll tell the downtime in experience section.
My experience:
This VPS is fast and stable, I hosted VestaCP on this VPS, I installed it only under 15 minutes (as VestaCP said it'll be 15 minutes or so), because, when I start the download, if it's a pretty big file over 200MB, it only needs 2 seconds, or even less! If the file is little tiny size of it, no need to wait, when you start, it done.
The installation also fast, no need to wait longer to install. It has VNC on it, works great, I installed 2 or 3 Ubuntu flavor there, the installation doesn't take an hour, it's less than an hour, I'm happy with that. From Indonesia, this VPS is stable, speed is nice, I don't have any lag if I don't play any animation (since my connection is not pretty good, even with 4G).
I actually don't know what else to cover, lol.
Nah, as I said before, I have faced a downtime, I'm pretty confused with why and how the downtime appear. Manal and Dynamo seem don't know how to fix it. Since I'm pretty new with Virtualizator, I don't know nothing. The problem is like this, I enabled VGA and its acceleration, it broke the VPS. VPS won't start, even when I restart it one hundred times, no effect. Manal and Dynamo kept give me new VPS (and destroy the old one, of course), but whenever I enabled the VGA, it broken. We, in the first place, are suspecting the ISO bugs, but when I try to solve it myself, I found it.
The fix was easy, just disable the acceleration, you can enable the VGA if you want. And, the VPS is back online. That's it.
So for other VPS 5 holders, DON'T enable the VGA acceleration, otherwise, you can't start the VPS.
Last part for this review,
Pros:
A message from me:
I'm not a Windows fanboy neither Linux. But, as it's KVM, it'll be perfect if you enable Windows on it (I heard you already in beta test for Windows), and not only Windows Server 2012, but also Windows Server 2016. (Windows Server 2019 are out already lol.)
It'll be complete if you enable those, and add evaluation mode too, I guess everyone want your VPS here.
End of review.
So then, that's my review for VPS 5, I can conclude that this VPS is nice for medium server usage, it also works great wherever you're as Germany is in the central of every country while USA is pretty far from Middle East, for example. It's stable and super fast, I really happy with this VPS. I want to say many-many thanks to VPS Provider, Shadow Hosting by @Manal, and Post4VPS!
Is this the review that everyone want? Hahaha.
I'm so happy that I can make this review right now, since if @humanpuff69 and @deanhills not out of giveaway, I'll not get VPS 5, but they left the giveaway. And, I'M SO HAPPY LOL. I don't know why @Rehan drop his VPS 5.
And, here it is, VPS 5 by @Manal / Shadow Hosting review.
I'll use review template like I did in VPS 8 and VPS 10 review.
Review start from here:
First thing I usually show to you, VPS specs inside the VPS plans,
Quote:Disk Space 100 GB HDD
RAM: 4 GB and 4 GB vSwap
IP Addresses: 1x IPv4
Virtualization: KVM
Monthly Traffic: Unmetered
Location:Germany
Control Panel: Virtualizor
Connection: 750 MBit/s
Provided by: Shadow Hosting
Terms: TOS
Requirements: Backlinks to Shadow Hosting and Post4VPS are required. And a sig. backlink
Second, benchmark, thanks to @"Hidden Refuge" for your benchmark script,
Since VPS 5 only have 1 IPv4 and no IPv6, I'll use "./bench.sh -b" instead of "./bench.sh -b46",
Quote:Benchmark started on Wed Dec 5 20:19:01 WITA 2018@"Hidden Refuge", what's the error said? :p
Full benchmark log: /home/x/bench.log
System Info
-----------
Processor : Intel® Core™ i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz
CPU Cores : 4
Frequency : 3399.998 MHz
Memory : 3944 MB
Swap : 4095 MB
Uptime : 8 days, 1:45,
OS : Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS
Arch : x86_64 (64 Bit)
Kernel : 4.15.0-39-generic
Hostname : x
Speedtest (IPv4 only)
---------------------
Your public IPv4 is x
Location Provider Speed
CDN Cachefly 100MB/s
Atlanta, GA, US Coloat 6.52MB/s
Dallas, TX, US Softlayer 5.25MB/s
Seattle, WA, US Softlayer 4.54MB/s
San Jose, CA, US Softlayer 4.74MB/s
Washington, DC, US Softlayer 6.74MB/s
Tokyo, Japan Linode 6.34MB/s
Singapore Softlayer 3.75MB/s
Taiwan Hinet 2.97MB/s
Rotterdam, Netherlands id3.net 50.0MB/s
Haarlem, Netherlands Leaseweb 103MB/s
Disk Speed
----------
I/O (1st run) : 135 MB/s
I/O (2nd run) : 145 MB/s
I/O (3rd run) : 134 MB/s
Average I/O : 138 MB/s
System Benchmark (Experimental)
-------------------------------
Note: The benchmark might not always work (eg: missing dependencies).
Failures are highly possible. We're using Geekbench for this test.
File is located at
Downloading and extracting
gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
Starting
The system benchmark may take a while.
Don't close your terminal/SSH session!
All output is redirected into a result file.
./bench.sh: line 182: /home/x/dist//geekbench_x86_32: No such file or directory
Finished. Removing Geekbench files
Benchmark Results:
Full report available at /home/x/bench.log
As we can see, the speed is pretty nice, I don't feel that the speed is slow.
Third, RAM, it's really 4GB + 4GB on swap,
Quote: total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 3944 2874 313 20 756 808
Swap: 4095 49 4046
I never know it will use that much of RAM,
Fourth, Speedtest, I think I already given the Speedtest result in Shoutbox, and now here it's,
Quote:Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...
Testing from Hetzner Online GmbH (:p)...
Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Selecting best server based on ping...
Hosted by LeaseWeb (Frankfurt) [143.90 km]: 5.968 ms
Testing download speed................................................................................
Download: 924.91 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed......................................................................................................
Upload: 697.26 Mbit/s
Share results: http://www.speedtest.net/result/7855028051.png
Hetzner really give a wonderful speed, I think I saw some result like this with Galaxy Host Plus.
Both Shadow Hosting and GHP are giving nice speed. But, GHP ended very badly, I hope Shadow Hosting will not end like that, and can keep supporting Post4VPS!
Fifth, disk usage,
Quote:Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted onDamn it, what the hell Discord do there, hahaha.
udev 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /dev
tmpfs 395M 3.6M 391M 1% /run
/dev/sda1 95G 37G 54G 41% /
tmpfs 2.0G 4.0K 2.0G 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5.0M 4.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock
tmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs 395M 68K 395M 1% /run/user/1001
/dev/loop0 89M 89M 0 100% /snap/core/5897
/dev/loop1 136M 136M 0 100% /snap/discord/79
/dev/loop2 136M 136M 0 100% /snap/discord/82
tmpfs 395M 0 395M 0% /run/user/0
Ah, I want to add something. Did you all know Manal gave me more 2 dedicated cores for my VPS? He really did.
Sixth, CPU cores and whatever it's,
Quote:usernamegoeshere@hostnamegoeshere:~# cat /proc/cpuinfoIt's really 4 cores, but, I noticed there is something called bugs over there,\
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 58
model name : Intel® Core™ i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz
stepping : 9
microcode : 0x1
cpu MHz : 3399.998
cache size : 8192 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 1
core id : 0
cpu cores : 1
apicid : 0
initial apicid : 0
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 13
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_pe rfmon rep_good nopl xtopology cpuid pni pclmulqdq ssse3 cx16 pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand hypervisor lahf_lm pt i ssbd ibrs ibpb stibp fsgsbase tsc_adjust smep erms xsaveopt arat
bugs : cpu_meltdown spectre_v1 spectre_v2 spec_store_bypass l1tf
bogomips : 6799.99
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:
processor : 1
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 58
model name : Intel® Core™ i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz
stepping : 9
microcode : 0x1
cpu MHz : 3399.998
cache size : 8192 KB
physical id : 1
siblings : 1
core id : 0
cpu cores : 1
apicid : 1
initial apicid : 1
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 13
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_pe rfmon rep_good nopl xtopology cpuid pni pclmulqdq ssse3 cx16 pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand hypervisor lahf_lm pt i ssbd ibrs ibpb stibp fsgsbase tsc_adjust smep erms xsaveopt arat
bugs : cpu_meltdown spectre_v1 spectre_v2 spec_store_bypass l1tf
bogomips : 6799.99
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:
processor : 2
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 58
model name : Intel® Core™ i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz
stepping : 9
microcode : 0x1
cpu MHz : 3399.998
cache size : 8192 KB
physical id : 2
siblings : 1
core id : 0
cpu cores : 1
apicid : 2
initial apicid : 2
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 13
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_pe rfmon rep_good nopl xtopology cpuid pni pclmulqdq ssse3 cx16 pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand hypervisor lahf_lm pt i ssbd ibrs ibpb stibp fsgsbase tsc_adjust smep erms xsaveopt arat
bugs : cpu_meltdown spectre_v1 spectre_v2 spec_store_bypass l1tf
bogomips : 6799.99
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:
processor : 3
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 58
model name : Intel® Core™ i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz
stepping : 9
microcode : 0x1
cpu MHz : 3399.998
cache size : 8192 KB
physical id : 3
siblings : 1
core id : 0
cpu cores : 1
apicid : 3
initial apicid : 3
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 13
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_pe rfmon rep_good nopl xtopology cpuid pni pclmulqdq ssse3 cx16 pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand hypervisor lahf_lm pt i ssbd ibrs ibpb stibp fsgsbase tsc_adjust smep erms xsaveopt arat
bugs : cpu_meltdown spectre_v1 spectre_v2 spec_store_bypass l1tf
bogomips : 6799.99
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:
Quote:bugs : cpu_meltdown spectre_v1 spectre_v2 spec_store_bypass l1tfI don't know this effect my VPS or not, since the CPU_Meltdown, I heard this somewhere, it only happens to Intel's CPU. @Manal, you want to look up for this bugs? I don't felt anything different since I noticed this bugs (like 2 or 3 days ago).
Then, what am I using this VPS for?
When I applied in the giveaway, I said that I want to host a website, like everyone does. Then host a discord bot, also as my second desktop! It works very well, I'm very enjoyed using this VPS, I never face any downtimes, except for the first downtime. I'll tell the downtime in experience section.
My experience:
This VPS is fast and stable, I hosted VestaCP on this VPS, I installed it only under 15 minutes (as VestaCP said it'll be 15 minutes or so), because, when I start the download, if it's a pretty big file over 200MB, it only needs 2 seconds, or even less! If the file is little tiny size of it, no need to wait, when you start, it done.
The installation also fast, no need to wait longer to install. It has VNC on it, works great, I installed 2 or 3 Ubuntu flavor there, the installation doesn't take an hour, it's less than an hour, I'm happy with that. From Indonesia, this VPS is stable, speed is nice, I don't have any lag if I don't play any animation (since my connection is not pretty good, even with 4G).
I actually don't know what else to cover, lol.
Nah, as I said before, I have faced a downtime, I'm pretty confused with why and how the downtime appear. Manal and Dynamo seem don't know how to fix it. Since I'm pretty new with Virtualizator, I don't know nothing. The problem is like this, I enabled VGA and its acceleration, it broke the VPS. VPS won't start, even when I restart it one hundred times, no effect. Manal and Dynamo kept give me new VPS (and destroy the old one, of course), but whenever I enabled the VGA, it broken. We, in the first place, are suspecting the ISO bugs, but when I try to solve it myself, I found it.
The fix was easy, just disable the acceleration, you can enable the VGA if you want. And, the VPS is back online. That's it.
So for other VPS 5 holders, DON'T enable the VGA acceleration, otherwise, you can't start the VPS.
Last part for this review,
Pros:
- The speed is nice
- Stable
- No downtimes until now
- What else, I confused hahaha
- Can't enable VGA accelerator, I don't know if this is important or not, as long as my server online, I don't really complaining.
A message from me:
I'm not a Windows fanboy neither Linux. But, as it's KVM, it'll be perfect if you enable Windows on it (I heard you already in beta test for Windows), and not only Windows Server 2012, but also Windows Server 2016. (Windows Server 2019 are out already lol.)
It'll be complete if you enable those, and add evaluation mode too, I guess everyone want your VPS here.
End of review.
So then, that's my review for VPS 5, I can conclude that this VPS is nice for medium server usage, it also works great wherever you're as Germany is in the central of every country while USA is pretty far from Middle East, for example. It's stable and super fast, I really happy with this VPS. I want to say many-many thanks to VPS Provider, Shadow Hosting by @Manal, and Post4VPS!