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Greetings everyone!

First off all I would like to apologize for the lack of formatting(e.g. different text sizes, ...) in this review. It’s very hard to do it on mobile and I’m not very familiar on how the text formatting of MyBB works.

So I’ve been using VPS 9 for around a month now, which happens to be the very first VPS that I’ve got to call my own. (Since in the past years, up to the present, I’ve only been setting up/managing the VPSs of my friends and people on the internet who don’t know how to manage their VPSs on their own.) This is a big thing! Why? You may ask... Well, it’s because I’ve never been able to purchase a VPS of my own. That is because I don’t have a credit card, and hence I can’t make online purchases. So the fact that post4vps and virmach generously provided this VPS to me for FREE is something that I still can’t believe to this day! It still feels weird to say “MY VPS”.

First few days with VPS 9

My very first few days weren’t very “pretty” with VPS 9. They involved a bunch of “hiccups” and misunderstandings. The VPS 9 initially came pre-installed with centos. However, I prefer ubuntu. So I requested the OS to be re-installed to ubuntu and things went downhill from there! The VPS stopped working immediately! I requested the OS to be re-installed again. But the outcome was still the same. Eventually due to a massive misunderstanding, the blame was put on me even though I haven’t touched a thing. However, I completely understand how that misunderstanding could’ve taken place, so no one is at fault. Eventually, I managed to clear the misunderstandings and after further testing it was found to be that the ubuntu images virmach had seemed to be broken. So as a last resort, I went with centos which seems to work fine to this day (took a few hours to get used to the minor differences). 


After things were sorted out, I was instantly impressed by how well the VPS performed. It was insanely fast! 

Specs

Now the specs are available on several places on this forum. But since this is a review, it won’t make sense for me not to provide them here as well. So here you go:

Disk space: 100GB
RAM capacity: 8GB
Virtualization technology: KVM
Bandwidth: 4TB
Control Panel: not available 
Connection speed: 1 Gb/s
Provider: Virmach (https://virmach.com)

Benchmarks:

System Info
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Processor       : Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2670 v2 @ 2.50GHz
CPU Cores       : 2
Frequency       : 2499.998 MHz
Memory          : 7821 MB
Swap            : 7821 MB
Uptime          : 25 days, 17:54,

OS              : CentOS Linux 7 (Core)
Arch            : x86_64 (64 Bit)
Kernel          : 3.10.0-1062.4.1.el7.x86_64
Hostname        : kvm-Post2Host-Seattle


Speedtest
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I completely gave up on the network speed test, it was taking forever. (Check the edit at the end of this post)


Disk Speed
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I/O (1st run)   : 102 MB/s
I/O (2nd run)   : 331 MB/s
I/O (3rd run)   : 362 MB/s
Average I/O     : 265 MB/s

(Credits to @sohamb03 for the script)

As you can see, apart from the RAM and disk space, the rest of the benchmarks weren’t that impressive. But like, it’s free! So I can’t really complain

I haven’t tried VPS9 back when it was on OVZ. So I can’t make the comparison between that and KVM. However, I don’t like the nature of OVZ, I absolutely HATE how the resources are shared and how your “noisy neighbors” could affect the performance of your VPS, which also resulted into many companies utilizing strict resource policies. However, with KVM, you get your own dedicated resources. Which solves all of the issues that OVZ has.

Pros of VPS 9:

1. Insane amount of RAM
   
2. Insane amount of disk space
   
3. And of course, it’s free!
   

Cons of VPS 9:

1. CPU is not that impressive
   
2. The network speed was slow, hence why the speedtest was taking forever (quite odd considering the 1Gbps shown on the specs).
   
3. No control panel (However, this is something you are made well aware of before applying for the VPS).
   
4. Ubuntu didn’t work as of last month, not sure if they got it fixed now.
   

Would I recommend VPS9?

Well, it really depends on what you’ll use it for. For my use case, it’s the perfect setup! However, people who need more out of the CPU rather than the RAM might not like it as much. Same goes to the ones that need extremely fast network speeds. 

And of course, special thanks to Post4VPS and Virmach for this lovely VPS!

Edit:

I’ve gone with Hidden refuge’s suggestion and used the speedtest cli to run the network speed test. Here’s the outcome:


Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Selecting best server based on ping...
Hosted by CenturyLink (Seattle, WA) [13.12 km]: 11.194 ms
Testing download speed................................................................................
Download: 320.31 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed................................................................................................
Upload: 257.47 Mbit/s

I also wanted to go with Geekbench to perform a benchmark. However, Geekbench isn’t free so that’s not an option. So I went on with the second benchmarking program hidden refuge recommended which is Unixbench. Here are the results:



Further edit:

I’ve gone ahead and ran Geekbench according to the suggestion placed by @fChk.

You can find the results here: https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/2077291