[Jayce]

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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.