Hi,
Jordy from CraftYourBox recently gave me some login details for a 128MB VM plan that the company offers, thanks for the VM and I've done a quick review on it.
FreeVPS.us Bench
root@testfiles:~# wget freevps.us/downloads/bench.sh -O - -o /dev/null|bash CPU model : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X3440 @ 2.53GHz Number of cores : 1 CPU frequency : 2533.522 MHz Total amount of ram : 128 MB Total amount of swap : 0 MB System uptime : 39 min, Download speed from CacheFly: 11.2MB/s Download speed from Linode, Atlanta GA: 6.03MB/s Download speed from Linode, Dallas, TX: 8.42MB/s Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 7.62MB/s Download speed from Linode, London, UK: 2.63MB/s Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 7.08MB/s Download speed from Softlayer, Singapore: 6.59MB/s Download speed from Softlayer, Seattle, WA: 11.0MB/s Download speed from Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 11.2MB/s Download speed from Softlayer, Washington, DC: 10.3MB/s I/O speed : 90.3 MB/s
Tracert to my OVH Node
root@testfiles:~# traceroute pma.chriseaston.info traceroute to pma.chriseaston.info (5.39.77.207), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets 1 172.26.15.130 (172.26.15.130) 0.029 ms 0.011 ms 0.009 ms 2 10.220.20.1 (10.220.20.1) 1.755 ms 1.756 ms 10.220.21.1 (10.220.21.1) 0.131 ms 3 108.170.0.26 (108.170.0.26) 0.124 ms 108.170.0.22 (108.170.0.22) 0.143 ms 108.170.0.14 (108.170.0.14) 0.124 ms 4 10.140.2.22 (10.140.2.22) 0.180 ms 0.175 ms xe-2-0-0.phx10.ip4.tinet.net (216.221.159.29) 0.812 ms 5 xe-10-2-0.lax20.ip4.tinet.net (89.149.182.46) 10.607 ms 10.836 ms 10.598 ms 6 xe-11-3-0.edge1.LosAngeles6.level3.net (4.68.62.1) 79.790 ms 78.753 ms 78.709 ms 7 vlan80.csw3.LosAngeles1.Level3.net (4.69.144.190) 10.134 ms vlan90.csw4.LosAngeles1.Level3.net (4.69.144.254) 10.138 ms xe-11-3-0.edge1.LosAngeles6.level3.net (4.68.62.1) 78.683 ms 8 ae-73-73.ebr3.LosAngeles1.Level3.net (4.69.137.37) 10.104 ms ae-93-93.ebr3.LosAngeles1.Level3.net (4.69.137.45) 10.072 ms vlan90.csw4.LosAngeles1.Level3.net (4.69.144.254) 10.973 ms 9 ae-73-73.ebr3.LosAngeles1.Level3.net (4.69.137.37) 9.964 ms ae-3-3.ebr1.SanJose1.Level3.net (4.69.132.9) 18.465 ms 18.720 ms 10 ae-3-3.ebr1.SanJose1.Level3.net (4.69.132.9) 18.663 ms ae-61-61.csw1.SanJose1.Level3.net (4.69.153.2) 18.392 ms ae-3-3.ebr1.SanJose1.Level3.net (4.69.132.9) 18.513 ms 11 ae-61-61.csw1.SanJose1.Level3.net (4.69.153.2) 18.357 ms ae-1-60.edge1.SanJose3.Level3.net (4.69.152.16) 19.175 ms ae-81-81.csw3.SanJose1.Level3.net (4.69.153.10) 18.539 ms 12 snj-1-6k.ca.us (178.32.135.21) 64.805 ms ae-2-70.edge1.SanJose3.Level3.net (4.69.152.80) 19.539 ms ae-4-90.edge1.SanJose3.Level3.net (4.69.152.208) 19.109 ms 13 * dal-1-6k.tx.us (178.32.135.151) 65.778 ms * 14 * * * 15 * * * 16 rbx-g1-a9.fr.eu (94.23.122.66) 159.762 ms 198.27.73.203 (198.27.73.203) 157.587 ms * 17 rbx-g1-a9.fr.eu (94.23.122.66) 159.410 ms * vss-9b-6k.fr.eu (178.33.100.72) 159.799 ms 18 vss-9b-6k.fr.eu (178.33.100.72) 160.043 ms vss-9a-6k.fr.eu (91.121.131.154) 160.063 ms * 19 ks3264804.kimsufi.com (5.39.77.207) 159.599 ms 159.264 ms 159.564 ms
DD Test
root@testfiles:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=test.file bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync;rm -f test.file 16384+0 records in 16384+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 11.5932 s, 92.6 MB/s root@testfiles:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=test.file bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync;rm -f test.file 16384+0 records in 16384+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 11.5533 s, 92.9 MB/s root@testfiles:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=test.file bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync;rm -f test.file 16384+0 records in 16384+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 11.5529 s, 92.9 MB/s 92.8MB/s Average
Overall experience so far.
At the moment, I've only used this for about half an hour, it's running quite smooth, doesnt seem too much load on the node; alright speeds considering they're on the west coast and I'm in the UK, (170ms).
Looks like a 100Mbit port, however I've been told that it's a 1Gbit port for the node.
Jordy has told me there's a upcoming deal on LEB shortly, hopefully something nice, cheap and effective.
My only gripe is that it's on a RAID 1 with two disks, resulting in reduced IO speed; however still perfectly acceptable for site hosting or even some Game Services.
And ofcourse that it's using the older series Xeon 3440. I'd much prefer to see an E5 series or even E3. Either way; it's an alright performer and I'd reccomend it moreso on the enthusiasm of Jordy.
Thanks,
Chris.