96MB Low End VPS Review Part 51 – Amanah Tech 512MB VPS

It is rare to find a decent low end VPS provider in Canada, let alone in Toronto, Ontario. It is pretty interesting because you would think that in every metropolitan city, the economies of scale will simply bring down the cost of VPS providers. However, apparently, the rules are not the same in Canada and therefore, when Amanah Technology offered a free VPS to try for a month, I immediately took the dive and ordered one.

Of course, later on Amanah has come up with a even more surprising offer to give people free VPS for life, which was mentioned in my previous post here, and although the specification was a bit low end, it was nonetheless one of the most stable VPS I have had. Some of the screenshots in this review will be based off the free low end VPS, however all tests on the VPS itself was taken on the free for a month VPS.

Quick check on my free-for-life VPS with them:

uptime
 07:28:17 up 50 days, 12:45,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

Basic Information and Set Up

As per their post on WHT, here is the specification of the VPS that I have received:

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The order page is a customized WHMCS system in HTTPS protocol and you can choose between three packages they have for their server:

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Choose Bronze and you can get to the detailed order page:

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As you can see, the regular price is 20 per month, which is not exactly low end, and…what? $20 setup fee? Quite frankly speaking I do not even remember when was the last time I have seen any providers charging a set up fee for VPS. I mean, for dedicated server yes, since there is a cost for someone to actually go there and install the server, however this is definitely the first time I have heard of charging installation fees for OpenVZ VPS, which does not actually need any human intervention in the OS installations at all.

There is slight discount as your billing cycle goes longer, however there is no discount for the setup fee:

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The only option for you to choose on this order is the IP address, which is pretty cheap at 1 dollar per IP per month, interesting enough, there is no volume discount on this as well:

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CPanel is charged at a pretty standard rate of 15 per month:

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I am not sure if it was just because this promotion (many providers tend to set the fraud verification checks to maximum level during promotions, especially the first month free promotion, since it is normally a good way to attract abusers/spammers), but in this case, I received my order confirmation on March 7 at 21:00 and received my VPS set up email on the next day at 12:55pm, which is quite a delay.

The VPS welcome email I have received is also shorter than usual, without any download details for putty and so on. However, the biggest trouble I have found is there is no link to their WHMCS system, and in fact, just to make the matter even worse, I have yet to find a way to navigate to their WHMCS system and the “portal” system they have on their home page is actually leading to the control panel of their dedicated server. I guess Amanah is primarily a dedicated server provider and to them, VPS hosting is more like a “side-business” than anything else.

(And here is the direct link to their WHMCS system, if in case anyone needs it: https://support.amanah.com/clientarea.php)

However, their WHMCS system is actually in secured HTTPS protocol and once entered into the interface, the information of the VPS is shown:

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There are only three control buttons and no graphs/charts available in the WHMCS system. However, all three control buttons appear to work, which is something great. For example, after I hit on the reboot button, this is what I see:

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There is no addons available for purchase:

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In the Management Actions area, besides the three action buttons, there is also a cancellation button that you can use to cancel the service.

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The SolusVM control panel is using HTTP protocal (i.e., not secured) on port 5353, and once you log in, a quite standard solusVM interface, note that there are two IP address here and the bandwidth is actually showing 9.77TB, which is kind of usual:

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There are actually very limited OS reinstallation options available, in fact, it is probably the provider with the least amount of OS template choice that I have seen, with only three types of OS available, CentOS, Debian and Ubuntu:

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Quite surprisingly, the instant rDNS entry is available and seems to work:

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Test on the VPS

As mentioned above, the VPS that I have has 512MB of RAM (no burstable), 10GB of hard drive space and unmetered bandwidth (which seems to be a huge selling point of this VPS) and the VPS is located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

After a fresh reload of the OS, the VPS takes about 19MB of RAM:

 free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:           512         19        492          0          0          0
-/+ buffers/cache:         19        492
Swap:            0          0          0

Top output showing the processes running:

top - 00:17:12 up 19:33,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Tasks:  14 total,   1 running,  13 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  0.0%us,  0.0%sy,  0.0%ni,100.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:    524288k total,    20568k used,   503720k free,        0k buffers
Swap:        0k total,        0k used,        0k free,        0k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
19707 root      15   0 79000 3548 2820 S    0  0.7   0:00.04 sshd
 1356 root      18   0 71108 2680 1276 S    0  0.5   0:00.39 apache2
 1360 www-data  18   0 71240 2676 1188 S    0  0.5   0:00.00 apache2
17451 www-data  18   0 71240 2644 1168 S    0  0.5   0:00.00 apache2
 3129 root      15   0 58108 2000  536 S    0  0.4   0:02.53 sendmail-mta
19723 root      15   0 17696 1872 1408 S    0  0.4   0:00.00 bash
19929 root      15   0 18932 1252 1012 R    0  0.2   0:00.00 top
 3147 root      18   0 49172 1132  588 S    0  0.2   0:00.00 sshd
32737 root      18   0 54560  992  496 S    0  0.2   0:00.00 saslauthd
 1669 root      25   0 19328  976  772 S    0  0.2   0:00.00 xinetd
 1383 root      15   0 20904  948  724 S    0  0.2   0:00.05 cron
    1 root      15   0  8352  828  704 S    0  0.2   0:02.45 init
 1326 root      15   0  5976  716  556 S    0  0.1   0:00.03 syslogd
32754 root      18   0 54560  652  156 S    0  0.1   0:00.00 saslauthd

And htop output for the htop fans:

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Slightly less than 500MB of hard drive space was used:

 df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/simfs             10G  486M  9.6G   5% /
tmpfs                 256M     0  256M   0% /lib/init/rw
tmpfs                 256M     0  256M   0% /dev/shm

And the Inodes are set to pretty reasonable values:

df -i
Filesystem            Inodes   IUsed   IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/simfs           5242880   26200 5216680    1% /
tmpfs                  65536       4   65532    1% /lib/init/rw
tmpfs                  65536       1   65535    1% /dev/shm

With the full LNMP stack installed, the memory usage went up to 76MB:

 free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:           512         76        435          0          0          0
-/+ buffers/cache:         76        435
Swap:            0          0          0

Top output showing the processes running:

top - 05:07:56 up 20:24,  1 user,  load average: 0.31, 0.83, 0.88
Tasks:  21 total,   2 running,  19 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  0.0%us,  0.0%sy,  0.0%ni,100.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:    524288k total,    78576k used,   445712k free,        0k buffers
Swap:        0k total,        0k used,        0k free,        0k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
15878 www       25   0 50116  20m  452 S    0  4.0   0:00.01 nginx
24183 mysql     19   0 47804 6648 2660 S    0  1.3   0:00.00 mysqld
15828 root      18   0  104m 5580 1300 S    0  1.1   0:00.00 php-cgi
15831 www       18   0  104m 5136  856 S    0  1.0   0:00.00 php-cgi
15832 www       22   0  104m 5136  856 S    0  1.0   0:00.00 php-cgi
15835 www       23   0  104m 5136  856 S    0  1.0   0:00.00 php-cgi
15848 www       24   0  104m 5136  856 S    0  1.0   0:00.00 php-cgi
15849 www       24   0  104m 5136  856 S    0  1.0   0:00.00 php-cgi
19707 root      18   0 79368 3908 2828 R    0  0.7   0:00.90 sshd
 3129 root      15   0 58108 2000  536 S    0  0.4   0:02.59 sendmail-mta
19723 root      15   0 17696 1912 1444 S    0  0.4   0:00.00 bash
24066 root      18   0  9136 1376 1112 S    0  0.3   0:00.00 mysqld_safe
17564 root      15   0 18932 1268 1016 R    0  0.2   0:00.00 top
 3147 root      18   0 49172 1132  588 S    0  0.2   0:00.00 sshd
32737 root      18   0 54560  992  496 S    0  0.2   0:00.00 saslauthd
 1669 root      25   0 19328  976  772 S    0  0.2   0:00.00 xinetd
15877 root      24   0 30104  972  276 S    0  0.2   0:00.00 nginx
 1383 root      15   0 20904  948  724 S    0  0.2   0:00.05 cron
    1 root      15   0  8352  828  704 S    0  0.2   0:02.49 init
 1326 root      18   0  5976  716  556 S    0  0.1   0:00.03 syslogd
32754 root      18   0 54560  652  156 S    0  0.1   0:00.00 saslauthd

And htop output:

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About 1.7GB of hard drive space was used in this case:

 df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/simfs             10G  1.7G  8.4G  17% /
tmpfs                 256M     0  256M   0% /lib/init/rw
tmpfs                 256M     0  256M   0% /dev/shm

And 2% of Inodes values are used:

 df -i
Filesystem            Inodes   IUsed   IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/simfs           5242880   69116 5173764    2% /
tmpfs                  65536       4   65532    1% /lib/init/rw
tmpfs                  65536       1   65535    1% /dev/shm

VMStats taken a little while after installing the LNMP stack shows the VPS was mostly idle:

 vmstat
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ----cpu----
 r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in   cs us sy id wa
 1  0      0 445872      0      0    0    0     0     8    0   66  0  0 99  0

And uptime results shows 0 usage as well. Note that the last ratio was a lot larger, due to the effect of the LNMP stack installation:

 uptime
 05:31:50 up 20:48,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.16

There is nothing too strange indicated on the values of beancounters:

 cat /proc/user_beancounters
Version: 2.5
       uid  resource                     held              maxheld              barrier                limit              failcnt
      182:  kmemsize                  5050410              5930682           2147483646           2147483646                    0
            lockedpages                     0                    0               999999               999999                    0
            privvmpages                 19573                61250               131072               131072                    0
            shmpages                      642                  674               131072               131072                    0
            dummy                           0                    0                    0                    0                    0
            numproc                        22                   30               999999               999999                    0
            physpages                   10793                57066                    0           2147483647                    0
            vmguarpages                     0                    0               131072           2147483647                    0
            oomguarpages                10793                57066               131072           2147483647                    0
            numtcpsock                      7                    8              7999992              7999992                    0
            numflock                        4                   10               999999               999999                    0
            numpty                          1                    2               500000               500000                    0
            numsiginfo                      0                    3               999999               999999                    0
            tcpsndbuf                  291264               273760            214748160            396774400                    0
            tcprcvbuf                  114688              7659752            214748160            396774400                    0
            othersockbuf                11640                30584            214748160            396774400                    0
            dgramrcvbuf                     0                16944            214748160            396774400                    0
            numothersock                   14                   18              7999992              7999992                    0
            dcachesize                 233811               260925           2147483646           2147483646                    0
            numfile                       521                  955             23999976             23999976                    0
            dummy                           0                    0                    0                    0                    0
            dummy                           0                    0                    0                    0                    0
            dummy                           0                    0                    0                    0                    0
            numiptent                      14                   14               999999               999999                    0

And vzfree did not indicate any sign of overselling:

 vzfree
             Total     Used     Free
Kernel:   2048.00M    4.83M 2043.17M
Allocate:  512.00M   76.44M  435.56M (512M Guaranteed)
Commit:    512.00M   46.96M  465.04M (55.1% of Allocated)
Swap:                 0.00M          (0.0% of Committed)

CPUInfo showed that 4 CPU cores were assigned to the VPS and were not throttled, and the model of the CPU is pretty recent as well (E5620):

cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 44
model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           E5620  @ 2.40GHz
stepping        : 2
cpu MHz         : 2394.057
cache size      : 12288 KB
physical id     : 1
siblings        : 8
core id         : 0
cpu cores       : 4
apicid          : 32
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 11
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc ida nonstop_tsc arat pni monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt lahf_lm
bogomips        : 4788.11
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: [8]

processor       : 1
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 44
model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           E5620  @ 2.40GHz
stepping        : 2
cpu MHz         : 2394.057
cache size      : 12288 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 8
core id         : 0
cpu cores       : 4
apicid          : 0
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 11
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc ida nonstop_tsc arat pni monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt lahf_lm
bogomips        : 4788.13
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: [8]

processor       : 2
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 44
model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           E5620  @ 2.40GHz
stepping        : 2
cpu MHz         : 2394.057
cache size      : 12288 KB
physical id     : 1
siblings        : 8
core id         : 1
cpu cores       : 4
apicid          : 34
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 11
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc ida nonstop_tsc arat pni monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt lahf_lm
bogomips        : 4788.05
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: [8]

processor       : 3
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 44
model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           E5620  @ 2.40GHz
stepping        : 2
cpu MHz         : 2394.057
cache size      : 12288 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 8
core id         : 1
cpu cores       : 4
apicid          : 2
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 11
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc ida nonstop_tsc arat pni monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt lahf_lm
bogomips        : 4788.03
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: [8]

Meminfo shows nothing new:

cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:       524288 kB
MemFree:        445760 kB
Buffers:             0 kB
Cached:              0 kB
SwapCached:          0 kB
Active:              0 kB
Inactive:            0 kB
HighTotal:           0 kB
HighFree:            0 kB
LowTotal:       524288 kB
LowFree:        445760 kB
SwapTotal:           0 kB
SwapFree:            0 kB
Dirty:           66896 kB
Writeback:           0 kB
AnonPages:           0 kB
Mapped:              0 kB
Slab:                0 kB
PageTables:          0 kB
NFS_Unstable:        0 kB
Bounce:              0 kB
CommitLimit:         0 kB
Committed_AS:        0 kB
VmallocTotal:        0 kB
VmallocUsed:         0 kB
VmallocChunk:        0 kB
HugePages_Total:     0
HugePages_Free:      0
HugePages_Rsvd:      0
Hugepagesize:     2048 kB

And time sync results, interestingly, seems a bit longer than usual:

time sync

real    0m10.250s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m0.035s

I am not certain what is the hard drive set up for this particular VPS (does anyone know anyway of getting this information?), however the disk performance is decent but nothing too impressive, which is what we commonly see among the unmetered VPS packages:

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, 21.2441 s, 50.5 MB/s

Testing again showed slightly worse results:

 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, 23.6103 s, 45.5 MB/s

The ioping results were a little sluggish as well:

 ioping -c 10 .
4096 bytes from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=1 time=17.9 ms
4096 bytes from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=2 time=0.2 ms
4096 bytes from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=3 time=0.3 ms
4096 bytes from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=4 time=0.3 ms
4096 bytes from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=5 time=3.9 ms
4096 bytes from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=6 time=1.0 ms
4096 bytes from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=7 time=4.0 ms
4096 bytes from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=8 time=0.2 ms
4096 bytes from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=9 time=0.3 ms
4096 bytes from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=10 time=1.0 ms

--- . (simfs /dev/simfs) ioping statistics ---
10 requests completed in 9038.4 ms, 345 iops, 1.3 mb/s
min/avg/max/mdev = 0.2/2.9/17.9/5.2 ms

Testing again showed similar results:

 ioping -c 10 .
4096 bytes from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=1 time=19.7 ms
4096 bytes from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=2 time=0.3 ms
4096 bytes from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=3 time=7.2 ms
4096 bytes from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=4 time=0.3 ms
4096 bytes from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=5 time=0.2 ms
4096 bytes from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=6 time=0.2 ms
4096 bytes from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=7 time=0.3 ms
4096 bytes from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=8 time=0.3 ms
4096 bytes from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=9 time=1.0 ms
4096 bytes from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=10 time=2.0 ms

--- . (simfs /dev/simfs) ioping statistics ---
10 requests completed in 9039.9 ms, 319 iops, 1.2 mb/s
min/avg/max/mdev = 0.2/3.1/19.7/5.9 ms

The download speed is pretty good, I was be able to get close to the port speed (100mbit) using the Cachefly test download file:

wget cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test -O /dev/null
--2012-03-23 05:56:44--  http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net... 205.234.175.175
Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net|205.234.175.175|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `/dev/null'

100%[=======================================================================================================================================>] 104,857,600 10.9M/s   in 9.1s

2012-03-23 05:56:53 (11.0 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]

Testing again showed similar results:

wget cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test -O /dev/null
--2012-03-23 06:02:29--  http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net... 205.234.175.175
Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net|205.234.175.175|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `/dev/null'

100%[=======================================================================================================================================>] 104,857,600 10.4M/s   in 9.8s

2012-03-23 06:02:39 (10.2 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]

The upload tests showed pretty decent speed as well, with my test VPS with Quickweb Chicago, IL, I was able to get close to 7MB/s of upload speed:

wget 38.111.107.35/100mb.test -O /dev/null
--2012-03-22 21:57:02--  http://38.111.107.35/100mb.test
Connecting to 38.111.107.35:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `/dev/null'

100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 7.05M/s   in 14s

2012-03-22 21:57:16 (6.98 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]

With my test VPS with Quickweb Los Angeles, CA, the speed is down slightly, but is still really good:

 wget 38.111.107.35/100mb.test -O /dev/null
--2012-03-22 17:57:51--  http://38.111.107.35/100mb.test
Connecting to 38.111.107.35:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `/dev/null'

100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 8.92M/s   in 15s

2012-03-22 17:58:06 (6.79 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]

Finally, with my XenVZ test VPS in Maidenhead, UK, the speed is obviously a litte slower than the VPS in North America, but is nonetheless pretty decent:

wget 38.111.107.35/100mb.test -O /dev/null
--2012-03-23 05:56:22--  http://38.111.107.35/100mb.test
Connecting to 38.111.107.35:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `/dev/null'

100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 4.55M/s   in 25s

2012-03-23 05:56:47 (4.02 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]

I have to say that it is pretty rare to see an unmetered provider with such good network speed, although obviously the price tag would tell half of the story.

Lastly, the benchmarks, quite frankly speaking I was expecting a little more with the VPS with 4 CPU cores, particularly when the cores are not throttled, therefore I was a little disappointed when the VPS only managed to get a little above 1600 points for Unixbench:

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   Version 5.1.3                      Based on the Byte Magazine Unix Benchmark

   Multi-CPU version                  Version 5 revisions by Ian Smith,
                                      Sunnyvale, CA, USA
   January 13, 2011                   johantheghost at yahoo period com

1 x Dhrystone 2 using register variables  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

1 x Double-Precision Whetstone  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

1 x Execl Throughput  1 2 3

1 x File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks  1 2 3

1 x File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks  1 2 3

1 x File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks  1 2 3

1 x Pipe Throughput  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

1 x Pipe-based Context Switching  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

1 x Process Creation  1 2 3

1 x System Call Overhead  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

1 x Shell Scripts (1 concurrent)  1 2 3

1 x Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)  1 2 3

4 x Dhrystone 2 using register variables  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

4 x Double-Precision Whetstone  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

4 x Execl Throughput  1 2 3

4 x File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks  1 2 3

4 x File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks  1 2 3

4 x File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks  1 2 3

4 x Pipe Throughput  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

4 x Pipe-based Context Switching  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

4 x Process Creation  1 2 3

4 x System Call Overhead  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

4 x Shell Scripts (1 concurrent)  1 2 3

4 x Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)  1 2 3

========================================================================
   BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 5.1.3)

   System: ******: GNU/Linux
   OS: GNU/Linux -- 2.6.18-194.26.1.el5.028stab079.2 -- #1 SMP Fri Dec 17 19:25:15 MSK 2010
   Machine: i686 (i386)
   Language: en_US.utf8 (charmap="UTF-8", collate="UTF-8")
   CPU 0: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5620 @ 2.40GHz (4788.1 bogomips)
          Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization
   CPU 1: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5620 @ 2.40GHz (4788.1 bogomips)
          Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization
   CPU 2: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5620 @ 2.40GHz (4788.1 bogomips)
          Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization
   CPU 3: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5620 @ 2.40GHz (4788.0 bogomips)
          Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization
   07:13:59 up  6:05,  1 user,  load average: 0.27, 0.29, 0.32; runlevel 3

------------------------------------------------------------------------
Benchmark Run: Wed Mar 21 2012 07:13:59 - 07:46:48
4 CPUs in system; running 1 parallel copy of tests

Dhrystone 2 using register variables        8944267.0 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Double-Precision Whetstone                     2144.1 MWIPS (9.8 s, 7 samples)
Execl Throughput                               3057.0 lps   (29.9 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks        391667.6 KBps  (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks           97849.1 KBps  (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks        911848.1 KBps  (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Pipe Throughput                              685394.1 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Pipe-based Context Switching                   8157.5 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Process Creation                              10973.3 lps   (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent)                   4016.4 lpm   (60.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)                   1102.2 lpm   (60.0 s, 2 samples)
System Call Overhead                         588452.7 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)

System Benchmarks Index Values               BASELINE       RESULT    INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables         116700.0    8944267.0    766.4
Double-Precision Whetstone                       55.0       2144.1    389.8
Execl Throughput                                 43.0       3057.0    710.9
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks          3960.0     391667.6    989.1
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks            1655.0      97849.1    591.2
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks          5800.0     911848.1   1572.2
Pipe Throughput                               12440.0     685394.1    551.0
Pipe-based Context Switching                   4000.0       8157.5     20.4
Process Creation                                126.0      10973.3    870.9
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent)                     42.4       4016.4    947.3
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)                      6.0       1102.2   1836.9
System Call Overhead                          15000.0     588452.7    392.3
                                                                   ========
System Benchmarks Index Score                                         574.9

------------------------------------------------------------------------
Benchmark Run: Wed Mar 21 2012 07:46:48 - 08:21:43
4 CPUs in system; running 4 parallel copies of tests

Dhrystone 2 using register variables       31087768.3 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Double-Precision Whetstone                     8045.2 MWIPS (10.6 s, 7 samples)
Execl Throughput                               6795.3 lps   (29.5 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks        359970.4 KBps  (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks          103726.2 KBps  (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks       1071710.5 KBps  (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Pipe Throughput                             2433510.9 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Pipe-based Context Switching                 789913.9 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Process Creation                              28541.3 lps   (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent)                   8265.8 lpm   (60.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)                   1566.5 lpm   (60.1 s, 2 samples)
System Call Overhead                        1981141.6 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)

System Benchmarks Index Values               BASELINE       RESULT    INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables         116700.0   31087768.3   2663.9
Double-Precision Whetstone                       55.0       8045.2   1462.8
Execl Throughput                                 43.0       6795.3   1580.3
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks          3960.0     359970.4    909.0
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks            1655.0     103726.2    626.7
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks          5800.0    1071710.5   1847.8
Pipe Throughput                               12440.0    2433510.9   1956.2
Pipe-based Context Switching                   4000.0     789913.9   1974.8
Process Creation                                126.0      28541.3   2265.2
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent)                     42.4       8265.8   1949.5
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)                      6.0       1566.5   2610.9
System Call Overhead                          15000.0    1981141.6   1320.8
                                                                   ========
System Benchmarks Index Score                                        1641.0

Testing again showed slightly better results, but is more or less in the same range:

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   Version 5.1.3                      Based on the Byte Magazine Unix Benchmark

   Multi-CPU version                  Version 5 revisions by Ian Smith,
                                      Sunnyvale, CA, USA
   January 13, 2011                   johantheghost at yahoo period com

1 x Dhrystone 2 using register variables  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

1 x Double-Precision Whetstone  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

1 x Execl Throughput  1 2 3

1 x File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks  1 2 3

1 x File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks  1 2 3

1 x File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks  1 2 3

1 x Pipe Throughput  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

1 x Pipe-based Context Switching  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

1 x Process Creation  1 2 3

1 x System Call Overhead  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

1 x Shell Scripts (1 concurrent)  1 2 3

1 x Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)  1 2 3

4 x Dhrystone 2 using register variables  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

4 x Double-Precision Whetstone  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

4 x Execl Throughput  1 2 3

4 x File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks  1 2 3

4 x File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks  1 2 3

4 x File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks  1 2 3

4 x Pipe Throughput  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

4 x Pipe-based Context Switching  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

4 x Process Creation  1 2 3

4 x System Call Overhead  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

4 x Shell Scripts (1 concurrent)  1 2 3

4 x Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)  1 2 3

========================================================================
   BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 5.1.3)

   System: ******: GNU/Linux
   OS: GNU/Linux -- 2.6.18-194.26.1.el5.028stab079.2 -- #1 SMP Fri Dec 17 19:25:15 MSK 2010
   Machine: i686 (i386)
   Language: en_US.utf8 (charmap="UTF-8", collate="UTF-8")
   CPU 0: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5620 @ 2.40GHz (4788.1 bogomips)
          Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization
   CPU 1: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5620 @ 2.40GHz (4788.1 bogomips)
          Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization
   CPU 2: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5620 @ 2.40GHz (4788.1 bogomips)
          Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization
   CPU 3: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5620 @ 2.40GHz (4788.0 bogomips)
          Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization
   08:36:01 up  7:27,  2 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.71, 2.75; runlevel 3

------------------------------------------------------------------------
Benchmark Run: Wed Mar 21 2012 08:36:01 - 09:08:06
4 CPUs in system; running 1 parallel copy of tests

Dhrystone 2 using register variables        8951504.6 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Double-Precision Whetstone                     2129.6 MWIPS (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Execl Throughput                               3106.9 lps   (29.7 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks        383671.8 KBps  (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks          100486.7 KBps  (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks        920903.1 KBps  (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Pipe Throughput                              684670.2 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Pipe-based Context Switching                  21088.9 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Process Creation                              10787.9 lps   (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent)                   4148.7 lpm   (60.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)                   1192.4 lpm   (60.0 s, 2 samples)
System Call Overhead                         596846.6 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)

System Benchmarks Index Values               BASELINE       RESULT    INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables         116700.0    8951504.6    767.1
Double-Precision Whetstone                       55.0       2129.6    387.2
Execl Throughput                                 43.0       3106.9    722.5
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks          3960.0     383671.8    968.9
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks            1655.0     100486.7    607.2
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks          5800.0     920903.1   1587.8
Pipe Throughput                               12440.0     684670.2    550.4
Pipe-based Context Switching                   4000.0      21088.9     52.7
Process Creation                                126.0      10787.9    856.2
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent)                     42.4       4148.7    978.5
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)                      6.0       1192.4   1987.4
System Call Overhead                          15000.0     596846.6    397.9
                                                                   ========
System Benchmarks Index Score                                         629.2

------------------------------------------------------------------------
Benchmark Run: Wed Mar 21 2012 09:08:06 - 09:43:48
4 CPUs in system; running 4 parallel copies of tests

Dhrystone 2 using register variables       33639149.5 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Double-Precision Whetstone                     7853.4 MWIPS (9.5 s, 7 samples)
Execl Throughput                               6941.5 lps   (29.7 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks        423369.2 KBps  (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks          124642.7 KBps  (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks        880023.9 KBps  (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Pipe Throughput                             2393055.4 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Pipe-based Context Switching                 810612.7 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Process Creation                              28947.6 lps   (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent)                   8793.0 lpm   (60.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)                   1542.0 lpm   (60.0 s, 2 samples)
System Call Overhead                        2003281.4 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)

System Benchmarks Index Values               BASELINE       RESULT    INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables         116700.0   33639149.5   2882.5
Double-Precision Whetstone                       55.0       7853.4   1427.9
Execl Throughput                                 43.0       6941.5   1614.3
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks          3960.0     423369.2   1069.1
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks            1655.0     124642.7    753.1
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks          5800.0     880023.9   1517.3
Pipe Throughput                               12440.0    2393055.4   1923.7
Pipe-based Context Switching                   4000.0     810612.7   2026.5
Process Creation                                126.0      28947.6   2297.4
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent)                     42.4       8793.0   2073.8
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)                      6.0       1542.0   2569.9
System Call Overhead                          15000.0    2003281.4   1335.5
                                                                   ========
System Benchmarks Index Score                                        1683.3

Geekbench results gives a little better score with this:

System Information
  Platform:                  Linux x86 (32-bit)
  Compiler:                  GCC 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-33)
  Operating System:          Linux 2.6.18-194.26.1.el5.028stab079.2 i686
  Model:                     Linux PC (Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           E5620  @ 2.40GHz)
  Motherboard:               Unknown Motherboard
  Processor:                 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           E5620  @ 2.40GHz
  Processor ID:              GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 44 Stepping 2
  Logical Processors:        4
  Physical Processors:       2
  Processor Frequency:       2.39 GHz
  L1 Instruction Cache:      0.00 B
  L1 Data Cache:             0.00 B
  L2 Cache:                  256 KB
  L3 Cache:                  0.00 B
  Bus Frequency:             0.00 Hz
  Memory:                    23.5 GB
  Memory Type:               N/A
  SIMD:                      1
  BIOS:                      N/A
  Processor Model:           Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           E5620  @ 2.40GHz
  Processor Cores:           4

Integer
  Blowfish
    single-threaded scalar    1719 ||||||
    multi-threaded scalar     6887 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
  Text Compress
    single-threaded scalar    1749 ||||||
    multi-threaded scalar     6037 ||||||||||||||||||||||||
  Text Decompress
    single-threaded scalar    2014 ||||||||
    multi-threaded scalar     7341 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
  Image Compress
    single-threaded scalar    1672 ||||||
    multi-threaded scalar     4430 |||||||||||||||||
  Image Decompress
    single-threaded scalar    1630 ||||||
    multi-threaded scalar     4579 ||||||||||||||||||
  Lua
    single-threaded scalar    3136 ||||||||||||
    multi-threaded scalar     8343 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||

Floating Point
  Mandelbrot
    single-threaded scalar    2111 ||||||||
    multi-threaded scalar     7223 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
  Dot Product
    single-threaded scalar    3451 |||||||||||||
    multi-threaded scalar     8862 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
    single-threaded vector    4116 ||||||||||||||||
    multi-threaded vector    10092 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
  LU Decomposition
    single-threaded scalar    1696 ||||||
    multi-threaded scalar     3034 ||||||||||||
  Primality Test
    single-threaded scalar    3541 ||||||||||||||
    multi-threaded scalar     8810 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
  Sharpen Image
    single-threaded scalar    4369 |||||||||||||||||
    multi-threaded scalar    14046 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
  Blur Image
    single-threaded scalar    5410 |||||||||||||||||||||
    multi-threaded scalar    13904 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||

Memory
  Read Sequential
    single-threaded scalar    4928 |||||||||||||||||||
  Write Sequential
    single-threaded scalar    6956 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
  Stdlib Allocate
    single-threaded scalar    3590 ||||||||||||||
  Stdlib Write
    single-threaded scalar    3423 |||||||||||||
  Stdlib Copy
    single-threaded scalar    6649 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||

Stream
  Stream Copy
    single-threaded scalar    6115 ||||||||||||||||||||||||
    single-threaded vector    9443 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
  Stream Scale
    single-threaded scalar    4538 ||||||||||||||||||
    single-threaded vector    7235 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
  Stream Add
    single-threaded scalar    5186 ||||||||||||||||||||
    single-threaded vector    5975 |||||||||||||||||||||||
  Stream Triad
    single-threaded scalar    3425 |||||||||||||
    single-threaded vector    5402 |||||||||||||||||||||

Integer Score:                4128 ||||||||||||||||
Floating Point Score:         6476 |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Memory Score:                 5109 ||||||||||||||||||||
Stream Score:                 5914 |||||||||||||||||||||||

Overall Geekbench Score:      5324 |||||||||||||||||||||

Testing again showed slightly worse results:

System Information
  Platform:                  Linux x86 (32-bit)
  Compiler:                  GCC 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-33)
  Operating System:          Linux 2.6.18-194.26.1.el5.028stab079.2 i686
  Model:                     Linux PC (Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           E5620  @ 2.40GHz)
  Motherboard:               Unknown Motherboard
  Processor:                 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           E5620  @ 2.40GHz
  Processor ID:              GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 44 Stepping 2
  Logical Processors:        4
  Physical Processors:       2
  Processor Frequency:       2.39 GHz
  L1 Instruction Cache:      0.00 B
  L1 Data Cache:             0.00 B
  L2 Cache:                  256 KB
  L3 Cache:                  0.00 B
  Bus Frequency:             0.00 Hz
  Memory:                    23.5 GB
  Memory Type:               N/A
  SIMD:                      1
  BIOS:                      N/A
  Processor Model:           Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           E5620  @ 2.40GHz
  Processor Cores:           4

Integer
  Blowfish
    single-threaded scalar    1751 |||||||
    multi-threaded scalar     6894 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
  Text Compress
    single-threaded scalar    1653 ||||||
    multi-threaded scalar     6022 ||||||||||||||||||||||||
  Text Decompress
    single-threaded scalar    2024 ||||||||
    multi-threaded scalar     6479 |||||||||||||||||||||||||
  Image Compress
    single-threaded scalar    1675 ||||||
    multi-threaded scalar     4740 ||||||||||||||||||
  Image Decompress
    single-threaded scalar    1560 ||||||
    multi-threaded scalar     4654 ||||||||||||||||||
  Lua
    single-threaded scalar    3150 ||||||||||||
    multi-threaded scalar     8363 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||

Floating Point
  Mandelbrot
    single-threaded scalar    1522 ||||||
    multi-threaded scalar     4915 |||||||||||||||||||
  Dot Product
    single-threaded scalar    3426 |||||||||||||
    multi-threaded scalar     9411 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
    single-threaded vector    3135 ||||||||||||
    multi-threaded vector    10356 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
  LU Decomposition
    single-threaded scalar    1552 ||||||
    multi-threaded scalar     5274 |||||||||||||||||||||
  Primality Test
    single-threaded scalar    3494 |||||||||||||
    multi-threaded scalar     8777 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
  Sharpen Image
    single-threaded scalar    4988 |||||||||||||||||||
    multi-threaded scalar    12806 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
  Blur Image
    single-threaded scalar    5430 |||||||||||||||||||||
    multi-threaded scalar    13740 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||

Memory
  Read Sequential
    single-threaded scalar    4175 ||||||||||||||||
  Write Sequential
    single-threaded scalar    5693 ||||||||||||||||||||||
  Stdlib Allocate
    single-threaded scalar    2692 ||||||||||
  Stdlib Write
    single-threaded scalar    3171 ||||||||||||
  Stdlib Copy
    single-threaded scalar    5881 |||||||||||||||||||||||

Stream
  Stream Copy
    single-threaded scalar    5655 ||||||||||||||||||||||
    single-threaded vector    6822 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
  Stream Scale
    single-threaded scalar    2710 ||||||||||
    single-threaded vector    7855 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
  Stream Add
    single-threaded scalar    5271 |||||||||||||||||||||
    single-threaded vector    7576 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
  Stream Triad
    single-threaded scalar    4035 ||||||||||||||||
    single-threaded vector    4327 |||||||||||||||||

Integer Score:                4080 ||||||||||||||||
Floating Point Score:         6344 |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Memory Score:                 4322 |||||||||||||||||
Stream Score:                 5531 ||||||||||||||||||||||

Overall Geekbench Score:      5065 ||||||||||||||||||||

Overall, I can definitely see the unmetered bandwidth, together with fast upload/download speed, is definitely a huge selling point, which would kind of justify the price tag on the VPS.

Customer Service and Support

I guess Amanah was probably quite confident with the performance and stability of their system that they seems to be a little slow in responding to tickets. I have sent a ticket to them on March 22 at 18:10 asking about RAID configuration for the hardware node hosting this VPS (RAID 1 is the answer by the way), and the ticket was not responded the next day at 10:53. Granted it is not something important, however I was hoping for at least slightly faster response than a 14 hour wait on weekdays. UPDATE: Amanah offers 8am-5pm support for non-emergency issues, as per this page so this is reasonable.

Conclusion

I guess the VPS providers always face the dilemma of picking one of the three: stability, performance and cheap price. I think from this perspective, Amanah definitely picked stability. The price that they have charged for a VPS with 512MB of RAM is not exactly cheap, and quite frankly speaking even the performance, as indicated by disk I/O and benchmarks, are not that great. However, the good network speed, together with the unmetered bandwidth as well as the overall stability of the VPS, makes this VPS a pretty good choice for people who are interested in getting a VPs mainly for download/upload purposes in Canada, and obviously, who has a pretty deep pocket for the VPS, in the LEB standard at least.

UPDATE: I have just noticed my free VPS with Amanah was terminated this morning, the day after I posted this review, so if you would like to keep your free VPS with them, please make sure you do not post anything negative about the company.

 

4 thoughts on “96MB Low End VPS Review Part 51 – Amanah Tech 512MB VPS

  1. I’m a VPN provider and I needed servers for US and Canadian customers. I tried Amanah for the first time. I found their support to be really helpful and knowledgeable. They were very professional when handling complaints. As right now, I can easily stay here for 5 years or more.

  2. Amanah hosting provider is perfect for streaming music and video. The servers were stable, the uptime was flawless (so far), speed was good and the bandwidth was more than I needed. 10/10 (so far).

    • @Michael Thanks a lot for sharing your experience, unfortunately they have stopped offering the free VPS service, hopefully they’ll be able to have good business with the high end customers!

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