96MB Low End VPS Review Part 52 – DME Hosting
DMEHosting has recently posted quite a few limited (20 only as per their WHT advertisement, although I have almost never seen this product going out of stock for the past few months) for a pretty big VPS at a slightly above standard LEB type of prices. Since the RAM is so big, I got curious with the offer and decided to grab one myself and see how it works.
Basic Information and Set Up
As per their post on WHT, here is the specs of the VPS:
I guess the biggest selling point here is the 1Gbit port with 2TB of bandwidth, which, although is not unmetered, is pretty generous. Of course, 2GB of dedicated RAM makes it a pretty sweet deal for those RAM-hungry app as well.
The sign up process, as indicated on the advertisement, is using WHMCS in secured HTTPS and there seems to be quite a few options available for you to choose from:
For the billing cycle, there is only monthly available.
There are several options to choose from for the operating system:
I have never heard of Sabayon Spinbase, and could only guess it is one of those rare to use Linux distributions.
For the VPS location, only Denver is available for this special.
CPanel cost 14.95 per month while Direct Admin cost 9.95 per month, both of which are quite standard price:
If the standard CPanel is not good enough for you, you can always get more:
You can actually use SSD space in place of HDD space, however at 2 dollars per GB, I would think twice before I do so, unless I really need some good I/O:
There is also a daily remote backup slot available for 15 per month, which actually cost more than the VPS itself, so I would definitely recommend you to set up your own script + cron job to do some backup:
There is also FTP Backup Space available, which does not come cheap as well. Honestly, if I really need a FTP backup space I’d sign up for one of those shared hosting accounts (or even free ones), to store my backups:
The bandwidth upgrade is equally unattractive as well, I mean, 60 USD per month for 100Mbps unmetered? I am almost sure I can get a Kimsufi dedi with unmetered bandwidth at a little more than a third of the price:
Additional IP, priced at 2 USD per IP, is pretty expensive as well, although once you get 10 IP addresses, the cost comes down to 1.50 per IP and once you get 20, the cost is a dollar each.
Provision for this VPS was instant and I received my VPS welcome email the same minute as I have received the Paypal payment receipt. Few points to notice:
1. They are using HyperVM, not SolusVM. While it is not necessarily a bad thing, I think having a paid VPS management system like SolusVM would be more professional. However, at least they have done some work to have HyperVM running on the standard HTTP port rather than port 8888, which is something I like.
2. There are free DNS service provided as part of the service, with two DNS servers.
3. There is a three day cancellation notification period for their services. Which means you will need to cancel three days before the invoice was generated. This is actually quite generous considering some of the providers actually require a 30 day cancellation, which is pretty ridiculous for a VPS (since there is almost no cost at setting up and deleting a VPS), however, personally I would prefer the invoice generated a little earlier and have the VPS to be cancelled within x days after the invoice has been generated. I personally have 20 VPS on average each month, with some VPS that I bought just for one month for testing/review, and it could be pretty difficult for me to remember to cancel until I get the invoice to remind me the next payment is due. Also, I really appreciate that they have made the cancellation period very clear on the email, I would rather know this information upfront than having to submit a cancellation request and being told “as per our TOS, you are not allowed to cancel” and so on.
4. It is actually pretty nice of them to mention that the Control Panels and upgrades have to be applied manually. Many times on WHT, I see people complaining about “why my CPanel is showing trial after I received the VPS” or “I have asked for 4GB of RAM and only received 2GB”. Although people could laugh and claim that those are just some noobs, a few lines of explanations would definitely help to reduce the possibility of getting negative reviews, which is probably the biggest enemy to the hosting providers these days.
The HyperVM control panel is in HTTPS only and once you logged in, a pretty standard HyperVM interface is shown:
I am not going to go into details about each and every functionalities here since the icons are pretty self-explanatory. However, here are a few of the highlights:
1. Instant rDNS is available, which is my first time seeing someone enale this functionality in HyperVM:
2. As mentioned in the welcome email, there is also DNS settings available if you would like to use this VPS as a web server. It is actually pretty easy to set up, however the only draw back is the web IP address and the mail IP address have to be the IP addresses in your account, which means you will either have to use the same IP address (which is the only one you have) for both your web and mail servers or you will have to buy additional IP addresses.
3. What impressed me the most is the huge amount of OS templates that is available for reinstallation, if you are an Ubuntu fan, and if you prefer to use Turnkey templates, you will almost certainly find what you need in their selection list:
Test on the VPS
As mentioned before, the test VPS that I have has 2GB of dedicated RAM (3GB burstable), 50 GB of hard drive space and 1Gbit port located in Dallas with FDC Servers. I have installed Debian 6 32 bit for testing purposes.
When the OS template was first loaded, about 40MB of RAM was used, which is a lot higher than the default Debian 6 32 bit configuration:
free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 3072 41 3030 0 0 0
-/+ buffers/cache: 41 3030
Swap: 0 0 0
However, I did not see any unsual processes running in the top output though:
top - 00:02:06 up 9:50, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Tasks: 12 total, 2 running, 10 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: 3145728k total, 43096k used, 3102632k free, 0k buffers
Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 0k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
1489 root 18 0 8268 2840 2320 R 0.0 0.1 0:00.04 sshd
1375 root 15 0 5720 1880 1524 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.05 master
1412 postfix 15 0 5776 1808 1464 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 qmgr
1484 postfix 18 0 5732 1780 1440 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 pickup
1492 root 16 0 2972 1624 1304 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 bash
1286 root 25 0 33448 1372 1020 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 rsyslogd
1503 root 15 0 2340 1076 888 R 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 top
1300 root 15 0 5500 960 576 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 sshd
1424 root 18 0 2304 768 604 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.04 cron
1 root 18 0 2040 692 600 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.62 init
1231 daemon 25 0 1812 488 404 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 portmap
1402 daemon 18 0 2168 424 300 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 atd
And htop output:
About 377MB of hard drive space was used, which is pretty reasonable for a fresh installation:
df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/simfs 50G 377M 50G 1% / tmpfs 1.5G 0 1.5G 0% /lib/init/rw tmpfs 1.5G 0 1.5G 0% /dev/shm
And the iNodes were set up to pretty standard values:
df -i Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on /dev/simfs 26214400 19063 26195337 1% / tmpfs 393216 5 393211 1% /lib/init/rw tmpfs 393216 1 393215 1% /dev/shm
When the full LNMP stack was loaded, 86MB of RAM was used:
free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 3072 86 2985 0 0 0
-/+ buffers/cache: 86 2985
Swap: 0 0 0
Top output showing the processes running:
top - 10:38:29 up 12:26, 1 user, load average: 0.35, 0.89, 0.67 Tasks: 22 total, 2 running, 20 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: 3145728k total, 89588k used, 3056140k free, 0k buffers Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 0k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 26488 www 21 0 14992 10m 428 S 0.0 0.4 0:00.00 nginx 26469 mysql 19 0 33944 4640 2040 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 mysqld 26479 root 18 0 22620 4544 1404 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 php-cgi 26480 www 20 0 22620 4144 1004 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 php-cgi 26481 www 20 0 22620 4144 1004 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 php-cgi 26482 www 20 0 22620 4144 1004 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 php-cgi 26483 www 20 0 22620 4144 1004 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 php-cgi 26484 www 20 0 22620 4144 1004 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 php-cgi 1489 root 16 0 8600 3028 2332 R 0.0 0.1 0:01.85 sshd 24196 root 15 0 5768 1828 1476 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 master 24197 postfix 15 0 5828 1784 1444 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 qmgr 5864 postfix 15 0 5784 1740 1408 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 pickup 1492 root 15 0 2972 1656 1332 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.01 bash 23646 root 18 0 27292 1360 1020 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 rsyslogd 26513 root 15 0 2324 1096 896 R 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 top 23894 root 25 0 5484 932 548 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 sshd 19531 root 18 0 2284 768 604 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 cron
And htop output again:
About 1.7GB of hard drive space was used:
df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/simfs 50G 1.7G 49G 4% / tmpfs 1.5G 0 1.5G 0% /lib/init/rw tmpfs 1.5G 0 1.5G 0% /dev/shm
And again, the inodes values:
df -i Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on /dev/simfs 26214400 68796 26145604 1% / tmpfs 393216 5 393211 1% /lib/init/rw tmpfs 393216 1 393215 1% /dev/shm
VMstats shows the VPS is 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 0 0 0 3055856 0 0 0 0 1 41 0 361 3 2 95 0
And so is the output of uptime:
uptime 22:40:11 up 1 day, 28 min, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Nothing too interesting was shown in beancounters:
cat /proc/user_beancounters
Version: 2.5
uid resource held maxheld barrier limit failcnt
16528: kmemsize 2287376 19366393 2147483646 2147483646 0
lockedpages 0 968 999999 999999 0
privvmpages 10148 616318 786432 786432 0
shmpages 641 1312 524288 524288 0
dummy 0 0 0 0 0
numproc 16 121 999999 999999 0
physpages 2467 110169 0 2147483647 0
vmguarpages 0 0 524288 2147483647 0
oomguarpages 2467 110169 524288 2147483647 0
numtcpsock 8 24 7999992 7999992 0
numflock 5 15 999999 999999 0
numpty 1 2 500000 500000 0
numsiginfo 0 14 999999 999999 0
tcpsndbuf 181744 903784 429496320 611522560 0
tcprcvbuf 131072 69851528 429496320 611522560 0
othersockbuf 155976 5349776 429496320 611522560 0
dgramrcvbuf 0 9776 429496320 611522560 0
numothersock 97 379 7999992 7999992 0
dcachesize 282639 1097901 2147483646 2147483646 0
numfile 481 3483 23999976 23999976 0
dummy 0 0 0 0 0
dummy 0 0 0 0 0
dummy 0 0 0 0 0
numiptent 24 26 999999 999999 0
The VPS has a single CPU core, and it is not throttled:
cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 42 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31270 @ 3.40GHz stepping : 7 cpu MHz : 3392.490 cache size : 8192 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 8 core id : 0 cpu cores : 4 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 dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall nx 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 : 6784.98 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: [8]
And the output of meminfo:
cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 3145728 kB MemFree: 3104892 kB Buffers: 0 kB Cached: 0 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 0 kB Inactive: 0 kB HighTotal: 0 kB HighFree: 0 kB LowTotal: 3145728 kB LowFree: 3104892 kB SwapTotal: 0 kB SwapFree: 0 kB Dirty: 1286220 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:
time sync real 0m0.399s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.259s
vzfree shows no sign of overselling:
vzfree
Total Used Free
Kernel: 2048.00M 3.29M 2044.71M
Allocate: 3072.00M 87.75M 2984.25M (2048M Guaranteed)
Commit: 2048.00M 32.55M 2015.45M (33.3% of Allocated)
Swap: 0.00M (0.0% of Committed)
For the hard drive test, the disk I/O is pretty decent, but again, not exactly impressive:
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, 17.1433 s, 62.6 MB/s
Testing again a little later actually showed pretty dismal 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, 28.232 s, 38.0 MB/s
IOPing test showed some not so consistent values:
ioping -c 10 . 4096 bytes from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=1 time=0.1 ms 4096 bytes from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=2 time=0.2 ms 4096 bytes from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=3 time=0.2 ms 4096 bytes from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=4 time=20.4 ms 4096 bytes from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=5 time=10.1 ms 4096 bytes from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=6 time=263.3 ms 4096 bytes from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=7 time=0.1 ms 4096 bytes from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=8 time=0.1 ms 4096 bytes from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=9 time=12.7 ms 4096 bytes from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=10 time=0.2 ms --- . (simfs /dev/simfs) ioping statistics --- 10 requests completed in 9317.4 ms, 33 iops, 0.1 mb/s min/avg/max/mdev = 0.1/30.7/263.3/77.8 ms
Testing again showed pretty inconsistent readings as well:
ioping -c 10 . 4096 bytes from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=1 time=3.7 ms 4096 bytes from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=2 time=0.3 ms 4096 bytes from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=3 time=0.1 ms 4096 bytes from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=4 time=115.0 ms 4096 bytes from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=5 time=64.3 ms 4096 bytes from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=6 time=38.8 ms 4096 bytes from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=7 time=12.5 ms 4096 bytes from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=8 time=13.7 ms 4096 bytes from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=9 time=0.3 ms 4096 bytes from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=10 time=2.2 ms --- . (simfs /dev/simfs) ioping statistics --- 10 requests completed in 9260.2 ms, 40 iops, 0.2 mb/s min/avg/max/mdev = 0.1/25.1/115.0/36.0 ms
I am not exactly sure if I was placed on a Gbit port as the connection speed looks more like what a 100Mbit port would show:
wget cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test -O /dev/null --2012-05-07 06:37:44-- 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 18.0M/s in 7.4s 2012-05-07 06:37:51 (13.4 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]
The result is a lot better when I tried it again today though:
wget cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test -O /dev/null --2012-07-10 00:54:41-- 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 25.8M/s in 3.9s 2012-07-10 00:54:45 (25.8 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]
Aget results are OK for large files, however bear in mind that normally the results for aget tend to be slower than wget since there are limited testing files available:
First one is the results from DimeNOC in Florida, US:
aget http://72.29.70.131/1gbfile.tgz -n 10Attempting to read log file aget-1gbfile.tgz.log for resuming download job... Couldn't find log file for this download, starting a clean job... Head-Request Connection established Downloading /1gbfile.tgz (1023410176 bytes) from site 72.29.70.131(72.29.70.131:80). Number of Threads: 10 .. [4% completed] ..... [9% completed] ....... [14% completed] .......... [19% completed] ............ [24% completed] ............... [29% completed] ................. [34% completed] .................... [39% completed] ...................... [44% completed] ......................... [49% completed] ........................... [54% completed] .............................. [59% completed] ................................ [64% completed] ................................... [69% completed] ..................................... [74% completed] ........................................ [79% completed] .......................................... [84% completed] ............................................. [89% completed] ............................................... [94% completed] .................................................. [99% completed] .................................................. [100% completed] Download completed, job completed in 89 seconds. (11229 Kb/sec) Shutting down...
Testing again gives pretty consistent results:
aget http://72.29.70.131/1gbfile.tgz -n 10Attempting to read log file aget-1gbfile.tgz.log for resuming download job... Couldn't find log file for this download, starting a clean job... Head-Request Connection established Downloading /1gbfile.tgz (1023410176 bytes) from site 72.29.70.131(72.29.70.131:80). Number of Threads: 10 .. [4% completed] ..... [9% completed] ....... [14% completed] .......... [19% completed] ............ [24% completed] ............... [29% completed] ................. [34% completed] .................... [39% completed] ...................... [44% completed] ......................... [49% completed] ........................... [54% completed] .............................. [59% completed] ................................ [64% completed] ................................... [69% completed] ..................................... [74% completed] ........................................ [79% completed] .......................................... [84% completed] ............................................. [89% completed] ............................................... [94% completed] .................................................. [99% completed] .................................................. [100% completed] Download completed, job completed in 89 seconds. (11229 Kb/sec) Shutting down...
I was expecting the download speed with the testing file from Thinkbroadband would be slower, since the server is located in UK, which is further away, however the end results is also pretty good:
aget http://ipv4.download.thinkbroadband.com/1GB.zip -n 10Attempting to read log file aget-1GB.zip.log for resuming download job... Couldn't find log file for this download, starting a clean job... Head-Request Connection established Downloading /1GB.zip (1073741824 bytes) from site ipv4.download.thinkbroadband.com(80.249.99.148:80). Number of Threads: 10 .. [4% completed] ..... [9% completed] ....... [14% completed] .......... [19% completed] ............ [24% completed] ............... [29% completed] ................. [34% completed] .................... [39% completed] ...................... [44% completed] ......................... [49% completed] ........................... [54% completed] .............................. [59% completed] ................................ [64% completed] ................................... [69% completed] ..................................... [74% completed] ........................................ [79% completed] .......................................... [84% completed] ............................................. [89% completed] ............................................... [94% completed] .................................................. [99% completed] .................................................. [100% completed] Download completed, job completed in 93 seconds. (11275 Kb/sec) Shutting down...
Testing again showed slightly worse but still pretty good results:
aget http://ipv4.download.thinkbroadband.com/1GB.zip -n 10Attempting to read log file aget-1GB.zip.log for resuming download job... Couldn't find log file for this download, starting a clean job... Head-Request Connection established Downloading /1GB.zip (1073741824 bytes) from site ipv4.download.thinkbroadband.com(80.249.99.148:80). Number of Threads: 10 .. [4% completed] ..... [9% completed] ....... [14% completed] .......... [19% completed] ............ [24% completed] ............... [29% completed] ................. [34% completed] .................... [39% completed] ...................... [44% completed] ......................... [49% completed] ........................... [54% completed] .............................. [59% completed] ................................ [64% completed] ................................... [69% completed] ..................................... [74% completed] ........................................ [79% completed] .......................................... [84% completed] ............................................. [89% completed] ............................................... [94% completed] .................................................. [99% completed] .................................................. [100% completed] Download completed, job completed in 94 seconds. (11155 Kb/sec) Shutting down...
The uploading tests are far from impressive though, with my Quickweb VPS in Chicago, IL showing the best upload speed of 2.83MB/s:
wget 74.221.212.4/100mb.test -O /dev/null --2012-05-06 18:43:33-- http://74.221.xxx.xxx/100mb.test Connecting to 74.221.xxx.xxx:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream] Saving to: `/dev/null' 100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 2.88M/s in 35s 2012-05-06 18:44:09 (2.83 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]
Encouraged by the previous experience I had with the download speed, I actually decided to run the upload test again as I am writing this post, however unfortunately the results did not improve much:
wget 74.221.xxx.xxx/100mb.test -O /dev/null --2012-07-10 09:24:37-- http://74.221.xxx.xxx/100mb.test Connecting to 74.221.xxx.xxx:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 104857600 (100M) [text/plain] Saving to: `/dev/null' 100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 2.23M/s in 35s 2012-07-10 09:25:12 (2.86 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]
For my Quickweb VPS in Los Angeles, CA, the speed is even worse:
wget 74.221.xxx.xxx/100mb.test -O /dev/null --2012-05-06 18:44:25-- http://74.221.xxx.xxx/100mb.test Connecting to 74.221.xxx.xxx:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream] Saving to: `/dev/null' 100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 2.45M/s in 44s 2012-05-06 18:45:09 (2.28 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]
Finally, my XenVZ test VPS in Maidenhead, UK:
wget 74.221.xxx.xxx/100mb.test -O /dev/null --2012-05-06 22:46:34-- http://74.221.xxx.xxx/100mb.test Connecting to 74.221.xxx.xxx:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream] Saving to: `/dev/null' 100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 1.98M/s in 72s 2012-05-06 22:47:47 (1.39 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]
I had some pretty high expectations on the benchmarks considering the large amount of RAM and the great processor this VPS has, unfortunately the result was not so great with UnixBench, although I would say considering it is using only one core, the score is better than many of the other single core VPS that I have:
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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
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BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 5.1.3)
System: xxxxx: GNU/Linux
OS: GNU/Linux -- 2.6.32-308.el5.028stab099.3 -- #1 SMP Wed Mar 7 15:56:00 MSK 2012
Machine: i686 (unknown)
Language: en_US.utf8 (charmap="ANSI_X3.4-1968", collate="ANSI_X3.4-1968")
CPU 0: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31270 @ 3.40GHz (6785.0 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization
10:51:50 up 12:39, 1 user, load average: 0.70, 0.72, 0.65; runlevel 2
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Benchmark Run: Sun May 06 2012 10:51:50 - 11:20:31
1 CPU in system; running 1 parallel copy of tests
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 20170718.7 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Double-Precision Whetstone 3425.1 MWIPS (10.1 s, 7 samples)
Execl Throughput 5624.0 lps (29.5 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 663569.8 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 181298.0 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 1668229.3 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Pipe Throughput 1146271.6 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Pipe-based Context Switching 354205.7 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Process Creation 16971.4 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 7630.1 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 1032.6 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples)
System Call Overhead 873107.9 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
System Benchmarks Index Values BASELINE RESULT INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 20170718.7 1728.4
Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 3425.1 622.8
Execl Throughput 43.0 5624.0 1307.9
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 3960.0 663569.8 1675.7
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1655.0 181298.0 1095.5
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 5800.0 1668229.3 2876.3
Pipe Throughput 12440.0 1146271.6 921.4
Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 354205.7 885.5
Process Creation 126.0 16971.4 1346.9
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 7630.1 1799.5
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 1032.6 1721.1
System Call Overhead 15000.0 873107.9 582.1
========
System Benchmarks Index Score 1251.2
Testing again showed similar results:
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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
========================================================================
BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 5.1.3)
System: xxxxxx: GNU/Linux
OS: GNU/Linux -- 2.6.32-308.el5.028stab099.3 -- #1 SMP Wed Mar 7 15:56:00 MSK 2012
Machine: i686 (unknown)
Language: en_US.utf8 (charmap="ANSI_X3.4-1968", collate="ANSI_X3.4-1968")
CPU 0: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31270 @ 3.40GHz (6785.0 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization
11:46:13 up 13:34, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.29; runlevel 2
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Benchmark Run: Sun May 06 2012 11:46:13 - 12:14:55
1 CPU in system; running 1 parallel copy of tests
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 19581947.7 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Double-Precision Whetstone 3424.5 MWIPS (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Execl Throughput 5855.3 lps (29.4 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 624495.8 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 178809.2 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 1540346.7 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Pipe Throughput 1182668.9 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Pipe-based Context Switching 353667.2 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Process Creation 15701.4 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 7547.1 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 997.5 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples)
System Call Overhead 887273.1 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
System Benchmarks Index Values BASELINE RESULT INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 19581947.7 1678.0
Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 3424.5 622.6
Execl Throughput 43.0 5855.3 1361.7
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 3960.0 624495.8 1577.0
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1655.0 178809.2 1080.4
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 5800.0 1540346.7 2655.8
Pipe Throughput 12440.0 1182668.9 950.7
Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 353667.2 884.2
Process Creation 126.0 15701.4 1246.1
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 7547.1 1780.0
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 997.5 1662.5
System Call Overhead 15000.0 887273.1 591.5
========
System Benchmarks Index Score 1228.4
On the other hand, Geekbench results are definitely a lot more impressive:
System Information
Platform: Linux x86 (32-bit)
Compiler: GCC 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-33)
Operating System: Linux 2.6.32-308.el5.028stab099.3 i686
Model: Linux PC (Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31270 @ 3.40GHz)
Motherboard: Unknown Motherboard
Processor: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31270 @ 3.40GHz
Processor ID: GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7
Logical Processors: 1
Physical Processors: 1
Processor Frequency: 3.39 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: 15.6 GB
Memory Type: N/A
SIMD: 1
BIOS: N/A
Processor Model: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31270 @ 3.40GHz
Processor Cores: 1
Integer
Blowfish
single-threaded scalar 2302 |||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 2470 |||||||||
Text Compress
single-threaded scalar 3094 ||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 3006 ||||||||||||
Text Decompress
single-threaded scalar 3294 |||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 3416 |||||||||||||
Image Compress
single-threaded scalar 2598 ||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 2555 ||||||||||
Image Decompress
single-threaded scalar 2543 ||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 2605 ||||||||||
Lua
single-threaded scalar 4310 |||||||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 4301 |||||||||||||||||
Floating Point
Mandelbrot
single-threaded scalar 2953 |||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 3008 ||||||||||||
Dot Product
single-threaded scalar 4748 ||||||||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 5130 ||||||||||||||||||||
single-threaded vector 4349 |||||||||||||||||
multi-threaded vector 5159 ||||||||||||||||||||
LU Decomposition
single-threaded scalar 2176 ||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 3923 |||||||||||||||
Primality Test
single-threaded scalar 5254 |||||||||||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 4142 ||||||||||||||||
Sharpen Image
single-threaded scalar 7640 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 11718 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Blur Image
single-threaded scalar 9174 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 9249 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Memory
Read Sequential
single-threaded scalar 7856 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Write Sequential
single-threaded scalar 11868 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stdlib Allocate
single-threaded scalar 5468 |||||||||||||||||||||
Stdlib Write
single-threaded scalar 7338 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stdlib Copy
single-threaded scalar 12724 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stream
Stream Copy
single-threaded scalar 5334 |||||||||||||||||||||
single-threaded vector 6269 |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stream Scale
single-threaded scalar 6495 |||||||||||||||||||||||||
single-threaded vector 6245 ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stream Add
single-threaded scalar 5944 |||||||||||||||||||||||
single-threaded vector 6849 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stream Triad
single-threaded scalar 6480 |||||||||||||||||||||||||
single-threaded vector 5041 ||||||||||||||||||||
Integer Score: 3041 ||||||||||||
Floating Point Score: 5615 ||||||||||||||||||||||
Memory Score: 9050 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stream Score: 6082 ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Overall Geekbench Score: 5447 |||||||||||||||||||||
And testing again showed even better results:
System Information
Platform: Linux x86 (32-bit)
Compiler: GCC 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-33)
Operating System: Linux 2.6.32-308.el5.028stab099.3 i686
Model: Linux PC (Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31270 @ 3.40GHz)
Motherboard: Unknown Motherboard
Processor: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31270 @ 3.40GHz
Processor ID: GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7
Logical Processors: 1
Physical Processors: 1
Processor Frequency: 3.39 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: 15.6 GB
Memory Type: N/A
SIMD: 1
BIOS: N/A
Processor Model: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31270 @ 3.40GHz
Processor Cores: 1
Integer
Blowfish
single-threaded scalar 2300 |||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 2467 |||||||||
Text Compress
single-threaded scalar 3121 ||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 3022 ||||||||||||
Text Decompress
single-threaded scalar 3354 |||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 3455 |||||||||||||
Image Compress
single-threaded scalar 2605 ||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 2565 ||||||||||
Image Decompress
single-threaded scalar 2537 ||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 1846 |||||||
Lua
single-threaded scalar 4324 |||||||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 4347 |||||||||||||||||
Floating Point
Mandelbrot
single-threaded scalar 2944 |||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 3004 ||||||||||||
Dot Product
single-threaded scalar 4752 |||||||||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 5053 ||||||||||||||||||||
single-threaded vector 5730 ||||||||||||||||||||||
multi-threaded vector 6647 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
LU Decomposition
single-threaded scalar 3806 |||||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 3840 |||||||||||||||
Primality Test
single-threaded scalar 5199 ||||||||||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 4194 ||||||||||||||||
Sharpen Image
single-threaded scalar 11758 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 11863 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Blur Image
single-threaded scalar 9253 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 9316 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Memory
Read Sequential
single-threaded scalar 8005 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Write Sequential
single-threaded scalar 11977 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stdlib Allocate
single-threaded scalar 5534 ||||||||||||||||||||||
Stdlib Write
single-threaded scalar 8260 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stdlib Copy
single-threaded scalar 15229 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stream
Stream Copy
single-threaded scalar 6529 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
single-threaded vector 7936 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stream Scale
single-threaded scalar 7001 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
single-threaded vector 7181 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stream Add
single-threaded scalar 6104 ||||||||||||||||||||||||
single-threaded vector 6671 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stream Triad
single-threaded scalar 6699 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
single-threaded vector 5115 ||||||||||||||||||||
Integer Score: 2995 |||||||||||
Floating Point Score: 6239 ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Memory Score: 9801 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stream Score: 6654 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Overall Geekbench Score: 5857 |||||||||||||||||||||||
Customer Service and Support
I have to say that quite frankly speaking, I have not used the customer support from DME Hosting a lot as the VPS itself is quite stable, however my request to enable TUN/TAP, which is a pretty standard task for VPS providers, actually took a little more than a day to complete. I entered the ticket on May 10 at 11:24PM (which is a Thursday) and the ticket was not responded until May 12 at 8:39AM (which is a Saturday), normally I get slow responses over the weekend as the support are off, but obviously in this case, it is quite the opposite.
Conclusion
Overall, at this price level, the VPS that was offered by DME Hosting is quite competitive for the amount of RAM offered, however, the single CPU core, as well as the slow disk I/O might prevent people from running resource-hungry applications on it. Furthermore, the network speed is not completely stable and support could be pretty slow for some simple task. Having said that, the vast amount of OS template, and a fairly stable VPS in general are definitely some of the selling points.
Revisit ChicagoVPS again and compare to this, as their memory allocation are very similar.
Quote from the interwebs:
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