96MB Low End VPS Review Part 66–EaseVPS

Sometimes, I felt that VPS business is a combination of experience and skills and perhaps even more importantly, luck. I have to say that on the front-end of luck, EaseVPS probably has a rocky start compared to many other providers, such as DDOS Attacks, fake service down alerts and inevitably some unhappy customers. However, now they have been in business longer, has anything improved? Let’s take a look together.

Basic Information and Sign Up

The plan I have signed up was a year ago, on this post on LowEndTalk, and the “Small” VPS plan is now replaced by the following:

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However the price could be brought down to 7 USD per month as per the posting on LowEndBox here.

The plan that I have had comes with the following resources:

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The sign up is a standard WHMCS interface with no SSL, and seems to be hosted on a separate domain at easevps.eu:

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As you can see, there are a few options available – location, number of extra IPv4 addresses, OS and management option. For the location, there are three locations available, with one UK location and two US locations. I believe Jacob, the owner of EaseVPS, is based in UK, and it is their first DC as well:

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Extra IPv4 address (there is one included in the plan) cost 2 USD per month each, with no volume discount of any sort:

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For OS selection, there are quite a few options available in the drop down list, this basically covers the latest versions (or the two latest versions) of all major Linux distributions. However they are just the base templates with no “turnkey” version available:

CentOS 5 32Bit
CentOS 5 64Bit
CentOS 6 32Bit
CentOS 6 64Bit
Debain 5 32Bit
Debain 5 64Bit
Debain 6 32Bit
Debain 6 64Bit
Fedora 13 32Bit
Fedora 13 64Bit
Suse 11.4 32Bit
Suse 11.4 64Bit
Ubuntu 10.04 32Bit
Ubuntu 10.04 64Bit
Ubuntu 11.04 32Bit
Ubuntu 11.04 64Bit
Ubuntu 12.04 32Bit
Ubuntu 12.04 64Bit
Ubuntu 12.10 32Bit
Ubuntu 12.10 64Bit

 

You can also purchase VPS management for an extra 15 USD per month:

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Provision of the VPS was instant and I was able to receive the new server information email the same time as my payment confirmation email. The root password was in plain text and there are two control panel logins, one using SSL and one does not. Interestingly, the link to the SSL site automatically forwarded to the non-SSL site, which essentially rendered the SSL link useless.

Once logged in, a pretty standard standard SolusVM interface was shown:

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The OS templates that are available for reinstallation is pretty much the same as what was shown on the WHCMS interface, and includes some standard templates for the latest version of major OS distributions:

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There are two central backup slots available, which is pretty good considering most the providers only enable the offsite FTP backups:

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Instant rDNS is not available, as EaseVPS does not own the IP block:

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Test on the VPS

As mentioned above, the VPS has 1GB of RAM and 1GB of vSwap, 60GB of hard drive space and 1TB of bandwidth, it is located at Wholesale Internet at Kansas City and I have installed Debian 6 32 bit template for testing purposes.

Initially, when I was about to log into the VPS, I was unable to log in nor ping the VPS:

ping 198.204.xxx.xxx
PING 198.204.xxx.xxx (198.204.xxx.xxx) 56(84) bytes of data.
^C
--- 198.204.xxx.xxx ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 8999ms

However, when I used the recovery console in SolusVM, I was able to log in to the VPS:

please wait...
successfully logged in.
entered into CT 13xx

Even though I can see the SSH port was open:

netstat -ln
Active Internet connections (only servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign Address         State
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:80              0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:22              0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:25            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:587           0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN
tcp6       0      0 :::22                   :::*                    LISTEN
Active UNIX domain sockets (only servers)
Proto RefCnt Flags       Type       State         I-Node   Path
unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     105998   /var/run/saslauthd/mux
unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     110571   /var/run/sendmail/mta/smcontrol

And the IP address was properly configured:

ifconfig
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:400 (400.0 B)  TX bytes:400 (400.0 B)

venet0    Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
          inet addr:127.0.0.2  P-t-P:127.0.0.2  Bcast:0.0.0.0  Mask:255.255.255.255
          UP BROADCAST POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:64 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1023 errors:0 dropped:2 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:3412 (3.3 KiB)  TX bytes:53506 (52.2 KiB)

venet0:0  Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
          inet addr:198.204.xxx.xxx  P-t-P:198.204.xxx.xxx  Bcast:0.0.0.0  Mask:255.255.255.255
          UP BROADCAST POI

A reboot eventually took care of the issue, however I never quite figured out the cause of the problem.

Once the VPS was back online, tests could be carried out properly. When the OS was initially loaded, about 9MB of RAM was used, which is close to that of the standard OpenVZ Debian 6 32 bit template:

 free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          1024         33        990          0          0         23
-/+ buffers/cache:          9       1014
Swap:         1024          0       1024

Top showing the processes running:

top - 03:00:57 up 6 days,  3:34,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Tasks:  20 total,   1 running,  19 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  0.0%us,  0.3%sy,  0.0%ni, 99.7%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   1048576k total,    34864k used,  1013712k free,        0k buffers
Swap:  1048576k total,        0k used,  1048576k free,    24624k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
23420 root      20   0  8692 3044 2472 S    0  0.3   0:00.11 sshd
  470 root      20   0  5240 2736 1460 S    0  0.3   0:20.87 apache2
23444 smmsp     20   0  8216 2400 1688 S    0  0.2   0:00.00 sendmail-msp
18512 www-data  20   0  5240 2384 1068 S    0  0.2   0:00.00 apache2
19853 www-data  20   0  5240 2376 1068 S    0  0.2   0:00.00 apache2
  567 root      20   0  9992 1944  816 S    0  0.2   0:21.19 sendmail-mta
23470 root      20   0  2960 1612 1296 S    0  0.2   0:00.01 bash
23429 smmsp     20   0  2940 1480 1008 S    0  0.1   0:00.00 sendmail
23427 root      20   0  2832 1112  848 S    0  0.1   0:00.00 cron
23501 root      20   0  2328 1084  876 R    0  0.1   0:00.00 top
23428 smmsp     20   0  2616 1060  920 S    0  0.1   0:00.00 sh
  533 root      20   0  5488  968  580 S    0  0.1   0:03.00 sshd
  541 root      20   0  2288  852  668 S    0  0.1   0:00.68 cron
  529 root      20   0  2392  840  672 S    0  0.1   0:00.00 xinetd
  454 root      20   0  8668  784  448 S    0  0.1   0:00.00 saslauthd
    1 root      20   0  2028  684  588 S    0  0.1   0:06.05 init
  435 root      20   0  1736  632  508 S    0  0.1   0:03.00 syslogd
  455 root      20   0  8668  384   48 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 saslauthd
    2 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kthreadd/1302
    3 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 khelper/1302

And htop output:

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About 440MB of hard drive space was used:

 df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/simfs             60G  445M   60G   1% /
tmpfs                 512M     0  512M   0% /lib/init/rw
tmpfs                 512M     0  512M   0% /dev/shm

The Inode was set to a pretty standard level:

df -i
Filesystem            Inodes   IUsed   IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/simfs           31457280   26183 31431097    1% /
tmpfs                 131072       4  131068    1% /lib/init/rw
tmpfs                 131072       1  131071    1% /dev/shm

Once the LNMP stack was loaded, RAM usage went up to slightly above 100MB:

free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          1024        839        184          0          0        737
-/+ buffers/cache:        101        922
Swap:         1024          1       1022

Top showing the LNMP stack running:

top - 08:19:51 up 6 days,  4:53,  1 user,  load average: 0.06, 0.58, 0.66
Tasks:  20 total,   1 running,  19 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  0.0%us,  0.2%sy,  0.0%ni, 99.8%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   1048576k total,   860204k used,   188372k free,        0k buffers
Swap:  1048576k total,     1648k used,  1046928k free,   755624k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
 3174 www       20   0 15644  10m  444 S    0  1.1   0:00.00 nginx
 3161 mysql     20   0 34444 5088 2448 S    0  0.5   0:00.02 mysqld
26385 root      20   0 17412 3072 2424 S    0  0.3   0:00.02 smbd
23420 root      20   0  8692 1716 1380 S    0  0.2   0:02.36 sshd
26383 root      20   0  9588 1560 1184 S    0  0.1   0:00.02 nmbd
 3058 root      20   0  2756 1248 1032 S    0  0.1   0:00.02 mysqld_safe
24956 root      20   0 10036 1212  568 S    0  0.1   0:00.07 sendmail-mta
26396 root      20   0 17460 1132  484 S    0  0.1   0:00.00 smbd
 3200 root      20   0  2412 1120  908 R    0  0.1   0:00.00 top
23470 root      20   0  2960 1076  928 S    0  0.1   0:00.03 bash
26685 root      20   0  2344  916  728 S    0  0.1   0:00.00 cron
 3173 root      20   0  5432  756  276 S    0  0.1   0:00.00 nginx
    1 root      20   0  2068  680  588 S    0  0.1   0:06.11 init
26357 root      20   0  2436  660  656 S    0  0.1   0:00.00 xinetd
  435 root      20   0  1736  512  400 S    0  0.0   0:03.12 syslogd
  533 root      20   0  5488  496  456 S    0  0.0   0:03.18 sshd
  454 root      20   0  8668  324  324 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 saslauthd
  455 root      20   0  8668   32   32 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 saslauthd
    2 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kthreadd/1302
    3 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 khelper/1302

And htop output:

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About 1.8GB of hard drive space was used:

df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/simfs             60G  1.8G   59G   3% /
tmpfs                 512M     0  512M   0% /lib/init/rw
tmpfs                 512M     0  512M   0% /dev/shm

And very little Inode was used:

df -i
Filesystem            Inodes   IUsed   IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/simfs           31457280   69641 31387639    1% /
tmpfs                 131072       4  131068    1% /lib/init/rw
tmpfs                 131072       1  131071    1% /dev/shm

The uptime I have recorded was more than 32 days prior to the reboot, which was good:

 uptime
 05:21:55 up 32 days,  1:55,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

VMStat showed the VPS was mostly idle with no iowait:

 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   1196 954192      0  64148    0    0     0     0    0    1  0  0 100  0

Beancounters also give zero failure count, which is a good sign:

cat /proc/user_beancounters
Version: 2.5
       uid  resource                     held              maxheld              barrier                limit              failcnt
     1302:  kmemsize                 13107407             90800128            536870912            536870912                    0
            lockedpages                     0                    0               131072               131072                    0
            privvmpages                 12629                42023  9223372036854775807  9223372036854775807                    0
            shmpages                      641                 3361  9223372036854775807  9223372036854775807                    0
            dummy                           0                    0                    0                    0                    0
            numproc                        21                   48  9223372036854775807  9223372036854775807                    0
            physpages                   23588               262113                    0               262144                    0
            vmguarpages                     0                    0  9223372036854775807  9223372036854775807                    0
            oomguarpages                 4626                14614  9223372036854775807  9223372036854775807                    0
            numtcpsock                     11                   22  9223372036854775807  9223372036854775807                    0
            numflock                       18                   26  9223372036854775807  9223372036854775807                    0
            numpty                          1                    6  9223372036854775807  9223372036854775807                    0
            numsiginfo                      0                   15  9223372036854775807  9223372036854775807                    0
            tcpsndbuf                  191840               416512  9223372036854775807  9223372036854775807                    0
            tcprcvbuf                  180224              4081232  9223372036854775807  9223372036854775807                    0
            othersockbuf                32368               109296  9223372036854775807  9223372036854775807                    0
            dgramrcvbuf                     0                25760  9223372036854775807  9223372036854775807                    0
            numothersock                   43                   77  9223372036854775807  9223372036854775807                    0
            dcachesize               11057807             87983451            268435456            268435456                    0
            numfile                       409                  815  9223372036854775807  9223372036854775807                    0
            dummy                           0                    0                    0                    0                    0
            dummy                           0                    0                    0                    0                    0
            dummy                           0                    0                    0                    0                    0
            numiptent                      25                   25  9223372036854775807  9223372036854775807                    0

And the vzfree output:

 vzfree
             Total     Used     Free
Kernel:    512.00M   12.98M  499.02M
Allocate: 36028797018963968.00M   49.34M 36028797018963920.00M (36028797018963967M Guaranteed)
Commit:   36028797018963968.00M   31.07M 36028797018963936.00M (36.7% of Allocated)
Swap:               -94.87M          (-524.6% of Committed)

CPUInfo shows there are four cores available, which are AMD Phenom x4 970 processor, this is a relatively old processor (about three years old) but is nontheless pretty decent:

cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
cpu family      : 16
model           : 4
model name      : AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 970 Processor
stepping        : 3
cpu MHz         : 800.000
cache size      : 512 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 4
core id         : 0
cpu cores       : 4
apicid          : 0
initial apicid  : 0
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 5
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc rep_good nonstop_tsc extd_apicid pni monitor cx16 popcnt lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs skinit wdt npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save
bogomips        : 7001.03
TLB size        : 1024 4K pages
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 48 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts ttp tm stc 100mhzsteps hwpstate

processor       : 1
vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
cpu family      : 16
model           : 4
model name      : AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 970 Processor
stepping        : 3
cpu MHz         : 800.000
cache size      : 512 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 4
core id         : 1
cpu cores       : 4
apicid          : 1
initial apicid  : 1
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 5
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc rep_good nonstop_tsc extd_apicid pni monitor cx16 popcnt lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs skinit wdt npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save
bogomips        : 7001.03
TLB size        : 1024 4K pages
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 48 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts ttp tm stc 100mhzsteps hwpstate

processor       : 2
vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
cpu family      : 16
model           : 4
model name      : AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 970 Processor
stepping        : 3
cpu MHz         : 800.000
cache size      : 512 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 4
core id         : 2
cpu cores       : 4
apicid          : 2
initial apicid  : 2
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 5
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc rep_good nonstop_tsc extd_apicid pni monitor cx16 popcnt lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs skinit wdt npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save
bogomips        : 7001.03
TLB size        : 1024 4K pages
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 48 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts ttp tm stc 100mhzsteps hwpstate

processor       : 3
vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
cpu family      : 16
model           : 4
model name      : AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 970 Processor
stepping        : 3
cpu MHz         : 3500.000
cache size      : 512 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 4
core id         : 3
cpu cores       : 4
apicid          : 3
initial apicid  : 3
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 5
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc rep_good nonstop_tsc extd_apicid pni monitor cx16 popcnt lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs skinit wdt npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save
bogomips        : 7001.03
TLB size        : 1024 4K pages
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 48 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts ttp tm stc 100mhzsteps hwpstate

The meminfo output showed nothing too surprising:

cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:        1048576 kB
MemFree:          922624 kB
Cached:            96368 kB
Active:             7340 kB
Inactive:         105736 kB
Active(anon):       4272 kB
Inactive(anon):    12436 kB
Active(file):       3068 kB
Inactive(file):    93300 kB
Unevictable:           0 kB
Mlocked:               0 kB
SwapTotal:       1048576 kB
SwapFree:        1046776 kB
Dirty:                 0 kB
Writeback:             0 kB
AnonPages:         16708 kB
Shmem:              2564 kB
Slab:              12836 kB
SReclaimable:      10824 kB
SUnreclaim:         2012 kB

And the time sync output:

time sync

real    0m0.025s
user    0m0.001s
sys     0m0.001s

Disk I/O speed is probably right above the average:

 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, 14.8778 s, 72.2 MB/s

Testing again showed slightly better 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, 11.9806 s, 89.6 MB/s

However the ioping results were much less promising:

 ioping -c 10 .
4096 bytes from . (simfs /vz/private/1302): request=1 time=0.7 ms
4096 bytes from . (simfs /vz/private/1302): request=2 time=20.2 ms
4096 bytes from . (simfs /vz/private/1302): request=3 time=14.1 ms
4096 bytes from . (simfs /vz/private/1302): request=4 time=0.7 ms
4096 bytes from . (simfs /vz/private/1302): request=5 time=0.7 ms
4096 bytes from . (simfs /vz/private/1302): request=6 time=95.2 ms
4096 bytes from . (simfs /vz/private/1302): request=7 time=51.7 ms
4096 bytes from . (simfs /vz/private/1302): request=8 time=57.7 ms
4096 bytes from . (simfs /vz/private/1302): request=9 time=13.7 ms
4096 bytes from . (simfs /vz/private/1302): request=10 time=18.9 ms

--- . (simfs /vz/private/1302) ioping statistics ---
10 requests completed in 9275.1 ms, 37 iops, 0.1 mb/s
min/avg/max/mdev = 0.7/27.4/95.2/29.6 ms

As you can see, the IO ping results are very unstable, indicating that the disk is probably heavily oversold.

Testing again did not yield any better results:

 ioping -c 10 .
4096 bytes from . (simfs /vz/private/1302): request=1 time=0.3 ms
4096 bytes from . (simfs /vz/private/1302): request=2 time=29.2 ms
4096 bytes from . (simfs /vz/private/1302): request=3 time=0.7 ms
4096 bytes from . (simfs /vz/private/1302): request=4 time=390.8 ms
4096 bytes from . (simfs /vz/private/1302): request=5 time=0.8 ms
4096 bytes from . (simfs /vz/private/1302): request=6 time=0.6 ms
4096 bytes from . (simfs /vz/private/1302): request=7 time=0.8 ms
4096 bytes from . (simfs /vz/private/1302): request=8 time=0.7 ms
4096 bytes from . (simfs /vz/private/1302): request=9 time=0.7 ms
4096 bytes from . (simfs /vz/private/1302): request=10 time=16.2 ms

--- . (simfs /vz/private/1302) ioping statistics ---
10 requests completed in 9442.2 ms, 23 iops, 0.1 mb/s
min/avg/max/mdev = 0.3/44.1/390.8/116.0 ms

Although EaseVPS advertise 100mbit connection by default (which can be raised to 1Gbit with a ticket), the download speed from Cachefly tend to say otherwise:

wget cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test -O /dev/null
--2013-06-02 05:25:18--  http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net (cachefly.cachefly.net)... 205.234.175.175
Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net (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 1.29M/s   in 76s

2013-06-02 05:26:34 (1.32 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]

As you can see, the speed appears more likely to be for a 10mbit port rather than 100mbit.

Testing again does not show much better results:

 wget cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test -O /dev/null
--2013-06-02 05:28:49--  http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net (cachefly.cachefly.net)... 205.234.175.175
Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net (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 1.37M/s   in 77s

2013-06-02 05:30:06 (1.30 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]

The upload speed, surprisingly, is a lot better, first is the upload speed with my Quickweb test VPS in Chicago, IL:

wget 198.204.xxx.xxx/100mb.test -O /dev/null
--2013-06-02 00:34:28--  http://198.204.xxx.xxx/100mb.test
Connecting to 198.204.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 7.93M/s   in 13s

2013-06-02 00:34:41 (7.86 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]

As you can see, the upload speed is quite close to the 100mbit port speed.

Next with my test VPS with ChicagoVPS at Los Angeles, CA:

 wget 198.204.xxx.xxx/100mb.test -O /dev/null
--2013-06-02 08:36:27--  http://198.204.xxx.xxx/100mb.test
Connecting to 198.204.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 1.50M/s   in 71s

2013-06-02 08:37:39 (1.40 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]

And finally with the Prometeus test VPS from Milan, Italy:

 wget 198.204.xxx.xxx/100mb.test -O /dev/null
--2013-06-02 04:37:45--  http://198.204.xxx.xxx/100mb.test
Connecting to 198.204.xxx.xxx:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: a€?/dev/nulla€

100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 10.7M/s   in 13s

For some reason the test results from Prometeus was actually the best among all, which is a little surprising.

For the benchmarking, as usual both UnixBench and Geekbench were used, first are the Unixbench score:

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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: xxxxxx: GNU/Linux
   OS: GNU/Linux -- 2.6.32-042stab076.5 -- #1 SMP Mon Mar 18 20:41:34 MSK 2013
   Machine: i686 (unknown)
   Language: en_US.utf8 (charmap="ANSI_X3.4-1968", collate="ANSI_X3.4-1968")
   CPU 0: AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 970 Processor (7001.0 bogomips)
          Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, AMD MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, AMD virtualization, SYSCALL/SYSRET
   CPU 1: AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 970 Processor (7001.0 bogomips)
          Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, AMD MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, AMD virtualization, SYSCALL/SYSRET
   CPU 2: AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 970 Processor (7001.0 bogomips)
          Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, AMD MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, AMD virtualization, SYSCALL/SYSRET
   CPU 3: AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 970 Processor (7001.0 bogomips)
          Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, AMD MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, AMD virtualization, SYSCALL/SYSRET
   05:31:58 up 32 days,  2:05,  1 user,  load average: 0.01, 0.04, 0.00; runlevel 2

------------------------------------------------------------------------
Benchmark Run: Sun Jun 02 2013 05:31:58 - 06:00:05
4 CPUs in system; running 1 parallel copy of tests

Dhrystone 2 using register variables       15878857.0 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Double-Precision Whetstone                     3710.0 MWIPS (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Execl Throughput                               1952.5 lps   (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks        604887.9 KBps  (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks          219088.0 KBps  (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks       1105469.6 KBps  (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Pipe Throughput                             1616009.9 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Pipe-based Context Switching                  61210.5 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Process Creation                               7203.2 lps   (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent)                   3306.2 lpm   (60.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)                   1922.3 lpm   (60.0 s, 2 samples)
System Call Overhead                        1490689.8 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)

System Benchmarks Index Values               BASELINE       RESULT    INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables         116700.0   15878857.0   1360.7
Double-Precision Whetstone                       55.0       3710.0    674.5
Execl Throughput                                 43.0       1952.5    454.1
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks          3960.0     604887.9   1527.5
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks            1655.0     219088.0   1323.8
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks          5800.0    1105469.6   1906.0
Pipe Throughput                               12440.0    1616009.9   1299.0
Pipe-based Context Switching                   4000.0      61210.5    153.0
Process Creation                                126.0       7203.2    571.7
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent)                     42.4       3306.2    779.8
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)                      6.0       1922.3   3203.8
System Call Overhead                          15000.0    1490689.8    993.8
                                                                   ========
System Benchmarks Index Score                                         936.2

------------------------------------------------------------------------
Benchmark Run: Sun Jun 02 2013 06:00:05 - 06:29:11
4 CPUs in system; running 4 parallel copies of tests

Dhrystone 2 using register variables       47525212.9 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Double-Precision Whetstone                    14828.6 MWIPS (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Execl Throughput                              15209.9 lps   (29.9 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks        609476.3 KBps  (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks          180441.1 KBps  (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks       1345843.8 KBps  (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Pipe Throughput                             4821951.8 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Pipe-based Context Switching                 777374.2 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Process Creation                              33662.0 lps   (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent)                  15752.7 lpm   (60.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)                   2099.8 lpm   (60.0 s, 2 samples)
System Call Overhead                        3002160.1 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)

System Benchmarks Index Values               BASELINE       RESULT    INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables         116700.0   47525212.9   4072.4
Double-Precision Whetstone                       55.0      14828.6   2696.1
Execl Throughput                                 43.0      15209.9   3537.2
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks          3960.0     609476.3   1539.1
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks            1655.0     180441.1   1090.3
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks          5800.0    1345843.8   2320.4
Pipe Throughput                               12440.0    4821951.8   3876.2
Pipe-based Context Switching                   4000.0     777374.2   1943.4
Process Creation                                126.0      33662.0   2671.6
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent)                     42.4      15752.7   3715.3
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)                      6.0       2099.8   3499.7
System Call Overhead                          15000.0    3002160.1   2001.4
                                                                   ========
System Benchmarks Index Score                                        2559.9

The single core results is more than 900 points, which is actually pretty impressive. The four core CPU benchmark is close to 2600 points, which is pretty good as well.

Testing for the second time yielded similar results:

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   #    #  ##   #  #   #  #           #    #  #       ##   #  #    #  #    #
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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: xxxxxx: GNU/Linux
   OS: GNU/Linux -- 2.6.32-042stab076.5 -- #1 SMP Mon Mar 18 20:41:34 MSK 2013
   Machine: i686 (unknown)
   Language: en_US.utf8 (charmap="ANSI_X3.4-1968", collate="ANSI_X3.4-1968")
   CPU 0: AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 970 Processor (7001.0 bogomips)
          Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, AMD MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, AMD virtualization, SYSCALL/SYSRET
   CPU 1: AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 970 Processor (7001.0 bogomips)
          Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, AMD MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, AMD virtualization, SYSCALL/SYSRET
   CPU 2: AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 970 Processor (7001.0 bogomips)
          Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, AMD MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, AMD virtualization, SYSCALL/SYSRET
   CPU 3: AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 970 Processor (7001.0 bogomips)
          Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, AMD MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, AMD virtualization, SYSCALL/SYSRET
   07:19:37 up 32 days,  3:53,  1 user,  load average: 0.06, 0.12, 0.29; runlevel 2

------------------------------------------------------------------------
Benchmark Run: Sun Jun 02 2013 07:19:37 - 07:47:45
4 CPUs in system; running 1 parallel copy of tests

Dhrystone 2 using register variables       15382892.9 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Double-Precision Whetstone                     3697.1 MWIPS (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Execl Throughput                               2052.6 lps   (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks        568968.8 KBps  (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks          211331.0 KBps  (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks       1080807.6 KBps  (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Pipe Throughput                             1589527.4 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Pipe-based Context Switching                  65916.8 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Process Creation                               7210.9 lps   (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent)                   3663.3 lpm   (60.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)                   1203.5 lpm   (60.0 s, 2 samples)
System Call Overhead                        1472306.1 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)

System Benchmarks Index Values               BASELINE       RESULT    INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables         116700.0   15382892.9   1318.2
Double-Precision Whetstone                       55.0       3697.1    672.2
Execl Throughput                                 43.0       2052.6    477.3
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks          3960.0     568968.8   1436.8
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks            1655.0     211331.0   1276.9
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks          5800.0    1080807.6   1863.5
Pipe Throughput                               12440.0    1589527.4   1277.8
Pipe-based Context Switching                   4000.0      65916.8    164.8
Process Creation                                126.0       7210.9    572.3
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent)                     42.4       3663.3    864.0
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)                      6.0       1203.5   2005.8
System Call Overhead                          15000.0    1472306.1    981.5
                                                                   ========
System Benchmarks Index Score                                         903.6

------------------------------------------------------------------------
Benchmark Run: Sun Jun 02 2013 07:47:45 - 08:16:49
4 CPUs in system; running 4 parallel copies of tests

Dhrystone 2 using register variables       45798244.0 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Double-Precision Whetstone                    14827.0 MWIPS (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Execl Throughput                              14869.1 lps   (29.8 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks        594342.9 KBps  (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks          180175.0 KBps  (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks       1306050.0 KBps  (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Pipe Throughput                             4792327.7 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Pipe-based Context Switching                 755221.3 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Process Creation                              31611.8 lps   (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent)                  15931.7 lpm   (60.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)                   2093.9 lpm   (60.1 s, 2 samples)
System Call Overhead                        3017099.1 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)

System Benchmarks Index Values               BASELINE       RESULT    INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables         116700.0   45798244.0   3924.4
Double-Precision Whetstone                       55.0      14827.0   2695.8
Execl Throughput                                 43.0      14869.1   3457.9
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks          3960.0     594342.9   1500.9
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks            1655.0     180175.0   1088.7
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks          5800.0    1306050.0   2251.8
Pipe Throughput                               12440.0    4792327.7   3852.4
Pipe-based Context Switching                   4000.0     755221.3   1888.1
Process Creation                                126.0      31611.8   2508.9
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent)                     42.4      15931.7   3757.5
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)                      6.0       2093.9   3489.8
System Call Overhead                          15000.0    3017099.1   2011.4
                                                                   ========
System Benchmarks Index Score                                        2517.4

Next are the Geekbench results, which are pretty impressive as well, with more than 5500 points:

System Information
  Platform:                  Linux x86 (32-bit)
  Compiler:                  GCC 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-33)
  Operating System:          Linux 2.6.32-042stab076.5 i686
  Model:                     Linux PC (AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 970 Processor)
  Motherboard:               Unknown Motherboard
  Processor:                 AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 970 Processor
  Processor ID:              AuthenticAMD Family 16 Model 4 Stepping 3
  Logical Processors:        4
  Physical Processors:       1
  Processor Frequency:       3.50 GHz
  L1 Instruction Cache:      64.0 KB
  L1 Data Cache:             64.0 KB
  L2 Cache:                  512 KB
  L3 Cache:                  6.00 MB
  Bus Frequency:             0.00 Hz
  Memory:                    1.00 GB
  Memory Type:               N/A
  SIMD:                      1
  BIOS:                      N/A
  Processor Model:           AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 970 Processor
  Processor Cores:           4

Integer
  Blowfish
    single-threaded scalar    2512 ||||||||||
    multi-threaded scalar     5708 ||||||||||||||||||||||
  Text Compress
    single-threaded scalar    2670 ||||||||||
    multi-threaded scalar     6722 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
  Text Decompress
    single-threaded scalar    2693 ||||||||||
    multi-threaded scalar     7204 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
  Image Compress
    single-threaded scalar    2180 ||||||||
    multi-threaded scalar     5673 ||||||||||||||||||||||
  Image Decompress
    single-threaded scalar    1783 |||||||
    multi-threaded scalar     4566 ||||||||||||||||||
  Lua
    single-threaded scalar    3901 |||||||||||||||
    multi-threaded scalar     8776 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||

Floating Point
  Mandelbrot
    single-threaded scalar    2473 |||||||||
    multi-threaded scalar     6527 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
  Dot Product
    single-threaded scalar    3594 ||||||||||||||
    multi-threaded scalar    10269 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
    single-threaded vector    3358 |||||||||||||
    multi-threaded vector     9927 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
  LU Decomposition
    single-threaded scalar    2902 |||||||||||
    multi-threaded scalar     4385 |||||||||||||||||
  Primality Test
    single-threaded scalar    3363 |||||||||||||
    multi-threaded scalar     6939 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
  Sharpen Image
    single-threaded scalar    9241 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
    multi-threaded scalar    23867 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
  Blur Image
    single-threaded scalar   10030 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
    multi-threaded scalar    26446 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||

Memory
  Read Sequential
    single-threaded scalar    3078 ||||||||||||
  Write Sequential
    single-threaded scalar    4623 ||||||||||||||||||
  Stdlib Allocate
    single-threaded scalar    3915 |||||||||||||||
  Stdlib Write
    single-threaded scalar    1821 |||||||
  Stdlib Copy
    single-threaded scalar    2827 |||||||||||

Stream
  Stream Copy
    single-threaded scalar    2649 ||||||||||
    single-threaded vector    3292 |||||||||||||
  Stream Scale
    single-threaded scalar    1695 ||||||
    single-threaded vector    1700 ||||||
  Stream Add
    single-threaded scalar    1511 ||||||
    single-threaded vector    2934 |||||||||||
  Stream Triad
    single-threaded scalar    1581 ||||||
    single-threaded vector    2417 |||||||||

Integer Score:                4532 ||||||||||||||||||
Floating Point Score:         8808 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Memory Score:                 3252 |||||||||||||
Stream Score:                 2222 ||||||||

Overall Geekbench Score:      5541 ||||||||||||||||||||||

It is also worth noting that the CPU is not throttled and you can actually use the full clock speed.

Testing again showed similar results:

System Information
  Platform:                  Linux x86 (32-bit)
  Compiler:                  GCC 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-33)
  Operating System:          Linux 2.6.32-042stab076.5 i686
  Model:                     Linux PC (AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 970 Processor)
  Motherboard:               Unknown Motherboard
  Processor:                 AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 970 Processor
  Processor ID:              AuthenticAMD Family 16 Model 4 Stepping 3
  Logical Processors:        4
  Physical Processors:       1
  Processor Frequency:       800 MHz
  L1 Instruction Cache:      64.0 KB
  L1 Data Cache:             64.0 KB
  L2 Cache:                  512 KB
  L3 Cache:                  6.00 MB
  Bus Frequency:             0.00 Hz
  Memory:                    1.00 GB
  Memory Type:               N/A
  SIMD:                      1
  BIOS:                      N/A
  Processor Model:           AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 970 Processor
  Processor Cores:           4

Integer
  Blowfish
    single-threaded scalar    2525 ||||||||||
    multi-threaded scalar     7226 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
  Text Compress
    single-threaded scalar    2659 ||||||||||
    multi-threaded scalar     6614 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
  Text Decompress
    single-threaded scalar    2689 ||||||||||
    multi-threaded scalar     7197 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
  Image Compress
    single-threaded scalar    2167 ||||||||
    multi-threaded scalar     5404 |||||||||||||||||||||
  Image Decompress
    single-threaded scalar    1775 |||||||
    multi-threaded scalar     4707 ||||||||||||||||||
  Lua
    single-threaded scalar    3892 |||||||||||||||
    multi-threaded scalar     8804 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||

Floating Point
  Mandelbrot
    single-threaded scalar    2473 |||||||||
    multi-threaded scalar     6487 |||||||||||||||||||||||||
  Dot Product
    single-threaded scalar    3589 ||||||||||||||
    multi-threaded scalar    11582 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
    single-threaded vector    3356 |||||||||||||
    multi-threaded vector    11108 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
  LU Decomposition
    single-threaded scalar    2949 |||||||||||
    multi-threaded scalar     8159 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
  Primality Test
    single-threaded scalar    3264 |||||||||||||
    multi-threaded scalar     7144 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
  Sharpen Image
    single-threaded scalar    9248 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
    multi-threaded scalar    23342 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
  Blur Image
    single-threaded scalar   10015 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
    multi-threaded scalar    28767 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||

Memory
  Read Sequential
    single-threaded scalar    3080 ||||||||||||
  Write Sequential
    single-threaded scalar    4197 ||||||||||||||||
  Stdlib Allocate
    single-threaded scalar    3964 |||||||||||||||
  Stdlib Write
    single-threaded scalar    1758 |||||||
  Stdlib Copy
    single-threaded scalar    2826 |||||||||||

Stream
  Stream Copy
    single-threaded scalar    2629 ||||||||||
    single-threaded vector    2738 ||||||||||
  Stream Scale
    single-threaded scalar    2950 |||||||||||
    single-threaded vector    1667 ||||||
  Stream Add
    single-threaded scalar    1509 ||||||
    single-threaded vector    1747 ||||||
  Stream Triad
    single-threaded scalar    3095 ||||||||||||
    single-threaded vector    2501 ||||||||||

Integer Score:                4638 ||||||||||||||||||
Floating Point Score:         9391 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Memory Score:                 3165 ||||||||||||
Stream Score:                 2354 |||||||||

Overall Geekbench Score:      5778 |||||||||||||||||||||||

 

Overall, the disk space is obviously heavily oversold, and the download speed is probably a bit slow, however the CPU and the overall benchmark seems pretty good.

Customer Service and Support

I have had two interactions with the support of EaseVPS, one during the initial sign up to get the bandwidth doubled, and second time when I had the issue with logging into the VPS via SSH. The first one was logged in at 7:11am and was responded shortly after midnight, with about 14 hours of delay.The second ticket was sent in at about 4:30AM and was responded by approximately 6 hours later. As you can see, the respond is not super-fast but for the low end VPS, this is generally acceptable.

Furthermore, EaseVPS also has a monitoring system where if the VPS stop responding to ping, an automated email like the following one is generated:

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More information about it could be found here. Although I have received a few false positives, I have to say EaseVPS is probably the only one who is having this kind of free monitoring added automatically to your account, which is actually pretty convenient.

Conclusion

I always like to list out the not-so-great aspects of the providers I am reviewing first in conclusion and for EaseVPS, the disk performance is probably one of the biggest concerns that I would have. Furthermore, the download speed, at least the download speed using Cachefly test files, are not exactly satisfactory although the uploading speed is pretty good. Furthermore, the AMD CPUs that it is using might be a little old (but way newer than the L5420 which many providers are using at the moment), however, the benchmark that came out of the VPS is pretty good. As an added feature, EaseVPS also automatically monitors the VPS for you and send you an automatic email whenever the VPS is offline. Although the stability probably still needs some improvement, it might be a good candidate for those running CPU-intensive applications with little requirements on disk I/O.

5 thoughts on “96MB Low End VPS Review Part 66–EaseVPS

  1. I am not sure how come the DD test is okay but the ioping is bad. Usually it’s either both good or both bad, right?

    Is it possible that they have fewer disks in their raid, rather than heavily oversold? because if oversold, the CPU should be bad. I hope they upgrade the disks, so clients will be more happy.

  2. I am on paid vps as well and I too have noticed a drastic change to my download speed from my vps to my home pc. Before, I was getting 600 kbps transfer rate using filezilla.Now over the past 2 days I’m maxing out at 70-80 kbps.I’m hoping this is a temporary problem and will be fixed soon because my vps is of no use to me if these speeds stay the same.

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