96MB Low End VPS Review Part XXI – Inception Hosting Revisited
Recently, one of my earlier reviews for Inception Hosting was featured on LowEndBox.com, although I was excited and honoured that 96MB.com could receive such great recognition from one of the leading websites in the low end VPS community, it also get me curious about Inception Hosting. It has been more than two months since I last (and first) reviewed their VPS services and Anthony and Inception Hosting seems to have done pretty well recently, so how are they doing right now? Let’s take a look.
General Information and Set Up
To make it comparable to my previous review, I signed up once again on their VPS Lite package, which, for 8.99 Euros per month, would give you the following specifications:
Although with current discount code that Anthony have made available here, you are looking at about 4.50 Euro (about 6.50USD) per month.
It is good to know that their Client Login button is working and the order process is now done through HTTPS, although on Firefox, the page only shows “partial encryption”, which presumably was caused by some of the picture files:
Set up is fully automated and instant, and interestingly enough, my new VPS information email was received before the invoice payment confirmation email (although just by a few seconds) and the password is now masked by the * signs.
Upon login to the WHMCS panel, which is again using HTTPs connection, you get to see the basic VPS information and controls under My Services:
Note that in the IP address field, there is actually 1 IPv4 and 5 IPv6 addresses given. Unlike the last time I reviewed about them, all the control buttons worked fine and I was able to reboot and change my root password, among other things, without going to SolusVM. Traffic usage percentage bar and graph are both shown.
After login to the SolusVM control panel on standard HTTPS port (Note that you have to use the HTTPS port and not the HTTP port since otherwise you will get an “unable to connect” error.), you are presented with a standard interface:
None of the build-in backup types are available, and instant rDNS is not available.
Last time while I reviewed them, I was amazed by the number of templates that they have, and this time, there is still 94 OS templates together, which can be seen here.
Test On the VPS
As mentioned above, the test VPS that I have received has 15GB of disk and 150GB of bandwidth (on 1000Mbit port), and is in Netherlands. I used Debian 6 minimal template for testing purposes.
When the OS template was first loaded, 16MB of memory was used:
free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 247 99 147 0 4 78
-/+ buffers/cache: 16 230
Swap: 511 0 511
And the top output shows few programs running:
top - 02:54:15 up 1:00, 1 user, load average: 0.04, 0.01, 0.00
Tasks: 106 total, 1 running, 105 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 99.9%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 253444k total, 102500k used, 150944k free, 4516k buffers
Swap: 524280k total, 0k used, 524280k free, 80772k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
619 root 20 0 8264 2888 2332 S 0 1.1 0:00.01 sshd
623 root 20 0 2972 1608 1284 S 0 0.6 0:00.00 bash
527 root 20 0 27320 1496 1024 S 0 0.6 0:00.01 rsyslogd
629 root 20 0 2460 1160 896 R 0 0.5 0:00.01 top
557 root 20 0 5500 980 584 S 0 0.4 0:00.00 sshd
548 root 20 0 2300 772 604 S 0 0.3 0:00.00 cron
203 root 16 -4 2264 752 416 S 0 0.3 0:00.02 udevd
1 root 20 0 2040 728 628 S 0 0.3 0:00.24 init
234 root 18 -2 2260 652 320 S 0 0.3 0:00.00 udevd
232 root 18 -2 2260 648 316 S 0 0.3 0:00.00 udevd
609 root 20 0 1712 556 476 S 0 0.2 0:00.00 getty
611 root 20 0 1712 556 476 S 0 0.2 0:00.00 getty
608 root 20 0 1712 552 476 S 0 0.2 0:00.00 getty
610 root 20 0 1712 552 476 S 0 0.2 0:00.00 getty
612 root 20 0 1712 552 476 S 0 0.2 0:00.00 getty
613 root 20 0 1712 552 476 S 0 0.2 0:00.00 getty
607 root 20 0 1712 548 476 S 0 0.2 0:00.00 getty
Close to 1GB of space was used with nothing installed:
df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/xvda1 15G 916M 14G 7% / tmpfs 124M 0 124M 0% /lib/init/rw udev 114M 24K 114M 1% /dev tmpfs 124M 4.0K 124M 1% /dev/shm
Interestingly, when I was running the apt-get upgrade for the first time, I encountetered the following error:
Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub
warning: grub-probe can't find drive for /dev/xvda1.
grub-probe: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/xvda1. Check your device.map.
run-parts: /etc/kernel/postinst.d/zz-update-grub exited with return code 1
Failed to process /etc/kernel/postinst.d at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.32-5-686-bigmem.postinst line 799, line 2.
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.32-5-686-bigmem (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
configured to not write apport reports
Errors were encountered while processing linux-image-2.6.32-5-686-bigmem
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Reading package lists... Done
After doing some Googling, the fix turned out to be pretty simple, running the following command will do the trick:
apt-get remove grub-legacy grub-common
With the full LNMP stack installed, the memory went up to 39MB, which is still pretty low:
free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 247 243 4 0 7 195
-/+ buffers/cache: 39 207
Swap: 511 0 511
And the processes running:
top - 00:37:42 up 1:37, 1 user, load average: 0.04, 0.01, 0.00
Tasks: 114 total, 1 running, 113 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: 253444k total, 249124k used, 4320k free, 7952k buffers
Swap: 524280k total, 500k used, 523780k free, 200372k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
12043 www 20 0 14512 10m 412 S 0 4.2 0:00.00 nginx
25620 mysql 20 0 34816 5676 2996 S 0 2.2 0:00.00 mysqld
12034 root 20 0 22716 4568 1404 S 0 1.8 0:00.30 php-cgi
12035 www 20 0 22716 4172 1008 S 0 1.6 0:00.00 php-cgi
12036 www 20 0 22716 4172 1008 S 0 1.6 0:00.00 php-cgi
12037 www 20 0 22716 4172 1008 S 0 1.6 0:00.00 php-cgi
12038 www 20 0 22716 4172 1008 S 0 1.6 0:00.00 php-cgi
12039 www 20 0 22716 4172 1008 S 0 1.6 0:00.00 php-cgi
12064 root 20 0 8264 2892 2336 S 0 1.1 0:00.02 sshd
12067 root 20 0 2972 1616 1288 S 0 0.6 0:00.01 bash
12075 root 20 0 2464 1168 900 R 0 0.5 0:00.00 top
530 root 20 0 27320 984 776 S 0 0.4 0:00.01 rsyslogd
560 root 20 0 5500 856 464 S 0 0.3 0:00.00 sshd
12042 root 20 0 4700 712 264 S 0 0.3 0:00.00 nginx
551 root 20 0 2300 620 464 S 0 0.2 0:00.00 cron
1 root 20 0 2040 580 544 S 0 0.2 0:00.23 init
25518 root 20 0 1756 556 464 S 0 0.2 0:00.01 mysqld_safe
Altogether 2.2GB of space was used after the installtion:
df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/xvda1 15G 2.2G 12G 16% / tmpfs 124M 0 124M 0% /lib/init/rw udev 114M 24K 114M 1% /dev tmpfs 124M 4.0K 124M 1% /dev/shm
As usual, vmstat shows the VPS is lightly used:
vmstat procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ----cpu---- r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa 0 0 500 4388 7960 200372 0 0 7 30 32 21 1 0 98 0
So is uptime:
uptime 00:38:22 up 1:37, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.01, 0.00
Unlike many other providers, Inception Hosting continue to offer access to 8 cores (4 logical cores and 4 virtual cores), which makes it suitable for computationally intensive tasks:
cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 26 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 950 @ 3.07GHz stepping : 5 cpu MHz : 3066.768 cache size : 8192 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 11 wp : yes flags : fpu de tsc msr pae cx8 sep cmov pat clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht nx constant_tsc aperfmperf pni ssse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt hypervisor ida bogomips : 6133.53 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: processor : 1 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 26 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 950 @ 3.07GHz stepping : 5 cpu MHz : 3066.768 cache size : 8192 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 11 wp : yes flags : fpu de tsc msr pae cx8 sep cmov pat clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht nx constant_tsc aperfmperf pni ssse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt hypervisor ida bogomips : 6133.53 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: processor : 2 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 26 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 950 @ 3.07GHz stepping : 5 cpu MHz : 3066.768 cache size : 8192 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 11 wp : yes flags : fpu de tsc msr pae cx8 sep cmov pat clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht nx constant_tsc aperfmperf pni ssse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt hypervisor ida bogomips : 6133.53 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: processor : 3 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 26 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 950 @ 3.07GHz stepping : 5 cpu MHz : 3066.768 cache size : 8192 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 11 wp : yes flags : fpu de tsc msr pae cx8 sep cmov pat clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht nx constant_tsc aperfmperf pni ssse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt hypervisor ida bogomips : 6133.53 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: processor : 4 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 26 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 950 @ 3.07GHz stepping : 5 cpu MHz : 3066.768 cache size : 8192 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 11 wp : yes flags : fpu de tsc msr pae cx8 sep cmov pat clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht nx constant_tsc aperfmperf pni ssse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt hypervisor ida bogomips : 6133.53 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: processor : 5 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 26 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 950 @ 3.07GHz stepping : 5 cpu MHz : 3066.768 cache size : 8192 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 11 wp : yes flags : fpu de tsc msr pae cx8 sep cmov pat clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht nx constant_tsc aperfmperf pni ssse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt hypervisor ida bogomips : 6133.53 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: processor : 6 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 26 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 950 @ 3.07GHz stepping : 5 cpu MHz : 3066.768 cache size : 8192 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 11 wp : yes flags : fpu de tsc msr pae cx8 sep cmov pat clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht nx constant_tsc aperfmperf pni ssse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt hypervisor ida bogomips : 6133.53 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: processor : 7 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 26 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 950 @ 3.07GHz stepping : 5 cpu MHz : 3066.768 cache size : 8192 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 11 wp : yes flags : fpu de tsc msr pae cx8 sep cmov pat clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht nx constant_tsc aperfmperf pni ssse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt hypervisor ida bogomips : 6133.53 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management:
Also, note that none of the cores here is throttled, which is an additional bonus.
Meminfo does not really show any additional information:
cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 253444 kB MemFree: 6068 kB Buffers: 5928 kB Cached: 204012 kB SwapCached: 116 kB Active: 43320 kB Inactive: 187052 kB Active(anon): 10028 kB Inactive(anon): 10500 kB Active(file): 33292 kB Inactive(file): 176552 kB Unevictable: 0 kB Mlocked: 0 kB HighTotal: 0 kB HighFree: 0 kB LowTotal: 253444 kB LowFree: 6068 kB SwapTotal: 524280 kB SwapFree: 523780 kB Dirty: 0 kB Writeback: 0 kB AnonPages: 20540 kB Mapped: 6544 kB Shmem: 40 kB Slab: 12300 kB SReclaimable: 7480 kB SUnreclaim: 4820 kB KernelStack: 984 kB PageTables: 788 kB NFS_Unstable: 0 kB Bounce: 0 kB WritebackTmp: 0 kB CommitLimit: 651000 kB Committed_AS: 100572 kB VmallocTotal: 598008 kB VmallocUsed: 1508 kB VmallocChunk: 596288 kB HardwareCorrupted: 0 kB HugePages_Total: 0 HugePages_Free: 0 HugePages_Rsvd: 0 HugePages_Surp: 0 Hugepagesize: 2048 kB DirectMap4k: 262144 kB DirectMap2M: 0 kB
The exciting part comes when the disk I/O tests shows the results, again, this is another triple digit dd test!
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, 10.4144 s, 103 MB/s
Running it later gives a pretty consistent result:
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, 10.1405 s, 106 MB/s
Another selling point for Inception Hosting is their 1000Mbit port, which showed great performance during the test as well:
First the download test from Cachefly, using wget:
wget cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test -O /dev/null --2011-08-16 00:40:44-- 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 25.4M/s in 4.1s 2011-08-16 00:40:48 (24.2 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]
If wget is using single-thread and is not good enough, here is the aget results with 10 threads:
aget -n 10 http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
Attempting to read log file aget-100mb.test.log for resuming download job...
Couldn't find log file for this download, starting a clean job...
Head-Request Connection established
Downloading /100mb.test (104857600 bytes) from site cachefly.cachefly.net(205.234.175.175:80). Number of Threads: 10
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Download completed, job completed in 1 seconds. (102400 Kb/sec)
Shutting down...
Since 100MB might be too small for aget with 10 threads (everything was donwloaded within 1 second), I actually had to find a 1GB test file and it gave pretty good result as well considering thinkbroadband is based in UK:
aget -n 10 http://download.thinkbroadband.com/1GB.zip Attempting 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 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] ......................... [49% completed] ........................... [54% completed] .............................. [59% completed] ................................ [64% completed] ................................... [69% completed] ..................................... [74% completed] ......................................... [79% completed] ....................................... [79% completed] .......................................... [84% completed] ............................................. [89% completed] ............................................... [94% completed] .................................................. [99% completed] .................................................. [100% completed] Download completed, job completed in 33 seconds. (31775 Kb/sec) Shutting down...
The upload speed, although might not have been that impressive as last time, is still within the acceptable range:
First, BuyVM box in San Jose, CA:
wget 89.207.130.104/100mb.test -O /dev/null --2011-08-15 14:52:41-- http://89.207.130.104/100mb.test Connecting to 89.207.130.104:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream] Saving to: `/dev/null' 100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 1.71M/s in 96s 2011-08-15 14:54:17 (1.04 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]
Nix Communications in Montreal, Canada, which, although along the east coast, has similar speed to west coast:
wget 89.207.130.104/100mb.test -O /dev/null --2011-08-16 02:55:14-- http://89.207.130.104/100mb.test Connecting to 89.207.130.104:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream] Saving to: `/dev/null' 100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 1.44M/s in 71s 2011-08-16 02:56:25 (1.41 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]
Finally, Quickweb VPS in London, UK, which is the cloest to Netherlands:
wget 89.207.130.104/100mb.test -O /dev/null --2011-08-15 14:58:17-- http://89.207.130.104/100mb.test Connecting to 89.207.130.104:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream] Saving to: `/dev/null' 100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 3.70M/s in 28s 2011-08-15 14:58:45 (3.60 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]
Interestingly enough, the results do change from time to time, running wget again as I type this article produced a totally different picture with my QuickWeb VPS in London:
wget 89.207.130.104/100mb.test --2011-08-17 07:58:57-- http://89.207.130.104/100mb.test Connecting to 89.207.130.104:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream] Saving to: `100mb.test' 100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 10.4M/s in 12s 2011-08-17 07:59:10 (8.04 MB/s) - `100mb.test' saved [104857600/104857600]
And, against all odds it seems, the speed is actually slower when I wrote the test file to /dev/null, which honestly still makes me puzzled:
wget 89.207.130.104/100mb.test -O /dev/null --2011-08-17 07:59:56-- http://89.207.130.104/100mb.test Connecting to 89.207.130.104:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream] Saving to: `/dev/null' 100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 6.43M/s in 15s 2011-08-17 08:00:11 (6.46 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]
Finally, for the benchmark, given the impressive hardware and software set up, I was not surprised when the VPS once again did really well on both UnixBench and GeekBench:
UnixBench continued to go well above 2300:
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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
8 x Dhrystone 2 using register variables 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8 x Double-Precision Whetstone 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8 x Execl Throughput 1 2 3
8 x File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 1 2 3
8 x File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1 2 3
8 x File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 1 2 3
8 x Pipe Throughput 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8 x Pipe-based Context Switching 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8 x Process Creation 1 2 3
8 x System Call Overhead 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8 x Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 1 2 3
8 x Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 1 2 3
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BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 5.1.3)
System: inception: GNU/Linux
OS: GNU/Linux -- 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem -- #1 SMP Wed Jan 12 04:40:25 UTC 2011
Machine: i686 (unknown)
Language: en_US.utf8 (charmap="UTF-8", collate="UTF-8")
CPU 0: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 950 @ 3.07GHz (6133.5 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT
CPU 1: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 950 @ 3.07GHz (6133.5 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT
CPU 2: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 950 @ 3.07GHz (6133.5 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT
CPU 3: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 950 @ 3.07GHz (6133.5 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT
CPU 4: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 950 @ 3.07GHz (6133.5 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT
CPU 5: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 950 @ 3.07GHz (6133.5 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT
CPU 6: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 950 @ 3.07GHz (6133.5 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT
CPU 7: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 950 @ 3.07GHz (6133.5 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT
00:45:02 up 1:44, 1 user, load average: 0.09, 0.04, 0.01; runlevel 2
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Benchmark Run: Tue Aug 16 2011 00:45:02 - 01:13:19
8 CPUs in system; running 1 parallel copy of tests
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 17362487.9 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Double-Precision Whetstone 3163.5 MWIPS (10.1 s, 7 samples)
Execl Throughput 2195.6 lps (29.9 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 441092.5 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 115015.6 KBps (30.1 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 1165510.2 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Pipe Throughput 741707.8 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Pipe-based Context Switching 93621.0 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Process Creation 4139.0 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 5637.8 lpm (60.1 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 2082.4 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples)
System Call Overhead 817411.8 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
System Benchmarks Index Values BASELINE RESULT INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 17362487.9 1487.8
Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 3163.5 575.2
Execl Throughput 43.0 2195.6 510.6
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 3960.0 441092.5 1113.9
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1655.0 115015.6 695.0
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 5800.0 1165510.2 2009.5
Pipe Throughput 12440.0 741707.8 596.2
Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 93621.0 234.1
Process Creation 126.0 4139.0 328.5
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 5637.8 1329.7
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 2082.4 3470.7
System Call Overhead 15000.0 817411.8 544.9
========
System Benchmarks Index Score 808.8
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Benchmark Run: Tue Aug 16 2011 01:13:19 - 01:41:43
8 CPUs in system; running 8 parallel copies of tests
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 77785861.6 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Double-Precision Whetstone 20925.4 MWIPS (9.8 s, 7 samples)
Execl Throughput 10722.1 lps (29.7 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 387976.0 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 100242.0 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 1315811.2 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Pipe Throughput 4013146.7 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Pipe-based Context Switching 521331.5 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Process Creation 17187.7 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 19489.1 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 2543.1 lpm (60.1 s, 2 samples)
System Call Overhead 5043834.5 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
System Benchmarks Index Values BASELINE RESULT INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 77785861.6 6665.5
Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 20925.4 3804.6
Execl Throughput 43.0 10722.1 2493.5
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 3960.0 387976.0 979.7
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1655.0 100242.0 605.7
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 5800.0 1315811.2 2268.6
Pipe Throughput 12440.0 4013146.7 3226.0
Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 521331.5 1303.3
Process Creation 126.0 17187.7 1364.1
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 19489.1 4596.5
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 2543.1 4238.4
System Call Overhead 15000.0 5043834.5 3362.6
========
System Benchmarks Index Score 2373.6
And test again showed pretty consistent results, a little better in fact:
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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
8 x Dhrystone 2 using register variables 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8 x Double-Precision Whetstone 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8 x Execl Throughput 1 2 3
8 x File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 1 2 3
8 x File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1 2 3
8 x File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 1 2 3
8 x Pipe Throughput 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8 x Pipe-based Context Switching 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8 x Process Creation 1 2 3
8 x System Call Overhead 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8 x Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 1 2 3
8 x Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 1 2 3
========================================================================
BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 5.1.3)
System: inception: GNU/Linux
OS: GNU/Linux -- 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem -- #1 SMP Wed Jan 12 04:40:25 UTC 2011
Machine: i686 (unknown)
Language: en_US.utf8 (charmap="UTF-8", collate="UTF-8")
CPU 0: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 950 @ 3.07GHz (6133.5 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT
CPU 1: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 950 @ 3.07GHz (6133.5 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT
CPU 2: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 950 @ 3.07GHz (6133.5 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT
CPU 3: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 950 @ 3.07GHz (6133.5 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT
CPU 4: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 950 @ 3.07GHz (6133.5 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT
CPU 5: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 950 @ 3.07GHz (6133.5 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT
CPU 6: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 950 @ 3.07GHz (6133.5 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT
CPU 7: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 950 @ 3.07GHz (6133.5 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT
01:48:09 up 2:47, 1 user, load average: 0.14, 6.66, 8.10; runlevel 2
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Benchmark Run: Tue Aug 16 2011 01:48:09 - 02:16:25
8 CPUs in system; running 1 parallel copy of tests
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 17394739.8 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Double-Precision Whetstone 3164.5 MWIPS (10.1 s, 7 samples)
Execl Throughput 2179.2 lps (29.9 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 446783.7 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 115849.9 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 1197296.4 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Pipe Throughput 741407.1 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Pipe-based Context Switching 93504.1 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Process Creation 4052.0 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 5650.3 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 2078.3 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples)
System Call Overhead 817996.4 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
System Benchmarks Index Values BASELINE RESULT INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 17394739.8 1490.6
Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 3164.5 575.4
Execl Throughput 43.0 2179.2 506.8
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 3960.0 446783.7 1128.2
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1655.0 115849.9 700.0
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 5800.0 1197296.4 2064.3
Pipe Throughput 12440.0 741407.1 596.0
Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 93504.1 233.8
Process Creation 126.0 4052.0 321.6
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 5650.3 1332.6
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 2078.3 3463.8
System Call Overhead 15000.0 817996.4 545.3
========
System Benchmarks Index Score 810.1
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Benchmark Run: Tue Aug 16 2011 02:16:25 - 02:44:52
8 CPUs in system; running 8 parallel copies of tests
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 77957013.8 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Double-Precision Whetstone 20805.0 MWIPS (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Execl Throughput 10854.1 lps (29.9 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 392926.1 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 99286.0 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 1308983.4 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Pipe Throughput 3973306.2 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Pipe-based Context Switching 519752.6 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Process Creation 17938.3 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 19353.6 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 2538.9 lpm (60.1 s, 2 samples)
System Call Overhead 5066731.4 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
System Benchmarks Index Values BASELINE RESULT INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 77957013.8 6680.1
Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 20805.0 3782.7
Execl Throughput 43.0 10854.1 2524.2
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 3960.0 392926.1 992.2
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1655.0 99286.0 599.9
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 5800.0 1308983.4 2256.9
Pipe Throughput 12440.0 3973306.2 3194.0
Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 519752.6 1299.4
Process Creation 126.0 17938.3 1423.7
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 19353.6 4564.5
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 2538.9 4231.5
System Call Overhead 15000.0 5066731.4 3377.8
========
System Benchmarks Index Score 2380.0
Last time I was shocked when seeing GeekBench score shot above 7000 for a VPS with similar specifications, however Inception Hosting decided to make my jaws drop this time:
System Information
Platform: Linux x86 (32-bit)
Compiler: GCC 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-33)
Operating System: Linux 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem i686
Model: Linux PC (Intel Core i7 950)
Motherboard: Unknown Motherboard
Processor: Intel Core i7 950
Processor ID: GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 26 Stepping 5
Logical Processors: 8
Physical Processors: 1
Processor Frequency: 3.07 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: 248 MB
Memory Type: N/A
SIMD: 1
BIOS: N/A
Processor Model: Intel Core i7 950
Processor Cores: 8
Integer
Blowfish
single-threaded scalar 2154 ||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 15297 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Text Compress
single-threaded scalar 2422 |||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 12359 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Text Decompress
single-threaded scalar 2467 |||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 13929 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Image Compress
single-threaded scalar 2032 ||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 10478 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Image Decompress
single-threaded scalar 1811 |||||||
multi-threaded scalar 7623 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lua
single-threaded scalar 3807 |||||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 17479 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Floating Point
Mandelbrot
single-threaded scalar 2573 ||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 17546 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dot Product
single-threaded scalar 4191 ||||||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 17848 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
single-threaded vector 4999 |||||||||||||||||||
multi-threaded vector 19034 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
LU Decomposition
single-threaded scalar 2909 |||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 11386 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Primality Test
single-threaded scalar 4245 ||||||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 18998 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sharpen Image
single-threaded scalar 6903 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 26536 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Blur Image
single-threaded scalar 6409 |||||||||||||||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 28586 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Memory
Read Sequential
single-threaded scalar 5748 ||||||||||||||||||||||
Write Sequential
single-threaded scalar 10363 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stdlib Allocate
single-threaded scalar 4479 |||||||||||||||||
Stdlib Write
single-threaded scalar 4759 |||||||||||||||||||
Stdlib Copy
single-threaded scalar 9441 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stream
Stream Copy
single-threaded scalar 4967 |||||||||||||||||||
single-threaded vector 6172 ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stream Scale
single-threaded scalar 4446 |||||||||||||||||
single-threaded vector 6005 ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stream Add
single-threaded scalar 4187 ||||||||||||||||
single-threaded vector 5650 ||||||||||||||||||||||
Stream Triad
single-threaded scalar 4401 |||||||||||||||||
single-threaded vector 3978 |||||||||||||||
Integer Score: 7654 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Floating Point Score: 12297 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Memory Score: 6958 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stream Score: 4975 |||||||||||||||||||
Overall Geekbench Score: 8871 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Yes, it is close to 9000 GeekBench score, which is definitely one of the highest, if not the record, in the budget VPS market.
System Information
Platform: Linux x86 (32-bit)
Compiler: GCC 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-33)
Operating System: Linux 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem i686
Model: Linux PC (Intel Core i7 950)
Motherboard: Unknown Motherboard
Processor: Intel Core i7 950
Processor ID: GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 26 Stepping 5
Logical Processors: 8
Physical Processors: 1
Processor Frequency: 3.07 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: 248 MB
Memory Type: N/A
SIMD: 1
BIOS: N/A
Processor Model: Intel Core i7 950
Processor Cores: 8
Integer
Blowfish
single-threaded scalar 2157 ||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 15308 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Text Compress
single-threaded scalar 2426 |||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 12515 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Text Decompress
single-threaded scalar 2459 |||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 13757 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Image Compress
single-threaded scalar 2021 ||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 10471 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Image Decompress
single-threaded scalar 1814 |||||||
multi-threaded scalar 7589 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lua
single-threaded scalar 3831 |||||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 18062 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Floating Point
Mandelbrot
single-threaded scalar 2564 ||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 17527 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dot Product
single-threaded scalar 4194 ||||||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 17844 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
single-threaded vector 5015 ||||||||||||||||||||
multi-threaded vector 19022 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
LU Decomposition
single-threaded scalar 2902 |||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 11197 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Primality Test
single-threaded scalar 4248 ||||||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 19071 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sharpen Image
single-threaded scalar 6919 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 26555 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Blur Image
single-threaded scalar 6442 |||||||||||||||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 28564 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Memory
Read Sequential
single-threaded scalar 5746 ||||||||||||||||||||||
Write Sequential
single-threaded scalar 10397 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stdlib Allocate
single-threaded scalar 4482 |||||||||||||||||
Stdlib Write
single-threaded scalar 4750 |||||||||||||||||||
Stdlib Copy
single-threaded scalar 9450 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stream
Stream Copy
single-threaded scalar 5010 ||||||||||||||||||||
single-threaded vector 6479 |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stream Scale
single-threaded scalar 4470 |||||||||||||||||
single-threaded vector 6100 ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stream Add
single-threaded scalar 4284 |||||||||||||||||
single-threaded vector 5571 ||||||||||||||||||||||
Stream Triad
single-threaded scalar 4356 |||||||||||||||||
single-threaded vector 3983 |||||||||||||||
Integer Score: 7700 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Floating Point Score: 12290 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Memory Score: 6965 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stream Score: 5031 ||||||||||||||||||||
Overall Geekbench Score: 8892 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In conclusion,
Customer Service and Support
Very often when a company expanded rapidly in this industry, one of the first to be sacrificed is customer service, which we have see countless examples. However, I am glad to say that Inception Hosting is not the case here. My help ticket submitted at 11:06PM EST (4:00AM UK time) was responded even before I woke up at 5:30AM. Although it was within the hour like the last time I reviewed them, I think it is definitely acceptable for the budget VPS products.
Conclusion
Inception Hosting has provided many surprises in this low end VPS industry. With really impressive hardware, the VPS were able to deliver impressive performance, as measured by the benchmarks. Although there are some minor glitches (for example, the upload network speed might not be that fast and there is a minor fix to be done on the Debian 6 templates), the high-end hardware specifications makes it very suitable for any computationally intensive tasks and/or tasks that require high disk I/O.
One Final Line…
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Thanks for the review admin your opinion is always valued and us usual you have given me some things to take away and look at. i.e. the images causing the partial encryption message, the Upload speed is a known issue on that particular node the its not quite matching up to the others which is something the DC is investigating do I hope that is vastly improved soon although as you said its still pretty good.
Geekbench scores are beyond what I would have predicted too which is obviously a good sign, the tweaks and lessons learned are obviously paying off.
Have you thought about scripting your entire test set, would be an interesting project?
@Anthony: You are most welcome, and it is always a pleasure of mine to review someone who always listen to suggestions and make improvements on them, good job 🙂
Just a quick update:
There is a new offer on, use coupon “Maxi5” for a 768mb VPS at the reduced price of 9.99 Euros.
Couple of quick updates since the review.
The network capacity has been increased which has improved the upload speeds greatly, it was also found that there was a damaged cable in the upstream trunk that this node went through.
Although debian is supported by solusvm there are issues with both ipv6 and the root device e.g. sda/xvda configs this is going to start hitting allot of hosts soon as new OS versions are released the default device in solusvm will need to change to xvda to avoid issues like the one you had which CAN render older template versions without xvda support useless.
There is also 5GB of free offsite rsync/ftp space available now to all customers.
Also a new node has been put up now and a new special offer to go with it which hopefully will be on LEB soon enough.
‘leb128oct’ gets you the 128mb LEB package, 8 cores, 15GB disk for just 6 Euros p/quater
Couple of quick updates since the review.
The network capacity has been increased which has improved the upload speeds greatly, it was also found that there was a damaged cable in the upstream trunk that this node went through.
Although debian is supported by solusvm there are issues with both ipv6 and the root device e.g. sda/xvda configs this is going to start hitting allot of hosts soon as new OS versions are released the default device in solusvm will need to change to xvda to avoid issues like the one you had which CAN render older template versions without xvda support useless.
There is also 5GB of free offsite rsync/ftp space available now to all customers.
Also a new node has been put up now and a new special offer to go with it which hopefully will be on LEB soon enough.
‘leb128oct’ gets you the 128mb LEB package, 8 cores, 15GB disk for just 6 Euros p/quarter
Thought I would give an update for any readers keeping up with this.
Inception Hosting will probably stop selling XEN PV VPS packages at the end of this year and will instead concentrate on KVM based nodes instead.
There is still a fair bit of XEN stock available and the latest offer is:
VPS Lite.
256MB RAM
512MB SWAP
15GB HDD
300GB Bandwidth
8 Cores equal Share
1000mbit shared port
1 x IP4
5 x IP6
5 GB Free Offsite backup available on request
Test IP4: 78.41.200.1
Test IP6: 2a00:7b80:3002::1
XEN PV Based
IP6 available
Adult Allowed
IRC Allowed
Promo Code: leb256nov (53% discount)
Regular price: 53.94 (Euros)
With Promo: 25.80 (Euros)
Billing Cycle: semi –annually
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