96MB Low End VPS Review Part XXXV – MegaWorldHosting
There are several VPS auctions on WebhostingTalk almost at any single period of time. To VPS users like you and me, they basically provide us opportunities to get some really decent VPS at an amazing price, and to the VPS hosting providers, especially the relatively new VPS providers, it is definitely a great opportunity for them to increase the brand-awareness in the VPS market. Recently, I have won one of such auctions for a VPS provided by MegaWorldHosting and decided to take a look to see how much I can get out of the four dollars per month.
Basic Information and Set Up
Justin appears to be leading the marketing effort of MegaWorldHosting and the domain name registrant as well and he also seems to own Sprocket Networks, which, until recently, has been offering VPS auctions quite actively on WebHostingTalk. Sprocket Networks has since moved to the relatively high end Xen with OnApp control panel set up, making MegaWorldHosting seems to be the budget spin-off of the company.
After the auction has concluded, Justin PMed me a special sign up link at which the price was already adjusted, and here is what I won for 4 USD per month:
Note that the RAM of 512MB is actually 256MB of dedicated RAM and 256MB of burstable RAM (I believe it is VSwap, as indicated on their SolusVM Control Panel page), which really makes 4 USD per month not that great of a deal. However, I guess the selling point is really the part where the service is managed, which means MegaWorldHosting is supposed to take care of all the issues for you.
MegaWorldHosting still requires a domain name to register for a VPS, which is an annoying feature in WHMCS that seems to be able to removed with some custom coding:
There are two configuration options available while signing up: the OS to load and the control panel.
There are a few OS templates available from MegaWorldHosting:
As you can see, this covers pretty much all of the latest version of the major Linux distributions.
The interesting part is that although Plesk 10 is one of the templates available, they do not actually offer the option for you to purchase Plesk 10 liscense, instead, only CPanel is available, at a pretty high price:
I am kind of curious how many people will buy cPanel license from them for 18 USD per month when they can get the license for 15USD online.
Paypal payment was sent to Justin’s personal Paypal account, and although my Paypal payment confirmation comes 8 minutes before the confirmation of payment was sent from MegaWorldHosting, the welcome email came at the same time with the payment confirmation. Everything is pretty standard and the password was shown in plain text.
Once logged into the WHMCS system via the secured HTTP connection, I was hoping to see some of the VPS control buttons, but instead, this is all I see:
Therefore, you won’t be able to control your VPS through the WHMCS system.
The SolusVM control panel is on a non-standard HTTP port and once logged in, a pretty standard SolusVM interface is shown:
There is no instant rDNS nor IPv6 addresses. However, there are quite a few OS templates available:
What I am particularly impressed with are the various packages that comes with the Debian distributions, such as Debian 6 OpenPanel and Debian 6 SYSCp.
Test on the VPS
As mentioned above, the test VPS has 256MB of dedicated RAM, 256MB of vSwap and 40GB of hard drive space. The VPS is located in Clifton Park in New York, although the IP address is owned by Sprocket Networks and I have loaded Debian 6 template for testing.
uname -a Linux **** 2.6.32-042stab037.1 #1 SMP Fri Sep 16 22:18:06 MSD 2011 i686 GNU/Linux
When the VPS just had the OS template loaded, 13MB of RAM were used:
free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 256 30 225 0 0 16
-/+ buffers/cache: 13 242
Swap: 256 3 252
And here is the output of top showing the processes running, which is pretty standard for Debian 6.
top - 13:06:19 up 1 day, 2:18, 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, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni,100.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 262144k total, 31744k used, 230400k free, 0k buffers
Swap: 262144k total, 3096k used, 259048k free, 17464k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
4126 root 20 0 8680 3032 2472 S 1 1.2 0:00.05 sshd
390 www-data 20 0 5388 2588 1164 S 0 1.0 0:00.00 apache2
3633 www-data 20 0 5388 2528 1120 S 0 1.0 0:00.00 apache2
3634 www-data 20 0 5388 2528 1120 S 0 1.0 0:00.00 apache2
3635 www-data 20 0 5388 2528 1120 S 0 1.0 0:00.00 apache2
3639 www-data 20 0 5388 2528 1120 S 0 1.0 0:00.00 apache2
388 root 20 0 5140 2452 1200 S 0 0.9 0:01.34 apache2
4150 root 20 0 2960 1616 1296 S 0 0.6 0:00.00 bash
585 root 20 0 9992 1544 504 S 0 0.6 0:01.58 sendmail-mta
4155 root 20 0 2328 1072 876 R 0 0.4 0:00.00 top
600 root 20 0 5488 972 580 S 0 0.4 0:00.11 sshd
410 root 20 0 2288 852 668 S 0 0.3 0:00.05 cron
559 root 20 0 2392 840 672 S 0 0.3 0:00.00 xinetd
362 root 20 0 8668 788 448 S 0 0.3 0:00.00 saslauthd
1 root 20 0 2028 680 588 S 0 0.3 0:00.41 init
377 root 20 0 1736 632 508 S 0 0.2 0:00.17 syslogd
363 root 20 0 8668 388 48 S 0 0.1 0:00.00 saslauthd
And of course, the corresponding htop output:
Slightly more than 400MB of hard drive space was used for the OS reload, which is once again, pretty standard.
df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/simfs 40G 409M 40G 1% / tmpfs 128M 0 128M 0% /lib/init/rw tmpfs 128M 0 128M 0% /dev/shm
The iNodes are set to pretty high limit as well, which is great.
df -i Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on /dev/simfs 20971520 26116 20945404 1% / tmpfs 32768 4 32764 1% /lib/init/rw tmpfs 32768 1 32767 1% /dev/shm
When the LNMP stack is fully installed, close to 50MB of RAM were used, which is pretty good:
free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 256 254 1 0 0 207
-/+ buffers/cache: 47 208
Swap: 256 11 244
And the top output showing the processes running:
top - 18:09:42 up 1 day, 3:21, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.09
Tasks: 24 total, 1 running, 23 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: 262144k total, 260996k used, 1148k free, 0k buffers
Swap: 262144k total, 11352k used, 250792k free, 212440k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
10033 www 20 0 14500 10m 408 S 0 4.1 0:00.00 nginx
16490 mysql 20 0 34796 3132 3128 S 0 1.2 0:00.00 mysqld
4126 root 20 0 8680 1492 1216 S 1 0.6 0:00.49 sshd
10024 root 20 0 22704 1448 1332 S 0 0.6 0:00.00 php-cgi
10026 www 20 0 22704 1336 988 S 0 0.5 0:00.00 php-cgi
10027 www 20 0 22704 1336 988 S 0 0.5 0:00.00 php-cgi
10028 www 20 0 22704 1336 988 S 0 0.5 0:00.00 php-cgi
10029 www 20 0 22704 1324 988 S 0 0.5 0:00.00 php-cgi
10025 www 20 0 22704 1280 988 S 0 0.5 0:00.00 php-cgi
4150 root 20 0 2960 1196 1048 S 0 0.5 0:00.00 bash
10085 root 20 0 2328 1076 880 R 0 0.4 0:00.00 top
10032 root 20 0 4688 700 260 S 0 0.3 0:00.00 nginx
410 root 20 0 2288 652 584 S 0 0.2 0:00.05 cron
16387 root 20 0 2684 640 636 S 0 0.2 0:00.00 mysqld_safe
377 root 20 0 1736 572 496 S 0 0.2 0:00.17 syslogd
585 root 20 0 9992 552 396 S 0 0.2 0:01.66 sendmail-mta
1 root 20 0 2028 544 516 S 0 0.2 0:00.43 init
And the corresponding htop output:
1.7GB of hard drive space were used.
df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/simfs 40G 1.7G 39G 5% / tmpfs 128M 0 128M 0% /lib/init/rw tmpfs 128M 0 128M 0% /dev/shm
And once again, less than 1% of inodes are used:
df -i Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on /dev/simfs 20971520 69206 20902314 1% / tmpfs 32768 4 32764 1% /lib/init/rw tmpfs 32768 1 32767 1% /dev/shm
Vmstat shows the VPS is pretty idle:
vmstat procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ----cpu---- r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa 0 0 3096 230396 0 17488 0 0 0 1 0 64 0 0 100 0
Which is confirmed again by the output of uptime.
uptime 18:19:49 up 1 day, 3:32, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.03
The beancounters setting is something that puzzled me, which I guess has something to do with the vSwap set up:
cat /proc/user_beancounters
Version: 2.5
uid resource held maxheld barrier limit failcnt
102: kmemsize 4141899 157720576 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
lockedpages 0 426 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
privvmpages 5469 184916 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
shmpages 656 1952 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
dummy 0 0 0 0 0
numproc 20 2187 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
physpages 6973 66893 0 65536 0
vmguarpages 0 0 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
oomguarpages 1510 26200 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
numtcpsock 6 2078 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
numflock 4 10 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
numpty 1 2 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
numsiginfo 0 2016 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
tcpsndbuf 104640 36242632 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
tcprcvbuf 98304 34045952 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
othersockbuf 2312 43072 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
dgramrcvbuf 0 2576 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
numothersock 24 42 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
dcachesize 1980605 26573095 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
numfile 253 2405 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
dummy 0 0 0 0 0
dummy 0 0 0 0 0
dummy 0 0 0 0 0
numiptent 24 24 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807
As you can see, the barrier and limits are set to some really ridiculous values.
As a result, there is little surprise when the vzfree output is pretty freaky as well.
vzfree
Total Used Free
Kernel: 8796093022208.00M 33.07M 8796093022174.93M
Allocate: 36028797018963968.00M 66.12M 36028797018963900.00M (36028797018963967M Guaranteed)
Commit: 36028797018963968.00M 54.21M 36028797018963912.00M (32.0% of Allocated)
Swap: -232.46M (-1099.8% of Committed)
Four i5 CPU cores are assigned to the VPS and they do not seem to be throttled.
cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 42 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz stepping : 7 cpu MHz : 3292.629 cache size : 6144 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 4 core id : 0 cpu cores : 4 apicid : 0 initial apicid : 0 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 13 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt aes xsave avx lahf_lm ida arat epb xsaveopt pln pts tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid bogomips : 6585.25 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 : 42 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz stepping : 7 cpu MHz : 3292.629 cache size : 6144 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 4 core id : 1 cpu cores : 4 apicid : 2 initial apicid : 2 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 13 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt aes xsave avx lahf_lm ida arat epb xsaveopt pln pts tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid bogomips : 6584.19 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 : 42 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz stepping : 7 cpu MHz : 3292.629 cache size : 6144 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 4 core id : 2 cpu cores : 4 apicid : 4 initial apicid : 4 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 13 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt aes xsave avx lahf_lm ida arat epb xsaveopt pln pts tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid bogomips : 6584.19 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 : 42 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz stepping : 7 cpu MHz : 3292.629 cache size : 6144 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 4 core id : 3 cpu cores : 4 apicid : 6 initial apicid : 6 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 13 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt aes xsave avx lahf_lm ida arat epb xsaveopt pln pts tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid bogomips : 6584.19 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management:
Meminfo is surprisingly short:
cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 262144 kB MemFree: 428 kB Cached: 226240 kB Active: 114244 kB Inactive: 113048 kB Active(anon): 904 kB Inactive(anon): 148 kB Active(file): 113340 kB Inactive(file): 112900 kB Unevictable: 0 kB Mlocked: 0 kB SwapTotal: 262144 kB SwapFree: 238924 kB Dirty: 0 kB AnonPages: 1052 kB Shmem: 2568 kB Slab: 34052 kB SReclaimable: 31256 kB SUnreclaim: 2796 kB
And the time sync values:
time sync real 0m0.278s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.020s
Download speed seems to be pretty good at the first try, I was able to get 10MB/s during the Cachefly download test:
wget -O /dev/null http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test --2011-10-28 18:20:48-- 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 11.1M/s in 9.2s 2011-10-28 18:20:57 (10.9 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]
However, a more recent download test gives drastically different results:
wget -O /dev/null http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test --2011-11-08 18:02:27-- 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 323K/s in 2m 53s 2011-11-08 18:05:21 (591 KB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]
Upload speed varies but are generally pretty bad:
First is the test result from my test VPS in BuffaloVPS in Chicago, IL:
wget -O /dev/null 74.117.208.11/100mb.test --2011-10-27 22:24:10-- http://74.117.208.11/100mb.test Connecting to 74.117.208.11:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream] Saving to: `/dev/null' 100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 2.37M/s in 32s 2011-10-27 22:24:42 (3.10 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]
If you think 3.10MB of upload speed is bad, this is actually the best I have got with this VPS.
Next is BuyVM VPS from San Jose, CA:
wget -O /dev/null 74.117.208.11/100mb.test --2011-10-27 22:25:08-- http://74.117.208.11/100mb.test Connecting to 74.117.208.11:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream] Saving to: `/dev/null' 100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 202K/s in 7m 15s 2011-10-27 22:32:23 (236 KB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]
Finally, the Quickweb VPS from London, UK:
wget -O /dev/null 74.117.208.11/100mb.test --2011-10-27 22:33:26-- http://74.117.208.11/100mb.test Connecting to 74.117.208.11:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream] Saving to: `/dev/null' 100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 904K/s in 95s 2011-10-27 22:35:02 (1.05 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]
When I did the first dd test, I had a pretty good result and the disk I/O was in three digits range:
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, 8.39454 s, 128 MB/s
However, that seems to be the only time I got lucky, trying the same test later on that day gives me a much worse result:
dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync 13097+0 records in 13097+0 records out 858324992 bytes (858 MB) copied, 438.764 s, 2.0 MB/s
Trying one more time today showed slightly better result, but still far from satisfactory:
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, 138.569 s, 7.7 MB/s
And here is one more chance while I was typing out this post:
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, 47.231 s, 22.7 MB/s
This time it is barely usable, however is pretty low by any standard.
Finally, giving the terrible disk I/O, I was a little surprised to see the box actually did pretty well on Benchmarks:
First the UnixBench:
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Version 5.1.3 Based on the Byte Magazine Unix Benchmark
Multi-CPU version Version 5 revisions by Ian Smith,
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
January 13, 2011 johantheghost at yahoo period com
1 x Dhrystone 2 using register variables 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
1 x Double-Precision Whetstone 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
1 x Execl Throughput 1 2 3
1 x File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 1 2 3
1 x File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1 2 3
1 x File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 1 2 3
1 x Pipe Throughput 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
1 x Pipe-based Context Switching 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
1 x Process Creation 1 2 3
1 x System Call Overhead 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
1 x Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 1 2 3
1 x Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 1 2 3
4 x Dhrystone 2 using register variables 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
4 x Double-Precision Whetstone 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
4 x Execl Throughput 1 2 3
4 x File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 1 2 3
4 x File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1 2 3
4 x File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 1 2 3
4 x Pipe Throughput 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
4 x Pipe-based Context Switching 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
4 x Process Creation 1 2 3
4 x System Call Overhead 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
4 x Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 1 2 3
4 x Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 1 2 3
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BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 5.1.3)
System: peanut: GNU/Linux
OS: GNU/Linux -- 2.6.32-042stab037.1 -- #1 SMP Fri Sep 16 22:18:06 MSD 2011
Machine: i686 (unknown)
Language: en_US.utf8 (charmap="ANSI_X3.4-1968", collate="ANSI_X3.4-1968")
CPU 0: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz (6585.2 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization
CPU 1: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz (6584.2 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization
CPU 2: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz (6584.2 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization
CPU 3: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz (6584.2 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization
16:23:24 up 12 days, 1:35, 1 user, load average: 0.15, 0.27, 0.12; runlevel 2
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Benchmark Run: Tue Nov 08 2011 16:23:24 - 16:55:32
4 CPUs in system; running 1 parallel copy of tests
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 20491292.2 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Double-Precision Whetstone 3250.2 MWIPS (10.1 s, 7 samples)
Execl Throughput 5331.3 lps (29.9 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 681368.9 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 190986.6 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 1899197.7 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Pipe Throughput 1137048.6 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Pipe-based Context Switching 136160.3 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Process Creation 13990.8 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 8381.7 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 1952.0 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples)
System Call Overhead 867139.4 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
System Benchmarks Index Values BASELINE RESULT INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 20491292.2 1755.9
Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 3250.2 590.9
Execl Throughput 43.0 5331.3 1239.8
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 3960.0 681368.9 1720.6
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1655.0 190986.6 1154.0
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 5800.0 1899197.7 3274.5
Pipe Throughput 12440.0 1137048.6 914.0
Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 136160.3 340.4
Process Creation 126.0 13990.8 1110.4
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 8381.7 1976.8
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 1952.0 3253.4
System Call Overhead 15000.0 867139.4 578.1
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System Benchmarks Index Score 1218.8
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Benchmark Run: Tue Nov 08 2011 16:55:32 - 17:31:51
4 CPUs in system; running 4 parallel copies of tests
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 51371693.6 lps (10.1 s, 7 samples)
Double-Precision Whetstone 13065.4 MWIPS (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Execl Throughput 12378.2 lps (29.7 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 955378.7 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 273962.6 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 2700279.5 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Pipe Throughput 2746547.9 lps (10.1 s, 7 samples)
Pipe-based Context Switching 729592.6 lps (10.1 s, 7 samples)
Process Creation 32003.4 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 16893.7 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 2398.5 lpm (60.1 s, 2 samples)
System Call Overhead 2286258.3 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
System Benchmarks Index Values BASELINE RESULT INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 51371693.6 4402.0
Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 13065.4 2375.5
Execl Throughput 43.0 12378.2 2878.6
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 3960.0 955378.7 2412.6
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1655.0 273962.6 1655.4
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 5800.0 2700279.5 4655.7
Pipe Throughput 12440.0 2746547.9 2207.8
Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 729592.6 1824.0
Process Creation 126.0 32003.4 2540.0
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 16893.7 3984.4
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 2398.5 3997.6
System Call Overhead 15000.0 2286258.3 1524.2
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System Benchmarks Index Score 2682.7
Testing again actually showed slightly better results:
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Version 5.1.3 Based on the Byte Magazine Unix Benchmark
Multi-CPU version Version 5 revisions by Ian Smith,
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
January 13, 2011 johantheghost at yahoo period com
1 x Dhrystone 2 using register variables 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
1 x Double-Precision Whetstone 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
1 x Execl Throughput 1 2 3
1 x File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 1 2 3
1 x File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1 2 3
1 x File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 1 2 3
1 x Pipe Throughput 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
1 x Pipe-based Context Switching 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
1 x Process Creation 1 2 3
1 x System Call Overhead 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
1 x Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 1 2 3
1 x Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 1 2 3
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
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BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 5.1.3)
System: peanut: GNU/Linux
OS: GNU/Linux -- 2.6.32-042stab037.1 -- #1 SMP Fri Sep 16 22:18:06 MSD 2011
Machine: i686 (unknown)
Language: en_US.utf8 (charmap="ANSI_X3.4-1968", collate="ANSI_X3.4-1968")
CPU 0: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz (6585.2 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization
CPU 1: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz (6584.2 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization
CPU 2: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz (6584.2 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization
CPU 3: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz (6584.2 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization
18:25:18 up 12 days, 3:37, 2 users, load average: 0.05, 0.15, 0.30; runlevel 2
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Benchmark Run: Tue Nov 08 2011 18:25:18 - 18:56:52
4 CPUs in system; running 1 parallel copy of tests
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 20493544.5 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Double-Precision Whetstone 3250.0 MWIPS (10.1 s, 7 samples)
Execl Throughput 5326.9 lps (29.7 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 678483.4 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 192762.0 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 1994106.8 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Pipe Throughput 1137915.1 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Pipe-based Context Switching 141233.1 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Process Creation 13932.8 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 8365.7 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 2080.7 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples)
System Call Overhead 856411.5 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
System Benchmarks Index Values BASELINE RESULT INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 20493544.5 1756.1
Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 3250.0 590.9
Execl Throughput 43.0 5326.9 1238.8
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 3960.0 678483.4 1713.3
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1655.0 192762.0 1164.7
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 5800.0 1994106.8 3438.1
Pipe Throughput 12440.0 1137915.1 914.7
Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 141233.1 353.1
Process Creation 126.0 13932.8 1105.8
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 8365.7 1973.0
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 2080.7 3467.9
System Call Overhead 15000.0 856411.5 570.9
========
System Benchmarks Index Score 1232.7
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Benchmark Run: Tue Nov 08 2011 18:56:52 - 19:28:27
4 CPUs in system; running 4 parallel copies of tests
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 55037003.2 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Double-Precision Whetstone 13045.5 MWIPS (10.1 s, 7 samples)
Execl Throughput 14651.4 lps (29.3 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 1017633.1 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 294101.2 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 2863997.1 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Pipe Throughput 2912185.4 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Pipe-based Context Switching 608082.8 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Process Creation 30737.4 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 16410.5 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 2012.5 lpm (60.1 s, 2 samples)
System Call Overhead 2189094.3 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
System Benchmarks Index Values BASELINE RESULT INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 55037003.2 4716.1
Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 13045.5 2371.9
Execl Throughput 43.0 14651.4 3407.3
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 3960.0 1017633.1 2569.8
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1655.0 294101.2 1777.0
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 5800.0 2863997.1 4937.9
Pipe Throughput 12440.0 2912185.4 2341.0
Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 608082.8 1520.2
Process Creation 126.0 30737.4 2439.5
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 16410.5 3870.4
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 2012.5 3354.2
System Call Overhead 15000.0 2189094.3 1459.4
========
System Benchmarks Index Score 2686.6
As you can see, the score is close to 2700 points, which is not bad at all.
The GeekBench score is pretty high as well, at close to 8000 points:
System Information
Platform: Linux x86 (32-bit)
Compiler: GCC 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-33)
Operating System: Linux 2.6.32-042stab037.1 i686
Model: Linux PC (Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz)
Motherboard: Unknown Motherboard
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz
Processor ID: GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7
Logical Processors: 4
Physical Processors: 1
Processor Frequency: 3.29 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: 256 MB
Memory Type: N/A
SIMD: 1
BIOS: N/A
Processor Model: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz
Processor Cores: 4
Integer
Blowfish
single-threaded scalar 2144 ||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 6629 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Text Compress
single-threaded scalar 2908 |||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 10077 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Text Decompress
single-threaded scalar 3123 ||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 9036 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Image Compress
single-threaded scalar 2431 |||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 6427 |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Image Decompress
single-threaded scalar 2367 |||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 5774 |||||||||||||||||||||||
Lua
single-threaded scalar 4098 ||||||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 10684 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Floating Point
Mandelbrot
single-threaded scalar 2754 |||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 7716 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dot Product
single-threaded scalar 4533 ||||||||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 14050 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
single-threaded vector 5410 |||||||||||||||||||||
multi-threaded vector 17347 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
LU Decomposition
single-threaded scalar 3422 |||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 7929 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Primality Test
single-threaded scalar 4862 |||||||||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 10500 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sharpen Image
single-threaded scalar 10966 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 32005 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Blur Image
single-threaded scalar 8665 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 25754 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Memory
Read Sequential
single-threaded scalar 7607 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Write Sequential
single-threaded scalar 11126 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stdlib Allocate
single-threaded scalar 5205 ||||||||||||||||||||
Stdlib Write
single-threaded scalar 7399 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stdlib Copy
single-threaded scalar 6105 ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stream
Stream Copy
single-threaded scalar 5907 |||||||||||||||||||||||
single-threaded vector 6548 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stream Scale
single-threaded scalar 6082 ||||||||||||||||||||||||
single-threaded vector 6326 |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stream Add
single-threaded scalar 5973 |||||||||||||||||||||||
single-threaded vector 6516 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stream Triad
single-threaded scalar 6464 |||||||||||||||||||||||||
single-threaded vector 4872 |||||||||||||||||||
Integer Score: 5474 |||||||||||||||||||||
Floating Point Score: 11136 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Memory Score: 7488 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stream Score: 6086 ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Overall Geekbench Score: 7919 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Testing again showed slightly worse but still impressive results:
System Information
Platform: Linux x86 (32-bit)
Compiler: GCC 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-33)
Operating System: Linux 2.6.32-042stab037.1 i686
Model: Linux PC (Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz)
Motherboard: Unknown Motherboard
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz
Processor ID: GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7
Logical Processors: 4
Physical Processors: 1
Processor Frequency: 3.29 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: 256 MB
Memory Type: N/A
SIMD: 1
BIOS: N/A
Processor Model: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz
Processor Cores: 4
Integer
Blowfish
single-threaded scalar 2145 ||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 6004 ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Text Compress
single-threaded scalar 2909 |||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 7591 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Text Decompress
single-threaded scalar 3109 ||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 9250 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Image Compress
single-threaded scalar 2433 |||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 6706 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Image Decompress
single-threaded scalar 2376 |||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 5998 |||||||||||||||||||||||
Lua
single-threaded scalar 4093 ||||||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 11862 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Floating Point
Mandelbrot
single-threaded scalar 2754 |||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 7681 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dot Product
single-threaded scalar 4534 ||||||||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 12994 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
single-threaded vector 5413 |||||||||||||||||||||
multi-threaded vector 16580 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
LU Decomposition
single-threaded scalar 3491 |||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 6970 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Primality Test
single-threaded scalar 4844 |||||||||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 10354 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sharpen Image
single-threaded scalar 10985 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 32689 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Blur Image
single-threaded scalar 8662 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 24698 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Memory
Read Sequential
single-threaded scalar 7661 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Write Sequential
single-threaded scalar 11200 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stdlib Allocate
single-threaded scalar 5201 ||||||||||||||||||||
Stdlib Write
single-threaded scalar 7336 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stdlib Copy
single-threaded scalar 6861 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stream
Stream Copy
single-threaded scalar 5787 |||||||||||||||||||||||
single-threaded vector 6402 |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stream Scale
single-threaded scalar 6021 ||||||||||||||||||||||||
single-threaded vector 6126 ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stream Add
single-threaded scalar 5642 ||||||||||||||||||||||
single-threaded vector 6349 |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stream Triad
single-threaded scalar 6101 ||||||||||||||||||||||||
single-threaded vector 4655 ||||||||||||||||||
Integer Score: 5373 |||||||||||||||||||||
Floating Point Score: 10903 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Memory Score: 7651 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stream Score: 5885 |||||||||||||||||||||||
Overall Geekbench Score: 7815 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Customer Service and Support
Since the VPS is supposedly to be fully managed, I was curious to find out what are exactly included in the management items. So I actually submitted a ticket at 6:09PM on a Friday and the ticket was responded by 6:46PM, but the answer is a little ambiguous:
Pardon me for my lack of comprehension, but what does “templates, updates, CP, etc” mean exactly for a 256MB VPS?
Another ticket asking about the exact RAM amount (since I was expecting 512MB of dedicated RAM and only get 256MB when I logged in) was answered within 4 minutes, which was pretty fast.
Conclusion
The VPS itself did not exactly show an impressive performance, other than good benchmark results due to perhaps four un-throttled CPU cores, clearly the VPS is heavily oversold as indicated by the heavily fluctuating disk I/O and network speed. Customer service seems to be fast, which is perhaps a good aspect of the “management”, although I am not too sure what “management” exactly entails to. Therefore, I do not think I can recommend MegaWorldHosting for any purpose, unless all you need is a fast CPU for processing or you just need one of the Debian control panels to play with.
Good review thanks.
Not a big fan of the cpu for a server.
In a desktop the I5 makes a VERY fast cpu for the price but for a server? not sure I like that.
ECC ram does not work with an I5 and I think ECC ram is pretty important when you are running a few dozen virtual machines.
The disk performance is scary as well, maybe someone was running DD tests but you tried 3 or 4 times so that is scary!
@Luma: And keep in mind those dd are running even on different times in the same day as well as on different days, I really think there is a very heavy overselling on those VPS…