96MB Low End VPS Review Part 63–Semoweb
Happy New Year everyone! Hope everyone has had a good break, had spent some time with your family and friends and had a pretty good break! And to me, I have been spending days taking a mini-vacation and spend some time to think and plan for the next year, and one of the items that I have had for my 2013 To-Do list is definitely to keep 96MB going so that readers like you would be benefited from the VPS review that I have been writing!
Most of the time I do a review either because the VPS business has put in a review request or if I happened to be in need of a VPS myself. However, in some occasion, the review request comes from customers who are either happy with the service and would like more people to know about the provider they are using, or they feel the provider has some rooms for improvement that they would like to bring into the provider’s attention. The VPS provider that I am reviewing today, Semoweb, is a provider that was brought to my attention by one of the 96MB readers, and let’s take a look, as objective as I can (after all, that is why you guys are reading 96MB right?), on the quality of service offered by Semoweb.
Note: Semoweb does not seem to offer the plan I signed up for testing any longer and their current plan on the offer on WHT seems to be more expensive with more disk space but less RAM. However, I feel this review is still relevant since it offers the reader a peek of the overall service, regardless of the plan resources specifications.
Basic Information and Set Up
According to the advertisement on LowEndTalk, here is what you would get for 3USD per month.
Their sign-up page is on HTTPs protocol and some quite standard options are available (please note that this screenshot is not for the exact product indicated as it is no longer sold on their website):
Although Semoweb advertise instant set up, in my particular case at least, the provision was not instant (possibly fraud check?) and my payment confirmation arrived at 7:22pm, after putting in a ticket at 8:57pm (yes, I am aware that I was a bit impatient and 24 hours is normally how long I should be waiting), I have received an update at 10:04pm informing me the ticket is sent to the “supervisor”, and no update afterwards until I sent another reply at 3:23pm the next day asking for an update from the supervisor and finally received the VPS New Information email at 8:56pm (slightly over 24 hours after I have submitted my payments) and a reply at 10:56pm the next day informing me the VPS has been set up and all good to go.
The WHMCS system on Semoweb is on HTTPS interface, and once logged in, the details of the service is listed under My Product:
As you can see, the layout is pretty standard however not all button seems to work. When I tried to click on the Update Root Password option, the operation seems to work and I can verify the new root password was indeed in use:
However, when I tried to change the hostname, I did not have such kind of luck:
None of the graph is available unfortunately are available:
Interestingly, their SolusVM interface only provide an IP address but no domain name, which is normally what happens when the provider is reselling the service. Turns out in this particular case, Semoweb is a reseller for Hostdime as the rDNS of the IP is pointing to: dimer.hostdimer.com.
The SolusVM address given by the Welcome email is using HTTP interface only, although if you do not mind getting a certificate error, you can visit the secured HTTPS site by adding 5656 as the port. Once logged in, a standard SolusVM interface is shown:
There are quite a few OS templates available for reinstallation, in particular, a vast selection of Ubuntu distributions are available:
Since Semoweb is a reseller, I was not surprised when there is no instant rDNS available:
Although you have the ability to enable TUN/TAP and PPP on the interface:
Test on the VPS
As mentioned above, the test VPS I have purchased has 256MB of dedicated RAM, 768MB of burstable RAM, 15GB of hard drive space and 150GB of bandwidth, the VPS is located at Orlando, Florida and Semoweb is reselling the service from HostDime. For the tests carried out below, I have used Debian 6 32 bit minimal as the OS template.
When the OS template was initially loaded, only 5MB of RAM was used, leading me to believe the template is indeed “minimal”:
free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 256 15 240 0 0 10
-/+ buffers/cache: 5 250
Swap: 512 0 512
Top showing the processes running:
top - 02:23:41 up 1 day, 2:47, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Tasks: 11 total, 1 running, 10 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni,100.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 262144k total, 17400k used, 244744k free, 0k buffers
Swap: 524288k total, 0k used, 524288k free, 10564k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
9705 root 20 0 8252 2844 2324 S 0 1.1 0:00.04 sshd
9960 root 20 0 7036 2636 2136 S 0 1.0 0:00.00 sshd
9733 root 20 0 2976 1644 1304 S 0 0.6 0:00.00 bash
296 root 20 0 34464 1440 1040 S 0 0.5 0:00.96 rsyslogd
9961 sshd 20 0 6832 1332 872 S 0 0.5 0:00.00 sshd
9962 root 20 0 2328 1060 876 R 0 0.4 0:00.00 top
335 root 20 0 5488 972 584 S 0 0.4 0:00.94 sshd
337 root 20 0 2288 764 600 S 0 0.3 0:00.05 cron
1 root 20 0 2028 680 588 S 0 0.3 0:00.78 init
2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd/6454
3 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper/6454
And htop output:
About 170MB of hard drive space was used when the OS was initially loaded, which is also a good sign that this OS template has been stripped off many of the unnecessary items:
df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/simfs 15G 170M 15G 2% / tmpfs 128M 0 128M 0% /lib/init/rw tmpfs 128M 0 128M 0% /dev/shm
And the iNodes are set to pretty standard values:
df -i Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on /dev/simfs 7864320 10500 7853820 1% / tmpfs 32768 4 32764 1% /lib/init/rw tmpfs 32768 1 32767 1% /dev/shm
When the full LNMP stack was loaded, 42MB of RAM was used:
free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 256 72 183 0 0 29
-/+ buffers/cache: 42 213
Swap: 512 0 511
This is again much smaller compare to most of the VPS that I have tested before.
Top showing the full LNMP stack running:
top - 04:37:12 up 56 days, 12:37, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Tasks: 19 total, 1 running, 18 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, 74040k used, 188104k free, 0k buffers
Swap: 524288k total, 484k used, 523804k free, 30768k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
517 www 20 0 15012 11m 568 S 0 4.3 0:00.08 nginx
521 www 20 0 26732 7724 2152 S 0 2.9 0:00.06 php-cgi
522 www 20 0 26204 7200 2152 S 0 2.7 0:00.05 php-cgi
523 www 20 0 26204 7200 2152 S 0 2.7 0:00.04 php-cgi
520 www 20 0 26204 7156 2108 S 0 2.7 0:00.05 php-cgi
519 www 20 0 26732 5580 4 S 0 2.1 0:00.05 php-cgi
485 mysql 20 0 36484 3448 780 S 0 1.3 0:01.57 mysqld
518 root 20 0 22624 3192 52 S 0 1.2 11:34.79 php-cgi
11132 root 20 0 8456 2948 2328 S 0 1.1 0:00.17 sshd
11135 root 20 0 2976 1632 1292 S 0 0.6 0:00.00 bash
11162 root 20 0 2328 1080 884 R 0 0.4 0:00.00 top
320 root 20 0 34464 916 588 S 0 0.3 0:18.09 rsyslogd
486 root 20 0 5488 600 216 S 0 0.2 0:16.41 sshd
516 root 20 0 4784 444 0 S 0 0.2 0:00.00 nginx
442 root 20 0 2288 280 112 S 0 0.1 0:02.78 cron
1 root 20 0 2028 92 64 S 0 0.0 0:31.78 init
335 root 20 0 1744 92 4 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 mysqld_safe
And htop output:
About 1.6GB of hard drive space was used once the intallation is done:
df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/simfs 15G 1.6G 14G 11% / tmpfs 128M 0 128M 0% /lib/init/rw tmpfs 128M 0 128M 0% /dev/shm
And the inodes output is pretty standard as well:
df -i Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on /dev/simfs 7864320 63529 7800791 1% / tmpfs 32768 4 32764 1% /lib/init/rw tmpfs 32768 1 32767 1% /dev/shm
The VPS is fairly stable and little used, as shown in the output of uptime:
uptime 04:43:01 up 56 days, 12:43, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
vmstat shows no IOwait as well, which is also a good sign:
vmstat procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ----cpu---- r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa 0 0 484 187916 0 30952 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 100 0
Beancounters are set to pretty high values and there is no failure count, which is something good:
cat /proc/user_beancounters
Version: 2.5
uid resource held maxheld barrier limit failcnt
6454: kmemsize 6850981 77090816 134217728 134217728 0
lockedpages 0 0 32768 32768 0
privvmpages 26970 123023 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
shmpages 642 2354 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
dummy 0 0 0 0 0
numproc 22 135 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
physpages 18552 42193 0 65536 0
vmguarpages 0 0 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
oomguarpages 9242 10813 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
numtcpsock 5 27 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
numflock 1 3 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
numpty 1 6 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
numsiginfo 0 27 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
tcpsndbuf 102592 470880 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
tcprcvbuf 81920 442368 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
othersockbuf 6936 41784 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
dgramrcvbuf 0 4624 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
numothersock 36 57 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
dcachesize 4288699 67108858 67108864 67108864 0
numfile 267 710 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 0
Since the beancounter values are pretty strange, the vzfree output does not make a lot of sense to me as well:
vzfree
Total Used Free
Kernel: 128.00M 6.50M 121.50M
Allocate: 36028797018963968.00M 105.36M 36028797018963864.00M (36028797018963967M Guaranteed)
Commit: 36028797018963968.00M 42.65M 36028797018963924.00M (34.3% of Allocated)
Swap: -203.50M (-563.0% of Committed)
CPUInfo shows there are four CPU cores available and none of them are throttled:
cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 42 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31230 @ 3.20GHz stepping : 7 cpu MHz : 3192.861 cache size : 8192 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 8 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 smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt xsave avx lahf_lm ida arat epb xsaveopt pln pts dts tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid bogomips : 6385.72 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) Xeon(R) CPU E31230 @ 3.20GHz stepping : 7 cpu MHz : 3192.861 cache size : 8192 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 8 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 smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt xsave avx lahf_lm ida arat epb xsaveopt pln pts dts tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid bogomips : 6385.72 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) Xeon(R) CPU E31230 @ 3.20GHz stepping : 7 cpu MHz : 3192.861 cache size : 8192 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 8 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 smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt xsave avx lahf_lm ida arat epb xsaveopt pln pts dts tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid bogomips : 6385.72 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) Xeon(R) CPU E31230 @ 3.20GHz stepping : 7 cpu MHz : 3192.861 cache size : 8192 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 8 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 smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt xsave avx lahf_lm ida arat epb xsaveopt pln pts dts tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid bogomips : 6385.72 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management:
Meminfo:
cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 262144 kB MemFree: 30652 kB Cached: 206848 kB Active: 45092 kB Inactive: 179708 kB Active(anon): 16128 kB Inactive(anon): 1824 kB Active(file): 28964 kB Inactive(file): 177884 kB Unevictable: 0 kB Mlocked: 0 kB SwapTotal: 524288 kB SwapFree: 505148 kB Dirty: 0 kB Writeback: 0 kB AnonPages: 17952 kB Shmem: 2568 kB Slab: 6632 kB SReclaimable: 4128 kB SUnreclaim: 2504 kB
And time sync:
time sync real 0m0.001s user 0m0.001s sys 0m0.000s
I was a bit surprised with the disk I/O speed especially considering the fact that this is not a SSD VPS but just HDDs with RAID10:
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, 1.13514 s, 946 MB/s
Testing again showed almost the same 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, 1.09108 s, 984 MB/s
And just to make sure I was reading the right numbers, I have once again run a test a while later to make sure, and although this time is slightly worse than before, the numbers are still very impressive:
dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync 16384+0 records in 16384+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 1.30296 s, 824 MB/s
The ioping results are very consistent as well:
ioping -c 10 . 4096 bytes from . (simfs /vz/private/6454): request=1 time=0.1 ms 4096 bytes from . (simfs /vz/private/6454): request=2 time=0.1 ms 4096 bytes from . (simfs /vz/private/6454): request=3 time=0.1 ms 4096 bytes from . (simfs /vz/private/6454): request=4 time=0.1 ms 4096 bytes from . (simfs /vz/private/6454): request=5 time=0.1 ms 4096 bytes from . (simfs /vz/private/6454): request=6 time=0.1 ms 4096 bytes from . (simfs /vz/private/6454): request=7 time=0.1 ms 4096 bytes from . (simfs /vz/private/6454): request=8 time=0.1 ms 4096 bytes from . (simfs /vz/private/6454): request=9 time=0.1 ms 4096 bytes from . (simfs /vz/private/6454): request=10 time=0.1 ms --- . (simfs /vz/private/6454) ioping statistics --- 10 requests completed in 9002.2 ms, 9183 iops, 35.9 mb/s min/avg/max/mdev = 0.1/0.1/0.1/0.0 ms
Testing again showed similar results:
ioping -c 10 . 4096 bytes from . (simfs /vz/private/6454): request=1 time=0.1 ms 4096 bytes from . (simfs /vz/private/6454): request=2 time=0.1 ms 4096 bytes from . (simfs /vz/private/6454): request=3 time=0.1 ms 4096 bytes from . (simfs /vz/private/6454): request=4 time=0.1 ms 4096 bytes from . (simfs /vz/private/6454): request=5 time=0.1 ms 4096 bytes from . (simfs /vz/private/6454): request=6 time=0.1 ms 4096 bytes from . (simfs /vz/private/6454): request=7 time=0.1 ms 4096 bytes from . (simfs /vz/private/6454): request=8 time=0.1 ms 4096 bytes from . (simfs /vz/private/6454): request=9 time=0.1 ms 4096 bytes from . (simfs /vz/private/6454): request=10 time=0.1 ms --- . (simfs /vz/private/6454) ioping statistics --- 10 requests completed in 9002.4 ms, 10406 iops, 40.6 mb/s min/avg/max/mdev = 0.1/0.1/0.1/0.0 ms
As for the network speed, the download speed is definitely very impressive as well, and during the Cachefly download test, I was almost able to get the full port speed:
wget cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test -O /dev/null --2013-02-04 04:52:25-- 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 15.6M/s in 5.8s 2013-02-04 04:52:31 (17.4 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]
As you can see, this is actually more than 150mbit/s.
Testing a little later showed equally impressive results:
wget cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test -O /dev/null --2013-02-04 05:03:54-- 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 22.4M/s in 4.2s 2013-02-04 05:03:58 (24.0 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]
And one more time, the result, even though is not as good as the previous results, is nonetheless quite impressive.
wget cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test -O /dev/null --2013-02-04 05:06:15-- http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net... 205.234.175.175 Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net|205.234.175.175|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream] Saving to: `/dev/null' 100%[=======================================================================================================================================>] 104,857,600 10.7M/s in 9.5s 2013-02-04 05:06:25 (10.5 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]
The upload speed, on the other hand, although not very impressive, but is still reasonable. First is the upload test with my Quickweb test VPS at Chicago, IL:
wget 199.168.xxx.xxx/100mb.test -O /dev/null --2013-02-03 16:14:12-- http://199.168.xxx.xxx/100mb.test Connecting to 199.168.xxx.xxx:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream] Saving to: `/dev/null' 100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 2.44M/s in 42s 2013-02-03 16:14:54 (2.40 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]
As you can see, the upload speed of the VPS is pretty fast along the east coast. Next is a test VPS from Chicago VPS in their Los Angeles DC, which is along the west coast:
wget 199.168.xxx.xxx/100mb.test -O /dev/null --2013-02-04 01:36:21-- http://199.168.xxx.xxx/100mb.test Connecting to 199.168.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 804K/s in 2m 28s 2013-02-04 01:38:49 (694 KB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]
As you can see, the speed is considerably slower in this case. Lastly is the test from my test VPS from HTTPSimple at London, UK:
wget 199.168.xxx.xxx/100mb.test -O /dev/null --2013-02-04 02:16:43-- http://199.168.xxx.xxx/100mb.test Connecting to 199.168.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 1.20M/s in 1m 41s 2013-02-04 02:18:24 (1015 KB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]
Finally, the benchmarking is done, and this little VPS has impressed me a lot with the good performance. First the UnixBench test:
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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: XXXXXX: GNU/Linux
OS: GNU/Linux -- 2.6.32-042stab059.7 -- #1 SMP Tue Jul 24 19:12:01 MSK 2012
Machine: i686 (unknown)
Language: en_US.utf8 (charmap="UTF-8", collate="UTF-8")
CPU 0: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31230 @ 3.20GHz (6385.6 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization
CPU 1: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31230 @ 3.20GHz (6385.6 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization
CPU 2: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31230 @ 3.20GHz (6385.6 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization
CPU 3: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31230 @ 3.20GHz (6385.6 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization
12:32:11 up 1 day, 4:56, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.05; runlevel 2
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Benchmark Run: Sun Dec 09 2012 12:32:11 - 13:00:19
4 CPUs in system; running 1 parallel copy of tests
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 19841982.0 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Double-Precision Whetstone 3158.4 MWIPS (10.1 s, 7 samples)
Execl Throughput 4903.2 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 697365.0 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 187766.7 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 1909126.5 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Pipe Throughput 1108806.7 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Pipe-based Context Switching 176087.6 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Process Creation 15401.7 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 9548.9 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 2783.0 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples)
System Call Overhead 832312.7 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
System Benchmarks Index Values BASELINE RESULT INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 19841982.0 1700.3
Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 3158.4 574.3
Execl Throughput 43.0 4903.2 1140.3
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 3960.0 697365.0 1761.0
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1655.0 187766.7 1134.5
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 5800.0 1909126.5 3291.6
Pipe Throughput 12440.0 1108806.7 891.3
Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 176087.6 440.2
Process Creation 126.0 15401.7 1222.4
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 9548.9 2252.1
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 2783.0 4638.3
System Call Overhead 15000.0 832312.7 554.9
========
System Benchmarks Index Score 1285.4
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Benchmark Run: Sun Dec 09 2012 13:00:19 - 13:28:31
4 CPUs in system; running 4 parallel copies of tests
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 72686403.0 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Double-Precision Whetstone 12399.8 MWIPS (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Execl Throughput 20467.4 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 1150905.7 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 288173.1 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 3470631.3 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Pipe Throughput 4109914.7 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Pipe-based Context Switching 478661.7 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Process Creation 48209.3 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 23781.0 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 2560.8 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples)
System Call Overhead 2910097.6 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
System Benchmarks Index Values BASELINE RESULT INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 72686403.0 6228.5
Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 12399.8 2254.5
Execl Throughput 43.0 20467.4 4759.9
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 3960.0 1150905.7 2906.3
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1655.0 288173.1 1741.2
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 5800.0 3470631.3 5983.8
Pipe Throughput 12440.0 4109914.7 3303.8
Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 478661.7 1196.7
Process Creation 126.0 48209.3 3826.1
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 23781.0 5608.7
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 2560.8 4267.9
System Call Overhead 15000.0 2910097.6 1940.1
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System Benchmarks Index Score 3256.4
Testing again showed even 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: XXXXXX: GNU/Linux
OS: GNU/Linux -- 2.6.32-042stab059.7 -- #1 SMP Tue Jul 24 19:12:01 MSK 2012
Machine: i686 (unknown)
Language: en_US.utf8 (charmap="UTF-8", collate="UTF-8")
CPU 0: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31230 @ 3.20GHz (6385.7 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization
CPU 1: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31230 @ 3.20GHz (6385.7 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization
CPU 2: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31230 @ 3.20GHz (6385.7 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization
CPU 3: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31230 @ 3.20GHz (6385.7 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization
23:13:37 up 7:13, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00; runlevel 2
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Benchmark Run: Sun Dec 09 2012 23:13:37 - 23:41:45
4 CPUs in system; running 1 parallel copy of tests
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 19847349.4 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Double-Precision Whetstone 3159.1 MWIPS (10.1 s, 7 samples)
Execl Throughput 4988.3 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 726759.9 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 192045.3 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 2070479.6 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Pipe Throughput 1103739.0 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Pipe-based Context Switching 189945.1 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Process Creation 16765.6 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 9813.0 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 2853.1 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples)
System Call Overhead 835946.5 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
System Benchmarks Index Values BASELINE RESULT INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 19847349.4 1700.7
Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 3159.1 574.4
Execl Throughput 43.0 4988.3 1160.1
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 3960.0 726759.9 1835.3
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1655.0 192045.3 1160.4
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 5800.0 2070479.6 3569.8
Pipe Throughput 12440.0 1103739.0 887.3
Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 189945.1 474.9
Process Creation 126.0 16765.6 1330.6
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 9813.0 2314.4
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 2853.1 4755.2
System Call Overhead 15000.0 835946.5 557.3
========
System Benchmarks Index Score 1326.3
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Benchmark Run: Sun Dec 09 2012 23:41:45 - 00:09:58
4 CPUs in system; running 4 parallel copies of tests
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 70185287.2 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Double-Precision Whetstone 12290.7 MWIPS (9.9 s, 7 samples)
Execl Throughput 21703.2 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 1181377.1 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 313551.2 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 3526422.9 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Pipe Throughput 4011554.7 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Pipe-based Context Switching 482474.9 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Process Creation 53435.1 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 24842.0 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 2632.0 lpm (60.1 s, 2 samples)
System Call Overhead 2936627.1 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
System Benchmarks Index Values BASELINE RESULT INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 70185287.2 6014.2
Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 12290.7 2234.7
Execl Throughput 43.0 21703.2 5047.2
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 3960.0 1181377.1 2983.3
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1655.0 313551.2 1894.6
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 5800.0 3526422.9 6080.0
Pipe Throughput 12440.0 4011554.7 3224.7
Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 482474.9 1206.2
Process Creation 126.0 53435.1 4240.9
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 24842.0 5859.0
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 2632.0 4386.7
System Call Overhead 15000.0 2936627.1 1957.8
========
System Benchmarks Index Score 3341.1
Geekbench results are even more impressive and I was able to get close to 10000 points on the Geekbench tests:
System Information
Platform: Linux x86 (32-bit)
Compiler: GCC 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-33)
Operating System: Linux 2.6.32-042stab059.7 i686
Model: Linux PC (Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31230 @ 3.20GHz)
Motherboard: Unknown Motherboard
Processor: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31230 @ 3.20GHz
Processor ID: GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7
Logical Processors: 4
Physical Processors: 1
Processor Frequency: 3.19 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) Xeon(R) CPU E31230 @ 3.20GHz
Processor Cores: 4
Integer
Blowfish
single-threaded scalar 2078 ||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 8906 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Text Compress
single-threaded scalar 2825 |||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 10917 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Text Decompress
single-threaded scalar 3034 ||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 12378 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Image Compress
single-threaded scalar 2357 |||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 9245 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Image Decompress
single-threaded scalar 2305 |||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 9256 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lua
single-threaded scalar 3955 |||||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 13574 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Floating Point
Mandelbrot
single-threaded scalar 2670 ||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 10845 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dot Product
single-threaded scalar 4393 |||||||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 18626 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
single-threaded vector 5209 ||||||||||||||||||||
multi-threaded vector 24004 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
LU Decomposition
single-threaded scalar 3343 |||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 13519 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Primality Test
single-threaded scalar 4706 ||||||||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 14898 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sharpen Image
single-threaded scalar 10680 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 42338 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Blur Image
single-threaded scalar 8413 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 33609 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Memory
Read Sequential
single-threaded scalar 7357 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Write Sequential
single-threaded scalar 12152 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stdlib Allocate
single-threaded scalar 5048 ||||||||||||||||||||
Stdlib Write
single-threaded scalar 8571 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stdlib Copy
single-threaded scalar 16716 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stream
Stream Copy
single-threaded scalar 6123 ||||||||||||||||||||||||
single-threaded vector 7485 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stream Scale
single-threaded scalar 6586 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
single-threaded vector 7676 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stream Add
single-threaded scalar 6255 |||||||||||||||||||||||||
single-threaded vector 6916 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stream Triad
single-threaded scalar 6647 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
single-threaded vector 5054 ||||||||||||||||||||
Integer Score: 6735 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Floating Point Score: 14089 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Memory Score: 9968 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stream Score: 6592 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Overall Geekbench Score: 9941 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Testing again showed pretty good results as well:
System Information
Platform: Linux x86 (32-bit)
Compiler: GCC 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-33)
Operating System: Linux 2.6.32-042stab059.7 i686
Model: Linux PC (Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31230 @ 3.20GHz)
Motherboard: Unknown Motherboard
Processor: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31230 @ 3.20GHz
Processor ID: GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7
Logical Processors: 4
Physical Processors: 1
Processor Frequency: 3.19 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) Xeon(R) CPU E31230 @ 3.20GHz
Processor Cores: 4
Integer
Blowfish
single-threaded scalar 2078 ||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 8769 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Text Compress
single-threaded scalar 2819 |||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 10946 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Text Decompress
single-threaded scalar 3029 ||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 12401 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Image Compress
single-threaded scalar 2355 |||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 9211 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Image Decompress
single-threaded scalar 2311 |||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 9283 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lua
single-threaded scalar 3959 |||||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 13469 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Floating Point
Mandelbrot
single-threaded scalar 2670 ||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 10855 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dot Product
single-threaded scalar 4270 |||||||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 18108 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
single-threaded vector 5186 ||||||||||||||||||||
multi-threaded vector 23956 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
LU Decomposition
single-threaded scalar 3275 |||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 13482 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Primality Test
single-threaded scalar 4705 ||||||||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 14969 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sharpen Image
single-threaded scalar 10689 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 42113 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Blur Image
single-threaded scalar 8412 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 33522 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Memory
Read Sequential
single-threaded scalar 7387 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Write Sequential
single-threaded scalar 12157 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stdlib Allocate
single-threaded scalar 5051 ||||||||||||||||||||
Stdlib Write
single-threaded scalar 8490 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stdlib Copy
single-threaded scalar 16675 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stream
Stream Copy
single-threaded scalar 6129 ||||||||||||||||||||||||
single-threaded vector 7586 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stream Scale
single-threaded scalar 6378 |||||||||||||||||||||||||
single-threaded vector 7076 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stream Add
single-threaded scalar 6123 ||||||||||||||||||||||||
single-threaded vector 6991 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stream Triad
single-threaded scalar 6595 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
single-threaded vector 5115 ||||||||||||||||||||
Integer Score: 6719 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Floating Point Score: 14015 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Memory Score: 9952 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stream Score: 6499 |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Overall Geekbench Score: 9897 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Customer Service and Support
Compare to the VPS itself, which showed me really impressive performance, the support, particularly from the billing department, is comparatively less enjoyable but is pretty relatively pretty fast. Other than the incident mentioned above when I first signed up with them (which was mostly interacting with the billing department), I have contacted Semoweb twice afterwards on technical issues. For the first one, I was not sure if there is any backup system in place even though Semoweb advertise for Daily Backup System:
And the ticket that was submitted at 22:33 was answered by 23:20, which is within 50 minutes. Although the answer was a no (and therefore I assume what they meant by Daily Backup System is you have to run your own daily backups), however at least the ticket was responded fairly fast.
The last ticket I had with them was submitted today (on a Sunday) and Dustin the owner answered the ticket in 12 minutes, which was really fast as well.
Conclusion
Despite this review was requested by a less-than-happy client of Semoweb, I actually found the services to be pretty reasonable. The VPS itself is fast and stable, disk I/O is impressive and the network speed, particularly download speed, is definitely above par. Of course, when buying from a reseller, sometimes Semoweb probably could not be that flexible in terms of billing issues (say for example with regards to refund policies since they themselves are probably has a no-refund clause somewhere in their reseller agreements), but nonetheless the technical support, which is actually what people need most of the time, is fairly responsive. Furthermore, at the cheap price of 3USD/month (although unfortunately this plan is no longer offered), I can not say by any means that this is not a great deal to get for someone looking for a relatively small VPS.
P.S.: Of course this won’t affect the review by any means, but here is a screenshot of footer banner from Semoweb, which I really thought it would be a great idea if they could update these images that has been used by tonnes of different websites (the support girl picture alone has returned 1130 results in Google Image Search):
Hello,
We appreciate your honest and detailed reply, your review was brought up to us by another one of our customers 🙂
I did want to clear any confusion, we’re not a reseller of HostDime in the terms of reselling containers etc..
SemoWeb houses a A BULK amount of servers with HostDime, this does make us a client of theirs but by no means we are ‘reselling’ containers..
The SolusVM URL is indeed white label as we have very LARGE VPS resellers who enjoy and benefit from this white-labeled feature… in addition as you pointed out our Host Names appear to be HostDimes etc making it seem like we’re a reseller… the whole point in this is to make customers & resellers services white labeled this way others think they’re going direct..
Anyhow, we sincerely appreciate your detailed review and hope that you continue using our services.
Thanks!