96MB Low End VPS Review Part 64–Ninja Hawk
NinjaHawk is probably not one of the VPS providers who provide aggressive prices in the LEB community (which is in contrast, of, say, ChicagoVPS), and quite frankly speaking the pricing that they have, without discount at least, is definitely in the “premier” range. Although this is definitely not the first non-LEB VPS provider I have ever reviewed (you can see some of the examples here, here and here), since personally I feel that it is a matter of personal choices that some people would simply like to pay more for one reason or another (even though I do encourage readers like you to get the most work done using the least amount of resources), I definitely have higher expectations on the non-LEB providers. So how is NinjaHawk holding up with regards to this, especially after one of their founding members has left? Let’s take a look.
Basic Information and Set Up
First and foremost, I have to say NinjaHwak definitely has probably one of the most beautiful website design that I have seen, and the Hawk logo is definitely good as well. Obviously these won’t have any impact during my review, but it is nonetheless something pleasant to see.
I first saw their offer on LowEndTalk and here is what you get for 7USD per month:
As you can see, the specification itself is probably not the impressive for the price paid (for people who visit LET/LEB often, the “standard” price we see for a 1GB RAM VPS is about 5-6USD per month), and their undiscounted price is definitely closer to the “premium” providers than the budget providers. Therefore, I definitely have a higher expectation on the services level.
Set up was instant and the new server information is a quite standard one from WHCMS, although much more simpler and there is also some information about the CPanel and WHM access information. It is again another very simple change on the WHCMS email template but could avoid some unnecessary complains such as “why is the CPanel on my VPS showing trail license”, etc.
The WHCMS system they have is on a secured HTTPS interface and once logged in, the VPS control panel can be found under My Services:
As you can see, all three graphs are available on the WHMCS interface, although for some reason the graphs are not positioned well on the screen and was cut off towards the right hand side.
Most of the buttons on the control panel seem to work, for example, I managed to change my root password from the control panel:
However, when I tried to change the host name, it actually failed:
Other than that there is a Control Panel Login link, which is going to take you to the SolusVM control panel once you click in the link. Although it is a relatively small change, but it is quite convenient for people who logged into the WHCMS system initially to make changes to the VPS but realized they will need to do a bit more later on. Also, for most of the providers, the WHCMS interface is accessible from their homepage, which means all I need to know is the URL of the provider (which is easy to remember) rather than remembering the link to their SolusVM page:
Their SolusVM page is a secured HTTPS page with non-standard port.
There are quite a few OS templates available for reinstallation, and each one of them is accompanied by a general introduction:
In my opinion, the explanatory text is rather long and unnecessary since it is a general description that I am pretty sure whoever that intend to use will understand. It would be nice if some template-specific comments could be added.
Other than that, there is not too much excitement, and instant rDNS does not appear to be available:
Test on the VPS
As mentioned above, the test VPS that I have signed up has 1GB of dedicated RAM and 2GB of vSwap space, 50GB hard drive space and 1TB of bandwidth on 100mbit port. The VPS is located in Corexchange DC in Dallas, Texas and I have installed Debian 6 32 bit template for testing.
When the OS was initially loaded, about 7MB of RAM was used:
free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1024 35 988 0 0 27
-/+ buffers/cache: 7 1016
Swap: 2048 0 2048
Top showing the processes running:
top - 17:29:12 up 51 days, 7:49, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Tasks: 16 total, 1 running, 15 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: 1048576k total, 36232k used, 1012344k free, 0k buffers
Swap: 2097152k total, 0k used, 2097152k free, 28676k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
8883 root 20 0 8680 3020 2464 S 0 0.3 0:00.05 sshd
464 root 20 0 5140 2724 1372 S 0 0.3 0:34.09 apache2
12640 www-data 20 0 5272 2532 1128 S 0 0.2 0:00.00 apache2
16870 www-data 20 0 5272 2492 1112 S 0 0.2 0:00.00 apache2
8913 root 20 0 2960 1604 1284 S 0 0.2 0:00.00 bash
554 root 20 0 9992 1584 452 S 0 0.2 0:31.88 sendmail-mta
8924 root 20 0 2328 1088 900 R 0 0.1 0:00.00 top
533 root 20 0 5488 592 204 S 0 0.1 0:07.48 sshd
437 root 20 0 1736 440 312 S 0 0.0 0:07.55 syslogd
448 root 20 0 8668 348 4 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 saslauthd
449 root 20 0 8668 348 4 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 saslauthd
492 root 20 0 2288 328 144 S 0 0.0 0:01.31 cron
549 root 20 0 2392 176 4 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 xinetd
1 root 20 0 2028 152 56 S 0 0.0 0:10.85 init
2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd/104
3 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper/104
Htop output showing the RAM usage:
And slightly above 500MB of hard drive space was used:
df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/simfs 50G 518M 50G 2% / tmpfs 16G 0 16G 0% /lib/init/rw tmpfs 16G 0 16G 0% /dev/shm
About 1% of iNodes are used:
df -i Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on /dev/simfs 26214400 26207 26188193 1% / tmpfs 4098583 4 4098579 1% /lib/init/rw tmpfs 4098583 1 4098582 1% /dev/shm
When the full LNMP stack is loaded, about 30MB of RAM was used:
free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1024 58 965 0 0 27
-/+ buffers/cache: 30 993
Swap: 2048 17 2030
Top showing the full stack running:
top - 23:07:41 up 24 days, 15:57, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Tasks: 23 total, 1 running, 22 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: 1048576k total, 60296k used, 988280k free, 0k buffers
Swap: 2097152k total, 17592k used, 2079560k free, 28436k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
720 www 20 0 26092 8204 2604 S 0 0.8 0:01.89 php-cgi
724 www 20 0 26044 7648 2212 S 0 0.7 0:01.90 php-cgi
723 www 20 0 26028 7376 2148 S 0 0.7 0:01.89 php-cgi
722 www 20 0 25788 7308 2140 S 0 0.7 0:01.89 php-cgi
721 www 20 0 24236 5564 2144 S 0 0.5 0:01.88 php-cgi
13098 root 20 0 8760 3124 2476 S 0 0.3 0:00.08 sshd
13100 root 20 0 2964 1644 1316 S 0 0.2 0:00.00 bash
13182 root 20 0 2328 1084 884 R 0 0.1 0:00.00 top
615 mysql 20 0 36484 1024 760 S 0 0.1 0:00.29 mysqld
718 www 20 0 15372 764 564 S 0 0.1 0:00.09 nginx
688 root 20 0 10332 568 412 S 0 0.1 0:42.10 sendmail-mta
669 root 20 0 5488 472 372 S 0 0.0 0:10.24 sshd
451 root 20 0 1736 400 304 S 0 0.0 0:10.10 syslogd
719 root 20 0 22624 320 272 S 0 0.0 4:41.45 php-cgi
603 root 20 0 2288 312 248 S 0 0.0 0:01.62 cron
1 root 20 0 2028 296 264 S 0 0.0 0:14.04 init
668 root 20 0 2392 260 256 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 xinetd
640 root 20 0 8668 212 208 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 saslauthd
476 root 20 0 2676 204 200 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 mysqld_safe
716 root 20 0 4784 52 48 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 nginx
642 root 20 0 8668 32 28 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 saslauthd
2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd/104
3 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper/104
And htop output:
About 2.8GB of hard drive space was used when the full stack was loaded:
df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/simfs 50G 2.8G 48G 6% / tmpfs 512M 0 512M 0% /lib/init/rw tmpfs 512M 0 512M 0% /dev/shm
And the iNode value is pretty high:
df -i Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on /dev/simfs 26214400 69597 26144803 1% / tmpfs 131072 4 131068 1% /lib/init/rw tmpfs 131072 1 131071 1% /dev/shm
The VPS is quite stable as shown in the uptime output:
uptime 17:28:30 up 51 days, 7:49, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
VMStat also shows 0 iowait:
vmstat procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ----cpu---- r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa 0 0 17416 884248 0 132276 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 100 0
I am not sure what has changed with most of the recent OpenVZ set up but the beancounter values are pretty strange at best:
cat /proc/user_beancounters
Version: 2.5
uid resource held maxheld barrier limit failcnt
104: kmemsize 4413762 5734400 536870912 536870912 0
lockedpages 0 0 131072 131072 0
privvmpages 21656 24926 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
shmpages 642 2018 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
dummy 0 0 0 0 0
numproc 24 54 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
physpages 17332 27063 0 262144 0
vmguarpages 0 0 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
oomguarpages 11160 12666 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
numtcpsock 7 14 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
numflock 4 6 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
numpty 1 6 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
numsiginfo 0 30 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
tcpsndbuf 124392 244160 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
tcprcvbuf 114688 229376 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
othersockbuf 9248 45648 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
dgramrcvbuf 0 4624 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
numothersock 41 59 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
dcachesize 1891321 1945544 268435456 268435456 0
numfile 352 590 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 a result, I have got some pretty weird vzfree values:
vzfree
Total Used Free
Kernel: 512.00M 4.69M 507.31M
Allocate: 36028797018963968.00M 86.96M 36028797018963880.00M (36028797018963967M Guaranteed)
Commit: 36028797018963968.00M 49.78M 36028797018963920.00M (51.9% of Allocated)
Swap: -38.25M (-84.8% of Committed)
CPUInfo shows the processor assigned to this VPS is the Xeon E21230 and there are four cores assigned:
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 : 3192.634 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 sep 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 : 6385.26 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 : 3192.634 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 sep 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 : 6385.26 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 : 3192.634 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 sep 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 : 6385.26 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 : 3192.634 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 sep 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 : 6385.26 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management:
Meminfo output:
cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 1048576 kB MemFree: 884728 kB Cached: 132008 kB Active: 26968 kB Inactive: 132116 kB Active(anon): 12564 kB Inactive(anon): 14512 kB Active(file): 14404 kB Inactive(file): 117604 kB Unevictable: 0 kB Mlocked: 0 kB SwapTotal: 2097152 kB SwapFree: 2079568 kB Dirty: 102400 kB Writeback: 0 kB AnonPages: 27076 kB Shmem: 2568 kB Slab: 4724 kB SReclaimable: 2252 kB SUnreclaim: 2472 kB
And time sync:
time sync real 0m0.071s user 0m0.001s sys 0m0.000s
As the VPS is using RAID10 for storage, I expect pretty good disk I/O speed, and indeed in this case the VPS put in some pretty decent results:
dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync 16384+0 records in 16384+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 9.71313 s, 111 MB/s
Obviously since the disk is not SSD RAID the result is not eye-popping surprisingly high, however this is definitely more than enough for any general use of VPS.
Testing again showed even better results:
dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync 16384+0 records in 16384+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 9.05247 s, 119 MB/s
The ioping results are fairly consistent as well, and although it is obviously not as good as the results you would see on a SSD VPS, I’d say it is still pretty decent:
ioping -c 10 . 4096 bytes from . (simfs /vz/private/104): request=1 time=1.0 ms 4096 bytes from . (simfs /vz/private/104): request=2 time=0.9 ms 4096 bytes from . (simfs /vz/private/104): request=3 time=0.3 ms 4096 bytes from . (simfs /vz/private/104): request=4 time=0.2 ms 4096 bytes from . (simfs /vz/private/104): request=5 time=0.2 ms 4096 bytes from . (simfs /vz/private/104): request=6 time=0.2 ms 4096 bytes from . (simfs /vz/private/104): request=7 time=16.5 ms 4096 bytes from . (simfs /vz/private/104): request=8 time=0.2 ms 4096 bytes from . (simfs /vz/private/104): request=9 time=0.2 ms 4096 bytes from . (simfs /vz/private/104): request=10 time=0.2 ms --- . (simfs /vz/private/104) ioping statistics --- 10 requests completed in 9021.2 ms, 497 iops, 1.9 mb/s min/avg/max/mdev = 0.2/2.0/16.5/4.8 ms
As you can see, one of the pings seems to have a bit of issue, but other than that, the ping is within the 1ms range.
Testing again showed similar results:
ioping -c 10 . 4096 bytes from . (simfs /vz/private/104): request=1 time=1.1 ms 4096 bytes from . (simfs /vz/private/104): request=2 time=0.3 ms 4096 bytes from . (simfs /vz/private/104): request=3 time=0.2 ms 4096 bytes from . (simfs /vz/private/104): request=4 time=0.3 ms 4096 bytes from . (simfs /vz/private/104): request=5 time=0.3 ms 4096 bytes from . (simfs /vz/private/104): request=6 time=0.3 ms 4096 bytes from . (simfs /vz/private/104): request=7 time=0.3 ms 4096 bytes from . (simfs /vz/private/104): request=8 time=0.3 ms 4096 bytes from . (simfs /vz/private/104): request=9 time=0.4 ms 4096 bytes from . (simfs /vz/private/104): request=10 time=0.3 ms --- . (simfs /vz/private/104) ioping statistics --- 10 requests completed in 9005.2 ms, 2581 iops, 10.1 mb/s min/avg/max/mdev = 0.2/0.4/1.1/0.2 ms
Download speed was not bad for a 100mbit port:
wget cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test -O /dev/null --2013-02-10 23:26:57-- 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 11.0M/s in 9.7s 2013-02-10 23:27:07 (10.3 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]
Tried it the next day and the speed is even slightly better, this time hitting close to the port speed:
wget cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test -O /dev/null --2012-12-11 11:32:29-- 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 11.3M/s in 8.9s 2012-12-11 11:32:38 (11.3 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]
Upload speed, as usual, is mostly affected by the location, with the fastest upload speed with my Quickweb VPS locaed in Chicago, IL:
wget 108.166.175.162/100mb.test -O /dev/null --2013-02-10 08:17:21-- http://108.166.175.162/100mb.test Connecting to 108.166.175.162:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream] Saving to: `/dev/null' 100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 3.54M/s in 29s 2013-02-10 08:17:50 (3.45 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]
Along the west coast, the speed is significantly lower – in fact, it was the slowest upload speed among all three, and I was only able to get 1.34MB/s with my test VPS from ChicagoVPS located at Los Angeles, CA:
wget 108.166.175.162/100mb.test -O /dev/null --2013-02-10 19:18:25-- http://108.166.175.162/100mb.test Connecting to 108.166.175.162:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream] Saving to: `/dev/null' 100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 1.38M/s in 75s 2013-02-10 19:19:40 (1.34 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]
Surprisingly, the upload speed to UK is not bad, my test VPS at HTTPSimple was able to pull the file at 2.76MB/s.
wget 108.166.175.162/100mb.test -O /dev/null --2013-02-10 19:25:27-- http://108.166.175.162/100mb.test Connecting to 108.166.175.162:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream] Saving to: `/dev/null' 100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 2.89M/s in 36s 2013-02-10 19:26:03 (2.76 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]
Finally, for the benchmarks, normally VPS with multiple cores perform well in the Unixbench tests, and this time it is of no exception:
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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: xxxxxxx: GNU/Linux
OS: GNU/Linux -- 2.6.32-042stab062.2 -- #1 SMP Tue Oct 23 16:24:09 MSK 2012
Machine: i686 (unknown)
Language: en_US.utf8 (charmap="ANSI_X3.4-1968", collate="ANSI_X3.4-1968")
CPU 0: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31230 @ 3.20GHz (6385.0 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization
CPU 1: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31230 @ 3.20GHz (6385.0 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization
CPU 2: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31230 @ 3.20GHz (6385.0 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization
CPU 3: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31230 @ 3.20GHz (6385.0 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization
07:03:41 up 51 days, 17:24, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00; runlevel 2
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Benchmark Run: Tue Dec 11 2012 07:03:41 - 07:31:49
4 CPUs in system; running 1 parallel copy of tests
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 19818089.4 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Double-Precision Whetstone 3158.8 MWIPS (10.1 s, 7 samples)
Execl Throughput 4991.7 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 707728.6 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 186065.0 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 1811939.6 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Pipe Throughput 1112829.3 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Pipe-based Context Switching 181369.7 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Process Creation 16015.2 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 8519.2 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 2700.6 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples)
System Call Overhead 837042.8 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
System Benchmarks Index Values BASELINE RESULT INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 19818089.4 1698.2
Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 3158.8 574.3
Execl Throughput 43.0 4991.7 1160.9
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 3960.0 707728.6 1787.2
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1655.0 186065.0 1124.3
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 5800.0 1811939.6 3124.0
Pipe Throughput 12440.0 1112829.3 894.6
Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 181369.7 453.4
Process Creation 126.0 16015.2 1271.1
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 8519.2 2009.2
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 2700.6 4501.0
System Call Overhead 15000.0 837042.8 558.0
========
System Benchmarks Index Score 1275.2
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Benchmark Run: Tue Dec 11 2012 07:31:49 - 08:00:02
4 CPUs in system; running 4 parallel copies of tests
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 67903086.9 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Double-Precision Whetstone 12044.0 MWIPS (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Execl Throughput 21873.3 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 1106173.1 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 284521.3 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 3282475.4 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Pipe Throughput 3943338.1 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Pipe-based Context Switching 849711.7 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Process Creation 50006.1 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 24474.4 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 3244.9 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples)
System Call Overhead 2877667.5 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
System Benchmarks Index Values BASELINE RESULT INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 67903086.9 5818.6
Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 12044.0 2189.8
Execl Throughput 43.0 21873.3 5086.8
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 3960.0 1106173.1 2793.4
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1655.0 284521.3 1719.2
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 5800.0 3282475.4 5659.4
Pipe Throughput 12440.0 3943338.1 3169.9
Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 849711.7 2124.3
Process Creation 126.0 50006.1 3968.7
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 24474.4 5772.3
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 3244.9 5408.2
System Call Overhead 15000.0 2877667.5 1918.4
========
System Benchmarks Index Score 3447.6
Testing again showed almost the same 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
========================================================================
BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 5.1.3)
System: xxxxxx: GNU/Linux
OS: GNU/Linux -- 2.6.32-042stab063.2 -- #1 SMP Tue Oct 23 16:24:09 MSK 2012
Machine: i686 (unknown)
Language: en_US.utf8 (charmap="ANSI_X3.4-1968", collate="ANSI_X3.4-1968")
CPU 0: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31230 @ 3.20GHz (6385.0 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization
CPU 1: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31230 @ 3.20GHz (6385.0 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization
CPU 2: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31230 @ 3.20GHz (6385.0 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization
CPU 3: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31230 @ 3.20GHz (6385.0 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization
09:54:40 up 1:49, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00; runlevel 2
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Benchmark Run: Tue Dec 11 2012 09:54:40 - 10:22:48
4 CPUs in system; running 1 parallel copy of tests
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 19836932.6 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Double-Precision Whetstone 3159.5 MWIPS (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Execl Throughput 5028.5 lps (29.9 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 705503.0 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 183605.8 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 1813453.0 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Pipe Throughput 1112517.6 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Pipe-based Context Switching 186976.0 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Process Creation 16375.0 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 8542.9 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 2692.2 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples)
System Call Overhead 837146.4 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
System Benchmarks Index Values BASELINE RESULT INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 19836932.6 1699.8
Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 3159.5 574.4
Execl Throughput 43.0 5028.5 1169.4
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 3960.0 705503.0 1781.6
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1655.0 183605.8 1109.4
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 5800.0 1813453.0 3126.6
Pipe Throughput 12440.0 1112517.6 894.3
Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 186976.0 467.4
Process Creation 126.0 16375.0 1299.6
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 8542.9 2014.8
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 2692.2 4487.0
System Call Overhead 15000.0 837146.4 558.1
========
System Benchmarks Index Score 1280.0
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Benchmark Run: Tue Dec 11 2012 10:22:48 - 10:50:59
4 CPUs in system; running 4 parallel copies of tests
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 67192880.1 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Double-Precision Whetstone 12170.2 MWIPS (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Execl Throughput 21964.9 lps (29.8 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 1017480.8 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 274101.5 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 2996868.8 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Pipe Throughput 4008262.4 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Pipe-based Context Switching 845607.3 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Process Creation 50160.1 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 24011.3 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 3216.4 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples)
System Call Overhead 2930780.6 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
System Benchmarks Index Values BASELINE RESULT INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 67192880.1 5757.7
Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 12170.2 2212.8
Execl Throughput 43.0 21964.9 5108.1
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 3960.0 1017480.8 2569.4
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1655.0 274101.5 1656.2
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 5800.0 2996868.8 5167.0
Pipe Throughput 12440.0 4008262.4 3222.1
Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 845607.3 2114.0
Process Creation 126.0 50160.1 3981.0
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 24011.3 5663.0
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 3216.4 5360.7
System Call Overhead 15000.0 2930780.6 1953.9
========
System Benchmarks Index Score 3389.8
For the Geekbench tests, again it put in a pretty stellar show with close to 10K points:
System Information
Platform: Linux x86 (32-bit)
Compiler: GCC 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-33)
Operating System: Linux 2.6.32-042stab063.2 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: 1.00 GB
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 8824 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Text Compress
single-threaded scalar 2821 |||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 10907 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Text Decompress
single-threaded scalar 3012 ||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 12134 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Image Compress
single-threaded scalar 2354 |||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 9229 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Image Decompress
single-threaded scalar 2300 |||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 9220 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lua
single-threaded scalar 3962 |||||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 13342 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Floating Point
Mandelbrot
single-threaded scalar 2669 ||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 10856 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dot Product
single-threaded scalar 4395 |||||||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 18588 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
single-threaded vector 5234 ||||||||||||||||||||
multi-threaded vector 24029 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
LU Decomposition
single-threaded scalar 3364 |||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 13466 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Primality Test
single-threaded scalar 4705 ||||||||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 14113 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sharpen Image
single-threaded scalar 10679 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 42353 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Blur Image
single-threaded scalar 8400 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 28680 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Memory
Read Sequential
single-threaded scalar 7301 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Write Sequential
single-threaded scalar 11746 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stdlib Allocate
single-threaded scalar 5025 ||||||||||||||||||||
Stdlib Write
single-threaded scalar 8166 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stdlib Copy
single-threaded scalar 15184 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stream
Stream Copy
single-threaded scalar 6026 ||||||||||||||||||||||||
single-threaded vector 7384 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stream Scale
single-threaded scalar 6297 |||||||||||||||||||||||||
single-threaded vector 6646 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stream Add
single-threaded scalar 6200 ||||||||||||||||||||||||
single-threaded vector 6782 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stream Triad
single-threaded scalar 6528 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
single-threaded vector 5065 ||||||||||||||||||||
Integer Score: 6681 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Floating Point Score: 13680 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Memory Score: 9484 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stream Score: 6366 |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Overall Geekbench Score: 9659 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Testing again showed almost the same results:
System Information
Platform: Linux x86 (32-bit)
Compiler: GCC 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-33)
Operating System: Linux 2.6.32-042stab063.2 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: 1.00 GB
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 8907 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Text Compress
single-threaded scalar 2824 |||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 10948 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Text Decompress
single-threaded scalar 3014 ||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 12415 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Image Compress
single-threaded scalar 2354 |||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 9261 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Image Decompress
single-threaded scalar 2300 |||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 7326 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lua
single-threaded scalar 3962 |||||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 13175 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Floating Point
Mandelbrot
single-threaded scalar 2670 ||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 10856 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dot Product
single-threaded scalar 4394 |||||||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 18637 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
single-threaded vector 5242 ||||||||||||||||||||
multi-threaded vector 24045 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
LU Decomposition
single-threaded scalar 3347 |||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 8008 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Primality Test
single-threaded scalar 4700 ||||||||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 14511 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sharpen Image
single-threaded scalar 10695 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 42166 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Blur Image
single-threaded scalar 8411 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 33555 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Memory
Read Sequential
single-threaded scalar 7274 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Write Sequential
single-threaded scalar 11506 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stdlib Allocate
single-threaded scalar 5055 ||||||||||||||||||||
Stdlib Write
single-threaded scalar 7593 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stdlib Copy
single-threaded scalar 16584 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stream
Stream Copy
single-threaded scalar 6196 ||||||||||||||||||||||||
single-threaded vector 7483 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stream Scale
single-threaded scalar 6528 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
single-threaded vector 7441 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stream Add
single-threaded scalar 6118 ||||||||||||||||||||||||
single-threaded vector 6866 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stream Triad
single-threaded scalar 6741 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
single-threaded vector 5098 ||||||||||||||||||||
Integer Score: 6547 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Floating Point Score: 13659 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Memory Score: 9602 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stream Score: 6558 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Overall Geekbench Score: 9648 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Customer Service and Support
I always think there are two things distinguished a great provider from a not-so-great one, one is stability and the other one is support. Having a friendly (but yet professional), and most importantly, speedy support is what I would value highly of a VPS provider. I am glad that in this case, NinjaHawk has been doing a pretty good job in it. I have submitted a technical support request at 10:13AM on a Sunday morning and it was answered by 10:25AM, which is not bad at all.
Conclusion
Ninjahawk may not offer the most amazing price that I have seen among low end VPS providers (particularly at a time when providers have started to offer 4GB RAM VPS for less than 7 USD per month), and initially I was a little thrown off by the price tag, even after the huge discount. However, the service says it all, the network speed is pretty good, disk I/O, even not the greatest, is pretty good as well. Although several improvements can be made (such as fixing the hostname changes in WHCMS panel), it is nonetheless a pretty good VPS provider that I would recommend.
I believe NinjaHawk is a decent provider that I would trust to host my needs. I just worry that branding with humor is not generally palatable with corporate people.
@jcaleb: indeed the name is a bit geared towards the cartoonic side, so is the logo, but I guess that way they managed to attract the younger clientele (which could be a good thing or bad).
Thank you very much for the kind words 96mb and Jcaleb.
To answer your inquiry about our brand name, these terms “Hawk” and “Ninja” goes really hosting business and I believe both of you can tell that :). Our motto was to do something little bit different than other provider an bring in a fresh non corporate personal feeling with our service and this is where our wording and our brand image helps us.
While I am personally not proud of our 100mb/s+ throughput results, I can assure you that these are constant and that is the lowest I have seen on our full node (You can verify my claim through serverbear http://serverbear.com/9788/ninjahawk) and that is expected from non cached 4disk raid 10 arrays. There are always room for improvements and we are constantly improving. Our newest nodes will feature a bigger raid 10 array of 8-12 drives.
Feel free to ask me any question here and I will do my level best to answer them.
Once again, thank you very much for your honest feedback, it really helps when you pinpoint our negative and positive sides. It really helps us to set our target higher 🙂
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