96MB Low End VPS Review Part XXIX – Uptime VPS
When UptimeVPS posted their last low end box offer on LowEndBox.com, the comments did not go that well, and they were accused as “scammers” several times. In view of such, Ken from UptimeVPS actually offered everyone a free 7-day trial period to see if they are indeed scammers. I decided to seize this opportunity to review about their VPS and services.
General Information and Set Up
Basically, for 5 Euros PER YEAR (yes, per year, not per month), you are able to get the following VPS as indicated on this advertisement:
Although there is a 7 day free trial period which you can decide whether or not to continue the service later on.
The interesting part is the promo code shown on LEB is actually a recurring 100% off promo code, which means once you put in the code, the price of the VPS is supposedly to be free forever:
Obviously, the deal is too good to be true and here is what I have received from Ken about 5 days after my initial signup:
The revised invoice was initially 5 Euro per MONTH although 5 Euro per year was what was advertised:
which was adjusted to 1.50 EUR per month 3 minutes later:
Although I do not notice any other possible billing cycle during the sign up stage:
Aside of this billing fiasco, the sign up is generally a pretty pleasant process on HTTPS connection. There are not too many configurable options and OS is pretty much the only thing you can choose from:
Provision was instant (since there is no payment involved) and it was a pretty standard WHMCS server email with password in plain text.
Once logged in to the WHMCS system via HTTPS connection, the VPS service is available under My Services. Unlike many other providers, UptimeVPS does not make any of the resources statistics available, neither in percentage bar form nor graphic form, presumably to save some resources on the main node.
For the control of the VPS on the WHMCS system, there are only three buttons available as well, which are perhaps the most basic functions to control the VPS:
SolusVM login is available on a standard HTTP port (port 80) using assigned user name. Once logged in, a pretty standard interface was shown:
None of the backup control types are available, nor there is any instant reverse DNS control.
On the bright side, there are quite a few OS templates available though, covering pretty much all major Linux distributions. In fact, several OS templates were added while I was going through the trial period and I am glad that they have Debian 6 X86 template added, although for some interesting reasons, the minimal template they have is just for 64 bit Debain, not 32 bit, although 32 bit seems to be more popular among the low end VPS users.
Test on the VPS
As mentioned above, the VPS that I have used for testing has 128MB of dedicated RAM, 10GB of hard drive space and is located in the OVH data centre in France. I have initially had to use 64 bit Debian 6 OS template for testing as the 32 bit template was not available initially. However, I did do an reinstallation of the OS half way through and used that to do some of the memory-related testing.
Using 64 bit OS template, approximately 40 MB of memory were used after a fresh OS install, which is a bit higher than usual, particularly considering that there are very few running processes that comes with the default installation:
free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 256 40 215 0 0 0
-/+ buffers/cache: 40 215
Swap: 0 0 0
And the top output showing very few processes running:
top - 17:41:15 up 2 min, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Tasks: 7 total, 2 running, 5 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, 41700k used, 220444k free, 0k buffers
Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 0k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
1311 root 15 0 70492 3344 2644 R 0 1.3 0:00.01 sshd
1314 root 15 0 17716 1904 1416 S 0 0.7 0:00.00 bash
1264 root 22 0 60300 1476 1080 S 0 0.6 0:00.00 rsyslogd
1321 root 15 0 18932 1232 996 R 0 0.5 0:00.00 top
1296 root 18 0 49172 1136 592 S 0 0.4 0:00.00 sshd
1290 root 18 0 20904 844 648 S 0 0.3 0:00.00 cron
1 root 15 0 8356 800 676 S 0 0.3 0:00.32 init
Only 198MB of disk space were used, which is a lot lower than many of the other VPS that I have reviewed, which takes up 400MB of disk space with nothing installed:
df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/simfs 10G 198M 9.9G 2% / tmpfs 128M 0 128M 0% /lib/init/rw tmpfs 128M 0 128M 0% /dev/shm
After the full LNMP stack is installed, approximately 100MB of memory were used, which is a bit higher than normal for the Debian templates:
free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 256 101 154 0 0 0
-/+ buffers/cache: 101 154
Swap: 0 0 0
The corresponding top output, showing the full LNMP stack running:
top - 02:23:05 up 43 min, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.22, 0.50
Tasks: 14 total, 2 running, 12 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, 103636k used, 158508k free, 0k buffers
Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 0k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
17759 www 22 0 50112 20m 452 S 0 8.1 0:00.00 nginx
11799 mysql 19 0 60952 7324 3348 S 0 2.8 0:00.00 mysqld
13531 root 16 0 104m 5744 1124 S 0 2.2 0:00.00 php-fpm
13532 www 19 0 104m 5260 640 S 0 2.0 0:00.00 php-fpm
13533 www 19 0 104m 5260 640 S 0 2.0 0:00.00 php-fpm
15562 root 15 0 70576 3436 2644 R 0 1.3 0:00.65 sshd
17758 root 18 0 30100 2744 2044 S 0 1.0 0:00.00 nginx
15565 root 15 0 17716 1944 1452 S 0 0.7 0:00.01 bash
1264 root 22 0 60300 1480 1080 S 0 0.6 0:00.00 rsyslogd
17774 root 15 0 18932 1240 1004 R 0 0.5 0:00.00 top
1296 root 18 0 49172 1136 592 S 0 0.4 0:00.00 sshd
1290 root 15 0 20904 844 648 S 0 0.3 0:00.00 cron
1 root 15 0 8356 800 676 S 0 0.3 0:00.32 init
11697 root 18 0 3952 644 524 S 0 0.2 0:00.00 mysqld_safe
And of course, as per usual, the htop output for the htop fans:
The installation used about 2.1GB of hard drive space:
df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/simfs 10G 2.1G 8.0G 21% / tmpfs 128M 0 128M 0% /lib/init/rw tmpfs 128M 0 128M 0% /dev/shm
With the 32 bit Debian 6 template installed, it definitely seems to be a lot better, there are just 7 processes running and in fact, the usual Apache processes, which is pretty standard for the Debian 6 OS template, are not there. Therefore, it surprised me a little when I see still about 40MB of memory were used after the fresh OS reload:
free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 256 39 216 0 0 0
-/+ buffers/cache: 39 216
Swap: 0 0 0
And the top output:
top - 17:31:11 up 11:56, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Tasks: 7 total, 2 running, 5 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, 40980k used, 221164k free, 0k buffers
Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 0k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
1300 root 18 0 8380 2912 2336 R 0 1.1 0:00.81 sshd
1302 root 15 0 2972 1676 1336 S 0 0.6 0:00.00 bash
1250 root 25 0 33436 1360 1020 S 0 0.5 0:00.00 rsyslogd
17901 root 15 0 2324 1068 872 R 0 0.4 0:00.00 top
1282 root 18 0 5484 968 580 S 0 0.4 0:00.00 sshd
1276 root 18 0 2284 756 596 S 0 0.3 0:00.00 cron
1 root 15 0 2024 680 584 S 0 0.3 0:00.66 init
And again, htop output for the htop fans, you can definitely see how short the process list is, although SSH demon, for some reason, took quite a bit of memory there:
Hard drive space usaged continued to be low with the 32 bit OS template though, I was getting about 360MB of hard drive space used:
df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/simfs 10G 359M 9.7G 4% / tmpfs 128M 0 128M 0% /lib/init/rw tmpfs 128M 0 128M 0% /dev/shm
Beancounters are set to pretty high values, which is something great:
cat /proc/user_beancounters
Version: 2.5
uid resource held maxheld barrier limit failcnt
133: kmemsize 3354229 27036894 2147483646 2147483646 0
lockedpages 0 966 999999 999999 0
privvmpages 25809 65593 65536 65536 129
shmpages 770 786 32768 32768 0
dummy 0 0 0 0 0
numproc 17 62 999999 999999 0
physpages 10042 50172 0 2147483647 0
vmguarpages 0 0 32768 2147483647 0
oomguarpages 10042 50172 32768 2147483647 0
numtcpsock 5 9 7999992 7999992 0
numflock 1 7 999999 999999 0
numpty 1 2 500000 500000 0
numsiginfo 0 15 999999 999999 0
tcpsndbuf 102976 654352 214748160 396774400 0
tcprcvbuf 81920 4816752 214748160 396774400 0
othersockbuf 9312 36544 214748160 396774400 0
dgramrcvbuf 0 8472 214748160 396774400 0
numothersock 8 14 7999992 7999992 0
dcachesize 0 0 2147483646 2147483646 0
numfile 369 1088 23999976 23999976 0
dummy 0 0 0 0 0
dummy 0 0 0 0 0
dummy 0 0 0 0 0
numiptent 24 24 999999 999999 0
Vmstat also 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 1 0 0 159304 0 0 0 0 0 27 0 314 2 2 95 0
Which is confirmed again by uptime:
uptime 21:26:31 up 19:47, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
The Inodes are pretty high as well:
df -i Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on /dev/simfs 5242880 80830 5162050 2% / tmpfs 32768 4 32764 1% /lib/init/rw tmpfs 32768 1 32767 1% /dev/shm
CPUinfo output shows 2 Xeon W3520 cores are given to the VPS, and both cores are not throttled:
cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 26 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU W3520 @ 2.67GHz stepping : 5 cpu MHz : 2660.053 cache size : 8192 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 8 core id : 0 cpu cores : 4 apicid : 0 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 11 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 syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc ida nonstop_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt lahf_lm bogomips : 5320.10 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: [8] processor : 1 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 26 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU W3520 @ 2.67GHz stepping : 5 cpu MHz : 2660.053 cache size : 8192 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 8 core id : 1 cpu cores : 4 apicid : 2 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 11 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 syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc ida nonstop_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt lahf_lm bogomips : 5319.28 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
There does not seems to be heavy overselling in RAM either:
vzfree
Total Used Free
Kernel: 2048.00M 3.16M 2044.84M
Allocate: 256.00M 100.79M 155.21M (128M Guaranteed)
Commit: 128.00M 42.32M 85.68M (38.9% of Allocated)
Swap: 0.00M (0.0% of Committed)
Meminfo does not really give anything interesting:
cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 262144 kB MemFree: 159116 kB Buffers: 0 kB Cached: 0 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 0 kB Inactive: 0 kB HighTotal: 0 kB HighFree: 0 kB LowTotal: 262144 kB LowFree: 159116 kB SwapTotal: 0 kB SwapFree: 0 kB Dirty: 102180 kB Writeback: 0 kB AnonPages: 0 kB Mapped: 0 kB Slab: 0 kB PageTables: 0 kB NFS_Unstable: 0 kB Bounce: 0 kB CommitLimit: 0 kB Committed_AS: 0 kB VmallocTotal: 0 kB VmallocUsed: 0 kB VmallocChunk: 0 kB HugePages_Total: 0 HugePages_Free: 0 HugePages_Rsvd: 0 Hugepagesize: 2048 kB
And the time sync results:
time sync real 0m0.026s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.026s
In terms of disk I/O speed, the output of uptime VPS is pretty good:
dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync 16384+0 records in 16384+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 11.8615 s, 90.5 MB/s
Testing again showing the results is pretty consistent, if not a little better:
dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync 16384+0 records in 16384+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 11.7457 s, 91.4 MB/s
The network speed is pretty decent too, I was able to get close to 30MB/s on the Cachefly test:
wget cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test -O /dev/null --2011-09-01 21:33:06-- 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 30.9M/s in 3.5s 2011-09-01 21:33:09 (28.9 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]
Upload speed are pretty impressive as well, with my Nix Communication’s VPS showing the slowest speed of slightly above 1MB/s:
wget 46.105.251.123/100mb.test -O /dev/null --2011-09-10 11:27:07-- http://46.105.251.123/100mb.test Connecting to 46.105.251.123:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream] Saving to: `/dev/null' 100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 1.13M/s in 90s 2011-09-10 11:28:38 (1.11 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]
My BuyVM VPS in San Jose, CA, shows a lot better speed:
wget 46.105.251.123/100mb.test -O /dev/null --2011-09-09 23:25:26-- http://46.105.251.123/100mb.test Connecting to 46.105.251.123:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream] Saving to: `/dev/null' 100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 3.78M/s in 27s 2011-09-09 23:25:53 (3.64 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]
And the champion, needless to say, goes to my Quickweb VPS in London, UK, since they are geographically the closest:
wget 46.105.251.123/100mb.test -O /dev/null --2011-09-09 23:29:35-- http://46.105.251.123/100mb.test Connecting to 46.105.251.123:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream] Saving to: `/dev/null' 100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 35.2M/s in 2.8s 2011-09-09 23:29:38 (35.2 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]
Finally, the benchmarks. The interesting bit about benchmarks for them is that I was not even able to complete the benchmarks initially, using either UnixBench or Geekbench, when the 64 bit OS templates were installed:
First UnixBench, which, as you can see, is giving me cannot fork error:
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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
2 x Dhrystone 2 using register variables 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
2 x Double-Precision Whetstone 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
2 x Execl Throughput 1 2 3
2 x File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 1 2 3
2 x File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1 2 3
2 x File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 1 2 3
2 x Pipe Throughput 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
2 x Pipe-based Context Switching 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
2 x Process Creation 1 2 3
2 x System Call Overhead 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
2 x Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 1 2 3
2 x Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 1
**********************************************
Run: "Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)": /tmp/UnixBench/pgms/multi.sh: 21: Cannot fork
Bad wait status: 0x200; aborting
Trying it again does not give me any better luck:
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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
2 x Dhrystone 2 using register variables 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
2 x Double-Precision Whetstone 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
2 x Execl Throughput 1 2 3
2 x File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 1 2 3
2 x File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1 2 3
2 x File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 1 2 3
2 x Pipe Throughput 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
2 x Pipe-based Context Switching 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
2 x Process Creation 1 2 3
2 x System Call Overhead 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
2 x Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 1 2 3
2 x Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 1
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Run: "Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)": /tmp/UnixBench/pgms/multi.sh: 21: Cannot fork
Bad wait status: 0x200; aborting
Pretty bad results were shown on the GeekBench tests too:
System Information
Operating System Linux 2.6.32-238.19.1.el5.028stab092.2 x86_64
Model N/A
Motherboard N/A
Processor Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU W3520 @ 2.67GHz @ 0.00 Hz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 2 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 26 Stepping 5
L1 Instruction Cache 32.0 KB
L1 Data Cache 32.0 KB
L2 Cache 256 KB
L3 Cache 8.00 MB
Memory 23.5 GB N/A
BIOS N/A
Integer
Blowfish
single-threaded scalar 2243 ||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 4032 ||||||||||||||||
Text Compress
single-threaded scalar 2701 ||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 4830 |||||||||||||||||||
Text Decompress
single-threaded scalar 2773 |||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 3903 |||||||||||||||
Image Compress
single-threaded scalar 2449 |||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 3355 |||||||||||||
Image Decompress
single-threaded scalar 2801 |||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 3612 ||||||||||||||
Lua
single-threaded scalar 5313 |||||||||||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 5984 |||||||||||||||||||||||
Floating Point
Mandelbrot
single-threaded scalar 2412 |||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 4505 ||||||||||||||||||
Dot Product
single-threaded scalar 3934 |||||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 4173 ||||||||||||||||
single-threaded vector 4860 |||||||||||||||||||
multi-threaded vector 6133 ||||||||||||||||||||||||
LU Decomposition
single-threaded scalar 2341 |||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 2420 |||||||||
Primality Test
single-threaded scalar 5192 ||||||||||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 5540 ||||||||||||||||||||||
Sharpen Image
single-threaded scalar 5592 ||||||||||||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 9425 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Blur Image
single-threaded scalar 2206 ||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 3928 |||||||||||||||
Memory
Geekbench encountered an internal error and cannot continue. Please contact
[email protected] for assistance.
Internal error message: std::bad_alloc.
And second try failed even sooner:
System Information
Operating System Linux 2.6.32-238.19.1.el5.028stab092.2 x86_64
Model N/A
Motherboard N/A
Processor Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU W3520 @ 2.67GHz @ 0.00 Hz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 2 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 26 Stepping 5
L1 Instruction Cache 32.0 KB
L1 Data Cache 32.0 KB
L2 Cache 256 KB
L3 Cache 8.00 MB
Memory 23.5 GB N/A
BIOS N/A
Integer
Blowfish
single-threaded scalar 2048 ||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 4388 |||||||||||||||||
Text Compress
single-threaded scalar 2454 |||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 3440 |||||||||||||
Text Decompress
single-threaded scalar 2571 ||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 5352 |||||||||||||||||||||
Image Compress
single-threaded scalar 2277 |||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 3309 |||||||||||||
Image Decompress
single-threaded scalar 2615 ||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 5021 ||||||||||||||||||||
Lua
single-threaded scalar 4897 |||||||||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 5522 ||||||||||||||||||||||
Floating Point
Mandelbrot
single-threaded scalar 2237 ||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 4531 ||||||||||||||||||
Dot Product
single-threaded scalar 3640 ||||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 3863 |||||||||||||||
single-threaded vector 4488 |||||||||||||||||
multi-threaded vector 5678 ||||||||||||||||||||||
LU Decomposition
single-threaded scalar 2166 ||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 2257 |||||||||
Primality Test
single-threaded scalar 4802 |||||||||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 5002 ||||||||||||||||||||
Sharpen Image
single-threaded scalar 5173 ||||||||||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 8755 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Blur Image
single-threaded scalar 2194 ||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 3914 |||||||||||||||
Memory
Geekbench encountered an internal error and cannot continue. Please contact
[email protected] for assistance.
Internal error message: std::bad_alloc.
Note that GeekBench seems to indicate there is 25GB of memory for my VPS, which is perhaps the VPS for the whole node and perhaps that is the reason why all the benchmark tests failed.
However, after I reinstalled the 32 bit OS template, miracles seems to happen: I was able to run both GeekBench and UnixBench again!
Here is the template I have used:
uname -a Linux ***** 2.6.32-238.19.1.el5.028stab092.2 #1 SMP Thu Jul 21 19:23:22 MSD 2011 i686 GNU/Linux
Here are the UnixBench results, running with the 32 bit Debian 6:
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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
2 x Dhrystone 2 using register variables 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
2 x Double-Precision Whetstone 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
2 x Execl Throughput 1 2 3
2 x File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 1 2 3
2 x File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1 2 3
2 x File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 1 2 3
2 x Pipe Throughput 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
2 x Pipe-based Context Switching 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
2 x Process Creation 1 2 3
2 x System Call Overhead 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
2 x Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 1 2 3
2 x Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 1 2 3
========================================================================
BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 5.1.3)
System: uptime: GNU/Linux
OS: GNU/Linux -- 2.6.32-238.19.1.el5.028stab092.2 -- #1 SMP Thu Jul 21 19:23:22 MSD 2011
Machine: i686 (unknown)
Language: en_US.utf8 (charmap="UTF-8", collate="UTF-8")
CPU 0: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU W3520 @ 2.67GHz (5320.1 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization
CPU 1: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU W3520 @ 2.67GHz (5319.3 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization
05:41:48 up 6 min, 1 user, load average: 0.20, 0.28, 0.13; runlevel 2
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Benchmark Run: Sat Sep 10 2011 05:41:48 - 06:10:01
2 CPUs in system; running 1 parallel copy of tests
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 14248809.7 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Double-Precision Whetstone 2877.5 MWIPS (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Execl Throughput 4515.1 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 542740.6 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 158426.3 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 1338338.2 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Pipe Throughput 987859.6 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Pipe-based Context Switching 229114.3 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Process Creation 13397.9 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 5454.9 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 1243.5 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples)
System Call Overhead 752862.6 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
System Benchmarks Index Values BASELINE RESULT INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 14248809.7 1221.0
Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 2877.5 523.2
Execl Throughput 43.0 4515.1 1050.0
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 3960.0 542740.6 1370.6
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1655.0 158426.3 957.3
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 5800.0 1338338.2 2307.5
Pipe Throughput 12440.0 987859.6 794.1
Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 229114.3 572.8
Process Creation 126.0 13397.9 1063.3
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 5454.9 1286.5
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 1243.5 2072.5
System Call Overhead 15000.0 752862.6 501.9
========
System Benchmarks Index Score 1023.0
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Benchmark Run: Sat Sep 10 2011 06:10:01 - 06:38:40
2 CPUs in system; running 2 parallel copies of tests
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 27830819.6 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Double-Precision Whetstone 5625.8 MWIPS (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Execl Throughput 8570.0 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 395590.5 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 109670.8 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 990623.0 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Pipe Throughput 1827333.2 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Pipe-based Context Switching 549819.3 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Process Creation 24355.2 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 11870.7 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 1573.1 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples)
System Call Overhead 1395932.5 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
System Benchmarks Index Values BASELINE RESULT INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 27830819.6 2384.8
Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 5625.8 1022.9
Execl Throughput 43.0 8570.0 1993.0
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 3960.0 395590.5 999.0
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1655.0 109670.8 662.7
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 5800.0 990623.0 1708.0
Pipe Throughput 12440.0 1827333.2 1468.9
Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 549819.3 1374.5
Process Creation 126.0 24355.2 1933.0
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 11870.7 2799.7
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 1573.1 2621.9
System Call Overhead 15000.0 1395932.5 930.6
========
System Benchmarks Index Score 1515.3
As you can see, the performance is actually not that bad and I could not understand why the UnixBench could not be completed with the 64 bit OS template.
Second try produced slightly worse results, but is nontheless pretty good:
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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
2 x Dhrystone 2 using register variables 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
2 x Double-Precision Whetstone 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
2 x Execl Throughput 1 2 3
2 x File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 1 2 3
2 x File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1 2 3
2 x File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 1 2 3
2 x Pipe Throughput 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
2 x Pipe-based Context Switching 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
2 x Process Creation 1 2 3
2 x System Call Overhead 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
2 x Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 1 2 3
2 x Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 1 2 3
========================================================================
BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 5.1.3)
System: uptime: GNU/Linux
OS: GNU/Linux -- 2.6.32-238.19.1.el5.028stab092.2 -- #1 SMP Thu Jul 21 19:23:22 MSD 2011
Machine: i686 (unknown)
Language: en_US.utf8 (charmap="UTF-8", collate="UTF-8")
CPU 0: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU W3520 @ 2.67GHz (5320.1 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization
CPU 1: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU W3520 @ 2.67GHz (5319.3 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization
14:50:48 up 9:15, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00; runlevel 2
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Benchmark Run: Sat Sep 10 2011 14:50:48 - 15:19:00
2 CPUs in system; running 1 parallel copy of tests
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 14428202.5 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Double-Precision Whetstone 2883.6 MWIPS (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Execl Throughput 4510.1 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 555585.8 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 151891.6 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 1312889.0 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Pipe Throughput 961943.5 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Pipe-based Context Switching 187986.4 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Process Creation 13512.7 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 6141.3 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 1051.7 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples)
System Call Overhead 761436.2 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
System Benchmarks Index Values BASELINE RESULT INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 14428202.5 1236.3
Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 2883.6 524.3
Execl Throughput 43.0 4510.1 1048.9
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 3960.0 555585.8 1403.0
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1655.0 151891.6 917.8
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 5800.0 1312889.0 2263.6
Pipe Throughput 12440.0 961943.5 773.3
Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 187986.4 470.0
Process Creation 126.0 13512.7 1072.4
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 6141.3 1448.4
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 1051.7 1752.8
System Call Overhead 15000.0 761436.2 507.6
========
System Benchmarks Index Score 999.6
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Benchmark Run: Sat Sep 10 2011 15:19:00 - 15:47:35
2 CPUs in system; running 2 parallel copies of tests
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 27431592.3 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Double-Precision Whetstone 5690.9 MWIPS (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Execl Throughput 7973.9 lps (29.9 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 364322.6 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 113163.6 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 1026998.5 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Pipe Throughput 1880554.5 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Pipe-based Context Switching 585706.5 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Process Creation 21134.3 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 11585.5 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 1531.9 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples)
System Call Overhead 1368898.8 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
System Benchmarks Index Values BASELINE RESULT INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 27431592.3 2350.6
Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 5690.9 1034.7
Execl Throughput 43.0 7973.9 1854.4
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 3960.0 364322.6 920.0
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1655.0 113163.6 683.8
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 5800.0 1026998.5 1770.7
Pipe Throughput 12440.0 1880554.5 1511.7
Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 585706.5 1464.3
Process Creation 126.0 21134.3 1677.3
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 11585.5 2732.4
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 1531.9 2553.1
System Call Overhead 15000.0 1368898.8 912.6
========
System Benchmarks Index Score 1489.0
I was able to run the GeekBench tests as well, using both the older v2.1 and the most recent v2.2. Interestingly, GeekBench v2.1 shows a much better score than v2.2, I was able to get over 4800 on v2.1:
System Information
Platform: Linux x86 (32-bit)
Compiler: GCC 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-33)
Operating System: Linux 2.6.32-238.19.1.el5.028stab092.2 i686
Model: Linux PC (Intel Xeon W3520)
Motherboard: Unknown Motherboard
Processor: Intel Xeon W3520
Processor ID: GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 26 Stepping 5
Logical Processors: 2
Physical Processors: 1
Processor Frequency: 2.66 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: 23.5 GB
Memory Type: N/A
SIMD: 1
BIOS: N/A
Processor Model: Intel Xeon W3520
Processor Cores: 2
Integer
Blowfish
single-threaded scalar 1856 |||||||
multi-threaded scalar 3835 |||||||||||||||
Text Compress
single-threaded scalar 2105 ||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 4001 ||||||||||||||||
Text Decompress
single-threaded scalar 2268 |||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 4382 |||||||||||||||||
Image Compress
single-threaded scalar 1881 |||||||
multi-threaded scalar 3453 |||||||||||||
Image Decompress
single-threaded scalar 1748 ||||||
multi-threaded scalar 2021 ||||||||
Lua
single-threaded scalar 3541 ||||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 6009 ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Floating Point
Mandelbrot
single-threaded scalar 2368 |||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 4609 ||||||||||||||||||
Dot Product
single-threaded scalar 3870 |||||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 7599 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
single-threaded vector 4129 ||||||||||||||||
multi-threaded vector 9038 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
LU Decomposition
single-threaded scalar 2725 ||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 2760 |||||||||||
Primality Test
single-threaded scalar 3862 |||||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 5952 |||||||||||||||||||||||
Sharpen Image
single-threaded scalar 6213 ||||||||||||||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 11326 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Blur Image
single-threaded scalar 5492 |||||||||||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 10769 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Memory
Read Sequential
single-threaded scalar 5695 ||||||||||||||||||||||
Write Sequential
single-threaded scalar 9258 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stdlib Allocate
single-threaded scalar 4304 |||||||||||||||||
Stdlib Write
single-threaded scalar 4235 ||||||||||||||||
Stdlib Copy
single-threaded scalar 8554 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stream
Stream Copy
single-threaded scalar 4829 |||||||||||||||||||
single-threaded vector 5516 ||||||||||||||||||||||
Stream Scale
single-threaded scalar 4161 ||||||||||||||||
single-threaded vector 5430 |||||||||||||||||||||
Stream Add
single-threaded scalar 4475 |||||||||||||||||
single-threaded vector 5627 ||||||||||||||||||||||
Stream Triad
single-threaded scalar 4814 |||||||||||||||||||
single-threaded vector 3886 |||||||||||||||
Integer Score: 3091 ||||||||||||
Floating Point Score: 5765 |||||||||||||||||||||||
Memory Score: 6409 |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stream Score: 4842 |||||||||||||||||||
Overall Geekbench Score: 4865 |||||||||||||||||||
However, on v2.2, I was only able to get 4600 points:
System Information
Platform: Linux x86 (32-bit)
Compiler: GCC 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-33)
Operating System: Linux 2.6.32-238.19.1.el5.028stab092.2 i686
Model: Linux PC (Intel Xeon W3520)
Motherboard: Unknown Motherboard
Processor: Intel Xeon W3520
Processor ID: GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 26 Stepping 5
Logical Processors: 2
Physical Processors: 1
Processor Frequency: 2.66 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: 23.5 GB
Memory Type: N/A
SIMD: 1
BIOS: N/A
Processor Model: Intel Xeon W3520
Processor Cores: 2
Integer
Blowfish
single-threaded scalar 1902 |||||||
multi-threaded scalar 3477 |||||||||||||
Text Compress
single-threaded scalar 2113 ||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 4012 ||||||||||||||||
Text Decompress
single-threaded scalar 2121 ||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 4246 ||||||||||||||||
Image Compress
single-threaded scalar 1750 |||||||
multi-threaded scalar 1704 ||||||
Image Decompress
single-threaded scalar 1636 ||||||
multi-threaded scalar 2173 ||||||||
Lua
single-threaded scalar 3249 ||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 6371 |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Floating Point
Mandelbrot
single-threaded scalar 2232 ||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 4391 |||||||||||||||||
Dot Product
single-threaded scalar 3571 ||||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 7285 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
single-threaded vector 4302 |||||||||||||||||
multi-threaded vector 9445 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
LU Decomposition
single-threaded scalar 2510 ||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 2545 ||||||||||
Primality Test
single-threaded scalar 3642 ||||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 5647 ||||||||||||||||||||||
Sharpen Image
single-threaded scalar 6098 ||||||||||||||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 11758 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Blur Image
single-threaded scalar 5535 ||||||||||||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 10876 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Memory
Read Sequential
single-threaded scalar 4933 |||||||||||||||||||
Write Sequential
single-threaded scalar 8762 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stdlib Allocate
single-threaded scalar 4016 ||||||||||||||||
Stdlib Write
single-threaded scalar 4052 ||||||||||||||||
Stdlib Copy
single-threaded scalar 7956 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stream
Stream Copy
single-threaded scalar 4181 ||||||||||||||||
single-threaded vector 5038 ||||||||||||||||||||
Stream Scale
single-threaded scalar 3864 |||||||||||||||
single-threaded vector 4595 ||||||||||||||||||
Stream Add
single-threaded scalar 3556 ||||||||||||||
single-threaded vector 4690 ||||||||||||||||||
Stream Triad
single-threaded scalar 3748 ||||||||||||||
single-threaded vector 3515 ||||||||||||||
Integer Score: 2896 |||||||||||
Floating Point Score: 5702 ||||||||||||||||||||||
Memory Score: 5943 |||||||||||||||||||||||
Stream Score: 4148 ||||||||||||||||
Overall Geekbench Score: 4612 ||||||||||||||||||
Howover, both GeekBench and UnixBench results are pretty good and shows the overall performance (when using the right template!) can be impressive.
Customer Service And Support
One of the pretty unique things I have noticed when I click on submit ticket is the number of departments UptimeVPS seems to have, which, compare to many of the VPS providers who have only three departments, seems to be a lot. In particular, there is a RDNS Requests department, which is pretty interesting, I guess they must have a lot of rDNS requests coming through all the time. How about a TUN/TAP department as well?
Although I was told to check the knowledgebase first, there seems to be no information in the knowledge base. However, the ticket do gets responded pretty fast. One of my support ticket sent on a Sunday at 5:35PM was responded at 5:39PM, and just for testing sake, I actually sent a ticket to the RDNS requests department at 5:36PM and the ticket was responded 5 minutes later.
Do note, however, their support system does not allow direct email reply. In fact, an attempt to reply one of my support tickets directly via email came back with the following error:
Conclusion
Despite several minor hiccups with the invoices, OS templates set up as well as the reply via email features in their support system, overall I have had a pretty good experience testing out the VPS from UptimeVPS. The disk I/O is pretty good, network across Europe is impressive and the overall performance of the VPS is solid as shown in UnixBench and GeekBench tests. Together with a pretty fast support team, I think UptimeVPS could be one of the potential candidates to be considered for a performance VPS.
No https for solus?
@circus: Nope, I tried to explicitly type in https in the URL, and got a connection refused error, so I think it is only non-secured HTTP connection…
Not even on alternate port (ie: 5656)?
That seems to work, I was able to connect (after getting an untrusted connection warning), using https on port 5656
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