96MB Low End VPS Review Part XXXVIII – servaRICA
So…it has been a few weeks since the last VPS review from 96MB.com and as promised in my last review, I will present another review as my Christmas present to the readers of 96MB.com. As promised, and since Hani from servaRICA has emailed me almost 3 months ago asking for a review, we will get it started without any further delay.
Basic Information and Set Up
Servarica is a provider that only provide VPS using Xen virtualization technology, as per this post on WHT and their lowest VPS offering, the XenSource VPS Offer 1, comes with the following specification:
The price is not exactly “low end” for a 256MB VPS, so we’ll hope for a solid specification for the VPS. However, the servers are located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, which could be a factor to justify the price.
The sign up page is using HTTPS page, and there is only monthly payment available:
Furthermore, as you can see, the price is actually 6.99CAD, which is less than 7USD.
On the sign up page, relatively few OS templates can be chosen as well:
The IP address is not that cheap as well
I have received the VPS email the same minute as the Paypal payment confirmation, however the VPS was not immediately activated and I waited for 6 minutes to be able to ping my VPS server. It turns out that the server details were sent before the server was built, which could take as long as an hour.
Once the server is up and running, you can use the WHMCS interface to get to the control panel of the VPS. Interestingly, there is no SolusVM control panel for this particular VPS (or at least the information was not revealed in the welcome email) and the only control functionalities you have in WHMCS is Shutdown, Reboot, and Hard Shutdown (UPDATE: Hani from servaRICA has promised me since this review was published that the SolusVM would be up and running “in 1 week”, could servaRICA customers please confirm that?):
The little control panel also shows the commands to the VPS, as well as the uptime. It should show the usage graph as well, however from the screenshot above, the graph somehow did not work for me.
There is no functionalities to rebuild the VPS automatically, which is rather interesting and different from the regular Xen PV platforms. And obviously, lack of a proper control panel has severely limited how much I can do with the VPS.
Test On the VPS
As mentioned above, the VPS that I have purchased has 256MB of RAM, 8GB of storage and 250 GB of monthly traffic, and the server is located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. As usual, I have installed Debian 6 32 bit for testing purposes.
With the fresh installation, 15MB of RAM was used, which is pretty standard:
free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 247 70 177 0 17 38
-/+ buffers/cache: 15 232
Swap: 486 0 486
And the top output showing the processes running:
top - 00:01:53 up 1 day, 41 min, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Tasks: 47 total, 1 running, 46 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: 253900k total, 72704k used, 181196k free, 17624k buffers
Swap: 498680k total, 0k used, 498680k free, 39212k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
1597 root 20 0 8260 2848 2324 S 0.0 1.1 0:00.13 sshd
1601 root 20 0 4416 2832 1436 S 0.0 1.1 0:00.22 bash
529 root 20 0 27304 1464 1024 S 0.0 0.6 0:00.07 rsyslogd
1616 root 20 0 2336 1092 876 R 0.5 0.4 0:00.01 top
705 root 20 0 5496 972 580 S 0.0 0.4 0:00.38 sshd
838 Debian-e 20 0 6516 924 612 S 0.0 0.4 0:00.05 exim4
425 statd 20 0 1940 792 656 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.00 rpc.statd
620 root 20 0 2640 768 600 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.14 cron
145 root 16 -4 2260 736 392 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.02 udevd
1 root 20 0 2036 688 588 S 0.0 0.3 0:01.39 init
185 root 18 -2 2256 636 296 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.00 udevd
186 root 18 -2 2256 580 240 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.00 udevd
856 root 20 0 1708 536 460 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.00 getty
859 root 20 0 1708 536 456 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.00 getty
860 root 20 0 1708 536 456 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.00 getty
862 root 20 0 1708 536 456 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.00 getty
857 root 20 0 1708 532 456 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.00 getty
As well as the htop output:
A fresh installation of the OS takes more than 700MB of hard drive space, which is again a pretty standard set up for Debian 6:
df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/xvda1 7.5G 722M 6.4G 11% / tmpfs 124M 0 124M 0% /lib/init/rw udev 114M 64K 114M 1% /dev tmpfs 124M 0 124M 0% /dev/shm
The INodes values are set to a little low though:
df -i Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on /dev/xvda1 493856 29625 464231 6% / tmpfs 31737 5 31732 1% /lib/init/rw udev 29088 438 28650 2% /dev tmpfs 31737 1 31736 1% /dev/shm
With the LNMP stack installed, 36MB of RAM was used:
free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 247 241 6 0 8 196
-/+ buffers/cache: 36 211
Swap: 486 0 486
Here is the top output showing the LNMP stack running:
top - 13:52:39 up 1 day, 1:31, 1 user, load average: 0.33, 0.84, 0.81 Tasks: 57 total, 1 running, 56 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 0.0%us, 0.4%sy, 0.0%ni, 99.6%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 253900k total, 247888k used, 6012k free, 8816k buffers Swap: 498680k total, 772k used, 497908k free, 201308k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 29400 www 20 0 15008 10m 436 S 0.0 4.4 0:00.01 nginx 29390 root 20 0 22968 4540 1384 S 0.0 1.8 0:00.03 php-cgi 9439 mysql 20 0 33944 4528 1924 S 0.0 1.8 0:00.01 mysqld 29391 www 20 0 22968 4148 992 S 0.0 1.6 0:00.00 php-cgi 29392 www 20 0 22968 4148 992 S 0.0 1.6 0:00.00 php-cgi 29393 www 20 0 22968 4148 992 S 0.0 1.6 0:00.00 php-cgi 29394 www 20 0 22968 4148 992 S 0.0 1.6 0:00.00 php-cgi 29395 www 20 0 22968 4148 992 S 0.0 1.6 0:00.00 php-cgi 31859 root 20 0 4804 3104 1316 S 0.0 1.2 0:00.35 bash 31856 root 20 0 8464 1604 992 S 0.0 0.6 0:01.08 sshd 529 root 20 0 27304 1304 864 S 0.0 0.5 0:00.07 rsyslogd 29417 root 20 0 2336 1108 880 R 0.8 0.4 0:00.02 top 705 root 20 0 5496 848 456 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.39 sshd 838 Debian-e 20 0 6516 780 468 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.05 exim4 29398 root 20 0 4796 744 276 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.00 nginx 620 root 20 0 2640 724 556 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.15 cron 425 statd 20 0 1940 576 488 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.00 rpc.statd
And of course the htop output:
Close to 3GB of hard drive space was used when the LNMP stack is up and running:
df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/xvda1 7.5G 2.9G 4.2G 41% / tmpfs 124M 0 124M 0% /lib/init/rw udev 114M 64K 114M 1% /dev tmpfs 124M 0 124M 0% /dev/shm
Uptime shows the VPS is mostly idle:
uptime 00:04:14 up 1 day, 43 min, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.01, 0.00
Which is also shown in the output of vmstat:
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 0 181204 17640 39240 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 100 0
CPUInfo shows one core is available and it is not throttled:
cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 16 model : 9 model name : AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 6172 stepping : 1 cpu MHz : 2100.042 cache size : 512 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 5 wp : yes flags : fpu de tsc msr pae cx8 cmov pat clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt 3dnowext 3dnow up amd_dcm pni popcnt hypervisor cmp_legacy extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch nodeid_msr bogomips : 4200.08 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 48 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: ts ttp tm stc 100mhzsteps hwpstate
And Meminfo does not really seems to show anything interesting, as usual:
cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 253900 kB MemFree: 7384 kB Buffers: 8540 kB Cached: 222384 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 20836 kB Inactive: 214956 kB Active(anon): 2320 kB Inactive(anon): 2616 kB Active(file): 18516 kB Inactive(file): 212340 kB Unevictable: 0 kB Mlocked: 0 kB HighTotal: 0 kB HighFree: 0 kB LowTotal: 253900 kB LowFree: 7384 kB SwapTotal: 498680 kB SwapFree: 498680 kB Dirty: 520 kB Writeback: 0 kB AnonPages: 4868 kB Mapped: 4120 kB Shmem: 68 kB Slab: 8128 kB SReclaimable: 6268 kB SUnreclaim: 1860 kB KernelStack: 384 kB PageTables: 404 kB NFS_Unstable: 0 kB Bounce: 0 kB WritebackTmp: 0 kB CommitLimit: 625628 kB Committed_AS: 37516 kB VmallocTotal: 598008 kB VmallocUsed: 784 kB VmallocChunk: 597092 kB HardwareCorrupted: 0 kB HugePages_Total: 0 HugePages_Free: 0 HugePages_Rsvd: 0 HugePages_Surp: 0 Hugepagesize: 2048 kB DirectMap4k: 262144 kB DirectMap2M: 0 kB
The disk I/O is really good and both of my tests shows the performance is above 100MB/s:
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, 9.36236 s, 115 MB/s
Test again showed really good results as well:
dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync 16384+0 records in 16384+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 10.3571 s, 104 MB/s
IOPing results are pretty stable also:
ioping -c 10 . 4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/xvda1): request=1 time=0.4 ms 4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/xvda1): request=2 time=0.7 ms 4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/xvda1): request=3 time=0.6 ms 4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/xvda1): request=4 time=0.7 ms 4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/xvda1): request=5 time=1.1 ms 4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/xvda1): request=6 time=0.6 ms 4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/xvda1): request=7 time=0.6 ms 4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/xvda1): request=8 time=0.6 ms 4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/xvda1): request=9 time=0.8 ms 4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/xvda1): request=10 time=0.6 ms --- . (ext3 /dev/xvda1) ioping statistics --- 10 requests completed in 9009.0 ms, 1491 iops, 5.8 mb/s min/avg/max/mdev = 0.4/0.7/1.1/0.2 ms
And test again showed similar results:
ioping -c 10 . 4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/xvda1): request=1 time=0.5 ms 4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/xvda1): request=2 time=0.7 ms 4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/xvda1): request=3 time=0.7 ms 4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/xvda1): request=4 time=0.9 ms 4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/xvda1): request=5 time=0.6 ms 4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/xvda1): request=6 time=0.5 ms 4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/xvda1): request=7 time=0.6 ms 4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/xvda1): request=8 time=0.6 ms 4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/xvda1): request=9 time=1.0 ms 4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/xvda1): request=10 time=0.5 ms --- . (ext3 /dev/xvda1) ioping statistics --- 10 requests completed in 9008.9 ms, 1499 iops, 5.9 mb/s min/avg/max/mdev = 0.5/0.7/1.0/0.2 ms
The network is also pretty good, with the download test from Cachefly scored close to 10MB/s:
wget cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test -O /dev/null --2011-12-26 00:05:00-- 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 9.85M/s in 10s 2011-12-26 00:05:11 (9.82 MB/s) - "/dev/null" saved [104857600/104857600]
Test again showed slightly worse results, but is nontheless respectable, particularly since it is on a 100Mbps port:
wget cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test -O /dev/null --2011-12-26 00:09:12-- 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 8.52M/s in 11s 2011-12-26 00:09:23 (8.73 MB/s) - "/dev/null" saved [104857600/104857600]
The upload speed is obviously a little slower than the download speed, but is nontheless pretty good:
From my VPS in BuffaloVPS in Chicago, IL:
wget 205.204.72.140/100mb.test -O /dev/null --2011-12-26 01:03:32-- http://205.204.72.140/100mb.test Connecting to 205.204.72.140:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream] Saving to: `/dev/null' 100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 8.48M/s in 16s 2011-12-26 01:03:47 (6.43 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]
From my BuyVM VPS in San Jose, CA:
wget 205.204.72.140/100mb.test -O /dev/null --2011-12-26 01:09:30-- http://205.204.72.140/100mb.test Connecting to 205.204.72.140:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream] Saving to: `/dev/null' 100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 5.41M/s in 23s 2011-12-26 01:09:54 (4.31 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]
And finally, from the Quickweb VPS in London, UK:
wget 205.204.72.140/100mb.test -O /dev/null --2011-12-26 01:03:05-- http://205.204.72.140/100mb.test Connecting to 205.204.72.140:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream] Saving to: `/dev/null' 100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 5.00M/s in 16s 2011-12-26 01:03:22 (6.17 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]
Finally, the benchmark time. I do not have a really high expectation with the VPS on the Benchmark scores, since it has only 1 CPU core available. Indeed, with the UnixBench, I was only able to get a little more than 400 points:
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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
========================================================================
BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 5.1.3)
System: ******: GNU/Linux
OS: GNU/Linux -- 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem -- #1 SMP Thu Nov 3 05:12:00 UTC 2011
Machine: i686 (unknown)
Language: en_US.utf8 (charmap="ANSI_X3.4-1968", collate="ANSI_X3.4-1968")
CPU 0: AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 6172 (4200.1 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, MMX, AMD MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSCALL/SYSRET
14:10:56 up 1 day, 1:50, 1 user, load average: 0.07, 0.03, 0.23; runlevel 2
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Benchmark Run: Mon Dec 26 2011 14:10:56 - 14:38:50
1 CPU in system; running 1 parallel copy of tests
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 9029284.2 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Double-Precision Whetstone 1598.5 MWIPS (9.5 s, 7 samples)
Execl Throughput 1589.4 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 307229.7 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 89389.2 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 719917.0 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Pipe Throughput 569321.6 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Pipe-based Context Switching 60202.0 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Process Creation 2621.7 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 2845.5 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 367.2 lpm (60.1 s, 2 samples)
System Call Overhead 690444.6 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
System Benchmarks Index Values BASELINE RESULT INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 9029284.2 773.7
Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 1598.5 290.6
Execl Throughput 43.0 1589.4 369.6
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 3960.0 307229.7 775.8
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1655.0 89389.2 540.1
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 5800.0 719917.0 1241.2
Pipe Throughput 12440.0 569321.6 457.7
Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 60202.0 150.5
Process Creation 126.0 2621.7 208.1
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 2845.5 671.1
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 367.2 612.0
System Call Overhead 15000.0 690444.6 460.3
========
System Benchmarks Index Score 470.3
Testing again showed similar 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
========================================================================
BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 5.1.3)
System: *******: GNU/Linux
OS: GNU/Linux -- 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem -- #1 SMP Thu Nov 3 05:12:00 UTC 2011
Machine: i686 (unknown)
Language: en_US.utf8 (charmap="ANSI_X3.4-1968", collate="ANSI_X3.4-1968")
CPU 0: AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 6172 (4200.1 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, MMX, AMD MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSCALL/SYSRET
14:52:28 up 1 day, 2:31, 1 user, load average: 0.12, 0.48, 0.87; runlevel 2
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Benchmark Run: Mon Dec 26 2011 14:52:28 - 15:21:36
1 CPU in system; running 1 parallel copy of tests
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 8980207.3 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Double-Precision Whetstone 1566.3 MWIPS (9.4 s, 7 samples)
Execl Throughput 1609.4 lps (29.7 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 225500.8 KBps (30.2 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 71066.0 KBps (31.1 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 325584.2 KBps (30.6 s, 2 samples)
Pipe Throughput 541613.0 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Pipe-based Context Switching 59875.3 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Process Creation 2713.1 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 2743.6 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 360.8 lpm (60.5 s, 2 samples)
System Call Overhead 701450.0 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
System Benchmarks Index Values BASELINE RESULT INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 8980207.3 769.5
Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 1566.3 284.8
Execl Throughput 43.0 1609.4 374.3
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 3960.0 225500.8 569.4
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1655.0 71066.0 429.4
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 5800.0 325584.2 561.4
Pipe Throughput 12440.0 541613.0 435.4
Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 59875.3 149.7
Process Creation 126.0 2713.1 215.3
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 2743.6 647.1
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 360.8 601.3
System Call Overhead 15000.0 701450.0 467.6
========
System Benchmarks Index Score 418.4
The GeekBench score is not too bad though:
System Information
Platform: Linux x86 (32-bit)
Compiler: GCC 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-33)
Operating System: Linux 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem i686
Model: Linux PC (AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 6172)
Motherboard: Unknown Motherboard
Processor: AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 6172
Processor ID: AuthenticAMD Family 16 Model 9 Stepping 1
Logical Processors: 1
Physical Processors: 1
Processor Frequency: 2.10 GHz
L1 Instruction Cache: 64.0 KB
L1 Data Cache: 64.0 KB
L2 Cache: 512 KB
L3 Cache: 10.00 MB
Bus Frequency: 0.00 Hz
Memory: 248 MB
Memory Type: N/A
SIMD: 1
BIOS: N/A
Processor Model: AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 6172
Processor Cores: 1
Integer
Blowfish
single-threaded scalar 1519 ||||||
multi-threaded scalar 1628 ||||||
Text Compress
single-threaded scalar 1611 ||||||
multi-threaded scalar 1564 ||||||
Text Decompress
single-threaded scalar 1625 ||||||
multi-threaded scalar 1665 ||||||
Image Compress
single-threaded scalar 1311 |||||
multi-threaded scalar 1287 |||||
Image Decompress
single-threaded scalar 1055 ||||
multi-threaded scalar 1081 ||||
Lua
single-threaded scalar 2284 |||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 2310 |||||||||
Floating Point
Mandelbrot
single-threaded scalar 1486 |||||
multi-threaded scalar 1509 ||||||
Dot Product
single-threaded scalar 2156 ||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 2284 |||||||||
single-threaded vector 2021 ||||||||
multi-threaded vector 2327 |||||||||
LU Decomposition
single-threaded scalar 1784 |||||||
multi-threaded scalar 1818 |||||||
Primality Test
single-threaded scalar 2005 ||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 1667 ||||||
Sharpen Image
single-threaded scalar 5511 ||||||||||||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 5565 ||||||||||||||||||||||
Blur Image
single-threaded scalar 5967 |||||||||||||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 6001 ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Memory
Read Sequential
single-threaded scalar 3020 ||||||||||||
Write Sequential
single-threaded scalar 4068 ||||||||||||||||
Stdlib Allocate
single-threaded scalar 2246 ||||||||
Stdlib Write
single-threaded scalar 1760 |||||||
Stdlib Copy
single-threaded scalar 2196 ||||||||
Stream
Stream Copy
single-threaded scalar 2752 |||||||||||
single-threaded vector 3077 ||||||||||||
Stream Scale
single-threaded scalar 2842 |||||||||||
single-threaded vector 2988 |||||||||||
Stream Add
single-threaded scalar 2739 ||||||||||
single-threaded vector 3057 ||||||||||||
Stream Triad
single-threaded scalar 2906 |||||||||||
single-threaded vector 2262 |||||||||
Integer Score: 1578 ||||||
Floating Point Score: 3007 ||||||||||||
Memory Score: 2658 ||||||||||
Stream Score: 2827 |||||||||||
Overall Geekbench Score: 2419 |||||||||
Testing again showed similar results:
System Information
Platform: Linux x86 (32-bit)
Compiler: GCC 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-33)
Operating System: Linux 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem i686
Model: Linux PC (AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 6172)
Motherboard: Unknown Motherboard
Processor: AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 6172
Processor ID: AuthenticAMD Family 16 Model 9 Stepping 1
Logical Processors: 1
Physical Processors: 1
Processor Frequency: 2.10 GHz
L1 Instruction Cache: 64.0 KB
L1 Data Cache: 64.0 KB
L2 Cache: 512 KB
L3 Cache: 10.00 MB
Bus Frequency: 0.00 Hz
Memory: 248 MB
Memory Type: N/A
SIMD: 1
BIOS: N/A
Processor Model: AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 6172
Processor Cores: 1
Integer
Blowfish
single-threaded scalar 1521 ||||||
multi-threaded scalar 1629 ||||||
Text Compress
single-threaded scalar 1610 ||||||
multi-threaded scalar 1563 ||||||
Text Decompress
single-threaded scalar 1626 ||||||
multi-threaded scalar 1664 ||||||
Image Compress
single-threaded scalar 1311 |||||
multi-threaded scalar 1290 |||||
Image Decompress
single-threaded scalar 1054 ||||
multi-threaded scalar 1080 ||||
Lua
single-threaded scalar 2298 |||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 2309 |||||||||
Floating Point
Mandelbrot
single-threaded scalar 1486 |||||
multi-threaded scalar 1509 ||||||
Dot Product
single-threaded scalar 2157 ||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 2285 |||||||||
single-threaded vector 2020 ||||||||
multi-threaded vector 2327 |||||||||
LU Decomposition
single-threaded scalar 1786 |||||||
multi-threaded scalar 1818 |||||||
Primality Test
single-threaded scalar 2081 ||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 1668 ||||||
Sharpen Image
single-threaded scalar 5513 ||||||||||||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 5574 ||||||||||||||||||||||
Blur Image
single-threaded scalar 5972 |||||||||||||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 6004 ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Memory
Read Sequential
single-threaded scalar 3027 ||||||||||||
Write Sequential
single-threaded scalar 4069 ||||||||||||||||
Stdlib Allocate
single-threaded scalar 2250 |||||||||
Stdlib Write
single-threaded scalar 1764 |||||||
Stdlib Copy
single-threaded scalar 2162 ||||||||
Stream
Stream Copy
single-threaded scalar 2786 |||||||||||
single-threaded vector 3120 ||||||||||||
Stream Scale
single-threaded scalar 2824 |||||||||||
single-threaded vector 3041 ||||||||||||
Stream Add
single-threaded scalar 2733 ||||||||||
single-threaded vector 3030 ||||||||||||
Stream Triad
single-threaded scalar 2886 |||||||||||
single-threaded vector 2204 ||||||||
Integer Score: 1579 ||||||
Floating Point Score: 3014 ||||||||||||
Memory Score: 2654 ||||||||||
Stream Score: 2828 |||||||||||
Overall Geekbench Score: 2421 |||||||||
Customer Service and Support
I did not have a very high expectation on the technical support team when I signed up for the VPS, to be honest, it was Christmas Eve and I know how important it is to people living in North America. In fact, I was hoping that if I can get a reply by the end of Boxing Day, I would be a happy man. However, Servarica surprised me with how fast their response was. One of my tickets was responded within half an hour on the Christmas Eve at 11pm and another tickets created a few minutes later was responded at the same time. In that regards, I got to say the support was really quick and efficient.
Conclusion
I was a little uncomfortable when I first saw the price tag of Servarica VPS, since many providers has offered VPS with similar specifications at a fraction of the cost. However, during the period of review, I am impressed with the performance of the VPS in general, particularly in both disk I/O and the network speed. The support is pretty fast as well, even during Christmas Eve, which is another impressive aspect. Although lack of control panel could potentially a drawback, but I do not see it as a showstopper for most of us. Therefore, I would recommend this VPS to everyone who is considering spending a little more to get a more stable Xen VPS.
Finally, I would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Have a good time with family and friends and have fun shopping on Boxing Day for those living in Canada!
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Hi,
I just wanted to chime in. I’ve been a Servarica customer for 3 weeks and counting now and everything is going extremely well. The speed is as advertised and nothing is oversold. The server is extremely stable.
I couldn’t be happier with the support I’ve gotten from Hani. He’s very knowledgeable and very easy to talk to.
I’d just like to confirm that the SolusVM control panel is now ready (I’ve been migrated to it) so any new customers or existing customers can ask for it. The migration was rather painless when mine was done with very little down time.
Thanks for the very detailed and thorough review above, you convinced me to at the very least give Servarica a shot and I don’t regret it one bit.
@Marc: Really happy to hear about your experience, and I am really glad that SolusVM is up and running too!
Hi,
I just wanted to check in again for anyone who was still uncertain about Servarica. I’ve now been with them for 4 months and it’s working great. I’m very happy with them and it’s as stable as can be. I now have 2 game servers, a voice server, mail server and web server. No issues whatsoever. If anyone is still having doubts, give them a shot :).
@Marc: Glad you are still happy with them, and all the best to servaRICA!
They aren’t bad but they only peer with Cogent and Nlayer. Which defeats almost everything they talk about in their faq
* The advantage of this location is that we are so close to US market while we are not under the same laws as the US providers (e.g: PRISM, Tempora and patriot act)
@sadly: Agreed, although I think apparently PRISM is everywhere, whether you are in US or Europe. 🙂