Insane price with insane performance, my first VPS from URPad
Yesterday, I noticed an entry at lowendbox.com of an offer from URPad.com. The offer says, $12/Year 256MB OpenVZ VPS in Los Angeles, Dallas and Buffalo
and I said What the heck, How is t possible!?
Read the post carefully and found that they are a subsidiary of FTNHosting. Also read the comments and I decided to give them a try as I have nothing to lose!
The configuration of the box is like this:
- 256MB Dedicated Ram
- 15GB Disk Space
- 500GB Bandwidth
- Port Speed: 100Mbps
- 1 IPv4 Address
- SolusVM/OpenVZ
Everything for $12 per year.
Ordered in the morning but couldn't make the payment cause I didn't have fund on my Paypal account. Later at afternoon I collected fund and made the payment. The VPS setup was instant with an automation process. I got both my payment confirmation and VPS information email at the same time.
Logged in via SSH. It was Debian 6 32bit pre installed. Here what I got.
The CPU
cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendorid : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 58
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1240 V2 @ 3.40GHz
stepping : 9
cpu MHz : 3400.049
cache size : 8192 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 8
core id : 0
cpu cores : 4
apicid : 0
initial apicid : 0
fpu : yes
fpuexception : 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 constanttsc archperfmon pebs bts repgood xtopology nonstoptsc aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor dscpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse41 sse42 x2apic popcnt aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahflm ida arat epb xsaveopt pln pts dts tprshadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid fsgsbase smep erms
bogomips : 6800.09
clflush size : 64
cachealignment : 64
address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:
The Memorry
free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 256 34 221 0 0 38
-/+ buffers/cache: 8 247
Swap: 0 0 0
And the Disk space
df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/simfs 15G 1.9G 14G 13% /
tmpfs 128M 0 128M 0% /lib/init/rw
tmpfs 128M 0 128M 0% /dev/shm
Loaded the full LEMP stack and installed a drupal instance. Now it looks like this:
free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 256 66 189 0 0 38
-/+ buffers/cache: 28 227
Swap: 0 0 0
df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/simfs 15G 1.9G 14G 13% / tmpfs 128M 0 128M 0% /lib/init/rw tmpfs 128M 0 128M 0% /dev/shmOkay now welcome to the world of insanity! All these tests have been taken after loading the LEMP stack. The is the DDs:
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, 4.6966 s, 229 MB/
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, 4.40858 s, 244 MB/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, 4.07382 s, 264 MB/s
As long I can remember, the best DD result I have ever seen is around 136MB/s and it's always 200+, Insane!
Now the Network test:
wget cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test -O /dev/null
--2012-11-07 18:16:28-- 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 91.1M/s in 1.1s
2012-11-07 18:16:29 (91.1 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600
wget cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test -O /dev/null --2012-11-07 18:30:01-- 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 89.0M/s in 1.1s 2012-11-07 18:30:03 (89.0 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]
wget cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test -O /dev/null --2012-11-07 18:31:18-- 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 47.1M/s in 2.1s 2012-11-07 18:31:20 (47.1 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]
On a 100Mbps port 92MB/s is also insane though I got the worst result at 47MB/s. But still it's high for a 100Mbps port!
And the time sync:
time syncreal 0m0.001s
user 0m0.001s
sys 0m0.000s
I have did an ApacheBench marker test with the command ab -n 1000 -c 10 http://drup.ibabar.com/?q=node/1
on the installed drupal site. After test the memory usage seems to be stable too!
free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 256 85 171 0 0 41
-/+ buffers/cache: 43 212
Swap: 0 0 0
I don't know how they are providing these at that price tag. And also don't want to know. :P
This is too hard to believe and several providers also did the game of collecting money with tempting offer and flew away, the hell.
But there's also exceptional providers like Chicagovps.net.
So all that we can is to hope that URPad will not flew away.
What do you think about the offer? Have you got one for you or planning for one?
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