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ChicagoVPS Review

JackJack
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@CVPS_Chris is a very active member here and after using his services for the past 24 hours I felt I'd write a review.

I bought a 2GB VPS for $7 I think this is probably the only one on the market for such a price.

But after a few hours I thought id change it into his Current LEB XEN Plan as I didn't really like vz anymore.

So I submitted a ticket.

Monday, May 7th, 2012 (23:50)

Reply was made Tuesday, May 8th, 2012 (09:09)

Service changed to XEN Tuesday, May 8th, 2012 (20:47)

I felt this was a little slow however on his current LEB listing it says;

"Last night was an off night since I went to bed earlier than normal because of final MBA exams I had today.

The Plan I purchased was there; XEN Standard 512MB Guaranteed RAM 20GB Hard Disk Storage 1TB Data Transfer 1 IPv4 Address SolusVM/XEN $6.45/Month (Normally $9.95)

I didn't like the fact that it doesn't show you the plan details in WHMCS for example;

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It Just has Prices and Plan name.

There are a lot of add-ons they let you purchase when ordering...

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and Quite a big Template list image image

My VZ Plan was instant setup and easy to ssh in

[root@mybox ~]#  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, 6.08435 seconds, 176 MB/s
[root@mybox ~]#

They allocate a nice 3 x 3392.472 MHz of an E3-1270

I also noticed i only got around 100mbit out of it I guess its 100mbps port on the node?

100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 11.2M/s   in 9.0s

2012-05-08 07:44:22 (11.1 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]

However my XEN box...

[root@mybox ~]# 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, 14.5033 seconds, 74.0 MB/s
[root@mybox ~]#

1 Core of an X3450


100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 11.2M/s   in 9.0s

2012-05-09 00:24:51 (11.1 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]

Still 100mbit port though..

[root@mybox ~]# free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:           512        498         13          0          2        441
-/+ buffers/cache:         54        457
Swap:          255          0        255
[root@mybox ~]#

sat at 54MB ram with nothing really installed but default OS stuff.

[root@mybox ~]# ./ioping -c 10 .
4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/root): request=1 time=0.2 ms
4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/root): request=2 time=0.2 ms
4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/root): request=3 time=0.2 ms
4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/root): request=4 time=0.2 ms
4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/root): request=5 time=9.4 ms
4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/root): request=6 time=11.3 ms
4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/root): request=7 time=26.7 ms
4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/root): request=8 time=14.0 ms
4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/root): request=9 time=35.3 ms

--- . (ext3 /dev/root) ioping statistics ---
9 requests completed in 8504.9 ms, 92 iops, 0.4 mb/s
min/avg/max/mdev = 0.2/10.8/35.3/12.1 ms
[root@mybox ~]#

IOPing is a little unstable.

I also Liked they had this in WHMCS which some providers don't provide

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Graphs , Reboot , Console ect.

Instant R-DNS not available however there is a Knowledge base Article about it.

https://billing.chicagovps.net/knowledgebase/2/rDNS.html

I have yet to take advantage of there "Semi-managed" Support.

From my 26 hours with them It seems they are stable and they get a lot of stick for the 5-10 people they were on a dodgy node with them.

I'll update this at the end of the month :)

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