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Review: Allsimple.net 15 gbp/year (Approx. $25 USD/yr) 128MB Xen VPS
Hello !
I thought I would do a review of Allsimple.net's Xen VPS offer that I purchased approximately 2 months ago.
First off I'll list the specifications
1 CPU Core (E5506 @ 2.13GHz)
128MB RAM / 256MB SWAP
4GB of HDD
100GB of Bandwidth @ 100mbit port speed
1 ipv4, 10 ipv6 (more ipv6 given free on request - native ipv6)
Hosted at 4D Datacentres on the outskirts of London UK. ( http://bgp.he.net/AS31463 )
At the time of purchase 15 pounds per year worked out to $25 usd, so roughly $2 month.
I purchased this VPS with the intent to use it as an IRC vps to run irc bouncers and bots off of and to do the occasional proxy/VPN hookup to watch content that is restricted to UK IPs. It has worked out excellently for this purpose as the network and server is extremely stable. In the 2 months I have had it, the node I am on needed to be restarted once for a critical security update (which many other Xen providers also had to do.) -- other than this I have suffered no network or server downtime.
Network Speeds -
My VPS usage really does not demand high network speeds. However, Allsimple performs well and a variety of UK testfiles (like cachefly) give me full 100mbit speeds (as well as other test files around Europe) - Speeds to US/Canadian test files are not as good (nor would I expect them to be) but still on par with other UK providers I have tested in the last few years (XenVZ,Vooservers,EDIS UK).
Disk Speeds -
Generally pretty stable around 70-100MB/sec whenever I run the following test:
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, 12.549 s, 85.6 MB/s
Control Panel -
Allsimple uses a custom control panel that shows graphs of network,cpu and io utilization and offers RDNS for ipv4,ipv6 (rdns not automated though, but always done quickly) as well as the ability to reboot & re-image vps.
Support -
Martin handles support quickly and is frequently active on IRC to handle questions, super nice guy :0
Final Thoughts -
Allsimple.net seems great in every aspect for the price I am paying. Highly recommended LEB for UK/Europe.
Comments
Update: if anyone is interested in the same offer I hunted the link down to this deal
https://clients.allsimple.net/cart.php?a=add&pid=56
Thanks for the review
allsimple is great. but i got mine for more expensive that that. but worth it.
AllSimple are indeed great! I cannot recommend them enough!
Martin provides decent professional support
Indeed I am from England.
By network are you referring to my home connection?
what's wrong if not from England?
@liam Here's the ping from my Virgin Media connection:
You can use 178.17.41.100 to test and there is also a downloadable file at http://ns1.allsimple.net/100mb.zip
Let me know if you have any questions.
I've never had any problems accessing them or noticed high pings.
This is from my work connection (10mbit DSL) - it's not the greatest connection but suffices
I'll update with my home connection (50mbit Cable) when I get home
My experience with Allsimple is similar as op described.
One of those hosts where you can't go wrong with.
I've had a VPS from Allsimple for few months and I must say I am very happy with it.
From same plan, IO is great:
CPU model : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5506 @ 2.13GHz
Number of cores : 1
CPU frequency : 2133.496 MHz
Total amount of ram : 121 MB
Total amount of swap : 255 MB
Download speed from CacheFly: 9.67MB/s
I/O speed : 159 MB/s
I/O speed : 195 MB/s
I/O speed : 190 MB/s