SSDVirt Review

DStrout

Recently, @john from SSDVirt was kind enough to give me a 512MB OpenVZ review unit for the company's new line of SSD VPSes in Dallas. I must say I have been very impressed in all pertinent ways. Before getting to the specs, let me start with the overall "feel" of the VPS. I connected easily and commands executed quickly. With Ubuntu installed, apt-get update, apt-get upgrade, and apt-get dist-upgrade together took only about a minute to run. In my opinion, this, better than any benchmark shows how fast the network, disk, and CPU speed are on a day-to-day functional basis. There are a fair number of templates available, including CentOS, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, Scientific Linux, and Ubuntu. The control panel is SolusVM, the new bootstrap version which, though it looks very generic, I appreciate for the AJAX support for most operations. As for support, there was a minor sales/signup issue that was resolved within two hours, the general timeframe for most inquiries. Not the best I've seen, but by no means the worst, and in my opinion a reasonable amount of time to wait for most issues. The only con I can think of is lack of IPv6 support for their OpenVZ boxes, but I'm sure that will come in time. For now, if I need pure speed, I'd go for SSDVirt. The prices are higher than most ($8/month, $5.20 a month for their last offer), but they make up for it in speed.

Now let's get to the actual specs. For a complete nitty-gritty rundown of all the details, one of the first things I did was run a ServerBear benchmark on it, which you can find here. For my personal tests:

FreeVPS.us bench.sh:

CPU model :  Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1240 V2 @ 3.40GHz
Number of cores : 2
CPU frequency :  3400.085 MHz
Total amount of ram : 512 MB
Total amount of swap : 512 MB
System uptime :   27 min,
Download speed from CacheFly: 110MB/s
Download speed from Coloat, Atlanta GA: 60.8MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Dallas, TX: 101MB/s
Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 8.56MB/s
Download speed from i3d.net, NL: 8.78MB/s
Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 9.70MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Singapore: 6.16MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Seattle, WA: 24.4MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 30.4MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Washington, DC: 34.1MB/s
I/O speed :  1.2 GB/s

My own dd:

dd bs=1M count=1024 if=/dev/zero of=test conv=fdatasync
1024+0 records in
1024+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 1.06986 s, 1.0 GB/s

ioping:

ioping -c 10 .
4096 bytes from . (simfs /vz/private/107): request=1 time=0.1 ms
4096 bytes from . (simfs /vz/private/107): request=2 time=0.1 ms
4096 bytes from . (simfs /vz/private/107): request=3 time=0.1 ms
4096 bytes from . (simfs /vz/private/107): request=4 time=0.1 ms
4096 bytes from . (simfs /vz/private/107): request=5 time=0.1 ms
4096 bytes from . (simfs /vz/private/107): request=6 time=0.1 ms
4096 bytes from . (simfs /vz/private/107): request=7 time=0.1 ms
4096 bytes from . (simfs /vz/private/107): request=8 time=0.1 ms
4096 bytes from . (simfs /vz/private/107): request=9 time=0.1 ms
4096 bytes from . (simfs /vz/private/107): request=10 time=0.1 ms

--- . (simfs /vz/private/107) ioping statistics ---
10 requests completed in 9001.9 ms, 11442 iops, 44.7 mb/s
min/avg/max/mdev = 0.1/0.1/0.1/0.0 ms

trewq

Good work. Those results are quite impressive!

Also this should be in the Review section

jar

Wow nice results. Well done ssdvirt!

DStrout

@trewq said: this should be in the Review section

Moved Thanks

john

Thanks for the review and comments!

ayik

i got 5 server from SSDvirt,
all server just perfect

the costumer service is really fast respond