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[Benchmark] FDCServers "Starter VPS": 5Mbps [sic!] 128MB KVM
Since @jenkki repeatedly mentioned them, I decided to get a $1/month VPS from FDCServers.
I don't know much about them yet, so this a just a quick benchmark, not a review.
As mentioned in the title, it comes with a 5 Mbit/s connection. No typo there.
- 5Mbps unmetered + 128MB RAM + 10GB SSD + 1IP + 1CPU Core
Monthly Fee: $0.99
Setup Fee: $0.00
https://www.fdcservers.net/fdc_order/index_61.php?plan_id=820
They've got LGs and speedtests at https://www.fdcservers.net/lg/.
If this is your first order they require you to call their US number to verify your phone number — which they conveniently only mention after you've paid them. Oh, and you need to leave a message with your order number, which is:
I found the order number in the pages GET parameters, called them, and got my account activated 23 minutes later. My VPS was provisioned another 44 minutes after that.
They use a custom thing for billing and service management, and OnApp to control the servers. Next gem: Their OnApp refuses to reinstall VMs that have less than 256 MB RAM and their "mount ISO" feature doesn't load for me, so you might have to get creative.
Now my usual benchmark. This is in their Vienna location (
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nench.sh benchmark
2017-03-29 20:01:24 UTC
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Processor: QEMU Virtual CPU version (cpu64-rhel6)
CPU cores: 1
Frequency: 2133.408 MHz
RAM: 117M
Swap: 1.0G
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 x86_64
Disks:
vda 9G HDD
vdb 1G HDD
CPU: SHA256-hashing 500 MB
4.900 seconds
CPU: bzip2-compressing 500 MB
9.076 seconds
CPU: AES-encrypting 500 MB
5.749 seconds
ioping: seek rate
min/avg/max/mdev = 112.3 us / 192.2 us / 8.37 ms / 235.9 us
ioping: sequential speed
generated 9.06 k requests in 5.00 s, 2.21 GiB, 1.81 k iops, 453.0 MiB/s
dd test
1st run: 394 MB/s
2nd run: 401 MB/s
3rd run: 383 MB/s
average: 392 MB/s
IPv4 speedtests
your IPv4: 50.7.115.64
Cachefly CDN: timeout (< 2MB/s)
Leaseweb (NL): ^C
Softlayer DAL (US): ^C
Online.net (FR): ^C
OVH BHS (CA): ^C
No IPv6 connectivity detected
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I didn't bother with the speedtests since the 5 Mbit/s limit is indeed inforced:
--2017-03-29 15:26:31-- http://speedtest.tele2.net/10GB.zip
Resolving speedtest.tele2.net (speedtest.tele2.net)... 90.130.70.73, 2a00:800:1010::1
Connecting to speedtest.tele2.net (speedtest.tele2.net)|90.130.70.73|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 10737418240 (10G) [application/zip]
Saving to: `/dev/null'
0% [ ] 34,985,769 594K/s eta 4h 45m ^C
Comments
Can you do another speed test?
Sure, whereto?
Host: speedtest.radore.com
ID: 10994 thanks.
And to the closest one, as picked by
speedtest-cli:@ucxo Ideal for personal VPN/proxy server. But for some, the internet speed may be low.
Funny thing is that im considering them for coloing a server for a private project as they offer 1Gbps unmetered at a unbelievable price
they use ubersmith
Cheaper than X64-60GB from scaleway?
That apples to oranges...It's almost like you don't fucking read before you post.
I've had a good experience with FDC's colo in London and France - just my £0.02 ;-)
I did read the coloing part. I was just wondering if it's cheaper than the scaleway's plan for 1 Gbps unmetered because if it is, I would add the cost of the server + colo cost and see if it's cheaper than the whole scaleway package of the server + bandwidth.
Its not as cheap no however its dedicated not shared, the server im coloing is a 4u with 4 4 separate units in it and the biggest thing I needed is the colo, price is not the issue, a shared solution is not good for what i need
Ah ok. For me the scaleway server should do the job fine but if it was cheaper with FDC I was going to consider it. As for pricing you're quoted is for a way larger system so the pricing might not be relevant in general.
Depending on location, FDC is nice. This was almost 10 years ago now, but I used them for a project that needed mass amounts of bandwidth. I had no problem pushing my unmetered pipes, but saw weird routing issues / timeouts happen randomly. They were usually pretty short. All in all I was happy though, and this didn't affect me much. If it's anything critical you may want to review their network SLA.
Aw man, that was great.
Wow.
Better to say - since many folks repeatedly asking for cheap $1+ VPS every day. That more correct