Vapornode Review

sin

Hi everyone, I wanted to do a quick review of Vapornode because they have become one of my favorite providers. I've been using them off and on since November 2016 and right now I currently have one of their High CPU VPSes (with 2 Dedicated Cores, 8GB Ram, 80GB SSD, and 2TB Bandwidth) and a Storage VPS. They use Hivelocity for the servers and their Tampa, FL location has worked great for me because I needed a reliable provider near the East Coast since most of my visitors are in the US (I have also heard they're really great for people that need a good connection to South America).

I have found that their KVM VPSes are really reliable, they're not oversold, and everything just works! I'm a FreeBSD user and FreeBSD works really well on their VPSes (along with DragonFly BSD and OpenBSD). They have a custom control panel that has all kinds of neat options like a Firewall, DNS, Notepad, Status of their servers, and resource graphs. They don't have an option to upload custom ISOs but every time I have contacted them to request an ISO they have always added it for me (and right now they have a pretty big collection of available OSes you can install). Sometimes I do a lot of reinstalling, rebooting, mounting different ISOs, etc and their custom control panel handles everything smoothly. With their High CPU Plans I have compiled various software for hours at a time using 100% of my CPUs and have never had an issue (most of the time I rarely use the cpu allocated to me but it's just nice knowing I have it available if I need it). Their support is really good and I've had a lot of my tickets answered in under 10 minutes (the longest has only been just a few hours for Low priority tickets where I request an ISO or something). They know their stuff and they get straight to the point with fixing a problem or helping you out and I feel confident that if I ever have any issue then I know they'll be there for me.

In summary: I really like @vapornode and I highly recommend them! They've been around for awhile now and I really hope they continue to provide great hosting for a long time. Their products include SSD VPSes, Managed VPSes, High CPU (dedicated cores) VPSes, Storage VPSes, Public Cloud (so you get a pool of resources which is cool), Dedicated Servers, and more.

I installed a Linux OS to take a quick geekbench of my Vapornode High CPU:

Geekbench4: https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/9159539

root@xxxxx:~# ioping . -c 10
4 KiB <<< . (ext4 /dev/vda1): request=1 time=217.2 us (warmup)
4 KiB <<< . (ext4 /dev/vda1): request=2 time=405.4 us
4 KiB <<< . (ext4 /dev/vda1): request=3 time=265.2 us
4 KiB <<< . (ext4 /dev/vda1): request=4 time=236.1 us
4 KiB <<< . (ext4 /dev/vda1): request=5 time=207.5 us
4 KiB <<< . (ext4 /dev/vda1): request=6 time=263.4 us
4 KiB <<< . (ext4 /dev/vda1): request=7 time=276.6 us
4 KiB <<< . (ext4 /dev/vda1): request=8 time=173.7 us (fast)
4 KiB <<< . (ext4 /dev/vda1): request=9 time=249.8 us
4 KiB <<< . (ext4 /dev/vda1): request=10 time=232.5 us

--- . (ext4 /dev/vda1) ioping statistics ---
9 requests completed in 2.31 ms, 36 KiB read, 3.90 k iops, 15.2 MiB/s
generated 10 requests in 9.00 s, 40 KiB, 1 iops, 4.44 KiB/s
min/avg/max/mdev = 173.7 us / 256.7 us / 405.4 us / 60.6 us

Benchmark started on Wed Jul 25 06:14:33 EDT 2018
Full benchmark log: /root/bench.log

System Info
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Processor   : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           X5670  @ 2.93GHz
CPU Cores   : 2
Frequency   : 2933.436 MHz
Memory      : 7980 MB
Swap        :  MB
Uptime      : 10:40,

OS      : Debian GNU/Linux 9
Arch        : x86_64 (64 Bit)
Kernel      : 4.16.0-0.bpo.2-amd64
Hostname    : xxxxxxx


Speedtest (IPv4 only)
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Your public IPv4 is x.x.x.x

Location        Provider    Speed
CDN         Cachefly    105MB/s

Atlanta, GA, US     Coloat      23.4MB/s 
Dallas, TX, US      Softlayer   45.0MB/s 
Seattle, WA, US     Softlayer   22.5MB/s 
San Jose, CA, US    Softlayer   23.3MB/s 
Washington, DC, US  Softlayer   49.4MB/s 

Tokyo, Japan        Linode      3.59MB/s 
Singapore       Softlayer   7.04MB/s 

Rotterdam, Netherlands  id3.net     7.72MB/s
Haarlem, Netherlands    Leaseweb    8.15MB/s 


Disk Speed
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I/O (1st run)   : 334 MB/s
I/O (2nd run)   : 964 MB/s
I/O (3rd run)   : 947 MB/s
Average I/O : 748.333 MB/s

deank

A kitten has died when the wall of text collapsed.

All I read was "Hi, jerks -".

sin

deank said: Hi, jerks

I'll start my next provider review with that line

pullangcubo

@deank said:
A kitten has died when the wall of text collapsed.

What's wrong with a comprehensive account of one's experience with a provider? You millennials and your incessant laziness in all things :-P

vapornode

@sin Thank you for the review! This type of feedback, good or bad, helps us out a lot.

vimalware

Thanks for the review.

I value your feedback , especially after bringing Liteserver to the community's attention.

sin

@vimalware said:
Thanks for the review.

I value your feedback , especially after bringing Liteserver to the community's attention.

Thank you for your kind words! It means a lot to me