IPXcore VPS Review - (Great Service)
Well hey guys,
I've been meaning to get round to doing these reviews for a long time, finally I've set time aside to do so. I haven't seen many reviews of IPXcore's service, and I personally thought that they deserve more to be honest. So lets crack on with it! So far there have been some major improvements, namely the datacenter move and lifting of network speed limitations. It's also interesting to note, they delayed their physical moving of servers due to clients asking for more time to migrate the IP's.
IPXcore has been around for a while, providing VPS and hosting services since, I believe since 2011, and Damian (and now phxadam, his partner) has been active on LET for a few months too which is a good sign. I'm currently on their Bronze plan which has 256MB "guaranteed" RAM, on OpenVZ with 20GB disk. Apart from stating the obvious, the node I'm on seems to have 2 x Dual-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2216, and access to all 4 cores. They also use OpenVZ with vSwap.
All the good signs are there, SSL on the clients area. They used to be using Virtualizor, but after getting fed up they transferred to SolusVM seemingly seamlessly (I didn't notice much disruption, at least not for a prolonged period of time, other than that I had to reset my password). All of the templates you would expect are included by default.
Their support is pretty speedy in responding to support tickets. I got a response within around 3 minutes for my rDNS request, which is very good. Only @miTgiB can beat that :P. They seem straight to the point and not beating round the bush with departments and all that rubbish. They also have live support which is "online" a lot of time, which is an extra plus point. The pricing isn't too bad either, they have offers every once in a while from what I've gathered, they seem stable so far. Time will tell, but from what I can see they're in for the long run.
RAM usage with a LMNP stack, nothing to it. As an LMNP stack it performed very nicely.
[[email protected] ~]# free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 256 15 240 0 0 9 -/+ buffers/cache: 6 249 Swap: 64 0 64
VMstat for those who want it with LMNP stack, self-explanatory.
[[email protected] ~]# vmstat procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- -----cpu----- r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa st 0 0 7456 11092 0 237372 0 0 0 0 0 47 0 0 100 0 0
Beancounters for those interested.
[[email protected] ~]# cat /proc/user_beancounters Version: 2.5 uid resource held maxheld barrier limit failcnt 257: kmemsize 13061903 22503424 2147483647 2147483647 0 lockedpages 0 0 999999 999999 0 privvmpages 11064 27885 81920 81920 0 shmpages 648 1304 65536 65536 0 dummy 0 0 0 0 0 numproc 17 39 32567 32567 0 physpages 62762 65536 0 65536 0 vmguarpages 0 0 65536 65536 0 oomguarpages 2083 13346 65536 65536 0 numtcpsock 6 9 7999992 7999992 0 numflock 0 13 999999 999999 0 numpty 1 2 255 255 0 numsiginfo 0 24 1024 1024 0 tcpsndbuf 115672 237752 214748160 396774400 0 tcprcvbuf 98304 266232 214748160 396774400 0 othersockbuf 13872 40824 214748160 396774400 0 dgramrcvbuf 0 8720 214748160 396774400 0 numothersock 30 39 7999992 7999992 0 dcachesize 11062474 21647238 2147483647 2147483647 0 numfile 302 395 23999976 23999976 0 dummy 0 0 0 0 0 dummy 0 0 0 0 0 dummy 0 0 0 0 0 numiptent 24 25 999999 999999 0
Comments
Ping to Google, pretty decent.
The DD results previously weren't too good, but definately not as bad as others, but that seems to have been changed for the good, it's not insane but it's certainly very good.
Pretty good IOping results, very consistent.
Might as well stick this in too.
The performance has improved greatly over the last few months at IPXcore, I'm sure other customers can testify to that, all of my complaints we're addressed to (I'm not exaggerating here, IO speed and network were my main complaints and they were resolved).
If anyone wants any other benchmarks or test's or opinions feel free to send me a PM and I'll add 'em in.
+1 Here
I had the tiny one (and no vswap btw) for several months. Always worked wonderfully.
I can't remember if I got that 4 cores btw.
vSwap and the 4 cores were both new additions as far as I know
Indeed, and that's the 'base' # of cores now. Depending on what node, we can offer an 'upgrade' to 8 or 12 cores for free.
Nah, everyone can beat that now, it is available in Solus for IPv4 and Ipv6
Insane.
So I can consider you later for a gameserver in your location :P
@mitgib haha yeah, I was talking about support in general, as a matter of fact I only added the 'for my rDNS request' bit in the last minute before posting.
is there site down for anyone else?
http://www.isup.me/ipxcore.com
It's up; I just used it.