[Review] StylexNetworks (Small package / Xen)
So I picked up a free VPS with these guys and it seemed pretty good. Currently, I'm using that one for monitoring other nodes. I decided to purchase their "small" package which I use it to keep my skype and msn online 24/7.
Specs -
10 GB HD
256 MB of RAM
1 CPU core
300 GB transfer
Xen
1 IP address
Support - When I signed up for the free package, I didn't see a debian 6 32 bit template. I asked them to put one on there. Here's a screenshot with timestamps.
Their control panel
Benchmarks - I did them right now
Speed test (in California, linode speed test files) usingaria2c -i links -j 1Download Results: gid|stat|avg speed |path/URI ===+====+===========+=========================================================== 1| OK| 3.2MiB/s|/root/100MB-tokyo.bin 2| OK| 1.7MiB/s|/root/100MB-london.bin 3| OK| 3.9MiB/s|/root/100MB-newark.bin 4| OK| 4.9MiB/s|/root/100MB-atlanta.bin 5| OK| 12.5MiB/s|/root/100MB-dallas.bin 6| OK| 13.5MiB/s|/root/100MB-fremont.bin CPU model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5620 @ 2.40GHz stepping : 2 cpu MHz : 2393.998 openssl CPU speed test usingopenssl speed rsatiming function used: times sign verify sign/s verify/s rsa 512 bits 0.000421s 0.000031s 2376.6 32420.2 rsa 1024 bits 0.001858s 0.000080s 538.2 12489.3 rsa 2048 bits 0.009785s 0.000241s 102.2 4153.9 rsa 4096 bits 0.058480s 0.000778s 17.1 1285.0 Disk speed test using dd usingdd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync; rm test16384+0 records in 16384+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 12.9452 s, 82.9 MB/s Disk test usingioping - ioping . -c 104096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/xvda1): request=1 time=0.3 ms 4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/xvda1): request=2 time=86.8 ms 4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/xvda1): request=3 time=99.9 ms 4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/xvda1): request=4 time=0.4 ms 4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/xvda1): request=5 time=0.4 ms 4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/xvda1): request=6 time=0.5 ms 4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/xvda1): request=7 time=0.5 ms 4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/xvda1): request=8 time=0.5 ms 4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/xvda1): request=9 time=0.4 ms 4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/xvda1): request=10 time=0.3 ms --- . (ext3 /dev/xvda1) ioping statistics --- 10 requests completed in 9191.5 ms, 53 iops, 0.2 mb/s min/avg/max/mdev = 0.3/19.0/99.9/37.3 ms
One odd thing I noticed, my nodes have 252 MB of ram instead of 256 (I'll be opening a support ticket to see what's going on). Also they force 1 GB swap on mine so I have 9 GB HD space. I was going to wait a month before posting a review on this company since they're fairly new, but I'm I'll be busy next week so I decided to do this now. If you're worried about them disappearing, go with monthly payments.
tl;dr - support is extremely fast, good uptime and responsive node, fair I/O
Uploaded some pics for people with pitchforks - http://imgur.com/a/S6tvL
Comments
Even on the free account. I really appreciate that.
hmm. ok that cp looks a lot better than the stone networks one.
do you mean LimeStoneNetworks?
if so i agree, the CP in LSN is not really good looking
for all i care is its support and its top notch hardware. at a reasonable price
Yea, I found them surprisingly good as well... Hopefully more people upgrade to their paid plans and keep them in business!
(My review from about a month ago: https://www.thriftydevil.com.au/technology/full-review-of-stylexnetworks-xen-onapp-virtual-private-server ... I also got good results then, and havent had any issues since!)
Not sure, but I think he's talking about Stone Internet Services, which operates "ShiftToTheCloud".
oh LOL, my mistake
;P
yeah, their support really fast
even for free user.
uptime
@jack
This is a hostbill theme.
Personal info included. Will send stylexnetworks message.
@xiaoxian88
Please open a ticket regarding this issue as I cannot discuss any personal information on a public forum.
A provider using the old template I used for ChromiumHosting.
Nodes look good, btw!
@stylexnetworks
Thank you I will
@xiaoxian88
I had one of our team members look into this for you. Please check your email.
Let us know if you require any further assistance.