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My own chart: 52 VPS tested

edited November 2011 in Reviews

Hi everyone,

I have been a long-time reader, both of LEB and LET. And as you will see there after, I took several offers. For my own use, I developped a tool to evaluate my servers, including monitoring and measuring many technical and financial values.
I thought I would share some of the values that have a meaning outside of my own use. I have also exclude support quality, downtime and anything that can not be measured objectively. You can find the sheet at http://www.hostingwizard.net/ but here is a summary:

best ram: chicagovps (157.54MB/$)

best disk space: buyvm (6.65GB/$)

best cpu: rockmyweb

best disk speed: hostigation (22.06MB/s$)

best network speed: securedragon (3.77MB/s$)

Finally, I should mention hudsonvalleyhost, as my vps there has the best ROI. I hope this chart may help and I welcome your feedback.

Thanked by 1alex
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  • Nice idea, but I found some discrepancies in it, or your calculations are done in a way that is "unusual". Can you explain how you measure "disk speed per $"? It's a weird measurement to me. Also, starting from your "best ram" entry, how do you get to 205MB/$ for an offer that costs $17/Month and has 2GB RAM?

    Like said, I like the idea, but the numbers are just not correct or based on a form of calculation that you failed to explain :)

    Thanks for your efforts though, at least it gives some initial ideas about trends and if you can explain your numbers in more details, it might even make sense ;)

    EnJOY!!

    David

  • The disk speed, I'm sure is the standard dd test, as far the the ram/$, I wonder if he got the server at a discounted price?

    If you could add a column w/ the price you're paying, that'd make things a bit clearer.

  • For disk speed are you using Mb/s as per the legend or are you actually using MB/s?

    Adding a column for price paid would be great.

    Interesting list thanks.

  • @luma said: For disk speed are you using Mb/s as per the legend or are you actually using MB/s?

    It's definitely in megabytes.

  • KuJoeKuJoe Member, Host Rep

    Very nice! Will this chart be updated in the future or was this a one-off test? It would be nice to also include the date of testing so that viewers will know how new or old the data is so they can factor that in.

  • Not bad. Now we just need a way to calculate uptime/$ and ticket reply time/$

  • Hi hostingwizard_net, I think we can provide a better results now in our France data center... Regards.

  • edited November 2011

    Thanks for the comments.

    The disk speed in in MB/s. Any value marked with a '$' is divided by the price in USD.
    Some of the prices are discounted, they are exactly what I pay (monthly). All the discounted prices were offers posted on LEB. Some of the VPS are quite old, and regular price may have changed since.

    The data is updated automaticaly twice a day, at random time. The display values are the averages of the 10 last measures.
    I added the column with the price.

  • ztecztec Member
    edited November 2011

    52VPS', you are one hardcore LEB reader. Congratulations!

    Thanked by 1Asim
  • How do you measure the network latency? From where?

  • edited November 2011

    @DavidR I made a mistake when entering the price, as the coupon was not recurring.

    @vedran the uptime of the vps is not a good measure, it is not rare a vps crashes due to a pick of traffic and/or a mysql corruption and needs a reboot. However, I will add the measure of the downtime (lack of ping and/or http answer). I have an indicator for the support but it is too subjective so I don't include it. And the best support is when I don't need support.

    @rds100 Network latency is the average between the vps and 16 servers: 4 in Europe, 6 in North America, 1 in Oceania, 5 generic (CDN).

    @ztec I also have several dedicated servers but VPS have in general a better ROI (cheaper, less trouble, etc). Actually, my best DS ranks 23 (not shown, pow=10).

  • You have less trouble with your VPS than with your dedicated servers?
    I prefer dedicated servers, the performance is consistent - I don't have to check every week if my provider is screwing me on the resources. It's well worth the extra money for me. VPS is just for fun, small projects, gameservers, voiceservers - The real business should still be done on a dedicated server or premium VPS such as Linode (which I have no experience with).

  • @ztec said: real business should still be done on a dedicated server or premium VPS

    Well, VPS would not be the fastest growing segment of the overall hosting industry for the past few years if it not for the fact it is a huge cost savings for those who use it. I do think you statement is a little true and a little false at the same time. I'm sure there are many "premium" providers that deliver a substandard VPS, and just like any offering, some will just provide a better service and price is a fairly useless statistic to go by.

    @hostingwizard_net Great job! Very comprehensive list, we've never seen this much detain in one place before, I hope the community can offer enough suggestions to make your list even more useful.

  • Our France SSD server:

    [root@cluster003 ~]# cd /vz
    [root@cluster003 vz]# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
    16384+0 records in
    16384+0 records out
    1073741824 bytes (1,1 GB) copied, 3,31138 s, 324 MB/s

  • RendusRendus Member
    edited November 2011

    This is a pretty useless list, actually.

    He has pricing for yearly hosts, monthly hosts, and presumably quarterly hosts mixed indiscriminately.

    No methodology is shown. No data offered to allow reproduction of tests, environment, configuration, etc.

    There's some pretty aberrant results listed. 2MB/s "pfs", for disk access, 747ms ping for one host, and if it is averaged, the data is pretty useless as it tosses out any useful highs or lows.

    No indication on where or how the data was collected. First-hand testing? Scraped from other reviews? Granted access to test systems for review purposes? Purchased and tested secret shopper-style?

    87.04 "price" VPS (in what currency? USD? The host's native?), but no Linode, Rackspace, etc.

    Pretty clear farm for affiliate links, atop it all.

    Thanked by 1drmike
  • edited November 2011

    @ztec I should have said: less worry. Let's say you get 15 VPS for the same price than one DS. If a DS goes down for any reason, you lose 100%. It's critical. If a VPS goes down, you lose only 7%. No worry. And you often get RAID and better value for money with a VPS. My DS work well, they are stable but they are way more expensive.

    @vpsdeploy I may give it a try if it matches my requirements. I will contact you later directly. As for the speed measures, it will always be lower than the maximum, for two reasons: first all these VPS are live system, all the measures are averaged, and I currently use: dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=16k count=10k conv=fdatasync

    The reasons are, on some VPS, I don't have one free GB to spare (even temporarily) and the test would be too heavy on disk i/o.

    @Rendus Finally some negative feedback ;) thanks. As stated, the displayed prices are what I pay, converted in USD. There is one yearly plan, no quaterly one but a lot of coupons/LEB offers. Prices for regular plans would be interesting but are quite difficult to define (custom, deprecated) and need to be entered, etc. Maybe later. You must understand the context: this page is just an extract of a database I created more than 6 months ago and fed every day with live data. I thought part of it could be useful to some so I'm hidding the rows not related to VPS (mainly dedicated servers) and 7 columns that are related to my personal use. Data is first-hand, from running , loaded, bought VPS.

    "highs or lows": I have them internally. Showing them would make the table less readable. Showing them in a tip would be interesting.

    pfs 2MB/s: real measure, this VPS is old and overpriced but it is fully loaded and still works quite well (number 31 in my personnal rank) so I'm keeping it.

    747ms: I had to consider failures. As I wrote before, latency is the average value from one vps to 16 servers. In case of a failure, 9999 is used. Then the average of the ten last values is shown. I should probably count failures separately. (This vps is very new, I haven't finished to configure it)

    87.04: real price in USD for october. This is a very good VPS from a premium host (no downtime, cloud), you can adjust any parameter in real time, add/remove IP instantly and it serves some of my bigger websites. It's expensive but worth the money in my case. So much that I took 2 other VPS at this provider.

    No linode, no rackspace, no amazon, etc: too expensive, only one IPv4. I looked at them regularly, especially for their offers in Japan but I didn't commit yet.

  • @hostingwizard_net said: @ztec I should have said: less worry. Let's say you get 15 VPS for the same price than one DS. If a DS goes down for any reason, you lose 100%. It's critical. If a VPS goes down, you lose only 7%. No worry. And you often get RAID and better value for money with a VPS. My DS work well, they are stable but they are way more expensive.

    Sounds good, but I don't have any projects that allow me to easily split them over 15 VPS'. I would if I could though.

  • Finally some negative feedback

    Actually I was looking for at the links as well but it appears that LEA allows it.

    Spent more time looking for a google url shortner discoder actually...

  • @drmike You can't decode a google short url, you can only resolve it.
    wget -O /dev/null -S http://goo.gl/Ica6Q 2>&1 | \
    egrep '^--201.-..-.. ..:..:..' | awk '{ if(NR==2) print($3); }'

  • LESLES Member
    edited November 2011

    adding '.info' or '+' does the job!

    http://goo.gl/Ica6Q.info

    Thanked by 1Xeoncross
  • edited November 2011

    @LES The canonical form is http://goo.gl/info/Ica6Q , however I prefer http://goo.gl/Ica6Q+ as this form is used by most url-shorteners.

    Thanked by 2kristal LES
  • Still doesn't work though if the domain is blocked.

  • @drmike said: Still doesn't work though if the domain is blocked.

    Why you block this domain?

  • drmikedrmike Member
    edited November 2011

    Who wants to answer that question for me?

    sigh

    I use mostly pubic wireless networks. Most public wireless networks block any url shortner sites as well as anything that redirects from one domain to another in the name of security and because the folks behind those networks think they're used for porn.

    Also most forums I'm on ban them anyway because, as a couple of recent threads have shown, they're used to hide affiliate links. To be honest, I wish LEA would do the same here but sigh he hasn't.

    edit: Moot anyway. Not like I have the money or need for yet another vps.

  • I should set myself up an affiliate account for BuyVM, and start doing the sales posts linking off of my own affiliate number.

  • Employees usually can't be apart of their company's affiliate program. In real life as well as internet companies. At least that's what I usually see. Conflict of interest and all that.

  • Sorry, forgot to include my </смешно>.

  • huh?

  • Hard to find an equivilant. Somewhere between humour and sarcasm, but without the aggression?

  • @drmike said: In real life as well as internet companies.

    Wait, so if we have internet companies, we cannot have real lives?

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