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EthernetServers.com review

mandarkmandark Member
edited December 2015 in Reviews

I bought their 4 core, 1 TB bandwidth, 1 GB RAM residing at Buffalo and costed $12/year, which is very cheap and however I shouldn't be complaining of what they're offering.

The good thing is, there's no downtime till date.

But, I am a bit frustrated for the following issues:

  • SSH key strokes are slow as the server resides in the moon.
  • yum install takes ages
  • htop takes at least 5 seconds to open
  • vi takes 6+ seconds to open
  • ls takes 1 second (feels like)
  • Bandwidth is 1 TB but access from Asia is ~500 KB/s
  • Ping to 8.8.8.8 is 100+ms
  • Recently I've installed Apache and MySql, memory is stuck at 100~200MB but the swap is increasing, currently at 400MB. (vmstat says 0 in si/so)
  • Apache response time is fairly slow.

I am not complaining, is this fair & acceptable for $12/year?

Server bear benchmark

FreeVPS benchmark

Benchmark started on Thu Dec 17 08:48:50 EST 2015
Full benchmark log: /home/root4825/bench.log

System Info
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Processor       : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 v2 @ 2.10GHz
CPU Cores       : 4
Frequency       : 2100.061 MHz
Memory          : 1024 MB
Swap            : 1024 MB
Uptime          : 69 days, 23:56,

OS              : CentOS release 6.7 (Final)
Arch            : i686 (32 Bit)
Kernel          : 2.6.32-042stab108.8
Hostname        : *******-01


Speedtest (IPv4 only)
---------------------
Your public IPv4 is 172.24*.***.***

Location                Provider        Speed
CDN                     Cachefly        61.8MB/s

Atlanta, GA, US         Coloat          41.5MB/s
Dallas, TX, US          Softlayer       193KB/s
Seattle, WA, US         Softlayer       24.2MB/s
San Jose, CA, US        Softlayer       24.4MB/s
Washington, DC, US      Softlayer       46.2MB/s

Tokyo, Japan            Linode          10.5MB/s
Singapore               Softlayer       7.42MB/s

Rotterdam, Netherlands  id3.net         125KB/s
Haarlem, Netherlands    Leaseweb        11.8MB/s


Disk Speed
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I/O (1st run)   : 21.2 MB/s
I/O (2nd run)   : 22.2 MB/s
I/O (3rd run)   : 32.1 MB/s
Average I/O     : 25.1667 MB/s

I contacted their customer service, however they replied back in 3 hours saying, it shouldn't be like that and things are fine from their end. They'll look into it. Then, closed the ticket.

Thanked by 1deadbeef
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Comments

  • deadbeefdeadbeef Member
    edited December 2015

    @mandark said:
    I bought their 4 core, 1 TB bandwidth, 1 GB RAM residing at Buffalo and costed $12/year, which is very cheap and however I shouldn't be complaining of what they're offering.

    Unless they were advertising in a way like "the numbers are like that but we're overselling as f*ck so in reality you get an 6.25% share of a refurbished Atari", yes, you should complain.

  • freevps is not really a benchmark it does not do actual reliable tests

    Thanked by 1zafouhar
  • mandarkmandark Member
    edited December 2015

    @TarZZ92 said:
    freevps is not really a benchmark it does not do actual reliable tests

    Yeah, I think that as well. It just gives network and some IO figures. I just call it bechmark like other people do :P

  • That's not so much right for their QN location. I've the same plan with no complaints.

  • AnthonySmithAnthonySmith Member, Patron Provider

    mandark said: residing at Buffalo

    mandark said: access from Asia

    Probably has a lot to do with it, maybe post a tracert or mtr from you to the VPS?

  • teknolaizteknolaiz Member
    edited December 2015

    @mandark said:

    It can also run Geekbench for you.

    https://github.com/hidden-refuge/bench-sh-2

    ./bench.sh -b

    Will run the tests as above in your results + Geekbench.

    I also planned to include IOPing tests for extended disk testing but I had to ditch it due to various compatibility issues with different Linux distributions and et cetera. bench.sh-2 is meant to be simply and not a huge thing like Serverbear.

  • ScienceOnlineScienceOnline Member
    edited December 2015

    Same here, I had one in Buffalo and when I do :~$ ssh [email protected] -p xxxx it takes 5 seconds before I see [email protected]'s password: I requested to be moved to LA and it was the same, so I turned off that vps and forgot about it.

  • FlamesRunnerFlamesRunner Member
    edited December 2015

    You chose their Buffalo location?

    Hahahahahahahahahaha, should have taken Miami/Los Angeles, :p

    Edit: Well, I got placed on a newer node, Electronic, so yeah :/

  • @FlamesRunner said:
    You chose their Buffalo location?

    Hahahahahahahahahaha, should have taken Miami/Los Angeles, :p

    Edit: Well, I got placed on a newer node, Electronic, so yeah :/

    Be happy. I still have 2 VPSes with them paid for the next (sad voice) 2 years; the worst part is that they're both on Ska.

  • @AnthonySmith said:
    Probably has a lot to do with it, maybe post a tracert or mtr from you to the VPS?

    Other VPSs I've tried have different and better experience. Buffalo and Asia isn't that far away in terms of light traveling :P

  • @Sady said:
    That's not so much right for their QN location. I've the same plan with no complaints.

    Thats' interesting. Can you describe a bit more?

  • @mandark said:
    Thats' interesting. Can you describe a bit more?

    I've a plan in their Los Angeles, Quadranet location & I've no issues at all.

  • @Sady said:
    Shall I ask them to move my VPS to LA? Will they do it?

  • @mandark said:

    Not sure.

  • mandarkmandark Member
    edited December 2015

    @Sady said: Not sure.

    I'll raise a ticket and see how they respond.

  • I have been using their LA location and happy with the performace. There was only a single downtime for 5 minutes other than that service is good.

  • @mandark

    are you still having the same problem?

    Is the server still sluggish?

  • anyone one LA node can do server bear benchmark?

    they look like too good to be true for that price.

  • @andiklive said:
    anyone one LA node can do server bear benchmark?

    they look like too good to be true for that price.

    Here we goes:

    http://serverbear.com/benchmark/2016/01/10/qV9gBDSPftv0noyR

  • andikliveandiklive Member
    edited January 2016

    @FredQc said:

    look not bad for score, but the Disk I/O have very low performance.

    are you on HDD or SSD cached?

  • @andiklive said:

    That's HDD.

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  • deadbeef said: refurbished Atari

    You've killed me, even twice! ;-)

  • FlamesRunnerFlamesRunner Member
    edited January 2016

    They migrated my VPS servers without hassle, just open a ticket.

  • FredQc said: Here we goes:

    You are lucky! My results are much worse (especially CPU) http://serverbear.com/benchmark/2016/01/10/NDnznaKEwI2ukWQ0

  • @FlamesRunner said:
    They migrate my VPS servers without hassle, just open a ticket.

    Same here, they didn't have a problem when I asked to be migrated.

  • I've got my NY VPS migrated to LA but it didn't help at all and having almost the same performance, sluggish and slow. Looks like it's an old atari after all.

  • I'd be happy with the old Atari. I ordered a 2nd VPS (got ahead and laugh) Saturday night and I'm still waiting for it to be provisioned. I got an answer to my ticket from Sunday morning Monday morning at 3 am saying it would be ready momentarily. But I'm still wainting....sigh......

  • I'd be happy with the old Atari. I ordered a 2nd VPS (got ahead and laugh) Saturday night and I'm still waiting for it to be provisioned. I got an answer to my ticket from Sunday morning Monday morning at 3 am saying it would be ready momentarily. But I'm still wainting....sigh......

  • Hello.
    I bought the same plan.
    I have the same issue.
    I opened a ticket and a staff replied saying, "I'm currently working on resolving this issue".
    But the issue hasn't be solved yet.
    The staff is repeating the same phrase for more than a month every time I ask the improvement.
    Can I expect the issue is solved?

  • lol... everyone enjoy their 'exclusives.'

    Thanked by 1Winne
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