Open Virtuals - 6 Month Review - OpenVZ 512MB RAM/180GB HDD/2TB BW

x9a3k

Back in June I picked up an OpenVZ vm from open virtuals when they posted an offer on LEB. It was $20 USD for the year, 512mb of ram, 180GB HDD, and 2TB of bandwidth.

I initially set it up as a private Jabber server to be connected with one of my clients wordpress sites but ended up decommissioning it recently as we redid that clients website with a custom built-in chat system.

I still have the box and have had no issues with downtime or reliability, I would definitely recommend them.

The system it's self is by no means a power house, and I wouldn't suggest running anything mission critical on it. It's a snail compared a good KVM VPS on someone like Linode but it's also WAY cheaper ($1.67/mo)

Below is a benchmark I just ran with a clean install of ubuntu.

The speeds aren't amazing but they're not bad for less frequently used applications.

Bench Mark:
Benchmark started on Sun Jan 17 13:55:45 EST 2016
Full benchmark log: /root/bench.log

System Info
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Processor   : Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU  C2750  @ 2.40GHz
CPU Cores   : 2
Frequency   : 2399.791 MHz
Memory      : 512 MB
Swap        : 1024 MB
Uptime      : 13 min,

OS      : Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS
Arch        : x86_64 (64 Bit)
Kernel      : 2.6.32-042stab108.2
Hostname    : tsweb02


Speedtest (IPv4 only)
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Your public IPv4 is XXX.XX.XXX.XX

Location        Provider    Speed
CDN         Cachefly    80.8MB/s

Atlanta, GA, US     Coloat      50.4MB/s 
Dallas, TX, US      Softlayer   77.6MB/s 
Seattle, WA, US     Softlayer   34.0MB/s 
San Jose, CA, US    Softlayer   37.4MB/s 
Washington, DC, US  Softlayer   35.7MB/s 

Tokyo, Japan        Linode      7.94MB/s 
Singapore       Softlayer   8.44MB/s 

Rotterdam, Netherlands  id3.net     9.22MB/s
Haarlem, Netherlands    Leaseweb    10.5MB/s 


Disk Speed
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I/O (1st run)   : 7.7 MB/s
I/O (2nd run)   : 11.7 MB/s
I/O (3rd run)   : 17.5 MB/s
Average I/O : 12.3 MB/s

Speedtest:

Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...
Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Testing from ColoCrossing (XXX.XX.XXX.XX)...
Selecting best server based on latency...
Hosted by Nexicom Inc. (Toronto, ON) [91.69 km]: 58.056 ms
Testing download speed........................................
Download: 307.37 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed..................................................
Upload: 49.56 Mbit/s

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TarZZ92

@x9a3k

Could you run a benchmark please? i believe one of our members has a script (or directly http://www.primatelabs.com/geekbench/download/)

and running openvz nodes on atoms, ouch

x9a3k

Yea, it's by no means a powerhouse but for $20 a year it's not bad for non-mission critical stuff.

Here are the Geek Bench results
http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench3/4938109

Ympker

Can you let me in on how to do a benchmark?

x9a3k

@Ympker

The first benchmark I provided was using this script https://freevps.us/bench.sh
The second one was from here https://github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli

To run the first one simply login to your VPS and type the following

wget https://freevps.us/bench.sh
chmod +x bench.sh
./bench.sh

And the second one

wget -O speedtest-cli https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sivel/speedtest-cli/master/speedtest_cli.py
chmod +x speedtest-cli
./speedtest-cli

Ympker

Awesome! Thanks a ton

TheOnlyDK

But you can get much better VPS with $20 a year. For example hostus, or dacentec, or arubacloud.

x9a3k

@TheOnlyDk, that's fair. I don't really have the need for low end VPS' as much anymore as I have my own dedicated servers colo'd and local dev servers

I just figured I'd share my results from Open Virtuals as I found the offer on LEB way back when.

colingpt

x9a3k said:

I/O (1st run)   : 7.7 MB/s
I/O (2nd run)   : 11.7 MB/s
I/O (3rd run)   : 17.5 MB/s
Average I/O : 12.3 MB/s

amazing... and op is still satisfied. you are the customer every provider will like most.

x9a3k

@colingpt IMO it's what you pay for.

x9a3k said: It's a snail compared a good KVM VPS on someone like Linode

It was fine for the usage it was purchased for at the time.

Everything else I run that needs faster IO speeds usually gets 500-800 MB/s on mid ranged VPSs (1Gb-4GB SSD type plans from trusted providers like Linode, DO, Etc...)

This includes the servers I normally provide to my customers.

colingpt

@x9a3k said:
colingpt IMO it's what you pay for.

TheOnlyDK said: For example hostus, or dacentec, or arubacloud.

it's not, you can get more at a less price, try above (and plenty of others), you will know why we say this.

x9a3k

@colingpt That's fair. Thanks for those alternative links.

0xdragon

@x9a3k Censorship should probably be censorship

x9a3k

@0xdragon Ha-ha, good catch. Thanks! I guess I didn't have enough caffeine in my system when I typed that.