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Meebox.net review
Intro
I've been a customer of Meebox for just over 11 months now and since I couldn't find a review I decided to write one. I have their "Cloud VPS 1" plan with 512 MB Memory, 1 vCPU, 20 GB SSD Disk and 1 TB of Bandwidth. The VPS is located in Denmark and has 100Mbit/s connection.
Bench
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CPU model : QEMU Virtual CPU version (cpu64-rhel6)
Number of cores : 1
CPU frequency : 2199.998 MHz
Total amount of ram : 491 MB
Total amount of swap : 1023 MB
System uptime : 218days, 13:8:23
Load average : 0.00, 0.04, 0.05
OS : Debian GNU/Linux 8
Arch : x86_64 (64 Bit)
Kernel : 3.16.0-4-amd64
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Node Name IPv4 address Download Speed
CacheFly 205.234.175.175 10.5MB/s
Linode, Tokyo, JP 106.187.96.148 3.07MB/s
Linode, Singapore, SG 139.162.23.4 3.93MB/s
Linode, London, UK 176.58.107.39 11.5MB/s
Linode, Frankfurt, DE 139.162.130.8 11.6MB/s
Linode, Fremont, CA 50.116.14.9 1.08MB/s
Softlayer, Dallas, TX 173.192.68.18 1.50MB/s
Softlayer, Seattle, WA 67.228.112.250 7.84MB/s
Softlayer, Frankfurt, DE 159.122.69.4 9.79MB/s
Softlayer, Singapore, SG 119.81.28.170 1.47MB/s
Softlayer, HongKong, CN 119.81.130.170 1.62MB/s
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Node Name IPv6 address Download Speed
Linode, Atlanta, GA 2600:3c02::4b 2.84MB/s
Linode, Dallas, TX 2600:3c00::4b 10.4MB/s
Linode, Newark, NJ 2600:3c03::4b 10.8MB/s
Linode, Singapore, SG 2400:8901::4b 6.95MB/s
Linode, Tokyo, JP 2400:8900::4b 5.99MB/s
Softlayer, San Jose, CA 2607:f0d0:2601:2a::4 631KB/s
Softlayer, Washington, WA 2607:f0d0:3001:78::2 2.03MB/s
Softlayer, Paris, FR 2a03:8180:1301:8::4 2.97MB/s
Softlayer, Singapore, SG 2401:c900:1101:8::2 2.31MB/s
Softlayer, Tokyo, JP 2401:c900:1001:16::4 1.20MB/s
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I/O speed(1st run) : 169 MB/s
I/O speed(2nd run) : 191 MB/s
I/O speed(3rd run) : 275 MB/s
Average I/O speed : 211.667 MB/s
More I/O speed tests from March 2016
Disk Speed
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I/O (1st run) : 224 MB/s
I/O (2nd run) : 91.8 MB/s
I/O (3rd run) : 168 MB/s
Average I/O : 161.267 MB/s
Disk Speed
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I/O (1st run) : 270 MB/s
I/O (2nd run) : 258 MB/s
I/O (3rd run) : 261 MB/s
Average I/O : 263 MB/s
Disk Speed
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I/O (1st run) : 304 MB/s
I/O (2nd run) : 287 MB/s
I/O (3rd run) : 199 MB/s
Average I/O : 263.333 MB/s
Support
Their support is not the quickest. They usually answer during next day. Don't expect an answer on weekend.
Other stuff
IPv6 is not added automatically but can be requested from support. They give at least one IPv6 address and I'm not sure if it is possible get more addresses or a /64 network assigned. For some reason they add a second network interface (eth1) to a VPS and assign the address to it.
Reverse DNS to addresses can be added by support. I did this back in November 2015 but now the reverse seems to be deleted and I did not bother to request it again. It was still working on July 2016.
They do not notify clients about changes on the service. For example they decided to block incoming UDP port 161 and they did not send notification about this in advance.
Problems
There were some problems that lasted for two weeks with my VPS. During this time the VPS suffered from occasional 100% packet loss and 500ms latency. The VPS also crashed a few times during these two weeks. I was very close not to renew the service because of this since it seemed that support couldn't resolve the issue.
For a month there has been an occasional 5-10% packet loss on my VPS. This happens multiple times per day. Latency also fluctuates quite a bit:
--- 8.8.8.8 ping statistics ---
100 packets transmitted, 100 received, 0% packet loss, time 99222ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 10.519/17.997/127.145/18.474 ms
Comments
Thanks, I was thinking of grabbing one recently. Doesn't seem too nice though...
Maybe it was a language barrier issue, but when I asked for a test IP address a few weeks back they told me 'You can order a VPS 1 and test it yourself - if you use the promo code "vpstry" you get the first month for free.' When I tried to setup an account, the form didn't seem quite right. It would insist on my getting a VPS 3 plan and when I deleted that I then just received a web page that said "inet pid".
They offered to setup an account for me, but by that point I was pretty unimpressed so I politely declined and moved on.
It seems that Meebox has finally fixed their network. No packet loss for a week and latency seems more stable. There are some lag spike still but they are more rare than before.
From RamNode (NL):
300 packets transmitted, 300 received, 0% packet loss, time 299712ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 21.792/23.642/137.006/9.026 ms300 packets transmitted, 300 received, 0% packet loss, time 299714ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 21.828/24.284/273.772/18.618 msFrom OVH (FR):
300 packets transmitted, 300 received, 0% packet loss, time 299166ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 32.808/33.226/36.773/0.643 ms600 packets transmitted, 600 received, 0% packet loss, time 599519ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 32.796/34.203/335.027/15.879 msMay be just replace slow Google DNS to something else.
@jenkki said:
May be just replace slow Google DNS to something else.
I wasn't using Google DNS to measure the packet loss. It did not matter where I measured it. There was PL measured from my home, RamNode, OVH etc.