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Open Virtuals - 6 Month Review - OpenVZ 512MB RAM/180GB HDD/2TB BW
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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@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
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
Can you let me in on how to do a benchmark?
@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
And the second one
Awesome! Thanks a ton
But you can get much better VPS with $20 a year. For example hostus, or dacentec, or arubacloud.
@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.
amazing... and op is still satisfied. you are the customer every provider will like most.
@colingpt IMO it's what you pay for.
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.
it's not, you can get more at a less price, try above (and plenty of others), you will know why we say this.
@colingpt That's fair. Thanks for those alternative links.
@x9a3k Censorship should probably be censorship
@0xdragon Ha-ha, good catch. Thanks! I guess I didn't have enough caffeine in my system when I typed that.