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[Review] FrontRangeHosting 128MB Plan
Hey LET,
Just a quick review of the LEB I just picked up from FRH (They seem to get alot of positive reviews, had to try them out...)
Here's my specs...
128MB RAM / 256MB vSwap 5 GB Raid-10 protected disk space 250 GB Bandwith 4 vCPU cores OpenVZ / SolusVM 1 x IPv4 5 x IPv6 $1.5/Month, (After LEB25 discount) http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/front-range-hosting-1-5month-128mb-openvz-in-denver/
I'll perform:
- FreeVPS.US Bench Script
- Serverbear
First off; let's talk about the order stages.
The order form was easy to understand, navigation was quick, and seamless payment from PayPal though they accepted four methods.
They offer a large range of OVZ templates including Development releases of popular distros. I was happy that Debian 32-bit (6) was on the list; and picked that, since I can now just simply throw Minstall on top to deal with my needs.
What's my intended use?
It's going to be a little bit of a development server for me, I have several in the US, and fancied a one in Denver, not to mention, to keep a track of uptime etc. (Just another junk box that'll be forgotton about if I'm honest!). Oh, and a VPN isnt bad!
Anyway. On to the Tests....
- FreeVPS.us bench test...
root@denver:/# wget freevps.us/downloads/bench.sh -O - -o /dev/null|bash CPU model : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 0 @ 2.00GHz Number of cores : 4 CPU frequency : 1999.781 MHz Total amount of ram : 128 MB Total amount of swap : 128 MB System uptime : 12 min, Download speed from CacheFly: 10.2MB/s Download speed from Linode, Atlanta GA: 5.84MB/s Download speed from Linode, Dallas, TX: 9.39MB/s Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 4.62MB/s Download speed from Linode, London, UK: 678KB/s Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 492KB/s Download speed from Softlayer, Singapore: 5.31MB/s Download speed from Softlayer, Seattle, WA: 8.31MB/s Download speed from Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 8.80MB/s Download speed from Softlayer, Washington, DC: 7.60MB/s I/O speed : 115 MB/s
A nice E5-2620 on this server, meaning I must be on a new node.
Four-Accessible CPU cores.
- Average results for the Download Speed tests; seems EU is very slow on this; I did a tracert to my OVH box...
root@denver:/# traceroute pma.chriseaston.info traceroute to pma.chriseaston.info (5.39.77.207), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets 1 198.147.23.200 (198.147.23.200) 0.053 ms 0.034 ms 0.018 ms 2 te4-1.201.ccr01.cos01.atlas.cogentco.com (38.122.28.17) 0.580 ms 0.568 ms 0.531 ms 3 te4-2.ccr01.den01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.40.26) 2.139 ms te3-2.ccr02.den01.atlas.cogentc o.com (154.54.40.18) 2.207 ms 2.265 ms 4 te0-3-0-7.mpd22.mci01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.87.98) 14.120 ms 14.079 ms te0-4-0-2.mpd21 .mci01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.24.82) 14.362 ms 5 te0-3-0-2.mpd21.ord01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.7.137) 26.397 ms te0-5-0-4.mpd22.ord01.atla s.cogentco.com (154.54.45.158) 26.378 ms te0-5-0-4.mpd21.ord01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.45.154 ) 26.418 ms 6 te0-4-0-5.ccr21.ord03.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.2.98) 26.472 ms te0-4-0-7.ccr21.ord03.atlas .cogentco.com (154.54.25.70) 26.943 ms te0-5-0-1.ccr21.ord03.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.44.170) 26.542 ms 7 * * * 8 * * * 9 * * * 10 rbx-g1-a9.fr.eu (91.121.215.143) 125.403 ms 125.364 ms 125.322 ms 11 vss-9a-6k.fr.eu (91.121.131.154) 124.499 ms * 123.559 ms 12 ks3264804.kimsufi.com (5.39.77.207) 123.643 ms 123.691 ms 124.023 ms
Mediocre Serverbear results, but everything seems to run fine . I was expecting a larger disk io considering these are 'cachecade'?
Output of "df -h"
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/simfs 5.0G 499M 4.6G 10% / tmpfs 64M 0 64M 0% /lib/init/rw tmpfs 64M 0 64M 0% /dev/shm
Conclusion:
A nice server for it's location, happy so far, and hope to be a long-term customer. I'm interested in seeing how this node performs after a few more months of use; since it appears i'm on a newer E5 node, let's see how their "non-oversubscribed" nodes do!
*One noticed problem... *
When Directly pinging the server from my FR Box (Kimsufi) I get this...
root@kimsufi:/# ping denver.chriseaston.info PING denver.chriseaston.info (198.147.20.105) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from mail.2008pro.com (198.147.20.105): icmp_req=1 ttl=53 time=123 ms 64 bytes from mail.2008pro.com (198.147.20.105): icmp_req=2 ttl=53 time=128 ms 64 bytes from mail.2008pro.com (198.147.20.105): icmp_req=3 ttl=53 time=123 ms 64 bytes from mail.2008pro.com (198.147.20.105): icmp_req=4 ttl=53 time=123 ms 64 bytes from mail.2008pro.com (198.147.20.105): icmp_req=5 ttl=53 time=123 ms 64 bytes from mail.2008pro.com (198.147.20.105): icmp_req=6 ttl=53 time=123 ms
This is strange? Don't you think? That hostname resolves to 64.250.114.169... Any ideas?
Thank you for reading!
Chris.
Comments
On windows, try ipconfig /flushdns
It's rdns. Ask them to update it.
Will do, thanks JustinB, it was a suspicion of mine, but I thought they may of already had this sorted. @BronzeByte it's a OVH box I was pinging from.!
@eastonch
Oops, misread, I thought you said that the domain you pinged resolved to a different IP then what it pinged.
Like @justinb said, ask your provider to (re)set rDNS
@Bronzebyte 'William'?
Similar avatar :P
Yeah, had that problem too, but everything else is good nonetheless.
+1 positive review from me
this benchmark from FRH kvm vps
and this serverbear benchmark result
http://serverbear.com/benchmark/2012/12/08/0DEWsDgBWVaZ95ng
@Maounique @eastonch
Exactly, I usually use avatars to quickly identify people but looked to quickly this time :-)