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InceptionHosting 320 MB Xen VPS Review
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InceptionHosting 320 MB Xen VPS Review

iKockaiKocka Member
edited September 2011 in Reviews

I needed an european VPS for one of my projects. So I came across InceptionHosting's offer on LEB and decided to give them a try. VPS setup was instant, however there were some issues with broken Debian template, but Anthony fixed them fast and he even credited my account. Almost 1 month passed, so here is my review:

13:15:53 up 19 days, 16:49,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

There wasn't any single downtime or server reboot yet.

             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:           320        315          4          0         24        239
-/+ buffers/cache:         50        269
Swap:          511          0        511

With Debian 5 + Nginx + MySQL + PHP installed and hosting few websites current memory consumption is around 52 MB.

processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 26
model name      : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU         950  @ 3.07GHz
stepping        : 5
cpu MHz         : 3066.768
cache size      : 8192 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 11
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu de tsc msr pae cx8 apic sep cmov pat clflush acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht nx constant_tsc pni ssse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt ida
bogomips        : 6141.71
clflush size    : 64
power management:

VPS comes with 8 cores of i7-950 running at 3.07 GHz. A paradise for abusers, however so far node is being managed promptly.

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1              15G  800M   14G   6% /
tmpfs                 161M     0  161M   0% /lib/init/rw
udev                   10M  488K  9.6M   5% /dev
tmpfs                 161M  4.0K  161M   1% /dev/shm

All disk space is here.

# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync && rm -rf test
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 6.11895 s, 175 MB/s

I/O speed is outstanding compared to other european providers using OVH's and Hetzner's servers.

# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync && rm -rf test
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 6.21125 s, 173 MB/s

I don't think node has hardware RAiD controller or it maybe it has tiny cache.

# wget -O /dev/null http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test && rm -rf 100mb.test
--2011-09-24 13:39:56--  http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net... 205.234.175.175
Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net|205.234.175.175|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `/dev/null'

100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 81.6M/s   in 1.2s

2011-09-24 13:39:57 (81.6 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]

I've never seen better network speeds on a budget VPS.

Integer Score:                5273 |||||||||||||||||||||
Floating Point Score:        11080 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Memory Score:                 5932 |||||||||||||||||||||||
Stream Score:                 4937 |||||||||||||||||||

Overall Geekbench Score:      7403 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||

Geekbench score is high too.

Not to forget, every customer gets 5 GB backup space as at BuyVM. Support tickets are usually responded within few minutes. InceptionHosting is definitely one of the best and most reliable VPS providers in Europe.

Thanked by 1drmike

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