I have been customer for a few days right now. It was choosing between Buyvm and Ramnode (http://www.ramnode.com/) but because Buyvm was out of stock I bought one at Ramnode. So far I'm really happy with it, Openvpn is running without any problems and I mainly use it for watching Netflix. I'm currently also running irssi on it. I won't write a review because I think I can't write a good review without being atleast a customer for a month.
The server:
256MB RAM 256MB VSwap 1 CPU Core 40GB SSD-Cached HDD Space 1Gbps Port 1000GB Bandwidth 1 IPv4 Address 16 IPv6 Addresses Weekly Remote Backups TUN/TAP
CPU info
root@server:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 58 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1240 V2 @ 3.40GHz stepping : 9 cpu MHz : 3400.139 cache size : 8192 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 8 core id : 0 cpu cores : 4 apicid : 0 initial apicid : 0 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 13 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm ida arat epb xsaveopt pln pts dts tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid fsgsbase smep erms bogomips : 6800.27 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management:`
Memory
root@server:~# cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 262144 kB MemFree: 177200 kB Cached: 33796 kB Active: 56532 kB Inactive: 17596 kB Active(anon): 23492 kB Inactive(anon): 16840 kB Active(file): 33040 kB Inactive(file): 756 kB Unevictable: 0 kB Mlocked: 0 kB SwapTotal: 262144 kB SwapFree: 176892 kB Dirty: 0 kB Writeback: 0 kB AnonPages: 40332 kB Shmem: 4140 kB Slab: 10756 kB SReclaimable: 4048 kB SUnreclaim: 6708 kB
Benchmark
root@server:~# wget freevps.us/downloads/bench.sh -O - -o /dev/null|bash CPU model : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1240 V2 @ 3.40GHz Number of cores : 1 CPU frequency : 3400.139 MHz Total amount of ram : 256 MB Total amount of swap : 256 MB System uptime : 23:44, Download speed from CacheFly: 21.6MB/s Download speed from Linode, Atlanta GA: 10.6MB/s Download speed from Linode, Dallas, TX: 4.19MB/s Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 5.75MB/s Download speed from Linode, London, UK: Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 635KB/s Download speed from Softlayer, Singapore: 4.67MB/s Download speed from Softlayer, Seattle, WA: 10.1MB/s Download speed from Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 10.0MB/s Download speed from Softlayer, Washington, DC: 13.8MB/s I/O speed : 481 MB/s
Download speed
root@server:~# wget cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.bin --2012-12-16 18:17:56-- http://wget/ Resolving wget... failed: Name or service not known. wget: unable to resolve host address `wget' --2012-12-16 18:17:56-- http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.bin 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: `100mb.bin' 100%[=====================================================================================================================================================================>] 104,857,600 20.4M/s in 4.9s 2012-12-16 18:18:01 (20.4 MB/s) - `100mb.bin' saved [104857600/104857600] FINISHED --2012-12-16 18:18:01-- Downloaded: 1 files, 100M in 4.9s (20.4 MB/s)
I/O test
root@server:~# df -i Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on /dev/simfs 20971520 18557 20952963 1% / tmpfs 32768 4 32764 1% /lib/init/rw tmpfs 32768 6 32762 1% /dev/shm root@server:~# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/simfs 40G 1.6G 39G 4% / tmpfs 128M 0 128M 0% /lib/init/rw tmpfs 128M 8.0K 128M 1% /dev/shm root@server:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=iotest bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync && rm -rf iotest 16384+0 records in 16384+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 1.78005 s, 603 MB/s root@server:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=sb-io-test bs=1M count=1k conv=fdatasync 1024+0 records in 1024+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 1.60148 s, 670 MB/s root@server:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=sb-io-test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync 16384+0 records in 16384+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 1.82993 s, 587 MB/s root@server:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=sb-io-test bs=1M count=1k oflag=dsync 1024+0 records in 1024+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 9.7549 s, 110 MB/s root@server:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=sb-io-test bs=64k count=16k oflag=dsync 16384+0 records in 16384+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 8.14891 s, 132 MB/s
If there is anything you would like to see tell me and I will see if I can run it for you :)
Adding the US rep's instead of the original german one solved the solution. Thanks for informing me about it Nick, :) 10/10 right now and happy customer! :)