Following the offer here from VPSNodeBox, I bought a Xen VPS (1536MB RAM) from them and I felt that the server was really good for the price!
The VPS provides a whooping 4 Core Xen, with Hyper-threading enabled, for a total of 8 THREADS!
Resources :
CPU: 4 x Intel Xeon E31230 @ 3.20GHz + Hyper-threading = 8 Logical Cores @ 3.20GHz!
Memory: 1536 MB Guaranteed
Swap: ENABLED
Disk Space: 50 GB
Bandwidth: 960GB Premium Bandwidth
Network: 75Mbit
Virtualization: Xen
IP Addresses: 1xIPv4, contact support for IPv6
- Enterprise Level Managed DNS Service
CPU Information
`processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 42
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31230 @ 3.20GHz
stepping : 7
cpu MHz : 3192.888
cache size : 8192 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 8
core id : 0
cpu cores : 1
apicid : 0
initial apicid : 2
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 13
wp : yes
flags : fpu de tsc msr pae cx8 sep cmov pat clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht nx constant_tsc aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq ssse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt aes hypervisor arat epb pln pts dts
bogomips : 6385.77
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:
//Omitted the display of 6 more cores to save space
//All cores are Genuine Intel Xeon CPU E31230 @ 3.20GHz
processor : 7
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 42
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31230 @ 3.20GHz
stepping : 7
cpu MHz : 3192.888
cache size : 8192 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 8
core id : 0
cpu cores : 1
apicid : 0
initial apicid : 2
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 13
wp : yes
flags : fpu de tsc msr pae cx8 sep cmov pat clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht nx constant_tsc aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq ssse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt aes hypervisor arat epb pln pts dts
bogomips : 6385.77
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:
`
Hard Disk I/O test
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null
^C10207638+0 records in
10207638+0 records out
5226310656 bytes (5.2 GB) copied, 13.5163 s, 387 MB/s
Network Test
wget cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
--2012-10-13 13:32:18-- 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:100mb.test'
100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 8.73M/s in 11s
2012-10-13 13:32:30 (9.08 MB/s) - 100mb.test' saved [104857600/104857600]
Their support team is also really helpful, and tickets were resolved in less than 6 hours!
For their price (starting at 9.95USD a month for 512MB RAM Xen VPS), I would say that this VPS provider is really awesome! In the first place, you hardly get such a price for a Xen! (Considering that you get 4 Core/8 Threads all dedicated!)