End of Reality review

So, decided it's about time I posted another review (first one was on Ramnode), this time with End of Reality. Currently I have four (five?) VPS with them, in their New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles locations.

The plan is:

Price: $5.00 monthly
RAM: 2048 MB
Storage: 50 GB hard disk
Bandwidth: 2 TB (100mbps port... supposedly?)
No swap

I've had comparable if not better network performance so far with Server Mania and Ramnode and others. Actually one of my servers apparently got DDoS'd once by a botnet or something and they handled it very well. Since the transfer to new hardware, the CPU performance has also been very good.

Especially considering the price and now that I've started getting intermittent packet loss on my Server Mania VPS, this is the best host I've had. Although I don't actually need the full 2048 MB:

$ free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          2048        521       1526          0          0         31
-/+ buffers/cache:        490       1557
Swap:            0          0          0

Still would be worth it for even 512 MB I think. Overall I'm very impressed by their performance. The only downside I can think of is slow ticket response times. One of their Chicago nodes also had problems booting once (only >5min issue I had besides the DDoS), but it was resolved in a few hours and they did send emails about the maintenance beforehand (the issue was that the maintenance lasted much longer than it was supposed to).

Here's network and disk benchmarks on the New York VPS.

Network

$ wget cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
--2013-04-30 00:35:29--  http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net (cachefly.cachefly.net)... 205.234.175.175
Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net (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 20.1M/s   in 4.9s    
2013-04-30 00:35:34 (20.3 MB/s) - `100mb.test' saved [104857600/104857600]

So the reason I said supposedly for the 100mbps port above is because this looks faster than 100mbps :)

Hard drive

$ dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=512k count=16k conv=fdatasync
^C6414+0 records in
6414+0 records out
3362783232 bytes (3.4 GB) copied, 47.5334 s, 70.7 MB/s